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.

[zefiro]

lou_dias wrote:
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.

There is any less expensive shipping cost to Italy ?
That's was stopping me to bid. Thank you anyway.

[Louis Dias]

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

[icbrkr]

I was watching it but the $8.25 non priority shipping is what turned me off to it.  I paid less than that to have a boxed Marvin's Marvelous adventure shipped to me from the UK via airmail

[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.

[icbrkr]

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.

[adolescent]

It's a great game.  I would have bought it for $.01 if I didn't already have a copy.  

BTW, the CD32 wasn't the first 32bit CD based console.  :-D

[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.

[Hyperspeed]

I think the CD32 was the first 32-Bit CD console...

The 68020 was a 32-bit processor and at the time the CD32 was competing against the Mega-CD (68000) which was 16-Bit.

I don't think the Neo-Geo CD came for a while later. If I remember correctly the Neo-Geo used a 68000 too!

Funnily enough, one of the Mega-CDs FMV games called 'Double Switch' starred Debbie 'Blondie' Harry. She of the 1985 Amiga launch!

:-D

[adolescent]

Hyperspeed wrote:
I think the CD32 was the first 32-Bit CD console...

Fujitsu FM Towns Marty.  Released in 1991, 32bit (i386) power!   :lol:

[Hyperspeed]

I wouldn't call that thing a console... it was basically a PC.

Yeah it had about 1 more game than the NEC-FX (that makes 2)...

:-D :-D

You could argue that the Amstrad Mega-PC was a console and the Sharp PCs with inbuilt PC Engine...

Still, the Mega-CD won the CD war. I think 1 in 20 Megadrive owners bought it and it was a bigger hit in Japan.

The Jag CD, 3D0 etc. bombed!

[adolescent]

Hyperspeed wrote:
I wouldn't call that thing a console... it was basically a PC.

And the CD32 was basicly an Amiga 1200.  Would you call it a console?

[Hyperspeed]

Yes, because the CD32 wasn't the size of a breezeblock and wasn't mounted vertically.

Oh, wait...   the X-Box...

DARN!

:-D

EDIT: Oh wait, there was a little white Marty too wasn't there, looked like a PSone. What year was that released?

I'm sure it had some Final Fight style game on it...

Anyway, UFO:Enemy Unknown was given away free on an Amiga Format cover CD in the latter years of the 20th Century!

[adolescent]

Hyperspeed wrote:

EDIT: Oh wait, there was a little white Marty too wasn't there, looked like a PSone. What year was that released?

:crazy:

All of the Fujitsu FM Towns Marty systems looked like consoles (they look very similar to the PC Engine Duo/Turbo Duo).  Don't confuse the Marty with the FM Towns computer systems.  The Marty was always positioned as a game console.  Like I said they were released in 1991.  A full two years before the CD32.