Craigslist General Thread

[Anonymous No.1224339]

Once again, the weekend hunt for retro vidya has ended, and with that, leftovers have appeared on Craigslist with the resellers hot on our tail.

Pic related, I responded to this ad, but the seller says he started getting emails within 5 minutes of posting.

Let's see some CL finds and rages, /vr/

[Anonymous No.1224341]

Here it is, sorry infographic got in the way

[Anonymous No.1224434]

Old post, but shows how much this fucking reseller spams my local craigslist. I can't even browse games without seeing this shit. Filtering out dealers doesn't work, either!

[Anonymous No.1224445]

>>1224434

Thankfully I live in a smaller town and the only good retro deals posted are legitimate.

Too bad they are few and far between.

[Anonymous No.1224471]

>>1224434

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzlrLimUaYM

[Anonymous No.1224485]

>>1224434
can you flag him or is that too much work? or is what he's doing ok?

[Anonymous No.1224497]

>>1224485

I can answer this one.

Flagging a spammer on craigslist is about as effective as an umbrella in a hurricane.

[Anonymous No.1224509]

>>1224497

>>1224434 here

Sad, but very, very true

[Anonymous No.1224521]

People should start using the Buy, Sell, Trade threads more so they can stop getting fucked by Craigslist. /vr/ homies are bound to treat you better.

[Anonymous No.1224524]

>>1224509

Sometimes, I like to call the worthless sons-of-whores and arrange to meet them, under the pretense of selling a lot of 50 games.

45 minutes later, I call to tell them I'm not selling shit, and that it's time for them to find a real job. I use my auxiliary burner phone, so the chance of repercussion is exactly zero. Sometimes, I even laugh at them until they hang up.

I encourage everyone, EVERYONE on this board to tell ripoff artists and pig-fucking resellers exactly where they can shove their overpriced wares.

[Anonymous No.1224556]

>>1224524
I do something similar, but only with the resellers who list what they'll pay for games, pic related, I mean look at this shit! Does this reseller really think he'll get Conker for $30!?

[Anonymous No.1224597]

>>1224556

"I pay top dollar!"

[Anonymous No.1224604]

There is one reseller in Edmonton, Canada named Jim Wade. Dude is absolutely insane. He treats people like they're fucking garbage and then when they don't want to buy from him anymore he swears at them, challenges them to fights, and tries to intimidate them. Dude is from Australia or New Zealand or something, but he's fucking nuts. One time I asked him why he was selling MGS collection for $65 and he said he purposely overprices things because he doesn't want to sell them, but he sells games to earn money for his daughter's future. A paradox indeed

[Anonymous No.1224606]

>>1224604

I'd fight Jim Wade. I'd go tribal on his ass.

[Anonymous No.1224687]

[Anonymous No.1224718]

>>1224341
Rage

[Anonymous No.1224730]

>>1224687

Not retro, but are people really that fucking impatient!?

[Anonymous No.1224794]

From my local Craigslist recently:
> PURPLE N64
> 1 controller
> cords / cables
> no games
> $125
> "limited addition [sic] purple nintendo very good condition tested to work price firm call or text will meet"
There is rage

[Anonymous No.1224876]

>>1224794
That's disgusting...

[Anonymous No.1224913]

>>1224434
>stoprightthereresellerspam.png

My sides

[Anonymous No.1225051]

>>1224521
Am I like blind? I never see these threads and have been super interested in meeting up with the retro crowd for trades and sells and crap.

[Anonymous No.1225054]

>>1224485
>>1224497

I have an unhealthy obsession with flagging posts, mostly phone unlockers and pirates who insist on posting a dozen times a day. Used to be I could get it to where it took one click to take down posts; I'm in a medium market, so I guess the flags threshold wasn't too high. These days I'm not as successful.
Plus CL changed things somewhat such that I can't automate the process any more. Before I could grab the HTML, run a few searches and filters to generate flagging URLs, then do a wget on the result. Things changed enough that I'm too dumb to figure out a way to do it again. So I'm back to clicking on them individually. Whenever I visit a coffee shop, work, home, etc, I'll waste 10-20 minutes just flagging posts.

