There’s a massive (100+ item) Squaresoft collection newly up on eBay. There’s a load of wonderful gems here, including factory sealed copies of Super Mario RPG, Einhander, and Xenogears. There’s a large number of PAL titles in the mix too. (For example, I didn’t know that Final Fantasy Adventure for Game Boy was rechristened Mystic Quest in Europe.)

There are lots of photos, so this one is great even for the window shoppers.

The lot isn’t cheap — the seller is asking $10,845.12 or Best Offer.

I hope my collection looks like this some day. It’s a shame the seller doesn’t have a “group shot” as I’m sure this much RPG shwag all together looks pretty impressive.

HUGE Squaresoft Square-Enix Collection (100+ items!)

Just a quick note about this — I was happy to see that eBay announced on Thursday that they will be retracting 2 of the disastrous changes that they made to their feedback system earlier this year.

First, neutrals will no longer count “against” sellers when their “positive” percentage score is calculated. This is good. That eBay decided that a “neutral” was the same as a “negative” was asinine in the first place, and certainly buyers never got the memo that leaving a neutral would negatively hamper a seller’s score.

Second, eBay will be re-instating a form of the Mutual Feedback Withdrawl system to let buyers change feedback after they’ve left it. Until now, feedback left under the new system was absolutely final. Again, buyers didn’t get the memo. Their news write-up pains itself to say that it will not be the “same” system as before — after all, that would admit that they were wrong in taking it away in the first place. God forbid. Among the biggest change is that a dissatisfied buyer will actually be able to change a negative feedback into a positive one, which was not possible under the old Mutual Feedback Withdrawl system.

As cynical as I am of the auction giant, it’s good to see that for the first time this year, eBay isn’t biting the hand that feeds them. (To eBay: I’m talking about the sellers, who actually pay you, despite your new president’s claim that the buyers are eBay’s customers, not the sellers.)

Here’s a couple of recently ended eBay auctions that just about made my jaw drop.

The first, a complete set of Karaoke Revolution games for the PS2. Yes, I know they’re very much sought after, but the price? $800, sold to one “lvlovernpink.” Meanwhile, other complete sets sit unpurchased at $229. No one ever said eBay bidders were rational. (thanks to monkeydeew for the tip)

Karaoke Revolution 1 2 3 Party Country American Idol — ended price: $800

Silly me. I put in a bid of 3 GBP (about $6) on this next item, thinking that I actually had a chance of winning. I love Final Fantasy, but as I told my friend on this one, at $132, I don’t think the winner of this item can really be called a “winner.”

McDonald’s Final Fantasy Chocobo Dungeon Promo Moogle — ended price: 68 GBP, about $132 US