/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.830210]

Craigslist Thread.

Post 'em

[Anonymous No.830215]

>>830210
I wouldn't even pay $20 for all of that shit.

[Anonymous No.830223]

>>830210
Not the greatest deal. And certainly no dealbreaker games for me personally.

Although Quake and JFG are quite good of course.

[Anonymous No.830335]

[Anonymous No.830462]

>ANTIQUE

[Anonymous No.830471]

[Anonymous No.830576]

These faggots crack me the fuck up. They watch one episode of Storwage Wars/Pawn Stars/Pickers/whatever and think their old shit is made of gold.
>pic related
>'custom' system that has faceplates switched
>custom
My sides are in orbit

[Anonymous No.830614]

>>830471
>150
>PS2
Is this retard serious? He must mean PS3, no one's that stupid.

Also, nothing here, just a modded 360 controller.

[Anonymous No.830645]

EVERYONE in my area is a fuck. It's either this shit or Madden/FIFA for 40 bucks.

[Anonymous No.830671]

[Anonymous No.830675]

This is actually really cool and I'd love it for my collection, though I don't have any money, and I don't even know if $450's a good deal for something like that. I feel like it's not?

[Anonymous No.830678]

[Anonymous No.830720]

>>830675
Even $45 is too goddamn much.

[Anonymous No.830732]

>>830645
leapster isn't retro

[Anonymous No.830763]

Not necessarily a bad deal. But every day for months, I've seen this guy trying to sell Age of Empires. For a while it was $5, now it's recently become $3. I wonder why he wants to get rid of it so bad. Poor guy. If I had a vehicle I'd buy it just so he could finally get rid of it.

[Anonymous No.830767]

>>830732
He's complaining that this shit is the best his area can manage.Simmer down.

[Anonymous No.830771]

>>830210

[Anonymous No.830775]

>>830767
should have used a different example anyhow
posts like his are what starts off the spiral into being a /v/ thread on /vr/ that these threads are known for

[Anonymous No.830787]

>>830771
stop posting your own craigslist post
that post as posted here rediculously shortly after it was made last night, and with the same file name you are using, it's obvious what's going on

[Anonymous No.830792]

>>830678
The way the writer talks. Its like he wants me to hate him

[Anonymous No.830798]

>>830763
"H-h-hey now that you bought my extra copy of AOE d-d-d-do you want to play with me

[Anonymous No.830806]

>>830787
I didn't make that craigslist ad, I just live in Florida where people are completely nuts. Just saw we had a craigslist thread and thought it was worth posting again since it's so fucking ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.830814]

>>830775
This 'sacred board' approach you're taking is pissing in the wind, friend. You sound as bad as a self-proclaimed oldfag reminiscing about the good ol days of /b/. This board quickly became circle-jerks, rate my collection, non stop ripping and tearing.

[Anonymous No.830824]

>>830763
Why do people even bother selling shit for such a small sum? Such a hassle, and hardly worth the effort. I could FIND three dollars if I walked around the city for a couple hours.

I don't bother selling anything unless it can easily command more than $50 before shipping and other bullshit.

[Anonymous No.830825]

>>830824
That's what I'm so curious about. There has to be some reason for his dedication in selling this game.

>>830798
If this were true I doubt my poor heart could take it.

[Anonymous No.830832]

>>830814
>This 'sacred board' approach you're taking is pissing in the wind, friend.
that isn't the approach I'm taking you idiot, these threads have a tendancy to turn into countless posts of newer systems/games/things unrelated to videogames
that's all I mean, this has nothing to do with "ye must protect thy board's culture from the taint of /v/"

[Anonymous No.830839]

>>830824
>before shipping and other bullshit.
you realize that this is criagslist, not ebay, right?

[Anonymous No.830868]

>>830678
Are they fucking high? They do have some substance there but that price it isn't. What a faggot. "It better not be less than $300, but I'll take the first offer of $300". Just put it on ebay for $300 cocksmoker.

[Anonymous No.830874]

>>830771
In....pesos?

[Anonymous No.830887]

>>830868

ebay is 'too complicated'

[Anonymous No.830896]

>>830887
plus Paypal requires an active credit card and a functioning bank account, which I doubt a lot of these people have

[Anonymous No.830906]

>>830887

Yeah, I can imagine how having a bullshit listing expire might complicate things.

