Land Of Mire Mare box auction in eBay... WHAT???

Neil Parsons

I wonder if Luca Bordoni has been notified about this auction of a boxed edition of his Mire Mare tribute game, as well as rest of people involved in its making... :-/

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRAND-NEW-BOXED-THE-LAND-OF-MIRE-MARE-for-SINCLAIR-ZX-SPECTRUM-48K-LTD-ED-/271943225619?roken=cUgayN

Neil Parsons

Maybe I can be wrong and find out it's something normal after reading item's description, though. But that starting price... huh...

Lee Fogarty

Ah well, at least it's not as bad as the Great Giana Sisters game that went for £10k this week.

Sokurah

Neil Parsons wrote: »

I wonder if Luca Bordoni has been notified about this auction of a boxed edition of his Mire Mare tribute game, as well as rest of people involved in its making... :-/

There is not really a reason that he should (but I'm sure they know by now).
But there's nothing wrong in selling it.
...well, except the price. ;) :D

ranma_simon

I will advice immediately ;)

BiNMaN

£49.99 wtf!!

JuanF. Ramirez

Think positive, the lot includes a badge...

ccowley

lol, clearly a chancer. I wonder how many bids it will get (my money is on < 1)? :)

saddestmoon

JuanF. Ramirez wrote: »

Think positive, the lot includes a badge...

That actually got me excited, as I love badges (especially the speccy kind!)

Had myself made a custom Jack The Nipper badge, about a year or two back - as I always wanted one, along with the game - ever since seeing the magazine advert! :x

Morkin

Wasn't there a Mire Mare mockup box similar to this that appeared on eBay ages ago?

ccowley

That e-bay auction has hilariously gone up to 70 quid. Not to take anything at all away from the hard work of Luca or Chris Wilkins, etc (quite the opposite, in fact), but that isn't half bad for a modern AGD game with a beepola tune or two thrown in :))

Proof that there's one born every minute, I reckon.

impomatic

That's 3 of the approx 120 copies that have been eBayed so far:

1 sold for £70 on buy it now
1 bid up to £70 ending today
1 with no bids ending on Friday

I wonder how many more will appear.

Sokurah

Has anyone made a note of who sells them? Is it the same seller or different ones?

redballoon

1 of them is Chris Wilkins himself.

Track

It went for over £100..why would anyone pay that for a tribute? Yes it was well made but its still a tribute. Some people must be so desperate to believe that Mire Mare was released..

Pavero

Really funny. :-)

http://www.fusionretrobooks.com/product-p/miremare.htm

Track

Pavero wrote: »

Really funny. :-)

http://www.fusionretrobooks.com/product-p/miremare.htm

Jeez the guy who bought it on ebay will be gutted when he sees that!

Neil Parsons

Desperate people... [-( :D