[Ebay] Just another Mt. Drash :)

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Re: [Ebay] Just another Mt. Drash :)

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Hey, Caschetto d'Oro is worth more than $9000 - at least more than dried up poo :P
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Oh sure, I had no intention to mean that, poor folk! I just meant an object that could look like a VIC game cassette at X rays, that is available in tons at every dump, and that has not even the most remote connection with VIC gaming.
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Ah okay :) . Back on topic: anyone knows here if at some point in the past this package has been affordable for the average collector? Or was it a Graal right from the start?
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The latter really. It took until the late 90s iirc for anyone to even admit on groups that they found a copy... let alone sell one.
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orion70 wrote:Ah okay :) . Back on topic: anyone knows here if at some point in the past this package has been affordable for the average collector? Or was it a Graal right from the start?
At the World of Commodore show in Toronto around 1984 I held a sealed copy in my hand on clearance for $9 Canadian.
I thought about buying it but since I had already moved on to the C64 I passed!

Oh well, I probably would not have had the foresight to keep all the packaging until the 21st century, anyway.
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Wow, ouch.

I was coming at it from the angle that once people realised it existed, and that it was very hard to find, that it still took a while for any one to cough up and fess they had a copy, let alone going to sell one. There was the story about finding one in a junk pile of discarded software iirc.

The first complete copy to be sold publicly went for $3600. The second complete copy went for $2600, which is the one I purchased.
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ral-clan wrote:At the World of Commodore show in Toronto around 1984 I held a sealed copy in my hand on clearance for $9 Canadian.
I thought about buying it but since I had already moved on to the C64 I passed!

Oh well, I probably would not have had the foresight to keep all the packaging until the 21st century, anyway.
Back when I first heard about BitCoin, it was something crazy like 100 BitCoins to a dollar (can't remember the exact number but it was basically worthless at the time). I remember thinking that it was cool, but too complicated for me to understand. So I passed.

If only I had known...imagine buying a few hundred BitCoins back then...ugh..
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