I hate sellers like this......

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I dont like to see others get ripped off that is why. That is the highest price I have ever seen on ebay for a machine that is worth WAY less than a grand. Thats not even close to overpriced.

Everything on eBay is overpriced these days and most of the actual auctions are GONE.

Its now all BIN's.

He's a retailer, and it's HUO. If he gets that much, more power to him. eBay is why most of the "auctions" are gone, and the hobby would probably bottom out for retailers if fixed price didn't exist....there is actually a need for retailers that sell arcade machines contrary to popular belief.

I see Craig's List posts for ASteroids for $1000. Doesn't mean he will get it and it definitely doesn't mean it should be reported because you think it is overpriced.
 
Yep, take a breath.. eBay sucks :)

Haven't bought a part or game there for years now.. Oh wait, I did buy something last year.. Guess what? I was sent the wrong part and lost my case.. Oh, and I tried to sell a couple games too.. Just had bidders from out of state, who decided they didn't agree with my "please pay within 48hours policy".. Cause they couldn't view or pick up the game for a month or two.. Eventhough I said pickup only, no shipping, if not able to pick up you must pay within 48hours.. This was in massive bold type..

Man I hate eBay now.. Sorry, bit of a rant.. Guess I need to take a breath.. Heh
 
there's some guy on there trying to sell a turtles in time jamma for twice as much as it's really worth(buy it now or best offer). I offered him $200 several times but got no response and yesterday a nice KLOV person sold me one. The only thing I'll complain about is that the ebay guy didn't even look at my offer...

Also the thing with Ebay is that people think they have gold but then wake up one day with unsold items and have to have a going out of business sale...
 
I'd have to agree with everyone here. Although most if not all of us here would never pay that much, regardless of how prestine of condition, there is somebody out there that probably will.

It is the seller's prerogative to list their items at whatever price they want. And it's the buyer's prerogative to decide to purchase or not.

Watch this auction- bet someone buys it...

Report the auction? Really?
 
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Asking too much for an arcade game isn't against any rules, eBay or otherwise. If this bothers you enough to send a complaint (really?), there's far worse price-gouging on there. You've got your work cut out for you.

It's hard enough to get eBay to respond to legitimate complaints; you shouldn't bother them with B.S., IMHO.
 
Excellent shape indeed but he's still trying to RAPE people. ;)

When you see someone driving down the street in a Prius, do you feel compelled to stop the guy and point out that he was bent over by Toyota when he bought the piece of over-priced crap? Do you feel compelled to picket the front of a Toyota dealer for selling such over priced pieces of junk?

How is that different than this?
 
And lets be honest here everyone. Before I get all the heat from this posting.

If this seller tried to sell the game for $3500 on KLOV.

Someone here would offer $35 dollars and there may be no takers unless it was delivered to the house for FREE. ;)

Yeah, but, who cares? Its wouldnt be against KLOV rules either.

You're reporting an auction because you dont like the price. That makes no sense.

If they guy sells it for $3500, more power to him.
 
Ok I've said it like 3 or 4 times already I DIDNT REPORT THE AUCTION.

Yeah but that was the whole point of your post, you "hate" sellers and you were going to report him.

Buyers can be problematic as well.

Heck, I have things not for sale and people try to offer me lowball prices on things not even for sale, lol
 
This past Friday I was at a traffic light behind a pickup pulling a trailer. WHile sitting there I saw what looked like Asteroids sideart on something amidst all the junk he was hauling. I got in the lane next to him and sure enough,it was an Asteroids cabinet!! Right then i got excited and motioned him to roll down his window to ask him about it. Said that it worked so i wanted a closer look. He pulls over and I look at it and it's clean besides 2 dents in the top of the CP. Said he pulled it out of a foreclosed home and it worked fine,asking price $200. I passed on it because I already have an a asteroids deluxe but I decided to call a couple local KLOV'rs but no takers. Who knows what will happen to the game now but at least the guy didn't think he was sitting on pure gold.
 
I just finally got my first cabinet, but before I joined the KLOV and saw the prices here, I was going to try to get a cabinet off of eBay, and I was looking at spending nearly 7x times the amount that I got my Berzerk cabinet for.

Every now and then I see cabinets on eBay that I think are fair in price, but most of the time it seems the cabinets that are a good price are just too far for me to go and get!
 
I should have left the "reporting part" out obviously because everyone is running with that.

Don't shoot the messenger please.

I guess I find offense when in the past I cant even sell a classic for more then a grand on ebay. I barely got a thousand for a Dragons Lair couple years back which worked flawlessly. Sold a 720 for a grand on there as well couple years back. Have also had numerous "A list" games priced fairly ie (Defender working for $500) go unsold.

So seeing someone list a 500 game for 3500 kinda pissed me off. I'll keep it to myself next time or rephrase my posting to avoid the KLOV FLAMES.

Nobody is flaming you for being annoyed with ebay.

Nobody is flaming you for saying their policies have created a 'BIN' marketplace that acts (for a huge portion of sellers) as simply free advertising for their other items or off ebay marketplaces.

People flamed you for saying you were going to report the guy because you dont like his price. Particularly because you werent able to sell for high prices when you tried.

Its not a big deal. Save for the sour grapes price police reporting, I think everyone is with you.
 
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