Cool intellivision cartridge...and a basic book in SW.  Intellivision was so much better than the Atari 2600.  That's how I remember it anyways...


** expired/removed eBay auction **


-SKA

mbassoc2003 wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Did the basic book leave the factory sealed? Or was this ‘sealed’ by the reseller once it hit the shops and they didn’t want people flicking through it?

It did, when sold separately, and that looks like original SW.

Death by The Collector's Trove auctions!

How do you view Collector's Trove auctions outside of the US?
I can see it because you've provided a link, but they are not searchable and you cannot see them by clicking on the seller in eBay.
I can only see about six items (Titan badge, game, supplement, moive still, ninja turtle and Ant Wars).
This seems to be the case with a number of sellers in the past years.
I put it down to shipping risk to the UK, and our laws on distance selling.
I don't use a VPN so I can't hide my country of origin.

mbassoc2003 wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:How do you view Collector's Trove auctions outside of the US?
I can see it because you've provided a link, but they are not searchable and you cannot see them by clicking on the seller in eBay.
I can only see about six items (Titan badge, game, supplement, moive still, ninja turtle and Ant Wars).
This seems to be the case with a number of sellers in the past years.
I put it down to shipping risk to the UK, and our laws on distance selling.
I don't use a VPN so I can't hide my country of origin.

Came here to post the same thing. Its bonkers. You need to switch from .co.uk to .com perhaps? I find it super frustrating to chase down sellers other items.

mbassoc2003 wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:I stopped trying to figure it out a year or so ago. I figure if people want to sell to non-US buyers they'd allow them to bid on their auctions.
Which is a shame becuase I used to bid highly on some of the more obscure unpublished things when they came up.
People don't even use the classifieds anymore. It use to be a big thing to post lists of what you have for sale.
Maybe this is just technology moving beyond me now. Who knows?

When searching the German ebay, I have to be physically logged into their site to see everything.

-SKA

Gregory...
I do get how to buy something and ship it to a third party in the US.
I understand the work around.

The point being, if sellers want to exclude foreign sales, let them. I just question why sellers are doing it. Clay would not ship Internationally either. I can only assume its because of the increased risk of AH buyers who wont pay for shipping safely and tracked, and argue over import duties, neither of which are the responsibility of the seller, but here in the UK the law is such that any AH who buys can then fuck the seller over no questions asked under out distance selling laws.

So the questions really were, how was Aia able to find the auction in the first place (question answered... an eBay.com account), and secondly, is there a reason why sellers like Paul and Clay exclude foreign bids? Overly complexed software from eBay? Bad experiences with International sellers? Or protection of ones interestes in light of foreign Government overreach.

mbassoc2003 wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:Gregory...
I do get how to buy something and ship it to a third party in the US.
I understand the work around.

The point being, if sellers want to exclude foreign sales, let them. I just question why sellers are doing it. Clay would not ship Internationally either. I can only assume its because of the increased risk of AH buyers who wont pay for shipping safely and tracked, and argue over import duties, neither of which are the responsibility of the seller, but here in the UK the law is such that any AH who buys can then fuck the seller over no questions asked under out distance selling laws.

So the questions really were, how was Aia able to find the auction in the first place (question answered... an eBay.com account), and secondly, is there a reason why sellers like Paul and Clay exclude foreign bids? Overly complexed software from eBay? Bad experiences with International sellers? Or protection of ones interestes in light of foreign Government overreach.

You asked "How do you view Collector's Trove auctions outside of the US?" so evidently you didn't get how to do that, and the point wasn't why sellers are doing it. It's ok to move the discussion after that in new directions but kindly don't make it look like I'm not answering the right question, probably bc of other vibes in previous discussions.

gregory wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:
You asked "How do you view Collector's Trove auctions outside of the US?" so evidently you didn't get how to do that, and the point wasn't why sellers are doing it. It's ok to move the discussion after that in new directions but kindly don't make it look like I'm not answering the right question, probably bc of other vibes in previous discussions.

No I didnt mean that. You did say you need to log on using eBay's US website to see US only auctions, and I can surmise from that's how Aia managed to find the auction.
That then raised the question of why big name sellers are excluding international buyers from their auctions as a matter of course.
I used to bid as a matter of course on stuff aimed specifically at collectors. I'd win occasionally, but for the most part I just drove up prices, not having the deep pockets others have.
But pushing up prices may have been of benefit to sellers. Or maybe not. Who knows. The point being, sellers over the past few years are limiting their buying pool to US only clients, and whilst I do see the adverts when they appear in Classified, usually they are just blank, and I put that down to eitgher I'm too late, or sellers don't want to ship to the UK.
I don't have a problem with this. I reallise the UK Laws are now anti-online seller orientated.
The question only came up because a non-US poster had managed to see a Collector's Trove auction and I wondered how?
Was it just my browser or was it a limitation imposed by the seller? I'm not trying to cast any shade to either yourself or Paul.
I am merely wondering why the move away from the open international community to a more insular national one.
Habit? Oversight? Protectionism? Genearal community trend? A push by eBay to deter such things perhaps?