/vr/ - Retro Games

Pay up buypig

>>7837237
I'm selling. Gonna pay my car off.

Still shake my head at it

>>7837239
>he fell for the four wheeled jew
kek

don't buy on eBay unless you wanna get scammed.

Been wondering this myself, with games and trading cards and other consoomer shit being bought like crazy, yet zoomers and millennials complaining about not having money.

>my GBA collection is worth over 1.7k

what the fuck is going on

>>7837251
I haven't seen any threads with people bragging about buy this shit either.

But If i want used copies of the silent hill ps2 games it's going to be 400 to 700 usd. Like wtf.

Being a seller has made me reflect on my buying habits in the past. Its pretty cynical and kills you inside watching people pay $75 for a gameboy game you got for $5 10 years ago but it is what it is.

>>7837235
I'm considering selling off my old games for cheap just to deny reseller scum lol. Not in it for the money, I just want to free up some space.
>>7837243
Not him, but if I drive to work and back, that's a total of 40-50 minutes of driving. If it take the bus, my daily commute is 3 hours.

>>7837267
Metal slug 7 is now worth like 100 complete

> be me
> enjoy classic vidia
> not the over rated trash that's over priced
> buy a few games 8-10 a piece.
> collection grew during lockdowns because a lot of people only over priced the over rated trash and decreased the value of the average stuff.

> Comfy

I already own some of the over rated trash. Resident evil 2 for gamecube goes for over 100? Lmao what? I almost threw it out.

>>7837235
Every hobby right now is busted out the ass because of covid, wait a year or two and it'll dip.

>>7837271
Yeah I sell cheap too, I look up the lowest listing and go even lower. It makes people more likely to buy it quicker. However resellers eat that shit up of course because if you mark something down 30% that's 30% mote they can make off it.

>>7837273
People are going crazy for complete stuff. You could probably still build a collection if you went cart or disc only

>>7837276
Only a retard would do this. Ebay fees are 14% and include shipping in how the % is calculated

>>7837235
Pandemic driving up prices. People staying inside so they rebuy the games from their childhood driving up prices (also stimulus checks).
Maybe it'll go down idk. I just buy one game every once in a while, but keep an everdrive/modchip on hand for those games that are just too expensive.

>>7837287
People must be really stupid then. I like owning games too, but I wouldn't drop 100 on a used copy of paper mario

>>7837235
Hi tim

>>7837270
>IT IZZZZ WHAT IT ITZZZSHHH

And people like you selling at likely s.0.ys (beware WORDFILTER) gonna flup it.

>>7837235
>Who is spending this big money?
Me. I've probably spent $10k-15k on retro vidya since last summer, when I was in between jobs during covid. I never had more disposable income and was more bored.

I assumed from the posts on here I'm not the only one. A lot of us 30-somethings are reaching affluence. I'm not saying I'm a millionaire, just more than double the average american hosuehold, and I'm single with no kids, no medical issues, and no addictions.

I guess until now ;)

Anyway, not all ebay prices are bad. Great deals are happening all the time, good shit is getting snatched, offers are being made in messages that are lower than listing prices, etc. If you're intelligent, the current era has not ruined your ability to get shit at decent prices. Of course, it doesn't match prices we saw before Covid, but that's to be expected.

Those of you rushing to sell shit just because it's going for "crazy" prices are dumb. Unless you have an emergency need for cash. Hold onto your shit if you like it. It's not worth the rush of "OMG I GOT SO MUCH COMPARED TO WHAT I PAYED."

They just like the games bro lol.
The last PS1 lot I copped is the down payment for my new car (pic related was in the lot).

>>7837274
>Every hobby right now is busted out the ass because of covid, wait a year or two and it'll dip.

You're implying the numbers of people who work from home and care about this shit is temporary. Nigger the entire conception of work and leisure has permanently been changed because of Covid and if anything prices will be even higher in a couple of years.

>>7837274
this is cope the prices raised long before covid

>>7837235
cringe

>>7837243
>im not old enough to drive
kek

>>7837274
>take advice from a 12yo
kek

>>7837235
Most of that stuff will still be sitting there years later at those prices. It's gotten so bad that companies are actually making licensed repros.

>>7837235
I picked the wrong plague to start collecting Saturn games, lemme tell u what.

I just switched hobbies and buy vhs tapes desu, they're as cheap as nes games used to be

>>7837826
But why? I hate pan and scan.

>>7837314
Who hurt you?

>>7837824
Dont stab me Amerimutt I agree the Saturn is pretty good

>>7837235
retrovidya was never for the poor

Who is this shit for lmao

>>7837874
Yeah.

>>7837902
This. Poorfags complained when this shit was released at MSRP, who cares what they say!

>>7837935
My sources say Flipnic will be the next hot item.

Stop blaming every thing on covid retards. Thats not the reason for anything

>>7837235
People who follow coomlector gurus, have a lot of spare money and want to get their last shilled hidan yem. We are such sheep. No wonder the Jews do with us what they want.

>>7837235
People who have a lot of spare money, follow coomlector gurus and want to get their last shilled hidan yem. We are such sheep. No wonder the Jews do what they want with us.

>>7837235
if you could make more money, wouldn't you? market would correct itself if people were not readily willing to spend more on retro. this is why i emulate. never had to worry about prices.

>>7837276
your listings are likely being bought by resellers. this is market control 101.

>>7837317
>Those of you rushing to sell shit just because it's going for "crazy" prices are dumb

Counter point, rule of rose is going for 700

>>7837235
Probably scalpers including people that don't even play games. Wario Land on virtual boy was 20 up until 2020. Nobody gives a fuck about virtual boy. Now it's like 85.

The gov. has already caught on and ebay will send out tax forms to you and the IRS if you sell more than 600 next year

>>7837335
>permanently been changed because of Covid and if anything prices will be even higher in a couple of years.

Lol, things are already going back to normal. Everyone will be going on their trips, vacations,.disney again and there wont be this surplus of cash to burn a grand on silent hill

>>7837837
not that guy, but vhs is still a good medium for 80s horror. lots of shot on tape films that never saw dvd releases.

I did just buy a DC with some accessories for $100 (it was actually $78, which isn't a horrible price, but the shipping jacked it up).

>>7838051
>The gov. has already caught on and ebay will send out tax forms to you and the IRS if you sell more than 600 next year

This is happening because everyone in our government is a lizard person that is so out of touch with normal humans that they dont realize normal people have been bartering used shit from their house for 1000s of years without it being taxed.

And they are too chicken shit to increase taxes on corporations.

Cant raise taxes on Nike, so let's tax Billy when he sells his PS4 collection to buy a PS5

The nerds in their twenties who got rich in January with Gamestop stocs and crypto.

>>7837267
>have a box o Gameboy stuff
>was just gonna throw it in storage but decide to check prices
>it's worth $700-1k
I got an easy $1k more in pedestrian PSX games, some kind of twilight zone thing here

>>7838041
I heard the jews would like to insert a jewish penis into your anus next. Could you sign under the dotted line please?

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>>7838068
You're telling me. I got my first tax form ever from fucking paypal this past year because of selling on ebay, which I have been doing for like 8 years. God forbid we make any money ourselves.