[Anonymous No.830903]

This guy in my town is the epitome of a scalpfaggot. He opened a small flea market in town, started off everything very reasonably priced. I got an untested n64 from him sans a av cable for like $10, gamble paid off and it works fine. After a couple of months he must have seen an episode of Storage Wars or some shit because his prices went up 200-300% overnight. Now he tries to pass off eBay pricing on basically everything, sometimes more than that. What really pisses me off is he spams the ever living fuck out of Craigslist, more than 10 posts per day on the collectible sections like vidya and toys. Wanna know why there's a retro bubble? Scum like this

[Anonymous No.830916]

[Anonymous No.830925]

>>830903
I hate re-sellers and collectors, I just want to play
retro vidya at a decent price.

[Anonymous No.830926]

>>830903
Another post by this winrar, made same day.

[Anonymous No.830941]

>>830926
Last one, you get the point. CL is basically not usable to find vidya around here because of this guy because 9/10 posts are him spamming. He's told me proudly before how he buys up large collections for pennies on the dollar and flips it.
Little buttmad? Yeah sure, I understand it's business and you have to make money but it's a pretty scumbag way to do it imo. He would have made a metric fuckton of money off me if he would have not started doing this shit.

[Anonymous No.830943]

Not CL, but this was from my local retro game store.

$279.99 for an unboxed copy of EarthBound, that is fucking ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.830947]

>>830925

Then you either want to emulate, or if that's not accurate enough, use a flash cart.

I haven't seen my collection in over 6 months. It's stored away in waterproof containers while I have a flash cart for each of my systems.

[Anonymous No.830948]

>>830941
Burn the store
Burn him
Burn it all!

[Anonymous No.830951]

[Anonymous No.831006]

>>830948
I've considered saying something to him about it but honestly what would that accomplish? I would lie if I said I haven't buttraged and spent 30 mins flagging his every post as spam before though.
Bonus story
>One day I stop by store to see if there's anything new/not price hiked to oblivion (I still check from time to time, though pretty rarely)
>Scalpfaggot: (during convo) Yeah CL has been after me saying I post too much spam
>Me: That's too bad....
Not much of a story, but I laughed the whole way home.

[Anonymous No.831036]

>>830951
>breeding animals for the sake of trading them for used electronic equipment
the fuck

[Anonymous No.831316]

>>830951
Maybe his dog just had a litter and he was going to sell them, when my Husky had pups my friend gave me an ounce for one, i was going to sell them anyway, so i thought why not?

[Anonymous No.831498]

He's been trying to sell this fucking thing in the VIDEO GAME section for half a year now.

[Anonymous No.831594]

>>831498
>water pipe
Does anyone actually call bongs water pipes?

[Anonymous No.831606]

>>831594

Retards on craig's list do, apparently.

[Anonymous No.831675]

Worst I could find. Not a whole lot on my craigslist in the way of retro.

[Anonymous No.831708]

>>831594
It is illegal to sell anything under the name 'bong' water pipes, however, are permissible.

[Anonymous No.831784]

>>831675
I would buy that shit.

[Anonymous No.831802]

>>831784
wait...150? it says 15 at the top. I'm out.

[Anonymous No.831827]

[Anonymous No.831843]

[Anonymous No.831859]

Seems that other image wasnt working

[noko No.831893]

This guy has been trying for 2 months to sell this for $400 with no power cords or video cords... its worth maybe $100 maybe...

[Anonymous No.831935]

>>830671
That's not too bad of a deal...

[Anonymous No.832030]

Creo que nadie lo ha intentado, así que yo lo haré. ¿Como les va con la colección? Aquí en America Latina es algo sumamente complicado adquirir buenos juegos.

[Anonymous No.832035]

>>832030
Gonna have to ask you to leave

[Anonymous No.832046]

Some retards responded to my ad on cl. Long story short, they wanted like 10x ebay price for a bunch of common and some uncommon nes games. I show them the ebay prices and say my offer was fair. And they say "then go buy on ebay". Are people mentally retarded on cl?

[Anonymous No.832136]

>>831594
basically anywhere that you can buy a bong will call the a water pipe.

[Anonymous No.832250]

>>830943
>$279.99 for an unboxed copy of EarthBound, that is fucking ridiculous.

