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Old 11-20-2012, 11:33 PM
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Talking Re: WTB: Silver Phantom Hourglass DS Lite

I never feel comfortable calling anything mint. The box and sleeve are in unbelievable condition, but I could point out a few little flaws. However, everything on the inside has been unpacked/handled easily less than a dozen times, perhaps less than half a dozen, and almost imperceptibly. On the article's history, the seller told me this:

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I bought this DS on ebay just shortly after the release in 2007. Even then it was sold out everywhere (only 1000 pieces were released only in the UK), because Zelda Collectors considering these limited quantities not thought twice to get them.

I bought it from a Zelda collector, who had two of these DS Lite Silver Limited. It costed me around 300 ?, even then the prices were high. I would link you the auction, but is old and has now expired. The DS was sealed, I opened it to make sure everything was ok, and then i never used it.
So just this once I think I can go out on a limb and actually call the box's contents, including the DS Lite itself, mint. And since the person who sold it to me was the one who unsealed the box and then never used it, I can also say with certitude that I have an entirely complete and original set here, plastic bags and all.

...Price?

...Let's just say it was somewhere in the ballpark of