I'm a bit discouraged today as I found out that my local game store (that I always complain about the prices being absurd) has just bought out another local honey hole that I used to hit all of the time. Got tons of gems from there, and they sold everything for a flat price of $5 or $10. They had a bad habit of storing it all away and not wanting to bother selling you anything. Well, the game store just bought them completely out and are now individually pricing everything, about 20,000 games I'd say. Most of it will be too high for me to consider, he's always higher than eBay on most stuff and has told my personally that he doesn't care if he really sells anything because it's just a side-business.
He already had a ton of stuff, but now his store is just massive. I'm glad that I'm getting so close to calling my days as a game hunter over, because I just couldn't do it with today's prices. $20 to $30 for just any random game is insane to me, but that's the new normal. Never paid that kind of money, and never will unless it's a new release.