I think eBay is getting less and less interesting when it comes to buy retro games.
The supply seems to dry out a bit, but I think the main problem are the sellers themselves.
Example: The category "Atari" in PC and video games at ebay.at or ebay.de: At the moment 3542 entries are found, but from those are only 131(!!!) "real" auctions, that is less than 4 %!!! The rest are Buy It Now, 99 % of them massively overpriced.
Seems the golden days of ebay in the late 90s and early 00s are long gone.
And I wonder if the situation will change again, when all those BIN sellers notice that they don't sell anything for those BIN prices ...
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Intellivisioner
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Same thoughts here, Dieter!
Since the shipping costs from the States have raised enormously, I nearly stopped buying from overseas.
Perhaps the "Game Gavel" project will get an alternative to eBay soon. Let´s see...
Norman
Gruß an Dieter und alle Retro-Fans!
I was lucky enough to find a few US auctions with adequate shipping costs, around $12 to $18 for four to five boxed games. That's ok in my opinion.
Especially with the low priced US$ it is very interesting at the moment to buy from the US (also UK) … IF you find auctions with acceptable shipping costs … and if the seller ships outside the US, but that's an other story …
Game Gavel is one of my hopes too. But as this platform doesn't have so many buyers as ebay, there are also almost no $1 auctions 
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