This is crazy to me. I’m not selling any of these, and I’m not bragging, but I just want to talk about this.

Those 4 Pokémon games were all $40
Twilight Princess was $20
Layton 6 and Silent Hill 2 were $5
Drill Dozer and Wario Ware Twisted were $8
Air ride was $30 just 3 years ago when I bought it.
Finally, the weirdest one, Travis Strikes Again was $20 just a month ago.

I’m sure some of these will drop in price in a year or two, but I think the current boom in retro gaming has permanently harmed game prices. I’ve seen them fluctuate before but it’s real bad now. Nobody wanted this shit a few years back and I could get practically any games I wanted from the local Play N Trade, but now their retro shelves are barren and only populated by old racing and sports games.

This is basic economics. The more time passes, the rarer old vidya get. With the same amount of demand, but with an evermore dwindling supply, the prices go up.

>>7838081
>insert a jewish penis into your anus next.

Only if its bailey jay's

>>7838121
>This is basic economics

Yeah, no. Something has dumped an assload of extra cash into nerd hands. Prices dont go up this high and this fast for a specific luxury good because of supply and demand.

It's because of:
Covid bucks
Cutting out commutes giving people an extra 100-200 a week
Cutting out big vacations - 1000 to 3000 back in pocket

A work at home nerd probably has an extra 6000 he didnt have precovid

Prices will go back down eventually but it's gonna take at least a few more years. This fad is mainly localized to the US which right now has a really degenerate culture of nostalgia. See how almost every major movie or video game is part of a franchise.

>>7838056
There is no normal to go back to. You're really naive if you don't think buying patterns have permanently been affected. There are a lot of smart people making money because they're smart enough to know when the world is changing

>>7838081
>Tfw no hot Israeli dude with big muscles to pound my boipucci
Its not fair

>>7837235
Ebay recently got rid of Paypal
They are pretty much doing it to maximize profits and streamline their payment system for themselves (Not for us) and also will be increasing fees to 15% in 2022 to make investors happy

What does this have to do with /vr/? Long time sellers already know this is coming and they are normalizing new higher prices on games to make up for that coming percentile fee loss that they will feel, they are just putting that now onto the customer with increased prices.

It's like how if minimum wage is increased with fast food restaurants, they just increase the prices of food and put the loses onto the clients.

It's pretty standard trickle down Big Money economics. Pretty much the client is always fucked.

>>7838251
This. You look at a game at $100 and go "What the fuck man, that's at MOST a $85 game"
Well guess what Ebay is taking from the seller? That $15. In the next year or so, all games are going to see a huge bump in price and the bigger the number, the bigger the price jump.

>>7838251
Actually the belief is it's going to reach a whooping 23% in Ebay Fees next year.

This is the breaking point for the company and something is going to give.

People are losing A LOT of money on transactions now and it's not only the sellers that suffer, the costumers end up having to pay more from sellers having to increase prices to close those new cost gaps.

It use to be you can buy something and sell it and make 20%-30% profit and both parties would be happy even with the slight mark up. That will not be the case anymore. Now it's going to enter pure scalper territory with people putting 50%-100% profit margins.

Fuck you Ebay

>>7838058
>vhs is still a good medium for 80s horror
I dabble in this hobby. Wasn't too terrible but as with everything else the price on certain movies have become unattainable for me.

>>7838251
>Long time sellers already know this is coming and they are normalizing new higher prices on games to make up for that coming percentile fee loss that they will feel, they are just putting that now onto the customer with increased prices.

Nah. There isnt a gaming seller cabal. And auctions are up too

>>7838326
Oh it's crazy now.

Say a guy buys a game locally that is rare to flip. Say its 60. Well he pays 66 with sales tax in some states. Then priorty shipping is like 8. So that's now 74. Then you add the 14% ebay fee and that's another 10.50. So it's now 84.50. Oh and the buyer has to pay local sales tax too, so another 8.50. So you're now at $93 for $60 game and the seller has made zero dollars. If he wants 20 to 25 % profit, the game jumps up to $116.

Essentially everyone is going to have to sell everything for at least double what they paid just to make 25%. Anything below that will be a waste of time.

This is going to be good in that it will kill scalping or at least seriously hurt it, but bad for anyone normal that wants to clear out old stuff. It will be a complete waste of time to sell small things like $15 used games, open single figures, handheld chargers, etc.

>>7838282
Is there some alternative to eBay?

>>7838390
This wont kill scalping if paypigs keep buying.

>>7838390
>>7838495
Scalping is a dumb concept made up by poorfags who lose cause they snooze. Maybe you'd be able to buy shit if you didn't have to wait for your salary (if you have one, kek)

>>7838390
It won't kill scalpers, it will just push what the mark up use to be

Scalpers use to make 20% mark ups, now it will just be 100% mark ups. That $60 game you just talked about now has to be sold for $116, almost $120 aka DOUBLE/100% the value.

And people pay. They always pay.

>>7838041
what a piece of shit

>>7838631
>And people pay. They always pay.

No they dont. Infinite demand doesnt exist

>>7838976

Alright, good luck shrinking the money supply at this point.

>>7838041
I suspected something like this was already happening. I noticed this trend some years ago on the PS2 PAL vidya with Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 spiking up really fast as soon as market offer dried up (nearly 5x the price immediately). It's been happening with other titles lately too. Nowadays it's becoming impossible to get a good bargain for anything compared to 2 years ago. Even junk is jumping in price.

>>7838326
>>7838390
Just find an alternative to eBay. Stuff like this always get replaced by a better market. Is the Facebook market worth a dick? People might migrate there. Shopify has become popular among sellers.

>>7838342
Haven't found a tape yet that goes higher than $10 but I'm sure they're out there. Most things are like $2-3.

I just want to buy an arcade, are those overpriced too? Neo Geo one

>>7839846
What do you think?

>>7839850
Well lots of arcade bussiness went bakrupt thanks to the fake pandemia. Even in Japan

>>7837235
It’s cliche but I drop several hundred on nes games every month. I married well, though. I just want em. And I can have em. So fuck you.

>>7839834
Contemplating purchasing Pink Flamingos for $30
It’s quintessential vhs.
Worth it.

I have Bucky O Hare for nes, seems like a rare game
I feel like I should sell it, but is one of my favorite games that I still play
I still have yet to beat it without continues

>>7839846
Singe slot Neo Geo motherboards cost less than a hundred dollars and they're Jamma standard so you can fit them into any Jamma cabinet or a JVS cabiner with the right converter.

>>7839846
>>7840027
what this guy said, if you were looking for a 4 slot neo geo cabinet in good condition good luck.

>>7839878
beat it, record your 1cc, and then you will be ready

Exorbitant prices for games is the the reason I'm strictly a hardware guy and just play whatever off of flashcarts.

>>7837243
>.t neet living in mommy's basement

>>7837243
It's an absolute necessity when mommy's minivan isn't accessible.

