NES Cartridge sells for 13k on eBay

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http://kotaku.com/5470923/mom-sells-old-nes-and-5-games---for-13105

So, the holy grail of NES collecting, and perhaps of video game collecting as a whole, Stadium Events, randomly turned up on eBay last week, and sold for a whopping 13k. The cartridge itself is worth around $2,000 because of it's rarity, but what made this unique was that it came with it's original box and manual, making it one of only 10 other complete copies known to exist amongst collectors. Collectors have valued the box alone at being worth aproximately $9000. I suppose if you really are that crazy obsessed with owning the complete NES library, then you're going to have to bite on this eventually, but for the rest of us this is just absolute insanity.
 
I dunno -- is any game worth $13k, if someone has that kind of disposable cash, I hope they've donated some money to Haiti relief charities.
 
They obviously knew that Stadium Events was quite valuable because they featured it in 7 of the 12 pictures they used for the auction. Kotaku makes it sound as if the seller was ignorant of the value of the game. I'm sure they didn't expect to get $13k for it though.
 
[quote name='jbroush99']They obviously knew that Stadium Events was quite valuable because they featured it in 7 of the 12 pictures they used for the auction. Kotaku makes it sound as if the seller was ignorant of the value of the game. I'm sure they didn't expect to get $13k for it though.[/QUOTE]

actually those pictures were added after people alerted her that the game is valuable.
 
[quote name='jbroush99']They obviously knew that Stadium Events was quite valuable because they featured it in 7 of the 12 pictures they used for the auction. Kotaku makes it sound as if the seller was ignorant of the value of the game. I'm sure they didn't expect to get $13k for it though.[/QUOTE]

If you read the updates on the eBay description, she says she added more pictures of Stadium Events due to a large amount of requests. I think she genuinely didn't know the value of the game until someone noticed the auction and told her.

Edit: Dang. Someone answered while I was posting. Sorry
 
If the seller really new the value of Stadium Events when she listed it, she probably would have called it something other than "Original Nintendo Game System Lot/Controller/5 game." Although her all-caps wall-o-text description shows she's not the most savvy.

Great for her either way.

I just have this image of the buyer blowing on the cart trying to get it to work. Not that someone paying $13k for it is actually interested in playing it, but it's still a funny image to me.
 
As others have pointed out, I think it's pretty obvious the seller had no clue about the game's value, seeing as the other pictures were added later by request. Plus, why would you do a bundle with something like that? That's like putting up a Mickey Mantle card with a bunch of commons. You don't need to do that. The one item on it's own is going to sell itself.
 
[quote name='GUNNM']13k for that piece of shit? wow people are morons[/QUOTE]



are you gunm's evil twin brother?


anyway, I thought NWC Gold carts and other things were the holy grails of NES collecting.
 
[quote name='juangrande386']not likely but I still have hope that id find something like that at Goodwill and probably crap myself right there[/QUOTE]

Not in a trillion years.
 
[quote name='Ye0ldmario']Not in a trillion years.[/QUOTE]
hey you never know with Goodwill. grandma or mom finds kids old games in the closet and drop it off at Goodwill.
 
[quote name='juangrande386']hey you never know with Goodwill. grandma or mom finds kids old games in the closet and drop it off at Goodwill.[/QUOTE]

Even if a copy of this game DID show up at Goodill (it won't) it would just become the highest selling item on shopgoodwill.com history.
 
[quote name='gordojones88']Hey I have a copy right here I'll sell you guys for just $12,000.[/QUOTE]
Great, I'll take 6.
 
I actually saw the original thread for this over in the game auctions part of CAG, it was fun watching to see how high the bidding would go. It was crazy to see it go so high.
 
[quote name='spmahn']Even if a copy of this game DID show up at Goodill (it won't) it would just become the highest selling item on shopgoodwill.com history.[/QUOTE]

You can find great and rare stuff at Goodwill, if you get lucky. Someone posted the other day that they bought a cart-only copy of Chrono Trigger for like $2 in-store.
 
