Stadium Events auction hits an unbelievable $800K

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no FCKING way

Look at the bid history. One user pushed it up from $1,700 to $7,000 in seven bids in just over a minute. Later, the same user pushed it up from $510,000 to $800,200 in seven bids in a half hour.

This is definitely a fake auction.

Well, it IS sealed. That means that, technically, it's a bid for a NEW game. Not a used, not an opened one, but a fresh one.

What's going on? Its still a month early for April fools jokes...

I think the big debate on whether or not the seal is genuine. It seems that the NES collecting community thinks it's a reseal, so they're pushing the bidding to a point that no one spends their money on something that's not legit.

800,000 dollars and I shipping is not included? :D Gotta' love eBay.

It's a trap!

I just know after seeing this my wife is going to make me sell some of my sealed games now...

I fear for my SNES Chrono Trigger and Original Final Fantasy.

Yeah it is a fake. It may be the real game box/game, but it is definitely not factory sealed. Lol that seal looks more like the seal you find on todays games. Terrible pics as well.

Woo!
Yeah I suspect it's fake but still pretty insane.

A ROM is never worth as much as the game. Otherwise, it wouldn't cost two to three hundred dollars to get a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga.

freaking ebaumz running up the bid

"I nearly crap in my pants when i found out what this is worth and the rarity of this item."

This is the guy I want to give thousands of dollars to.

Now if I could only convince people my first run NTSC Maniac Mansion for the NES was worth something... come on everybody wants to microwave a hamster.

Remember that very very few copies of this game were made, as it was only released in a test market in the US initially, and was pulled off in favor of Track and Field or something

known existing copies of the game, period, number into the double digits. Those two sealed copies plus one more in the hands of some kinda mega-collector are probably the only three sealed copies of this game on earth.

800k is still ludicrous, but not beyond all realms of understanding.

800k Nintendo games do seem beyond all realms of understanding for this NES game considering one sold just sold for $40K. Has that one been confirmed that it was paid for? Ebay auctions get bid up all the time on high profile auctions and never get paid for. It would be really cool if that seller got his 40k but I won't believe it until I hear it from that seller what he actually got paid. Also how can you believe that the shrinkwrap is original. Ebay is full of fake things and when you start talking big bucks it would be easy to buy a $10,000 complete game and shrinkwrap it. I buy my games from an NES online store called www.DKOldies.com and just like to play for fun. This investing in original NES shrinkwraping sounds insane.

Seems like the game is more common than we thought. That should drive the price down of it.

Obviously fake.

i think i'll rent it. my local blockbuster has a copy.

...oh wait.

Yeah, it's fake. Look at the top - it says Relisted. Now it's going for $3,150.

It is possibly the original box and may even contain the original game, but I believe the shrink wrap is fake. The one that sold in February has a different style of hook where it would of hunk on the peg. If 200 copies were sold from 1 store then surely they would all have identical hooks.

The hook in this one looks similar to the ones I use to use in a DIY store a couple of years ago.