[Anonymous No.1225504]

>>1225051
Hey, no problem, allow me to direct you towards our current BST thread: >>1199320

[Anonymous No.1225528]

Went into my local used game store yesterday and picked up a copy of Drakken for snes for $5.

While I was checking out this other guy walks up and puts a copy of Dragon Warrior 1 on the checkout desk pricetag of 4.99. Feel horrible I didnt see it first.

Anyone got similar stories of barely missing a good deal?

[Anonymous No.1225535]

Here's what you do to ruin a reseller who's attitude you don't like. Anytime you see an ad where someone is buying games, send him a picture of some of your games. Take about ten off your shelves and throw them in a box like they're junk. The best is 9 average games and one real gem you know is worth $50+. Take a shitty cell phone picture and send it to him asking for an offer. He'll send an offer of like $20 for everything. If he insists on asking what YOU want, use eBay completed auctions or priceguide to come up with the lowest fair value there is, maybe even 10-20% under and see if he tells you that's way too high. If he ever seems even slightly suspicious just stop emailing, his greed will drive him crazy.

Ideally, you'll get him excited about ripping you off then you arrange to meet him somewhere and just don't show. Send him to the worst neighborhood in town and tell him to wait in the car, or even send him to a random address. Then, email him asking where he was. Pretend there was some miscommunication and see how many times you can get him to do it. If everybody starts doing this, and doing it multiple times with slight variations in MO we might be able to take a bite out of them.

[Anonymous No.1225551]

>>1225535

My two cousins and I (all retro gamers of course) have the Craigslist Collection Challenge. This is where you post your entire collection for sale on CL and the person with the highest offer wins. Last time I won, with a $50 offer for my SNES collection of 100+ games, console, accessories, etc.

So, I arranged to meet the guy at Taco Bell. Go with my cousins and arrive early. Identify the asshole by texting him. Enjoy our food while watching him squirm.

[Anonymous No.1225567]

>>1225535

I've found my new hobby.

[Anonymous No.1225570]

This thread makes me wonder if /vr/ actually consists of older adults. I am not implying what you are doing is bad if not even a bit funny, but you have way too much time on your hands.

[Anonymous No.1225572]

>>1225570

If you play video games in the first place, it can be assumed that you have time on your hands.

[Anonymous No.1225592]

>>1225572

If you're browsing 4chan, you have time on your hands

[Anonymous No.1225619]

>>1224556
>on vacation in wyoming
>go into thrift store
>ohh n64 stuff
>see conkers for $3
>fuck yeah

>fast forward to last week
>take it to reseller just to see how much they will pay for it(its in perfect condition)
>he looks disinterested and says $20
>ha no way
>continue to browse for other things
>see him talk on the phone for a bit
>while on the way out he says he will give $25 cash for it
>i dont even respond
>"wait wait $30?"
>i close the door

realistically how much could i get for it?
i probably wont sell it the multiplayer is too much fun, and because i never was allowed to get it as a kid. why so much for an old game?

[Anonymous No.1225658]

>>1225551
Ok, this HAS to be a thing now
All my internets and vidya to you, sir

[Anonymous No.1225670]

>>1225619
Jesus man, $30 is what i'd sell it to friends for.

If you really want to sell your copy of Conker to a reseller, try to get at least $50 out of him. The game sells on eBay for around $60-70 and a lot of resellers on my local CL want at least $85-90 for it.

[Anonymous No.1225802]

Posted a couple times before but still, my local craiglist pages are a wasteland.
All reseller scum and Goyfest 2K13-tier retail stores.

[Anonymous No.1225806]

>>1225802
fuck.

[Anonymous No.1225814]

y/n

[Anonymous No.1225884]

>>1225814
yolo

[Anonymous No.1226027]

>>1225814
I say go for it
If you were to get all these off eBay, you'd be paying more than that AND an ass-load for shipping

[Anonymous No.1226190]

>>1225814
Definitely worth it. The black datasette is somewhat uncommon, and being able to get a good monitor out of it is a bonus.

See if they'll do $80.

[Anonymous No.1226218]

Is this worth 75? kind of want to pick this up.

[Anonymous No.1226240]

>>1226218

Depends. Do you have any other options, like non-installation flea markets or garage sales?

