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While being technically correct is technically the best kind of correctness, in this case I think you're doing yourself no favors. Forum sales are based almost entirely on mutual trust. This kind of behavior from someone who wants to be a seller does not inspire my trust.

If you really want to YOLO, I suggest you become a monk.

If you want an NES that cheap, get geared up for garage sale season. That's about all you'll get. Option 2 is to get a busted one and fix it yourself. Option 3 is to pay what the market value is for a working one. If you didn't notice, the US is kinda still in recession mode and everything is more expensive and your dollar isn't gonna go as far. It's just how things go. :shrug:

I dunno, CMO seems fairly well behaved, and has far FAR less drama than, say, neo-geo.com forums.

Very nice, I like it.

I think there is a different possibility:

A 3rd party vendor could buy the TI chips as bare dies, and bond them to their own housings. I highly doubt TI would ever do it in-house, but it might be possible to make some kind of hipstery organic IC line that way. Maybe, kinda, sorta. Except die-bonding machines are a mind-blowingly massive capitol investment. Like, buying jet airplanes expensive.

I'd be curious to know if the bioplastic will fit their required tolerances and mechanical properties. Not to mention that making ICs is already extremely resource hungry and has razor thin margins, and even if bioplastic is only a few milli-cents more expensive per unit, it could totally ruin their margins and make producing new chips impossible.