This is getting out of hand

zlk · Post by **zlk** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 2:21 pm

A guwange flyer with holes in it is going for about $375:

http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b63335703

There are five days left to go also.

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 4:13 pm

zlk wrote:A guwange flyer with holes in it is going for about $375:

http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b63335703

There are five days left to go also.

God.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:33 pm

That's nothing.
I've seen a posed rubber ducky going for 500$ at e-bay a couple of year s back!

Oh, wait and that’s not all!
A haunted NES was sold for 200$ last year at e-bay.

A mate even put up his slightly used socks for sale on e-bay & another friend bought them so that they could both raise their e-bay counters.

A lot of crazy & sneaky people out there…

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 6:39 pm

Remember the Pope's VW?

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 7:29 pm

Pope's VW?

Do you mean this parody comic?

This looks like something that has come out Pandemonium!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 7:47 pm

Flyer's are a weird thing on YJ. I've seen many of them go for 20,000 yen and up -- this one is a bit pricey though. In fareness, I monitor Guwange and Flyer, and have never seen one, so that should count for something.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 8:32 pm

ST Dragon wrote:Pope's VW?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7750782/

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 9:37 pm

Holy Cow!

188,938 euros for a used VW Golf!

That's one heavenly ride!

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 9:46 pm

Seven Force wrote:
ST Dragon wrote:Pope's VW?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7750782/

golden palace casino.. its that stupid casino that generate publicity by buying stupid shit of ebay.. they bought that "timemachine" too and also that "virgin mary toast" along with tons of other crap.

dunno how they stand about guwange flyers tho..

Post by **undamned** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 1:02 am

zlk wrote:A guwange flyer with holes in it is going for about $375:

http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b63335703

There are five days left to go also.

Yeah, I was the $25 bidder

I'm a huge Guwange/Cave fan, but seriously, I couldn't bring myself to pay that much for ANY Cave flyer/poster. It would have to be the original that the flyers/posters were printed from, or some other one-of-a-kind item...
-ud

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 1:16 am

People here in the US are bidding several thousand dollars on ALUMINUM CHRISTMAS TREES THAT WENT OUT OF STYLE 50 YEARS AGO!

Check out "It Came From Ebay!!" sometime on G4TV-it's pretty scary some of the stuff people bid on!

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 1:39 am

I can't believe it?!?!

The Guwange flyer cost more than a Guwange PCB with art...

Once somthing become so rare and people start consider it got *collecter* value, its price went crazy.

This reminds me of the PCB kits of an 3 yrs old game being sold for GBP1,716...

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:15 am

SAM wrote:I can't believe it?!?!

Believe it. Flyers can sometimes generate more $$ than the instruction cards and artwork. Old namco flyers seem to be gold on YJ, for some reason. Seen many of them clear 20,000 yen regularly.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:05 pm

Ended early.

zlk · Post by **zlk** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 11:38 pm

I can somewhat understand a mint flyer going for that much but I still think its a crazy price. However this flyer had holes punched throught it and is not worth that much. I would pay at most $30 for it.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 12:52 am

However this flyer had holes punched throught it and is not worth that much

It is worth what people will pay for it. The good, and definitely bad, thing about online auctions. The only thing I can say for certain is that you'd definitely get outbid for $30 if it pops up again.

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 5:15 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
However this flyer had holes punched throught it and is not worth that much
It is worth what people will pay for it. The good, and definitely bad, thing about online auctions. The only thing I can say for certain is that you'd definitely get outbid for $30 if it pops up again.

The only chance you could got it for $30 is the seller make a mistake in the spelling of the item title and you place your bid before he/she could correct it.

zlk · Post by **zlk** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:11 am

I clearly would lose if I only bid $30 for the flyer. I just think that a flyer with two holes in it (the real flyer does not have holes) isn't worth much to me personally.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:29 am

"One man's steaming pile of shit is another man's treasure." Isn't that the saying?

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:36 am

GaijinPunch wrote:"One man's steaming pile of shit is another man's treasure." Isn't that the saying?