>>7840150
This is where I'm going. Probably going to sell everything past ps2 and gamecube and just hold on to stuff me and my sisters had

>>7838050
not saying it going to absolutely effect prices, but the rights holder for RoR are probably going to be doing a modern port of it based on official sources they have dropped

>>7840217
I think the only games I physically have for NES that hold any sense of sentimentality is common things like Mario/duck hunt and Tetris (though the latter, while I highly enjoy the game, reminds me of my shitty mother who was autistically good at the game).

>>7838545
Yeah cause bots are definitely not a thing that buy up all stock the moment it goes up for sale before you can even be alerted that an item is available and you should be punished because a bunch of fags deplete the entire stock of something the first 4mins it goes up for sale.

>>7839834
my two grails, is the VHS copy of Revenge of the Sith which goes for over 100$ and Rock & Rule

>>7840269
>the VHS copy of Revenge of the Sith which goes for over 100$
We were well into DVD by like seven years by that point. Who was that market for?!

>>7838041
what a fag

>>7840283
i think in the US it was a rental only tape for VHS from Blockbuster and Europe may have sold it in limited quantity. I dont think its the last VHS tape every majorly commercially released, but I seen some sites list it as so. Would just be cool to stumble upon and have with the other prequels and the originals on VHS in a display or something cause fuck everything that came after.

>>7837235
just got an imported PSP any good action games like dialbo for the system,I know there was a shot at P3'rd but from what I remember they never got it fully translated?

>>7840347
the Untold Legends series

>>7840150
>mfw sold all my 10+ DS games for 50$ trying to impress a girl with a silver locket

she didn't even last a year ;_; I just recently got an R4 & have been making up for lost time playing strange journey again

>>7840269
>Rock & Rule
The whole thing is free on youtube. Goofy premise but what a neat film with a fantastic soundtrack. Would love to own a vhs copy myself but best of luck. Bet it's worth a ton.

>>7840696
checked a year or so ago and think it went for about 40$ on ebay, no idea now. Not something I gotta have, but its one I keep an eye out for when I see vhs tapes since its one of my favorite animated movies. Would also love Wizards from the 70s, but no idea if that ever got a vhs release or not.

>>7837276
>I look up the lowest listing and go even lower.

Either lying or an idiot. Not looking good for you either way anon.

>>7837235
People who earn over 6 figures just got richer during the lockdowns so they are buying everything up.

>>7840567
I hope you learned a valuable lesson on women. Fuck them non sexually and enjoy 2D love.

why are JRPGs specifically so expensive? seems like there isnt a single one in the psx or ps2 for less than $100
i just buy games on ebay if theyre around like $10

>>7838326
>>7838390
Remember, "profit margins" and "shareholders" destroy EVERYTHING.
If you ever wondered why Wawa beats 7-Eleven and why Publix beats Kroger, there you go.

>>7841294
who the fuck is wawa or kroger?

>>7841161
why would I lie? just made about $300 this week.

>>7837235
>ebay
you're literally bidding against every single person on the planet, anon

>>7837328
>game was like $70 USD brand new
>that's like $200 USD in 2021 bidenbux
>tag on a nominal $200 USD fee for over 2 decades of climate controlled storage to maintain it in a near-mint state

What's the problem? Sounds reasonable.

>>7841457
they pretend they just want to play video games but in reality they want collectors to sell them the extremely limited remaining factory sealed cib copies of popular video games at a loss

I got a dreamcast with a blue official controller, VMU, Shenmue, Jet Grind Radio, Legacy of Kain, and a burnt CD Genesis emulator for $80 Canadian back in 2017. What the fuck happened?

ight

>>7841480
close to half of the asking price is to ship that fucker so it arrives intact

>anon, why you were away at college we had a garage sale and managed to sell all those old games that were lying around your room! they only wanted to pay $50 but your brother talked them up to $100!!! they even hauled away all those boxes that were taking up your closet space for free!

>>7838107
>Finally, the weirdest one, Travis Strikes Again was $20 just a month ago.
It was cheap, for a Switch game, because mainstream media misunderstood and shat over it in reviews.
Now there's a 3rd game in the main series coming out soon, as well as ports of NMH 1+2 that just got a Limited Run release, so there are autists who overspent on those that'll want the whole series physically on Switch.

>>7841490
>it will never be the mid-to-late 90s again
>you will never drive around to garage sales and buy up people's entire childhood collections for pennies
>now everyone watches pawn stars and shit and thinks their loose atari 2600 game cartridge missing its label and with clear water damage is worth $1.2 million USD

>>7838107
pretty nuts innit

>you discover an abandoned warehouse full of new old stock video games from the 80s and 90s

>>7840027
I have yet to find a good video converter fot my tv, component. Most are expensive as fuck and shipping is too much to my country

>>7841490
At least there was profit to be made. My folks had a van get towed in 2005 which contained mostly of PS1 RPGs and Asian cinema on DVD. They didn't even try to get their van back. What irresponsible and outright shitty people. I hope the Bubba redneck enjoyed the stash and made a tidy profit...

Can't wait for the societal breakdown and it costs me exactly one 7.62 round to take all your collections.

>>7837235
could it be that handing 1000 bux for free to millions of the biggest consumers on this planet had a negative impact overall?

>>7841582
>implying there aren't massive chimpouts when something miniscule as EBT systems going down
I don't want to think what will happen when the system never comes back up.

>>7841584
Unsure of the correlation, but everytime there is rumblings of stimmy money, I put a lot of stuff up for sale.
>only $1000
I want $14,000,000 or a summer in the Lincon Bedroom for my troubles over the past 1.5 years.

>>7841501
I have a box full of unopened Frogger games for the Atari 2600 still in their plastic wrap. What do you think they'd go for?

>>7841582
In a Mad Max-like society, increasing your collection would the last of your worries.

>>7841635
Who said anything about a mad max society? More than likely it would reduce back to city states.

>>7841632
Pricecharting has them listed at just shy of $160.

>>7841636
That isn't possible if areas contain shit like nuclear missiles or are port cities for logistical reasons.

>>7840708
>Would also love Wizards from the 70s
Another one I watched on youtube years ago. Can't say I remember much outside of some fairy with tig ol bitties and being trippy. If you're into sword and sorcery(you seem like a man of taste so you no doubt do) I highly recommend Fire and Ice.

>>7841276
>why are JRPGs specifically so expensive? seems like there isnt a single one in the psx or ps2 for less than $100
>i just buy games on ebay if theyre around like $10

Female nerds and some male purest nerds love them and they are good long games for the work ar home types.

Also they aged better than a lot of other genres.

And jrpg buyers tend to keep their games and it takes a bigger motivation to get them to sell

>>7841501
It's still possible but it is fewer and far between

So when people have to go back to work and the biden bucks dry up, what do you think will happen to prices?

Theh very well could plummet if theh all sell at the same time to fun vacations after not traveling for 2 years

This is getting ridiculous. This auction started off a day ago and it's already at this price. For referrence, I have followed the PAL PSX factory sealed scene on ebay for three years and I can tell you that Oddworld: Abe's Odysssey, Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Final Fantasy VIII, Parasite Eve 2, Resident Evil 2 and Dino Crisis have gone to auction and never reached these values.