Guy at an estarland event thing today was selling his for $350 today. No box as well. I chuckled a little.

[Anonymous No.832278]

>>831675
Why would you try to sell someone 4 copies of the same damn game? Not sold separately? What the hell are you DOING?

[Anonymous No.832313]

>>832035
>that's a home

[Anonymous No.832341]

>nintendo re-releases Earthbound
>faggots cry when no one will pony up for their shitty high priced games.

[Anonymous No.832347]

>>831827
At least that's better than that one arcade cabinet that required everyone to spoon each other if you had more than 2 players.

[Anonymous No.832350]

>>832341
>what is emulation
>what is Mother 1+2 for GBA

[Anonymous No.832364]

>>832347
>tfw someone near me has a standup afterburner machine and won't let it go for under 450

He wouldn't take 300 for it, if I wasn't moving soon I'd do 450

[Anonymous No.832370]

>>831675
$15 for all those games + the cases? Ya I'd go down on that.

[Anonymous No.832396]

>>832370
Read the actual text. All of them for $150.

[Anonymous No.832423]

>>831827

The controls alone on that thing cost over $400.

[Anonymous No.832438]

>>830824
There's someone on my local craigslist who's been reposting his loose "not for resale" sonic 2 every day for months at $3. If I ever have a reason to be in his town I'd be tempted to buy it just so I don't have to see it every day.

[Anonymous No.832485]

>be a regular seller on craigslist
>dumbasses asking me questions that could be answered by actually reading the ad
>people asking me to meet up in outrageously far distances for small purchases
>people getting belligerent when I turn them down
I've had a guy flip at me when I told him that I would lose too much money by meeting him up at a city that's one hour away for a $3 game. The audacity of some people, geez.

[Anonymous No.832656]

not retro but this was too weird not to add to this thread
still not sure if this is legit or a scammer
I'm thinking probably the later

[Anonymous No.832685]

>>831893
none of those games are valuable, and its not even a heavy sixer. i hate morons that try to sell shit at that price

[Anonymous No.832687]

>>831893
I think he forgot the decimal after the 4

[Anonymous No.832704]

>>830576
Also, if anything, customizing devalues the item. I know a lot of guys who prefer everything to be stock/OEM.

[Anonymous No.832752]

>>830951
I'd trade my xbox for a puppy. that's pretty fucking rad

[Anonymous No.832754]

>>831675
That's a fucking great deal... go buy that anon

[Anonymous No.832757]

>>830210
Not vidya, but my friend found this in m4m.

[Anonymous No.832761]

>>832656
I just saw that ad... odd to see another anon from nh, especially one into /VR/

[Anonymous No.832786]

>>832761
I'd like to get your take on that ad then, do you think it's legit, or make up story meant to pressure people to pay more than they would normally on it?
I'm leaning towards the second myself

[Anonymous No.832789]

>>832786
made up*

[Anonymous No.832805]

just started browsing to see the usual ripoff deals... found FFII and III for $15 each, hope it's still for sale

[Anonymous No.832827]

It's funny; I work with a friend who runs a flea market stand that deals in this stuff. We do Pricewatch and ebay aggregate pricing; undercut the average by about 10%. We ONLY sell systems that we have fully cleaned and tested, and come with full working cables and a controller.

For example: We sell NES systems with all cables, new 72 pin adapters and a controller for 40 bucks.

We get people in all the time with this kind of crap: just the other day we had a guy come in with an SNES with it's full original box and a handful of sports games with the original boxes... absolutely everything was water damaged. The system, the boxes, the manuals.

He wanted 200 dollars for it. Because "Ya'll easily sell this to a collector for 250-300."

urgh.

[Anonymous No.832856]

>>832827

Resellers begone

[Anonymous No.832887]

>>832856
Quiet, quiet, we have a double agent who works openly with the resellers and scalpers.

In time, he might show us how they think and reason, hopefully we'll find a way to take back what we respect and love so very much

[Anonymous No.832909]

wow, i found an actual decent posting. Too bad I don't even know which console half of these are for, it just says "Nintendo Games" at the top.

[Anonymous No.832910]

>>830210
That's not a horrible deal. I mean, I wouldn't buy it because I know I could find cheaper, but all that shit on eBay is probably worth almost that much.

