A couple eBay pirates

[Accutron]

The first one is the funniest...who knew they made a PAL compilation of Ikaruga, Border Down, Psyvariar 2 and ZG2

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The second one is the rare US version of DC Ikaruga...

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Here's the page for reporting them.

That first one only has a few hours left.

[Super Laydock]

Here's the page for reporting them.

Hey, I have no problems with reporting this guys...but why not do it yourself!?

People like these need to be reported! Assholes!

[Accutron]

I always report them before I even post the links. Posting them here gets a whole bunch of people to report them, thus making eBay actually pull the auctions.

[Super Laydock]

OK! I was just wondering...

Consider another report filed in about two minutes!

[ArrogantBastard]

Reported.

[BrianC]

"PLEASE NOTE. No instructions are included with this game. The game DOES NOT come on a SEGA GD-Rom. This game may not work on SEGA Dreamcast consoles manufactured after October 2000, check the bottom of your console for date of manufacture."-lol

[Elixir]

So basically it's a copy/paste of sonic, a few words, shrinked box titles and a print. And then there's a burned copy of a compliation which isn't even legit? I download backups. It beats the christ out of opening sealed games which are already considered to be rare. But I at least have the decency of doing it properly(as in, applying patches to allow 60Hz instead of PAL slowdown, removing protection "checks", etc).

Wouldn't the save feature work improperly as it's muddled in with other games?

[Accutron]

One extra funny thing about that first one is that the Ikaruga cover art thumbnail he used is the same as the 'US DC version' mocked up cover that the item in the second auction has. The other three cover thumbnails are the original art.

[Dewclaw]

Heh, I saw these auctions a few days ago and reported em. If a game is hard to come by I won't do anything, unless they're charging too much....you can get ikaruga on gamecube in america though, so that was inexcusable. He was also selling Propeller Arena which I thought was pretty cool, but for 15 bucks?? It costs like 5 cents for a blank cd and 5 minutes to burn somethin onto it. Of course I can see that ebay didn't do anything about the auctions though.

[theevilfunkster]

Wouldn't the save feature work improperly as it's muddled in with other games?

No, it works just fine. I got a friend to burn me a copy a while back. its actually pretty cool, Psyvariar 2s got a sound test (Look, I know it was wrong but I've got all the originals now anyway)

I don't understand how people can get away with selling such obviously pirated stuff on ebay. Every time I see Mars Matrix on ebay it's a PAL version (yeah right, you mean copy, twat)

[Dartagnan1083]

It's not exactly false advertising if you if the auction implies it as a backup.


I have no problem with people selling burns for cheap.

[Accutron]

Of course I can see that ebay didn't do anything about the auctions though.

In my experience, eBay is generally very good about deleting reported pirate auctions. Both auctions ended too soon, I'd guess. It usually takes them several days to get around to cancelling them. I can't believe that guy paid over $40 for the compilation. I guess the going rate for freely downloadable stolen DC games is about $10 apiece...conscience bribe?

[Specineff]

It's not exactly false advertising if you if the auction implies it as a backup.


I have no problem with people selling burns for cheap.

Yes, but the problem is that auctions selling HKSilvers, Betas, backups, or copies are not even supposed to show up on Evilbay.

[Diabollokus]

Good to see the shmup comunity trying to keeping rare shoot em prices high.