As others said, Angel didn't know about the value of Stadium Events. I was one of the people who sent her a message. I was very happy for her because she was such a sweetheart!!
 
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']You can find great and rare stuff at Goodwill, if you get lucky. Someone posted the other day that they bought a cart-only copy of Chrono Trigger for like $2 in-store.[/QUOTE]


It's a one in a million shot though. Nearly all the video games that get donated to Goodwill that don't have Wayne Gretzky or John Madden on the cover end up on their auction site.
 
[quote name='spmahn']It's a one in a million shot though. Nearly all the video games that get donated to Goodwill that don't have Wayne Gretzky or John Madden on the cover end up on their auction site.[/QUOTE]

Or in the workers' pockets. Usually in their pockets.

If a complete copy of Stadium Events had been listed on goodwill's site, they'd start it off at like $120,000.00
 
There is a very small margin of people who would be on craigslist to see one of those ads but not see the article about the auction. And the chances of one of those people having the game are extremely slim. I don't see the point of even putting an ad up.
 
You also need to consider the fact that Bandai only released the game at Woolworths in the Northern US, the Chicago area specofcally, the odds of the games turning up outside that proximity dwindle down to almost zero.
 
Of all games back in the day. I never bought Stadium Events although I almost did. Now since its rare and sales for so much. I hate myself for not buying it.
 
[quote name='spmahn']Yeah, but the game wasn't sold at every Woolworths stores, just a select few in the Chicago area that were a part of Bandai's test market.[/QUOTE]

The guy who made that ad says he found 2 for $100 each, full of shit though.
 
[quote name='bsesb2003']I dunno -- is any game worth $13k, if someone has that kind of disposable cash, I hope they've donated some money to Haiti relief charities.[/QUOTE]

Not to be rude, but we have millions of people needing help here in many ways. I'd rather help the people in the US first. Besides which, how many dollars from those 'charities' actually go to helping those people and how much of it goes to the big wig assholes running them?:roll:

[quote name='GUNNM']13k for that piece of shit? wow people are morons[/QUOTE]

That's what I'd like to know. What makes this game so 'valuable' really? It seems like it's sometimes the shittiest games that end up 'rare' and sought after.:roll:
 
Help the people in our own country first, nevermind haiti. Course the idiot in office thinks differently.

I can assure you whoever collected donations, they got a share of the cash too. It didn't all go to haiti.
 
[quote name='Ye0ldmario']Help the people in our own country first, nevermind haiti. Course the idiot in office thinks differently.

I can assure you whoever collected donations, they got a share of the cash too. It didn't all go to haiti.[/QUOTE]

Well of course! It takes big money to run and operate a charitable organization or nonprofit:roll::roll::roll:.

99.9% of these fuckers set 'em up basically as nothing more than a money laundering/embezzlement/tax cheat operation, in order to make their wealth tax free via the 501(c)(3) tax exemption.

Bill and Melinda Gates foundation? A convenient way to shift tens of billions of dollars in wealth to a perpetual nigh-tax free entity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']
That's what I'd like to know. What makes this game so 'valuable' really? It seems like it's sometimes the shittiest games that end up 'rare' and sought after.:roll:[/QUOTE]

actual rarity. Lots of game collectors + very few legit copies in existence = value

i.e. supply and demand.
 
Wow!! good for her! - I'm sure eBay was happy too - since they will get a couple thousand of it. grrr --- and she will likely get a nice letter from the IRS too -- freakin' fees and taxes - robbery!... grrrrr
 
[quote name='gameguy']Wow!! good for her! - I'm sure eBay was happy too - since they will get a couple thousand of it. grrr --- and she will likely get a nice letter from the IRS too -- freakin' fees and taxes - robbery!... grrrrr[/QUOTE]

really? they pay that close of attention? I guess the story is everywhere on gaming sites, but still...you'd think they have bigger fish to fry.
 
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