Castlevania - Brings out the crazies
June 20, 2008 | In Defcon |UPDATE!!!
Link >> Its been relisted << Link
Well lets see now. As you know, well at least the frequent visitors to the site here know, I do get a bee in my bonnet about eBay and its buyers/sellers now and again. I really hate to see when sellers do not get the money they deserve for their rarish items because people contact them on the side and get them to take whatever game out of a bundle and sell it to them cheap (only for those people to relist it straight away and get the profit.
And it drives me crazy when people ask for insane amounts of postage for small tiny items that cost next to nothing to send. And grrr I do hate those power sellers that use stock photos!. And….. see I get a little irate.
However sometimes I do just have to sit back, pour myself a beer, light up a cigarette and say to myself…… OMG WHAT THE FUCK!!!
And yes dear readers I did that just now, and I WTF’d so much I had to come on here and write about it straight away. So want to know what I was WTF’ing at? Well this
If you click the above link you will find, at the time of writing, a Castlevania Symphony of the Night Limited Edition and the stupid price of ??140 with almost 2 days left to run.
Now first off, that’s batshit insane!!! The game is not that damn rare. There are at least 50 for sale all over Europe at the moment. Yes this may well be a decent example of the game, with no scratches etc but still its not worth ??140.
Now that would be enough to drive my WTF meter to full, however there was something that drive it even higher than possible and that was the little blue text underneath the current price. And that being Reserve Not Met!!
Reserve not met? OMG WTF LOLZ!!! Talk about a greedy seller. Its no wonder that this game becomes ’seemingly rare’ when people put reserves on over that amount. Seriously this is enough to put me off collecting PlayStation altogether. So i would just like to go on the record now and say.
THIS GAME IS NOT ALL THAT RARE. Yes it may well be a good game, but it is not that rare, and the extras you get for it being a ‘limited edition’ are not worth an extra ??100 on top of what the standard edition would give you, and you can get it on Xbox Live as well for a couple of quid.
You wanna know a rare game? Try finding Whizz. That’s a rare game. Or TinTin UK version, thats a rare game, or Jet Ace, thats a rare game. Castlevania Symphony of the Night, that is NOT a rare game and is not worth ??140 plus. And anyone willing to pay that amount of money (and yes I am looking at you Bidder 6) deserves to have their testicles stapled to their eyelids.
/rant off
I guess we will be discussing this in the comments so please feel free to add your flames/insults/castlevania fanboyism towards me.
Cheers
Defcon
Wow…that’s just stupid. I’ve been watching that seller and he’s had that castlevania on there a few times before. the last time I think it went to ??70 and in the description, it said ” a small reserve has been set” Small…lol
. I’m surprised anyone would even bid for that much 
I agree with all said except the supposedly rare ps1 games that you indicated. In a quick search on eBay I found Whizz for 19.99gbp and Jet Ace for 4.99gbp (buy it now prices). I’m posting the links below in case anyone is interested:
WHIZZ:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Playstat.....ms=72%3A12
JET ACE:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JET-ACE-.....otohosting
Best regards
Exactly what I mean pynt. 1 copy of Whizz, and 1 copy of Jet Ace compared to
http://video-games.search-desc.....sofocusZbs
And that is just items in the UK and in the PlayStation Games section. I can see at least 6 versions there. If I did proper search I could easily find 50.
But only 1 copy of Jet Ace and 1 copy of Whizz.
PS. Thanks for reminding me to pick up Jet Ace, forgot to buy that the other day
Glad to help.
And I have to agree you are right, as rarity is concerned. I agree that Castlevania SOTN is not a rare game, but I still haven’t got one in my collection, because it is expensive.
By the way, I found 3 sealed PS games last week and don’t know how much they are worth. They are Kurushi Final, Hellnight and Discworld Noir. Can you help me?
Thank you
As for the castlevania auction, I laughed when I read the description where it says “I have put a small(!) reserve price”. Lolz. It’s the old “rare” vs “sought after” story again.
Well it stayed at £140 and the reserve didn’t get topped so I guess we will see it listed again.
@ pynt - i don’t know off the top of my head prices for those three, I know Discworld Noir sealed would probably be quite high. But you might want to post to a thread on our forum and someone might be able to get you a more precise figure.