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| 27 MAR 2004 at 11:27pm |
adventuredogGuild Master
Posts : 3255
Joined: 14 JAN 2003
Status : Offline | If it turns out to be a copy, you can report the seller, and hopefully get your money back.
Still adventuring after all these years!
Patiently awaiting The Last Crown: Haunting of Hallowed Isle, and Bracken Tor...
... and Asylum if it's not tooooo scary...
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| 28 MAR 2004 at 1:15am |
sennebecGuild Master
Posts : 3334
Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | romnut...
i hope it's not true
but you can never be too trusting buying games on ebay...
you have to do your homework...
remember to read all the fine print, check the seller's feedback profile, do a search for the same game (it might be offered by someone else at a better deal) and if you have any questions or suspicions email the seller and ask
i always look for the detailed description, searching for keywords such as...
"original" (this goes for jewel case as well as boxed)
"NIB" (new in box)
"retail"
"factory sealed"
"boxed" (oh yeah, i'm obsessed with having the original box)
never trust somebody who just says "new" or "mint" because that can easily be applied to a brandee new burned cd...
caveat emptor... good luck!
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| 28 MAR 2004 at 1:39am |
scoutPrivate Detective
Posts : 736
Joined: 2 NOV 2002
Status : Online | It looks like the person has sold multiple copies of Big Red Adventure and Night Trap, another rare game. Pretty suspicious. :
There's a negative feedback stating as much as well. I would email the seller immediatly and warn them that if you get a burn you will turn them in and give negative feedback.
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| 28 MAR 2004 at 5:12am |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
Posts : 1452
Joined: 19 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By scout (28 MAR 2004 1:38am)
It looks like the person has sold multiple copies of Big Red Adventure and Night Trap, another rare game. Night Trap? It is a rare game isnt it? Funny how this game became a rare collectible nowadays. And it is not even a real "game", it is an interactive movie with some cheesy acting and plot.
I replayed last month, and it is kinda funny when I think about the first time I played it. I didnt notice the "acting" problem, I was so impressed by the Full Motion Video back then.
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| 28 MAR 2004 at 5:22am |
GreySorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 251
Joined: 3 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Well, if you go to the sellers website, you'll see that he's selling illegal DVDs and VCDs. He admits that everything is designed "in house" and hides behind a disclaimer of "exclusively for backup".
I'm guessing that you just paid ten dollars for a CD-R.
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| 28 MAR 2004 at 6:01am |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
Posts : 1565
Joined: 27 MAY 2003
Status : Online | Yep! You're exactly right-$9.99 . I had been looking for this game for a long time, but the bids were always really high so that's why I jumped on this bid thinking that the person had no idea that this old game was so much in demand.
I saw that another person had bought the same game from him and left a good review so I didn't expect to get a cd-rewrite.
We'll just have to wait and see what I get . :-/
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| 28 MAR 2004 at 12:40pm |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
Posts : 1452
Joined: 19 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Those E-Bay reviews can be easily faked.
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| 28 MAR 2004 at 1:12pm |
sennebecGuild Master
Posts : 3334
Joined: 15 NOV 2004
Location: US, maine
Status : Offline | ack! i just re-read my previous post and it sounds like i was lecturing you... sorry :-X
i've learned the hard way about dealing on ebay...
yep, i've been burned too...
i even have been burned by not looking at the shipping costs! :-/
annnnyway... good luck romnut...
a friend of mine likes to say... "education is expensive whether you go to school or not"
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| 28 MAR 2004 at 5:09pm |
scoutPrivate Detective
Posts : 736
Joined: 2 NOV 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By DJ Souza (28 MAR 2004 5:12am)
Night Trap? It is a rare game isnt it? Funny how this game became a rare collectible nowadays. And it is not even a real "game", it is an interactive movie with some cheesy acting and plot.
I replayed last month, and it is kinda funny when I think about the first time I played it. I didnt notice the "acting" problem, I was so impressed by the Full Motion Video back then.
I just got Night Trap last year by luck, stumbling upon it at GTZ. I played a little of it and actually had to stop playing because I was giggliing too much. Wow is the acting terrible. I don't mind terrible acting though, almost secretly like it. I gotta figure out the gameplay though, I was pretty lost as to exactly what was expected of me.
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| 28 MAR 2004 at 7:05pm |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
Posts : 1565
Joined: 27 MAY 2003
Status : Online | Yeah scout, That's exactly like Foxhunt . It is campy acting, but it makes you laugh so I enjoy it anyway.BUT like you, I didn't know how to progress- way to many action sequences.
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| 28 MAR 2004 at 7:06pm |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
Posts : 1565
Joined: 27 MAY 2003
Status : Online | Don't worry sennebec! I didn't feel like you were lecturing me, but rather appreciated your reply.
