Retro stores, ridiculoua prices.

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Retro stores, ridiculoua prices. Anonymous Wed Jul 23 09:43:50 2014 No.1795960 [Reply] [Original]

Walking through Manchester and I am shocked at how blatantly overpriced the retro stores are. Metal Gear Solid is being sold for £25 and £27, my nearest retro store sells it for £10 and I got it from a car boot for £2. It's ridiculous. How can anyone justify charging this much for old systems? Just spotted a PS1 going for £35, but the sticker cites 'oil leaks'. What?!

What are some of the worst prices you've ever seen?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 09:45:30 2014 No.1795963 >>1795960 >FFVII 26$ (Black label) thats a good deal actually

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 09:47:55 2014 No.1795968 >>1795963 >$

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 09:53:01 2014 No.1795978

>>1795960
>MGS being sold at 42.50...
I got mine Almost Complete minus the manual for 10 bucks black label usually what it goes here.
59 USD for PS1....Just kill me now. I highly doubt people would buy those since PS2 and 3 is backwards compatible with it guess I was wrong. I'm sorry bro this is a tragedy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:05:44 2014 No.1795994 File: 116 KB, 467x333, 3435345354345.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1795960 >Pac Man World 2 >$85.13 USD

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:12:48 2014 No.1796008 dont have a pic but i was in a shop the other day and buddy was selling mario sunshine for $80 ... i walked out the moment i saw that

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:20:36 2014 No.1796017

I'll give you a comparison, because my best was also my worst in 2 scenarios.
At the same flea market at different stands on different days I found FFVII for $2 and I found RE3 for GC for $1.
On different days and stands from that I saw FFVII being sold as "mint" (opened, scuffs on case and book) for $35. Another guy had the gall to put a $40 sticker on RE3. When I told the RE3 guy I bought mine at the same flea market for $1, he said "we take trades, I'll give you $15 for it."
Fucking lol.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:22:04 2014 No.1796019 >>1796017 >being the guy that says > " I got something for cheaper elsewhere LOL YOUR SHOP SUX" Really? noone likes people like that.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:23:22 2014 No.1796021

>>1795960

>closest retro game store to me is some dump in Brooklyn
>take bus to city
>get on subway to Brooklyn
>have to deal with basketball americans and beans everywhere
>finally get there
>Super Mario World, cartridge only, in a ziplock bag, no plastic connector sleeve: $75
>SNES controller with animal-chewed cable: $35
>place smells like rotting wood and urine
>other games are in poor condition and over priced
>few consoles are missing bits or caked in grime
>one SNES console in great condition, no cables, just console: $450

That's when I decided to call it a day and escape basketball american land. It's a shame there are no decent places near me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:25:53 2014 No.1796025 >>1796019 I didn't say that. I said casually to my friend "wow, I got mine for $1 right over there" and the shopkeeper chimed in. Fuck off you presumptuous cunt.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:28:51 2014 No.1796028 >>1795963 >FFVII-IX cost less than Origins What?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:29:07 2014 No.1796030 >>1796025 >presumptious >When I told the RE3 guy I bought mine at the same flea market for $1, he said "we take trades, I'll give you $15 for it." >told the RE3 guy >told the RE3 guy Fuck off retard, trying to save face now. You're a cunt.

>>	Mush !DMC12clc2I Wed Jul 23 10:29:31 2014 No.1796032 >>1795960 >Manchester >Retro game store that isn't in Affleks Palace Where is this?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:30:30 2014 No.1796034 >>1796028 Also >anthologies is the most expensive one lel. Maybe it's different in britbong land.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:30:36 2014 No.1796036 >>1796032 Damnit name go away.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:33:39 2014 No.1796041 >>1796025 Can you keep your story straight for 2 post in a row? answer: no

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:46:31 2014 No.1796058
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I actually live in a city with two retro stores. The store in the nearby malls:
>Legend of Zelda, cart only: $40
>Contra, cart only: $60
>Final Fantasy 7 green label: $50

Meanwhile, another retro store within walking distance of my apartment sells them all for around $20.
Fucking scammers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 10:48:36 2014 No.1796060 >>1796058 >scam Reminds me of faggots in online games >YOU SCAMMED ME BECAUSE YOUR PRICE IS HIGHER THEN OTHER PEOPLE That's not a scam. Thats just being overpriced.

Judge Reinhold Wed Jul 23 10:57:30 2014 No.1796078

>>1795960
Having to step in here. Come a bit more south lad. In birmingham there is a retro game store in the yardley area. I forget the name, but it's by the swan roundabout and the guy who runs it is sound as fuck.

Sensible soccer on mega drive? £1. Gameboy konami collections? £4 each. Dude spent twenty minutes looking for an atari st compatible joystick I could give my brother for his birthday. Didn't find one, but did show me just how big a collection he has.

If you're ever down this way give him a visit. Has a great selection of mega drive stuff too. We got all the micro machines games off him at good prices.

There is another store about 20 minutes away from there. Bigger, with bright yellow sign. Again, I can't remember the name. Retro something. They're pretty bad tho. Snes for £50 that kind of thing. But they sell other stuff and they did have an atart st joystick so I guess they're not all that bad.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 11:00:14 2014 No.1796083 [DELETED]

>1796060
Actually, they really are pretty amoral business people. For a while they were even running a sort of smear campaign against other stores in the area that sold retro games (not just their direct competitors), complete with fake websites and fake Yelp reviews talking about horrible service and casually mentioning how they went to "some store in the mall" and got better service. Some of the shit got so bad that the owner of the place by my house took out a restraining order on the guy who owns the mall stores.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 11:05:56 2014 No.1796096

>>1796060
Actually as far as businesspeople go, they have shown themselves to be pretty amoral.
A few years back, were doing a sort of smear campaign against all other stores in the area that were carrying retro games (not just dedicated retro game stores), complete with fake websites and fake Yelp reviews that would talk about horrible service and prices, and then casually mention how they went to "some place in the mall" and got exactly what they wanted. There were also a few reports of employees from the downtown getting tailed by the mall store owner if they ever went to the mall.
It got so bad the that the owner of the downtown shop had to take out a restraining order on the mall guy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 11:06:55 2014 No.1796102 >>1796096 Alright then. I was just showing my distaste for the word scam being thrown around all the time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 11:28:38 2014 No.1796141 Unfortunately shit is just going this way. About ten years ago I could go to a flea market and probably get some good shit for cheap. Nowadays those same places sell game boy colors for like 50$ hell its getting worse every year it seems

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 11:42:45 2014 No.1796168

>>1796030
>>1796041
So i fucking worded it incorrectly, but not really, because it wasn't anything I was trying to keep from him. I phrased it the way I did to avoid having to unnessisarily explain essentially boring and irrelevant side facts but I didn't expect you pricks to get so pissy. What's even the problem with telling people their prices are too high? So they can keep suckering people into paying outrageous prices for games that have no reason to cost more than $15? These guys pay bottom dollar for shit they rummage out of attics for $20 a box (of games) and sell them individually at prices that makes even amazon look like a reputable vendor of used games.
Fucking white knight syndrome in this thread hard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 11:45:57 2014 No.1796173 Damn. Those prices for the FF games for which there are millions of copies out there are ridiculous. It's not like they're rare, and it's not like you can't download them for new systems

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 11:49:47 2014 No.1796185 Sometimes, I feel like people would rather have all games be $10, consoles be $15, and no game be considered rare.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 11:52:48 2014 No.1796196 the chinese used video game stores in Vancouver bc make me laugh with their insane prices. $40 for common NES games? gimme a break.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 11:53:57 2014 No.1796201 >>1796185 >rare >FFVII >$35 >super Mario world >$40 >rare

Eventsguy Wed Jul 23 11:59:55 2014 No.1796208

>>1795960
That bloody store.
Know stores have overheads and that, but damn.
A guy claiming to be the owner came to one of my games nights and seemed to be a bit of a prick.
Last time I was in there they had an Intellivision for £100 without games
Rewind collectables in Ashton is far more reasonablie

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:12:13 2014 No.1796232

>>1796201
No, no. I'm talking in general.
I've never seen SMW anywhere over $15 (and that was CIB) anywhere in my town. Same goes with FFVII only being $20 at most.

But this weird fear that EVERYTHING is overpriced, the hatred of resellers, and arguments over what counts as "rare" in threads like these make it seem like people would prefer all retro video game anything to be dirt cheap.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:21:19 2014 No.1796256

>>1796232
I get you, but I've seen outrageous prices for both of those games at reseller shops or stands. We're complaining about those vendors specifically, which seem to be popping up more often than not.
The local used game store keeps SMW and SMB3 locked up for $35 a piece. Metal Gear (the NES one) is fucking $25 because of its name, despite being literal trash that nobody wants.
It's about weeding the good ones from the bad.
It's nice that you have good vendors in your area, but don't assume they're all like that. I've only ever seen one vendor that charged fair prices for the games that were in demand or just plain rare.
A game that sold like SMW deserves about $20, because it's still so sought after. Games with limited runs and cult acclaim obviously deserve higher tags.
I shouldn't have to shell out $30 to play a game like Donkey Kong Country on SNES.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:22:30 2014 No.1796259

>Bookmans
>Hipster Atmosphere
>Gamester81 made a video about it, which probably invited the casul hipsters, fuck him
>anyways
>Store has an okay selection, I usually find at least one thing
>Last time I got Disruptor and Metal Gear Solid VR Missions for $10 total
>Megaman Legends 2 will always sit behind the glass case for $80+

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:27:43 2014 No.1796281

>>1796256
No kidding; the best place in my town sells retro games for twice the average price on ebay.

Right now, they're selling the NES Megaman in box for $300. All the Donkey Kong Country games are $40 AT LEAST, and most of the boxes for their SNES games are Repros.

I wish I lived wherever >>1796232 lives.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:44:42 2014 No.1796329
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>local retro store
>4th of july sale (b1g1 free)
>Get 2 CD's and a copy of Tactics Advance
>in checkout line
>12 year old kid ahead of me
>Holding ff7
>Check sticker
>45 bucks
>mfw

It isn't the older audience stores are after, it the newer generation who have grown up thinking that these games are the essentials. Meanwhile every other FF PS1 game was 10-15. Fuck retro stores

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:54:02 2014 No.1796357

>Local store
>Friends with the owners
>They look up the value and only mark it a couple bucks up or keep it even with market value
>Built the shop off their own personal collection

Feels fucking great buying from them too, I guess I got lucky with them instead of the ones you guys are talking about

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:09:52 2014 No.1796404
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>>1795960
>Go to local game store to see what kinda old games they have.
>They know I love to buy older titles because I collect.
>Try not to spend much money on titles, max I will go is $9 or $20 for certain titles.
>They begin to raise their prices.
>Final Fight 3 $100
>Sunset Riders $60
>Earthbound $300
>They try to get me to buy this shit when I come in.
>Ask them if they would be willing to trade games for games since I am a collector.
For example, if I came in with a extra copy of Zelda on snes, if I could snag lets say Super Metroid or Contra 3.
>Bring them Mario 3 in the box CIB
>They either wanna give me $10 store credit or $5
U WOT!
>See they are selling Mario 3 without a box and and damage $30
U FUCKING WOT!
>Pull out my spare super famicom version of Chrono Trigger, in box, CIB.
>They offer 1 cent.
>1 fucking cent for a unsealed game.
U FUCKING WOT MATE?
>He actually fucking starts pulling my games across the counter like we are going to trade.
No no asshole, If you wont trade me something they are worth then fuck that.

I mean why the fuck would I pay $100 for a copy of Secret of Mana! I can spend that much and get it CIB!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:17:51 2014 No.1796428 >>1796404 I've always been skeptical of the reseller boogyman, but JESUS CHRIST IN HEAVEN ABOVE. THAT is fucking reseller scum, I tell ya what.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:19:11 2014 No.1796430 >>1796404 >Unsealed. I meant sealed, Jesus Today isn't my day for typing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:24:17 2014 No.1796439 >>1796168 >What's even the problem with telling people their prices are too high? Protip: The people that get pissy about it are the ones that price them like that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:25:59 2014 No.1796443 >>1796259 you in tucson or phoenix?

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:35:42 2014 No.1796479

Do you guys think it would be a good idea if /vr/ kept a publicly accessible database (like a pastebin) listing off each and every name and location of "reseller scum" stores. All you need for a headline is "Don't shop at these stores if you don't want to get ripped off, and don't trade anything in to them either."

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:36:42 2014 No.1796483 >>1796479 >own rival store >post here to make sure you guys never shop at theirs >$_$

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:36:54 2014 No.1796484 >>1795963 British lbs, brah. It's a yurop so that's like $50 here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:37:52 2014 No.1796486 >>1796484 Oops.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:41:05 2014 No.1796495 >>1796483 >talk shit about the competition >/vr/tualboy comes to your store instead >experiences this >>1796058 >the shit you talked gets called out >your store gets added to the list Maybe I'm dreaming, but that's one way I could see it working.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:42:07 2014 No.1796498 >>1796479 Too exploitable.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:44:12 2014 No.1796508 >>1796495 True

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:47:46 2014 No.1796516 File: 2.33 MB, 3920x2204, DSC_0465.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Exchange in Fairlawn, OH. Pictured is one of many examples I saw in my first trip there. Never again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 15:28:46 2014 No.1796762 >>1796021 >That's when I decided to call it a day and escape basketball american land. Wrong idea, you should instead went to Nippon Land, trust me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 15:33:48 2014 No.1796772 >>1796516 Maybe someone misplaced a decimal point. Cause those prices are ridiculous!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 15:48:21 2014 No.1796815 >>1796404 My god

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 15:49:51 2014 No.1796818 >>1796404 >I mean why the fuck would I pay $100 for a copy of Secret of Mana! I can spend that much and get a flashcart! Fixed

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 15:49:54 2014 No.1796819

>>1796078
I have been killing myself to find a copy of konami collection volume 4 with castlevania 2 on it, is there one there you could pick up and sell me? I would pay you like 30USD for it and your troubles. I put my email in the field if you are able to help me out

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 15:54:55 2014 No.1796837 >>1796439 >Protip: The people that get pissy about it are the ones that price them like that. Reseller Apoligist who likes to switching the blame

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 15:57:43 2014 No.1796847

>Live in the west coast of murica
>Find 4 retro places in reasonable distance
>Go to the closest place
>Ghetto Area
>Didykong Racing 28USD
>Mario Party 2 50USD
>Super Mario RPG 100USD
>Walk out and never come back

>Second place
>Upscale area with boutiques
>Walk in see its Table top and Card games
>See Super Mario RPG 40USD
>Boxed Supermario RPG 80USD
>Megaman 2 20USD
>Final Fantasy 9 25 USD
>Miss priced MMBN Games for 5USD

Shit man

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:03:49 2014 No.1796860 >>1796232 Completely. I'd rather have my collection have nothing but sentimental and fun value than forking over $40 for, say, a loose NES cart. And I own a couple of games worth more than two cents.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:07:09 2014 No.1796871 >>1796818 >>I mean why the fuck would I pay $100 for a copy of Secret of Mana! I can spend nothing and emulate for free Fixed

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:13:13 2014 No.1796885

There are some ridiculous cases like OP's pic but for the most part all I see is a bunch of entitled faggots. Yes, games like Earthbound and Megaman Legends shouldn't be pushing hundreds of dollars, but get the fuck over it. Nobody is making you buy a 50$ copy of Mario & Duck Hunt.

Jesus fucking christ it's the biggest fucking bogeyman on /vr/. It wouldn't be so bad if you at least found it funny instead of being autistic assburger faggots flying into shitfits over it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:14:20 2014 No.1796891 >>1795960 Holy shit, I know that place. I bet when you trade the a copy of FFVII, they'll only give you 2 quid.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:20:00 2014 No.1796906
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>Live in hueland.
> Go in some "retrostores".
>Shit games are overpriced, even pirated games.
>Search saturn games. Even SS rpg games in moonrunes is overpiced.
>Go in hue "Ebay". Some shit sell overpriced as fuck even shit ps2 games, because : Its rare.
Sometimes, i want give up with retrogame. I always say for friend wanting vr stuff: Buy a wii+ crt Tv, xbox 360 with Jtag or just use a fucking Pc. Dont give money to reseller scum.
My collection is almost compost by games/console buyed in flea market-like and shit conditions. Restauration is turning my main hobby now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:22:53 2014 No.1796919 >>1796906 I feel your pain. Light-blue and white flag neighbor, here.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:28:09 2014 No.1796936 >>1796516 The one I live near has some shit like that, but it tends to be shit like Megaman. They also put the price stickers on the game labels too. Which is why I buy shit off of Amazon

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:30:53 2014 No.1796940
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Fucking GAME jumping on the bandwagon to buy and sell retro-games to hipsters and inflating the local market. Prices in Sweden are high enough as it it is without them jewing it up!
(that's about 60$ for only the metroid cartridge)

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:35:07 2014 No.1796953

The saddest part to me is the high prices everyone hates here would actually be a good deal here in Brazil. It's hard to find, specially on internet, good prices here. A SNES without the box usually costs something like 110 dollars here, with loose cartridges for $20 each (the worse ones, usually sport games).

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:36:05 2014 No.1796958 File: 302 KB, 603x394, gabber.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1796940 That's.. fucked up. Holy shit.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:46:48 2014 No.1796984

>>1796958
The worst part is that people actually give them the games for nothing at all.
I checked the waters with them for trade ins to see just how bad it was by offering my complete SNES + donkey kong country bundle box.
"Well, you know, these things are old and we have to change the contacts on every console, so I'll give you 70 kronor for it."
That's 11$.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:48:51 2014 No.1796994 >>1796940 >Dragons Lair Give this shit to hispters!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 16:53:40 2014 No.1797008 I keep laughing my ass off at this guy who keeps trying to sell a player's choice copy of Super Mario Sunshine for $100 on Craigslist in my area.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 17:12:19 2014 No.1797079 >>1796032 Literally down the road from Afflecks, next to the Co-Operative across from the Arndale Markets. It's only slightly better than the one in Afflecks, Retro Play. That place makes me so fucking mad. Gamecube for £55. N64 for £50. Fuck off.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 17:14:36 2014 No.1797092
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>>1796019
>>1796030

You're the only cunt here buddy. He had every right to call out that seller, and I hope that everyone with the balls and a single scrap of common sense would do the same. People like that are ruining the collector's scene and you're helping them do it.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 17:17:06 2014 No.1797102
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>>1796953
I have a Saturn, but its impoosible find good games or even shit game at good price.
Ps2 games in hueland is overpriced too. But remember ps2 is the mostly pirated game and that overpriced originals. But for hues wanting enojy old games, the best option is emualtion on pc or wii ( planying on crt).
Ebay was the option, because some hue fucked the sellers and the fucking importation taxes.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 17:20:04 2014 No.1797117
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>>1796208
That's the one I was citing in my OP. Much better prices but I still think £10 for the Resident Evil games, the Dino Crisis games and MGS is a bit steep. However, I've walked out of there with piles of games so I can't say a bad word really. Guy who owns it is cool. I've been popping in since it was Roundabout Toys.

