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Chubby Cherub box boys, start you engines!!

Apr 1, 2007 at 9:07:14 PM

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Dain (226)

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Sounds like there's a war going on now!

Apr 1, 2007 at 10:32:53 PM

Bronty (65)

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thanks for the edit to the front page

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WTB Cdn sealed black boxes, sealed Cdn first party titles. I.e. the "mattel" Cdn boxes with both french and english. Mainly black boxes, zelda, link, and tyson, but let me know what you have. I am interested in anything I don't already have!

Apr 1, 2007 at 10:41:13 PM

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I take it NGD is bidder #4... into the fray! Go bidder #3!!!!!!

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Apr 1, 2007 at 10:48:05 PM

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I hope I'm never bidding against any of you...

Apr 1, 2007 at 11:44:27 PM

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It's at $430 right now, which I think is ridiculously over-valuing its rarity, *especially* considering the condition. But I guess that's the "gotta have it now" factor of eBay... and collecting

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And I agree with everything Dain said about owners bidding up future auctions of the same item. I see it all the time and have never understood it. I've never done that myself, but I guess that's why I'm always shocked when I do happen to notice that an item I got 5 years ago has increased in value by 2000%. It's like "Whoa! Flintstones 2 is worth *that* much? Damn..."

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Apr 2, 2007 at 12:09:34 AM

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Yeah I can barely force myself to spend 100 bucks on one game!!!!!! I dont know how you can spend 500 bucks on cardboard.......

Apr 2, 2007 at 12:28:16 AM

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Originally posted by: Dr. Morbis

It's at $430 right now, which I think is ridiculously over-valuing its rarity, *especially* considering the condition. But I guess that's the "gotta have it now" factor of eBay... and collecting

Agreed. Definitely the "gotta have it now" factor is driving this up. The box is rare people, it's not THAT rare. There will be more. It's not fucking SE.

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Apr 2, 2007 at 11:02:01 AM

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Wow, now at $450... Bidder #2 is David AKA Hounder... he must REALLY want this too!! I think I am going to sit back and watch it for awhile. Doesn't end until Friday and I would guess there won't be too many more bids if any before then. Of course if the guy bidding $175 on my Bomberman II sees it he might bid $1,000 on it so ya never know...

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Edited: 04/02/2007 at 11:05 AM by Braveheart69

Apr 2, 2007 at 1:58:10 PM

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I know this has already been stated but I just have to add that I really think this is insane. This box is not mint or really that close to it at all! A chubby cherub box is rare, but no rarer than a flintstones 2 box or even other rarities.

Dkazz's box that he sold was better than this one, IIRC, and didnt even pull this much- and the auction isnt even close to over yet.

This is not a Stadium Events box. More WILL show up in time when people realize the rarity/ value of it. I really think the rarity of this box is driven up by certain collectors to make it something that it really is not. In this condition, it is definitely not a $500+ box.

Apr 2, 2007 at 5:56:49 PM

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dkazz's box was way better, definitely... his copy looked pretty much mint and had all the inserts, the manual, etc.

the seller of this copy has a new pic up.

I guess I should have charged $10,000 for the sealed one the way this auction is going

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Edited: 04/02/2007 at 05:57 PM by Bronty

Apr 2, 2007 at 6:00:44 PM

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who got the sealed one?

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Apr 2, 2007 at 6:02:26 PM

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the buyer can post that info if he chooses. Still in postal limbo anyways.

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Apr 2, 2007 at 6:08:41 PM

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me thinks me know who it is...brewhaha.
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Apr 2, 2007 at 6:19:06 PM

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Well, at least the new pic shows an unpunched hangtab

Apr 2, 2007 at 6:54:44 PM

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Lol, with the way this auction is going, you probably could have pulled sealed a price close to what you paid for your sealed SE

Apr 2, 2007 at 7:59:27 PM

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I have no idea who could have bought the sealed one

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Apr 2, 2007 at 9:35:22 PM

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Woah bronty sold his extra sealed chubby cherub?? man im afraid to ask how much, but i am very very very very curious lol :-)

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Apr 2, 2007 at 9:49:11 PM

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Ehh. It was an undesirable but necessary sacrifice. I'm hoping to shortly get some games, in part with the proceeds from CC, that I need from my list of 23 missing.. I'll try and post some eventually as they come in. Maybe nothing quite as good as chubby but not too shabby either!

If it all works out that is..

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Edited: 04/02/2007 at 09:51 PM by Bronty

Apr 3, 2007 at 2:04:18 PM

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Crazy Nintendo people.

**Goes back to looking for CIB Atari 260 games.**

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Apr 4, 2007 at 4:23:15 PM

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So how many sealed Chubby Cheruby's are in collector's hands? 2?

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Apr 5, 2007 at 1:34:16 AM

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2 as far as I know.

I originally placed a $310 bid on this thinking it won't even come close seeing that the last one went for less and was mintier and had the manual. Guess I was wrong :-/ I plan on winning this one though. Gonna be a tough call I think between me and braveheart seeing that Mike bought bronty's spare

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Apr 5, 2007 at 8:40:47 AM

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I dropped out of this race. I can't afford to spend this much cash right now with me potentially loosing my job soon. I will just hope for a cheap BIN or hope the price doesn't stay quite this high. I retracted my bid for what good that done, the price didn't actually go down any, lol. I really don't want to pay more than $250 for the good box.....someday......
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Apr 5, 2007 at 3:26:57 PM

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Yeah I must say David I didn't honestly think anyone would go over my $440 bid, that was kinda like a snipe entered early bid cause I thought it was high enough to win. I think this one is yours buddy. I'll just have to be happy with the CIB Myriad, CIB King Neptune (non-contest finally have them all), and Bubble Bobble 2 box I added this month already! :-)

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Apr 5, 2007 at 3:31:17 PM

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Is that everyone now? I didn't think we'd see the end of bidding until the last seconds.

Apr 5, 2007 at 4:28:24 PM

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What a crazy auction. Are the loose carts worth much? A while ago, I passed on one for $2.00 at a thrift store. Am I wrong for that?