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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24887
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SNESGuy
Title: El Duderino
Joined: Jul 31 2010
Location: Da D.C
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Wow that collection is massive
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
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its kinda sad that this guy is only asking 400 bucks when you know he must have spent a lot more on all of this stuff.
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
Location: US and UK
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I'll never understand when people spend years lovingly collecting things like this, then just one day decide to flog it all on Ebay. It baffles me.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Because they need the money? Also, they're lazy. Generally, you can get more money selling the pieces of a collection individually, especially if you overcharge on shipping. If you charge $5 shipping and pay $2 to actually ship, then you make $3 profit in addition to whatever the game actually sells for. Of course, that's a LOT more work. But people don't understand that giant lots attract different people than individual items. If a person bids on an individual item, it's because they want that item. If they bid on a lot, they generally only want a few pieces of it, and will underbid, because they're not all that interested in winning a huge lot of stuff. Thus, they bid at the price point where they can keep the pieces they want and easily resell the rest either at a profit or a minimum loss.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
Posts: 5042
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Well at least they got over 6 for it.
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Pandajuice
Title: The Power of Grayskull
Joined: Oct 30 2008
Location: US and UK
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Again, I just don't get that way of thinking Syd. If they're going to sell off a collection you worked on for years because you "need the money", you'd think they'd want to sell it in such a way as to maximize profits by splitting the lot up like you said.
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Jack Slater
Title: Friendly Felon
Joined: May 17 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 706
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^ When someone needs money bad enough that they will sell something they treasure, they need that money quick. Having separate auctions for each item would take far too much time, especially in the shipping stage.
You can see it on Craigslist all the time, dudes need rent/crack money, so they'll offer up a lot of all the tools they have for one lump sum, because they need that money fast so they still have a warm place to sleep/a warm rock to smoke.
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Jack Slater
Title: Friendly Felon
Joined: May 17 2009
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Do you guys think a Game Boy Micro would be a good purchase? My wife wants to play pokemon but all we have is a Game Boy Color, ergo no backlight. I mean, the GBC will work, but what a pain in the ass. So I'm looking at either a Micro or SP. I know the SP will do the job, but the Micro looks cooler to me.
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LordHuffnPuff
Title: Mahna Mahna
Joined: Jan 12 2009
Location: Fairyland
Posts: 571
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The micro is terrible compared to the SP.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Yeah, the SP is the bee's knees.
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