carlcarlson wrote on 22. Mar 2007 at 03:01:
how did he have such a large nes collection, including a stadium events, and not know enough about it to make a big deal? he didn't even have a picture of it! i'd say you killed on that one, especially considering you picked it up. buying and selling is the only way to collect IMO, and you should do very well on that one. congrats.
I know, usually when this happens you automatically assume the game is PAL and the seller is trying to pull a fast one. That's what I thought at first too, until I was emailed the pictures. Even then I would have still had my suspicions, but the seller agreed to local pickup, so I highly doubt he was trying to pull something with local pickup.
He knew it was rare, but didn't seem to realize HOW rare and sought after it was until after he listed it. He said a friend of his who used to own a game store let him take home a couple games for helping him out with something, and he chose it from the wall because he didn't have it in his collection already. He said he counted 120 different people emailing him asking about Stadium Events throughout the duration of the auction. That's a lot of people!