eBay. There are some great BINs out there. You gotta be quick on the draw. And it helps to have no life.

Getting scammed on a fake Stadium Events doesn't hurt as bad when these sorts of things happen, though.

A few weeks ago, there was this. That's Color Bar Generator, one of the rarest Atari 2600 carts, for a BIN of $20. The crazy part? The guy didn't even list that it came with the box, so it was a surprise when I opened it up and discovered I'd just bought a CIB copy, taking the value out of the hundreds and apparently into the thousands.

But not all stories can be so happy.



This USED to be a really nice-looking copy of SwordQuest Waterworld, still sealed. It was $10.

Unfortunately, the good folks at the U.S. Postal Service (motto: Using Your Tax Dollars To Destroy Your Property Since 1775) decided to play a game of tetherball with this box before it arrived, thus crushing the everloving shit out of the box. So depressing.

I love the WE CARE baggie that they attached to the box. If you cared so much, why not refund the money you took before you ran this package over with a dump truck? WE COULDN'T GIVE LESS OF A FUCK is more like it.

Oh well. Hard to be sad when you have a complete Waterworld with an effed-up box for $10.

Kudos to captmorgandrinker for spotting that I'd won the Waterworld auction and asking me to post it here. Now you have heard my sad story.

My condolences...

How was the Waterworld packaged?

nice scores! Im still trying to snag a decent priced Waterworld.

In a shoebox. It wasn't packaged too well, but at least it had some shrinkwrap. But the box got murdered.

nice one! I really don't know that much about atari, but I think thats a good find

OMFG I would murder someone if they screwed up a SEALY Waterworld Nooooooooo! Holy poop balls nice CBGC CIB that is NICE!

Once..I got some VCS manuals from a member on AA..

The Manuals came damaged(as in it got dumped in water)

Ouch

I love it when the mailing service messes up something that was almost unbelievable in the first place. I'm sorry to hear about you're luck.

I guess the Color Bar Generator box bonus makes up for the smashed to shit Waterworld....

At least it wasn't completely mint when you bought it, you can see a pretty good box ding in the pic. I think your Color Bar Generator find might just be tops for the year.

Accept my simultaneous congratulations and condolences.

That sucks they damaged your Waterworld. Nice score on both otherwise.

Wow, that really sucks. You seem to have the worst luck, you have my condolences.

Where in the hell did you find a sealed waterworld for $10 I found a MINTY CIB copy not too long ago for $25. Sold for $350 for what its worth.

sweet find! sorry about the waterworld, that sucks. :/

Is the Color Bar game really worth thousands?? S-H-I-T

There have been about 4 or so boxed Color Bar ones pop up this year. I made a post on Atari age this spring that maybe many had been found. 2 completes sold for mid $700 and then some fool paid some super high price over summer. SPEED COLLECTOR!

Ouch. Well, like you said, $10 for a rare SEALED game with a beaten-to-shreds box is still a good deal.