I was never a well-known collector, but I've been a lurker for almost 20 years here and on Digitpress under numerous names. I lost my passion for collecting years ago after life ground me down, but now that I have a wife and daughter its time to pass these displays on to those who would appreciate them most. It's a weird feeling closing this chapter of my life, but I leave with fond memories of hunting down displays and sharing info with fellow display collectors.
I honestly haven't really been in "the game" for a number of years. I never adapted to social media, I still don't have a Facebook account, and all the new collectors out there have left me in the dust. I'm proud of some of the people I've met who have carried the torch so to speak for collecting Nintendo employee and display items.
To the very well known (ex?) moderator here who's become quite well known in the "industry" that I had a bad falling out with; sorry things ended up the way they did. When you accused me of trying to rip you off when I quoted you what I considered a fair price for my whole collection, it really hurt me. I had considered you a close friend. I leave no lasting ill will to you, but I feel I was taken advantage of after I gave you some incredibly good below market value deals on items. Maybe mistakes were made on both sides.
Thank you to the friends i've made, you know who you are, that I've traded with and shared finds and honey holes with.
Copied below from my one of my Ebay listings.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/223581500225?ViewItem=&item=223...
My History
I'm a long time Nintendo fan that began seriously collecting games as part of the first online wave of collectors in the late 90s / early 00s. I was a member of the Digitpress forum before moving to the Nintendoage forum in the late 00s. Unfortunately I ended up selling most of my collection before collecting really took off, but I managed to hold on to some key pieces until now that I've decided its time to part with.
This leads to my biggest find of all time that I'm finally going public with. In 2008 I became aware of an individual selling a number of incredibly rare Nintendo store displays. After chatting with this person, I found out that his company designed most of Nintendo's store displays from the 80s to the early 00s, and that they had retained samples of most of their displays. I struck a deal to buy the whole lot. It was an overwhelming amount of displays, and if you've kept an eye on my store, I've been selling them for years, mostly my duplicates.
Unfortunately, I've decided its time to sell the last of the items; most of the stuff you see listed are not duplicates and are the cream of the crop that I never wanted to sell. Please see last photo for an (edited) copy of the original purchase agreement.
