MineStorm wrote:
$250 for Gundam translated – wow, that’s gone up in value in a short time.
Perhaps if cart-only releases were made available as some type of on-demand deal, where there would never be stock-on-hand, then a price of $250 for the limited CIB would be more justified. There is really nothing to compare the limited CIB cart to. You could compare it to the Japanese release which commands a higher price than most of the other VB games, and perhaps based on that, an English translated release seems more rare. I’ve yet to see one sold second hand that commanded such a high price, but perhaps he is just setting the standard for what is to come. Due to limited time, a lack of interest in cart-only-releases, and perhaps even limited resources (?), those involved with the reproductions have inadvertently made them extremely collectable, when it would appear at first glace that the sole purpose was simply to make something unique available to VB gamers.
Based on the limited quantities of this particular production run of complete-in-box copies of SD Gundam Dimension War in English and also based on buyers’ demands for complete-in-box copies of this game from this particular run, I would say that a current asking price of $250.00 is very fair. There were two auctions on Ebay not too long ago that revealed a total of four different buyers who were willing to pay more than $250.00 for this CIB game. If one checks the seller’s feedback, one will notice that the seller received positive feedback for each transaction, showing that the sales actually occurred, despite the fact that when the seller kept listing each new auction with the same picture, the seller acted like it was as a result of a non-paying bidder. The number of people willing to pay over $250.00 for this game that is no longer readily available may have very well increased some in this short period of time. If a person who was willing to pay over $250.00 for this game today found out that someone else was able to acquire it today for much less instead of him or her, he or she may very well be upset about it. Thus, it makes sense for a person who is willing to part with this special CIB game to let it go to someone who is willing to pay more than just about anyone else at the moment, which is about the only fair way to handle it.
