First Forum Post! - WTB: Uncharted 2 FOLIO & Uncharted 2 FORTUNE HUNTER Edition

[NYGiantFan]

Hello!!

As Specter mentioned I did end up selling my Uncharted 2 Fortune Hunter Edition to raise funds for my mom's medical bills. She suffered from a stroke and had a lengthy stay in a rehab/assisted living facility.

I was raising funds to help offset the cost of that care running through her savings.

At one point I was trying to sell all my high priced Uncharted items. I have 2 Folio's. A numbered one sealed and a unsealed unumbered publisher's proof. I need to post pics. My Uncharted collection is nowhere near Ken's but it's OK.

Thankfully, I ended up only having to sell the Fortune Hunter Edition.

6-7 months ago I went on a hunt to try and find another one. A truly complete edition is very hard to find.

Soundtrack and Strategy guide is half the battle. Did the game copy get subbed out? The game should have the UPC/barcode cut. Is the game and soundtrack sealed? Does the dagger have all the foam and tie strings attached? Finally, is the dagger wrapped in the brown crinkled paper?

So tough to find 100% complete.

It's funny you guys mention a guy in California for sell. I bought mine from the seller that did have it posted for 25K many years ago. Obviously I didn't buy it for that....nowhere close I can promise you.

I paid not far off what I wanted for mine which was also 100% complete and everything sealed.

last thing, happy hunting.....it's very tough and expensive to find a complete Fortune Hunter but it can be done. I've owned 2 so that's proof.

Good luck!!!

[Justyz123]

That makes me so happy that you were able to raise the necessary funds for your Mom! When I'd read that post before posting this, I hadn't seen how that ended up turning out. So really glad you ended up getting it worked out.

I've tried to do my due diligence in learning what makes a Fortune Hunter Edition compete and luckily am keeping an eye out for all of the stuff you mentioned. Thank you so much for laying out many of the trickier details! I think it's so cool that there are so many moving parts to finding one that is "compete". Makes finding one like that all the more exciting!

If you ever decide to sell one of your folios (or know of one being offered), I would love to add it to my collection! Seeing Ken's collection (and no doubt yours) definitely kept me in check from wanting to pursue collecting all available Uncharted stuff. Knew then that I would much rather collect select special items that I found super cool (at least till I have more money to pursue it) like the FHE and Folio -- especially since UC2 is my favorite in the series and probably in my top 3 games of all time.

Couldn't be sure, but based on the username and the seller location I wasn't sure if you were the guy on eBay out of the Bronx selling the Publisher's Proof for $3,500. If so, it's way out of my budget. Would buy the sealed one for closer to your asking price on the post you made if you ever had a desired to sell it. But TOTALLY understand wanting to hang onto it. It's such a cool edition!!

[NYGiantFan]

Haven’t decided to sell at this time but life happens so you never know.

I can confirm I wasn’t asking for that much on the Folio and that wasn’t my posting on EBay.

[Justyz123]

Gotcha. Thanks for posting by the way! Love getting to know the fellow Uncharted collectors on here. Stay well!

All the best,
Justin

[Justyz123]

Originally Posted by NYGiantFan

Haven’t decided to sell at this time but life happens so you never know.

I can confirm I wasn’t asking for that much on the Folio and that wasn’t my posting on EBay.

Hey NYGiantFan! Checkin' out your post from last year again:


"I'm selling my Uncharted art

Uncharted 2 Folio printer's proof- non numbered, comes with display case- $600
Uncharted 2 Folio sealed- not sure the number due to being sealed- $800
Uncharted 2 hard cover art book from Ballistic publishing- $200
Uncharted 2 Soft Cover art book from Ballistic publishing- $75
Uncharted 2007 PAX art- $200"


Know you don't have any plan to sell the items at this time (so absolutely no pressure), but should you ever decide to in the future I would be down to buy all this stuff from you to add to my collection (assuming you didn't sell any of it in the past). So definitely look me up should you need to sell them.

Also, don't think you mentioned in your last post, when you started looking for another complete Fortune Hunter Edition 6-7 months ago were you ever successful in tracking one down? Hope you got lucky and were able to!

[Justyz123]

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[NYGiantFan]

Hey buddy.....

Yeah right now I am holding on to everything. I had someone on the forums contact me and almost pulled the trigger and sold it. As I mentioned I was able to sell the Fortune Hunter edition and thus didn't need to sell the other items.

I was successful in purchasing another 100% complete Fortune Hunter edition.

Hey life happens and things change. I will definitely keep you in mind if I decide to sell.

Thanks for the interest.

[Justyz123]

Oh nice!!! Congratulations on getting the 100% compete Fortune Hunter Edition! That's a huge achievement!

And REALLY appreciate you keeping me in mind if you ever decide to sell them! Hopefully life doesn't get there for you, but I really appreciate you giving me a shot should it ever happen.

[Gadgetron]

Just curious, how much did you sell/buy it for?