Pemalite said:
Cerebralbore101 said:
Sega may have had them stolen from them by an unscrupulous employee. "I had paid around £10,000 to a removals worker handling SEGA’s office clearance." Did the money he paid go into the pockets of the removals worker or into the pockets of Sega? It seems strange to me that the reseller would be arrested unless he was knowingly buying goods from someone who didn't actually own the consoles. Wait... Since they were the property of Nintendo and not Sega, then either Sega Corp was selling the consoles illegally or their employee was selling the consoles under Sega's nose illegally. The reseller should have known that dev kits are the property of Nintendo. You don't get into the high-end side of game collecting without understanding this. It's common knowledge among collectors that nobody is really supposed to own a devkit outside of a dev. |
If you read the article, they bought it legitimately.
It's Sega that stuffed up. |
I quoted the part where he claims to have bought it legitimately from a removals worker. That doesn't mean that the removals worker had a right to sell it. In fact the removals worker did not have a right to sell it at all, because it was the property of Nintendo, not Sega. So he did not buy it legitimately because Sega can't sell property that it does not own. And again, as a reseller dealing in dev kits he should have known this. He was just banking on Nintendo not knowing or not caring. This is pretty much what all dev kit resellers and buyers are doing.
