what is going on with ebay ?

i mean dont people research how rare a game is before they put it on ebay ??? seriously i hope this does not drive down the price of Sega Rally on the N-gage ! last year a copy sold in America for $455 thats 10 times the price of this wtf ??? its pretty much the rarest game for the ngage and they sold it for dirt cheap prob was gone in minutes on ebay for this price ! http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/31057467...ksid=p4340.l2557&orig_cvip=true#ht_500wt_1288 i payed alot more then that for my copy and i will be PISSED if this drives down the value of the game the sooner this listing disappears the better it is for all sega rally owners

 

Anything, no matter what, is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If the seller will sell at that price, then a sale is made. What's the problem with that? Don't moan at eBay because you're butthurt that you paid more for something. News flash - PRICES FLUCTUATE! As a collector, you'll have to get used to that. Perhaps in this case, a lot of copies have been found. Perhaps everyone who bought one has bought one, making it cheaper. Perhaps the seller had no idea of its "value", and yet few enough people cared now to drive the price up.

I've paid over £200 for something that never turns up, only for another 5-10 copies to turn up including a few sealed! At first, people paid close to what I did, but now, you'd probably get it for about £50. Shit happens.

 

Well, if there's not much eBay history, it's hard to research it... But at a glance, I find one listed (in the US) complete in box for $100 that got no bids.
It was re-listed for $80, but a 'best offer' was accepted, so it sold for less than $80... So somewhere between the $47 this one sold for and the $80 BIN that was too high seems to be it's value based on what I can find on eBay...

But nothing sold in the 'buy-it-now' format is ever really a representation of an item's value... Whether it's too high, too low, or actually just right... Without more info you never know.

 

A one off ad won't destroy value of a certain item. Quite possible that the seller made a mistake, and is now in a contract to sell the item, like retro said: Shit happens.

I've gotten many rare XBOX titles for $2 when they are worth $40-$50. You just have to be lucky, and sometimes, sellers have no clue.

 

I think that particular item is in the 'other' part of eBay France - the kind of Buy it Now, but not section. Hence no history or buyer info.

 

True guys i am certain there cannot be more then 500 to 2000 sealed copies of this game left in the whole world unless someone has found a box in a factory somewhere then that will drive the price permanently down i have only ever found 1 sega rally and i own it still sealed =p i paid like 160 for it last year

 

you are right there ! a big mistake from seller i have seen a few auctions go for above 200 on this game in the past

ok thats weird

 

eBay and prices going down? That's funny. All eBay does is make prices on everything go up. You used to be able to get deals on there. Now everything just about is so expensive. One game I was thinking about buying for SNES recently but put off after no more than 6 months doubled in price for no apparent reason.

 

eBay's cut is way too much when selling something and the seller rarely has any 'rights' so to speak so I guess they are put off leading to less choice and higher prices.

Sega Rally if it did have at least a 2000 print run would fluctuate in value due to there not being many N-Gage hardcore collectors out there, many late N-Gage games are rare but few are worth more than £30 I'd say.

I had a viral cartridge version of Snakes that I would place as the rarest game for the machine as it was only given to retailers in 2005 - I sold it for £60 in 2006.

 

Bargain if the buyer actually gets it. The seller has probably received dozens of private messages offering more than the original buy it now price.

I bought mine years ago in a bargain bin at a Myer store. I didn't know it was only released in Australia at that time.

 

Just try to get the Angry Video Game Retard to review it; value will skyrocket as all the morons who enjoy his reviews scramble to buy it up on ebay. I got $250 out of my Hagane box & instructions this year thanks to that guy!

 

Why would you care? You have your copy, and you're not selling or buying others. There are a fixed number of copies out there, the price someone decides to flog it for has no impact on its rarity.

Someone could sell a Gold Nintendo World Championships cartridge for $5, that doesn't change the fact that there's only 20-odd of them. All it does is make the seller a sucker.

 

I don't mean to have a go or anything at the OP but you mention this game in literally every post you make on the forums!

You don't have to justify your spending to anyone. If you wanted the game and at that particular moment in time you had to pay 160 (whatever currency we are talking) to get it then that's cool.
As Retro said above, an item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If at the moment in time you were willing to pay 160 then that is its value.

Also, the print run of something doesn't necessarily make it valuable. Again, going back to what Retro said, if there were 3 of said game in existence but only 2 people in the whole world who cared to own it... you see where I am going with this...

Be happy that you own it because you want to own it or if your plan was to sell it for a profit all along then bite the bullet and sit on it until the market dictates that you can. In the meantime, stop whining!

 

I am entertained by the high presence of zadrot in this thread, no offence.

 

Remember the GoodGuys sale for Nintendo products? If only sales like that happened today. Who ever got all the Zelda titles for $10 would be screaming today.

 

Yea ebay is a shadow of its former self. Basically its turned into an extension of Amazon atp.

 

I see i bet some person is trying to make convincing repros of AIR RAID atm to cash in on the noobs

 

What it also means is that when people are unwilling to buy at the "buy it now" prices the auctions sit there for weeks/months with the seller slowly lowering the price. For high ticket items this may be fine but when you're talking about run of the mill carts, eh good luck.