/vr/ - Retro Games

>hard where

>>1470301

>I'll show him where

>>1473338
If its under $15 I'd pick it up. It probably still works actually.

>>1473358

Holy shit, that smoking kid with a chicken picture fucking rules.

heh, I live in Dartmouth too

>>1473358
Because getting one of the many available in good condition with controllers paddles and 10 games for $15 would just be silly

>>1470294

>5 game's

Fucking dropped.

>>1473358

I'd buy that wife.

You'd probably get sniped though.

That's the entirety of the ad, not even a game count.

I don't know why, but I have this fixated idea/assumption that the people who do this are assholes. Bonafide assholes, completely judging them off of ads like this.

When a price is that high they're obviously just relying on the ignorance of a buyer, they have the internet at their disposal so there's no excuse. Literally taking advantage of them in front of their face, or in these cases, intending to.

>>1474579

You have that assumption because these people are total assholes.

See >>1474570

>>1473361
This. The bitch wearing sausages is pretty cool too.

>>1474583
I'm sorry but I'll never understand the "free market businessman" mentality. You could look up pricing and sell it for slightly more or slightly less than it generally goes for, yet instead you choose to make your own rules at the cost of others (those you take advantage of because of their ignorance) and yourself (for never making that retarded sale over the net)

I'll never get this kind of money grubbing lifestyle.

>>1474594
how the free market works in relation to /vr/
>AA: wow this game is old, I bet its worth a million dollars.
>AB: wow this game is selling for a million dollars, I wonder if I can get it cheaper?
>AB: yep, its $5 on ebay, I'll get that instead.
>AC: That game sells for a lot, I bet its worth collecting if its this expensive!
>AC: I'll buy it! (didn't check other sources)
>AA: woah, I was right, it is rare! I'll get more and do the same thing.
>later
>AA: well that was a fluke, but I now know there are others who think they're rare too
>AA: I'll just make my money back, maybe a little bit more
And now you know how economic darwinism works.

>pokemon gold
>hacked with all the pokemons, all of the mare level 100

>sega dreamcast jailbroken to play emulators
I have a PC damnit if I wanted to emulate games I wouldn't buy the damn console.

Not related to pic, but here's a brief ebay language guide:

>HTF/RARE!
Item can be found relatively easy elsewhere
>Like-new condition
The manual or box can be missing or damages, but it plays
>Sold out in stores!
It was the last one left in their store
>NOT [popular keyword 1] [popular keyword 2] [popular keyword 3]
You obviously aren't looking for what I'm selling but please look at it
>ONLY ONE ON EBAY
The molecules are different from all those other ones on ebay, making it unique
>Reserve not met
Mega-faggot. Extra points are obtained the higher above average price the non-reserve price is.

If I had the time, I would like to take one of these idiots up on their insane Pawn Stars inspired, old stuff = valuable , cl listings, just to see who I would meet and how they would try to con me in person once I started to back out of the deal or try to haggle. I really am curious to see who finds some old game in the attic and tries to sell it for many multiples of current average value (and yet apparently can't be bothered to make a halfway decent ad).

>>1473358

>wife
>no item condition listed

I dunno man.

>>1474748

I'm just bewildered by the pure inhuman ghastliness of this. I'm not even being hyperbolic. I've seen the worst 4chan has to offer, the hopeless, disgusting permavirgin/angry divorcee MRM fucks, the white supremacist bell curve assholes, the outright pedophiles; there isn't anything that takes a cudgel to my flagging faith in our failing species as much as something like this.

This is naked, greedy, disgusting exploitation. At least the fanatics you find on 4chan aren't doing anything other than expressing loathsome opinions anonymously. This fuck proudly declares that he enjoys, really enjoys, taking advantage of idiots in the most egregious and exploitative manner possible.

I mean, I can't think of any conceivable reason why you wouldn't put these up for sale individually at a reasonable price and end up with $400 or so when you'd sold them all.

Stop trying to make me a bitter, hateful person, /vr/. I want to be nice. I want to like people. Please.

>>1474748
>free shipping

>>1474775
Be bitter and hateful. The cold truth is that when even "good" people realize they have a chance to take advantage of you, they will. Let your guard down and you will get fucked. That is one reason I like anonymity. If someone helps you, you know they are really just being helpful and don't have some secret agenda that ends in them fucking you over for their own benefit.

>>1474570
Was $5000 in what universe ?

>>1474748
Why doesn't he just sell this separately surely they would sell

>>1474781
Haha

>>1473358
>$0.50 ticket
>not priced at $0.50

what the fuck

>>1474882
exactly. $5 a pop isn't unreasonable and you make money.

ITT:
/vr/ makes troll listings and responds to its own bait

>>1475550
He would actually make more money that way
>386x5=1930
If he sold them at $2.60 each he would make $1003.60.
Personally I'd just put them at $5 each w/free shipping, and anytime shipping cost more than $2.40 I'd use some of the profit from selling the others. you'd still make about a grand after all is said and done.

>>1475575
All at once; number of transactions to deal with: 1.
One at a time; number of transactions to deal with: 386.

Selling shit on ebay takes time. I don't know about you, but to some of us the time it takes to deal with 386 ebay transactions is worth a lot more than $1000.

>>1475597
Then why the fuck did he get 386 copies of it?
For what possible reason would you want that many?

>>1475597
The real question is why the fuck did he hoard 386 copies of an old NES game?

>>1475615
Thinking age=rarity or that age=value. If he gets a shit ton of them, then on paper they would be worth a lot in years, and that's like, a billion bucks right there!

>>1474735
um, unless that's a model 2 Dreamcast I feel bad for the idiot falling for that shit.

>>1475615
the real question is who is the mastermind that got rid of all his old copies of dragon warrior by selling 386 copies of the same game to some young retarded hipster.

wherever you are good sir, i'll bet you're still laughing over this one. Good Show.

>>1475615
He may have operated game shops or something and wound up with them, or somehow came into several wholesale lots of them with the intent to resell individually but decided it would take too much effort so he is just selling them in bulk.

>>1476604
That is awesome.

>>1476604
lel

>Pretty much mint

>>1477387
It's like these people are trying to redefine words so that words like mint now mean at least the disc is there.

>>1477387
>pretty much no scratches
theres scratches, pretty much

>>1477387
Shamrock Shake mint, maybe.

Found this one last night.

>>1478438
>orogional

>>1478438
>Dinkey Kong

Oh jeez.

>>1474748
That picture is depressingly hilarious.

Just how the hell does one even come into possession of 386 copies of Dragon Warrior in the first place?

>>1477387
sometimes I wonder why we can't have nice things

And now I know. People like this exist.
>pretty much mint
>literally D-rank condition

>>1474748
>free shipping

Jesus, how much would that shit weigh? Guy would probably have to pay out the ass to ship it.

>>1477387
>pretty much mint
>CD only
>greatest hits version
>$15

Seem legit.

>>1483672

Slightly mad/10

Not Craigslist, or eBay, but one local Savers store has been pricing games more or less on the criteria IF IT'S MARIO, IT MUST BE VALUABLE. Tetris too.

Various games from Game Boy to GBA, to NDS, anywhere from $2-5. Mario games? $15 and up. Only exception I saw was GC Mario Golf for $8.