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Apr 20, 2013 • 16:53 Profile Photo mawa

Hello all
A bad day have come and i am thinking off selling my wholy Virtual boy collection.
( the economy in europe have hit me very bad also some privat problems that cost me allot cash and my car need replacment )
that are the reasons but i am still not sure iff i will do it

what do you guys thinking shall i do it or not its a hard decision for me

what i all have i think you people all know or els check my profile ( compleet set usa / japan boxed and allot more

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Apr 21, 2013 • 03:31 Profile Photo John E Bravo

So Sorry! I have in the past sold off bit and pieces of my collection as well, it does hurt but I was ok with it. I kept the things I had fun playing the most. Collecting just to look at something that is rare is great. But the chase, to me is more fun. Trying to buy back or locate things I once had can be a bummer. But I like it better than when I had it ALL! Nothing left to hunt for if you have it all! Besides you know how it feels to have all the Virtual boy stuff I assume? You are one of the few in the world, You can never sell your love for the system and that’s whats important! Keep the things you have fun playing the most and sell the ones thats you can do without. With me, I like the VB fishing game, I owned it for years but after a while fishing bores me. I Had to keep Space Sqaush because its fun to me. Do what you feel is right!

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Apr 21, 2013 • 05:15 Profile Photo Wyndcrosser

I can tell you I’ve sold off a collection or two. Honestly, it makes you realize how much money you’ve spent on “plastic” and “electronics”, that’s all it comes down to. There’s so much better ways to spend money, but as gamers and/or collectors we use it toward the aforementioned items. Good luck with the sale and I hope you get more money’s worth.

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Apr 22, 2013 • 12:48 Profile Photo Benjamin Stevens

mawa wrote:

…i am thinking off selling my wholy Virtual boy collection.

I am very sorry to hear about your financial situation, and I would like to help you out as best as I can right now.

If you are interested, I can very likely make you a very generous offer for your Japanese Teleroboxer “Sample for Demo” game as well as your printed material such as flyers. Then, you can decide what all else you may want to try to sell off.

Send me a PM if you would like to hear my offer.

All the best.

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Apr 22, 2013 • 15:43 Profile Photo mawa

Hello all
thanx for all the coments and pm’s that i have had from you guys

A bad day have come today and all have been sold and collect about 2 hours ago.

the new owner will come here on the site very soon i think
It have go to a real collector

I am not goin out off the virtual boy scene beacouse i still love this systeem and probbely later will buy a systeem back
here a picture off the result in my collection :

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Apr 22, 2013 • 18:05 Profile Photo jrronimo

So sad. 🙁 Sorry to hear your situation has come to this, but hopefully this sale will give you the leg up you need to re-collect it all. 🙂

As for me, when I got close to a complete US Box collection, I couldn’t stop. As cool as it would be to have, say, a complete NES collection, that’s just too much time, money and effort for me. Part of what I love about collecting the VB is that it’s pretty easy to get a full set: the stuff’s out there, there isn’t *too* much of it…

Good luck, mawa. Sorry to hear of the sale, but hopefully everything works out in the end for you.

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Apr 22, 2013 • 20:11 Profile Photo Benjamin Stevens

jrronimo wrote:

As cool as it would be to have, say, a complete NES collection, that’s just too much time, money and effort for me.

If by “complete NES collection,” you mean a CIB game collection containing all NTSC NES games, I would be surprised if more than 10 people on the planet could ever accomplish that, with primary thanks to Stadium Events. A complete NTSC NES cart-only collection, though, would be much more feasible.

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Apr 22, 2013 • 23:04 Profile Photo bigmak

When life comes and gives you problems. You have to do what you have to do, for the people you care about.

Before I traded my collection..I use to have a really hard time just typing online..knowing I had a collection a few feet from me..with the worth of a new car :P.

If I were able to talk to you before you sold it all..I would have said to keep 1 vboy and keep all your games…that’s what I’ve done. All that extra stuff is just extra.

-Eric

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Apr 23, 2013 • 19:58 Profile Photo Cosmoliner

Wow,you sold your collection verry fast.
So sad that you must sold your fantastic collection,i hope it is in good hands.
Hope you come sometimes back and buy a system again.

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Apr 23, 2013 • 20:34 Profile Photo mawa

offcourse i will stay on here
as i already told i still love the systeem

for the oction that i had on a local site in my country
i had put it up there for 10.000 euro i will not say what the buyer have payed me but i can tell it whas eneugh so i have sold it ( whit pain in my heart beacouse this whas my holy grail collection )
It have been sold in less then 48 hours

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Apr 23, 2013 • 20:48 Profile Photo mawa

i just find out that my collection also have been post on
http://www.gamesniped.com/

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Apr 23, 2013 • 22:04 Profile Photo jrronimo

Benjamin Stevens wrote:

jrronimo wrote:

As cool as it would be to have, say, a complete NES collection, that’s just too much time, money and effort for me.

If by “complete NES collection,” you mean a CIB game collection containing all NTSC NES games, I would be surprised if more than 10 people on the planet could ever accomplish that, with primary thanks to Stadium Events. A complete NTSC NES cart-only collection, though, would be much more feasible.

Well, yeah. But even a “close to CIB” collection gets tough and expensive. A lot of the black box games are tougher to find already. Not impossible, but tougher.

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Apr 23, 2013 • 22:06 Profile Photo jrronimo

mawa wrote:
i just find out that my collection also have been post on
http://www.gamesniped.com/

I’ve been subscribed to their RSS feed for years. Even though most of the stuff that pops up usually is gone before I get a chance or even would want, it’s really neat to know what sort of cool, rare stuff is out there.

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Apr 24, 2013 • 17:52 Profile Photo VBmills

Sorry you had to sell your collection, can’t have been easy decision. Hope the money helps you get sorted.
Looks like you collection has gone to a good home though.

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Apr 24, 2013 • 19:46 Profile Photo Benjamin Stevens

jrronimo wrote:

Well, yeah. But even a “close to CIB” collection gets tough and expensive. A lot of the black box games are tougher to find already. Not impossible, but tougher.

I think just getting a CIB Stadium Events alone approaches near impossible, and it is especially ridiculous when compared to a complete Virtual Boy game collection.

I made a price list for Virtual Boy CIB games recently, using the average selling prices of CIB VB games on Ebay in the last 4 months as well as my memory of what the rarest CIB games have gone for in the last 2 years, and I determined that the “worth” of a complete CIB Virtual Boy game collection today, including both North American games as well as Japanese games, is about $4,780.00. (See the attached for average selling prices of each game and the total calculation)

In comparison to NTSC Stadium Events, a recent Ebay auction showed that the “worth” of a damaged NTSC Stadium Events box alone is over $8,000.00.

So basically, one can either have a complete Virtual Boy game collection across both regions plus over $3,220.00 in extra spending cash, or one can have a damaged NTSC Stadium Events box.

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