Video game collection sold on eBay for over $1.2 million!

[mikesilvia]

eBay listing here (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item4605501c13&item=300736846867&nma=true&pt=FR_Jeux_Vid%E9o&rt=nc&si=oZVuIXq%252BoaIKARo%252Fz7hROAxU7AU%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_164526wt_887).


A French video game collector just sold a collection of thousands of video games on eBay for more than $1.2 million.


The collection includes every video game for many of Nintendo's consoles, every video game for every single Sega console as well as all the games for the lesser-known NEC video game systems. In total, the collection includes 22 full sets with about 7,000 video games.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-enormous-video-game-ebay-20120709,0,6539757.story

[gatorboymike]

I've been collecting the wrong stuff.

[mrveggieman]

I know that there are a few rare video games that sell for top dollar but I am surprised that he made that much off it. Videogames almost always deappreciate in value. I wonder if if the winning bidder will actually pay up.

[Star_Cards]

I really wonder what he made. It sounds like he may have been a dealer and kept one over the years. Or at least for some of the games as he posted. I guess his profit all depends on his cost. I was trying to find a total number of games that were in this collection just to get a unit cost. That's a huge collection indeed. I wonder how long it took him to list it all out.