Re: What might explain THIS ebay price?

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Friday, June 15, 2012 1:21:16 AM UTC-5, Helpful Harry wrote:
> In article <706f7dfe-86f0-4ed0-8e12-a638508147f4@googlegroups.com>,
> kevin@hackaday.com wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:17:47 PM UTC-5, MdntTrain wrote:
> > > I'm baffled by this one.  Anyone have any ideas as to why such a high sale 
> > > price?
> > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/200771793083
> > 
> > game with box, exotic to most people, yea this is why you see absolute
> > shit NES games go for thousands. Lord British has been hitting the nerd
> > circles as of recently game #1 retro + rare + vintage = cash from silly
> > people
> 
> It's not just "rare" or "retro" items. I've seen lots of auctions with
> idiotic prices (both the reserve and the current bid) for items that are
> still available in store chains at normal prices or even on sale.  :o\
> 
> Helpful Harry  :o)

Unless, of course, it's two people working together to generate cash via insurance scamming.  I wouldn't ever condone such a thing, naturally, but you can't rule it out either.

-B