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posted by SegaManAU on Sep 14, 2013:

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I have come across more than one of these consoles before. Does anyone have any idea how many "000/850" consoles were released?

I know that Petit-Prince on these forums has one. I have one & I've seen another one on the Sega-Bits twitter feed.

I'm curious to know if anyone has any more information on these "000" numbered consoles??

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posted by retro on Sep 16, 2013:

850.
 

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posted by Cyantist on Sep 16, 2013:

retro said:






850.

ts's post seems to imply there are multiple 000 numbered units?
 

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posted by retro on Sep 16, 2013:

There were 500 of the HMV exclusive clear Seaman consoles made (released 29 July 1999), and 850 of the red Xmas Package Seaman consoles produced (released 16 December 1999) - they're totally separate consoles. There should have been a certificate in it stating that. I believe it was sold through Sega Direct. I don't know what else there is to say about it, really.
 

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posted by ave on Sep 16, 2013:

I think we have a misunderstanding here. The thing is that there are red Seaman consoles out there that are numbered, and those are obviously all unique (e.g. 811/850, 428/850, etc). But there are also multiple red Seaman consoles out there sharing the very same serial number of "000/850".
 

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posted by Psycho on Sep 16, 2013:

retro said:






There were 500 of the HMV exclusive clear Seaman consoles made (released 29 July 1999), and 850 of the red Xmas Package Seaman consoles produced (released 16 December 1999) - they're totally separate consoles. There should have been a certificate in it stating that. I believe it was sold through Sega Direct. I don't know what else there is to say about it, really.

But if there were 850 of the Xmas consoles made, and they are all numbered (i.e., 001/850, 002/850 through 850/850), wouldn't any numbered 000/850 increase the total amount made? Or did they just make printing mistakes on a bunch of them?

Usually the '000' numbered items of any limited-run item are advance copies/prototypes/samples/artist's proofs/etc... Not to be counted as part of the normal run... I think that's what he's asking about. Typically if they are just meant to be 'samples', there's usually less than a dozen of them (this generally applies to any numbered collectible, not necessarily DC or even gaming). I don't have any DC specific knowledge here, just what I've run across with collectibles of all types.

[edit] Heh, beat me to it... :livid:
 

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posted by SegaManAU on Sep 17, 2013:

ave said:






I think we have a misunderstanding here. The thing is that there are red Seaman consoles out there that are numbered, and those are obviously all unique (e.g. 811/850, 428/850, etc). But there are also multiple red Seaman consoles out there sharing the very same serial number of "000/850".

Correct. retro obviously didn't read my post properly.

The console is limited to 850. But there are multiple "000" consoles. What I am asking is, does anyone know how many specific "000" consoles were made? Because there is more than one around...
 

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posted by retro on Sep 17, 2013:

Or perhaps you didn't write your post clearly. Had you said "I have come across more than one console with this NUMBER before", then it would have been an interesting debate. You didn't specify that... don't expect everyone to know what you mean. Post clearly! Image

It's obviously out of the main run, so I'm afraid you're never going to know how many were made. Unless you're in Sega's archive, there's no accessible record of that... and I highly doubt even Sega could answer that.

It's a bit of a shame, really, isn't it? Make a limited edition... then knock a few more off. Were these 000 consoles fully boxed etc. or console only?
 

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posted by arnoldlayne on Sep 17, 2013:

I'd hazard a guess that the 000 ones were consoles given away in competitions... that may explain it.
 

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posted by SegaManAU on Sep 17, 2013:

retro said:






Or perhaps you didn't write your post clearly. Had you said "I have come across more than one console with this NUMBER before", then it would have been an interesting debate. You didn't specify that... don't expect everyone to know what you mean. Post clearly! Image


Not sure if you are being serious or not?




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Gents

I have come across more than one of these consoles before. Does anyone have any idea how many "000/850" consoles were released?

I know that Petit-Prince on these forums has one. I have one & I've seen another one on the Sega-Bits twitter feed.

I'm curious to know if anyone has any more information on these "000" numbered consoles??

Thanks





retro said:






It's a bit of a shame, really, isn't it? Make a limited edition... then knock a few more off. Were these 000 consoles fully boxed etc. or console only?

All the 000 consoles are full boxed and even come with a numbered certificate.
 

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