Pic related - the three PS1 games down the side I picked up from there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 17:31:14 2014 No.1797154 >>1796919 >tfw no retro gaming store you can hang out at and turn into a regular customer ̣;_;

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 17:47:05 2014 No.1797194

Gentle men, and more men, take a breather and prepare yourself for the story of stupid Russian game selling lady.

About two years ago I was at flea market in the middle of butt fuck no where. See stand with shit ton of games, you name the game, she has it.

>Oh my fucking god jackpot!

I walk up to her and list off a few games for GCN, and Snes. She says "Okey, lemme luuk."

"Ah hure we gu!" See dirty ass, players choice copy of resident evil 4 150$. "Um is it sealed?"

"No sealed is thousand hehehhe"

Metroid Prime 100 bucks meh condition.

Super mario world 40 bucks

Resident evil remake 100 bucks.

Gamecube console cords and one remote 150 bucks

Ps1 with cords and remote (dirty) 60 bucks

N64 with cords and remote 150 bucks

>Oh dear what I have I gotten myself into?

Wind waker 180 bucks

Zelda Nes 150 bucks

OoT 100 bucks

Pokemon yellow 60 bucks.

I can't contain myself, tell her, her pricing is stupid and everything is gathering dust because no one will spend their cash on your dusty shit. She is furious.

She also tried grabbing money from my hands (20 bucks) when I thought I could get a decent priced copy of resi 4. I actually hope she is dead now.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 17:50:54 2014 No.1797207

>>1796329
I saw a kid leaving a game shop with a tattered megaman 3 with a ripped up label someone wrote HEPPLE on for god knows what reason.

I recongnized the cartridge because the store was selling it for like 200 dollars and was sitting in a display case for months.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 17:51:58 2014 No.1797212 >>1797207 *Megaman X3 whoops, that kinda makes the story believable

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 17:53:31 2014 No.1797216
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>>1797194
>dem prices.

Holy shit.

My story takes place in a game shop about an hour from here.

Walked in one day, "Excuse me, do you sell Playstation games?"
>Yeah we got a stack here, go ahead and look through.
I bought Croc, Boombots, and Bubsy 3D for about $15. Thanked him, left.

Went back a week later. There was a different guy working the counter.
"Excuse me, do you sell Super Nintendo games?"
>No.
"Oh, well do you still have those PlayStation games?"
>No.
"Okay then, I'll just get MGS 2."

What he neglected to tell me was they had an online eBay shop dedicated to retro games. For some reason, they don't sell them in the actual store. I mean come on, if I'm going to spend money on vidya, why would you make me go to the internet and do it? Fuck that.

It's almost as bad as the pawn shop guy who tried to charge me $60 for Metroid on NES.

>>	KyaDash !kDashing02 Wed Jul 23 18:05:15 2014 No.1797251 >>1796516 It's a real shame. That chain used to have really good (or at the very least fair) prices. It's only in the past 2 years or so that everything has went to shit.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 18:22:22 2014 No.1797310

The stores I go to are all OVER the place with prices. Some days I can get a steal (just bought a SNS-101 Model SNES with a controller with DKC 2 for $60) to so mind numbingly stupid ($75 for Super Mario RPG? WHAT?)

You just got to keep your eyes out for deals. Luckily, the selfsame retro store does weekly discount specials on product, so I usually call ahead and ask if they have the games I'm looking for. Hoping to complete the DKC trilogy next week when I can get DKC 3 for $10

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 18:36:57 2014 No.1797363 >>1797310 Mmmmm reminds of when I got the DKC trilogy for $6 at a garage sale. 1 and 2 were in box with manuals. But I was a stupid kid and let the boxes and manuals get trashed...

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 20:35:35 2014 No.1797661

>>1796906
I'm with you comrade. I only collect when I find reasonable prices, I've stopped actively looking for specific games altogether. I just emulate if I don't have what I want.

There's this sense of immense satisfaction when you get a game you want without having to give money to scum that don't deserve it. Especially after you've cleaned it / gotten it working if you bought it broken.

>>	\|\|D.II.II\/II.\|\|D Wed Jul 23 20:40:24 2014 No.1797676 >Pac Man World 2 £50 I have that

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:17:26 2014 No.1797803
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>>1796906
>>1796847

>lived in moonrune land
>Most Famicom and SFC games are reasonable priced, and some stores have bargain prices on bins (not to be confused with Buy it now's)
>Flea markets had games even cheaper for people who just want to get rid of their stuff or trade another game.
>Even teh Legit rare games like Hagane and Pocky & Rocky 2 are not too terrible overpriced

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:31:07 2014 No.1797849

i think it depends on where you live, but where I am, it's not TOO ridiculous yet, but about half the places have prices more than I'm willing to pay, even places like thrift shops and flea markets.

The local retro game shop has prices that are about 2 or 3 times what I'd be willing to pay, but he's been in business for a long time, so what the hell do I know. He also acts a lot like the comic book buy from The Simpsons.

There are a few places with decent prices, but all the good stuff seems to move really quickly.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:31:54 2014 No.1797852 Why do people think Final Fantasy Anthology is so valuab;e? I saw a guy displaying it in a glass cabinet and trying to charge 50 bong for it. Final Fantasy Anthology is one of the worst ports, people can barely give them away.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:34:22 2014 No.1797861

>>1795960
>Pretty much no retro stores here at all
>hear of one opening up in the area decide to check it out
> go in they seem to have a lot of shitty games
>then suddenly realize they only have games avgn has done episodes on
>Alarm bells.jpeg
>Nothing has a price on it
>ask how much for jekyll and hyde
>$50 bra it's ultra rare plus avgn did an episode on it
>Contain my rage long enough to walk out the door
>Retro stores never again

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:40:54 2014 No.1797891 >>1797861 That's a fun idea. ITT: Dumb shit resellers say. I'll start. >BUT PEOPLE REALLY DO BUY TOMBI 2 FOR £70 ON AMAZON

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:44:47 2014 No.1797904 >>1797852 >worst ports. Fuck you. Back then the SNES Final Fantasy games sold for 50-100$ because of FFVII hyping it all up. Anthologies was a god send for me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:46:26 2014 No.1797908 >>1797904 It doesn't really change the fact they were the worst ports.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:46:40 2014 No.1797909 >>1797904 Also to add on: they weren't easy to find just walking to your local Electronics boutique or whatever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:49:04 2014 No.1797918 >>1797908 That's true. I just wanted to say I think it's worth the price if you can't get your hands on the real games (which should be easy with ebay)

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:51:07 2014 No.1797924
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>>1797918
But anon, it is easier and cheaper to get the GBA versions and they are by the far more faithful experience. Besides, there is literally no demand for Anthology nowadays outside of gullible children thanks to emulation.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:51:51 2014 No.1797927

>Live In Colombia
>there are a place who sell vidya and thecnology (mostly illegally products evading tax)
>new games are expensive as fuck
>they think retro "old" games are a wasting of time

I fucking have a huge collection of nes/snes/genesis/dreamcast/gb/gba games and mostly only cost me $1-2 per game (rares included, they dont know what are selling)

I brought a neogeo pocket with 12 games and a wonderswan with 3 games in $10 because they thing its a "atari"

Sorry for my english

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:54:46 2014 No.1797940

Back where I used to live there was a small shop as part of a trading center. They had tons and tons of completely unorganized piles of games, consoles, comics, trading cards, figures, anime, manga, DVDs, and toys. Everything was just kind of piled on top of each other in their respective heaps. Some memorable ones:

Top loader NES with cords and dogbone
>$150

Gunstar Heroes CIB
>$80

Beat up N64 controllers
>$25 each

Virtual Boy missing everything (no visor, no stand, no controller or AC adapter)
>$120

Boxes and boxes of 2600 games
>incredibly commons (Pac-Man, Asteroids, etc) $3-5 each
>everything else $7-$10

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:59:57 2014 No.1797967 >>1797927 >I fucking have a huge collection of nes/snes/genesis/dreamcast/gb/gba games and mostly only cost me $1-2 per game (rares included, they dont know what are selling) >Cool Story Bra >Not showing pictures

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 22:10:53 2014 No.1797992 >>1797194 Damn, according to them prices I could sell of my game collection and retire.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 22:14:30 2014 No.1798004 >>1797216 To be fair anon, and this isn't in that assholes defence, having your eBay stock on shelf can cause problems if by chance somebody buys the copy on eBay after it is sold but before it is delisted.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 22:43:42 2014 No.1798103 >>1797803 >Castlevania 4 right out in front. I bet it costs like $3 too

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 22:58:07 2014 No.1798152

>Local game store opens up
>Go there after its been open for a while
>really fucking nice owners, give stuff away every time you buy stuff, so a free game with console and shit like that. Buy a mint chrono trigger for 30 bucks, really nice deals.
>Fast forward a few months
>over priced games, under priced actually rare shit
>I bought lufia 2 for 10 dollars.
>one or two workers actually know something about games, all generally nice people but the owners are clueless about video game stuff aside from general knowledge.
> I feel really bad for them, so I go and give them business some times.
>Fast forward a bit more
>More toys and anime unofficial merch than actual games.
>Terrible prices, they LITERALLY go to Ebay before purchase and then tell you

I like the workers for how nice and polite they are, but they suck major dick at this. One of the owners posts on /v/ about the store every so often and gets really pissed if someone complains about it.

The sad part is, the actual game collectors of the city (The ones that sell and trade) avoid them and generally rip them off. The guy I get my PS2 lots goes and sells them shit because they'll rip themselves off, offering twice as much for games worth pennies just because they're so misinformed.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 23:17:28 2014 No.1798227 >>1795960 here in down under the charge you $90 for n64's at flea markets

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 23:21:14 2014 No.1798242

>>1798152
It's really a shame to see good places go bad.

You know, a few years ago I had always wished for more of these retro video game stores to open up because there were none where I live. I feel like I ended up in some "deal with the devil" plotline where my wish came true, but with an ironic twist. There's a few around my area, and in NYC, but they all suck.

Except for one where accessories like memory cards and controllers are dirt cheap, and the prices on games are begrudgingly average for the current market, but still high. Their sheer number of stock is impressive.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 23:22:39 2014 No.1798251 >>1795960 fucking Toyratt, Milton, Ontario Super mario world 25$. fuck offfffffffffffff

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 23:25:56 2014 No.1798260 >>1796516 My....god.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 23:33:52 2014 No.1798281 >>1798242 >where my wish came true, but with an ironic twist Look up "The Monkey's Paw".

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 23:39:30 2014 No.1798298 >>1795963 I got it for $1 at a garage sale...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 23:43:05 2014 No.1798305 >>1796021 holy shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 23:44:36 2014 No.1798309 >>1796021 This is obviously a lie because the store was unrobbed.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 23:49:52 2014 No.1798326

>>1796516
This shit always gets me. I'm pretty sure even the most casual of casuals know SMB+DH is common as dirt.

It's always this and Sonic 2. Every game store near me has an entire shelf in the Genesis section just filled with $8-12 copies of Sonic 2. No one is going to pay your outrageous prices when YOU OPENLY DISPLAY THAT YOU HAVE ENOUGH COPIES TO BUILD A GOD DAMN DOGHOUSE OUT OF.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 00:37:22 2014 No.1798493 Wow I feel terrible for all of you. My local "retro" store is reasonably priced, has awesome/nice/knowledgeable staff. I get deals constantly.

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 04:06:01 2014 No.1799046
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>Move to a new town two and a half years ago
>A few months later realize there's a retro game shop right down the street
>Been driving past it for months
>Go in one night
>Small shop but they stock everything from current gen back to Atari
>Comics, DVD's, and tabletop games too
>End up leaving with F-Zero GX, Metroid Prime, and Pokemon XD for $25
>Been going there for my comic pull list and new games ever since, cashiers all know me by name now
>Most expensive retro games are never over $40-50, and the rare PS2/GCN/Xbox are usually only $20-30
>Go in last week to get a new charger for my GBA SP
>See they have some new SNES games in the case
>Castlevania Dracula X cartridge only for $125
Most expensive goddamn game I've ever seen in that store, and I'm still baffled.

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 04:37:13 2014 No.1799098
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>>1797310
This, it all depends on the store and if you can catch em slipping
/vr/ StoryTime
>Went to a relatively new retro store in the ghetto (they literally opened up the store in an old apartment)
>Look around and find (I couldn't believe my eyes) a JVC X'Eye, dusty and on the ground amongst other stuff
>Ask guy behind the counter about it
>Turns out the X'Eye was a fresh trade-in that had just come in earlier that day
>nevergonnagetachancelikethisagain.jpg
>Ask for a price
>Guy behind the counter says it's still untested and doesn't wanna sell it
>During the conversation, his boss comes out and joins in
>Boss says the only problem is that they'd feel bad about selling me a system that potentially wouldn't work
>I insist I would have no problem buying the console untested and won't complain if it didn't work
>Offer $90 for the console
>After much consideration, boss accepts the offer
>I thank my humble hosts for their consideration and blast process my way home
>Test it (on a Genesis 2 ac adapter, I know I shouldn't) HOLYSHITITFUCKINGWORKS

Pic related

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 04:50:51 2014 No.1799116 >>1799098 Tidy your room, Jesus.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 05:24:59 2014 No.1799152 >>1797079 Thanks based anon. I shall go and investigate.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 05:25:09 2014 No.1799153 >>1795960 >Shenmue for 70 pounds >I bought it for 15 bucks a month ago

Judge Reinhold Thu Jul 24 05:56:22 2014 No.1799174

>>1796819
:( I am sorry my friend, but you and I are in the same boat.

I have 1,2 and 3. I am convinced 4 doesn't exist.

The first guy I mentioned had 2 and 3 in stock last I saw, but I already had them so they may still be there, but 4 is a myth. Sorry.

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 05:59:37 2014 No.1799181

>>1795960
A local retro game / DVD store sells consoles for about 100 € each, no games, just wires and one controller. The price is pretty much the same for NES, SNES and Megadrive. Saturn & Dreamcast are even more expensive.

It's a shame because the owners are nice and they have a good selection of games, but the prices are just outrageous.

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 06:44:52 2014 No.1799263

>>1795960
Not a huge amount of stores that stock games for older systems where I live, but there's a few around. Most are fairly bit, or at least a bit iffy on prices or quality (I apologize in advance if not all of the examples are entirely /vr/ material, but it's been affecting more than just games up through fifth gen here, spilling over into sixth as well). Two that I know of are halfway decent for handheld stuff, but in most cases you're going to pay a LOT for older console games (stuff like SotN for $45, Koudelka for $45, etc). Also a Bookmans a few towns over that generally doesn't have all that good a selection, and tends to overcharge for the more worthwhile stuff (the place charges $40 for stuff like Eternal Darkness, Custom Robo, and even the occasional used strategy guide, even seen Koudelka there for even more than the other store, at $50). One used game store that has a habit of trashing another local store (one that is actually pretty good) simply because the store they're trashing is nearby and has been there longer; selection's decent but the prices tend to be pretty high and they put stickers on cart labels). Another smallish chain I know of out here is really inconsistent with prices; common or popular games tend to go for a good 2-3 times what they might at the best local store, like Metroid Prime 2 for nearly $30 as opposed to $11, while games from more niche genres like JRPGs go for a lot less than normal ($5 for Xenogears, $11 for Koudelka, about $10 for Fire Emblem Path of Radiance, $13 for Xenosaga Episode III, $18 for Wild Arms ACF, etc).

Only found one store that's consistently had good selection and good prices out here, and the employees are pretty damn nice, as well as both knowledgable and helpful. They tend to look at what a game goes for online, and dock at least a few bucks from the price (clear up to $20-30 for some of the more expensive games around, compared to the prices other stores have), and are even willing to price match.

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 07:06:35 2014 No.1799291

>>1799263
To add on to this, the real issue is that I still can't find a place at all with all that decent of prices for SNES games; even that reasonable one down there is still a bit too high for my tastes, even if they are still at least a bit cheaper than most of the places out here, but I suppose that's an issue plaguing prices for the system's library on the whole, at least as far as worthwhile titles go. And not even that one inconsistent chain stocks actual games for the SNES; only sports ones (and in general the oldest system they stock actual games for is the PS1), so no luck getting an odd deal there.

>>1796173
>>1796329
Where I live the only really expensive PS1 Final Fantasy game is VII, which tends to range from $35-50 depending on how badly the store wants to screw you.

>>1796259
I'm really not a fan of the local Bookmans. Especially after finding a scorpion in the case for a game I bought, but I suppose that's more of a personal issue than one regarding prices, selection, or quality.

>>1796404
To be fair with SFC Chrono Trigger (and I'm assuming you're being specific to the actual Japanese version), most places I know that take in Japanese imported games don't charge a lot for ones where you'd need to really know moon to get the most out of, like JRPGs, and as such won't give much for them either since the amount of local buyers for such things tends to be low. But offering a single cent is not something ANYWHERE out here would be liable to do.

>>1797154
I don't like most of the ones where I live, but the single good one is a great place to hang out, and if nothing much is going on, just browse, shoot the shit with the employees about video games, or try out some interesting games since they have a try it before you buy it thing with console games, as far as seeing if a game's something you like, or to just make sure it works.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 19:03:05 2014 No.1801173 I fucking hate retro stores nowadays.