Theres always good or hidden deals for stuff. You just have to get in quick or just perpetually look at listings. Some of the rarest things I have I got for next to nothing due to the seller making a simple mistake in the name or listing. It’s all just a big waiting game essentially, you either pay the price or try to outbid scalpers/resellers/Sockpuppets and get made to pay even more or just wait.Don’t just buy the first listing you see lol. A lot of my grails from childhood and other favourites I’ve gotten for way below their average listing price because I just waited.Sometimes you even get lucky on a bid too and the price doesn’t get jacked up too much. I agree though, it’s definitely ludicrous with the prices at the moment.

Yeah, it's crazy price is already £250. I was perplexed by a year or two ago seeing Crash Bandicoot, the very first edition (big box) nearly running up to £1000 (which I can understand - that game was like Sony's poster mascot for the Playstation) and I don't remember it starting so strongly. It's like you say, there's no way to buy stuff like this unless you wait and play smart. I miss 2008-2009. Lots of great deals back then. I wish I was already working then. Heck even during 2014-2018 there were still very good things to buy at a reasonable price. This is just clown world.

>>7843603
>Remembering all of those video game cases and boxes that I threw away over my childhood years

>>7843675
Yeah I wish I had more disposable income earlier, I would’ve been able to capitalise on the low prices. I remember wanting to start collecting again around 2014-2015ish and things that are $600 today were like maybe $100-$150 at most and were CIB and sealed, now it’s $600 and slightly cummed on or something.My other problem is indecisiveness. I’ve found so many good deals recently but constantly toss up whether to go for them or not instead of doing it. Lots of people with money to blow so if you don’t snag those deals- they will.

>>7843686
yeah your life would be a lot better if you had held onto hoards of meaningless garbage for 25 years just so you could sell it and make 3k down the road. retard.

>>7843724
Bet you wish you had 3k worth of cardboard, cranky

>>7843405
Has nothing to do with biden bucks. White millennials grew up playing vidya. They're now in their mid 20s to mid 30s, and since they aren't squirting out copies of themselves, they have a lot of disposable income. As we've reached levels of weimerica never believed possible, what better way to escape to your childhood than immersing yourself in gen 4-6 vidya?

The wu flu has accelerated the trend, trapping people indoors and further alienating them, but prices aren't going anywhere but up for the foreseeable future.

>>7837235
Covid happened. Everyone indoors. Millenials bored with disposable income, getting nostalgic and bidding against each other like apes.

>>7843724
Well yeah. People throw out a lot of good stuff just out of laziness.

Like there is a special place in hell who put genesis and ds game.cases in the trash

>>7843752
>but prices aren't going anywhere but up for the foreseeable future.

You're either retarded or a reseller that needs people to believe this so he can dump the stock he has too much money invested in like those bitcoin shills that hype of bullshit coins that they want to dump

>>7843902
>comparing the value of a non-physical speculative investment with a physical product that is no longer being produced
Heh. For what it's worth, fuck coomlectors and reseller kikes, I'm all-in on flash carts and emulation.

>>7843724
>your life would be a lot better
Didn't say or imply that.
>meaningless garbage
That's subjective.
>make 3K down the road
It would be a lot more than that, assuming you're talking about US funbux. Your response implies I am solely intent on selling them as opposed to collecting and playing them, though with the recent inflation of prices on eBay I'd likely take advantage with a few rarer titles and duplicates.
>Retard.
Yes.

>>7837235
I sold my retro in 2016 no regrets I just buy new games at retail or on sale now.

anyone seriously INVESTING in this hobby when they could just be buying dividend stocks or rental property LOL

>>7843927
Dude, there is a limited demand for this shit. Prices cant keep climbing. Fucking zoomers aren't going to suddenly want complete ps2 collections. They're gonna have their own collections, like fortnite skins

>>7844158
How are they going to preserve their collection once the game's servers inevitably go down in a few years?

>>7841632
I'd give you $15 for one

>>7844158
>there is a limited demand for this shit. Prices cant keep climbing
That's exactly what's going to happen, though. Look at any similar collector market.

>>7844035
there are some people who claim that investing in vidya is better than anything else. i'm sure a couple of retards actually believe it
what differentiates /vr/ collecting from other collecting fads is that a lot of retro games are still relevant today. we still have huge numbers of kids getting into mario, pokemon, etc. these games will likely stay expensive up until nintendo itself dies out
but more niche stuff, like most of the sega library will pop in the next few years because people aren't getting indoctrinated into liking alex fucking kidd lol

>>7844219
I like PLAYING retro and talking about retro and learning about retro.

fiddling with some finnicky cart is like .0000001% of the hobby of being a fan of Retro Videogames. Buying new games means I can support whatever small or large developers I like since a game sales really matter in the first 2 weeks of sales.

>>7839856
Gotta be hard being as fuckin stupid as you are everyday

Dont know but im enjoying the ride, had 3 GBA SP ags101 for years that i got at garage sales, just replaced the shells with bretty gud combination of color buttons and sold 2 of them for 120 piece, also sold some extra games i had like Mario World, Allstars, Castlevania 3, and made anohter 100.

Now i can finally buy flashcarts for my Nes. Snes and Genesis. Also somewhat related, whats a good online store where i can sell my used stuff that DOES NOT ASK FOR MY SSN ? i dropped Ebay few months ago because they locked me from selling until i give them my SSN and im not doing that shit.

>>7837353
True it was bbecause of faggot ecelebs but covid made it exponentially worse

>>7841640
You're trying to reason with an obvious fuckin moron man

>>7844191
>That's exactly what's going to happen, though. Look at any similar collector market.

Yeah...they all have a peak. You havent been doing this very long. Old train sets, guitars, antique furniture, there is a limited number of buyers with few new buyers. Prices peak when the people that grew up with it are all between the age of 30 and 50. So there is a 20 year period of climbing prices. Then people start to die and prices drop as whole collections hit the market. The only thing that holds value after that are prestine early copies that are museum quality like a new looking Detective Comics 1.

You sound like one of those retards that hoarded 90s comics and baseball cards thinking the value had unlimited growth.

Are you saying this shit to comfort yourself on dropping $500 a week buying ps2 games hoping to flip them for $ 1000 in the future? Because there is no guarantee of that. You could be left holding the bag if this turns out liken 90s comics or cards

>>7844161
>How are they going to preserve their collection once the game's servers inevitably go down in a few years?

Probably fan servers. The funny thing will be that everyone will have access to the same content, making all their microtransactions worthless

>>7837243
>four wheeled Jew

Holy shit and here I thought I’d seen every variant imaginable of 4chans antisemitism

>>7845286
>Sends a cease and desist letter to the server's host
Heh, nothin' personnel kid.

God seeing these threads make me fucking ill.

I love retro vidya stores because they take me back to more innocent days when I could go into EB and just browse randomly and find interesting things I’d never seen before. But holy SHIT the market for these games has gotten so out of control that I can’t even help but be aghast at the shamelessly insane prices on some of these things. I think my local retro shop was even selling those old demo discs that literally have NOT FOR RESALE in huge fucking print on them for $10-$20.

