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okay, in all honesty, who the FUCK is bidding on these? I don't get it. who's willing to spend this much on this game? it's not a rare game, as we all know, so who the fuck is bidding on these? and there's a lot of bids too! what the fuck you guys?

>> No.1240878
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1240878

guys stahp

>> No.1240882
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1240882

>4 copies of earthbound

k bro

>> No.1240890

Just buy one if you want it so badly

>> No.1240903

>>1240876
If it wasn't rare or in high demand, then don't you think they'd be getting much lower prices? Don't get mad if you don't want it as much as those people do.

>> No.1240909

>>1240903

This. You can only blame re-sellers so much. People are paying what they think is fair, so the consumer holds just as much (if not more) blame.

>> No.1240914

It's lame, but it's not like you need to buy it to play the game. If you don't like the fact that it's selling for that much, the best thing you can do is not buy it./

>> No.1240924

>>1240882
It's for resellers.

You buy u 4 copies, then resell them at a markup.

Which is, incidentally, exactly what he's doing

>> No.1240927

>>1240876
But earfbound isnt rare
But earfbound isnt worth that much
But earfbound shuld b free
But earfbound cost too many money
But earfbound
But earfbohnd
But earfbound

Who the fuck cares. Its going to be like this for a while. Either get over it and pay the prices, emulate (you fuckers say it's the same thing anyways) or be patient and wait till you find it cheap in the wild. Complaining about how other people spend their money is fucking retarded. The people bidding on them are the people like you, looking for hipster cred. Only difference os they have jobs and/or disposable income. You should try it sometime anon.

>> No.1242475

>>1240876
starman.net it's a borderline religious cult who have an organized effort to buy up as many copies as possible.

>> No.1242504

Please let prices rise. Im almost done playing the copy I got years ago in a thrift store lot and I need to Ebay it so I can buy my mom a kitchen aide mixer for xmas. I would have finished it by now but working all day and taking care of your wife all afternoon.

>> No.1242802

>>1242504
>kitchen aide mixer
350 bucks your a good son.

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>>1240876
It's just like trading card market, it's bullshit.

I blame gamestop for what happened to my pokemans.

>> No.1242935

I almost bought it a couple weeks ago,would have if i didn't need new tires and suspension parts

>tfw i can rebuild my whole front end minus bushings for the cost of an open cartridge

>> No.1242962

>>1242504
get dat Blendtec, homie. she'll thank you later

in smoothies

>> No.1243015

I remember trying to bid on one for 60 bucks years ago but was outbidded by some guy who bought 6 other copies

>> No.1243028

You can't blame someone for making a profit off of those stupid enough to pay that much.

>> No.1243045

It's a vicious cycle:

>reseller scum puts up dirty torn label EB cart for $150 BIN
>John Doe thinks his clean pristine EB cart is worth more
>He puts up his cart for $180 BIN
>and so on

Compare these EB auctions to how many Tron Bonne auctions there are (EB is NOT rare, age != price)

>> No.1243634

I know the 3DS doesn't have any SNES games in the e-shop but does anyone think that if Earth Bound was on the 3DS, that it would help lower the actual cart?

>> No.1243635

>got a CIB for $150 years ago
It's my sisters favorite game so I got her it for her birthday

Kind of want to steal it back from her so I can flip it

>> No.1243639

>>1243045
Games don't go up in value only because they are rare.

>> No.1243641

>>1243634
Not a chance. Most of these people aren't paying $200+ to play the game, they're paying to have it.

>> No.1243656
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1243656

>tfw bought it on Wii U VC because won't pay that much for the cart and I don't like emulating games on my laptop

>> No.1243663

Why do you hate capitalism?

>> No.1243672

>>1240876
Demand is greater than the supply ,it's not some reseller conspiracy just get over it man,do you want to play the game or just have it as a trophy on your wall? If you only want to play it then get a flashcart

>> No.1243904

I hate how the last .hack//game is as expensive as Earthbound is, but all the others are decently priced. So it's like 50 for everything else and suddenly 200 for the last one.