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 19:59:19 2014 No.1801367

>>1801173
Some can be good, especially if they know what the other local ones do that annoy/drive away customers and go out of their way to avoid doing the same things. Just takes a bit of effort to find which ones are good, and admittedly if a good one is driven out of business, or falls to the same shit the other ones do, or just can't be found, it can be fairly disappointing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:02:01 2014 No.1801379 I just paid 100 bux for Rule of Rose with no manual. Should i return it? inb4 ps2 not retro hurbrrherbjhretbrjht fight me

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:05:37 2014 No.1801390 >>1796516 This is where I got>>1801379 but at the Chicago branch A month ago it was 80 bux. It was an impulse buy

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:09:17 2014 No.1801403

>>1801379
Up to you. Personally I always check to see if a game has a manual before buying it, or if it at least might have a cheap manual I can buy for it online, unless said game is at some ridiculously low price and good condition, where passing it up, complete or not, would be foolish (especially if it's one I've been considering playing).

If it seems like a game where a manual would generally be really helpful, you might want to look online to see if anyone's scanned it (granted, not every game, especially harder to find ones, has seen a manual scan done). At least then you can try to play it before deciding whether to take it back or something.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:13:12 2014 No.1801417 >>1801403 I was thinking about trying my hand at making a reproduction manual if needed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:21:47 2014 No.1801442 >Selling yellowed consoles Literally who would buy one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:28:51 2014 No.1801472 >>1795960 Holy fuck, I paid like $20 CAD for my SNES. At my local game store PS1 goes for about $10 CAD, two controllers and memory card. These prices are fucked.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:32:07 2014 No.1801487 >>1801379 Yes. I got rule of rose complete in excellent condition from eBay for 100 bucks. You will never find a rule of rose manual.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:34:22 2014 No.1801492 File: 48 KB, 500x375, 1405010858290.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1799291 >I'm really not a fan of the local Bookmans. Especially after finding a scorpion in the case for a game I bought

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:35:25 2014 No.1801496 >>1801442 I think for most people if it works, it's fine, yellowed or not.

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:36:46 2014 No.1801505

>>1801442
OP here.
The picture doesn't quite sell how yellowed it looked. It looked fucking nicotine stained to the extreme. I'm serious, it's so far away from SNES grey it hurts. And like I said, their PS1s were dirty and £40 except one for £35 that has 'oil leaking' from the controller. Literallly why?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:39:14 2014 No.1801508 >>1801379 >$100 for Rule of Rose >without manual My God, how did this game get so expensive? I paid $15 for it complete back in 2010 and that was Amazon pricing!

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:39:25 2014 No.1801509

>>1801492
Yeah, really turned me off from shopping there much (even beyond their usual selection being fairly poor, along with the prices on some games/systems). And it also killed a lot of my interest in even playing the game that had it in there (especially since a short while after picking it up, the apartment I moved to wound up infested with the little bastards, like I'd disturbed some cursed scorpion burial ground in buying that game; scorpion was already dead, but still quite unwelcome to find, and on the whole the entire game wound up in shitty condition apart from the manual, which was still salvageable).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:42:53 2014 No.1801510 >>1801508 >2010 Right during the PS2 wholesale period. Good find anon. Dump it on eBay and collect 85 dollars.

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:42:54 2014 No.1801512

>>1801508
Gamestop stopped stocking PS2 games a while back, and Rule of Rose has a bit of controversy behind it, which I figure factors in. Not even sure how well it sold.

But it's still one of a rather small group of PS2 games that are expensive these days, while most of the rest of the library remains pretty damn reasonable. Compare to Gamecube games, where even good selling ones can go for a good $30-40, if not more (especially for ones in Nintendo owned franchises).

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:44:06 2014 No.1801515

>>1801512
This is getting less and less true. Games like Dark Cloud 1 and 2 are both 30 bucks or so, and they were quite common. Generally some OK games can be found in the ~10-15 range fairly consistently but a lot of the games are all over the place in terms of pricing.

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:48:33 2014 No.1801528

>>1801515
True, prices have slowly been creeping up, but in general it didn't see the rather fast price hike most Gamecube games saw once Gamestop stopped stocking for them. And where I live Dark Cloud 1 only goes for about $10-15 in stores still, with the second being only $20 or so last I looked.

Not saying PS2 games aren't on the rise as far as prices go, just that they're still fairly reasonable and the time it's taking most to get up there is fairly slow. And I've noticed, at least where I live, that even if a game suddenly jumps in value online, it takes local stores a while to catch up. Like with Robot Alchemic Drive. Now goes for a good $50-60 used on Amazon, but I tend to still see it from time to time in local stores for about $18-25.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:58:07 2014 No.1801558 >>1801487 >>1801403 >>1801390 Its CIB on ebay and amazon

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 20:58:37 2014 No.1801562 Why the hell is lamecube so expensive, there is literrally nothing on there I will regret not playing before I die

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 21:12:42 2014 No.1801602 >>1796484 Oh. ...Oh, that's fucking bullshit then. My local retro game store sells a SNES for about sixty freedombucks.

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 21:15:15 2014 No.1801612

Prices at my local game store.

>Earthbound, 189 dollars
>Wild Guns, 165 dollars
>Challenge of the Dragon, 90 dollars

Those are probably the most expensive games they have right now. Just for example, y'know. Here's a few others I recall seeing.

>Contra Hard Corps for 25 bucks
>Neo Geo Pocket Color with Beast Busters for 50 bucks
>Genesis is about 30 bucks
>SNES is 60-70
>An NES toploader is about 90

Are these reasonable prices?

Anonymous Thu Jul 24 21:15:41 2014 No.1801613

>>1801510
Already sold it and all my ps1 & 2 games as a whole lot on craigslist for $300 (was asking $500). I could've easily gotten more but I couldn't be arsed to use ebay or amazon. At least I got the satisfaction of knowing that somebody got a good deal overall. It was 100 or so games give or take in case you're wondering.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 21:22:37 2014 No.1801632 >>1801612 Cut the prices down by about 33% and they'd be a lot more reasonable

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 21:39:52 2014 No.1801671 >>1798227 You think that is bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a61N8imsyxE&list=UUJECdHDB5KO1bkF2CSwbB1g

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 24 21:56:53 2014 No.1801702 >>1798281 Kanbaru, pls.

Anonymous Fri Jul 25 03:15:18 2014 No.1802643
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>>1796906
>Visit retro game store 4 months back
>Decently priced games
>Can't find Saturn games, ask where Saturn games are
>Points to place behind counter, stacked on the ground in the back
>later find out that none of them are priced
>Ask to see a few games, he brings stacks
>GOOD games
>Sonic Jam, Die Hard Arcade, Daytona USA Championship, Virtual-On, Fighters Megamix, NiGHTS, the list literally goes on
>None of them are priced, that's strange...
>Ask for the prices, guy writes down the names and goes to a computer to probably check the system
>"How often do you guys get people asking for Saturn games?"
>"You're actually the first in a few years" *ha ha ha*
>Look over his shoulder
>He's on eBay
>EBAY
>COMPARING PRICES
>"Hey, are you comparing to eBay?"
>"No. I'm in the system."
>mfw
>Upcharges the prices on eBay, wants more than already ridiculous eBay prices
>"Listen man, you're never going to sell them this way. I'll give you this much for these games..."
>"Sorry, that's the price in the system."
>Walk out
>Never go back

Saturn collecting is literally impossible, and retro stores make it infinitely worse. I've given up.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 03:16:50 2014 No.1802648 >sell game on ebay >buyer has 5500500505 postive feedback >niyger hasn't paid for his game to be sent in 2 days Fuck you if you don't have automatic payment set up.

Anonymous Fri Jul 25 22:39:50 2014 No.1805163

>>1801613
You're a good man, anon

>>1801508
Mostly due to the controversy surrounding the game itself. Apparently it was pulled from a lot of retail shelves due to the whole minors/violent/sexual content (same thing happened with the .Hack Quarantine dvd). Not to mention only 15,000 copies of Rule of Rose were made for NA

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 22:45:25 2014 No.1805190 Remember Play n' Trade? Why the fuck did they go out of business? They had okay prices from what I remember.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 22:49:21 2014 No.1805204 >>1805190 Play N Trade is a franchise. Every store is -- or was, anyway -- individually owned. It's not the company's fault so much as the store owner. That being said, I've heard really awful things about PNT's fees.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 25 22:50:29 2014 No.1805210 >>1801671 Quit posting your autism videos.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 00:54:37 2014 No.1805493 >>1797803 Super potato is cheap for some of there games

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 01:08:14 2014 No.1805529

>>1805190
The local one I had down here got fucked over by the guy that owned the corner they were on, as well as the distribution company they used for newer games. They're gone now, and were replaced by a dry cleaners and a Gamestop on the opposite corner of the street.

>>1805204
The one near me never had bad prices (at least compared to most other places out here at the time), if that's what you're getting at about fees.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 01:10:23 2014 No.1805531 Play N Trade in Kendall, miami had a nice collection of rare/uncommon NES games,3- 5$ per. I used to go there after work and buy 1-2. >dat first time finding city connection in the wild for 4$. Fucking bought it asap.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 01:16:17 2014 No.1805547

>>1805531
Yeah, the one near me was a pretty nice store with decent selection compared to most other places I knew of. Shame they didn't see much business in general since their store could only be seen when driving a single direction due to the angle, and they were forbidden by the owner of that corner to do any form of streetside advertising.

Took me a while to find another good local store that stocked older games and reasonable prices when they went under.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 02:47:28 2014 No.1805757

>>1797909
I dunno man I specifically recall seeing it at like a Babbage's back when it first came out. I think it got about as much distribution as most of Square's PS1 RPGs back then. Unsure why anyone would go out of their way to buy it because those loading screens to open the menu were atrocious.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 02:50:04 2014 No.1805762 >>1805757 Oh I was speaking of the SNES games specifically, being hard to find at the time because of the prices.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 02:59:29 2014 No.1805789

>>1805762
Sorry, must have misread it. Yeah, I remember Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III being in the 70-80 dollar range even as far back as 10 years ago. I think Chrono Trigger in particular didn't get a wide distribution due to it being at the end of the SNES's lifespan.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 12:18:53 2014 No.1806747 >Level Up Games - Canterbury >VirtualBoy sitting behind glass, £300 with Galaxy Pinball. >Has been there for 3 years and anyone who makes a lower offer is denied.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 13:17:58 2014 No.1806883 >>1805531 City Connection.............Rare? I got in in the wild for $2 in 2008 with some guy

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 13:22:30 2014 No.1806897

>>1806883
Where did I say it was rare?

I didn't actually. I was just mentioning they had quality games there. I was excited because in 10 years I had never found city connection in the wild ever (in good wills/thrift stores/game stores etc). It was on my buy list.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 13:25:33 2014 No.1806906 >>1805529 I'm specifically referring to the franchise fees in order to open and run a store.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 13:55:27 2014 No.1807005

>>1796906
Thank god i live in Rio
>Go to fairs around my place
>Buy loose untested retro consoles for dirt cheap
>Sell for double or sometimes triple the price for people who fix and resell them.
I did the same with a fucked up Ps2 slim, bought it for 15 hueais, sold for 40, it was missing a laser drive and with a broken motherboard.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 14:07:37 2014 No.1807035 File: 18 KB, 470x336, 1359762507321.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Live in Florida >there are no retro stores >only hope is Craigslist and Consignment stores that sell for ridiculous fucking prices

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 14:12:52 2014 No.1807046

>>1796168
>So i fucking worded it incorrectly,

No you didn't. You just tried to change the story after getting called out and are now trying to change that after getting called out for that. Stop being a little son of a fish and admit you got caught in the act.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 14:23:40 2014 No.1807080 >>1798227 That ozzybucks or freedombucks?

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 14:34:44 2014 No.1807117
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>go to local retro vidya store
>NES: 75€ / 100 US$
>SMB/DH: 17.50€ / 23.50US$
>never looked up the prices before, think the NES is a bit overpriced and the cartridge is decently priced
>back home, look up the prices
>mfw

Will I ever be able to obtain a cheap NES / SNES / PS2 (not retro, I know...)?
Recently, I've been visiting many flea markets, and they sell each game ~3 - 5€ / 2.70 - 6.70 US$.
I'd buy the games if I had the fucking console, I just have a PC. I will never have a good retro console, because I just have bad experience with online stores and ebay.

What else can I do, /vr/?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 14:35:44 2014 No.1807121 >>1807117 Just buy a FC twin or something until you find a cheap NES at goodwill or something.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 14:44:13 2014 No.1807149 >>1807117 I would buy a game even if I don't have the system, if it's a good deal and the game is interesting / a classic. I have several consoles I eventually want to pick up if the price is right.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 14:44:51 2014 No.1807151
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>everybody mad about retro prices
>my fucking face when I got a PS1, 2 controllers, a memory card, and GT2, 3, Nascar Racing and International Track and Field today
>For Ten Fucking Dollars

I don't even know what the fuck is going on anymore to be honest. Yardsales be some crazy shit mang.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 15:01:38 2014 No.1807192
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Any of you guys know some good places to look in North Carolina?

I know about the Trade-It stores in eastern NC and their prices are usually better than anything I've been able to find elsewhere. Edward McKay's is priced pretty highly and even the flea market at the Raleigh fairgrounds have people charging way too much. There was this one guy there who tried selling me a NES with no cables or controllers for 50 bucks saying it would go for 160 on ebay. He was the only person there who had anything video game related besides the two resellers inside, which had even more ridiculous prices.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 15:07:51 2014 No.1807207

>>1807117
I don't know where you live, but here (Italy) you can find pretty easily PS2 on various sites (similar to local Craiglist) for 25€ and less. I suppose could be the same where you live. Nes, Snes, Genesis etc... are more rare and quite overpriced, but seems that everyone in these days want to get rid of their PS2 and Wii, and even PS3/X360. That's out of topic, I know.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 15:19:14 2014 No.1807232 >>1807192 >I can totally sell this on ebay for 160$ but I'lll cut you a deal for 50$ anon since you seem like a swell guy lel

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 15:34:37 2014 No.1807265

>>1807151
PS1s tend to be pretty cheap since both the PS2 and PS3 are backwards compatible with the games for it. Not saying that $10 for that isn't still decent, but it's something of a different issue compared to systems that can still go for $55-100, depending on which one and location.

>yardsales
Wish my local ones would have decent games. Only found one, maybe two that did. Most of them only have sports or movie games from my experiences.

>>1807117
>SMB/DH: 17.50€ / 23.50US$
There's a store I know of that throws in a copy of that for free with purchase of an NES from them since they have so many copies. Not sure why people started charging $25 or so for those.

As for the NES, SNES, and PS2 systems themselves they're not too bad where I live. I don't remember exactly how much an NES goes for at the cheapest local store, but the SNES goes for $55 in good shape there, with the PS2 being $40-50, depending on the model (whether that's a worthwhile price depends on the buyer I suppose, but the system does allow for PS1 backwards compatibility with most PS1 games as well, basically giving you access to two systems in one, though you will need a PS1 specific memory card for playing PS1 games on there). Mainly the worthwhile games in the library for the SNES being expensive wherever you go that makes it bit hard for me to pick up, while the NES and PS2 libraries tend to be pretty reasonable out here still, save for a small amount of games that are noteworthily expensive.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 15:36:39 2014 No.1807271

>>1807265
The damn thing is in, as far as I can tell, mint condition. It isn't even dusty, and he had all the cases for everything besides GT3, which I just have piggy backing the GT2 case. And again, all of that stuff in fine condition for ten dollars. It makes literally no sense but I'm not complaining.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 15:43:12 2014 No.1807280

>>1807271
Oh and update, I just re-checked the GT2 case and it doesn't have the Arcade mode disc, which sucks. I suppose they thought GT3 was the second disc for the case, hence why they had it piggybacked. Oh well, I'm not a huge racing game fan either way.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 15:54:35 2014 No.1807305

>>1807271
Yeah, it's always surprising to find an older game or system in excellent shape and at a reasonable, if not outright cheap price. As far as /vr/ games go, I remember finding a copy of Klonoa PS1 a while back for $35 (at the time prices for it were a good $80 or so average), with the game being complete and in excellent shape, even having the little "other Namco game preview" booklet in it in great shape as well.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 16:09:05 2014 No.1807342 File: 89 KB, 679x657, 1406326279039.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1796404 >Earthbound $300

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 16:40:05 2014 No.1807414 >>1805493 Are there other retro-focused shops in Akiba, ideally with reasonable prices and with PC98s and MSX2+s and other wonderful things that aren't available in the US?

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 16:52:47 2014 No.1807442
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>>1797102
>>1802643
Saturn is sort of like the SNES where the Japanese games are cheaper for no apparent reason. It's not much of an issue for me, but that's probably because I focus on arcade ports like SRC and NBA Jam TE instead of text-driven games like Panzer Dragoon Saga.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 16:59:21 2014 No.1807459

Guess this is as good a place as any. Any fellow N Florida /VR/Troopers, I'd avoid the Pecan Park flea market if I were you. Only person there who is selling games seems to be paying off the owners to not allow any other vendors to sell games there, giving the asshole a veritable monopoly. As if this weren't already a shitty thing to dip ethically speaking, his prices are absolutely ridiculous, which he can get away with by eliminating all his competition. Just a PSA, avoid this asshole at all costs.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:00:20 2014 No.1807874
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Book-Off seems to have fair prices, but man, the selection is abysmal. Nothing but sports games for n64, psx... Even ps32 and GameCube is being snatched up. It feels like we need to already start collecting 7th gen before its prices shoot up in a year or so.

