Ebay Electronic Talking Auction Game

4 Comments

1. Winifred says:

   November 2, 2009 at 9:18 pm

   Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

   If you’re looking for a great game to play with your famiy and friends, pick eBay! In eBay, the auto auctioneer calls out each player’s color. That player then has the oppurtunity to, within several seconds, place a bid. Each item has an estimated value that may or may not match its actual value. Get three items or more items in a category and the values of those items double. The person w/ the highest value at the end of the game wins. This game is filled with all the qualities that make it a great game. I’ve listed the ones I think are the most important below:

   1. It’s a quick-paced game. Since you only have several seconds to bid, you have to stratagize about what you are going to bid and what you are going to bid on really quickly.

   2. *The best thing is that each card has two duplicates. You might think that this means you can memorize the values of each one, but think again. For example, and item with an estimated value of $1000 may have an actual value of $500 on one card, $1000 on another, and $1500 on another. This makes the game fun each time you play.

   3. The adding up of the values can be difficult sometimes, and can be good for little kids practicing that sort of thing.

   4. Each game has many rounds (around 30), and you never know when a bay will close.

   This game is so great! I’d reccomend it to anyone. The only downfall is that the game can’t be played with less than 3 people or more than 4.
2. Yui says:

   November 2, 2009 at 11:44 pm

   Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 

   When I first saw this, I thought it was one of the silliest pieces of website tie-in merchandise I’d ever seen! Well, aside from the now-defunct Pets.Com™ spokes-dog-puppet-thingy toy, but that’s neither here nor there. But, having been an eBay™ seller and buyer for more than a couple of years now, and marveling at the reasonable price tag this thing was sporting, I decided to give the electronic eBay™ auction game a whirl. I figured that, if nothing more, it’d make a neat conversation piece among my fellow eBay™ sellers.

   I found it kinda hard to play at first. Not because of any difficulty in playing it (I caught on fairly quickly), but because a minimum of 3 people are needed to play. Fortunately, a friend and I managed to get around this by setting it on four-player mode, with each of us representing two bidders. Other than this, the only slight drawback is the fact that there’s no on/off switch on the central hub; it only shuts off after all the bidding rounds have ended.

   Fun Factor: 4 Stars, granted you’re familiar with eBay™ and enjoy the novelty of playing a board game based on the site. The pace is fairly fast, but not so much so where you won’t be able to keep up with the action.

   Durability: 3 Stars. The only thing keeping this from receiving a 4 star rating from me is the heavy-duty cardboard base the main game unit and bid trays are attached to, which is sure to wear and fall apart on you after a few rounds of play. Otherwise things should hold up fairly well, granted you don’t play it in a place with a high degree of humidity.

   Educational Factor: 1 Star. Somehow, I don’t think a game that glorifies consumerism is all that important a learning experience-well, except perhaps for an education in economics. And yes, I know what you’re thinking: how can a guy who writes reviews for merchandise sold on an online store turn around and gripe about consumerism? I’ll tell you how: I’m a dirty, no-good, two-faced hypocrite. There, you happy now?

   `Late