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>> No.9939705
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9939705

>>9939372
>75 reviews
You're telling me at least 75 people have actually bought games from them!? How retarded do you have to be?

>> No.9939724

>>9939372
>340
Does it atleast include the box for that price? Even if it does that just feels like too much, what retards keep buying from them when it's already public knowledge their shit is a rip-off.

>> No.9939756
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9939756

>>9939724
>Does it atleast include the box for that price?
Doubt it because that would be extremely cheap compared to ebay.

>> No.9939774

>>9939756
I didn't know pokemon prices were that bad. I thought these games sold millions why are they worth almost as much as earthbound or titles that are actually rare?

>> No.9939784

>>9939774
i think green/yellow/emerald are somehow limited editions, so it's harder to find them in decent condition.

>> No.9939786

>>9939774
The boxes are probably hard to find because most people threw away paper game boxes. It's exacerbated with Pokemon because mostly kids bought the game and they often can't even take care of the cartridge, much less the box. I was the odd child that kept my Emerald box in perfect condition, including leaving all the plastic seal except for a slit to open the box

>> No.9939790

>>9939786
I used to try and save boxes as a kid but my parents kept throwing my shit out.

My only surviving pokemon boxes from my childhood are Silver and Ruby, although I later got CIB copies of Gold and FireRed

>> No.9939792

>>9939774
No reason, other than scalpers and resellers hoarding literal hundreds to thousands of copies. Buying them when they were cheap and sitting on them creating artificial scarcity. That and nintoddlers are fucking retarded especially the Pokemon tier YouTuber.

>> No.9939793

>>9939372
>>9939756
>>9939774
lol, got it for 89€ last week (non boxed). Get fucked.

>> No.9939808
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9939808

>>9939793
>lol I got it for the ebay price, or maybe more

>> No.9939809

>>9939793
Yeah and I got it for free, since my dad found it in the glove box of a used car he bought and gave it to me.

>> No.9939814

>>9939790
My mom constantly tried to get me to throw mine out but I always refused. Thankfully she never made me.

>> No.9939818

>Retro vidya has scalper prices
WOW WHO WOULDA' THOUGHT? GREAT thread, OP!

>> No.9940192

>>9939372
>one of the best-selling games of all time, by no means rare
>$339.99

>> No.9940201

>>9939372
>looking on ebay for broken stuff
>find a few listings for boxes of broken controllers
>the seller is dkoldies
Isn't it, like, their job to refurbish stuff?

>> No.9942220

>>9939372
>poketto monsutā
>339.99
That is surprising considering I saw an in-box copy of Ruby selling for 400+ almost 10 years ago.

>> No.9942847

>>9940201
They’re a scam. They don’t actually refurbish any of the hardware or accessories they sell

>> No.9942854

>>9939372
I believe all of the "anti" vids about them are just a way to market dkoldies to youtube.

>> No.9942859

>>9940201
My impression was that these stores basically just mass-buy (probably botted) cheap/underpriced games and bulk lots, then resell everything for market+. Presumably their "added value" is that they test things and clean them if they don't work right away. Basically they're scalpers who help drive up market prices.

>> No.9943823

>>9939372

IMAGINE not emulating