The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dl ... 2">Ebay</a>

Why the hell didn't I think of this?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Papyrus, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>It's... a box.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>"It's just a box!"</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Ya know. I could make a living off of this. Buy a complete system with the game, and sell the box/PS2/game/controller seperately.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion, Modern; text-align: left; '>It's not even a good box, like a classic or something,, it's a BOX of something you can BUY!! If you can buy the box with something IN IT, I think you should do that rather than buy a freakin empty box FROM JAPAN!! $20 shipping, good lord

What has come of humanity?</div>

<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Their disposable income has increased at the same time their common sense has decreased.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>EBay isn't exactly best at enforcing everyone to meet their end of the deal. I know my friends got ripped on some magic cards they bought which was simply never sent. Even though they even had the guy's phone number and know where he live, and called the various agencies to deal with frauds and whatnot they still haven't got their money back.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Garamond, Modern; text-align: left; '>I think some very stupid person is going to be very pissed off when they get their empty box...any bets on the next mass shooting spree coincinding with the day this package arrives?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Papyrus, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>I'll take some of that action.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>As far as the Magic card game thing, have you considered suing the person? Duh! You got the guy's phone number, and e-mail. You don't even need a lawyer.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Called the person up, the guy said something like screw them. So they called the Department of Justice or something, says they can't help because it's under the jurisdication of the local police department, called local police department, says it's under the jurisdiction of Department of Trade or something. Called that department, and guess what, they told them to call the Department of Justice. 

MMORPG items have a lot more value than you can think they do. They often represent hundreds of hours of time, and someone may very well choose not to put in that time to get the item. Whatever the value of the item, whether practical or perceived, is still retained. Even if it's a piece of junk, someone was crazy enough to camp hundreds of hours for it, and as long as his buyers believe the same thing, no one's losing anything. There is absolutely nothing surprising about the sales of MMORPG items. They fit the economic model perfectly.

On the other hand, there's no value for a PSX2 box unless you're some kind of weird collector, and even then it's cheaper to just import one from Japan. People were betting on Handgun +1s for Phantasy Star Online. Do you really think these bets are serious? I've seen someone selling an EverQuest SERVER before and it was bid to about a few gazillion. Do you think the buyer or the seller is serious? I'm pretty sure EBay is no more capable in forcing the seller to actually dig up an EQ Server than to enforce the buyer to pay more money than the world has put together.</div>