If the answer is yes, then hold out for those. If you have no other options, then I say go for it.

[Anonymous No.1226249]

>>1226240
>flea markets
never
>garage sales
out of season for my state :/

just one retro store with a lot of commons and no CIB games. its a small area.

[Anonymous No.1226261]

>>1226249

Yeesh. Well, if it's better than your other options (eBay, Amazon, SAG, etc.), then I guess you have yer answer.

[Anonymous No.1226275]

>>1226261
SAG?
Also thanks for the advice. Just wasn't really if CIB games were anything to get excited about.

[Anonymous No.1226332]

>>1226275

Stone Age Gamer

[Anonymous No.1226365]

There's this place called Raven's in the city I live, (Winnipeg) that sells retro games at insane prices.

Like... Sometimes theres great deals like Super Mario Kart or Sonic 2 for 5$...

But then they charge 75$ for Super Mario RPG and 40$ for Link to the past, both cart only.

And since I live in Canadian Siberia, ebay is almost entirely pointless, due to the extreme cost of shipping. Add to this a very weak resale community, and I am left at the mercy of their craziness.

Being Winnipeg is suffering.

[Anonymous No.1226378]

>>1226365

But you come from the same place as Venetian Snares. He made it out and you can, too.

[Anonymous No.1226408]

>>1226378
Yeah we've had a few cool people come from the city, Anna Paquin, Aaron Funk, and Guy Maddin...

But as you said they were all smart enought to GTFO.

[Anonymous No.1226421]

>>1226365
I'd tell you to come on down to North Dakota to buy games, but the local retro stores here are just starting to get as bad.

[Anonymous No.1226507]

Found this, not sure whether to rage or laugh at this seller, you gotta read the full story in his ad.

Made me go full wut

http://orangecounty.craigslist.org/vgm/4190117979.html

[Anonymous No.1226519]

>>1226507
>Trade for a nice used car considered

[Anonymous No.1226535]

>>1226507
>Steve Jobs
Oh lord... oh... wow. I lol'd.

[Anonymous No.1226572]

>>1226507
>I'm moving to Mexico in the next few days to open a clinic
>Posted 13 days ago
>Updated two days ago

>The value of this item will only go up with further authentication that I regrettably have no time to obtain.
Oh my god, this is priceless!

[Anonymous No.1226765]

>>1225619
Depends, how much do you want for it, and how much effort are you willing to put into selling it? A game shop is there to sell games, so you have to be fucking crazy if you expect them to pay the $60-90 the other anon noted the game usually sells for.

You can try selling it yourself on CL or eBay for say a conservative $60, that's 30 more than that shop will buy it for. Is the extra money worth the time spent listing and driving out to meet a buyer or to the post office? Though if the game is a hot seller, you could minimize things to just your entire sale post being just "N64 Conker's Bad Fur Day for sale."

But why aren't you playing it? Aren't you yourself also now reseller scum? You paid $3 for the game and now expect top dollar for it.

[Anonymous No.1226774]

>>1226507
> Come see this potential Smithsonian museum piece

[Anonymous No.1226852]

>>1226765

This. if you do sell it, be reasonable, open to offers, and don't continue this vicious cycle that is the retro bubble

[Anonymous No.1226883]

Wish I could get that much for mine.
Couple months ago I pulled mine out of storage to sell on eBay. 1. the screens are going bad. 2. they're not as valuable as I had hoped.

[Anonymous No.1226898]

>>1224604
remind me never to travel from Vancouver to Edmonton to buy video games from a man named Jim Wade

[Anonymous No.1226905]

>>1225814
that's actually a good deal

[Anonymous No.1226915]

>>1226365
well shit, sorry son. If it makes you feel any better, my local store charges 80 bucks for nasty nicotine-yellow (pretty sure they're also smoked as well, they smell NASTY) SNES's in New fucking Westminister

[Anonymous No.1227140]

>>1226507
>Dear Nolan,
>Thank you so much for the pot. It rules.
>Love, Steve

[Anonymous No.1227221]

>>1227140
Lel

Actually makes me wonder why the seller won't show the note nor provide any other pictures/any sort of proof

I mean, if you had a "potential Smithsonian piece" i'm sure you'd be chomping at the bit to get that shit appraised and checked

[Anonymous No.1227450]

>>1224604
How might I find this Jim Wade? I'm also from edmonton I just want to know so I can avoid him and if I do see him I'm prepared

[Anonymous No.1229294]

>>1227221
>chomping at the bit
and there goes my autism

[Anonymous No.1229485]

>>1226915

Are you talking about Game Deals?

