Topic: $50,000 for a NES? Why not eh?

The other day, we spotted an NES and 42 games on ebay that was listed for the insanely high buy it now price of $35,000. The NES bundle came with nothing too spectacular, but the seller was asking for help to pay some bills and stop living paycheck to paycheck. The seller also claimed that his NES was his most prized possession.

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did you miss this followup where the winning bidder failed to pay? :3

Not surprising the buyer didn't pay. There are legions of people that love to screw with sellers that list items priced like that.

I'd like to quit living paycheck to paycheck too....

Maybe I'll sell my SNES for $100,000.

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No, i didn't know...until now. Muwhuhahahaa! LOL

I wonder if i can sell my old Sega for that much too.

And I thought the houses selling for $800 were ridiculous...

And I got an NES from my friend for free!

I think I should sell my Gameboy Advance online for $1,000,000! Just to be a douche (considering I got it at a garage sale for ten cents...).

... I actually bet you that if someone sold their whole collection of games like all the Nintendo Systems with mostly all the good games that take alot of time to collect, and just their whole collection I bet you someone would buy it at a high price like that, but this guy (or lady) guy? is pretty smart, this really is something I would expect to actually work. But like I said, with more to sell and letting people know your collection.

ya guy, thats what they go for at fleamarkets now most the time at a legit game shop, but you could get one for 25 bucks depending on the place you get it at, and this isn't a good thing all the time, but it ussually is. I right now have 2 Nintendo's( a top loader which my dad got at a garage sale for 25 bucks with a tv, dog bone(controller), and 5 games. Also, the other one I got for 35 dollars when they were still cheaper which was like in 2004. This is the originally deck.

Surely it would be really easy to build a court case against someone who failed to pay.

An eBay auction is essentially a contract, and carrys with it all associated legal requirements.

True, the only exception is if it's an illegal or misrepresented listing (although you probably wouldn't be able to tell the latter until after paying).

Why not? Because you can get one for far cheaper than that

Yeah, I doubt that would hold water in court. You'd be lucky to get your relisting fees and court costs back.

I'm selling my kidneys to buy a 3DS when it comes out. Anyone?

so, basically, he's asking for maybe 47,000 dollars in charity?

Come on at least Shipping is free

much better than 50000