>>7837243
based

>>7838107
>travis strikes again
>world ends with you
switch games are rising in price now? couldve sworn travis strikes again was dirt cheap a few weeks ago

>drill dozer
bought this in a collection of around 10 or so old gameboy games from a yard sale right before covid for $25. none of the other games were expensive tho

>>7845292
Is this your first day here newfag?

>>7841548
It wasn't the 80s/90s but a while back I remember there was some company that found like crates of some semi-rare PS2 game just laying around. Was it one of the DDS games maybe?

>>7845626
It was probably fye and rule of rose. I got three new copies when the local place went out of business for 20 each. Was selling them for 120 at the time.

>>7845629
I think you're right, I remember it being one of those 'holy grail'-type games that seemed to be perpetually super-expensive.

>>7837235
>Who is spending this big money?
not that many people as far as i can tell
lot of sellers
far fewer buyers
what do you think will happen?

i can ask 6 gorillion dollars for a SMB/duckhunt cart too
that doesnt mean its worth that, at least not until someones stupid enough to bite

>>7845645
I think it's just whales giving zero shits about price and fighting among themselves to get this stuff. Most vydia I follow always has reasonable prices up until a point where 2 or 3 faggots just start to fight and pump the price to ridiculous levels. Very few people willing to buy this insanity. I also think sellers probably manipulate the price with listings to Buy New at very high prices so auctions are already gauged at those levels when people start bidding. It's far from organic and there is zero price discovery these days.

>>7845663
anything that can be traded WILL be manipulated
period
especially if said market is totally unregulated
simple as

>>7837235
Prices will go down a little next year, I think.

Starting in 2022 anyone who sells $600 on ebay (or anywhere else for that matter) will now get a 1099 tax form. It used to be $20,000 before that happened. Plus the stimulus money is dropping off.

>>7845645
I think it is a small group of people using the work from home covid shit and biden checks to flesh out there complete console sets and a handful of women in about the same boat that want every jrpg.

Nerdy girls that love jrpg for whatever reason dont know you can hack systems or build pi units to play the RPGs. There are exceptions, but you see it less often than with guys who like these games.

I think the complete set guys will hold on to their purchases. They probably wont reenter the market for another 10, 20 years until they start dying of heart attacks in their 50s and 60s.

The women will get a cleaning bug and probably trade their games in at a loss. Then the store will slowly mark them down.

Prices will probably not go back to precovid levels for another 5 years.

There will probably still be some deals though as the women list their games in auctions to fund disney trips when the parks go back to normal though.

Disc only will return back to normal the fastest as complete set buyers ignore a lot of those listings.

Also, if anything happens to home and food prices, expect prices to drop like a rock as collectors sell collections to pay for necessities

>>7845695
>Nerdy girls that love jrpg for whatever reason dont know you can hack systems or build pi units to play the RPGs. There are exceptions, but you see it less often than with guys who like these games.
>tfw no jarpig emulation pirate gf
ftge

>>7845709
also this

also also
>if
no
WHEN
ol bad touch joe is on pace to btfo both obongos and dubyahs record
like a bored housewife with hubbys CC

>>7845683
>Starting in 2022 anyone who sells $600 on ebay (or anywhere else for that matter) will now get a 1099 tax form. It used to be $20,000 before that happened.
Meanwhile corporations get tax breaks. Gotta fuckin love getting fucked when it comes to anything resembling entrepreneurial endeavors.

I creep around Facebook marketplace. So many boomers and wiggers don't know what they have in terms of value.

>>7846149
No luck here with that unless you are buying wii's to hack

Everything old is like "$300 no haggling, I know what I have" and it's a beat to shit mario and some sports games

>>7846215
>buying wii's to hack
how much they goin for now?
i been meaning to grab one
i got a gamecube already, which is likely all id use it for, but those games are just stupidly expensive

>>7846215
This wigger wanted $170 for a ps4 + VR stuff.

Another wigger sold me 2 NES with 15 games for $100. They were dirty as fuck, but I had no problem cleaning and recapping the fuckers.

>>7837235
>Who is spending this big money?
No one.
It's always
>Some shit website like Bergfeed makes a shitty list about things from your childhood that are worth a fortune
>All of the research is basically
>Go to eBay
>Search "nostalgia, video games"
>Sort price high to low
>Look what complete mongoloids have listed
>SMB for $1000 with no box, some kid's name written on it in marker, and the label chewed off? Well that's going on the list
>EVEN BATTERED COPIES OF SMB GOING FOR $1000 OR MORE! WHAT TREASURES DO YOU HAVE IN THE ATTIC!
>The kind of retards who read bergfeed do what >>7846215 says
>And list all of their shit with the disclaimer "$300 no haggling, I know what I have"
>When one thing they absolutely do not have is a fucking brain

>>7846308
Are you retarded? People are actually paying these hard prices right now. Look at sold completed listings. Sort by recent.

>>7846308
>>Some shit website like Bergfeed makes a shitty list about things from your childhood that are worth a fortune
Youtubers are just, if not more egregious.

>>7846318
same difference

It is insane. I was a huge collector and had a rough year with a divorce during COVID. These prices saved me from a tough situation. Sold like crazy for a couple months last fall and bought my new house and a new car with it. Good timing cause it got me to a better place in a really tough year. Idk who's paying but I'm glad it happened when it did cause I was about to off myself if something didn't go right really quick.

>>7846106
Pretty much.
It's from the tax breaks the republicunts gave the rich & corporations. Now the rest of us have to make up the difference by paying tax on our fucking ebay sellings. You can't even sell anything there anymore without giving them your SSN and having all that information being logged so you can pay taxes on it. You get fucked hard by having to pay taxes, shipping, and ebay fees now if you try to sell, so there isn't much point in bothering anymore.

>>7846765
Better to just hock things on Craigslist now. Cash or crypto only.

>>7846765
It's going to be funny if shit goes back to early ebay ways with people mailing fucking money orders and checks to pay

>>7847026
Oh man, that was me prior to 2003. My small town post office was perplexed why I was sending out Japanese money orders on an often basis.

>>7845645
>>7845695
pretty much this. the only shit actually getting bought for big prices are complete in box stuff or genuinely rare stuff like us snes mega man x3

>>7847064
Someone there thought you were yakuza laundering and always made extra sure those got processed right.

>>7837235
eBay just sucks. Check actual "sold" prices.
Anyways, only retards buy for "ebay prices", you can get things for cheaper if you bother, instead of buying the first thing for the eBay price you see on eBay.

>>7846476
I usually buy /vr/ shit locally and flip on eBay.
You can easily make several 1000's of % profit on small things, getting 500€ for something you paid 30€ for.

>>7847442
No you cant anymore, cause all the auctions are rigged. no joke.

>>7843603
Is just s.0.ys buying from s.0.ys and selling to s.0.ys.

that's how bad these co.ckroaches destroyed culture and communities.

I just had some fucking kike in florida use fedex to send the package back to them after it got all the way to washington because I gave them a bad review for using fedex.
Fuck fedex and fuck ebay.

I bought Resident Evil Gaiden for $6 about 13 years ago. I checked yesterday and the cart alone is $200? Dafuq?

>>7847560
FedEx is unequivocally based. I just bought a PC-ENGINE that was shipped from Japan on the 6th and arrived at my doorstep on the East coast of the US this morning.