[Anonymous No.1229501]

>>1229485
Yeah. Only good thing about them is that Sega stuff sometimes runs cheap.

[Anonymous No.1229515]

>>1229501

I've only been there twice but the first time I went I was highly disappointed. Not only by their prices, but by their selection. I went in looking for N64 games and the best they had was Mario Golf.

I prefer going to this other one in Surrey called Games R Us, the prices are sometimes higher and the owners a dick just like most places. But there is one employee who is really nice and I'm actually able to find stuff I'm looking for at least.

[Anonymous No.1229526]

>>1229515
I'll look them up.
There's another store in Surrey, at Surrey Central, called The Gamestop (no ripoff there, amiright?) Run by east indians, and the prices are kinda jewish, but the selection is actually pretty good. They also carry outdated/mid range PC's and has a large selection of PC games.
I've been meaning to go to Press Start, since I've never been, how are they? Better than JewDeals at least?

[Anonymous No.1229530]

Is this worth picking up? I'm in Canada and don't know how tough region locking is on the SNES because I'm very new to /vr/ things.

That said $20 for a system that looks almost mint seems too good to be true

[Anonymous No.1229531]

>>1229530

I fucked it

[Anonymous No.1229534]

>>1229526
Man I was so confused about the Surrey Central one! I was surprised at first to see old games.

I haven't been there either but I've been meaning to just as you have. It just seems a little out of a way for me so I'm sure that's why I procrastinate about it.

[Anonymous No.1229532]

>>1229515
>>1229526
I just imagine every place in BC being absolute shit, everything else there is overpriced as it is. I can't even imagine retro vidya, Alberta is just as bad though although I found this one really sick place in edmonton thats kinda grungy but its got a few good deals. I found 2 copies of truxton for 10 bucks each on the weekend

[Anonymous No.1229536]

[Anonymous No.1229537]

>>1229531
>Hong Kong
>SUPER RARE
>only 20 dollars
chances are it's a old clone, but nowadays even clones are picking up in value.

[Anonymous No.1229539]

>>1229531
Definitely worth it. That would sell for $100+ in Australia.

But PAL sucks.

[Anonymous No.1229540]

>>1229532
It is pretty awful. Even the flea markets are infested with reseller scum. I can't wait until spring/summer comes around so I can try my luck with garage sales.

[Anonymous No.1229541]

>>1229532
the only thing we have that's even remotely cool is that arcade in Metrotown.
Even so, I find that the vancouver craigslist/kijiji has quite a bit of shit on it, if the resellers were being lazy on that particular day. Me and my mate were debating on whether or not to sell our bodies on East Hastings to buy a rather nice Neo Geo MVS with Metal Slug 2 for 500. You just have to keep looking.

[Anonymous No.1229543]

>>1229540
try your luck at thrift stores. There's an SPCA one in Richmond that had a couple of DSi's going for 30 a piece.

[Anonymous No.1229550]

>>1229541

Even then I feel like the arcade is full of mostly more modern games. I really wish they had some nostalgia cabinets.

And I feel you on the craigslist thing as well, I occasionally look but I rarely find anything good.

[Anonymous No.1229549]

Should I bother to ask this guy to post a picture of the system and what games he's selling?

[Anonymous No.1229551]

>>1229541
I think its worth it if you stay protected hahahah neo geo MVS is very hard to find.

>>1229540
Yeah lots of reseller scum here too don't even step foot in the antique mall in edmonton such a fucking joke. Even morons think their old action figures are worth a ton.

