GamersAbyss
Chin's Drinking Partner
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I had a letter forwarded to me for laughs from a buddy of mine and I thought you folks might get a kick out of it. The person who sent it to me doesnt post here anymore so I will keep his name to those who it concerns and Shawn if you would like to know who this was sent to just e-mail me since your name was mentioned you have the right to it. Ok here is the Brag Fest.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dion Dakis
To: EDITED BY GAMERSABYSS
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:40 AM
Subject: largest NeoGeo eBay auction
I just read the post about the largest NeoGeo AES collection auction on eBay. You're right, it was my auction.
It was in February of 1999 and at the time included every AES cartridge available (both regular and converted). The auction was for I think 127 different AES cartridges. The reserve was for $24,000.00 and the auction closed at $22,500.00. It was for the complete Japanese collection, and it WAS sold. I in turn bought back my entire English AES collection, and then later rebuilt my Japanese collection back up again. For that deal with the buyer, we made an arrangement where the buyer paid in 5 easy payments. The buyer got a ton of extra NeoGeo bonus goods such as promo flyers, posters, a NeoGeoWorld Power card, a NeoGeoWorld grand opening pass, and many other little collectible items. This person is still around to this day and has over 140 different AES cartridges - and you know of this person. All in all it was a fabulous sale.
I can also remind you that Shawn McClesky started his collection at that time. That is how we met him (through that eBay auction) and in turn sold him over $7,000.00 worth of games in the very beginning, followed by another $5,000.00, $3000.00, $4000.00, $1600.00, $4000.00, $20,0000.00 and then a last $3500.00. There have been many other miscellaneous purchases from Shawn that I am not listing because they were smaller deals ($500, $1000, etc....). All in all, through eBay, Shawn contributed over $50,000.00
Feel free to post that little piece of information. And thanks once again for posting that to remind all the newer people of the older history and how some of the newer "big collectors" got started.
thank you,
Dion
NGF-USA www.NeoGeoFreak.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Dion Dakis
To: EDITED BY GAMERSABYSS
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 2:40 AM
Subject: largest NeoGeo eBay auction
I just read the post about the largest NeoGeo AES collection auction on eBay. You're right, it was my auction.
It was in February of 1999 and at the time included every AES cartridge available (both regular and converted). The auction was for I think 127 different AES cartridges. The reserve was for $24,000.00 and the auction closed at $22,500.00. It was for the complete Japanese collection, and it WAS sold. I in turn bought back my entire English AES collection, and then later rebuilt my Japanese collection back up again. For that deal with the buyer, we made an arrangement where the buyer paid in 5 easy payments. The buyer got a ton of extra NeoGeo bonus goods such as promo flyers, posters, a NeoGeoWorld Power card, a NeoGeoWorld grand opening pass, and many other little collectible items. This person is still around to this day and has over 140 different AES cartridges - and you know of this person. All in all it was a fabulous sale.
I can also remind you that Shawn McClesky started his collection at that time. That is how we met him (through that eBay auction) and in turn sold him over $7,000.00 worth of games in the very beginning, followed by another $5,000.00, $3000.00, $4000.00, $1600.00, $4000.00, $20,0000.00 and then a last $3500.00. There have been many other miscellaneous purchases from Shawn that I am not listing because they were smaller deals ($500, $1000, etc....). All in all, through eBay, Shawn contributed over $50,000.00
Feel free to post that little piece of information. And thanks once again for posting that to remind all the newer people of the older history and how some of the newer "big collectors" got started.
thank you,
Dion
NGF-USA www.NeoGeoFreak.com