OT : eBay - Million Dollar Console Collection

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Saw this while surfing console news today and evidently someone actually bought this lot.

www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300736846867

As others have stated, too bad it wasn't US/EU collections, but still. Simply astounding. The effort it must have taken to collect them all, the years wasted on auction sites and in game stores - all that dorkery paid off and now he's a friggin' millionaire. Wowzers. Did he spend that much or more collecting it all? Probably. But it's one big fat check now (minus some gigantic PayPal fees!)
 
I would guess it was more likely he was the owner of a kind of game stop store (maybe more than one?). Or had some kind of access to collections, maybe an auctioneer? I guess I can't imagine how you could have 50 copies of one game over time otherwise.
 
Obviously we are collecting the wrong video games.

I wonder who the buyer was - someone in Japan I bet.
 
Thanks for posting, I spent most of my lunch break just scrolling through the listing. Really impressive. I kind of wondered what it cost to put that collection together my self.
 
I bought a Neo Geo home cart from that guy once. It, too, was from his "personal collection" and it was in sub-par condition. The insert was so cruddy on the top that I took a paper cutter to it. I wouldn't be surprised if a good chunk of these games are much rougher than he claims.
 
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