Hi Dark: Well, keep in mind I am only speculating at how much I will or won't get. My wife and I have not actually gone to court yet over the items she took and sold so I don't have any idea how much she will have to pay if anything for selling off my stuff. She'll probably have to pay me something, but I doubt they will make her pay collectors prices for the stuff. She claims she sold my Atari 2600 and about 50 games for about $20 which is far less than the going rate for the games and hardware meaning she got far less from them than they are worth. I am not sure if the court will make her simply pay the value of what she got for the system and games or if I can make her pay collectors prices for the entire thing.
The problem, of course, is proof. There is no way on earth for me to prove what games I had. Good grief, I got many of those games when I was a kid. I don't have receipts, packaging, or anything else to prove I ever owned said games. So right there I am at a disadvantage asking the court for an original cartridge for the 1982 Pac-Man when I don't have any proof that I ever owned such a thing much less that my wife hocked it without my permission. All I have is my word against hers, and rather than give me the actual collectors value for the game/games I'll end up settling for far less than what they are worth. Cheers! On 12/30/13, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Funny tom, I'm surprised at the court settlement since my own Snes and mega > > drive collections are both insured to the tune of quite a large amount of > cash, since the insurance company counted them as collectables. > > Then again, I don't know what the current price of Atari hardware is given > that a lot of those older games have been either released in other programs > > or are available with devices like the power joy, where as the 16 bit era > stuff tends to be a litle harder to get hold of. > > I remember for example one of the weerder winamp plugins had the entire > original packman game which you could play in a separate window while you > listened to your music, though annoyingly you couldn't maximize that > window. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