Found some fun stuff though, like this

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:04:58 2014 No.1807891 >>1807874 >cutting off the price of the Retro consoles out of that picture >Not Suspicious >asshole

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>>1807878
They do seem to be a good source for 5th and 6th gen hardware though. They had a whole pile of 50 dollar Dreamcasts. And this guy was 5 bucks and looked pristine. Is this an official dualshock? The part that plugs into the console looks odd and rounded.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:11:18 2014 No.1807923 >>1807891 What the fuck are you even on about bro I was taking a picture of the 3do. I even made sure to get the nes tploader in the shot. You want me to take a shot of anything specific? I'm still there

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:13:16 2014 No.1807930 File: 1.88 MB, 2448x3264, IMG_20140726_164607.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1807904 Wrong photo hurr

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:19:09 2014 No.1807956 >>1807874 >nintendo nes >$130.00 Holy shit. Just die already.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:21:53 2014 No.1807964 >>1807956 It's the NNES damn, super rare.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:25:00 2014 No.1807973 >>1807956 >being this much of a sperg I should have avoided the WAHH GAMES COST TOO MUCH thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:33:49 2014 No.1808000 >>1795960 are you shitting me on that shenmue? how much does shenmue 2 go for in britbong dosh? i found 2 at my flea market for some reason, didn't pick them up though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:46:33 2014 No.1808058 >>1807956 It's a 101 the first ds ever made

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:47:57 2014 No.1808063 >>1807923 You didn't show how much for the SNES and Genesis

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:52:44 2014 No.1808070

Ok, this thread makes me sick as a dog.
I couldn't open a retro store with the knowledge that I would have to overcharge on shit just to stay open. Most of my shit I sell at 50% Ebay prices, but some shit people STILL want cheaper.

SNES with 5 games? $35
NES with 5 games? $30
Genesis with 5 games? $25
N64, same shit? $25

various gameboy, GBA, SP stuff $10-25

I hate not hooking people up with deals, it makes me feel like a crook.

Seeing shit like FF7 that I would sell for $25 max go for $50+ in stores just boils my blood.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 20:55:43 2014 No.1808074 File: 32 KB, 640x480, 13816164816168161.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1795960 >Perfect Disks >Disks

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 21:05:02 2014 No.1808106

>>1808070
I wouldn't worry about charging a high price for a SNES, they are after all limited in supply, and if people really want to play SNES games but don't want to pony up for an original, they can get one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003O3EFY2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 21:05:26 2014 No.1808107 >>1808070 Same, I really want to open up a store in my area and try offering the best prices since everywhere else seems to be charging out the ass.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 21:06:07 2014 No.1808108 >>1808106 Do you even realize how unfunny you are? You are sucking funny out of the world. Every time you post shit like this is actually makes funny things less funny.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 21:06:55 2014 No.1808110 >>1808107 You and me both. Seriously if I ever come across a large collection of games for a good price, I'm going to think about that seriously.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 21:12:54 2014 No.1808131 File: 7 KB, 307x362, stereotype-jew.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1808108 Well if you really want, you can have an original, you just gotta pay the price! Can I interest you in a Gamegoy too?

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 21:13:13 2014 No.1808132

>>1808110
>>1808107
Then you're both idiots.

Used games stores are going the way of the do-do.

Why would you knowingly cripple yourselves financially knowing someone is just going to fuck you over? Not to mention the faith you have in your local community.

There is no reason to have a storefront, with a lease, hiring employees, and all that garbage to sell retro games. Just open up an eBay account, or make a fucking website, and offer local pickup at your apartment. Seriously.

Everyone on /vr/ who dreams of opening up a retro video game store has no fucking idea. Why would you sell FF7 for 20 bucks in store when you can sell it for 40 bucks reliably online? There are people willing to pay that much you may as well turn extra profit for it, without the hassle of employees, display cases, shelving, a computer system to manage inventory, credit card and debit machines... etc.

There are so many things associated with a storefront its insane. You'd be better off selling online with a spreadsheet of your inventory, cost to acquire, item sold for, and your profits.

Jesus /vr/, business isn't about having morality, its about making money.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 21:25:31 2014 No.1808162

>>1808132
>Jesus /vr/, business isn't about having morality, its about making money.

confirmed jew, disregard comment.

srsly though, it's BECAUSE i love games so damn much that I want others to have fun at a reasonable price. No one should pay more than 5 fucking dollars for SMW, it sold over 1 million fucking copies! No one should have to pay more than 100 bucks for shit like EB, MMX3 or CT. Why should we have to bend to this jew shit and just let ourselves and others enjoy games for what they were made for: FUN

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 21:38:57 2014 No.1808197 >>1808162 Every time that you sell a game for less than market price, someone who is the epitome of EVERYTHING that you hate is going to take it and immediately try to resell it at twice the price. Think about that.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 21:41:53 2014 No.1808210

>>1808162
>>1808197
>calling me a jew
Nothing jewish about me. You can take your child-like view of reality and go into crippling debt over it so you can "share your love" of gaming.

Facts are facts. This guy gets it >>1808197.
You sell a game that has the potential to sell for 80 dollars to someone for 40? He's going to flip it. 100% of the time.

Sure maybe he plays it first, or maybe hes a genuine collector. But once word gets around that you're the guy with cheap retro, you'll be out of stock of anything valuable and worth while, then left wondering why no one comes to buy anything anymore.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 21:59:13 2014 No.1808269

>>1808197
I've always entertained the idea of having a small game shop and price low, sell large quantity like the Japanese do, but every time I realize it's futile and that business model won't work here.

Businesses in America is too jew and no where near enough people take care of their shit for there to be such a large supply of good condition games that enable the low prices across the board like in nipland. As long as there's that condition disparity, and gaming is popular, resllers will always jew it up here and ruin it for the financially well-minded of us who enjoy retro video games. Disparity can't be remedied, and retro gaming being just a fad to pass is somewhat debatable.

Even selling on craigslist I worry my shit will just get flipped because of these fuckers. All I can do to avoid it is price high but right under retail (with haggling), accept trades (which only collectors will take the time to do), and mix my game lots with different genres of games that most people wouldn't typically buy together to identify potential resellers and high ball the fuck out of their low balls, that way their potential profits will be as little as possible.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:00:48 2014 No.1808276

>>1808162
Unfortunately, at the end of the day the main reason why prices are so high isn't because of the eeeevvviiil reseller scum (definitely A reason but not THE reason), but because there are people who are willing to pay for the stupid prices.

Like >>1808197 says if you try to be a saint and sell your games for a fair price, at best you will get a handful of people who actually like video games to walk home with a good game for a good price. But more often you will just get people who will exploit you.

Fair prices won't fix anything. The only thing that can fix this is if retards stop encouraging and enabling resellers to do what they do (unfortunately this will never happen).

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:06:35 2014 No.1808298

>>1808107
>>1808110
There's one store out where I live that tends to have great selection, reasonable prices for most games (ranging from about $2-20 cheaper than other places, depending on how much a given game costs), and the employees generally seem to have a lot of fun working there and are generally knowledgable and helpful as well. They also do stuff like cheap disc cleaning/buffing ($2 or so, and they get a lot of business on that end since nowhere else out here really does that to my knowledge) and cartridge maintenance, and while I do think they might normally have a harder time staying open by charging less, they tend to get a lot of business for a place that stocks older games due to just generally being a nice store with lower prices, and have Monday's off (allowing them to remain open all weekend when business is highest, yet still take a break once a week and probably save on utilities). It doesn't seem like they have that big an issue staying open either, since in the last year or so they opened a third store and are now considering a fourth one.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:11:47 2014 No.1808314 >>1808298 Sounds like a great place, where are those stores located?

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:23:33 2014 No.1808350

>>1808314
Not the same guy as >>1808298 but I'm guessing from the description that he's talking about fallout games in AZ.

Pretty good prices compared to the couple other local stores I've been to, I don't check much online but I think for the most part their prices are a bit cheaper

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:25:32 2014 No.1808357

>>1808314
I think they're only here in Arizona, though there's been some debate about where they plan to open a fourth store; think one of the locations being discussed is somewhere in California. Also seen people say they used to not be that good, but they've been my go-to store ever since the local Play'n'trade went under (shame, that store was pretty good and really damn close by as well) and I had to start doing some serious looking to find a another decent place for older games, since Gamestop drove most of them out of this area as they got bigger (another factor that probably helps them; they're in another part of town, and compared to down here where there seems to be a Gamestop every mile or so, there aren't nearly as many in those parts, with only two or so coming to mind). If they used to be bad, they've made an improvement since then. Seen far worse stores out here, both on the pricing and selection ends.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:26:42 2014 No.1808358
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>>1808210
not an 80 for 40, but maybe 55 or 60. i mostly sell to people who collect because they will be happy to pay that fair price and have it in their collection rather then sell it on ebay for resellers to resell.

i wouldn't open a fucking store because I know my area, its small and while there are people who love games, someone already tried to have a store open. nice big store, owner was a douche and clearly in it for the money. he would always tell me about the stuff he got dirt cheap and then say "hey, you want this FF3 for 60?". Glad he isn't around anymore, he was killing my flea market buying up EVERYTHING gaming related. didn't matter if it was atari or xbox, he just grabbed it.

i don't get why people think atari stuff will sell, i had a hard time selling my system and near 100 games (one of which was a porn game) for $75. other shit like resellers, i don't know how they can think their shit will sell when its priced like pic related. and no, that isn't a typo, its $75 dollars in that fucking condition.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:29:41 2014 No.1808367

>>1808350
Exactly the one I was speaking of. As far as I know, they tend to take the cheaper end of online prices, and dock at least a few bucks from that. And for ones that are expensive just about anywhere you look, they seem to wind up cheaper than other places by a good deal more; think I recall in the past seeing stuff like Suikoden II and Earthbound a good $20 or so cheaper than anywhere else out here, and in better condition too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:32:43 2014 No.1808372 >>1808358 >$75 for Beat up TMNT Hyperstone Heist >Puck >Got the game at $6 CIB in 2011

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:34:33 2014 No.1808378 >>1808358 >>1808372 I didn't pay shit for mine, and it's in pristine shape. It's not even fun. It's KILL TEN MILLION FOOT SOLDIERS, GET PIZZA, KILL THEN MILLION MORE. Turtles in Time shits all over it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:35:37 2014 No.1808381 >>1808358 Wow, I can't stand when fuckers at least don't take off the price stickers from when they bought it. That is an absolutely disgusting markup.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:40:53 2014 No.1808396 >>1808357 >>1808350 Aw man, I live on the east coast so that's not an option for me.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:42:00 2014 No.1808404 >>1808381 >>1808358 >FUCK, was $8 Before!, Sure Beat up but not too overpriced. >Reseller wants $75 >Reseller apologists try to defend this action >Fear of the "resellers destroy games they don't sell" to be truth

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:43:34 2014 No.1808408 Super Mario World - $279.99 >Only 1 left in stock - order soon!!!! http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-World-Nintendo/dp/B00002STXQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406428939&sr=8-1&keywords=super+mario+world

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:43:39 2014 No.1808409 >>1808357 is this in phoenix? im in tucson myself. if it is I wanna check it out next time im up there. we pretty much have Bookmans and Zia, then a couple of obscure stores that I havent been to in years because theyre across town.

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:45:07 2014 No.1808410

>>1808381
Not /vr/, but I know how that feels. Bought a new, sealed copy of Sands of Destruction off Amazon a while back since it was cheaper to apparently buy a sealed Canadian copy than it was to buy a complete, used US one (didn't help that it had been a long time since I'd seen a complete copy locally either). The game still had some "$15" price sticker on the wrapping when it arrived, similar to what Big Lots uses or something. Considering it cost me a good $20-25 more than that, the least they could have done was try to take it off before shipping it out.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:48:30 2014 No.1808428 The Legend of Zelda - NES $400.00 >+ $3.99 shipping http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Zelda-nintendo-entertainment-system/dp/B00004SVXW/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1406429198&sr=1-2&keywords=The+Legend+of+Zelda

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:49:57 2014 No.1808430 >>1808409 There's two stores in Phoenix and one in Tempe. Search for fallout games and you can find the addresses

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 22:51:08 2014 No.1808439

>>1808409
They have three Arizona locations: One in Phoenix, one in Paradise Valley, and one in Tempe (the latter being the one I use since it's closest). They also ship between stores, though while the Paradise Valley one can have stuff shipped to it, the chain owner won't let them ship to any of the other two stores yet since they're still trying to get that one to have some more business.

I think the Tempe Fallout might also be temporarily moving to another area in the same shopping complex sometime this summer, since they decided to expand into the store next to that one as well to have more room for stuff, and as such are going to have to renovate a bit. Granted, I haven't been in a while, so they made have undergone that already.

Are any of those places in Tuscon decent? Not a huge fan of the Mesa Bookmans, and the Zia Records I know of are pretty hit or miss.

>>1808396
Well, if you ever take a trip out this way it's something to consider possibly dropping by.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 23:00:16 2014 No.1808481 is bubble bobble complete in box for $40 a good deal, i got 3d world runner today for 2 bucks just cause i wanted it and it had a manual

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 23:04:45 2014 No.1808494
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oh, i have much MUCH more from this guy.
and he is like 60+ or some shit. i don't know why they think they can make money on stuff at these prices.

THIS is why I wake up super early to hit the flea markets, to save games from assholes like this so that they can be played, not sitting in the sun, bleached and dying.

And I told this asshole to lower his prices because, even from a business standpoint, he isn't going to make any money. He tells me "you don't know what your talking about, i sell these games all the time!". I could taste the lies sweating from his wrinkly brow.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 23:08:42 2014 No.1808513 >>1808494 Sheeeeeit, I'd pay $50 for the Legend of Zelda. And therein lies the problem. Retards like me will pay the retard price, which raises the prices for everyone else.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 23:09:23 2014 No.1808515 >>1808494 How early one should get? 5 am?

Anonymous Sat Jul 26 23:15:28 2014 No.1808536

>>1808515
i usually get to mine about 15-20 mins before, they usually have the gate open by then anyway, it will depend on your place. i've been going to the same market since about 1996-97 so i know that certain people are set up in certain places. i usually ask if people have games and then move on, though i try to let them set up first unless they put out games first.

only thing i can say beyond that is if they have kids toys or anything like that, they won't have anything /vr/ related usually.

>>1808513
no, no one is dumb enough to pay 50 for LttP, its just too damn expensive for 1 fucking game.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 26 23:46:38 2014 No.1808606 File: 865 KB, 370x281, 1404639704899.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1808494 I resell and even these prices amaze me

ApartmentRaptor Sun Jul 27 01:13:34 2014 No.1808828

Anybody who's saying it's not possible to sell retro vidya and charge a fair price is an idiot. I've been doing it at the flea market the last few weeks, making decent money, and blocking a few attempts by resellers to buy my shit. You can be fair, charge enough that people can't turn around and resell your stuff, and still turn a profit. It's easy to take what the average sold price of a game is online, and calculate what you would make after shipping costs and fees are taken out. If that math is too complicated for you, I guess I can understand why you're bitching about how much retro games cost.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 01:13:56 2014 No.1808829

>>1807305
Well I just got around to checking it out itself, and I was wrong about one thing:
The optical drive is bad. And it's not the laser, I can't even try OUT the laser. The motor itself is screwed, and it won't spin even if I hold down to button inside the tray. So I guess I'm gonna have to put the cost of another optical drive and ten minutes of work into this after all, but it's not so bad.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 01:27:01 2014 No.1808884 >>1807973 >>>/v/ And stay the fuck out, reseller scum.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 01:30:39 2014 No.1808901 >>1808828 >and blocking a few attempts by resellers to buy my shit How? and how can you tell they're resellers?

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 01:42:39 2014 No.1808939

>>1808828
No one is saying you can't turn a profit.
You can.

But you can't turn a profit and have a fixed location. You're at a flea market. You're not paying the lease on a building or managing employees.

You're basically eBaying your shit, without actually using eBay.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 01:48:39 2014 No.1808957 >>1808939 There's also tax and business licenses if you want to do it right and legit.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 01:55:49 2014 No.1808983

>>1808828
I always wonder what you guys who want to be "honest" and shit would do if you came across one of the super expensive games? Magical Chase, Tron Bonne, Panzer Dragoon Saga, all those games?

You going to sell it to Joe Schmo for 60 bucks? I don't think so.

I think you'd do what everyone else would do, and sell it on ebay for the price it commands because humans are inherently greedy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 01:59:19 2014 No.1808993 >>1808901 with a few simple questions you can tell

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 01:59:53 2014 No.1808996 frenchpet did a video on this a long time ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgMmYKFiMIM&list=UU1I3MQ5WFq3pQcbXNlQshJQ

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 02:11:54 2014 No.1809032 >>1808996 >literally who Nice self post.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 03:38:21 2014 No.1809236 I found an Oddyssey in box in my area for 100 with everything included, would it be worth it for that price? Might try to talk him down to 75-80

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 03:40:07 2014 No.1809243 >>1809236 You mean Abes Oddyssey? Or the console? if game, you're a retard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 03:41:10 2014 No.1809250 >>1809243 No no I mean the old console. Everything seems to be in very nice quality tbh

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 03:45:12 2014 No.1809267 File: 95 KB, 779x170, 1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1809250 Always check ebay. Here's a boxed one for 50.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 03:47:51 2014 No.1809276 >>1809267 Just to note: that's a oddyssey 2. My mistake. (I think it's better though) But yeah check ebay/amazon prices to compare.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 03:48:26 2014 No.1809279 >>1809267 That's an Odyssey 2. Lowest I could fin of an Odyssey 1 boxed was 150, but it was the first model run (1972, where as the one I found was made in 74)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 03:50:34 2014 No.1809286 >>1809279 Seems to be pretty scarce online. If it's in good condition for 70$ it might be a good deal.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 03:53:53 2014 No.1809298

>>1809286

I emailed the person in question if I could stop by (they surprisingly live stupid close to me.)

The guy said he got it for Christmas in 73 (interestingly enough the model it is wasnt made till 74, so I hope his memory is just off and he's not trying to bullshit)

Hopefully I can talk him down just a bit. I'd be very comfortable with 75

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 03:55:13 2014 No.1809301 >>1809298 Even 100 might be good... like theres only 2 on ebay for 150-250 minimum bids. Make sure you test it in store if possible also. Shit's ancient.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 03:58:03 2014 No.1809308 >>1809301 Hopefully it will be testable With stuff ancient like this even stupid shit like the switchbox can do you in.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 04:11:31 2014 No.1809334 i seen someone selling a dvd full of roms and emulators for them on ebay for 15 euros

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 04:26:30 2014 No.1809360 >>1809334 lol.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 07:57:25 2014 No.1809553 Do know any good retro stores in Sweden? Kaptenkrok?