Is it wise to do unedited unboxing videos to deter fraud? Not for youtube or anything like that, it's just I had some nip screw me out of a third of what was listed in the item. He was like "is it possible you lost it"? I just dropped it because he wouldn't budge or believe me despite having 100% feedback with over 100 sales. I learned the hard way, I guess. Since I plan to do future buisness with this individual, if it happens again I'll open up a dispute.

>>7847726
Yeah man. I saw a listing the other day and I was surprised.

>>7847550
Šoyboys ruin everything, good times, you know?

>>7839846
Ecelebs have already exposed Arcade circuit boards, I'd imagine the MVS market might be fucked, though not as fucked as the AES market.
Shoulda jumped into the pool sooner, son.

>>7847560
Lol. You can do this? I'd love to take items back if the dildo gave me a negative for a triviality

>>7847737
Asians can be a special kind of shitty. Its probably why they still beat the shit out of each other for changing up agreements or get black listed for being dishonorable.

>>7841501
It makes me never want to sell my collection. Or if I do at a price that isn't insane. However, if I did that it would only get bought by another seller and flipped for profit.

Cubivore, Boktai, Skies of Arcadia, and Chibi-robo will be family heirlooms.

>>7847835
The nice thing about arcades is that it takes some brains to get into.

If there is any barrier of entry, it keeps out a lot of impulse buyers. This controls prices in things like ham radio where most operators can build their own shit

I'm really tempted to just dump my collection and buy a house at this point.

>>7837235
I wonder how this will affect those who have CD based consoles. How do you deal with the disc rot? I'm mainly a PlayStation collector and I'm kinda nervous about the news.

>>7848140
Complete will go up in value while disc only will drop. In another 50 years the box and manual for rule of rose will be worth 1000% more than the disc.

Eventually people will just collect the boxes and merch while playing their games emulated or on hard drives hacked into old consoles to bypass the long dead optical drives. We're already seeing the makings of this with everdrives that replace carts.

>>7848249
And what about disc rot? Answer me bitch ass nigga.

>>7848274
The games will stop working. You'll have to use an iso burnes now or have someone make new disc. What do you .ean what about disc rot? Shit will turn into coasters. Digital is turning into a horrible way to preserve data, with the internet being the worst despite being sold as the best.

>>7847737
>Šoyboys ruin everything

How did you manage to overcome the WORDFILTER?

>>7848329


There will come at time when all discs are rotten, but still the games and cases will be collectable even if you can’t play them. They still sell rotten foodstuffs as collectables.

>>7847896
I actually got on the phone with Ebay after posting this.
You cannot do this. I'm getting my package and the seller gets "Contacted by Ebay Support" so probably nothing.

>>7848370
Phone posting is versatile for such things. §oyboys of the world are indeed cancer.

>>7847908
Yeah, but LGR already did a video on Superguns, and now MVS games have gone up in price, though it's probably due to covid.

I CAN BUY A FUCKING BRAND NEW DODGE RAM 20fuckin20 WITH MY RESIDENT EVIL COLLECTION ALONE

THEN PUT MULTIPLE MONTHS RENT DOWN, AND STILL HAVE ENOUGH TO BUY A CHEESESTEAK HOAGIE WIT FROM THE JAWN DOWN THE BLOCK WITH THE REST OF MY RETRA COLLEKTION

You guys told me I was a moron for starting to buy retro back in 2016. I completed my collection in 2018 and bought a few last things right before the pandemic began. Everything I have bought has already at least doubled in price

>>7846268
I have a spare Wii, I'll give you a fair price for it.

>>7851048
shill me senpai
whats a decent price?
also is that one of the old ones you can use GC controllers on?
id rather eat my own dick than ever play anything with a wii memecontroller

>>7851119
>shill me senpai
Give me an address to ship to.

>whats a decent price?

Less than what you'll pay from scalpers on Facebook Marketplace or eBay.

>also is that one of the old ones you can use GC controllers on?

How old are you?

>id rather eat my own dick than ever play anything with a wii memecontroller

nintendont lets you play games with a PS3 controller if you want desu.

>>7851129
aww shit im sry anon i cant give out my shit on here
NY state, and thats as specific as i can get on here
policy and all
i was just curious what they go for

>How old are you?
29 ive just basically never even seen a wii irl before
by mid 2000s i was a full on emu-pirate pcfag
i just thought you could use GC controllers on the release models

appreciate the offer at least
dont hold up on my account tho

>>7851152
>NY state
Well how about that, I just happen to be an NYCfag myself. I'll deliver it to you myself if you're not upstate.

>>7851157
waaaaaaaaaaaayyy upstate lol

>>7837235
Coomlectors. I sell video game merch and I think my best sale the past month was the Silent Hill Sounds Box ost for $800. Music you can listen to on youtube for free. $800 this dude gave me.

>>7851163
>"waaaaaaaaaaaayyy upstate lol"
>Probably French Canadian

Eugh, forget I offered. Nah I'm kidding, you don't have to give me your personal address, it can be a Post Office Box or a work address, just something I can ship to.

>>7851152
>ive just basically never even seen a wii irl before
LOL what?

>>7837235
ps2chads aren't having this shit of a time
i feel fucking sorry for the rest of you guys, though
especially snes and gcnbros

>>7852415
What are you talking about?

>>7851152
you can literally see the gamecube controller ports in the photo

>>7852415
ps2 is overpriced too

>>7852415
>ps2chads

Lol, go look up the price for silent hill, xenosaga etx

>>7837243
Sadly only viable in cities. I wish the south had better public transportation.

>>7852415
Ps2 games have hd ports except for like 5 games. Ps2 has really lackluster progressive scan support as well, so you gotta bust out the 60 pound crt to have it not look like trash with input lag. Ape escape 3 is fuckin sick tho.

But let's be honest. These games being old isn't the main issue. The face that they're "out of print nintendo games" is the problem. Only a select few games have the notoriety and unavailability to be as expensive as paper mario on the genesis, ps2, or xbox

>>7837243
>>7845469
Cringe and samefagpilled

>>7854057
The fact*

Threads like this make it sound like it's easy to sell retro games for 5x what you originally paid for them, but the only boxed games I'm willing to part with are coincidentally ones that no one wants to buy for more than $8. Stuff like Goonies 2 for NES. People still only shell out cash for the big names like Mario, Silent Hill, and Final Fantasy.

>>7837235
For me what hurts the most is not so much what happened to online auction prices, but price as brick and mortar locations like pawn shops and thrift stores. Seems they all wised up to the value of retro games, and now you can no longer wander into that decrepit old Salvation Army only you know of with the water damaged ceiling and walk out with a Virtual Boy, three games, and a pirated copy of Famicom Super Mario Bros. 2.

>>7854119
You can do this, but it's like once a year find vs once a month back in the day.

bump

>>7838041
>MetalJewsusSucks

>>7854119
I found Silent Hill 2 ps2 for $4 a few weeks ago but yeah that's once in a blue moon

>>7837282
ebay fees are a killer, makes me not want to sell anything

Coomlectors are fucking morons.
keep in mind this is also only true in the US and maybe some parts of Europe. In Japan, where, you know, most of these video games were created the used market is nothing like this in the slightest.