I remember BC used to be so awesome in the 90s though, tons of cheap flea markets on the side of the highway in the interior. I wish I was as crazy about vidya back then as I am now. I always passed on old systems because I didn't want to make my parents spend more money on me. I should have been a greedy little shit because I realize how little it actually sold for :(

[Anonymous No.1229552]

>>1229550
worst arcade in west edmonton mall
ALL MODERN shit, deal or no deal and other boring shit too much DDR. I would kill for a good arcade in this city, I would be there stoned out of my mind every weekend dumping in the most quarters.

[Anonymous No.1229553]

>>1229551
>mfw even the chinese clones are going up in price due to LELRETROVIDYA, even the ones that were manufactured last year
I just want a really weird famiclone to play SMB3 on ;_;
I really shoulda gone to the Richmond Night Market, there's tons of bootlegs there

[Anonymous No.1229559]

>>1229551

I know how you feel. If I was older back then I would have gotten so much stuff. I had a cool rental store go out of business years ago by us that I was able to pick up some boxed n64 games for cheap. If I could go back I'd buy them all.

[Anonymous No.1229560]

>>1229559
>tfw Blockbuster went out of business
>tfw all the good shit was already bought
>tfw nobody cared about the DVD's, so you could increase your collection on the cheap
mixed feel

[Anonymous No.1229561]

>>1229552
Its garbage, its all garbage. If anyone opened up a classic arcade I swear they could make such a huge profit on that.

[Anonymous No.1229563]

>>1229561
well, if you're in Vancouver and want to go back to 1980's (including the bad smell), there's an arcade on Granville that has tons of old arcade machines

[Anonymous No.1229564]

>>1229560
That sucks man. From this store I got boxed mario party 3, conkers bad fur day, bomberman second attack, and paper mario.

>mfw I recently found out how much boxed conker goes for

[Anonymous No.1229567]

>>122956
conkers got fucking wrecked by resellers cashing in on pewdiefaggot McFuckface
I really hope the fucking bubble pops soon, especially here in BC where it's just jews jewing jews

[Anonymous No.1229568]

>>1229567
I know, these inflated priced dont make sense to me. Out of my collection I really didn't expect it to be in such "high" demand or whatever.

[Anonymous No.1229570]

>>1229568
at this point, you might as well just buy/fix whatever consoles you want and just get Everdrives and modchips and pirate everything. I'm hoping to get a Genesis HD model 1 from the BST because the prices here are exorbitant

[Anonymous No.1229575]

[Anonymous No.1229597]

This just makes me sad.

[Anonymous No.1229606]

I wish Eu had a craigslist counterpart.

[Anonymous No.1229608]

Hey /vr/, is there a way to tell if a PS2 is hard-modded or soft-modded without opening it up? I picked up a PS2 in a thrift store a few days back and it runs burnt games just fine, but I don't know what the modding process for it was. It has no memory card so it isn't running any software to my knowledge

[Anonymous No.1229614]

>>1229597

Why doesn't he just pick one up for free from an animal shelter

[Anonymous No.1229617]

>>1229531
Hey hilariously enough as I'm going through craigslist and I found this post. I didn't realize you were from Van.

Just so you know there's actually a really awesome guy that sells a whole bunch of Japanese game stuff out of his house in Langley. Its a bit out of the way but it is so worth it. He is very reasonably priced and fantastic to do business with. He is very insistent on testing absolutely everything, even right before you. I've picked up stuff from him twice and have bought a famicom, super famicom, and japanese 64 from him.

Let me know if you'd like his post.

[Anonymous No.1229618]

>>1229597
>retron 3
absolutely disgusting

[Anonymous No.1229625]

>>1229617

I don't normally do /vr/ things in all honesty, I just saw it pop up and decided to check if it was legit. I'm from the UK originally so I can get PAL games pretty easily, and a boxed SNES seemed like a nice purchase. I'd be interested in having his post for sure, only issue is I'm stuck at UBC without any private transport so reaching him would be quite difficult

[Anonymous No.1229630]

>>1224524
I thought about making a YouTube channel where I call people who want crazy amounts for their retro vidya and ask them how they came to that price, ect. I wouldn't yell or anything and try not to make fun of them, just get in their head a bit.

Saw a post a while back that was good if they actually did it. He would post a list of games on Craigslist and throw in a random gem like Bubble Bobble 2. When someone who was an obvious reseller replied he would get their address. When another reseller would reply he would give them the address of the first one. Would love to hear the conversation when they found out they'd been duped.