The contemporary version, I'd wager, heh heh.

SNKJorge · Post by **SNKJorge** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 7:57 am

I actually though it was a wooden box there for a moment. Problably
the price made think that.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:04 am

A "bootleg"/photocopy movement seriously needs to be started at this point. Paying hundreds of dollars for a used advertisement that you tape to a wall is just wrong on all human levels.

umi · Post by **umi** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:12 am

Dylan1CC wrote:A "bootleg"/photocopy movement seriously needs to be started at this point. Paying hundreds of dollars for a used advertisement that you tape to a wall is just wrong on all human levels.

Huh? Is there an eleventh commandment I'm unaware of? It should be "wrong" to buy a TV for $400, in that case. Or *anything*, except donating to starving children or buying food or utilities for oneself or one's family. By the way, it is acts like this that *make* us human :P Though serious collecting has never been for the faint-hearted, or for those with light pockets.

p.s. I doubt this dude would be taping it to a wall...

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 3:53 am

^^^

Whatever, I don't think a poster should cost that much. Not even if the entire dev team for the game signed it.

ST Dragon · Post by **ST Dragon** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:26 am

umi wrote:
Dylan1CC wrote:A "bootleg"/photocopy movement seriously needs to be started at this point. Paying hundreds of dollars for a used advertisement that you tape to a wall is just wrong on all human levels.
Huh? Is there an eleventh commandment I'm unaware of? It should be "wrong" to buy a TV for $400, in that case. Or *anything*, except donating to starving children or buying food or utilities for oneself or one's family. By the way, it is acts like this that *make* us human Though serious collecting has never been for the faint-hearted, or for those with light pockets.

p.s. I doubt this dude would be taping it to a wall...

And, don't forget people... If you spend all your hard earned money on Hentai porn, video games, arcade cabinets and flyer/posters to satisfy your vanity instead of giving aid to the poor...
Your Souls will be burned in the fiery pits of Hell and tormented for all of eternity!!!

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:49 pm

ST Dragon wrote: And, don't forget people... If you spend all your hard earned money on Hentai porn, video games, arcade cabinets and flyer/posters to satisfy your vanity instead of giving aid to the poor...
Your Souls will be burned in the fiery pits of Hell and tormented for all of eternity!!!

Ah well, the more the merrier I guess...

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:05 pm

Dylan1CC wrote:Whatever, I don't think a poster should cost that much. Not even if the entire dev team for the game signed it.

Bear in mind that arcade posters and kit artwork is not normally available to the general gaming public, just to arcade operators and consumers with VERY deep pockets who can afford the kits. Sometimes the posters don't even come with the kits.

The closest most people get to an arcade poster is when they visit an arcade, and nine times out of ten, the posters are disposed of when they are changed for the latest releases. Only in rare cases - if you are good friends with the arcade operators, for example, or if you make a good offer for it - will you be given the posters off the walls.

(I had my eyes on an SSF2X poster with the lineart profiles of all the characters on it, over 12 years ago, displayed in the window of the arcade I used to visit. Imagine my horror when I learned they had simply scrunched up the A1 sized poster and thrown it in the trash. Ditto for the large cardboard standup of the adult Link from Ocarina of Time, in my local secondhand games shop.)

Given that, the rarity of the original, unspoiled arcade artwork is very high, and will often fetch a lot of money from people who wish to own that particular artwork, either to display in a frame, or to complete their own kits. Lord knows how much money I'd give for the arcade poster and PCB box for my incomplete Xexex kit. And now you should know the reluctance of the owners of these posters in FOLDING UP something beautiful, that cost an arm and a leg to get.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:32 pm

Interesting points, Icarus. I can see it a little more with your clarification. I guess a used arcade poster could be like a rare Carl Barks Donald/Scrooge comic to some.

But I still advocate poster copying

(and no, not folding it to get it in the copier j/k)

pixelcorps · Post by **pixelcorps** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:50 am

maybe pixelcorps can come to the rescue if enough people are interested, and can loan posters to me??

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