>>7855165
Oh cool, that's a pretty good find. Thrift store or pawn shop?
>>7855361
>Coomlector
Go back.

>>7837243
You're the one calling me to pick up a CRT for you in my car though.

>>7838041
/vr/ should just join up and mass report his videos

>>7843603
I bought this mint condition, but not sealed, for £2 at a carboot sale I think 3 years ago...

what are the chances that people reseal games to sell them at a higher price?

>>7855589
I would say pretty good since its easy to do

>got a ban for saying /vr/ should report metaljesus videos
Fucking jannies like to gargle on his cum it seems.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/313538209850
I don't understand... what happened to Chrono Trigger being a really sought-after, high value title? I've seen several such cheap CTs on eBay and none of the listings say they are reproductions, but are they? Is my original loose Chrono Trigger cartridge that I've had since the late 90s now worthless?

>>7855681
Are y-folds easy to do? I would assume most people only have access to basic shrink wrap methods.

>>7855752
I dont think so and you should find tge cock sucker trying to sell an obvious resealed copy of magic knights ray earth for hold on to your ball sack 20,000 usd

>>7855740
Please learn the tell tale signs, brother.

Condition: Brand New
Location: China

You're not going to find a brand new game for $20 if it's not a repro.

>>7855740
fuck off zhang, obviously thats a repro. new from china with a pic swiped off of googling chrono trigger snes. fucking swindlers, if youre gonna sell a repro be honest

>>7855786
I would say it's not dishonest since it's marked as brand new and is sold at a repro price but apparently retards like >>7855740 exist and do fall for it.

>>7855798
>I would say it's not dishonest since it's marked as brand new and is sold at a repro price

its a reproduction of a collectable product, it should be labeled as such.

and it definitely shouldnt steal a picture of an oem game with the original box

>>7855812
.....wait. thats a reproduction box isnt it?

thats a lot of effort, but still gay af

>>7855812
They didn't steal a picture though, lots of repros come with boxes now. It should say repro, sure, but generally any older game listed as "brand new" for under $30 is a repro. It's such a common practice that I genuinely didn't think anybody was confused by it.

>>7855827
its the only reason n64 games are simply "expensive" instead of ridiculously expensive. like 1-200 bucks for the big ones

a shocking amount of these games are bought by normies, who literally do not know they are buying a repro. they never considered it.

Fucking scalpers cranked up the prices of Vita games when the PS3 and Vita stores were going to be shut down, and they were already bad since a lot of games had small print batches. I just want my fucking copies of Neptunia Re;birth 2 and 3 for under $150 god dammit. I've come to terms with knowing I won't be able to get Phantasy Star Online Ep 1 and 2 for the Gamecube, Silent Hill for the PS or Boktai 1 and 2 for the GBA, so at least stop gouging the prices of more recent weeb games you scalper fucks!

>>7855997
Vita prices are so insane I’ve been debating selling mine off since I have my Vita modded anyways. Danganronpa V3 is especially nuts right now.

>>7856024
They really are. The digital prices are good for the most part, but the proprietary, tiny Vita memory cards fuck that option up. You can just hack the system and used SD to Vita, but at least for me that seems stupid since I've already paid more than I like to think about on physical and digital titles for the system. The Idea Factory store had copies of Re;birth 2 that sold out in under a minute of being purchasable. I'm still not sure if it was just that the store had you know four or five loose copies about, or bots grabbed them but I was pissed that I missed out on a $20 copy of the game after spending days waiting and an hour in advance refreshing the store page in hopes that I could add one to my cart and check out asap. I'll probably be stuck selling my spare copy of Mega Man Battle Network, and a Switch copy of Death End Re Quest so I can afford one or both of the two remaining Nep games I don't own physicals of (Re;birth 2 and 3.) . Sorry for the frustrated blogging, I just hate how prices and scalpers are getting worse and worse.

>>7856024
Everyone deserves the high Vita prices due to sleeping on the poor thing so much that Sony killed it after a year. Fuck Sony and Fuck Normies

>>7856961
I've had mine for years and years now, and there were always too many things I was required to pay for to keep on living, and not enough to buy all the Vita games I wanted. I'm up to 32 physicals, but many are beyond my grasp either due to rarity or price inflation. Shit sucks. On the bright side at least UMD games are cheap for now so I get plenty of new, old games for my PSP.

>>7837235
Can you sell one of these to me for under $60?

>>7837235
It's the side hustlers fault. I tried to make a thread about it but the mods deleted it lol.

>>7847447
piece of shit

>>7837235
No one. Don't fall for it

I agree these prices are just moronic right now

I re-sell shit I buy cheap for a living now. Still collect some CIB NES games but thats about it.

>>7837353
This.

>>7855752
They're very easy to do. It is a basic packaging method, and available to anyone with an IQ above 50. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people who talk about it don't meet that criteria, hence the stories about it being difficult or even impossible.

>>7837281
WATA fags drive up cib prices.

>>7838121
Wrong.

>>7841295
East coast gas station and store

just sold my ultra rare super mario bros/duck hunt cartridge on ebay for $370,000 USD

>>7858235
It would be very rude of you not to buy everyone on /vr/ a steak dinner, anon. Very rude, indeed.

>>7858235
Sounds a little expensive. Did it at least come with a piece of the styrofoam packaging from the NES box?

>emulation is free
>flash carts are trivial one-time cost
>people still complain about the prices of factory sealed mint condition video games on worldwide auction sites

>>7837235
Consider the alternative.

>>7838107
Pokemon sold million, how the hell is it so expensive?

>>7858512
Here's a pricing guide for future reference:
Nintendo fans will pay anything, the games are never actually rare.
Other games will stay cheap until people realize they're rare and are worth far more than nintendo games. It's happened to sega and ps1, is happening to ps2 right now.

>>7855589
>what are the chances that people reseal games to sell them at a higher price?

It happens. Not sure how much. The guy in this thread saying prices will only go up probably does it.

Who knows. Shit could crash like 90s comics. People forget that most of these companies exist and they could create 1000 copies for like 50 cents each

>>7856064
And funny enough it all started because white dorks started to scalp shoes to resell to niggers at inflated prices.

So many evils for the white men are born from people that just can't leave minorities alone.

>>7858049
>It's the side hustlers fault.

Which has only gotten worse with covid lay off. I'll be glad when these assholes go back to work.

>>7858512
>Pokemon sold million, how the hell is it so expensive?

Fans sit on them. Jrpg fans don't trade in or sell games as much as say, Madden fans.

Also a lot of them are just packed up in parents attics and mom's put them in the trash.

>>7858049
>tfw my goodwill/salvation army places are shit
I found a working dreamcast a decade ago, but that's it.

>>7858359
uhhhh, when I was a kid my mom would buy me a new factor sealed nintendo game every week

I just want to relive that experience

>>7838282
Fuck off back to /pol/ or some shit redditor

>>7838545
only richfags and paypigs buy marked up shit

>>7841276
game, japan

>>7858728
>paypigs
The era of straight-up barter is over.

>>7858476
Have fun.

