UFO:Enemy Unknown CD32

[Louis Dias]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8262628070

[Louis Dias]

I can't believe nobody bought this despite several watchers.

Anyone want to make me an offer before I relist?
Game and manuals are fine so is the cover to the box...just the box itself is damaged.

[Louis Dias]

The problem is the main manual is heavy.  The second manual is the CD32 Ammendum, that one is light.

[Louis Dias]

I put the game up for a penny with NO RESERVE.
If you pay a penny for it and $8.25 to ship it which should get to you in a couple of days depending on how far from Mass you are, could you really complain much?

Would you prefer I start the bidding at $5.01 and charge $3.25 for shipping?  The difference is I would pay a higher listing and final value fee.  Either way, I get hit with 2.9% + $0.30 from Paypal because I am a merchant.  So you can pay with a credit card and it makes no difference to me.

See the pic and compare the box to the size of the game's CD...This game comes in an 8"x9" box with a thick manual so it won't cost just a couple of dollars to ship it over seas.  I have a bigger box to put it in and ship it, I'm not just going to wrap it up.

In any case, I've relisted it.

[Louis Dias]

icbrkr wrote:

lou_dias wrote:
I put the game up for a penny with NO RESERVE.
If you pay a penny for it and $8.25 to ship it which should get to you in a couple of days depending on how far from Mass you are, could you really complain much?

Would you prefer I start the bidding at $5.01 and charge $3.25 for shipping?  The difference is I would pay a higher listing and final value fee.  Either way, I get hit with 2.9% + $0.30 from Paypal because I am a merchant.  So you can pay with a credit card and it makes no difference to me.

See the pic and compare the box to the size of the game's CD...This game comes in an 8"x9" box with a thick manual so it won't cost just a couple of dollars to ship it over seas.  I have a bigger box to put it in and ship it, I'm not just going to wrap it up.

In any case, I've relisted it.

Hey, you asked why no one bid on it.  I'm just stating why I, as a buyer, did not.  Also as a bidder, I could really care what you pay for merchant costs, etc.  I don't pass that along when I sell on ebay nor my online store.  I incur the costs as I believe that's part of normal business expenses.  Would I have bid if it were $5 with 3.25 shipping?  Yep.  See, if I bid $10, had my bid met and was charged 3.25, I'd be out 13.25.  My bid would be considerably lower if I thought I'd have to pay more for shipping.  $10 total is a good deal if it didn't get bid any higher than a penny.  Not only that, as a buyer, I know that it won't cost anywhere close to that amount to ship to the US flat rate (and at the most, 5.50 for US Priority) so it's a matter of principle for me.

I see, so I should actually pay you to take it away from me then....  If I put it up for actuall shipping costs and it sold for a penny, I would lose money selling it to you due to insertion fees and Paypay merchant fees.  That's a great principle you have.

Everyone knows inflated shipping costs are for:
1) handling like actually having to waste gas to go to the post office and stand in the freakin line
2) avoiding a higher insertion fee incurred with a higher starting bid

Deal with it.


@adolescent

Please tell me what the first 32-bit CD based console actually was.

[Louis Dias]

koaftder wrote:
will it play on game cube?

yeah, right after YOU port AKIKO

[Louis Dias]

Apocalypse was the 3rd or 4th sequel.
I have just about all the PC iterations except the original which I have on the CD32 and am now selling.

I even have the so-so X-COM Enforcer action 3rd person shooter.

Adolescent:  I said "The World's" first 32-bit CD-based console, not Japan's.  I guess I should have said "mass-market" as well.  They did sell over 400,000 last I heard.

[Louis Dias]

adolescent wrote:

Sorry, I thought you meant "world's first" not "world's first (in Amiga fantasy land)".  :crazy:  

If it's not for sale outside one market then it's not a worldwide product.  That's Marketing 101.  :rtfm:

[Louis Dias]

Hyperspeed wrote:
lou: I think we shall have to accept defeat here. World First should mean the first to be released in the world, we had the opportunity to buy it through importers but didn't.

We should definately make a list of all Amiga's '1st Done' achievements and maybe a list of EXCLUSIVE games that never appeared on any other format.

Even that list is shortening because I've seen alot of old Amiga games on the GBA.  Even "The Chaos Engine" had a Sega Genesis port...and possibly another system and even PC port.  Though it was called something else and it was 2 years after the Amiga version.  Brutal Deluxe was released on the GBA within the last year or so as well.

[Louis Dias]

I know Speedball was released last year.