March 2020 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

[oldgamerz]

My Copy of Daemon X Machina for the Switch came in today. Also i had enough Switch points to buy Doom, Soom 2 Doom 3 and Fear Effect Sedna while they were on Sale

If you like first person shooters I'm sure you'll enjoy Doom 3, I just picked up Doom 3 for the xbox last month, but I only played some of the Doom 3 BFG edition on steam before, and from what I remember on the PC version of Doom 3 it that game reminds me of well done action horror movie,

But you many need to look up how to defeat the Guardian boss demon, because I think you need to hit this boss with a weapon only when he flashes or something,

One of the bosses in Doom 3 BFG edition on steam cannot be defeated by just shooting it, and the game don't tell you exactly how to defeat that boss, I had to look it up myself. But not sure if you need to in the version you have

[droaa]

I'm currently negotiating a fairly large deal with a local collector who is getting out of collecting. If this ends up happening this will be one of the largest purchases I've made in years! I'd say there's a 50/50 chance at this point it's going to work out. I just wish he'd message me back more consistently 

Facebook, I'd assume. In the few experiences I've had using it to buy things, people are insufferable on there. A total lack of basic communication skills and etiquette. They'll stop talking to you mid conversation, leave you hanging after making actual plans or dealings, and generally just don't give a crap. I had to wait like 45 mins after driving an hour, in a parking lot while the seller was inside of a grocery store after they changed the meet location on me, and decided to do all their shopping before they'd come out and meet me to sell me something we met up for. Not so much as an acknowledgement or response when I told them via Facebook that I had arrived at the parking lot, and they were completely aware the whole time.

This is exactly what happened. The guy has been jerking me around for 2-days despite me offering a very reasonable amount for what he was selling. I'm like 99% sure this isn't happening now. Yeah, it was on Facebook lol

This can apply to just about any local sells apps like Letgo and Craigslist. Some people communicate no problem and all is good. Then there are others who have no business selling anything. I remember wanting to meet someone to buy their copy of Nioh with the letter opener that came when you pre-ordered the game and all was find at first. I told them I was going to pass by their place after picking something else up on the way and they said no problem. Fast forward and I arrive at the meeting location, I parked and told them I was hear and didnt hear anything back like at all. Im pretty sure I was there for like 20-30 minutes top and in between sent another message and no response which at the point i was like fuck it and left. Needless to say I wasnt happy especially considering the distance wasnt exactly the closes to where I live. Maybe they already sold to someone before I came but say that instead of making make waste my time. People suck sometimes.

There is also an option called shipping to avoid all that waste of time?

Fuel costs and 2 hours or more invested to go back and forth + wait time to pick something up how much does one actually save?. I rarely pick stuff up only if it's fairly close or at a flea market. even if it's only 30 or 20 minutes away it means also going 20 30 minutes back even in those cases you waste over 1 hour to save almost nothing or lose money thanks to fuel I just say fuck it and pay the 4 to 7$ shipping with tracking my time is far more valuable than saving a few $. picking stuff up is always a time sink. Only if it's super pricy as in 1000$ or up might I consider picking stuff up. If it was a guy I bought stuff from before I'll just pay for insured shipping for 20$ not to mention that for under 500$ in my country there is an option to insure upto 500$ for just 9$ for up to 10 KG's. again you rarely save money by picking stuff up if where talking fuel costs alone let alone the time.

still though out of all the local pickups that you guys had? do you guys really not trust for those same people to ship the items out? I mean the guy has the items if you payed before hand he can't sell it anymore, also in the sellers perspective for a local pickup a buyer can also just ditch the meeting place so there is no guarantee wich could result in some people selling it to somebody else. Modern stuff especially consoles sure tons of scamming, retro games especially obsecure stuff way less and you could just pick the actual scammers out. but that's just my experience.

Also if you don't believe the guy to have the items ask for particular pictures of said item, or with note with the correct date of today + the sellers name to guarantee that the guy actually has the items that he is selling. or say you bought a bunch of items to ask a picture of that bundle of games before you pay.

Shipping never crossed my mind and since I had done local pickups without an issue then this didn't seem like anything out of the ordinary and honestly with apps like letgo and Craigslist, I don't trust shipping. Obviously if it's something like ebay that's a different story since if anything goes wrong then they can step in. PayPal can also apply but you have to make sure the transaction is for goods and services. Point is I have good reason to be hesitant about shipping in that manner. Nowadays I'm not really buying much so local pickups via these methods isn't something I'm doing much of anyway. I just wanted to share one bad experience as illustration of some sellers lack of communication.

