A French video game collector offered an impressive game collection for sale on Ebay.
7,000 different games in 22 full sets for Sega, Nintendo and PC were offered for 999,999.99 Euros - about $1.28 million, or about $180 per game. The auction ended quickly as the seller claimed that the collection was purchased.
Among the titles are more than 2,700 Famicom titles, the full game lineup for the Nintendo 64, Gamecube, Sega Mark 3, Sega Master, Sega Game Gear, Sega Megadrive, Sega Saturn and Sega 32 X. It appears that most offered game titles were factory sealed at the time of the posting.
There was no information as to what offer the seller may have accepted for the collection. However, given the fact that the auction included all NES titles as well as all titles ever made for Sega consoles, it is reasonable to assume that the price was substantial.
Why?
Because paypal is a joke company that likes to hold funds for no reason and treat its consumers like common filth knowing full well there ain't a damn thing we can do about it. Google "paypal stories".
They charge you a hefty percentage for transactions.
They hold your funds when you have a low rep count, negative feedback or if it's a high dollar sale and you don't have a history of them.
im saying this as a gamer... if they are mint in box, why does this have any value at all?
i can understand some toys, but what is the pourpose of a game, a video game, mint in box?
this is assuming mint in box, like an above post said.
No. They will arbitrarily hold your funds, permanenty limit your account, unfairly settle disputes, etc. The list of horrors is endless. You may want to check the sites below AND the testimonials of all PayPal victims on the sites Facebook pages and all over the internet. And if that hasn't happened to you yet, because you (like most victims) are acting in good faith and in compliance with their (often illegal) TOS, just keep praying you won't be next.
I just got my PayPal account unlocked after 6 months of it being locked, all over a Christmas gift that was sent to me, which they decided to hold for weeks pending a fraud investigation. They reversed the gift and my account went negative. I covered the balance but their site was broken and didn't convert the currency properly, leaving negative $3.63. I called, and their solution was "Buy something online." I had nothing to buy and my account was locked for months. It took many calls and many headaches to unlock it. I have 9 PayPal call center employee names written down.
Then recently, my company was selling old stock on eBay. Some dude bought a $20 item, but decided he didn't want it, but we had already shipped it. He said he'd refuse it and demanded a refund in some very vulgar and immature language filled with spelling mistakes and name calling. We emailed eBay and showed we held our end of the bargain.
When he received the item, he claimed it wasn't what was advertised, then claimed it was damaged, then claimed it was defective (I think he checked EVERY box in the complaint section). He put in a ticket and ebay ruled in his favor, requiring us to give a full refund including shipping.
Can't stand both companies. It's clear they are basically run by the same assholes.
Yes, I've had a site about consumers defense and individual rights for over 10 years now and the list of PayPal horror stories I've witnessed is endless. It's amazing that PayPal and eBay were allowed to grow the way they did.
I had included a few links in my previous post but they seem to have been filtered out by the system, and the edit button is gone again, even on the forums (at least on Opera 12 and Firefox 13). I'm going to try to post them again below, but in case it doesn't work, just Google these combinations of words: about paypal / paypal sucks / screw paypal / paypal horror stories.
www.aboutpaypal.org
www.paypalsucks.com
www.screw-paypal.com