Adventure Vision Funny Business!

vcoleiro1 · Last edited by vcoleiro1 on Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:19 pm; edited 2 times in total

Ebay seller peanie sell's Adventure vision on the 21st Dec for $1,705 to ebay id theyorkguy.
This is it: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Entex-....._558wt_881

I look at the ebay feedback for theyorkguy and noticed he sold a Adventure vision on the 14th Dec to cafebabe_de. cafebabe_de gives him positive feedback. Hmmm thats very odd. This guy has sold a AV for $1k then 1 week later bought another AV for $1.7K - Huh!.
It's this one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200684634413#ht_500wt_898.

It gets stranger, looked on ebay today and theyorkguy is selling the same AV he sold on the 14th again - what ? Edit: actually he's selling the one he bought on the 21st as per Rik's comment below.
It's this one
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Entex-....._500wt_898

If you look at the description of the Adventure vision's all three listing are the same machine - note the mention of the chip in the plastic in the top right of the Av. It says that in all 3 listing's ie the 2 by the theyorkguy and the one by peanie. This makes absolutely no sense. Something very fishy is happening here. Edit: As per Rik's comments below , only the last 2 machines are the same , the first (on the 14th) was not chipped.

Rik , can you make sense of this, it looks sooooo Dodgy!

Rik · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:07 pm Post subject:

theyorkguy sold this on one Dec 14th:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200684634413

That one is only sold once (look at the wear around the power switch), to cafebabe_de, who is in Germany (not the same DE that theyorkguy lives in...). There is no mention of a chip on this one...

He later (December 21) buys this one from peanie:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/180776073251

This is the one with the broken chip on top, but otherwise looks a lot nicer and has most of the cartridges. Maybe he's upgrading?

Now he's selling it for whatever reason here:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200713416231
I notice with only the Defender cart, so he's apparently keeping the others. It also now has a battery cover with a broken tab on it, where it had two good tabs when it was originally sold. He's obviously swapped out the battery cover too.

Nothing suspicious about it, just someone buying and re-selling them... Looks like he's buying them to upgrade parts for his personal machine.

Rik

vcoleiro1 · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:25 pm Post subject:

Still doesn't make complete sense. He sells a good AV on the 14th for $1K , then buys a chipped and average one on the 21st for $1.7K which he is now selling again. All this to keep 2 games - who would do that?

Edit: in regards to the battery cover, he could have swapped the cover on the good one he sold if he wanted to. This is assuming he has another he is swapping parts over for.

Rik · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:16 pm Post subject:

GameWatchGuy · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:56 pm Post subject:

Hi.
I do this quite a bit too.
I'll by a used watch just for the inside parts. Then I'll fix a watch that is in great condition and I can usually sell the not working watch or leftover parts to get some money back.

This guy sure does it on a grand scale though! That's dedication!
~John

vcoleiro1 · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:38 pm Post subject:

I'll bow to your better eye sight Rik, to me the battery cover looks fine on the first one he sold. That one also had the joystick(The others didn't) and looked in good shape to me. Again , maybe it's my eyes.

Probably work out for him in the end, we will have to wait and see what it goes for.

Rik · Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:57 pm Post subject:

vcoleiro1 · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 6:28 pm Post subject:

So The Av sold for $860 which means if you include paypal etc fees he's out about $900 - $1000 all for a better battery cover and 2 loose AV games. Was it worth that much?

Rik · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:22 pm Post subject:

Well, if you assume a loose AV with Defender is worth about 900-1000 (or maybe about 860 Smile

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And a loose one with 3 games is worth $1500-1700 (which does seem a little high actually), what he currently has (system and 3 games) is worth $1500+, and he sold his single-game unit for $860... So he still has the $1500 system, he's just opted to keep it.

I hardly ever see individual games for the system forsale (and if I do, it's usually Defender) as they made far less of the 3 other games than they did systems. So, buying systems with games is about the only way to get them.

I'd guess the loose carts for the two non-Defender games might sell for $200-250 each... (I think...)