That's pretty interesting everyone has a different experience with collecting after all.

Personally on sites like craigs lists in europe I have a pretty nice experience with shipping. retrogaming has some scammers but it's pretty rare and I could filter those out pretty easily the scammers are fairly obvious. I could not even count the amount of deals I would have missed if I where to only do local pickups by car. It's usually all well over 1 hour of drive time not to mention traffic increasing that time.

Haven't been scammed in forever. only in the beginning few years  3 times in wich it didnt matter much since deals where plentyfull and I lost only a couple hundred $ wich was kinda small stuff compared to the great deals such sites provided at the time part of the risk and a valuable lesson I guess. Kinda made some big rookie mistakes at the time even the pictures where stolen and the prices where not that much of a bargain plus the seller had to much knowledge I should have known better. most scammers never seem to sell for actual bargain prices. 50% of the more hyped items usually from what I've noticed. there has to be some effort there. rarely with obsecure stuff pretty much all hyped stuff wich even than pretty rare from what I've seen. nothing in comparison to modern stuff wich is far more popular for scammers to make money with. far larger audience aswell. Let alone anything non nintendo related. why would a scammer waste it's time with ps1 ps2 or anything sega atari haven't seen any of those.

I will say though your not wrong it's not that uncommon for people to not like shipping if it's not ebay and when they don't trust a seller even in my country in wich people only do local pickup or not. Wich I appreciate quite allot since naturally the best deals are not from long time experienced well known sellers wich a sizable chunk of people might skip as a result

Ebay can sometimes have some great deals from time to time but you rarely find someone who doesnt know the value on there. Ebay requires far to much effort to list stuff for a person to not to research or to skip on stuff with old prices or insane deals. especially for newcomers or people that just sell sometimes ebay is a real turn off.

My mentality with shipping online is like this, if the pictures are legit amateur like or so unique, plus such a low price, It's pretty hard for the seller to be a scammer, or if the guy provides extra pictures of those particular items on request like the backside of the 2 asked manuals It's pretty hard to say that the guy doesnt own the items If I don't trust it and see some red flags asking for those specific pictures will easily see if the guy is a scammer or not. a scammer would search ebay listings for those manual pics wich means different backgrounds in the end instead of the 2 manuals on 1 picture or ofcourse ignore the question. worked out for me at least, but the US could be different in that regard but that's just in my experience.

Dont want to further hijack this topic but the reason I look down upon shipping when it comes to local pick ups is because there have been a significant amount of people out there who try to pull the shipping thing as means to rip people off. Not me personally but there has been enough red flags to turn the shields up if you will. Just recently on letgo, there has been a surge of listings of people giving away their PS4 consoles and all you as the seller needed to do was pay for the shipping because the sellers son was trying to sell it but they moved to another state and its been like that for about a month. I see it for what it is as a scam but some people can fall for this. I also ran into another listing which was too good to be true. This person was selling lot of DS for $20 and the selection of games was pretty damn good and as I said too good to be true but just because, I decided to contact them. Despite their location being 2 towns over from where I live, they tell me they live south of where I live. I had asked why they wanted me to pay them instead of pick up and that was their reason so like that they could ship and since I didnt want to use paypal or cashapp to pay for something that was too good, I decline. About a day or 2 later, their account was deleted cuz I guess someone may have reported them for that same reason. Point Im making is shipping scams seem to be something around these parts. Maybe no so much where you are but here it is but like you said, its a different experience for all of us and thats why we get to tell stories.

[tripredacus]

PC
Golf Pro 2000 Downunder

Nintendo DS
Transformers Dark of the Moon: Autobots

[oldgamerz]

PC
Golf Pro 2000 Downunder

Nintendo DS
Transformers Dark of the Moon: Autobots

Golf Pro 2000 Downunder sounds and looks cool when I looked it up. You probably already know I love Golf Video games 

As for the DS game that sounds cool too.