>>7837249
where else do you suggest

>>7858557
They really should. Would it cost that much to reproduce cartridges and CDs? I think video game companies are missing out on some revenue by rereleasing physical copies of old games.

>>7858359
Shows that people care more about collecting than actually playing the games.

>>7858739
>We live in a juvenile society where the art of haggling is forever lost. Oh no what a tragedy! If only some faggits would just spend their sheckels on grossly overpriced or scalped goods maybe we might once return to the golden age of bartering again?

>>7858512
Because just about everyone bought all the copies, and doesn't want to give them up.

>>7858874
Sorry, my landlord, the grocery stores, and utility companies don't accept anything other than federal reserved-backed IOUs.

What console exactly are you people attempting to purchase games for that doesn't have a method of playing ROMs/images on the original hardware? You'd have to get pretty obscure to find something without flash carts, sd card readers, etc...

>>7858896
True, not that guy but heart gold price is wild to me though

>>7847442
Where?

>>7858912
You are talking to someone who is clearly unhinged or unmedicated, you think they'll understand that

>>7858912
>federal reserved-backed IOUs.
The funny thing is that paper money is a massive scam that is being run by a private business in the US and other countries. Coin money is the only currency with real value since it is issues by the federal government. Paper money is just a vague promise that is kept alive from hopes and dreams.

Thanks for this thread, guys, I just realized that my postal 2 DVD is worth 50 bucks!

>>7858934
It's not about access to the games. they care more about collecting/owning.

>>7858557
>could crash
>could create
Why is it you faggots always compare retro video game prices to comics and cards and not like original star wars figures or some shit? Is it possibly because those are the only two collectible markets you know of that had a crash and you desperately want to believe it's going to happen to games too?

>>7860393
It's called cope. The main source of sustenance for the zommie bandwagoner.

>>7837235
liberals that complain about high rent but make 6 digits in NYC and SF

>>7858057
He's larping

>>7837235
Ultimately, for many people, it's simply not that big of an expense. If I really wanted to play some random Pokemon game like an asshole, then it's not really a big deal to spend 100 bucks once. If you're a relatively financially stable first worlder, a couple hundred bucks one time isn't that big of a deal.

>>7845292
What a kike

I managed to sell megaman x4 5 & 6 all for 20 bucks each at my local area website

nobody wants to buy ff7 & ff8

>>7860393
>original star wars figures or some shit

If you want to compare it to star wars, then expect companies to rerelease the games with improvements, lowering the overall price of the orginals everytime they do.

Or transformers, where they rerelease the old molds, lowering prices on orginals.

Or how 90s star trek figures are worth dick.

Or how 90s star wars Figars are worth dick.

Or how most of the blue glass your grandmother collected is worth dick.

Or most beany babies are worth dick.

Or most things white women collect or worth nothing.

I can do this all day. 5 to 10 publishers could tank a lot of collection values just by printing more discs.

>>7858858
>They really should. Would it cost that much to reproduce cartridges and CDs? I think video game companies are missing out on some revenue by rereleasing physical copies of old games.

Square is the only company that I know has done this. No idea why the others that own their properties havent. It would only cost a few dollars per disc.

It's fake, basically you can buy your own auction yourself to make it seem like something is more in demand make people think it's normal to pay that much.

>>7864286
This is not true as I can tell you from experience that some PS2 PAL vydia was released again by publishers and the valur of the original prints increased. Vydia collecting might be a passing trend in the future but if it's here to stay it's not re-releases that will drop the price for sure.

>>7858232
Hahahahahaha

>>7864326

I guess all these buyers have been giving me fake money all along, HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THIS EARLIER!

>>7837251
It's basically just rich losers buying a million units to scalp. Same with PS5s and stuff. There isn't a supply problem there's like a hoarding problem.

>>7837235
20-30-odd people spending their money instead of paying down their student loans.

>>7864698
They should release even more then.

If they only do a small rerelease, it drops the value for a month, then prices go higher as buyers make streams, blogs, and reviews of said game and it creates buzz. People creating all that content increased demand.

They should just keep making more copies until demand is met and used copies are worth as much as sports games and final fantasy

>>7865161
You don't seem to understand. They have done this to Final Fantasy X (another re-release on PS2, remaster on PS3?) and the price for the very first print still pumps to nearly €150 these days. I'm not saying that the new copy will be as expensive but the old does NOT lose value at all. Your analogy to all the examples you provided only works if retro collecting loses demand as a hobby/asset - not by simply increasing the supply.

>>7855324
if you're ranking in a lot it really doesn't matter. that guy said that to me because I give reasonable deals when at the end of the day I'm still making over twice as much as when I paid for the item to begin with.

>>7837235
I dont know, but thanks to it I was able to sell all my localized trash and bought the original versions of all my games and even had money left to buy pc engine stuff

I bought up PS2 stuff right when COVID started because /vr/ taught me that each generation of consoles get more demand as that group of people reach their 20s-30s It happened to atari, it happened to NES, then N65, now the GC PS2 XBOX era. I got a working fat PS2 with cables and two controllers for $40 bucks in April 2020 I still have all my games from years ago but i ended up getting a SATA adaptor so now I play ISOs instead of discs

>>7864286
I don’t think you have any concept of what constitutes a collectible or collectible market. Beanie babies lol

>>7837235
so speaking of ebay have any of you guys ever seen this Goldeneye mug?
bought this today and I'm assuming it's pretty rare since I can't even find another image of it anywhere. In my opinion it looks official, not like a cheapo print job from redbubble or whatever.
then again it's just a mug so it can't be that valuable

>>7855361
>Coomlectors are fucking morons.

the term is collectards

>>7858049
I flat out want to punch people who bring in their shitty scanners to look at prices at stuff
Not just for games for anything

>>7858049
I just want all these disgusting bugmen to die already. Not mainly because they are ruining my nice simply life of finding neat things are goodwill and what not, but because they are all whores for attention, making a quick buck and making life generally worse by existing.

>>7843615
I was so pissed off when I won an auction for valkyrie profile ps1 for 27.50 because the seller spelt the name wrong and becuase he put a reserve on it it automatically got relisted - don't start at a low price if you want a certain amount for it!!

>>7866018
Hey that's also what I'm doing

>>7837846
amazing rebuttal, btfo'd

Side note: I'm pretty sure I found a reseller at a thrift store today and he swiped up a copy of Typing of the Dead(maybe sealed too) for 25 cents. Thankfully though I found a $20 gamecube at a goodwill right afterwards.

Collecting old games is now an investment for people. I am hard out guys. I fought the fight for why to get physical for so long but I just have to give up now.

>>7868823
Honestly I just look at thrift stores for older consoles and just plan on buying an everdrive to play games on said system.

>>7868863
which is the based, sensible thing to do
physical coomlecting is 99% useless hoarding when flash carts and ODEs exist

i dont know but its great for me. been selling all my old games since emulator is good enough for me.

Terrible time to want to try out a bunch of PS1 JRPGs

>>7869414
except now i realize FF 7 and 9 are still relatively cheap. i think squeenix must still be printing these with how many new are available

>>7869419
When I checked the SE store last month you could still buy 9 for $20 brand new.