[Anonymous No.1229654]

>>1229625
just use your bloody UPass. You're paying an extra 35-45 a month in student fees, might as well use it.

[Anonymous No.1229661]

>>1229654

But I do use it, just not that much because

>leaving campus

[Anonymous No.1229667]

>>1229661
but
road trip
adventure
getting robbed on East Hastings
yelling at homeless people
laughing at hipsters even though you're a hipster as well (cause >lolubc)

[Anonymous No.1229668]

>>1229608
Is the warranty sticker removed?

[Anonymous No.1229698]

>>1229668

The one on the back with the serial number? That's still in place

>>1229667

Bus trips are fun and all but not something I have reason to do regularly

[Anonymous No.1229707]

>>1229698
eh, your call, it's a pretty damn good deal, so it might be worth it to make the trip for that SFC anyways. Also the warranty sticker is on the bottom of the PS2, if you were to stand it up vertically. If you see a bunch of "VOID" going through the sticker, the PS2's been opened and a modchip has been installed.

[Anonymous No.1229714]

>>1229707

I don't see the sticker anywhere on the case, appears to be some sticker residue just below the AV out and power input.

Is there any real difference between a soft-modded and hard-modded PS2? I was considering trading this for a modded PS1 because to my knowledge soft-modded systems can't play PS1 games that are burnt to disc

[Anonymous No.1229719]

>>1229714
soft mods (like FreeMCBoot) require a memory card or HDD. Modchips do not. Soft mod allows you to load up games off the HDD.

[Anonymous No.1229728]

>>1229719

So neither can run PS1 games, and neither has a particular advantage over the other? Why would someone choose to mod instead of soft-mod, is it just because of the fact that modchips came first?

[Anonymous No.1229729]

>>1229714

Soft mods don't fuck with the hardware. I have Free McBoot on my PS2. Without the memory card, it's just a normal PS2.

Now if it can play burnt PS1 games, that much I do not know. I usually just emulate those since my PC can take it.

[Anonymous No.1229732]

>>1229728
pretty sure soft mods let you load off PSX games off the internal HDD, though I have yet to try it. As for modchips, yeah, they've been around the longest, and some people just prefer them to their simplicity.

[Anonymous No.1229857]

>>1229536
Wow, fuckin saved in my reseller rage folder...

I have nothing but hatred for those kinds of people

[Anonymous No.1229863]

>>1229549
Of course, it would be a relatively dumb thing not to at least ask

[Anonymous No.1229876]

>>1229630
10/10, would subscribe

[Anonymous No.1230014]

>>1229531
>hong kong
bootleg city

[Anonymous No.1230359]

>>1229536
I hope Natalie dies from HPV.

[Anonymous No.1230827]

[Anonymous No.1230834]

>>1230827
Really not worth it. Maybe $40-50, but not $75. Personally, I wouldn't pay more than $30.

[Anonymous No.1231275]

>>1230827
Definitely talk him down to around $50 , even $50 is pushing it

[Anonymous No.1231323]

>>1225054
You are a good man, like the Batman of CL.

[Anonymous No.1231339]

>>1231323
>>1225054
Please tell me you flag those ads that end with Please email me at GenericName...AT ....gmail.com

Those are the worst.

[Anonymous No.1231343]

>>1229732
There's an elf you can use to boot burned psx games I believe it's called psxloader.

[Anonymous No.1231386]

>>1231339
Usually it's an address or phone number I can search on to bring up most if not all of their ads. Or there might be some unique words that's characteristic, maybe even a name.

One I gave up on were chinese scam sites that would 90% of the time flood the cell phone listings. They'd point to websites with names like "brightdeal" or "shiningsale" They were easy to spot in the listings, but no easy search term since the website would keep changing.

[Anonymous No.1231401]

>>1230827
I'll see your NES, and raise it one SMB2 for $100.

[Anonymous No.1231808]

>>1231401
Well...shit. I don't have anything to beat that.

[Anonymous No.1231840]

>>1231401

[IaTM No.1231923]

>The games are 5 sports games and rippin riders.

Should I even attempt?

