Are these Wii accessories rare ?

Sorry for my bad english, I'm french.
I bought these Wii accessories (a Nunchuk and a Classic Pro Controller) at my local Game store. I thought they were working, but they didn't. On each accessory, there was a message in japanese printed on it, which says "non-operating model". I search on Google, and didn't find anything like this. Is it kind of rare ?

 

Chinese not working stuff is the most common thing in this world. Working stuff is the real deal.

 

Too bad. Thanks for the answers.

 

Surely they're worth -something- to a collector who doesn't own them yet.

 

Not really. They're like the dummy cell phones you see in shops.

 

I agree with what has been said. Unless your one of those people who thought getting a tattoo of some random Chinese word was cool, there is virtually no value in these things.

 

I understand. I know I have been fooled, but let's get clear. I bought them because I thought they were working. After I had seen they didn't, I noticed thoses messages, which are, by the way, in japanese. And I don't see any difference between this junk and real working nintendo accessories.

 

Um.. one set works and the other doesn't. lol

Don't worry about it. We've all bought our fair share of crap looking for the good stuff. It's part of the learning process.

 

If you mean between original product and 'working'-chinese third party controller ... well, the Wii third party stuff is the best i've ever seen on console but still the accuracy of the Wiimote is not as good as the original and, obviously, the analog controller of classic controller, nunchuck and GC controller sucks, just sucks.

 

I don't mean this. I mean between original nintendo products and the one with the japanese message. They are identical in aspect (except the message).

 

If you bought them from a shop as working controllers then take them back & demand a refund. Otherwise I hope you didn't spend too much money on them, they might be relatively rare but that doesn't mean anyone wants them.

 

The shop closed, but these accessories were cheap. Thanks

 

I took these controllers apart, and it appears that there's absolutely no chip in it, and no wires between the analog joystick and the main board. Same thing for the triggers. It's obviously demo stuff from nintendo.

 

Well, if u really wanna see if there value. Put them up on ebay and see how the sales goes!

 

If you list it on ebay, be sure to send a link to gamesniped.com

The crap the guy posts on there sells for 2x-4x what it is actually worth. It's a good way to milk cash out of uncommon junk.

 

They contain pcb? pictures of the inside? not that im gonna buy them, but I always like images of the inside of electronics

 

Why not...

Well... I'll post pictures this weekend. The inside is pretty interresting.

 

I'm curious too. If there is not much inside, you could gut working units and swap parts. Then you would have bragging rights to owning working Nintendo Kios controllers. Then again owning the shells might be worth something, maybe these came out before the Wii went into production?

 

Actually you might want to check if the connector from the nunchuck to the wiimote is wider than the common production part. It was wider in Nintendo Wii pre-release shots (as wide as the wiimote itself, actually).