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Reply 80 of 88, by 3Dude

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I'm also in the wagon of people desperately wanting to get this card. I stupidly lost and auction from eBay-Australia about 3 years ago that sold for less than 30 bucks and I'm still having nightmares about that. I guess I was one of the top bidders for the $700 sold auction, TBH my bid was very very high but somebody wanted the card even more than me.

And for the new auction I certainly would never-ever pay the $500 reserve price and not even half of that for a card without known working condition or accessories like the VGA loop-back cable. I guess the seller assumes a random crazy collector will pay that kind of money just “only for collection” without any intentions of using/benchmarking and or torturing the card.

Reply 81 of 88, by vetz

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None of the two other cards that sold really high had known working condition. Both cards were new yes, indicating a very high chance the cards will work, but it was no guarantee.

I used a standard VGA loop back cable on my card, worked without issues. The bundled games I had already acquired.

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Reply 82 of 88, by schlang

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got artex'ed again: Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 83 of 88, by Artex

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schlang wrote:

Nah man... "Artexing" is a completely different tactic and one that I haven't done for a while. Artexing, by definition, is when someone only has a bid-type auction but one messages said seller and offers a BIN price that is too much to resist and the seller closes the auction upon payment. Note that one only "Artex's" an auction when there are NO bids yet on the table. In the case of the VLB card, it was a simple last second bid that won the auction and it was not Artex'd (even though it was won by Artex). Just wanted to call out that if you're going to use the term, you gotta use it correctly... 😎

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Reply 84 of 88, by meljor

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Artex wrote:
schlang wrote:

Nah man... "Artexing" is a completely different tactic and one that I haven't done for a while. Artexing, by definition, is when someone only has a bid-type auction but one messages said seller and offers a BIN price that is too much to resist and the seller closes the auction upon payment. Note that one only "Artex's" an auction when there are NO bids yet on the table. In the case of the VLB card, it was a simple last second bid that won the auction and it was not Artex'd (even though it was won by Artex). Just wanted to call out that if you're going to use the term, you gotta use it correctly... 😎

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Reply 85 of 88, by vetz

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Artex wrote:
schlang wrote:

Nah man... "Artexing" is a completely different tactic and one that I haven't done for a while. Artexing, by definition, is when someone only has a bid-type auction but one messages said seller and offers a BIN price that is too much to resist and the seller closes the auction upon payment. Note that one only "Artex's" an auction when there are NO bids yet on the table. In the case of the VLB card, it was a simple last second bid that won the auction and it was not Artex'd (even though it was won by Artex). Just wanted to call out that if you're going to use the term, you gotta use it correctly... 😎

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Reply 88 of 88, by SuperHanSolo

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I have one of these in the original box. Never bothered using it in a retro build since VLB setups are just a pain in the ass to get working.

Though I was pretty certain its rare, ive never ever seen one before online until i saw this thread.

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