The Real Sega Pluto

What would be the PayPal fees if the buyer paid by PayPal? Never sold anything over $300 lol

 

50% and their first born... unless I read the T&Cs wrong! :biggrin-new:

 

on $7600, its $220

The percentage drops over a certain amount

 

Fucken hell. Seeing that amount on my eBay invoice would surprise me, for some reason. Although you are getting a lot of cash, it just always seems a lot.

Wondering if this unit will hit reserve though. 2d left.

 

You wouldnt see that on your ebay invoice, as its the paypal amount - which is what you asked for.

Ebay would be more and on top.

 

Yeah I know it wouldn't be, I was just saying if I sold something for that much and saw that on the fee invoice I would be shocked.

 

ebay fee would be like $250, so nearly $500 in fees =/

 

Wow. It's just double dipping really, PayPal is owned by eBay they'd be getting the money regardless. It's quite horrible really.

 

I kind of wonder if the whole console is just a regular saturn mobo with a gutted netlink modem to the right of it and wires soldered from the pins of the modem board to the pins of the expansion port... we won't know until someone opens theirs but it would mean the thing, if broken ever, could be replaces with parts that are all over ebay already.

 

Doh!

 

Jesus H Ch....Well that's put me off using ebay for high value items then...Never bothered with it myself until recently (I'm currently buying/assembling a retro PC rig for DOS games).

 

eBay does allow you to use other form of payment like Propay. No fee for not using Paypal. Still got to pay Propay for using them.

 

You still have to offer paypal though IIRC. Didnt they make that compulsory a few years ago?

 

I've not seen a single listing that doesn't offer Paypal in the last week or so, so I would guess it is compulsory.

 

Am I too late for the thread?

That's one very damn serious Saturn related prototype.(Love Sega Saturns.)

I'm really happy to see one more Sega related prototype pop up again.

As for the modding debate/topic thing:

If I've ever own kind of stuff like this,I will certainly not do it since it's an unknown electronic prototype.(Referring to unknown PCB designs......etc)

The pinouts might differ from the final one.(And we still don't know which CD drive model comes with it.)

Modding Saturns is easy.(On later models you don't even need to solder wires.)

But you'll never know what will happen if you use a chip on an electrical system that we know little about it.

Everyone has his own options or concerns.

I apologize for my terrible English grammars.

Peace.

BTW,is it my conceit or something,my saturn sometimes loads disks really slow(Such as loading cutscenes or battles in SRW F,original game disks are used to test.),I had already cleaned the lens recently,too.

Considering mine is an 15-year-old "yellowed" white modded HST-3220 with the original laser headers.
I'm thinking to get a new header or get a HST-3200/3210,never owns a HST-3220/3210 and new saturn laser headers are a little bit hard to find in the region I'm living at.

 

I've been following this fascinating story from day one and telling my friends. Thank you so much for sharing this piece of history. Very sad to hear about your friend, may he rest in peace.

 

A lot of pages about modding it or not. Shouldn't we talk about the prototype instead?

I'd love to hear (or read) some stories from the original proto owner about his time at SEGA.

 

With as many Saturns out there that exist, modding this unique one is a moot fucking point.

 

The point wasn't to mod it just to play burned games, the point was to mod it to allow booting of those "Pluto" discs from a few pages back. That way we could see if those discs did anything special in the console.

 

I would have to imagine stuffing the data through a decompiler and eyeballing it might give you some idea of that.

But I'd also imagine these Pluto discs have remained squirreled away from public view where someone skilled enough to take a crack at them won't even know they exist.