Recent NES black box sales

[Kevincal]

You all know the real culprit in all of this, that enabled the explosion of video game collecting craziness..

EBAY.

without ebay most video game values would be insanely lower. But ebay put video game collecting in the limelight and its only grown stronger since ebay came around in the mid 90's.

[Buyatari]

You all know the real culprit in all of this, that enabled the explosion of video game collecting craziness..

EBAY.

without ebay most video game values would be insanely lower. But ebay put video game collecting in the limelight and its only grown stronger since ebay came around in the mid 90's.

The internet has made the world a smaller place. Without it videogames would have taken a much longer time to mature as a collectable but comic books and baseball cards were able to do so prior to the interent and videogames would have done so without it as well.

[Griking]

You all know the real culprit in all of this, that enabled the explosion of video game collecting craziness..

EBAY.

without ebay most video game values would be insanely lower. But ebay put video game collecting in the limelight and its only grown stronger since ebay came around in the mid 90's.

Yup. and I remember clearly when the people around here would deny that eBay sets the value of what a game is worth. Almost EVERYONE who resells items will check to see what an item sells for on eBay before selling it in their local store. Pawn shops do it, consignment shops do it, Goodwills do it and you know damned well that most of the people at flea markets do it. Now you can argue that the prices that they reference aren't accurate, (I like to point out to my local Goodwill when they put a print out of an eBay auction to show an item's value that nobody actually bid on the auction that they're referencing) but they're what people base their prices on.