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 08:02:35 2014 No.1809561

>>1809553
Uppsala anon here.
Well, because GAME is trying to take over the market the few in my area have died.
I find a lot of old video games in thrift shops and old electronics shops though. Like, if you find a place selling old stereos, tapes, LP discs etc. There is a good chance they'll have old video games as well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 09:10:13 2014 No.1809634 >>1796078 This place? http://gamesmartyardley.co.uk/index.html

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 09:17:08 2014 No.1809639 >>1797092 PS1 in 16:9 on an LCD, fuck off outta here

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 09:21:14 2014 No.1809647 >>1808983 If it is a game i want to play I will buy it If it isn't then no reason to buy it since I don't sell anything I buy

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 09:22:16 2014 No.1809651 Any retro game stores in Germany?

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 10:18:02 2014 No.1809729

Found a retro store in my country and asked a little about prices. The consoels they sell seem to be expensive but it's money I'd pay one way or anothe rfor Ebay shipping so it might be worth to buy some of the things they sell.

Super Famicom for 120 bucks and a Genesis for like 100 bucks. Gamecube for 170 which is pretty expensive. I'm thinking of either getting the Genesis or the SFC>

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 10:45:21 2014 No.1809764

>>1809729
>SFC
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00362J5I2/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1406471583&sr=8-1&keywords=super+famicom&condition=used
Honestly I haven't done much research on SFC prices, but when even Amazon has better prices, you know you're getting jewed, hard. I know that for an American SNES, even the scummiest of resellers don't go beyond $70.

>Genesis
Completely unreasonable. Wouldn't pay one cent over $30 for any model Genesis.

>GCN
fucking lel, are you sure they didn't mean $17? You could make a fort out of Gamecubes for $170

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 10:47:38 2014 No.1809769

>>1809764
I never actually ordered from Amazon because a lot of the sellers don't ship internationally. Also, I have a model 2 Mega Drive but it's malfunctioning so I'd rather get a new one.

About the Gamecube, the prices I found on Ebay weren't too good either. You think I should try Amazon?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 10:48:44 2014 No.1809772 >>1809729 Depending on what shipping to your country is like, Id happily sell you my spare GameCube for less than that.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 11:07:31 2014 No.1809804

>>1809769
Gamecubes seem to have gone up ridiculously in price recently, I don't know why. I remember a time when you would be openly mocked for selling any higher than $20, now I can't find one for under $30 console only. The bubble must be expanding.

In any case, I wouldn't be afraid to buy console only, AV cables + AC adapter shouldn't run for more than $10 total. The biggest problem will be official GCN controllers which can go for $20-$30. In any case you definitely should not shell out triple figures for a Gamecube

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 11:10:16 2014 No.1809812

>>1809772
If you live in the US you might as well forget about it, shipping costs are terrible.

>>1809804
I only really want one for the GB player so I'd have an excuse to buy GBA cartridges again. I have a Wii an unofficial gamecube controllers that work good enough.

ApartmentRaptor Sun Jul 27 11:56:10 2014 No.1809928

>>1808939
I'm at a flea market for now, but my goal is to eventually move to a physical location, which is what one the local guys at a market here did. For now, working a time consuming but fairly well paying day job, I can't move to a physical locale just yet.

>>1808983
I don't actually own Tron Bonne or PDS yet, so those I would keep. And likely, I wouldn't sell it at my shop not simply because greed, but because nobody would buy it. I probably would set it at 60, though. There's fair, and then there's dumb. PDS for example regularly sells for over $300. Likely I'd put it out for a day at $200 - $250, see the lack of interest, then sell it online because nobody goes to the flea market with that kind of cash. Maybe if I had a physical storefront and I want worried about paying my bills for the month I'd let it sir in a case for a while.

>>1808901
Ask, I've not had once person lie to me yet, they pretty much all admit it. If they don't, you can also tell by the way they try to haggle, and what they go after. Collectors generally go after legitimately rare games, players want stuff they played as a kid, and shitty resellers want to grab everything they see with Mario or Zelda, then try to get you to mark it down 75%. If someone asks you for "your marios," they're 99% of the time a reseller. Beyond that, it helps to know the people in your area, you'll recognize some faces after a while, and you'll learn who and who not to deal with.

>>	ApartmentRaptor Sun Jul 27 11:57:45 2014 No.1809929 *Wouldn't sell it at 60

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 12:33:20 2014 No.1809994
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Rule of Rose Guy here.I dont think I'm going back to the Chicago exchange anymore.

>Went up to register with some hipster girl who looks like shes more into the music section of the shop then video games
>Tell her I want to return the games, I got ROR cheaper online for 80 and this edition has no manual.
>She asks me if I want to trade in the copies for something else. I tell her politely hey no thanks
>She informs me that there is a restocking fee of 15% on your purchase
>What? I'm kinda pissed because 15% of my 117 dollar purchase came out to 15 bux I lost.
>I know its not her fault but I'm still pissed.
>"I can literally just walk to the case and put it in myself I'll do it for free"
>She laughs but says sorry its store policy says >"Its like a rental fee" That kinda annoyed me but I let it slide

Skip to here if you want to know why I sperged out.

>>Two other employees behind the counter one is this weeabo philipino girl that loudly talks about naruto all the fucking time and the other was just some dude.
>They start talking about customers who return games right infront of me
> Guy:"who returns games because the manual is missing?"
>Grill: "No some people are really picky about that kind of stuff
>"Guy: But what does it matter? I mean I get it for skyrim because the game has a map and you need it but for games that dont need the manual whats the point"
>Girl:" Well thats how you can tell when someones not about the game themselves they just want it for their shelf" or something I couldnt here the last bit
>Me: Who the fuck is this bitch and why does she think she knows what I'm about
>"Wow I can tell you guys dont collect much but thats cool when I'm paying 100 dollars for a game I want it to be complete."

They just scoffed and walked away from the counter. I'm probably not going back. I knew the game didnt have a manual when I bought it I just didnt look closely at ebay/amazon prices and only saw a few copies for 200+ so I bought it on impulse

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 13:30:02 2014 No.1810085

>>1809994
I hate those people who think nobody but their friend can hear them when they're having a conversation, and then look surprised when the person they're shit-talking calls them out on it.
Verbal communication in public isn't the same as chatting, you assholes.

Anyway, to lighten up the mood of the thread, here's a good story!
I got a rather great deal today. Went to this church driven charity thrift shop and found boxed, like new, copies of dungeon keeper, caesar 3, civ 3, starcraft, gta2, nox, mechwarrior 4 vengance and dungeon keeper for about 30$ combined. Pretty happy about it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 13:31:30 2014 No.1810089 >>1809729 >Please Jew Me

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 13:45:37 2014 No.1810118 Any NJ residents here know anywhere good? Only reliable place I've gone to for old vidya is Collingwood Flea but that shits an hour away

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 13:49:45 2014 No.1810125 Whats the deal with Goodwills? My local ones want $5 for all disk based games, which doesn't sound bad, but all of the games they have I could get shipped to my house for that much. Very rarely is there something worth picking up for that price.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 15:01:51 2014 No.1810289

This fucking shit pisses me right the fuck off, there's so many fucking fakes taking pricies up the ass shitting all over everything we spent years playing with this fucking retro video game bubble fucking metroid at NINETY FUCKING DOLLARS for a cracked cartridge with a cumstain and some shitfuck kid name on it cause some fat fucking housewife who can barely roll her shitty ass out of her sweatstained bed to get on her hoverround to go down to the yardsale thinks shes hitting the big money cause some fuck is selling it for $110 on ebay even though he hasn't sold the piece of shit after six. FUKKKING. years. of trying.

people getting and playing games on a large scale is the worst thing that ever happened to videogames, the fucking CAKE IS A LIE XD and LEROY JENKINS faggots never fucking looked twice at a gameboy now are shelling out thousands of dollars EACH for shitty retro fake shit and LOL HATS that is nostalgia driven for a time they didn't even experience because they lived later than the time. and they're just eating it up anyways because its so fucking hilarious

I wish the videogame industry would ahve stayed crashed I would rather be sitting on a goddamned milkcrate playing quake and zdaemon on a shitty free internet from kmart on a 56k modem than getting fisted up the ass everyday by the fucking industry the way its become with the keys to play and always on BOTNET, shit I would exhibit symptoms of colon cancer if it would undo the shit that has been done to the nowadays because its too far gone for anything else.

I hope everyone involed with LEL XD Sooooooo REDDITRO NERD :D:DD gets a septic fungal infection and it rots off their dicksandcunts and they spend days in the hospital in agony dying with nobody around them alone not even the nurses give a shit about them then they can know the true suffering they brought on us and why we fucking HATE these phony sacks of human putridescence SHIT.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 15:10:58 2014 No.1810298

>>1810125
It's really just about getting there when they put new stuff out. Most thrift stores nowadays are filled with ebay reseller fucks who go grab a huge stack of games go into the corner and start looking them up one by one seeing which ones they can jack the price up on. A lot of times employees get them before they even go out on the floor, too. Just have to get lucky.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 15:13:04 2014 No.1810304 >>1810289 ............kay?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 15:41:53 2014 No.1810398 >>1810289 ebin xDDD

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 16:08:25 2014 No.1810514

Live in suburban California, and have to drive about an hour to get to any place selling older games. There's one store with tidy store and an okay selection, but their RPGs and big name titles are always way overpriced. Earthbound complete for 1000, Lunar Silver Star complete for 150, Koudelka complete for 80, Warriors of the Eternal Sun cart-only for 33.

On the other hand, there is a store that is not so tidy in a kinda shitty part of town. Their prices are pretty good, and they will throw in a twenty percent discount on total purchases if they randomly feel like it. They also have this giant backroom full of unsorted old games which they may or may not let customers into, depending on who's working, and their mood. Place is dirty as fuck though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 16:26:46 2014 No.1810591 >>1796021 This must have been a money laundering front for drug dealers.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 16:31:38 2014 No.1810615

>>1810514
>Koudelka for $80
Geez, and I thought some of the local stores out here charging $45-50 was bad. Glad I found a complete copy last year for $12; didn't even know it was that expensive, just that it was related to Shadow Hearts, which I had been meaning to play.

>>1810125
My local Goodwills (and Savers) have fucking nothing worth buying as far as video games go. Not sure if people out here have bad taste in games, or simply refuse to donate actual worthwhile games to them, or if there's just scalpers that make daily rounds picking up whatever decent game they can find at them for the purpose of resell. I don't trust ordering online from them either. Not exactly retro, but I once saw an Amazon Goodwill account selling Shadow Hearts Covenent for about half the price it usually is. Asked the seller if it was complete and in good shape. They responded that it was complete, but dodged the question about condition. I figured that I could take the risk on it and if anything else, it might be a learning experience since I had not ordered from Goodwill before. Turns out the cover art, case, and manual were pretty damn beat/torn up, with only the discs being in decent shape. Haven't ordered anything from one of their Amazon accounts since (and thankfully was able to find someone selling a much better condition cover and manual).

>>1809729
>>1809769
That is way too much for systems if you ask me. Especially the Gamecube, which has been a case of the game library and some of the peripherals going up in price, but not the system itself where I live. System should only b about $25-30, at least by my local prices out here. Granted, if you live elsewhere, I don't know exactly how much those amounts translate to in US dollars, but that still seems outrageous.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 16:35:14 2014 No.1810626
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>>1809994
>>"Guy: But what does it matter? I mean I get it for skyrim because the game has a map and you need it but for games that dont need the manual whats the point"

>I mean I get it for skyrim because the game has a map and you need it

Oh my fuck

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 16:47:59 2014 No.1810675

>>1809994
Wow. You know, the least they could have one was waited until you weren't in the store anymore.

On that note, most stores out here tend to be understanding about the desire to have a complete copy of a game, especially an older one where you might need the manual if possible. Not everywhere operates off the typical Gamestop-style logic of "it's the disc itself you want. Why does the case and manual matter?" And even the bad stores out here don't make insinuations like those two people you found do.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:11:12 2014 No.1810758 File: 1.83 MB, 3264x2448, 1406495472565.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1801379 I just got this a couple months ago, in April.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:16:42 2014 No.1810779 >>1810758 Out of curiousity, where do you live that your local Goodwills have actual games like that? Because at best the ones where I live just have sports and movie games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:25:47 2014 No.1810818 File: 107 KB, 960x720, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Just got all of this for 200$. How'd i do? 1/2

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:26:48 2014 No.1810829 >>1810818 Good deal so far.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:26:51 2014 No.1810830 File: 104 KB, 960x720, 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1810818 2/2

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:28:14 2014 No.1810843
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>>1810779
I live in a city just north of Toronto. There's usually absolutely nothing good at the local thrisft stores, but I got lucky. Got everything in pic related for $31.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:28:34 2014 No.1810847 >>1808378 >turtles in time shits all over it fanboy please, turtles in time is pretty much the same thing except it runs slower, has worse animations, worse music, worse controls. The only thing it does better is have a couple more levels.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:30:00 2014 No.1810853 >>1810830 200$, could probably make 300+ off it, so good deal.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:30:12 2014 No.1810856 >>1810843 Neat. Think I actually remember seeing you posting about that when you first found that stuff.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:31:30 2014 No.1810862 >>1810853 err, I meant can probably sell all of it for 300+ so, pretty good profit.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:34:59 2014 No.1810881 >>1810818 >>1810830 >Banjo Kazooie >Kirby 64 >Jet Force Gemini >BOMBERMAN HEROES >CONKER >BOTH PIKMINS Fuck i am beyond jelly.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:38:17 2014 No.1810896

>>1808439
Yeah, really Zia has a shit selection and they used to have decent vr prices. I got LTTP for 20$ a few months ago which isnt great but it could be worse. theyre much better for music. Bookmans is hit or miss, prices differ between stores (theres 3 of em), but usually they price at the lower end of ebay prices. I got smb3 and 2 for 10 bucks each. this next paycheck ill check out metrognome (a used music/instrument/retro stuff shop) im hoping it might be decent, I never hear anything about it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:40:25 2014 No.1810905 >>1801602 Mine sold me a cib with Super Mario World for $90. It's a solid deal until you realize the games are where you're fucked. I have 71 coins on 99gamers but everything is like, double the price on there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:42:40 2014 No.1810918 File: 12 KB, 194x260, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >local store that sells old and new games >boxed Alex Kidd in Shinobi World for 5€ >loose Wonder Boy: Dragon's Trap for 20€ I picked up the Shinobi World though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:44:34 2014 No.1810924 File: 54 KB, 500x330, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >local store that sells old and new games >boxed Alex Kidd in Shinobi World for 5€ >loose Wonder Boy: Dragon's Trap for 20€ I picked up the Shinobi World.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 17:55:00 2014 No.1810958

>>1810896
I wouldn't say Zia's always shit, as their inconsistent prices can mean the occasional really good deal if they get something good in that doesn't get hit with scalper prices the way some of the games they tend to get in are. But more often than not their selection, especially of /vr/ related games, tends to be pretty bad. The one closest to me only really seems to stock for the PS1, with Dreamcast having the next highest amount as far as retro games go. SNES, NES, and N64 barely have anything worth picking up when I've been there; all mainly just sports games. And the one time I did see some decent stuff for those (Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie with the carts in great shape for $15 each), I didn't really have the spending money for them.

Where's that metrognome place located? Might want to check them out sometime.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 18:00:46 2014 No.1810981 >>1810924 nice haha how did they fuck up so bad

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 18:08:49 2014 No.1811010
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>>1795960

>Recently decide to hit up the local flea market
>Outside is pretty much devoid of anything worthwhile, knockoff goods as far as the eye can see.
>Inside has a shop with some vidya
>10 bucks for a Genesis controller
>Sim City for the SNES, 30 bucks
>Pilotwings, 40 bucks

Fucking garbage, I couldn't believe someone would even consider selling something for that much. I asked him about the prices on two different items, and they guy would immediately cut me off by saying, "No, it's 40, NO, it's FORTY".

Told him to fuck right off, that shit is robbery.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 18:09:46 2014 No.1811015

>>1810958
Yeah,I love Zia mainly for their records, I was just saying their /vr/ selection isnt usually very expansive. I agree though, occassionally a good deal can be had there. Metrognome is on speedway around country club I think. Youre in Tucson then, yeah? You know of any other places?

Its really cool to know that some /vr/os are Arizonans.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 18:20:27 2014 No.1811051
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I miss the days of being able to pick up retro games for pocket change at flea markets. Hell, 7 years ago I picked up an atari 2600 in box with 30 games and 2 controllers for $20 and only 5 years ago I picked up a complete GameCube with 2 controllers and 2 games for $5.

Those days are long gone...

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 18:32:39 2014 No.1811092

>>1811015
Not Tuscon, but Chandler. There's nothing dedicated to older used games in Chandler itself (the amount of Gamestops drove pretty much any place that doesn't do multimedia, like Zia, out), but there's some options in the surrounding parts like Tempe, Mesa, and Gilbert. Not all of them are that good though. Best one I personally know of is Fallout Games, which I've mentioned earlier in the thread.

There's also a few other stores in Tempe besides them, but they tend to be hit or miss, and one of them apparently has been leaving fake Yelp reviews about Fallout treating customers poorly (I go to Fallout pretty often and they never seem to treat people poorly; they've been pretty damn good since I've started going there), since both stores are fairly close. Bookmans in Mesa is also hit or miss. I've found some decent stuff there that I've been looking for from time to time, but they generally don't have what I'm looking for, or charge too much (not exactly /vr/, but I'm not inclined to pay $40 for a Gamecube game I can get for a good $15-20 cheaper at Fallout), or the gams simply aren't in the best shape. Also the scorpion thing, but that's more of a personal reason I don't like them much.Gilbert has one store I know of, but they tend to charge WAY too much for games I'm interested in, at least from what I've seen. Still, you can find the occasional good deal there. Found a cart only copy of Aria of Sorrow (not /vr/, just using as an example) in excellent shape for a mere $12 when it goes for $25-30 cart only elsewhere out here.

