"Real" Video Game Collecting

This is an opinion piece.

I've collected video games for seven years, and have had to acquire my collection, over time. I've built up some pretty impressive stuff; a Vectrex, SG-1000 II, Loopy, among about 40 consoles and 700 games. But sometimes huge lots of video games have been sold for upwards of the price of a new Mercedes. Several examples can be tracked down: this collection sold for over a million, and found a buyer (!). A quick search of eBay finds several lots in the $20,000+ range any day of the week. What's up with that? Many times the games are over-valued. Let's say a lot of 1,000 games is sold for $30,000, but the average market price for each game is only $10. The lot works out to $30 per game - three times what they are worth! Plus, there's the issue of who gets the games. In a huge lot, it's either sold at a video game store - no big whoop - or some rich bozo gets the whole collection. Newsflash to those rich bozos who think just because they got one big lot of video games one day, or even several big lots - YOU'RE NOT A REAL COLLECTOR! Real collectors may be wealthy, but they get their games and consoles piecemeal. Yes, we do get multiple games in one purchase. We may get many games. Our purchases can run into the thousands of dollars. Yes, even a moderately big lot ($1,000 - $5,000) may be purchased by some real collectors. You can assemble a  collection - and be a real collector - piecing together a multitude of lots. But to the guy that goes on eBay, blows many thousands of bucks on a big lot, and keeps it for himself and think's he's a collector - ONE PURCHASE, OR EVEN A FEW, CANNOT MAKE YOU A COLLECTOR. In my opinion, it takes a minimum of ten unique purchases to become a collector. Get your collection in many lots, fine. Getting it in one - you're not a real collector.