Sapphire PCE and Radiant auctions, eat yer heart out....

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:59 pm

.....cuz according to this maroon, a sealed Border Down is the new kid in town.

http://cgi.ebay.com/BORDER-DOWN-D-DIREC ... dZViewItem

(and yes, I know Sapphire is more expensive than both, just rough price comparison)

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:10 pm

At that rate, g-rev might as well reissue border down. The cost of the actual manufacturing is VERY SMALL compared to what they spent on production. Hell, I COULD AFFORD to reissue Border Down!

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:18 pm

Al I know is I wish I would have bought the game when it was first released. Yowza.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:02 am

Bah, kid stuff. Check out this super-rare SPACE INVADERS!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sega-Saturn-Space-I ... dZViewItem

theevilfunkster · Post by **theevilfunkster** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:14 am

BulletMagnet wrote:Bah, kid stuff. Check out this super-rare SPACE INVADERS!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sega-Saturn-Space-I ... dZViewItem

Wow, is this guy taking the fuckin piss or what!!!?????? hit-japan has it for $12.00 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sega-Saturn-SPACE ... dZViewItem

And £45 for an Action Replay? Er, yeah right matey.

Edit: Just noticed this guys delivery charges, First class next day recorded delivery costs around £2 including a padded envelope, not £10!!!!

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:43 am

I'm not surprised. I sold a sealed Border Down LE without the Sega Direct mousepad and case for $160 a few months ago. It can't have gone down in "value".

I love ebay

Pa

dark penguin · Post by **dark penguin** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:45 am

I love the game but hate the soundtrack.
I can't imagine why anyone would pay that much cash for the extra soundtrack and...MOUSEPAD? Yeesh.
Sure, the game is sealed...but come on.

I don't think Border Down has quite reached this kind of legendary status yet.

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 3:47 am

+1

I originally had the LE for myself but the soundtrack was so lame (when not actually playing the game) I sold it for profit and opened up a regular one to keep.

Pa

dark penguin · Post by **dark penguin** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:03 am

PaCrappa wrote:+1

I originally had the LE for myself but the soundtrack was so lame (when not actually playing the game) I sold it for profit and opened up a regular one to keep.

Pa

Yea...can you imagine people listening to that in their car or whatever?
Great game, but that jazzy pop stuff doesn't do anything for me.

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:04 am

Kenny G has fans...

Pa

dark penguin · Post by **dark penguin** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 5:08 pm

PaCrappa wrote:Kenny G has fans...

Pa

He has fans at G. Rev apparently

judesalmon · Post by **judesalmon** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:11 pm

I saw a sealed Border Down LE in Japan on sale for more than $100, so it must be pretty rare.

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:43 pm

"In demand" is way better than "rare" when describing something that is ePay expensive yet you know that more than 5,000 of them exist.

Pa

Post by **undamned** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:48 pm

PaCrappa wrote:"In demand" is way better than "rare" when describing something

Nice.
-ud

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:55 pm

But "RARE!!!" is way way way better when you're trying to sell something on ebay

Pa

judesalmon · Post by **judesalmon** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:57 pm

Does a game's production run have to be under 5,000 to make it rare?

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:04 pm

Yes. Clearly. If there's 5,000 of something, how rare is that? Assuming you're talking about real life rare. Ebay RARE!!! can be 150,000 no problem.

Pa

jp · Post by jp » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:15 pm

judesalmon wrote:Does a game's production run have to be under 5,000 to make it rare?

I'd say under 10,000. Taromaru, Blast Wind, Crows, Hyper Duel, etc. are all rare, but they have more than 5000 copies floating around out there.

superhitachi4 · Post by **superhitachi4** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:23 pm

Beh. Jacked up prices for a jacked up world.

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:24 pm

They're "rare" because you can't easily find them at EB in Alabama? Y'all gotta get out more.

Pa

judesalmon · Post by **judesalmon** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:25 pm

Isn't the definition of rare something that isn't common?

I would say live chickens around where I live are rare, but there are about 50 billion of them in the world.

PaCrappa · Post by **PaCrappa** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:33 pm

judesalmon wrote:Isn't the definition of rare something that isn't common?

I would say live chickens around where I live are rare, but there are about 50 billion of them in the world.

Then they're not rare. You've just made a pointless point. If you want to go into silly miniscule semantics based BS, then English people are rare. There isn't a single one living on my street.

I had an official Nintendo NES test station once. It was only for officially licensed Nintendo repair technicians. There's probably 500 or less in existence so that might be barely almost rare.

A real Van Gogh is rare.

Pa

judesalmon · Post by **judesalmon** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:03 pm

That's my point - the definition of rare is something that is not common.

And as with all life, it's relative.

dai jou bu · Post by **dai jou bu** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:13 am

I am somewhat saddened by the fact that my LE copy somehow got moisture inside the jewel case and distorted the shapes of both the manual and the jacket for the OST. To this day, I still don't know how that happened.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 12:13 am

Ha. My parents used to listen to Kenny G.

Used to.

jp · Post by jp » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:05 am

PaCrappa wrote:They're "rare" because you can't easily find them at EB in Alabama? Y'all gotta get out more.

Pa

Yes... because I can't find import games that appear once every blue moon on Ebay in EB... they must be rare.

Almost any collector would agree that, within the realm of VIDEO GAME COLLECTING, games with pressings less than 10,000 are "rare". PDSaga is "uncommon" because it had a 30,000 pressing. Radiant Silvergun is just in high demand because it had a 50,000+ pressing. Taromaru and Blast Wind are rare, because you don't see them for sale that often, unless you're walking around Akibahara or shopping on yahoo.jp.