Going to have to continue in a second post.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 18:34:02 2014 No.1811096

>>1811092
I honestly just stick to Fallout and the local Zia for the mot part. Fallout for decent all around selection and generally reasonable prices compared to other stores, and Zia for the occasional good deal where a game gets mispriced in a good way.

I'd like to check out some of the other places that might be down in Phoenix, but it's a bit hard to justify going down all the way there just to look for games unless I already have business to take care of down there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 18:42:00 2014 No.1811130 >>1795963 >FFVII I managed to buy this for £17 (non-platinum).

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 18:44:30 2014 No.1811143

>>1811092
>>1811096
It really irks me how far people go to get business. Trying to trash a small, honest local business with fake yelp reviews is fucked. Next time I go up to that area to visit some friends ill definitely go check Fallout out and try to give em some business. If this thread is still alive on wednesday, ill let you know if the prices/selection is any good at metrognome.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 18:47:52 2014 No.1811160 >>1795960 Don't get me started.

Anonymous Sun Jul 27 19:57:35 2014 No.1811386

>>1811143
As stated earlier, Fallout has two other stores, and the Tempe store can get shipments from the Phoenix one, so if there's something you're looking for that they don't have, they're more than willing to call up another store and ship it to whichever is closest (the Paradise Valley one still can't ship out though, as that one needs to get some more business and people knowing about it since it's the most recently opened one). Also, while cheaper than pretty much everywhere else I've seen out here, games for certain systems like the SNES and Gamecube are still a bit high, so just don't be going there expecting stuff to be too low.

And yeah, I think the whole deal with that other store trashing Fallout is a bit sad. As far as I know, Fallout's been there longer and is generally on good terms with the other stores out here (in the since that if not one of their stores is carrying something, they will recommend some other local stores as options if one is not willing to keep checking back for a game/system), except that one due to the yelp review thing (they're pretty damn certain it was that other store doing the reviews since those only started cropping up immediately after that one opened; makes me wonder if they do that to another relatively close one down there as well, or if they just focused it at Fallout, and thankfully I don't think it's impacted Fallout's business too much).

And cool. If this thread isn't still up on Wednesday, just wait until a new one shows up to mention if Metrognome is decent.

>>1811130
Lowest general price I see for FFVII is about $35, ranging all the way up to $50 at other stores here. Outright cheapest I've seen it for was $12 at a Zia Records (most of the PS1 Final Fantasy games seem cheap as hell there from my past experiences), but it was admittedly kind of faded and the plastic on the back was turning brownish or something.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 21:28:59 2014 No.1811731 >>1797861 >>$50 bra it's ultra rare plus avgn did an episode on it HAH

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 27 21:29:56 2014 No.1811735 File: 18 KB, 306x237, pac man gets serious.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1795960 >Pac-Man World 2 >50 fucking quid CHRIST.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 00:16:57 2014 No.1812289 >>1810289 nice pasta

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 05:46:35 2014 No.1812884
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Look out for yard sales, OP.
You'll never know what you can get.

I got all of this plus the system for $15 at one, while my nearby "retro" store would sell each game $10 a pop.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 05:54:58 2014 No.1812892 >>1812884 If the amp was included in on that $15 then damn nigga u did gud.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 06:01:16 2014 No.1812897

>>1807192
Same thing at a yardsale the other day, woman wants 80 euros for a fat PS2 telling me "you know, there are some people collecting videogames and they are paying 300 euros to get a PS2, I could totally sell it for that price on the internet"
What's wrong with people and old vidya? more and more think that "retro" = rare or/and expensive.

The worst part is when you see only sports games at stands, people telling that the other ones have already been sold to that guy with the video game stand.
You go to his stand there are plenty of old systems, cartridges and cds dying under the sun cause the guy is too stupid to protect them. That same guy also labels games as SM/DH as "rare" and puts a 20euro sticker on it.
So much rage every time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 06:57:47 2014 No.1812965 File: 234 KB, 1341x684, lies.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I just went on the CEX website because I don't really know, and this little message popped up. I'm so mad right now.

>>	i ain't tripfagging !!UCnc1JMdFaF Mon Jul 28 07:13:41 2014 No.1812975 >>1812892 that's not even a real amplifier. what the fuck is that thing?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 07:16:37 2014 No.1812980 >used bookstore that gets tons of old games in and they go for good prices >know the staff at a local mom&pop used game store (and MTG, but this is /vr/) and get massive brodeals on everything Feels good

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 07:26:52 2014 No.1813000 File: 37 KB, 469x563, quiet.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1797891 >mfw

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 07:29:07 2014 No.1813003 >>1795960 What store is this OP. I would suggest rewind as well but some one has beaten me to it.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:11:13 2014 No.1813070
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>go to retro game shop in my city
>see a copy of little samson with no price listed
>ask employee how much little samson is
>employee says he doesn't know, has to ask owner
>owner comes out, older effeminate gay man who appears to be in his 50's
>says the game is $400 but that we can work something out if I really want it

And that's the story of how I got bukakked by 5 men for a video game

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:15:18 2014 No.1813078 >>1813070 iz gud deal

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:23:01 2014 No.1813081 >>1796021 >have to deal with basketball americans and beans everywhere If you're going to be racist at least call them niggers and spics

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:24:36 2014 No.1813085 >>1805163 Was Rule of Rose literally only 15,000 for NA? That would explain its price and why my copy will be worth more in 5 years

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:26:53 2014 No.1813087 >>1795960 why are PAL gamecube games so fucking expensive? Why is TP £60!?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:27:52 2014 No.1813090 >>1807080 ozzybucks mate

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:29:55 2014 No.1813092 File: 272 KB, 636x875, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1813070 I was one of those 5 men

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:35:50 2014 No.1813098

I just want to add that occasionally big eBay sellers set up huge sales
>just bought FFVII for 26, complete black label (misprint), FFVIII for 17 complete, including the secondary mini-walkthrough, legend of dragoon black label for 22, complete again.

They aren't super deals, but they're definitely more reasonable then then 40+ FF7 commands.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:38:59 2014 No.1813103

>>1796906
>>1796919

At least you have a retro store near your city guise.

The only way I can get into retro gaming is emulation, exclusively.

To get some retro stuff, I need to track down a particular person to buy his stuff, asking here and there...

That's why my collection ascend to 12 PS2 games, a PS2, a DSi Xl, a flashcard for the DSi and 3 original Disney Games.

I'll never buy overpriced shit for reseller scums, but I think it would be fun to see lots of /vr/ stuff in a store, all togueter...

Red-on-left-and-right-and-white-in-the-middle kun here

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:43:32 2014 No.1813108 >>1796232 >people would prefer all retro video game anything to be dirt cheap. Well yeah, of course those of us who are only interested in playing games and not making a buck would prefer if everything /vr/ was dirt cheap.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:44:32 2014 No.1813109
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>live in Ukraine
>there is only one decent vidyagaming shop in my town
>used PAL n64 with two controllers for $50
>used Dreamcast covered in dust and dirty fingerprints with no controllers/peripherals for like $70
>sealed shenmue 2 jap, complete in slipcase for $80
>used Panasonic 3DO FZ-1 in original box for A FUCKING $250
Such is life in the postsovietland.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:47:08 2014 No.1813113 File: 38 KB, 1092x155, Screenshot_4.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1812965 but they are really good!

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:49:29 2014 No.1813115
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I've posted this before but I can't help but toss it out again. Victor, NY Goodwill had this boxed Master System for US$399. I asked if it was complete but I got "its the game" in response... I just shook my head and walked out.

I haven't been back since. I wonder if they gave up and sent it to online auction.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 08:52:09 2014 No.1813118 >>1813115 I got a CIB SMM with 5 games also CIB for $20 Delivered to my house from some dude on craigslist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 09:03:19 2014 No.1813137 >>1813113 So if they "consistently offered us the best prices" do all the other stores just mug you or charge you to give them games or something?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 09:11:09 2014 No.1813141 >>1813137 no where else takes gamecube games

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 09:28:45 2014 No.1813168

>>1813115
I really wonder why I get so mad when I see shit like this. I don't particularly want a master system but to think that someone sees reality in such a way that they'd price something like this just seems so obtuse and obnoxious it makes me rage in a way that mere scalping doesn't. A close second would be people who base their prices of used goods based on what they originally paid for it with no concept of devaluation.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 09:39:46 2014 No.1813175 >>1810843 >Rule of Rose Nice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 09:42:55 2014 No.1813182 >>1810818 >>1810830 200 bucks? That's a pretty nice haul, hope you have a Gamepak for DK64.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 10:15:13 2014 No.1813227 >>1809639 This was in the store.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 10:18:26 2014 No.1813237 File: 901 KB, 300x225, Jericho Talk To Hand.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1808606 >I resell

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 10:37:24 2014 No.1813250

>>1812897
A lot of places seem to feel that once Gamestop or whatever the big name local video game retailer stops stocking something, it's suddenly old and retro and they can charge what they want. That said, where I live, the PS2 hasn't been hit too hard with that, be it the system or library itself (apart from a few games that has shot up from reduced availability). Mainly the Gamecube that's been suffering from it lately, as far as more recent systems go.

>>1813087
Gamecube games, especially those from Nintendo held series (as well as a few third party ones such as Gotcha Force) go for a lot these days, ever since Gamestop stopped carrying them. Where I live in the US, the price for Twilight Princess (which is what I'm going to assume you're specifically mentioning, is nearly at, if not directly at the same price it was new when it came out for a used copy, complete or not.

>>1813109
That N64 actually sounds like a decent deal compared to what I've been seeing for them lately (depending on the color, they've been up to $100 even for non limited edition ones). The rest of those prices don't sound that good though (of course, I'm not sure how much those local prices out where you live translate into US currency, but still).

>>1813113
Wow. Out at one of my local stores, depending on the game's condition and how many copies they already have, you can expect to probably make a good 25-35% of what they sell it for if the conditions are right if you want cash, more so if you want store credit. That said, I don't trade in or sell games too often, but it's nice for if you do. None of that "we'll give you 10% in cash, best we can do" shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 13:08:29 2014 No.1813556 I love being a SEGA faggot. Nintendo Prices are horrendous these days. Aside from Saturn games, I rarely pay more than $10 on something good on the Dreamcast or Genesis/MD.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 13:27:02 2014 No.1813597

>>1813556
I've heard Genesis games have been going up somewhat since some people that would normally want to build up an SNES library have been getting fairly discouraged with prices there and have been buying Genesis games instead. Dreamcast games are still fairly cheap where I live though, apart from maybe Skies of Arcadia and a few others.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 18:42:17 2014 No.1814402 >>1813070 enjoy your aids anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 18:44:28 2014 No.1814413 File: 1.45 MB, 3264x2448, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Does this count? No game, box only for about $10 a pop.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 18:53:09 2014 No.1814445 >>1814413 resell jewing at its finest. next thing you know they'll sell the manual separately along with the ads and original inserts

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:01:09 2014 No.1814471 >>1814413 not bad if you plan on selling them with the games

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:06:51 2014 No.1814485

>>1814445
I still remember hearing how one of those cardboard inserts for Earthbound went for a LOT more than it ever should have been worth.

>>1814413
Seen worse prices for that sort of thing before. Once saw someone on ebay trying to sell a PS2 game manual for $20.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:09:31 2014 No.1814491 >>1814413 >WHY THIS IS NOT ILLEGAL!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:11:46 2014 No.1814498 >this whole thread the entitlement is real underage as fuck retro gamurrrr

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:16:23 2014 No.1814504

>>1814445
>people already do this
Its great if you find a game thats missing a manual or some art that you really like. I found some good deals on a front mission 3 manual when I found one in the wild missing it.
I'm a stickler for complete though. -sure- I could keep all my games in one of those bulk sleeves, but then wheres the fun in that?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:29:35 2014 No.1814528 >>1808494 >Super Mario All Stars for $30 >ALTTP for $50 >Rocket Knight for $40 >DKC3 for 70 fucking dollars I'm sick to my stomach looking at this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:32:41 2014 No.1814535 >>1814528 But the dollar holds barely more value than monopoly money.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:33:01 2014 No.1814536

I'm going to a retro game convention this weekend and some sellers from my area are gonna be there. Any tips from any of you that have gone to conventions? I'm mainly just there to buy stuff since I haven't found any retro games in my area for a long time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:33:06 2014 No.1814537 File: 139 KB, 1558x1280, 1403684385328.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1814498 >what is bait

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 19:41:25 2014 No.1814554

>>1814504
I tend to try to buy complete copies myself, at least as far as actually cased games go (such as the PS1), since people tend to be more inclined to keep everything together with those compared to cartridge based games that came in boxes (which tend to be a lot more expensive complete by virtue of boxes being easier to squash, and people just typically not keeping them around), and if I'm buying a cased game incomplete, it had better have a manual available for purchase cheap online, or be at some ridiculously low price that passing it up would be downright foolish. That said, there's a limit as to how much one should pay for a manual, and mine's usually $5 or so, especially if it's at or less than the difference between what I paid for an incomplete copy compared to how much complete ones go for.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 20:07:28 2014 No.1814610
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>>1811386
So I said fuck it and went down there to trade some games and stuff in and see what they had to offer. There prices were much better than what I'm used to seeing! Their selection wasnt all that great but heres some of the stuff I picked up with the price tags...

Most of their nes games are 3 dollars or 4 for 10. The snes games are a bit higher, and it depends on the popularity, but theyre priced okay. PS games were priced fairly for the mosy part, N64 was a little iffy though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 20:30:01 2014 No.1814662 >>1814610 Cool. Going to have to look into them sometime I'm down that way. Thanks for the heads up.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 20:56:46 2014 No.1814724 >>1814498 >entitlement You know that word means the opposite of what you think it does, right?

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 21:03:35 2014 No.1814738
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>Used to shop for retro vidya at local Half-Price Books
>Use to have super cheap prices on vidya people would sell.
>Got an SNES with two controllers, all cords, and Super Mario World for $20, Mario Golf 64 for $10, Gameboy Pocket for $5
>Move away for a year, just came back
>Got a job minutes away, sometimes go on my lunch break to kill time
>Go to vidya section
>selection is huge now!
>look at prices
>mfw
>they have 4 nes games behind a display case
>all sports games
>each one is prices $10
>uhh maybe they have some good consoles
>Ps1 for $40, Genesis for $35, Dreamcast for $50

Absolute robbery.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 21:14:25 2014 No.1814773

>>1814724
He's using it correctly.
Things are worth what people are willing to pay for them. If you're only willing to pay 5 dollars for Mario 64, but everyone else is willing to pay 30, then you're just entitled for wanting it your way only.

People are bitching all the time that retro games should be cheap. But honestly, the carts and discs themselves are more rare now then ever. Do you think about buying a new release for 360/ps3/wii or wii-u/xboxone/ps4 for 60 bucks? No. But somehow because its older its not worth 60 bucks anymore?

The amount of games that got ruined, or otherwise lost to the ages is massive, even despite big print runs. If you don't wanna pay the prices, get a flash cart or use emulators. The problem is these kids that are entitled all want to be like AVGN with a massive library and collection but they don't wanna shell out the money.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 21:17:17 2014 No.1814782 >>1814738 Yeah what the fuck was up with that? All the half price books vidy prices here in columbus shot up about a year ago

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 21:26:40 2014 No.1814802

>>1814773
Retro games being pricey is a (relatively) good thing. It keeps the value of my collection up. If you want to get games cheaply you have to buy them at the correct time when no one wants them. When super nintendo came out in 1992 you could get tons of NES games for $2-5 each. Right now if you go to any gamestop that still carries them most PS2 games are dirt ass cheap but SOME day they will shoot up in price (maybe not but you get the point)

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 21:31:13 2014 No.1814816

>>1814773
no he's not people are complaining nobody is buying games at the retarded prices sellers like to ask.

>No. But somehow because its older its not worth 60 bucks anymore?

Fuck off you can't even compare that to new games because you get the box and manual and it's sealed in plastic. If I want to pay full price I want it in like new condition at least.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 21:35:06 2014 No.1814828

>>1814816
>what is inflation
>what are economics
>why are games so expensive when I don't understand basic supply and demand.

Limited supply + high demand = high prices.

Like I said earlier. Can't afford it? Get a flash cart if you must play on retro hardware, otherwise just get an emulator and quit bitchin

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 21:36:21 2014 No.1814832 >>1814828 3000 unsold copies of super mario world sitting in your stockpile because you demand 30 dollars is not economics you retarded faggot.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 21:39:43 2014 No.1814852

>>1814832
>this fucking delusional
Are you fucking serious right now?
Do you think every guy selling games has a dozen copies of earthbound in the back? Wow. Must be nice living in complete fucking denial of the way things work in the world so you can sit and bitch and moan at how life is so hard living in a first world country where you can't get your games for cheaper then you pay for a meal at mcdonalds you fat fuck.

Anonymous Mon Jul 28 21:56:32 2014 No.1814916

>>1814852
I don't give a shit about earthbound that game commands the price it does because of hype there are rarer games that are far less expensive. I'm talking about dirt common shit that piles up because they ask too much. This one store I go to has honest 8 copies of final fantasy 2, 3 and super mario rpg for the SNES that just sit there because nobody wants to pay what they ask for them. I already own those games but I still think it's retarded dude. I want other people to be able to enjoy the things I like too it's hard to find retro gaming friends and the price of games certainly doesn't help anyone get into the hobby.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 28 23:50:55 2014 No.1815226 >>1813237 cry more Its because of people like me that you get decent deals on games.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 01:01:22 2014 No.1815384 >>1807874 book off has some of the dumbest prices on things. I saw an NES last week for 199 their.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 01:18:51 2014 No.1815412 >>1814802 >bait

Anonymous Tue Jul 29 01:21:24 2014 No.1815418

>>1814828
>what is extorsion
>what is being apologist
>what is robbery
>why had to pay prices of newer games or even several times more for used video games that are old.

