dov's impact?
i have bought over 40 sealed games on and off ebay from dov(dov is an awesome & an trustworthy seller off ebay) and i am very happy that he found his stash. he has been a top notch seller since day one. i was wondering what other collectors out there, think of his impact on sealed nes collecting? i started collecting sealed nes games last september and i had never seen a sealed rygar,bubble bobble,rad racer(just a couple of examples).as we all know dov has probably sold 15 or more copies of each of the titles i mentioned and he is still listing them. i also hardly ever saw games like ninja gaiden,willow,gun smoke,commando, etc for sale. do you think the prices for all of the games that are now availabe and floating around such as metroid,contra,bubble bobble,ninja gaiden,all the cheaper games,etc will go up,go down, or remain about the same?? i think dov has brought a lot of new sealed collectors into the hobby and generated a big buzz around sealed collecting. that is a very posisitve thing. any thoughts?
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And yah, I can see how him being here is both a negative, and a positive for most the sealed collectors, but in my case having never thought of collecting that way.. it's purely a positive experience.
Ha.. awesome. Did you add them to the sealed game contents list?!
Yes I did. I opened 40 games in less than an hour...what a rush!
I think it has had positive effects as blarky has pointed out but most definitely has tanked the market on quite a few games. Games that were considered "rare" previously can no longer be pointed to as such when you have 20+ copies being sold in the past 2 months. Previously you could not find a sealed Metroid for less than $500 and now you have copies up every week selling for around $300. So, the whole thing is definitely positive for those actively buying these games and most definitely negative for owners of the same games looking to sell (I am on both sides of the coin here).
I dunno, metroid's come down slightly maybe but most (all?) of the copies he's been offering are damaged and it was only the mint copies that ever got above 500 anyways. And contra somehow has gone up despite him selling ten of them!
For the amount of stuff he's selling, for the fact that much of it has slight damage tweaks, given the economy...... I am impressed with how stable prices have been. Yes its come down from the crazy prices he was getting, but he's still getting full FMV almost all the time, and this is after having unloaded at least a couple thousand games already. Pretty impressive.
As others have said the extra supply has drawn in more collectors. Paradoxically all this extra supply has probably been a great thing for the sealed market. Too hard to bring in new collectors when there isn't enough to go around.
I never even entertained buying Fact. sealed games til' I found out about Dov. I was sniping and lucked out tonight-got 5 sealed for the amazing price of $6.08! I'm really happy right now as you can imagine.
Isn't his shipping pretty expensive. It's 15 for the first game and 4 for each additional game.
i use to drive up and c Dov every weekend for a month and buy games off of him privately.
whoa whoa whoa whoa
I didn't even notice he lived here, and I've looked at tons of his auctions. How did you meet him, ebay messages? I could probably just go and pick up whatever I won (if I had money to bid) on my way home from work (if I had a job) and my girlfriend (if I had one) wouldn't even get mad!
i use to drive up and c Dov every weekend for a month and buy games off of him privately.
whoa whoa whoa whoa
I didn't even notice he lived here, and I've looked at tons of his auctions. How did you meet him, ebay messages? I could probably just go and pick up whatever I won (if I had money to bid) on my way home from work (if I had a job) and my girlfriend (if I had one) wouldn't even get mad!
Post of the day.
I'm interested in about 10 items and his last post indicated a minimum of 35. I could ask Jumpman if there were any he wanted when he gets back from Japan, but thats still probably only 20 combined.
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I never even entertained buying Fact. sealed games til' I found out about Dov. I was sniping and lucked out tonight-got 5 sealed for the amazing price of $6.08! I'm really happy right now as you can imagine.
Isn't his shipping pretty expensive. It's 15 for the first game and 4 for each additional game.
dovs impact = a longer recession for some of us in this economy =D
haha. All the US $ coming across the border for his games is gonna single handly stimulate the Canadian economy. Thanks Dov for selling out when we need your $.
At $200 I'd buy all of the mint Contras out there. I paid much, much more for mine.
Well I just stopped bidding at 200 because the other bidder had a high proxy bid, I was willing to go higher but I've been going overboard lately with all my purchases. The two he sold this month went for 275 and 285, still good prices that's for sure. What did you get your's for if you don' t mind me asking?