GEZ wrote:
Payment through bank transfer only – does not give you much (if any) protection, and brand new Ebay account. Claims to have another account from 2000, so why not use that one?
Risky!
If someone is willing to pay me half a million dollars for a huge collection of video games then I would pretty much assume that they would also be willing to hunt me down and kill my ass if I tried to scam them.
thunderstruck wrote:
Hey, you are already pretty close to your goal and there is still plenty of time left… seems like it is working out good.
Yeah, I’m pretty stoked! I can’t wait to get it printed. 🙂 I was a little nervous, but I figured gamers would get a kick out of it. I wonder what Nathan Barnatt would think of it? 🙂
Benjamin Stevens wrote:
Okay… I just gotta know… Are the dog pictured in your profile here and the cat pictured in your profile on Kickstarter your own pets, or are they pictures taken from elsewhere?
The dog is “Old Man Sam” – I am his “uncle” 🙂 His owner was my roommate for several years, and thus he lived with me. That is the COOLEST DOG EVER.
The cat in the other picture is just a funny looking cat I found on the interwebs.
thunderstruck wrote:
Pretty cool, just a little bit to expensive. Maybe Bigmak can buy it and then sent it to each one of us so we can try it out for a week or so.
I just spat chicken pot pie out all over the floor. Thanks for that.
i call dibs on one of the ‘free carts’ … just be sure to let me know how much of a donation it is going to take. I don’t want it as a ROM – I want a full cart.
Benjamin Stevens wrote:
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen all of those controllers before, especially since I’ve been watching a lot of the Angry Video Game Nerd episodes recently, except for that controller in the uppermost right corner of the poster. I’ve never seen that before and don’t currently know what system it belongs to.
Hahahaha… That’s from the Fairchild Channel F console. 😉
Someone else noted a strange gap between the T and the R in the word CONTROL… I’ll fix that.
Lastly, it’s widely illegal to sell something when you’ve argreed prior not to sell it on, in good faith or otherwise. repro makers can pick their customers and this is one reason why they do. These items are also prohibited to be sold on eBay anyway, that’s their rules, not just ours.
The First Sale Doctrine gives you the authority to resell any item that you legally purchased, regardless of what anyone says. If we switched to a licensing agreement, instead of selling the carts, then you could legally bind someone, but as it is there is no way to stop them.
In my mind, though, the problem is not so much someone selling the cart on eBay for a profit… It’s someone intentionally misleading a buyer by claiming that it is a rare prototype, or a development copy. That’s where I draw the line.
Report Category: Copyright and trademark
Reason for Report: Counterfeit item or authenticity disclaimer
Detailed Reason: Counterfeit, fake, or replica items
Description: “Trying to sell replica as much overpriced genuine prototype.”
For future reference, don’t report things as counterfeit or replica because eBay won’t accept those reports unless you join the VeRO program and file a takedown notice, and you can only do that if you are the rights owner.
The only way to get them to take action is for misleading titles and keyword spamming.
VBrulez wrote:
I hate to see people do bullshit like this. They buy a limited edition repro for resell, and falsely advertise it as an original prototype. The sad thing is someones probably going to end up paying a few $100 for it, unaware that it’s a reproduction.