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| 29 MAR 2004 at 1:15am |
DJ SouzaJourneyman
Posts : 1452
Joined: 19 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Originally Posted By scout (28 MAR 2004 5:08pm)
I just got Night Trap last year by luck, stumbling upon it at GTZ. I played a little of it and actually had to stop playing because I was giggliing too much. Wow is the acting terrible. I don't mind terrible acting though, almost secretly like it. I gotta figure out the gameplay though, I was pretty lost as to exactly what was expected of me.
You need to trap all the ninja-like monsters that enter the house. It is a real time game, so you need to write down the time and the room where every monster appear. There is no possible way of winning the game in the first play. The vampire family will change the code of the traps from time to time, so you need to write down the room and the time when they do this, since every time you restart the game, it is a different code.
Remember that you cant let any of the girls be trapped by the monsters! Try to control your laughter!
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| 29 MAR 2004 at 1:49am |
jalexSchattenjger
Posts : 2503
Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | I copy all my games because I don't like taking a chance that my originals get scratched but I can't believe that any one would acually try to sell one of these backups.
Let us know when you get the game if it is a copy. I think that's terible and this is the reason that companies like SafeDisk make it so hard for us just to make a backup. To top it all off if we didn't have to have programs like SafeDisk and others like it our games would run twice as fast a much smoother than they do.
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| 29 MAR 2004 at 8:16am |
Steve IncePrivate Detective
Posts : 571
Joined: 7 NOV 2002
Status : Offline | It goes on all the time. We've reported a few "traders" ourselves. Ebay could be policing themselves a little better, methinks.
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| 29 MAR 2004 at 8:23am |
| Deleted User | Ebay could police themselves period. Too much bad stuff goes on there and there are not enough measures to stop people like TSS and the one above from continued trading.
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| 29 MAR 2004 at 10:15am |
niniendowarriorIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 87
Joined: 17 JAN 2004
Status : Online | I am surprised to find out how dastardly some deals are online...
Remember, when doing any transaction,
"If a deal is too good to be true, it probably is."
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| 30 MAR 2004 at 11:49pm |
lakerzPrivate Detective
Posts : 654
Joined: 11 OCT 2002
Status : Online | Sorry Romnut, doesn't look good for you. It's funny that people would write good feedback for the guy giving them a cd-r unless that is what they were expecting! And this person has a website advertising his pirated products? Wow, talk about bravado. Or stupidity.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas...
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| 31 MAR 2004 at 11:27am |
jaapIntergalactic Janitor
Posts : 19
Joined: 21 OCT 2002
Status : Online | I got my original Big red Adventure copy from ebay.de
There's one listed now too:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4120540030&category=30295
just email the seller whether he sends abroad, and how to pay him. (You can use alstavista babelfish )
To check whether a game sold on ebay.de is in english, I recommend to look this up on:
http://www.adventure-archiv.de/
My version has multi-lingual subtitles and english voices, I think the one listed now is the same.
However, Big Red Adventure is pretty hard to get it running on your PC.
Jaap
Jaap
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| 31 MAR 2004 at 12:27pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By jaap (31 MAR 2004 11:26am)
My version has multi-lingual subtitles and english voices, I think the one listed now is the same.
I haven't played it, but I thought there was no speech in the game?
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| 31 MAR 2004 at 4:03pm |
kittySorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 269
Joined: 27 SEP 2003
Status : Online | I've been reporting this one guy for a few weeks now. His auctions are all called "99 Adventure Games on 1 Disk" or something like that. I report all of his auctions whenever I see them. I think Ebay ended a few of the auctions, but you'd think they'd shut down his account or keep watching him, because for every one they shut down, seems like 2 more pop up.
Most of the stuff he's selling is abandonware. And, I hate to say this, but why would you pay someone for illegal software when you could just download it yourself? Just seems...silly. I'm not condoning it--just if you're going to do the illegal thing, seems like you'd do it for free.
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| 31 MAR 2004 at 7:08pm |
Goddess of All Things MagicalSchattenjger
Posts : 1565
Joined: 27 MAY 2003
Status : Online | I just received an email from EBAY saying that his listings(wwwtvshowsandmore.com) have been removed due to his his possible illegal selling which is under investigation.
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| 31 MAR 2004 at 7:16pm |
RecklessJourneyman
Posts : 962
Joined: 14 NOV 2002
Status : Online | A long time back some guy was selling LSL collection on CD for something like £10. I queried how this was so (expecting the obvious reason) and sure enough it was a CD-R.
eBay were informed and they said they couldn't prove anything either way so he was free to continue. How stupid are they? They have NO concern for the honest punter - as long as sales are made and commission is collected >
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| 1 APR 2004 at 9:38pm |
kittySorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 269
Joined: 27 SEP 2003
Status : Online | Originally Posted By Romnut (31 MAR 2004 7:07pm)
I just received an email from EBAY saying that his listings(wwwtvshowsandmore.com) have been removed due to his his possible illegal selling which is under investigation.
Sorry, Romnut. :-/
Illegal sellers suck.
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