[Anonymous No.832917]

>>832827
>"Ya'll easily sell this to a collector for 250-300."
"If you're so well-informed, why don't you do it yourself?"

[Anonymous No.832925]

>>832827
Can you or your friend give a beginner any pointers on how to run a flea market stand?

I've always wanted to try selling stuff.

[Anonymous No.832928]

>>832925
It's just like a yard sale but you have to buy a table and share the area with other merchants. Price your shit individually or just make up prices when asked. Be able to barter, etc. It's pretty much the same as BUYING from a flea market, just in reverse.

[Anonymous No.832946]

>>832909
I'd guess they're all NES. Not bad, though. I'd buy a few of those, if they were local.

[Anonymous No.832957]

>>832754
Either the $15 is a "hook", like all of those "BUY MY SHIT $1!!!!" ads, or the $150 is a typo.

It'd be worth finding out what that seller really meant, though.

[Anonymous No.833575]

Posting a few

[Anonymous No.833581]

[Anonymous No.833586]

[Anonymous No.834005]

>>832925
>>832928

The one we run is a full on stand, not a table. We have a tax licence and it's lockable and everything.

Basic pointers:

1) Know what you are selling. This cannot be stressed enough though it sounds stupidly simple and obvious. Research is your best friend.

2) Don't expect to make money for a while. It's a business; if you are in the black within 6 months, you are going to be ahead of the curve. If you want to do a stand instead of a table, expect to sink at least 2-3 grand into it as startup money. That's for inventory, furniture, equipment, rent, everything.

3) Develop a think skin. You will have to deal, fairly regularly, with people who can best be described as highly suspect. For example: non-english speaking Chinese immigrants that want to sell you 50 copies of a "brand new" 360 or PS3 game for 5 dollars each, which are on a spindle instead of in boxes. Then get angry when you tell them no.

>>832887

Honestly, it is my experience that since storage wars and it's ilk have come out that the vast majority of people don't particularly think about it at all. If you want to find stuff inexpensively, the best bet is to invest in learning how to fix damaged stuff and buy that from people, then fix it yourself.

The huge majority of the stuff we sell is stuff we rebuilt and repaired.

[Anonymous No.834026]

copy n pasted from CL. What do you guys think, yay or nay?

(sorry no picture)

i have a atari 2600 jr. system and 56 games,2 joysticks controllers and a set of paddle controllers and also some manuals for some of the games. $90 or if there is only a handful of the games you want i will sell them separately
the games are:
bowling
video chess
E.T the extra-terrestrial
combat
dodge'em
journey escape
space attack
asteroids
swordquest fire world
stampede
wizard of wor
missile command
warlords
super breakout
jungle hunt
casino
tutankham
circus atari
sky diver
summer games
defender
lost luggage
haunted house
realsports football
star fox
video olympics
night driver
raft rider
skiing
home run
big bird's egg catch
adventure
star wars: the empire strikes back
dragster
video checkers
star raiders
football
frogger
demon attack
donkey kong
golf
raiders of the lost ark
space invaders
breakout
beasket ball
air-sea battle
street racer
swordquest earthworld
boxing
astroblast
maze craze
mouse trap
berzerk
pac-man
ms. pac-man
yars' revenge

[Anonymous No.835567]

>>830210
Every few weeks this guy shows up and tries to sell his gay porn. The interesting thing is that there are different DVDs, so it might be working.

[Anonymous No.835656]

>>834026

$90 for the lot ?

YAY

[Anonymous No.836525]

>>834005
Good shit, my nigga.

I fucking love my local flea market, because their policies are completely unbiased. There are no taxes or licensing involved, not even for the guys that are trying to run a legit business. Also, rental fees are the same for everybody ($25 per table for the whole day -- so if you wanted to rent 3 tables, that would be $75, no more no less, and you keep 'em for the whole day).

And I'm all too familiar with thickskinnery. I currently work in a job with very rigid policies, and for some reason the place attracts the bottom rung of humanity, and suffice to say, I've seen it all.

Gosh, I'm so fucking stoked.

[Anonymous No.836536]

>>830471
Brand new never used it. Hardly ever used it. Wat?

[Anonymous No.839051]

>>836536
English is that guy's second language, or he used it as something else.

[Anonymous No.839059]

>>836536
He probably means he's selling it because he never uses it ANYMORE. In addition to that he hardly used it.