Priced To Sit vs. Priced to Sell

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amauriel:

--- Quote from: pceslayer on May 08, 2012, 10:44:49 pm ---@amauriel I will have to visit said stores next time I am in Cleveland!

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The place that had a bunch of cool stuff (and toys! so many 80's toys! even a TMNT blimp!) but that was completely overpriced was Big Fun Vintage. The place that had the good deals and has had some really random stuff is Video Game Connection. (It's got the best-worst storefront sign ever.)

The last time we were there, we found this other random vintage store. It's called Star Pop and you should probably call before you go, as it's one guy and he doesn't really do a good job of keeping his hours. However, last time we were there, Ronalopolis scored both sets of the Resident Evil Video Game Stars figurines, and I got a Harvest Moon game, a TurboGrafx game or two, and THIS (for $8!):

I also scored a couple of packs of Reboot trading cards and some other random 80's/90's stuff. Super fun place!

Edit: Also, how have you been? Haven't seen you around!

pceslayer:
Wowza that is one awesome glass!!

Ive been MIA because work and females are killing me! Both require more time than I really want to give. lol :/

That and always broke..

lordmeatpie:
I work in a game store and I'm our retro game guy. I take care of everything from N64 and back.
I hope it doesn't make us as game store employees sound like jackasses, but when we buy games from people we have to take into account that the service of cleaning and maintaining the flow of these games has a price of its own.
For example, you can buy a copy of Donkey Kong Country for SNES or Super Mario 3 for NES online for 12 or 15 bucks. and thats what we will pay people copies of them for. Its more or less the convenience factor, along with the running a business / paying employees factor.
Even though I work at the store and buy games from the store, I still buy lots of games elsewhere for more reasonable prices when theyre the more common titles.
Super Mario Bros. 3 I just bought at a yard sale... like 10 times hahaha. Upgraded the label condition a few times for the one I kept, then used any that I found extra to trade with other people for different games.

turf:

--- Quote from: lordmeatpie on September 13, 2012, 01:30:52 am ---For example, you can buy a copy of Donkey Kong Country for SNES or Super Mario 3 for NES online for 12 or 15 bucks. and thats what we will pay people copies of them for.
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Your store pays ebay prices for retro games? You're not going to be in business very long doing that. How do you make any money?
Where is this store? If you're paying prices like that, I'm bringing my dups to you.

lordmeatpie:
we dont pay those prices for all games, more just the popular ones, and even some of those we still pay a bit less. and after all our payout is said and done, even with our mark-up (SMB3 we sell for 29, Dr mario for 12, the DKC SNES titles for 29, 34 and 39 respectively, along with Conkers that we give 50 store credit for and mark up to 129) we still can't keep them in stock.
Id also rather not say what store I'm at because the owner is a very paranoid guy who doesnt like our information given out, and if I say the name of our company in this thread Im sure he would find it in search results at some point while hes searching on the internet.
But yeah, even at the 29 to 39 prices for common games, we still can barely keep them in stock.
Sometimes the store owner will just go on eBay and order lots of games in bulk (the other day he ordered 20 SMB2's for NES at c.12 dollars a piece, and we will sell them at 34 and have them gone within a couple weeks.

Its wild seeing the gme collector lifestyle from both sides of the table these days, as the collector and also the seller.

--- Quote from: turf on September 13, 2012, 09:09:32 am ---You're not going to be in business very long doing that.

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And actually we're just celebrating our 25th year as one of the most successful retro game stores in Western Canada! :D People travel from all over Western Canada to come to our store, also from the northern states (I know it sounds bad, but I cant remember which State we border on here in Alberta. I'm originally from Nova Scotia so Im still getting used to everything out here haha).

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