Originally posted by: Jobber8742
My wife told me about this today telling me she saw it on Yahoo. I told her I've known about it for a while but it's still cool that it made the front page of Yahoo. Makes me want to list my collection. You never know who will throw down that kind of money.
I've never seen one successful. Adol is the only one who listed his at X amount and sold (for considerably less) most of his CIB Japanese collections of games to the Strong Museum.
Michael Thomassen tried the same thing and it blew up in his face.
What this does is grab attention. Lots of it. That's the sole point of it because honestly if you have this much money to spend you might as well go all CIB on sets. This and Michael's are starter sets for a high end collector. Adol's sets were definitely not starter sets. For something like this wholesale is the only way someone can look at it.
What concerns me is this creating a skewed value/idea of people putting up their collections firmly believing they can fish for prosective bidders, very similar to the NES-001 incident with the uninformed public thinking that NES systems were all worth gold due to incorrect info on TV. Guaranteed the Yahoo article will cause the same thing. "ALL MY GAMES ARE WORTH 100K, etc)
The other concern I had at the beginning was the subjective point these are complete collections for NES and SNES even though they are missing pieces. People firmly believe these are complete, and there are no Stadium Events or Mountain Bike Rally/Speed Racer in there. The best part is who do you think came up with the assumed rumor of Stadium Events being pulled from shelves and only in Woolworth's at the time? That was me based on going to the store, seeing it for sale there, never seeing it anywhere else, etc. It was sold in K-Mart and other places, but as an 11-12 year there is no way I would know, so in essence it still does not make sense to the auction, but to IGN and everyone else, they don't care, it's news.