Speculation + Scummy and Shady tactics RETRO RARE ATARI LOTS OF FUN VINATGE TROLOLOLOL + Greed = high prices

Wake up.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 01:29:05 2014 No.1815430 File: 109 KB, 960x720, 1402503483592.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1808162 If you actually loved gaming you'd just tell people to emulate your favorite videogames instead of investing in kike shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 01:36:33 2014 No.1815442 >>1814773 Reseller apologist pls

Anonymous Tue Jul 29 01:43:53 2014 No.1815460

>>1815226
>Implying taking fair-priced games off the market, out of the hands of potential gamers, marking the price up, and sitting on them is doing a service
>Implying people (especially /vr/troopers) aren't willing to hunt for deals without a middleman
>Implying showing up hours before a yard sale even begins/door knocking the day before/douchey tactics are legitimate "business practices"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 29 04:29:02 2014 No.1815779 >>1815460 >>Implying showing up hours before a yard sale even begins/door knocking the day before/douchey tactics are legitimate "business practices" >implying they aren't. You want deals? I don't see you going out and trying to make them happen.

Anonymous Tue Jul 29 04:50:36 2014 No.1815847

>>1814738
>>1814782
The closest half price books to where I live has a pretty small selection of video games still, but as far as /vr/ stuff they have jack shit, apart from maybe a few computer games here and there. And even then, their over selection's been pretty bad when I've stopped in, even for the Gamecube, PS2, or DS (which they have the most games for). I have found a few GBA games I'd been looking for and had been having trouble finding elsewhere locally, but prices were about par for the course. Think they were charging about what you'd expect to pay online for a copy, AND they had he shipping factored into their prices. Makes me think the "half price" in their name only applies to the books they stock like the name suggests, but then again, since most of the ones out here closed down, I rarely go to them, since the closest one is really out of the way to get to, so I really have't had that much experience with this particular store.

Anonymous Tue Jul 29 14:55:14 2014 No.1816979

>>1815779
Oh, believe me, I'm out there.

I just don't harass the poor families days before their sale even begins nor do I camp outside their house waiting to snatch everything up.
You know, being a decent human being?

I've held several yard-sales before where there was vidya involved and I've had no problem turning away asshole resellers who door knocked/called days before and stalked me outside my driveway at 4 am.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 11:55:09 2014 No.1819617 >Game Over Games >Faxanadu: $9.99 >noice, ok, I can do that >shipping on all orders under $50 is $10 FUCK YOU

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 12:48:48 2014 No.1819702

This thread makes me wish I could make some kind of retro game library. I'd gladely give I have to such a thing. Whenrver I'd want one of my old games I could just check it out, and if it's already chekced out, boo fucking hoo I got to wait a week or two.

Like occasionally we have really nice anoans with the means for giving like Superbus, but I dunno man, there's just too much bulshit..

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 12:56:03 2014 No.1819716 >>1819702 And place would have its own consoles so if you don't own the console you can just play it there.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 12:56:04 2014 No.1819717

>>1819617
On a related note, it annoys the fuck out of me when you find an apparently cheap game on Amazon or ebay, only for the seller to make up for the low base cost by charging an assload in shipping.

>>1819702
Sadly, given how much certain games go for, I'm pretty sure if that "library" got anything decent or rare in it would just be stolen and/or resold.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 13:00:45 2014 No.1819729

>>1819716
>And place would have its own consoles so if you don't own the console you can just play it there.
There's actually a few places like that, not as far as the library idea but as far as letting customers test out or play games for a while. One store down here lets you do that in order to see if the game works, or if it's the sort of game you'd enjoy. Another one out here functions a bit as a console arcade, charging people that want to do stuff (I'm guessing either the base cost to get in is highish, or they charge by the hour) in order to play long bouts of Smash Bros, Street Fighter, and such.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 13:02:06 2014 No.1819735

>>1819717
I think it would be A PROBLEM but not a major enough one that'd keep the whole concept from not working. I don't see theft making libraries shut down. Certain books are films can be as expensive as the rarest games, so my guess is either they have ways to prevent it for the most part, or people just generally don't see the need to steal that shit since they can borrow it anyway.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 13:06:29 2014 No.1819747 >>1819717 >only for the seller to make up for the low base cost by charging an assload in shipping This shit pisses me right off. >Sega CD Model 1, tray doesn't open, $9.99 >$66 shipping

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 13:11:45 2014 No.1819768

>>1819747
The hilarious thing is that from what I've seen, it's not just US or other western sellers that do that, but also Japanese ones doing exports (seen some games listed as being $10, but having $20+ charged in shipping; ordered stuff from Japan before and I know it doesn't cost that much to bring a game over). So it's not an annoyance limited to coming from the west.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 13:16:13 2014 No.1819779 >>1819717 >>1819729 http://www.lib.umich.edu/computer-video-game-archive http://library.ucsc.edu/video-games So it turns out some univeristy ones already do this.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 13:26:58 2014 No.1819801

>>1819779
Huh. That's pretty cool. On that note it makes me wonder what sort of methods they use to make sure people return them, since I've noticed some reasonably pricy games on the lists of what the second place linked has. I'm guessing the fact that those are universities might help with that, where stealing might have bigger repercussions than simply not being able to use that library again, or incurring a massive fine.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 13:30:48 2014 No.1819810

>go to local store
>get GameCube av cable (5 dolla)
> see they have an intellivision (as a gift to my mother)
>want thurty dollas
>buy it
>can go as low to twenty on ebay

FUCK. They're still legit.

What's up with the toploader 32x? Another store wanted 120$ for it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 13:46:56 2014 No.1819845 >>1819801 Trying to ask one of the librarians that right now, so we'll see what their answer is.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 13:51:39 2014 No.1819854 >>1819810 >can go as low to twenty on ebay >$34.99 shipping >shipping usually occurs within 10-15 days

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 14:02:56 2014 No.1819871 File: 25 KB, 288x288, Neu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1796516 They may be gigantic assholes with overpriced garbage but I like the way they do their end labels. That shit looks nice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 14:29:52 2014 No.1819921 >go to local store I've never tried out >dark cloud 2, game, case, amnual >20 dollars >neat >sixty dollar dreamcast why

>>	Rozwell Wed Jul 30 14:32:36 2014 No.1819930 >>1796516 fuck my ass, that's ridiculous

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 14:33:10 2014 No.1819934 >>1819921 Not too bad for Dark Cloud 2 if you ask me. Pretty pricy for the Dreamcast though. Think those go for about the same price as a Gamecube where I live: $25-30.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 14:36:04 2014 No.1819941

>>1819934
Exactly what I though. I picked up dark cloud 2 ASAP. They also had xenosaga episode 1 plus bonus dvd for twenty. picked that up, as well.

I actually found a gamecube at salvation army with a controller for ten dollars, bought av cable and power supply, and I had a twenty two dollar gamecube.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 14:53:01 2014 No.1819972 >>1819768 The difference is that Japan is a far away country, whereas Americans just want to Jew

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 15:05:33 2014 No.1820018 >>1814738 I wish i had a half price books near me. Every time i find games they are usually a great deal.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 17:41:35 2014 No.1820359

Bay Area people, where do you go? Half Price Books in the East Bay is decent - $50 for most consoles. I've seen consoles like SNES, Genesis, Dreamcast, Playstation, 2600, Wii, etc. all priced around that mark. Games vary - their pricing on modern games is a bit higher than I'd like, but they have boxes of Atari commons for like 20 games for 5 bucks, which isn't bad. Games hover between 5 and 30 bucks depending on rarity, but they never have a spectacular game selection. I probably won't go to Phoenix Games in Concord again, green label FFVII for $45 was among the many 'bargains' I found. After seeing it on Game Center CX, I've been meaning to hit 4Jays in Antioch, but it hasn't happened yet.

>>1808494

>$40 for Tournament Fighters

I bought that shit for 2 dollars in better condition. Granted, this was the early 2000s, but it's not like it's gotten any rarer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 17:43:22 2014 No.1820362 >>1810125 I've seen no games at my local Goodwill or thrift stores, save for the local thrift that had a couple Dreamcasts for 9 bucks.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 18:43:17 2014 No.1820582

>>1819768
Depending on the shipping and how large your order is, 20 might not be unreasonable. I think some countries have it set up so that EMS is their only option for trade now when it comes to Japan or something. If you're used to using SAL, then yeah it's cheap.

EMS is actually really damn good, but I can see why some people wouldn't want to pay the prices.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 19:22:43 2014 No.1820719

>>1809647
This
You don't need to buy EVERY deal on CL, it just takes a little self-control

If I were to see for example, Megaman 5 for $10, unless I needed a label upgrade, I wouldn't buy it.
Why would I? I already have it, I would much rather have the deal fall into the hands of another gamer who will play it, enjoy it, and have his faith in game hunting restored.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 19:22:45 2014 No.1820720 >>1820582 only shitholes with thieves for postal workers.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 19:50:31 2014 No.1820818 >>1819941 Xenosaga episode I had a bonus DVD? Never knew that, since all the local copies of it I've seen are single disc.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 20:01:06 2014 No.1820870 >>1807874 The book off in San Diego has some good deals with N64 and Dreamcast, but fuck their system prices. Think I saw a NES for 160, SFC for 180, Japanese Saturn for 190. Fuck their system prices.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 20:15:38 2014 No.1820936

>>1820870
That makes me sad because the prices for everything else in the store are god-like. Walk in with 20 dollars, walk out with 20 volumes of manga.

You could probably still snag some good deals on near-retro titles though. I'm going back to the NYC book-off in a week, so if I find anything I'll report back with results.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 20:59:41 2014 No.1821080

>>1820936
The San Diego location has good deals on certain games, I've scored cheap import GB/GBC games, Dreamcast, PS1 and 2, and N64. It's only their system prices that are awful. The prices of their accessories are pretty cheap to reasonable. Their Famicom game selection is small, prices are good too, but they do have a tendency to over charge on Mario games for any Nintendo system minus import versions.

Anonymous Wed Jul 30 21:36:56 2014 No.1821167

>>1796906

oi

where are the flea markets you go to? Santa Ifigênia?

Pls respond, I can't into mercado livre anymore

> R$ 80 Doom 64
>R$ 140 Smash Bros

no no no fuck those prices. I only bought a boxed N64 pikachu edition for 200 bucks because I wanted it so much

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 21:48:09 2014 No.1821190 >>1820719 The problem is that for every good deal you pass up, some reseller scum is scooping that shit up and ripping someone off.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 30 21:59:55 2014 No.1821231 >>1795963 I've seen it selling for $99.99

ApartmentRaptor Wed Jul 30 22:26:12 2014 No.1821312

>>1820719
This also gives you trade fodder to sell or trade to /VR/ troopers who have stuff you want, instead of letting some scummy asshole get it.

Fact of the matter is there are scummy resellers, but there are also resellers who are total bros, just have to learn to tell the difference.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 01:08:21 2014 No.1821838 >>1796516 >SMB/DH is $15 >SMB/WCTM/DH is actually cheaper >the Tengen game is $5 I'm speechless

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 01:44:35 2014 No.1821949

>>1809804
>The biggest problem will be official GCN controllers which can go for $20-$30.

are you shitting me? i sell those for $10 tops, i can't find anyone who wants to buy them. i deal with CL more than ebay due to not being able to get my money upfront.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 01:50:13 2014 No.1821961 >>1821190 even worse for every bad deal you laugh at they're buying it and trying to fuck someone even harder than they did

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 01:58:59 2014 No.1821990

>>1811051
its the bane of video game hunting at flea markets.
now that retro is popular, all the fun stuff is expensive and nearly impossible to get.

the other reality I have to face is the eventual drying up of retro at my market. i think its happening already, I haven't seen any NES or SNES stuff in a good while. and the worst part is, I have no other markets nearby, its this or traveling an hour to another one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 02:00:54 2014 No.1821997 >>1811386 >Lowest general price I see for FFVII is about $35 shit man, i sell that at $25 max for black label! it's only worth about that much anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 02:09:52 2014 No.1822020 >>1814610 dude, super putty got a PS4/XONE remake. shits bananas!

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 02:11:41 2014 No.1822029

>>1795960
FFVII (greatest hits) - 60$
FFVII (original) - 90$
Super Mario World - 40$ (cart only)
FFVI - 60$ (cart only)
FFIV - 40$ (cart only)
Prices from the only retro store in my city, back in 2010 when I was 15. I wasted my money here for about a year because it was the only option at the time (no internet access). Before GameStop pushed every other retro game store out, I remember these games being a lot cheaper. No clue what the prices are like now, probably aren't any better.

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 02:15:19 2014 No.1822036

>>1814802
>Right now if you go to any gamestop that still carries them most PS2 games are dirt ass cheap but SOME day they will shoot up in price

nice try, bait or not, the PS2 games left at practically any gamestop are trash GH, RB or babby games that are $5 or less. thanks to that lovely 75% off sale that started in Jan, I can't find anything I want unless I travel several hours away and that is even if their inventory list is updated. they really should have made it so you can transfer from store to store.

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 02:16:54 2014 No.1822040

As much as Americans like to whine about your retro game prices, it's worse elsewhere.
In Australia, even with our dollar shitting itself, it's still cheaper to import games from the US at your inflated prices than buying our gutted PAL releases from local resellers.

I can't even buy an N64 for less than $100 now because retards are willing to pay $120 for a console+controller alone, and everyone references eBay for pricing continuing the inflation.
Oh and PAL Banjo Tooie? Cart only? That's $150 thanks.
Meanwhile, for a little over 150 I can import an NTSC N64 and an everdrive64.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 02:18:46 2014 No.1822050 >>1821838 They use Ebay for pricing, so that's probably why.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 02:25:04 2014 No.1822073 >>1822040 i feel for you AU and EU bros. i'd totally sell you a cheap US 64, shit like that is just heartbreaking.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 03:08:45 2014 No.1822175 >>1814828 >Limited supply lol

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 03:15:59 2014 No.1822186
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>>1807035
>Live in a small town near Jacksonville,FL
>No game stores, retro or otherwise in town
>2008 or so, retro game shop opens called Games Galore
>Shopped there on occasion, most things were stupid overpriced ($40 for F-Zero GX in a beaten up case, no manual, blockbuster sticker on the disc)
>Any popular rare games they got in would be sent to their shop in Jacksonville instead so their selection was shit
>Would never pay over $15 for any game, and always sold them for massive mark ups
I just found out not too long ago that the store finally closed down and moved all their stock to a new one in Jacksonville. My brother also worked there for a week or two when it opened, and the owners entire reason for opening a store in our town was so he could "get dumb rednecks to sell me their shit for pennies so I can hawk it to the stupid niggers in Jacksonville at a huge markup." Fuck that guy and his store with a rusty crowbar.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 04:08:29 2014 No.1822240 >>1822020 I looked up some game play, looks like a lot o fun! too bad I dont have any new gen consoles doe :(

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 05:43:59 2014 No.1822336
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>>1822073
It's not that bad everywhere, for example here you can buy N64 for about 35€ + games like Banjo Kazooie or F-Zero X each for 10€.
@pic - price difference between importing and buying locally

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 08:13:59 2014 No.1822584

Christ, my thread is still up? Awesome.

Does anyone know of any car boots that are easily accessible from Manchester, UK? I don't have a car so getting to places like Chelford (best car boot I've ever been to) isn't possible. I do have a bike, though. Is Oldham car boot good?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 08:15:31 2014 No.1822587 >>1822584 what the fuck are you talking about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 08:20:31 2014 No.1822598 >>1796232 >But this weird fear that EVERYTHING is overpriced I fucking dare you to take a look at Ebay.com.au

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 09:09:15 2014 No.1822684 >>1822598 yeap go to ebay.com.au and search for anythng retro good luck

>>	ApartmentRaptor Thu Jul 31 10:02:14 2014 No.1822761 >>1822186 Dude, I'm in Jax. Have you been to Video Game Rescue yet? Dude who owns it is a bro. Also, buy or trade some shit with me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 10:52:23 2014 No.1822834 >>1822186 Do you live in St. Augustine? There are afew good mom and pop stores around there, like this one called play media and this one in san juan called gorilla games. But yeah, for the most part there's nothing around here.

ApartmentRaptor Thu Jul 31 10:59:57 2014 No.1822847

>>1822834
Don't go to press play media. Dude has his wife lurk facebook B/S/T groups, craigslist, etc and pretend she's not affiliated with the store, but tell everyone "Oh yeah he'll give you a good price for your stuff, go sell it there." She almost cost me a few deals by coming in after I make an offer and trying to convince the person that they'll give them more at the store, which of course was bullshit. It's sleazy as hell, and she started a fight with my wife over selling a bloody charger cable to somebody. She offered to sell the cord to them, and this bitch stepped in and started insulting her over facebook posts, telling the person not to buy anything from us and basically accusing my wife of doing exactly what she does all the time for her dirtbag husband.

Also, Gorilla Games closed down, unless there was 2.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 11:01:28 2014 No.1822853 >>1822186 Wow. That sounds awful. Need to remember to avoid that place if I ever wind up in Florida for some reason.

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 15:22:07 2014 No.1823469

>>1822761
I actually moved to South Carolina two years ago, forgot to mention that part. My family all still lives there though so I go back every now and then, might check it out next time.
>>1822834
Macclenny. Like 30 minutes from Jax in the other direction. When I say it was small I mean it, most people in the area don't even know it exists.

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 16:27:30 2014 No.1823603

>couple years ago
>see Conker's Bad Fur Day in the box unopened for $100
>almost buy it
>see just the cartridge in the store nowadays for $100
N64 games have really risen in price recently haven't they. Genesis games too are starting to rise in price too which really sucks since it's my primary platform

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 16:43:19 2014 No.1823654

At least you have retro stores in your city
>Live in South America
>Not in a capital city
>All game stores only sell recent crap
>Importing games are expensive as fuck

the only reason i even have a retro collection its because i kept all my games and consoles and because i bought some from relatives

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 31 17:21:34 2014 No.1823765 Buy all your retro stuff NOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o_st1zmDHw Normies are going to be buying all this shit up en-masse!!!!

