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bikingjahuty -
You make some good & true points -and- if I came across as insulting, nasty, or an ass-hole (despite being all of the above; at times:) ==> I didn't mean to
I actually agree with you on your point about (probably) at least 99% of games being "go no-where's".
I guess that I should have been more specific:
I
almost never do this w/ vanilla games.
I only do it with LE/CE's that I'm planning on keeping and/or re-selling as still sealed; like
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The Tales of Symphonia LE is out of a run of only 18,000 (w/ each one individually numbered) + it comes jam-packed full of *GOOD* swag &
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The Drakengard III LE (which, if one
Argyle didn't help me out & save my ass here)...I would certainly have missed out on & been too late for is, similarly to the above, out of a run of only 5,000.
There's no doubt in my mind that (keeping in mind what some 'lesser' equipped LE's w/ larger print runs (Looking @ the 2 LUNAR CE's here) still sell for); that it would be even possible to *lose* money, unlikely to only double the original cost, unsurprising to triple it, etc, etc...
As another example - for (at least) the last 3 gens, I've bought multiple copies of EVERY single NISA LE (that was released on any of the Playstations, PSP, DS, and/or Vita) -and- (again, still talking only sealed LE's here); not only have I Never lost any $ on a single one of them (the "quality" of the games actually is seemingly irrelevant:) -but- I've doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and beyond...on certainly > 75% of them.
That aside...if the absolute very worst that I've ever done is to break even ==> well then...just like when I leave the casinos = I'm a happy -n- smiling man