Re: [SWCollect] Half and Bidville experiences?

2003-10-07 Thread C.E. Forman
Thanks very much for your experiences. How many units a month do you move out of your bidville account? More than 10? Normally I'm a patient guy, but I need to move this stuff in less than six weeks, so I'm trying to gauge if it's worth it or not. Actually business is pretty light. I do a

Re: [SWCollect] Half and Bidville experiences?

2003-10-07 Thread AvatarTom
In a message dated 10/07/2003 1:00:48 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They charge for special features (bold, featured auctions, etc.) Not 100% sure how this keeps them in business, to be honest. Well they charge that $5 fee to be able to list for a year. If 100K people pay

[SWCollect] Scott Adams: Emperor of the Universe

2003-10-07 Thread Jim Leonard
From Scott Adams' website: Who is Scott Adams? Scott was the first person to put an Adventure game (also known as Interactive Fiction) on a personal computer. This was in 1978 and the computer was a 16k Radio Shack TRS-80 model I. Scott went on to write over a dozen different adventure games

[SWCollect] Mt. Drash seller

2003-10-07 Thread Lee K. Seitz
I thought the group might find this interesting. See, us video game collectors aren't all bad. We pick up rare computer games and sell them without knowing it until after the fact. 8) | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (EE Wannabe) | Newsgroups: rec.games.vectrex | Subject: Re: Mr. Boston Game | Date: 4