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| scraph4ppy:
So I've been on an e-bay spree over the past month and a half, and part of that has been a lot of price charting checks. I think its been enough time to finally make this statement definitively- 2020 bubble prices for most retro/last gen games peaked in August and have been declining since then. They are still well above Feb. prices but the first gen of new "buy at any price" owners have gone through their want list and might even start or have started reselling stuff or trading in to stores. Caveat, I've mostly been looking at Nintendo stuff, did a little checking for PS2 but most of those games didn't have a bump (Vice City, which already had been trending upward for a year or so did get a bump but is still holding steady at around ten dollars complete with no downturn in sight) so no usable data there. Here's hoping that this all leads to a whole new wave of garage sale finds in three to five years! |
| oldgamerz:
I still see escalated prices on sites such as Lukie games website, I don't think it will come back down, as far as that online stores goes, in my own experience earlier this year prices were a lot lower on lukie games then right now, I'm not sure about eBay, I don't trust eBay, never did. My heart tells me never to shop for used video games there, lots of cyber gangsters out there, of course I did order 2 defective PS3 from amazon before so. In the last 3 months my local video game store had a bunch of deals like 2 PS1 games for $1 USD |
| dagazconcept:
My "Tales of Destiny II" (ps1) did not cost $1, lol. That about sums up my PS1 purchases from last year ;D I seem to be on a retro PC game kick for all of 2020. There's a wide range ...from very-cheap to high-price goods on eBay (i.e. used single cd jewel case -or- sealed big-box releases). If it was 93' released or later, I'd be lookin' for those first physical CD-ROM media distributed games. These days with Virtual Machines being pretty stable imo, I'm having a lot of fun diving back into old software I played in my youth, like Wing Commander 4, Museum Madness, and Outlaws. It's been about a 60/40 split between eBay(60) and Mercari(40) these days for my retro pc game shopping....kinda surprised personally how many pc games are being sold on Mercari. If you haven't had a chance to look, I'd strongly recommend checking Mercari out :) |
| fazerco:
If you use the search you can find a topic about this every 6 months or so. |
| ignition365:
--- Quote from: fazerco on October 05, 2020, 05:14:19 am ---If you use the search you can find a topic about this every 6 months or so. --- End quote --- Yeah, and right now, even if prices decline, with the pandemic you can't truly claim the bubble has popped. Even then, if the prices go back to pre-pandemic, that's still not the bubble popping either. Everything had an upward trend due to people being at home during lockdowns plus the single stimulus check ::) As time progresses and folks start leaving their homes or running out of money, demand will drop and supply will grow on most things. |
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