[IaTM No.1231925]

>>1231923
>forgetting my pic

[Anonymous No.1231927]

>>1231840
God dammit, looks like Mark Balelo is still trying to sell his "$13,000 NES-001"

[Anonymous No.1231932]

>>1231923
Definitely, but see if he'll take $35 or $40 seeing as those are all sports games.

DC seems to be in good condition and it comes with the cables and 2 controllers, that alone usually commands around $50 from some resellers

[Anonymous No.1232000]

>>1229630

I just can't wait until there's an official price guide for video games.

Enjoy getting $60 for Super Metroid while you can, jerkoffs!

[Anonymous No.1232023]

>>1232000
The problem is they would need to reprint it every month since the price of games varies so much.

[Anonymous No.1232031]

>>1232023

It only varies so much BECAUSE there's no official price guide.

[Anonymous No.1232058]

>>1232000
>I just can't wait until there's an official price guide for video games.
This reminds me of when I would fuck with price lists on wikis for some online games to fuck people over. Make them hand over good shit for 10% of the currency of the realm and mark things up a fuckton. They go to check the price, and they see they're getting 'a good deal'.

BAHAHAHAHAHA I'm so fucking mean.

[Anonymous No.1232098]

>>1232000
>>1232031
you understand that can never exist, right?

[Anonymous No.1232102]

There is an official price guide it's called eBay sold listings.

[Anonymous No.1232104]

>>1232098

Why do you say that?

[Anonymous No.1232110]

>>1232104
Because an official guide would require an authoritative body who can dictate what is basically a second-hand market. Even an unofficial guide would be impossible as it's based purely on supply and demand.

[Anonymous No.1232121]

>>1232110

It happened with comic books, and it can happen with video games. The efficacy of the price guide would hinge solely on the credibility of the publisher.

In such a model, no dictatorship would be necessary. Buyers could make informed decisions, and sellers would have a frame of reference for their pricing, one more effective than, "Well, this is what a handful of wealthy jerk-offs on eBay are willing to pay, so this is the price everyone pays!"

[Anonymous No.1232124]

>>1232121
Why would I sell something for some price in a book if I could sell it for more to some wealthy jerk-off?

[Anonymous No.1232139]

>>1232124

Sure. But not everyone thinks like that. And not everyone is willing to pay for overpriced merchandise. And, when somebody accuses you of overpricing, they would have an official source to back their claim.

[Anonymous No.1232151]

>>1232139

Adding to that, even with an officially-recognized reference, there's nothing that stops you from price gouging. However, with said reference, the likelihood of anybody buying your wares drops significantly.

[Anonymous No.1232820]

>>1232102
No, just no

[Anonymous No.1235013]

>>1229614
Most shelters aren't free anymore. Last animal I got was about $130 after fees, neutering, shots, etc.

[Anonymous No.1235124]

Yet another reseller trying to sell a scalped copy of Conker's with the mantra "(prices) firm"

Although I gotta hand it to him, the game actually looks to be in good condition

[Anonymous No.1235189]

Got home from Thanksgiving and see this. It's in my area. Message but no reply...

[Anonymous No.1235284]

Picked all this up two weeks ago for $30.
How badly did I jew the guy? Do I even want to know?

[Anonymous No.1235289]

>>1235189
Because a reseller bought them within minutes of being posted.

[Anonymous No.1235305]

>>1235284

Your jewry knows no bounds.

[Anonymous No.1235309]

>>1231927
He committed suicide once he realized it wouldn't sell. Actually it was over a drug arrest but I imagine that him not selling the NES had a part in it.

[Anonymous No.1237193]

Mandatory rage post

[Anonymous No.1237202]

>>1235284
You got a deal of a lifetime. The console alone sells for $30 with the cords.

[Anonymous No.1239339]

If I had a car I'd probably take up the offer.
I have a feeling it's stolen, based on the location.

[Anonymous No.1239402]

>>1229563
OHHH SHIT, I used to live in Vancouver and play Soul Calibur 2 there, is that shitty place still open?! The last time I was there some dude came in and started asking everyone if they would buy some of his magic mushrooms.

[Anonymous No.1239430]

>>1235284
Holy shit, King David lives!