Insane nerds bid war for a sealed Chrono Trigger

[TR0N]

  Yeah a good rpg but for this price !?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280196150761

[nat]

What?!? Is this game even rare? I don't understand.

I bought a complete in box copy last year for around $40 and felt I got a pretty lame deal (on the logic that most SNES games are really cheap). Definitely would never dream of adding $1,200 for some shrinkwrap I was going to take off anyway.

[Turbo D]

wow, thats insane, lol. I bet the winner has buyers remorse!

[Keranu]

The sad thing is that no snerd is going to open it which is going to cause the box to damage over time and become a pitiful mess.

[Michael Helgeson]

The sad thing is that no snerd is going to open it which is going to cause the box to damage over time and become a pitiful mess.

The battery on the inside will resolve any other "still worth something" issues in about another 15 years prob,if not sooner when it leaks.

[nat]

I still don't understand. Is having the shrinkwrap really worth $1,200? I've never seen anything like this.

If I go get my copy re-shrinked somewhere can I really sell it to some poor, unsuspecting victim for $1,200? Guess I better erase my saved games first or the buyer might think something is up.

[rolins]

Holy sh*t, morons! Since when did CT become so rare?

[Kitsunexus]

This game is good, but it's nowhere near this kind of praise. I personally wouldn't pay more than $10 loose and $25 boxed, $30 boxed+manual, $40 mint.

Other SNERDs are retarded.

[MurderDate]

It's the same way with records and record-nerds.    Put me in any city with $2 and a day to look around and I can give you a copy of Kiss - Alive.  It's super easy to find and not worth much to anybody.  Find a sealed copy tho, and I could sell that for $300-$400 easily.  (Even though you never know with a sealed record - it could be as warped as your brain).   There's die hards out there who need a full collection of sealed games.  Look at what billmarioman bids on,  I only ever see him buying sealed TG16 games (you'd think he has them all by now.. but he still bids).

[Tatsujin]

CT us always was kinda value stuff. but then we talking around US$120, and not its 10times.

[nectarsis]

Hey Nat..you actually got a great deal.   Tatsujin is right...$120 mint/compltete is about on par.  I have seen "sealed" copies of Dragon Warrior 4 go for over $400, and "sealed Final Fantasy go for over $400.   Both sealed are semi rare, but worth that much???  Final Fantasy as a whole is a fairly common game.  I guess there's a sucker every minute...

[nodtveidt]

Well, some sucker is going to empty his wallet buying that overhyped piece of trash, only to never actually use it. That alone makes me laugh and yet feel just a little sad for the complete and utter tool who wins it.

I wouldn't even pay that much for a sealed US Magical Chase, which has a market value 30X that game.

[rainbow_bright]

Games are for playing, not for  keeping in the shrinkwrapped box:( I understand if you get two copies really cheap and then you keep one (one for play, one for your collection), but bidding so high for a game, just cause its shrinkwrapped? Thats so silly and extravagant. 

[nat]

I still have games that are shrinkwrapped, but that's more a matter of me not having gotten around to playing them yet rather than anything else. I don't collect sealed games just for the sake of having them.

[rainbow_bright]

All the sealed games I have bought, are now opened Most of the games I have are played, apart from  a small bunch (some neo geo aes games. I don't have the system yet.., some Atari 7800 games (same with aes, will get the system in due time!). I do like to keep my games in perfect condition though

And I would buy extra copies for some games, if they were cheap. It's kinda the collectors mentality and it is kinda silly..but I am silly!

I think I kinda contradicted myself, from my earlier post. lol Well, more than one copy is fine, but paying so much just cause its shrinkwrapped? Thats silly.