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More info?)
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 09:33:53 +0000, dgo wrote:
> "Nubian" <dfoot@tassie.net.au> wrote in news:1118905409.899531.130110
> @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:
>
>> Hey All,
>> Actually maybe I am wrong and Protector LE is rarer than the Bndau
>> carts. My alogoes to all the so called 'leeches' I was refering to. I
>> am not that much of a 'know the value of everything' type of collector
>> I suppose. Maybe I should study th price of things a bit better but
>> initailly I thougt the Bandai carts were ultra rare.
>>
>> Dan.
>>
>
> Hi Daniel,I'm quite aware of the rarity of things
but thanks for you
> answer Daniel.
>
> Don't confuse 'rarity' with availability and/of market value.
>
> Vectrex protector limited is rarer (well, what do you expect with a 100
> pieces produced) but I can easily trace down a lot of those. Bandai
> stuff was produced in far greater number, but it's infinately more
> difficult finding those. How many collectors do you know who have this
> stuff? I've been searching very hard for these things, and it took me a
> LONG while to find a couple of games. I'm not even speaking of the actual
> hardware, which is near to impossible to find, let alone acquire.
>
> It seems, relatively a very small number of these items actually still
> exist (&survived?), so that explains it's rarity and only leaves a guessing
> to it's actual numbers.
this is it exactly. old blues 78 speed records are a good example, there
are a number of records that there are less than 5 known copies (and sell
for more than all vectrex collectables put together!) when the original
press run was 500 to a few thousand copies. The japanese throw things out
more than americans do apparently, due to the small size of living spaces
there probably. the room I keep my videogames in is bigger than any
japanese apartment I was in.
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