“SEGA SATURN MAGAZINES JOBLOT”
Our new favourite hobby is spotting these “coming of age” auctions on eBay. Or the “moving out of mum and dad’s house” auctions, where long-beloved possessions and memories are brutally binned in favour of being able to fit everything you own into the boot of an estate car for an easy escape to a NEW LIFE.
Issue 37 is “especially rare” apparently, although we remember it hanging around newsagents for a good six months. It was hard to even look at a magazine stand again after it had gone.
filed in OFF THE INTERNET on Apr.06, 2010
April 6th, 2010 on 9:12 pm
Having one of the old “Dad wants all my crap out of the house before it goes in the skip” sales my self at the moment, which means all my Saturn stuff has to go:
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/theholty/m.html
thankfully I’m holding on to my 100+ Dreamcast game collection for my inevitable post-divorce mid-life crisis in 10 years’ time so I can use it to buy a sportscar/speedboat/motorcycle/mail order bride
April 6th, 2010 on 9:49 pm
I made about £1000 from selling off almost every vaguely collectible thing I owned. I kept a handful of special things (Sonic CD, mags I was in), which will probably end up in a skip when I have to clear out the loft for the next house move.
It feels pretty good binning almost everything. If my house burnt to the ground I reckon it’d feel AMAZING.
April 7th, 2010 on 1:02 pm
Thank god you added the word *rare* to every single one of your auction title descriptions theholty. Because when I do a search for a specific game I always just type ‘rare’ so it brings up all the other 246,296 rare items for me to browse through.
I travelled around the world on the money I got selling off all my old crap. Luckily I did it during ebay’s boom phase back in 2000. These days you’d be lucky to get £4.00 for ‘PAL Sega Saturn Athlete Kings Rare’. Still, you’ve still got 7hrs 49m to go…
April 7th, 2010 on 1:57 pm
I know it looks retarded on the listings, but I actually know people who search for ‘rare sega saturn’ or ‘rare ps1 game’ etc when looking on ebay.
Yeah I think 4 quid for ‘PAL Sega Saturn Athlete Kings Rare’ and 3 quid for ‘PAL Sega Saturn Virtua Fighter II 2’ are a bit optimistic but it’s ebay, I managed to sell a £4 virtually unplayable wonderswan DJ game I didn’t even know the title of for 20 quid once.
April 7th, 2010 on 2:29 pm
Travelled round the world after selling all your crap, floppylobster? Sounds fun, but wasn’t it depressing coming home to find nothing there anymore?
Yes, I admit it, I’ve got too much stuff and am still loathe to throw any of it away. Done that with stuff in the past and always regretted it. Better to still have it even if it’s gathering dust in the attic/shed than to flog it for a pittance and then want it back (by which time you’ll no doubt have to pay a fortune for it)
April 7th, 2010 on 4:02 pm
If a woman wants me to sell my Dreamcast Maziora or Saturn Navi she’s going straight back to the people trafficker for a refund/replacement.
April 7th, 2010 on 4:53 pm
Ooooh, a signed or un-signed Maziora?
Either way, makes my cluttered hoard seem even more worthless, my Vectrex is probably the most valuable item in my stash and that’s not even boxed.
I think, aside from the fact I’m loathe to have a clearout to start with, if I DID I still wouldn’t make much because none of it’s particularly rare or valuable (except to me)
April 7th, 2010 on 7:47 pm
It’s signed, but it’s the box rather than the console that’s been autographed. Not sure if that makes it worth more or less, but it does mean the lovely casing hasn’t been defaced with someone’s scrawl. It’s definitely the best looking console ever made.
April 29th, 2010 on 4:49 pm
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