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Own a piece of World of Warcraft history and help a good cause, as Blizzard prepares to auction off more than 2,000 original server blades for St. Jude's Childrens' Research Hospital. More »
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Did you know that the Sega Genesis (nee Mega Drive) version of Alexey Pajitnov's Tetris is exceedingly rare? That there are reportedly only about ten copies of this cartridge in the wild? Then you're probably not in the market for a million dollar copy of Tetris. More »
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How much would you pay for this New Kids On The Block sample box for the NES game that was never released? If you're off your rocker for NKOTB, then surely $589 isn't too high a price. More »
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The PayPal, you see, she could not handle a payment of $1.1 million. That's why this Xbox 360 said to be autographed by Bayonetta Alaska's ex-governor was pulled from eBay. Not because eBay items at this price are usually b.s. More »
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It's no secret that Michael Jackson had a thing for video games. His Neverland Ranch arcade collection highlighted his penchant for spending big, but maintaining a respectable level of quality. Oh, and he signed a PlayStation once. More »
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JJ Hendricks, an avid games collector, recently paid $17,500 for a single video game. If you've ever wondered what it feels like to spend that much on a video game, Hendricks has written all about it! More »
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You thought Michael Jackson's arcade fetish started and ended with Sega's R360 and Namco's Ms. Pac-Man? You have no idea how much hardware this man owned. The gloved one had a massive arcade. More »
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Well, that's its price on eBay as of now. Better believe the reserve's nowhere near met for this sucker. The seller got Nintendo's cult figure to sign it at E3 2005. More »
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Amazing. Currently up for auction is this 2003 set of Hot Wheels toy cars. Boring, right? No. No small metal car with Jet Set Radio emblazoned on it is ever boring. More »
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The more casual console collectors in the audience may scoff at the asking price for this PowerFest '94 Competition Super Nintendo, but if you've got an extra fifty-thousand dollar bill lying around, you really can't go wrong with this little stocking stuffer. Built for the Nintendo World Championships II competition, this one of a kind survivor — only 32 were made, they say — from the early '90s is a hidden bargain. More »
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The mind-blowing Metal Gear Solid 4-themed PlayStation 3, modded by Morpheon Mods and signed by Mr. Hideo Kojima himself, has been *gavel whack* SOLD to the eBay gentleman in the back for an astounding $17,100. The current exchange rate means that's a metric shitton of cash, far more than we had ever expected. Some cut of that seventeen grand goes to the Child's Play Charity, possibly as much as $2,565, if that authorization letter from the organization is accurate. More »
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Summer blockbusters don't just line the pockets of film studio executives and actors working on a percentage of the gross, it looks like they help resellers of licensed games too. According to a bit of research from the Video Game Price Charts blog—I've used them in the past when selling my unwanted games via eBay—the time to strike when selling your copy of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine or Iron Man / X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal is when the movie adaptations hit theaters. More »
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Let's say you've got $135,000 lying around the house. You're a big PS3 fan, and you just don't know what to do with all that money. Sure, you could buy a bunch of PS3s for hospitals or charities or something, help out people in need, but that's boring. Why don't you blow it all on this auction for a PS3 entirely covered in Swarovski Crystals? Note I say blow it on the auction, not the PS3 itself, because if this is real then I'll...look, just read the auction listing, there's no way this is real. More »
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If you've ever bought action figures or comics or anything like that on an auction site, there's a fair chance it's been graded/appraised by a third party. This lets the buyer know that someone who's not the seller has independently vouched for the quality of the item in question. Well, if you're selling or buying games, you've now got the same option, as the first games to have been examined by Video Game Authority have popped up on eBay over the past week. For $25, the VGA will grade your game, then seal it inside a hard plastic, tamper-proof shell, which instantly lets buyers know the condition of the game. Useless if you're just after a sealed copy of GTAIV (especially considering the $25 fee), but if your online purchasing habits lean more towards boxed copies of Chrono Trigger, this looks like its worth a look. More »
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Kotakuite Louis S. gave us the heads up for this auction on Dutch eBay, with proceeds benefiting the World Wildlife Fund (as far as I can tell, which is not much, not reading Dutch): a 2.2 meter Big Daddy statue constructed out of fiberglass, weighing in at 44 kilos (around 97 lbs). Bidding ends on 8 am Sunday, CET and as of earlier this morning, bidding was up to a mere 600 Euros. If you can't live without one of these in your living room, bid here. I'm just glad creepy, life-sized fiberglass Little Sister isn't included. More »
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Kotakuite Connor sent along this eBay auction with the comment "That's a lot of video games .... and for a lot of money," which about sums it up. The seller says you can bid for the lot of "67 different video game systems and 1420 games" (no duplicates!) or you could just buy it now for the low, low sum of $18,000. More »
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Look for vintage gaming fans to swarm Sotheby's in New York next Thursday as the mother lode of dumpster diving goodness goes on the auction block. Then they'll sort of awkwardly wander away when they realize the place is filled with men and women in expensive suits ready to bid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the lot of over 2000 pieces of original Atari marketing materials and artwork from 1981-1983 being offered there. More »
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This is the last PS3 auction I am ever posting about. I don't care if someone offers my mother's life with a PS3 over eBay and I get offered the world exclusive coverage of the execution. I am done. Let's go out with a bang, shall we? eBay seller mg direct imports has posted a PlayStation 3 auction to end all auctions, and posts about auctions. They are offering not one, not two, but three 60GB PS3 systems, every launch game, and 21 blu-ray movies. They also throw in 3 extra controllers to sweeten the pot. More »
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For those that want them, the consoles are there. And not even at that much of a price, really. The intertubes have been flooded with consoles, and Yahoo! Auctions in Japan has the PLAYSTATION 3 coming out the whazoo. And at near deals at that! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=215106&view=rss&microfeed=true Remember when eBay was shutting down PlayStation 3 auctions, even going so far as to temporarily ban user accounts for listing pre-sale items? Well, that bleak period of time for eBay scalpers has passed. Now, the gouging can continue, nearly unfettered by the overlords at eBay. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=209267&view=rss&microfeed=true Were you one of the lucky prospective eBay gougers who managed to snap up a pre-order for the PS3? Are visions of eBay riches dancing through your head? More »
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Hot tipper Regan writes in to tell us: More »
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Hardcore blog DESTRUCTOID says an Aussie auctioneer is eBaying what he claims is the original version of Silent Hill. More »
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...if you're patient and dedicated and have a good eye for a bad scam, you could probably sift out some bargains from amongst the chaff? Lastminute Auction (built by two Berliners, one a U.S. expat, the site claims) scrapes eBay for anything "under an hour, under a dollar". More »
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This auction has some slick Ninja Turtle needlepoint. I know they aren't really in the focus, or, I suppose even part of the pop culture spectrum right now, but there'll always be a little nostalgic charm for my heroes in a half shell. More »
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Online auction house, eBay announced that video games and Xbox 360s were among the hottest items on the site, Next Generation reports. The $525/auction average over the last 30 days includes auctions with just Xbox 360 items, so the per console price may actually be higher than $525. During the same span, over 10,000 PSP auctions have ticked off with their average price hovering around $235. Are people selling their used PSPs on eBay? Ouch. The software is going to get better. More »
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