[sworddude]

Quite some nintendo stuff for the collection this time around great condition cib n64 and nes is pretty rare over here


15 euro's a pop all cib
toki tori gameboy
king of fighters ex2 howling blood
zanac nes

Fighting force n64 27 euro's shipped

mario odyssey guide 6 euro's shipped sealed


random free deals cib

guides
ninja gaiden xbox
pikmin 3 wii u
rampga atary lynx
star gladiator ps1

sega stuff for free

plasma sword cib
star wars revel assault sega cd
mr bones saturn pretty hard to find here in europe always wanted to try this one out

A pretty awesome cib nintendo deal 50 euro's loss shipped all cib in excellent shape

nes

rush n attack
ikari warriors
trojan
kid icarus
castlevania 1 completing my cib nes castlevania trilogy

N64

michief makers finally scored this one as one of the easier treasure games to get
rocket on wheels
castlevania legacy of darkness completing my cib castlevania n64 duo set.

Pretty nice month with especially them cib nintendo adds.

[tripredacus]

PC
Golf Pro 2000 Downunder

Nintendo DS
Transformers Dark of the Moon: Autobots

Golf Pro 2000 Downunder sounds and looks cool when I looked it up. You probably already know I love Golf Video games 

It specifically advertising the fact that you can play the ball from any lie even from the fairway of another hole. It even uses the phrase "no matter how high your score is" or something that that effect. Amazing, can't wait to try it lol.

[soera]

That Trojan looks awesome. Definitely one of my favorite NES titles.

[wolff242]

That Trojan looks awesome. Definitely one of my favorite NES titles.

Trojan was my 1st NES game, got it long before I could afford a NES. I used to just take it over to my friends house to play- it was such a fun game!

[emporerdragon]

After devoting my hobby money more to Manga and Lego last month, I've now made a few pickups back in the video game field.

One:
Roman Rumble in Las Vegum: Asterix & Obelix XXL 2

360:
Hot Wheels: World's Best Driver
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures 2

Switch:
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon DX

[koemo1]

Ape Escape 2
The Italian Job
Asterix & Obelix XXL
Need For Speed Underground 1
Need For Speed Underground 2
Need For Speed ProStreet
Tekken 5
Tekken 4

All for the PS2 and all 1 euro each!

[theflea]

Time for another update on my latest pick ups, Nothing to crazy this week.
But I did get my 16,000 item in my collection in this week. 

SWITCH
- Moero Chronicle Hyper
- Mary Skelter 2
- Divinity Original Sin II

XBone
- Slay the Spire
- Bayonetta / Vanquish

PS4
- Mars Odyssey
- Gris
- Jupiter & Mars (my 16,000 item) 
- Lifeless Planet
- River City Girls (PAX Cover)
- Halloween Forever
- Riddled Corpses EX

VITA
- Psychedelica of the Ashen Hawk (finally found a copy with the Cards)
- Ice Cream Surfer
- Riddled Corpses EX

NDS
- Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's World Championship 2010: Reverse of Arcadia
- Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour
- Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light

NGC
- Disney's Party (hear this game is Terrible but it was only $3) 

PS2
- Simple 2000 Series Ultimate Vol. 17: Bomb Poipoi
- Sakurazaka Shouboutai
- Soul Eater
- Space Fisherman
- Sengoku Basara X

N64
Saw this at my local used game store for $16.
- Space Station Silicon Valley

PS1
Another Strange Japanese game.
- Love Love Truck

PCE
Made some random offers on PCE games and got this one.
- Rabio Lepus Special

SFAM
Saw this and thought I better grab it becuase odds are when I get a Sharp Nintendo TV it wont have the original controller.
Plus they where only asking $20.
- Sharp SF1 Super Famicom Controller

GG
My local used game store had a huge lot of Game Gear games come in. Most where under $5. I think only two where over $10.
- Hook
- The Itchy & Scratchy Game
- T2 The Arcade Game
- Chase H.Q.
- Prince of Persia
- Out Run Europa
- Robocop vs. Terminator
- The Adventures of Batman & Robin
- Earthworm Jim
- Shining Force
- Micro Machines

GEN
- Virtual Pinball

GB
- Go! Go! Tank

[tripredacus]

Gaming computer upgrades.

Asus H110M-C/CSM
Intel Core i7-7700 3.6 GHz
2x G.Skill Aegis 16 GB DDR4

[tripredacus]

Received 3x Sega Saturn Power Memory in the mail.

[doafan]

This little fella just arrived to the office a couple of minutes ago, quarantine doesn't scare me any more 

[emporerdragon]

Just a swag addition with the D. Va Academy skin Nendorid being added to my collection: