Re: [SWCollect] Half and Bidville experiences?
In a message dated 10/07/2003 11:00:52 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ah, that's right, I forgot about the signup fee. IIRC it's $5 for 6 months? Still a bargain, considering eBay charges you an absolute minimum of 30 cents just to list a single auction. Well the really good thing is if you have an overseas buyer (or someone here in the US for that matter) you don't know and don't want to take a chance with ripoff paypal you can list the item at Bidville, buy it now, then they can use bidpay (just list as something like "book" or "game" so no one else will bid). No fees so you can sell any item that way. Tom Visit my web page for many games for sale/trade and screen shots of Ultima Escape from Mt. Drash, Tom's Ultima, Infocom and RPG page
[SWCollect] Mt. Drash seller
I thought the group might find this interesting. See, us video game collectors aren't all bad. We pick up rare computer games and sell them without knowing it until after the fact. 8) | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (EE Wannabe) | Newsgroups: rec.games.vectrex | Subject: Re: Mr. Boston Game | Date: 4 Oct 2003 18:42:57 -0700 | Organization: http://groups.google.com | Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] | + supernews.com> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Off topic but related: | I found a cassette copy of the VIC20 Ultima: Escape from Mount Drash | at the GoodWill Store, put it up on Ebay, and it sold for $865.00! | Turns out there are only 4 known working copies. | | I guess this only relates to Mr. Boston in that U:EFMD was just the | cassette, no manual, no box, but it was still a good find for someone. | | Hey, anyone want to port it to V? -- Lee K. Seitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[SWCollect] Scott Adams: Emperor of the Universe
From Scott Adams' website: "Who is Scott Adams? Scott was the first person to put an Adventure game (also known as Interactive Fiction) on a personal computer. This was in 1978 and the computer was a 16k Radio Shack TRS-80 model I. Scott went on to write over a dozen different adventure games for the personal computers of the 1980s. He is credited with starting the entire multi billion dollar a year computer game industry." Uh... I have respect for the man too, but since when was he credited with "starting the entire multi billion dollar a year computer game industry"? Am I missing something? His early adventures were nice, but with the limited parser in those things I wouldn't exactly call them the germ of the industry. -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trippy MindCandy at http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ -- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Re: [SWCollect] Half and Bidville experiences?
Ah, that's right, I forgot about the signup fee. IIRC it's $5 for 6 months? Still a bargain, considering eBay charges you an absolute minimum of 30 cents just to list a single auction. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Half and Bidville experiences? In a message dated 10/07/2003 1:00:48 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They charge for special features (bold, featured auctions, etc.) Not 100%sure how this keeps them in business, to be honest.Well they charge that $5 fee to be able to list for a year. If 100K people pay it that is 500K. Not sure what the maintenance is for site like that, must be cheap?TomVisit my web page for many games for sale/trade and screen shots of Ultima Escape from Mt. Drash, Tom's Ultima, Infocom and RPG page
Re: [SWCollect] Half and Bidville experiences?
In a message dated 10/07/2003 1:00:48 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They charge for special features (bold, featured auctions, etc.) Not 100% sure how this keeps them in business, to be honest. Well they charge that $5 fee to be able to list for a year. If 100K people pay it that is 500K. Not sure what the maintenance is for site like that, must be cheap? Tom Visit my web page for many games for sale/trade and screen shots of Ultima Escape from Mt. Drash, Tom's Ultima, Infocom and RPG page
