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hollywood

Summer Blockbuster Maximize Licensed Crap Profit

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.

Yes, there's even a market for the terrible PlayStation Speed Racer game! Plenty of interesting charts and graphs await hopeful auctioneers at VGPC. I'm off to put a spit shine on my copy of The X-Files for PSone in anticipation!

Summer Movies Increase Game Prices. Go Speed Racer! [VGPC]

4:40 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Michael McWhertor
1,056 views, 12 comments

Latest by Gunloc: Wait wait... Are they talking about the Speed Racer ridge racer clone on the PS1? Come on, that game was more »

playstation 3

Blow $135,000 On This Bogus, Crystal PS3

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.

One Off Swarovski Crystal Covered Sony Playstation 3 Up for Sale [Bornrich]

9:40 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Luke Plunkett
11,988 views, 44 comments

Latest by vamponymouse: @Daimyo Nintendo: Yeah if you can get your fellow Nintendo fanboy boyfriends off of them for a minute the the more »

ebay

eBay Game Auctions Get "Regulated"

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.
First VGA Graded Games Hit eBay [GameSniped]

1:30 AM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Luke Plunkett
22,908 views, 52 comments

Latest by wingkong: I picked up a VGA 90 copy of a game on ebay and have to say I'm disappointed with their more »

bioshocked

Win Your Own 7'2" Big Daddy on eBay

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.

10:30 AM on Sat Oct 6 2007
By Maggie Greene
7,827 views, 24 comments

Latest by Odin: Fun fact: The game station on Birmingham New Street has this exact same statue and it's so awesome in real more »

that's a lot of video games

eBay Auction For A Whole Lotta Games

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 »

1:30 PM on Sun Jun 24 2007
By Maggie Greene
3,443 views, 47 comments

Latest by Brill: @CaptCaveman: That's what I mean. I think a good collection has a theme. Even if it's something as corky as more »

mr. fancy pants

Vintage Atari Art At Sotheby's

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 »

1:20 PM on Fri Jun 15 2007
By Mike Fahey
785 views, 5 comments

Latest by plus.medic: I swear this was already posted. Are you being paid to repost this over and over? more »

soe

$1.8 Million Passed Through Station Exchange

Sony Online Entertainment launched the Station Exchange back in 2005 as an officially sanctioned player auction site meant to profit from combat the ever-growing gold and character black-market in EQ2. No one was sure how popular the site would be, seeing as only certain Everquest II servers would be Exchange-enabled. Well nearly two years later SOE has published a white paper detailing the first year of transactions, which reports a whopping $1.8 million in transactions over the period. The paper includes all sorts of statistics, from highest priced items (dark elf characters) to average platinum prices ($7.35 per piece.) More »

11:20 AM on Wed Feb 7 2007
By Mike Fahey
96 views, 5 comments

Latest by Ixero: I remember when SOE posted this on the EQ2 forums before official press release. Alot of players were pissed off, more »

ebay

eBay PS3 Complete With Elven Slaves

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 »

12:40 PM on Mon Dec 4 2006
By Mike Fahey
533 views, 31 comments

Latest by Dyuta: Santa expects a happy ending? *shiver* more »

ps3

Those Japanese PS3 Auctions Hit Reasonable

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 »

5:22 PM on Wed Nov 15 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
386 views, 49 comments

Latest by moclippa: Great, since most (all?) the campers seem to be out there to resell, hopefully they will do what individually may more »

arcade machine

Super Arcade Auction

Super Auctions specializes in traveling from state to state holding astonishingly large auctions of arcade machines, pinball machines, jukeboxes, gambling machines and a jumble of other electronics related machines. You can even pick up one of those fancy grocery store heart monitor deals if you're of a mind. More »

10:08 AM on Sat Nov 11 2006
By fdemarco
4,093 views, 7 comments

Latest by supercrap: I live in Atlanta and have been going to these auctions for years. I emailed them about the Lakewood more »

ps3

PS3's Hit $2000 As eBay Revises Pre-Sale Auction Policies

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 »

4:12 PM on Sun Oct 22 2006
By Michael McWhertor
617 views, 50 comments

Latest by Ckmost: TThis one is for all of you that post stupid comments on what you believe is to be true based more »

ebay

eBay Shutting Down PS3 Auctions

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 »

6:43 PM on Wed Oct 11 2006
By kotaku.com
263 views, 25 comments

titan ae

Titan AeBay

Hot tipper Regan writes in to tell us: More »
silent hill

Extra-Spooky Silent Hill on eBay

Hardcore blog DESTRUCTOID says an Aussie auctioneer is eBaying what he claims is the original version of Silent Hill. More »

7:40 PM on Thu Jun 1 2006
By egauger
340 views, 11 comments

accessories

Last Minute Auctions: Mostly Crap, But..

...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 »

9:00 AM on Wed Dec 14 2005
By ataylor
292 views, 3 comments

Latest by gamerguy: Here's another similar site, but better. http://www.LastMinuteAuctionBargains.com Similar concept, no crappy graphics and loads faster. I find it easier to read and more »

oddities

Merry Christmas Master Splinter!

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 »

1:40 PM on Wed Nov 23 2005
By lsmith
212 views, Comment

xbox 360

360 Auctions Averaging over $500 on eBay

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 »

11:40 AM on Fri Nov 18 2005
By lsmith
326 views, 6 comments

Latest by Bloo: RE: weatherman I can guarantee you 100% that my XBOX 360 will be going nowhere. PGR3, NBA 2K6, PD0, DOA4 etc. more »