Lately I've been working on eliminating the remaining greatest hits games from my small PS1 collection and replacing them with original black boarders. I know some people will think doing such a thing is stupid but man, that green boarder is damn ugly.

I was able to find some of the games I was looking for but I'm having a real hard time finding a black boarder Tomb Raider. This was mostly due to the fact most of the sellers were using the same stock picture. Reading some of the auction descriptions they would use a picture of the black boarder version but admit they were selling the greatest hits version.

The point of this rant is I understand if you're selling a lot of items it's very hard to take picture of all of them but there are many situations were I simply won't buy an item without a picture. I honestly wouldn't sell anything on eBay without a picture because I think it is important but then I'm a small time seller and have the time.

Anyway, I guess what I'm getting at is how important is seeing a picture of a product before you buy it.

And, for the record, I've really grown to hate eBay.

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You know I totally agree with you on the GH tip, man - I hate the idea of those red, yellow and green spines sticking out on my shelf.

I never buy anything from eBay unless I see an explicit picture of what it is; stock photos are a no-no.

My bad, I usually catch stuff like that. LOL.

Yeah, the green borders are absolutely awful.  I've luckily avoided any kind of "greatest hits" packaging on anything in my collection (except maybe Dream Mix TV World Fighters, which MIGHT be a Hudson repackaging).