In the e-mail below, I mentioned how I didn't see many of these deals on eBay anymore. Well I just found one. A guy wanted $300 bucks for a palette-load of Atari hardware and software. He was local so I went to check it out. I could have bought the whole thing, resold separately and made good money on the deal, but frankly it was too much stuff and it needed cleaning...it would take a long time to deal with. (he had about 8 Atari CPUs alone...lots of peripherals, some Commodore stuff too).
Instead I picked up an Atari 400 in the box and about 45 original games (including in-box Sierra Ultima 1: The Original, Alternate Reality City & Dungeon, and a few other nice finds) for $75. Once again, none of the games were mentioned in the lot description, and I got lucky that he was local. But if you find 1 or 2 of these a year and it's worth the extra search effort. Hugh -----Original Message----- From: Hugh Falk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 10:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SWCollect] [ SWCollect ] What's your favorite find? Wow, there are so many...maybe too many. However, the ones that stick out in my mind aren't necessarily the best or rarest games I have, it's the best deals I found. So I'll just name the ones I got for free (the deal can't get any better than that): Akalabeth Starcross (Saucer Package) Suspended (Mask Box) Infocom folios -- Deadline, Suspended, Seastalker, Infidel, Planetfall, Enchanter, etc. Ultima Ultima II small box Ultima II big box Sierra folios -- Ulysses, Mystery House, Wizard and Princess, Time Zone, etc. I'll stop there...literally hundreds more. How did I get all these for free? On eBay, believe it or not, and they weren't free...initially . They came in large lots of stuff (usually with a ton of hardware). The games weren't even mentioned in the lots (so a search wouldn't find them). However, they were in the pictures, and I was lucky to spot them. I won the lots and kept the games. I sold the stuff I didn't want back on eBay (splitting up the items and with better advertising) and made more than I paid for the original lots. So the games actually made me money. I don't know if it's because I have less time or if these deals aren't around any more, but I haven't scored one in quite a while. I really miss the old days of ebay (5 years ago! :-) I'm also proud of my complete collection of EA flat box games...not that they're rare or expensive. I just haven't seen another complete set...anybody on this list collect EA flats? Hugh -----Original Message----- From: John Romero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SWCollect] [ SWCollect ] What's your favorite find? Figured I'd switch topics here since it had to happen sooner or later! What's your favorite old software find that you have? I have a *bunch* of old ziploc baggie games from the early days, but I'd have to say that my favorite ones are: (1) Pristine, perfect complete collection of Softalk magazine (1980-1984) (2) Akalabeth (the one with the orange castle) (3) Master Disks for a few of Nasir Gebelli's games: Horizon V, Eggs-It, Neptune. (4) Signed copy of Phantom's Five (Nasir) (5) Perfect box copy of Ultima II (6) Signed copy of Cyber Strike (Nasir) (7) Signed copy of Both Barrels (Nasir) - John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/swcollect@oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/swcollect@oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/swcollect@oldskool.org/