>> No.1245938

>>1243904
What are thosegames like? i never played them

>> No.1245958

>>1240927
>cheap in the wild

Well I'll say it first , those days are long over.

>> No.1245967

>>1243656

How good is the Wii VC?

Does it have optional scan lines n stuff?

>> No.1246692

>>1245958
Earthbound can only be found cheap in the wild if a blue moon occurs on the Equinox and only then will a cheap Earthbound present itself to the Chosen One

>> No.1246721

>>1242802

My mom has had to put up with me being an ungrateful shit for all of my teenage years. Now that I've moved out I feel its time to give a little back. Also she'll go crazy making naked goods that she will then send back home with me. So its win win.

>> No.1246727

>>1246721

Baked not naked although my parents are kinky like that so who knows.

>> No.1246753

It isn't hard to bid on this stuff when your parents are dead and you're raking in huge inheritance money on top of already having a good job. $300? Please, I can earn that in a day.

>> No.1246809

>>1245958
Bullshit. I've found megaman games for like $2. Tons of uncommons and some rare for dirt cheap. Just because you cant find them doesnt mean they arent out there. Gamechasers have found $500+ games for like $10. Protip: if you get the fuck up in the morning instead of 2pm you may be able to find something before resellers get them.

>> No.1246820

Earthbound butthurt threads are hilarious. These games are priced based on supply (fairly large production for an SNES rpg, but nothing compared to modern production runs) and demand (every single hipster faggot with a used SNES). There is more demand.

>> No.1246827

Dirt cheap on Wii-U VC. There's no excuse and even if you don't own a Wii-U, you can still emulate. A loose cartridge is not worth $200 so I'm skipping that bullshit entirely. Feels good playing it on Snes9x GX!

>> No.1246831
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1246831

earthbound has a rather large hipster/retarded fanbase now, so yes people buy copies for $100+.

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1246835

I bought a copy for somewhere around $80 like 6 years ago.

>> No.1246862

Back in 2009 I sold a copy in a not-so-great condition box that also came with the strategy guide. I posted it on eBay for $150 and didn't even have time to refresh when someone bought it.

The buyer was some video game store in the East Coast. I wouldn't have done it if I didn't need to pay for a moving truck. I really, really wish I would have held out and sold it to someone who would have appreciated it.

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1246892

>not buying the japanese version

>> No.1246912

>>1245958
Yeah. It's been nearly a week since I found a rare game for cheap.

>> No.1246940

Speculation bubbles can happen to anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Speculators will keep buying $300 Earthbound carts as long as they can sell them to the next fool for $301.

>> No.1247025

>>1246940
Pretty much this:
EB's value is only what someone's willing to pay for it. As long as the majority of EB buyers are willing to pay $200 for it, that's what it's gonna be...until maybe a warehouse of them is found and the price drops like with Jet Set Radio

>> No.1247157

>>1247025

Did they really find a warehouse with Jet Set Radio?

>> No.1247184

>>1247157
They probably found a few random boxes sitting in the back of a random warehouse that happened to have the game in it. Its not like they found a closed down warehouse dedicated to jet set radio.

>> No.1247645

>>1247157
Yup, it's one of the reasons the price dropped in recent years similar to the fall of MvC2

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>>1246831
That picture makes me happy.

>> No.1248116

>>1247645

I just figured it was because the XBLA and PSN versions were cheap and decent, unlike the shoddy PS2 and Xbox versions.

>> No.1248126

>>1240909

This whole point of OP's post was to blame consumers...

>> No.1248124

>>1247672
It's shopped.

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>>1246831
>earthbound has a rather large hipster/retarded fanbase now
I hate it. I liked it before it was cool. Does this make me a hipster among hipsters?

>> No.1248435

>>1246892
I did. I think people don't do that usually because they can't read it.

>> No.1248560

>>1248434
That would be too mainstream.

>> No.1248562

>>1246831
>hipster
Stop that