Anonymous Thu Jul 31 18:38:18 2014 No.1823941

>>1823654
Nice. Pretty sure if I lived down there and had to deal with that sort of situation I'd have just invested in a decent computer for emulation, or went the extra mile to get every system I could modded. Not much of one for piracy, but in places where either not a lot of effort is made to bring games over, or prices are completely insane (be it locally or for importing), I'd say it's a good bit more acceptable.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 17:52:17 2014 No.1826671 bump

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 19:21:37 2014 No.1826894 File: 330 KB, 636x619, Screen shot 2014-08-01 at 7.18.28 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] does craigslist count? Here's a guy trying to sell a yellowed SNES and a handful of games for $300.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 19:24:16 2014 No.1826902 File: 366 KB, 604x452, games300.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1826894 after looking at the games it looks like there's 3 copies of SMW here to pad out his collection...what a shit head

Anonymous Fri Aug 1 21:57:59 2014 No.1827293
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>Derbyfag.
>Forbidden Planet selling preowned FF7 and Resident Evil 2 for playstation at £29.99 each
>Go into the Eagle Center flea market
>Go to game stall
>Find both new, still shrink wrapped for a total of £6.50
>mfw

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 22:05:42 2014 No.1827319 >>1821167 >Is more "easy" in hueland starting a collection with Modern system than retro, but its still expensive. See DS games, the good ones, is overpriced..

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 22:08:50 2014 No.1827330 >>1821167 Anon time for starting to buy ps2 games.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 22:32:43 2014 No.1827369 >>1822587 car boot is EU version of flea market. EU bro wants to know where they at. I can't help you /vr/o, US here.

>>	Anonymous Fri Aug 1 22:39:39 2014 No.1827384 >>1823603 your lucky, only certain N64 stuff went up. conker actually went down to about $80. get genesis stuff when you see it, its an untapped field. even some of the best GENS games are only 100 even boxed, with most going $15-20.

Anonymous Fri Aug 1 23:27:55 2014 No.1827563

>>1827319
DS games (the decent ones anyways) that didn't see reprints can be reasonably expensive here in the US as well. Gamestop trashing the cases and manuals doesn't help with the prices for complete copies either, given that they're the main retailer for modern games.

>>1823603
As far as I know Genesis games have been going up due to people that would usually be more interested in buying SNES games getting discouraged with the prices there and jumping ship to collecting for the Genesis instead, since it's been for the most part cheaper.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 01:45:01 2014 No.1827962 File: 8 KB, 223x167, laughing amphibians.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1826894 Will that even turn on anymore!

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 03:15:07 2014 No.1828167 File: 1.08 MB, 3264x1836, IMG_20140728_184006.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Saw this at a store recently. Fucking crazy.

Anonymous Sat Aug 2 04:03:11 2014 No.1828241

>>1826894
>>1826902
>33 games and a super gameboy
>handful
>not selling the dupes to make some of the money back

Are you retarded? There's 2 dupes of SMW, 1 dupe of SMW2, 1 dupe of SMAS and a dupe of DKC. You could make a good fucking amount off of those without being a reselling jew.

Anonymous Sat Aug 2 04:20:26 2014 No.1828264
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>Browsing my country's equivalent to Craigslist.
>See an N64 for sale.
>"Now selling my 64, as you know they have stopped production and can be hard to come by. Thus I want at least 300$ for it. Contact me any time."
>no images
>no mention of included games
>no mention of a box

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 04:30:23 2014 No.1828275 >>1828264 Just say Gumtree m8

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 04:33:26 2014 No.1828278 >>1828275 Actually it's called Blocket m8

>>	ApartmentRaptor Sat Aug 2 13:39:05 2014 No.1828904 >>1828167 Actually $70 for a good working Sega Nomad isn't a bad price, if I was really looking for one I'd pay that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 16:50:45 2014 No.1829315 >>1823765 Thank god. I just bought a mint NES the other day for $12.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 17:03:49 2014 No.1829352 How much should a Dreamcast be? I saw one at this game store I frequent for about $60.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 17:08:14 2014 No.1829362 >>1829352 Around $30 or so, unless it's CIB or has a bunch of games with it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 17:08:43 2014 No.1829365 >>1829352 $60 is a good price if I remember correctly, though if you're getting it you should make sure it's the right model, some of them can't play boot discs, look it up online and you'll be able to tell the difference by the model no. I think.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 17:14:21 2014 No.1829382 >>1829352 Most reasonable store out here has it priced for about as much as the Gamecube: $25-30.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 17:16:07 2014 No.1829391 >>1829352 I bought mine for $20 with no controllers which are pretty cheap. $60 seems high unless it's bundled with things. Good arcade sticks seem to be the most expensive peripheral for the system.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 17:17:12 2014 No.1829396 >>1829365 Pre-September 2000 was it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 18:37:12 2014 No.1829620 >>1827330 I guess so. My ps2 broke

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 18:53:56 2014 No.1829647 I've seen fucking gamecube games go for 40$. The worst i've ever seen was an n64 for 120$

Anonymous Sat Aug 2 22:26:56 2014 No.1830189

>>1829647
Depends on the game and store. There's a fair amount of games, like the Gamecube Legend of Zelda games where that's pretty much the base price you'll see for them used regardless of location. On the other hand, if it's a game that goes for, say, $20-25 at a more reasonable store that's going for $40-45 at others (like Custom Robo or Eternal Darkness at a few stores where I live), then it's just plain overpriced.

>>1829620
Well, at least PS2s are pretty common and easy to replace.

>>1828264
Most I've seen N64's go for here is $120 for a limited edition one. Most seem to average between $70 and $100 depending on the color and condition.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 22:36:58 2014 No.1830213 >>1813115 first time you posted it I seriously lol'd. Possibly the worst deal I've ever seen

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 22:54:28 2014 No.1830247 Anybody know any good Retro stores in NYC that isn't Games New York? They constantly gouge for prices I've only ever lucked out on two occasions there.

Anonymous Sat Aug 2 23:52:52 2014 No.1830431
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>>1829396
>pay $35 for a Dreamcast off of eBay
>some store near is selling a used one for $65 and a new one for $230
>mfw they're also selling a used PS2 for $169 and a new one for $200
Is it possible to feel ripped off for something you didn't buy?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 2 23:54:43 2014 No.1830432 >>1830431 >mfw they're also selling a used PS2 for $169 you can find used ps2s with two controllers, all cables and memory cards at goodwill for $10 right now.

Anonymous Sun Aug 3 00:11:42 2014 No.1830465

>>1830247
They're all overpriced to hell and clearly use ebay for reference. It's the city after all, it can't be helped. However, J&L Game Trading actually has decent prices on some stuff, but they range from reasonable to stupid overpriced. Their store is very nicely organized with a nice staff though, at least worth the visit.

If you like imports, they're generally worth it because they'll generally be under the price shipped, but above the base price.

not retro, but they have a Hatsune Miku Vita behind a class case for like 1000 bucks. Fuck that shit so hard man.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 00:32:35 2014 No.1830514 >>1828241 >Are you retarded? I think I'd be retarded to pay $300 for all that shit.

Anonymous Sun Aug 3 02:34:32 2014 No.1830526

>retro game store opens up in my town
>go check it out
>most stuff just on tables and in bins
>he has a tv set up connected to his laptop
>ebay up on the tv looking at games
>ask him the price of something
>goes to his laptop to check price

I went a few more times to look if they got anything new in stock, bought a Dreamcast with a controller and vmu for $40. The owner said he wasn't a gamer and he didn't seem to know much about games.

Anonymous Sun Aug 3 04:40:42 2014 No.1830716
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I fucking hate living in Mexico.
Good yard sales are downright hard to find and even then, they are stalked by resellers.
Flea markets are filled by people who think they are sitting on gold in a disk/cart.
Super Mario 64? 30 bucks. Zelda OoT? 35 bucks? Smash? 45 bucks? Zelda MM? 50 bucks. MGS GH Version? That's 60 fucking bucks.
And every single one of them is cart only or disc only, in a beat up condition no less.
Buying consoles is also a nightmare. If you want an older console like an NES or SNES, you'll have to pay 50 bucks for a beat up console, with 2 third party controllers or 1st party controllers in terrible shape.
Because we don't have a craiglist, most people use facebook, and holy shit, fuck buying on facebook.
Most sellers omit prices and when asked, they respond with 'inbox" so you don't call them out or get scared.
Reseller suck buy anything cheap and then sell it for twice the profit.
The only way to get decent prices is with a guy in the flea market who sells current video games and older ones. Got Shadow of the colossus, Zone of the enders, MGS The twin snakes and PM TTYD for 40 dlls, only PM was missing the manual.
Never ever deal with mexicans /vr/

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 11:50:32 2014 No.1831470 Anyone know some good stores around Houston?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 12:11:14 2014 No.1831509 File: 1.95 MB, 3264x2448, IMG_20140731_123726.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1795960 Went in to that shop Saw this.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 12:13:13 2014 No.1831514 File: 765 KB, 240x180, a (7).gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Mom, im posting in a epic line!

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 12:17:29 2014 No.1831519 I was at the Midwest Gaming Classic earlier this year - there was a booth full of Neo Geo AES carts for sale. Most were going for hundreds of dollars, and one was going for $1000. I don't give a fuck how rare it is, that's way too much goddamn money.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 12:24:09 2014 No.1831532 >>1827293 Shit, I have to visit Derby then. Forbidden Planet in Manchester doesn't even stock games, and that flea market sounds incredible.

Anonymous Sun Aug 3 12:26:51 2014 No.1831543

>>1831509
>that tape mark

UUUUUUURGH. I fucking hate that shop SO much.

How many /vr/ users are around Manchester? As I've said time and time again, Rewind Collectibles in Ashton (a 216/219 bus from Piccadilly) is very fair (except some games like Resi 1,2,3 and MGS for £10)

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 12:44:30 2014 No.1831590 >>1831543 A couple of surrounding towns have decent prices, and even at the Affleks shop that is usually a ripoff, some good finds can be... found. I managed to walk out of there with about 4 MD games for a tenner.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 13:19:48 2014 No.1831653 Any decent ones in Oregon? I might be headed up there soon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 14:44:50 2014 No.1831837 >>1831653 CD/Game Exchange might still be good. Used to go there as a kid, haven't been back in about 4 years

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 15:01:19 2014 No.1831874 >>1831519 Neo Geo games have always been that expensive you dolt, except for cheap ones like Nam 1975 and Magician Lord.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 15:41:33 2014 No.1832016 Hey /vr/, is pokemon Pinball to Game Boy Color worth 15 bucks?

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 3 15:46:52 2014 No.1832032 Anything SNES. I just gave up on collecting for it.

Anonymous Sun Aug 3 18:05:26 2014 No.1832450

>>1832032
The SNES is honestly a system I'd love to get (as well as build up a nice personal library of games to support it) but I entirely agree. I don't want to become part of the justification that people are fine paying out the ass for even common titles on the system, just because they're SNES games. Until prices lower (or perhaps, IF they lower) I'll stick with emulating and work on building a decent collection of enjoyable games for other systems I have access to, like the PS1, which generally tend to be a fair bit more reasonable where I live.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 4 08:34:41 2014 No.1833954 >>1796516 Are these bad prices? The only copy I've seen of the Original Nes SMB went for about $60 in Gametraders. Fucking Australia, man.

>>	DMK Mon Aug 4 09:18:00 2014 No.1834008 >>1796516 Holy shit. I work at a retro store in NJ and the prices for Mario are $10 more than we charge. Hell, we give away a copy of SMB/DH into every NES we sell.

DMK Mon Aug 4 09:21:42 2014 No.1834014

>>1810118
Digital Press in Clifton! Our selection varies, honestly, because the good stuff tends to go quickly. We try to price fairly, and try to do our research on prices for anything we don't feel comfortable on. Let me know if you've got any questions about the place.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 4 10:03:18 2014 No.1834085 >>1833954 yes these are bad prices also fucking Oz the prices here are ridicolous for snes games stupid hipsters pay any price and these assholes think its ok to charge 80 bucks for n64 games

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 4 17:49:27 2014 No.1835038 >be yuropoor >check net based retro game store >"defective PAL dreamcast, 100$" >"defective NTSC dreamcast,80$" >"dreamcast base unit, price unknown" idonteven

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 4 17:51:41 2014 No.1835043 >>1835038 God bless america.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 16:04:38 2014 No.1837684 >>1796196 oh boy, if you loved those prices, why not take a trip down to Gamedeals in New Westminster? >piss yellow SNES' for 90 dollars They do get some cool things at decent prices ocassionally >got Ace Combat longbox for PSX for 7 bucks

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 16:20:00 2014 No.1837751 >>1830716 cant believe it still used to be decent back in 2008, when the expensive an SNES and NES game could be was just 50 mexican pesos

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 16:21:43 2014 No.1837757 >>1830716 >Because we don't have a craiglist, most people use facebook, and holy shit, fuck buying on facebook. >Most sellers omit prices and when asked, they respond with 'inbox" so you don't call them out or get scared. My fuckin HATE!!!

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 16:23:10 2014 No.1837763

>>1835038
Damn. You can get an NTSC one where I live in the states for about $30, and have the store makes sure it works (they usually do so when they take the systems in, but it never hurts to confirm).
>"dreamcast base unit, price unknown"
How does that even work? I mean, the least they could do is say "make me an offer" or something. "Price Unknown" makes it sound like some sort of one-of-a-kind thing they'd have to get appraised by a professional or something.

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 16:52:09 2014 No.1837861

>>1837757
>>1830716
I've generally avoided Facebook (and other social networking groups) so I'm not entirely sure what that means; do they try to have you essentially email/private message them about their prices (which I am guessing turn out to be outrageously high) and they're just trying to avoid other potential buyers seeing a debate over such things in a general public discussion and being discouraged from buying stuff or something?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 17:02:31 2014 No.1837897 >>1802643 welcome to the club of Saturn game collecting

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 17:04:19 2014 No.1837908 >>1807005 broken traces on the motherboard?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 17:11:18 2014 No.1837929 >>1837763 >How does that even work? From my understanding of the site, it means "I don't have one right now, but when I get one I'll set a price based on ebay."

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 17:13:10 2014 No.1837937 >>1798152 wait, the /v/store actually happened?

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 17:14:44 2014 No.1837942 >>1807930 That's a controller from a PSone, it's official.

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 17:15:12 2014 No.1837945

>>1835038
Stop baiting USAfags to send you games and consoles. The shipping is so god damn high that you're better off buying them for those prices, you'll even save some money.

$40 for a Dreamcast+$40 (I'm not joking) shipping to Europe = $80+VAT tax or what the fuck ever.

There is no winning. Don't feel bad for these people, you can't do shit about it. I've tried.

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 17:22:22 2014 No.1837965

>>1837929
Then why bother listing it off if they don't have a copy for sale yet? Do they just list off stuff local stores have without listing a price, and if there's any demand, go buy and mark them up? Because I honestly haven't heard of people that operate like that, at least where I live.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 17:27:04 2014 No.1837981 >>1837965 I don't know, all I know is that I'm never buying from them.

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 17:37:08 2014 No.1838010

Not retro

Just told a classified guy to fuck off when he tried selling me Midnight Club 2 PS2 for $20. I told him a retro game store right at his own intersection sells games for $2-$5. Fuck these people who post on classifieds and think their games are so valuable.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 5 18:52:47 2014 No.1838156 >>1837861 Yes. FB allows you to PM people.

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 19:07:53 2014 No.1838187

>>1822847
Huh, thanks for telling me. All I knew about the place is that they let a bar borrow n64s for a smash tournament.
> Also, gorilla games closed down
actually went by there yesterday to see if it was true. Now im really heartbroken since they had such good deals and service...

Anonymous Tue Aug 5 20:35:40 2014 No.1838463

>>1838010
To be honest, unless it's an RPG, a shortprinted game, or one that's just that damn well made (think I've seen some really high prices for one of the DBZ games on the system, but I've heard that one is notoriously great, and as such the demand has been fairly high), $20 or more for a PS2 game is a bit too much. Especially if it's something that sold pretty damn well, got a big print, and goes for a lot less at other nearby places.

Reminds me of something I saw recently myself. Not /vr/, but one store out here was wanting $20 for a copy of Rune Factory on the DS, while another store (one I really prefer to use) had it in better condition for $6 (the game also seems to go really cheap even for new copies online as well, leading me to believe that first store's just trying to milk the idea that "DS RPGs are worth gold" the way they have with Dragon Quest IV and V, and probably a few others). Not even sure where they pulled the $20 used price from.

>>1838187
Not sure what the case has been over there where you are, but where I live Gamestop is extremely prone to driving anywhere else that specializes in games out of business, to the point stores that actually stock sixth gen and below can only really be found in the surrounding towns, where there are less Gamestops to deal with. This also allows a lot of these stores to charge what they want since there's only a few local places to go to get older games these days. And then there's the issue of various stores putting out fake yelp reviews in an effort to either steal customers. Only one really good /vr/ related store out here left, and thankfully their customer-base is solid enough that stuff like fake yelp reviews don't do much. The other good local ones have since gone under.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 02:35:28 2014 No.1839236 File: 2.34 MB, 1936x2592, IMG_1245.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Gotta love those times when you catch your LGS slipping price-wise

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 6 04:13:11 2014 No.1839404 >>1839236 Not bad, seeing as that goes for about $35 at cheapest where I live.

Anonymous of Jacksonville, Get(...) Wed Aug 6 05:49:28 2014 No.1839505

>>1822761
Hey dude, I helped crowdfund VideoGameRescue's new store. How's it doing? I moved to California before they couple open the new joint, but I liked spending time at the flea market location.

When I come back I'll visit it for sure.

Anonymous of Jacksonville, Get(...) Wed Aug 6 05:52:13 2014 No.1839508

>>1822847
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>>1838187
Gorilla Games is a franchise similar to Play-n-Trade, for people who want to run videogame stores but don't want to be a Gamestop manager.

There's another Gorilla Games in Mandarin in Jax on San Jose real close to where I used to live. Used to bike to it all the time and check their selection for good stuff. Eventually their stock got stale and they started checking ebay for prices.

ApartmentRaptor Wed Aug 6 10:22:40 2014 No.1839741

>>1839505
They seem like they're doing well. The store is awesome, a lot of locally owned game stores and chains are very stiff, you aren't really comfortable to hang out there or chat with people, but VGR feels like somebody's basement. It's a fun place to just go hang out and talk about games.

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