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The high bid is now at $200,000, 8 hours after your comment was made and 12 hours after the link was posted to HN (when the highest bid was ~$30,000).

This is expected by many to be the highest valued item ever sold at auction in the game collecting community.

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If HA's bidder vetting system is anything like ebay's... I imagine that massive bid will go unpaid like they usually do on ebay.

It's not easy to prove to a website that you have $250,000 USD in your bank account... and will continue to have that much 20 days from now.

>This is expected by many to be the highest valued item ever sold at auction in the game collecting community.

Source?

Heritage Auctions is having floor bidding on March 6, which is where the value will really be decided. But a copy of Super Mario Bros. sold for $100,000 last year. This thing is going to go for a lot more.

Just browse Twitter if you need sources for public opinion. Expectations are very high:

https://twitter.com/search?q=nintendo%20playstation&src=type...

Heritage Auctions is running a sealed games scam, pumping fake values for veblen goods. That $100K SMB was "sold" to the owner of Heritage Auctions :-)

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