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>goes onto ebay to look up some nes games
>happens to see mega man 1
>average price is >$50 for a cart alone
what the fuck is this shit? when did this happen?

>> No.5972567

People know that you'll check ebay first out of convenience, and price their items accordingly. Are you a stupid person?

>> No.5972573

>>5972567
mega man 2 is like $20 by comparison

>> No.5972861

It's almost like they don't make them anymore and the demand is still here to buy them

>> No.5972869

>>5972567
yep. People used to say "highstreet prices" for overpriced shit, now they say "ebay prices", despite resellers having very little overhead other than their parents' disappointment at still using their property. That started over a decade ago.

>> No.5972881

>>5972573
Megaman 2 is a completely different game. Maybe collecting isn't for you.

>> No.5972921

Is it higher or lower than you think it should be? You need to make that more clear since we have threads with people bitching about both.

>> No.5972925

>>5972869
This is the fundamental reason retail in general is dying.

>> No.5972974
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>>5972925
No, retail is dying because there is no real wholesale anymore. Everyone sells direct or to amazon. Also, the few onestops that are left sell on amazon/ebay for the same price as wholesale. It doesn't pay to get a game wholesale for ~$55 just to make ~$5. These scumbags are Deep_Discount_Entertainment and -importcds on Amazon.

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>>5972881
Yup

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5973136

>>5972564
When these people happen, and people like them follow trough, but even then they were fakers already infiltrating our community even since the early 2010's. that's when everything when to fucking shit, with their dog whistle videos like ''hidden gems'' and ''top 10s'', and corrupting the discrepancy between Uncommon and Rare, that even NintendoAge change it's rarity ratings to ''adapt''.

All the old lables like reseller scum were nothing compared t =o the apex of the problem, the fucking hiptros, and now we have snake oil in the form of overpriced repro carts of older games by companies who wanna take quick buck from this s.oy filled parasites.

>> No.5973908

>>5973136
and all the sudden the thread gets shitburied

>> No.5974727
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>>5972564
It is only select games. A lot of games are cheap and widely available.

>> No.5974737

>>5973136
that fat fuck is the reason why my formally favorite game store goes by ebay prices. That manager actually said:"John Riggs come in here!" and when I didn't know who he was at the time, he looked depressed and proceeded to give me bad prices.

Riggs if you;re listening--you're scum. You even hoed out your underage daughter in shop and online. Yeah, you dress her provocatively. I wonder why.

>> No.5974741

*comes
All over his daughter and games.

>> No.5974749

>>5974727
>A lot of games are cheap and widely available.
lol

>> No.5975770

>>5972564
>when did this happen?
Long before you jumped on the bandwagon

>> No.5977420

>>5974737
>You even hoed out your underage daughter in shop and online. Yeah, you dress her provocatively. I wonder why.

Whoa Whoa Whoa, citation anyone?