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This is insane. Just insane. I love video games as much as the next guy, but DAMN. Seriously?

Something isn't right here. This might be too good of a deal..

The bad part is that if you unwrap it and play it, you just lost about $790,000. Used mint copies only go for about $13,000.

Im sure the final bidder will use paypal and pay right away

At first I was like --
And then I saw it had bids and I was like OO
And then I remembered I can't throw money around like this.

And I was once again like -_-

After doing a eBay "completed listings" search, the game is indeed rare and valuable, but perhaps not as much as stated above. Used copies go anywhere between $300 and $9000, but average around $700 or so.

The most expensive one I found was this one at the $9000 mark. Certainly pricey but nowhere near that of a nice retirement cottage in the forest. See it here: http://cgi.ebay.com/NINTENDO-STADIUM-EVENTS-NTSC-CIB-Rare-NorthAmerican-NES_W0QQitemZ290404288973QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Vintage_Video_Games?hash=item439d71c9cd

Update: I may have been a little quick to judge. The very link above quotes and links to http://www.nintendoage.com/ which has a write-up on this series of games. Apparently its the NTSC (USA) version that's super-collectible. Not looking further into it but the others may be PAL versions or something. Whatever. Either way it's amazing.

No free shipping?

Screw that! I almost bid on it! That would have been a mistake.

The difference is that this is fresh, sealed, and mint. In a collectors world, if they want it, they got the money, they're the ones that set the dollar value for everyone else to ask why.

I'm going home from work now to see if my modded Xbox has this emulator on it as I have never heard of this game and I supposedly have all 790 games.

Something sketchy is going on here. There's no explanation of how or why this person had a sealed copy. I suspect people are placing fake bids because this is being faked, possibly resealed or many not even a real copy at all.

Clearly though no one is going to pay 800K for this.

It also kind of makes me sad that so many people are purchasing the PAL version of the game for jacked up prices, considering it's worth $200 tops. I suppose it's the buyers' own faults for not doing proper research before making a big purchase, but still pretty bad.

The worst though is this auction, which I'd report if I had an eBay account and knew how:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Stadium-Events-in-Original-Package_W0QQitemZ230442468325QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Vintage_Video_Games?hash=item35a77103e5

It's explicitly labelled a NTSC (North American) version when clearly it is the PAL version. That's just wrong. For reference:
http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=29165

Dude started the bidding at $299.00 - Remember the used wedding dress guy from e-bay a few years ago? The post got hyped and it "sold" for over 200g's -then the bidder didn't pay and he ended up selling it to someone for around $1200? The post was legit, the bidders were crap.

@novastarj: Yeah, that's pretty crappy. It may be an honest mistake, as not everyone knows what NTSC or PAL is, but it's still misinformation. If you want to report something, there's a flag icon on the right of the auction, under the "other item info" box. I'm reporting it under the category "fraudulent listing" > "you suspect an item is fraudulent you didn't bid" and gave a short explanation of it saying NTSC but is PAL and there's a huge difference in value.

Hope this helps.

Well, it just ended. I agree it seems fake, but I can't get over the idea that if it is real, this seller may have suddenly become a millionaire - literally overnight. If not yet a millionaire, he or she just came very close and I'm sure the interest will get him or her there soon enough anyway.

That's BS. Nobody's going to pay that much money for that game. It was recently in the news that one of these sold for $13,000, and that the box was worth $10,000 by itself, but nobody's going to pay an that much more for the new, wrapped game. It's a fakey.

When did this site become a "check this out" site. It started out with good deals and free samples and now it's a joke.

@tehbug: You should sell it...

@meh3884: I agree. Wonder if he'll even get $20 from the guy.

This game was awesome, but not 800K awesome...

This guy lives like an hour from me. I should go check it out in person...

I did some research on exactly how to tell if a game is in it's original seal or has been re-sealed, and it's entirely true that you cannot tell from the pictures he has posted, which is extremely fishy by itself.

I sent him a very polite message on the relisting asking for better photos to be posted (carefully describing where to photograph), and 48 hours later no response. I'm pretty convinced it's a fake. If someone doesn't respond to questions in an auction running $10,000+, that's a huge warning sign to run far, far, away.