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May 1, 2007 at 4:20:49 PM
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Dain (226)
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(Dain Anderson) < Founder >
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I was just thinking about this and figured I'd post it here.

If you ever decide to sell NES games/items, avoid being like those other sellers that put "NES SNES N64 Wii" in their titles. The reason is that a lot of people searching for NES games tend to filter out those other systems. I see some stuff go for half the price it should because of this.

Case in point:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...tem&item=320104190331

That went for $50, and a cart + controller went for over $100:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...tem&item=130101486049

That's damn cheap for a sealed Arkanoid, and had that seller not done that, it would have fetched double that price, IMO.

-Dain


May 2, 2007 at 8:40:39 AM
Battymo (100)
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(Scrubb'n Nutz) < King Solomon >
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Makes sense to me! Since you taught me how to do those neat filters on eBay, I filter that stuff out a lot of the time...

I think it would attract more casual ebayers to the auction, but I don't think you want them to be your target audience...

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May 2, 2007 at 11:56:37 AM
Dr. Morbis (30)
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(Basil T) < Kraid Killer >
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I filter like that all the time too. I don't have the motivation to search through 500% more items just to save a few bucks, so my searches invariably include a tag like "-(snes, n64, etc, etc)" at the end.

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My mantra, as worded by SamSpade on 06/12/12:
I don't resell to fund my collection, I don't treat this hobby like a second job, I don't care if my collection is worth ten bucks or ten thousand because I never plan on selling it. Seriously, what does the value have to do with anything if you never plan on selling? Speculation doesn't mean jack shit to me at this point, I just want to play my nes games...

May 2, 2007 at 3:05:19 PM
wrldstrman (107)
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(doug prickett) < Master Higgins >
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Yeah Im getting really sick of all the wii auctions that pop up no matter what your looking for.

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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.