You ever been attacked for being a game collector?

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ignition365:
My parents... I don't want to say they collect Barbie dolls, but at the very least they are authorized resellers (retailer?) of Barbie dolls and such. They don't give me shit about it, of course, I think they think I'm doing this to make money in the long run. Which could explain why my siblings think I'm greedy and doing it for evil money reasons.

My mother in law, any time she comes over, she calls my wife and I retards and autistic and stuff because we have this stuff. She thinks she's being funny.

theflea:
Attacked not really, made fun off, yes. :P
In the 90s early 2000's people didn't get why I held on to old video games, I used to find them I lot more at garage sales and people treated old games like most treat VHS today. My Dad never understood my passion, he always thought that video games where a waste of time and a waste of money. People back them never understood why I held on to all my games.

Nowadays when I say I'm a video game collector most people just think I have a hand full of games and If I show them I picture of my collection they usually have a look of surprise and want to see it them selves. They ask "Do you have a Nintendo? Atari? Sega?" etc..

The closest I get to being "attacked" is once in a while at a garage sale I'll mention I'm a collector they treat me like a reseller and won't work with me on prices or just give me some sarcastic remark because they got ten other guys before me asking about video games.
Then there's the resellers them selves who push me, lie to me, say nasty things to me because they look at me as taking their profit away.

But funny thing is most of the time when I show pic's of my collection to people (even those who never played a game in their life) they think it's awesome. I have even gone to a garage sale or a game store, show them pic's of my vast collection and they start bringing out stuff and are generous about price because they see it will go to a good home. There's a local game store I visit that the owner will save odd gaming stuff that comes in and offers it to me first at a price below what he'd normally sell it for just because he wants it to go to someone who will love and appreciate it.

kashell:
"Attacked" is a strong word. My parents still think it's silly that I play and collect video games. Everyone else? They don't care. I never hide the fact that I'm a gamer. And no one else should.

ignition365:

--- Quote from: theflea on December 07, 2015, 09:11:04 am ---The closest I get to being "attacked" is once in a while at a garage sale I'll mention I'm a collector they treat me like a reseller and won't work with me on prices or just give me some sarcastic remark because they got ten other guys before me asking about video games.
Then there's the resellers them selves who push me, lie to me, say nasty things to me because they look at me as taking their profit away.

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lol, this. There are a few spots I hit, or used to hit frequently. I haven't been hunting like I used to. I would wind up buying like 20-50 games in one go at like $1-2 a piece, not too often, but when the situation occurs, I buy up a ton of crap or filler titles, it's how I have over 2500 games, quantity over quality it seems. But they always ask if I own a game store or if I resell online, I always tell them that it goes straight to my collection, if it happens to be a title I already own that I didn't realize I own, I generally give it to a friend or trade it off to someone else.

fighterpilot562:
i have a friend who talks mess about my gaming hobby and collection, saying its a waste of time and money...

And what does he do every Friday, Sat and Sunday? get drunk at home, he even brags about it on the forum we are both on.

he is always telling me I should drink more, or we should go bar hopping.... And I am like, I am good, bars cost too much and I no longer really drink haha.

And gaming is a waste of money lol. But one time he was over playing on my n64 and he was horrible. So i understand his hate, hes not good at games lol

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