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| sworddude:
--- Quote from: maximo310 on October 29, 2016, 04:58:14 pm ---^ Not to butt in or anything, but some places don't have too many deals locally. But PDS is probably not the best example to use for finding a steal of a deal; I'd say that quite a bit of uncommon stuff can be found for good deals if you look hard enough. It also depends on if you live in a city or have lots of stores near you, or if you find other people ( either online or locally) who are selling stuff. I'm not too happy about GS jumping right in since buying retro is a crapshoot due to no way to determine condition, most stores don't have any retro stock, and the trade values can range from pretty okish on the cheaper stuff to pretty bad ( $27.50 for Earthbound for trade cred, $22 for cash). I'd only buy if they'd actually change some of their approach, but I doubt that will happen with how badly run the company is now. --- End quote --- online deals can be made wherever you live unless you have a really bad internet connection but than again such people aren't on these kind of forums anyways. Your local deals aren't always the best far from it, at least in my experience when buying some deals. Your also making your chances pretty limited if you only try to get local deals. Local deals are awesome and there is a nice advantage at that but otherwise your missing out on allot. |
| maximo310:
--- Quote from: sworddude on October 29, 2016, 05:07:07 pm --- --- Quote from: maximo310 on October 29, 2016, 04:58:14 pm ---^ Not to butt in or anything, but some places don't have too many deals locally. But PDS is probably not the best example to use for finding a steal of a deal; I'd say that quite a bit of uncommon stuff can be found for good deals if you look hard enough. It also depends on if you live in a city or have lots of stores near you, or if you find other people ( either online or locally) who are selling stuff. I'm not too happy about GS jumping right in since buying retro is a crapshoot due to no way to determine condition, most stores don't have any retro stock, and the trade values can range from pretty okish on the cheaper stuff to pretty bad ( $27.50 for Earthbound for trade cred, $22 for cash). I'd only buy if they'd actually change some of their approach, but I doubt that will happen with how badly run the company is now. --- End quote --- online deals can be made wherever you live unless you have a really bad internet connection but than again such people aren't on these kind of forums anyways. Your local deals aren't always the best far from it, at least in my experience when buying some deals. Your also making your chances pretty limited if you only try to get local deals. Local deals are awesome and there is a nice advantage at that but otherwise your missing out on allot. --- End quote --- That's very true; a combination of both methods is the best way to go. Sure, it can be tedious sometimes, but just like other things in this hobby, sometimes you gotta invest time in order to score big. |
| burningdoom:
The whole thing is a joke. I just looked some stuff up. Get this: They take Fear Effect 2, but not the first game. They take SW: Rogue Squadron III, but not SW: Rogue Squadron II. They don't have Virtua Racing listed. Earthbound is given like $25 credit, but sells for over $200. Way to screw things up, GameStop. |
| Warmsignal:
--- Quote from: sworddude on October 29, 2016, 03:37:29 pm ---Are you joking with me what a complete BS are you speaking off :o. Panzer dragoon only in the hand of collectors? and howcome I managed to snagg one for free just a bit over 1 year ago? The european version is only slightly less valuable than a US one very sought after. Finding deals a thing of the past in what world are you living, I've managed to snagg many deals even this very week. A 200+ 300 euro cib gameboy game for free and I've added many uncommon good games for free to the collection. And the week before that I managed to get zelda's adventure 2 times for only 7,50 to 20 pop a piece a game that easily fetches over 200 $ and usually way more. I pretty much always make deals every week. Even now I have a cheap ps1 lot incoming with 2 uncommon ps1 games for free or a bargain price. 2 games that usually go for 30 - 60 euro's a piece. I'm glad that I'm not living in your world where there are apparently no deals to be found while I make them almost weekly multiple times :P Gamestop will potentially take many great deals away, I am pretty certain of that, fortunately in my country our big gamestops aren't that popular for the mainstream people and are actually doing pretty bad financially, might be gone within the following years I hope ::). Mixed feelings about the smaller ones since I've managed to snagg many uncommon good games for 5 euro's or less. --- End quote --- It's called the US of A, and it's not a treasure-trove unless you are theflea. In the USA, PDS is probably the smallest print game for the Saturn, a console that is so uncommon, you rarely ever see even the top selling games. PS1 and N64 outsold Saturn like 10 to 1 here. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen Virtua Cop while game hunting over eight years. In that time of game hunting, supply has sharply declined on every front. But, I don't much care at this point. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: Warmsignal on October 29, 2016, 10:55:02 pm --- --- Quote from: sworddude on October 29, 2016, 03:37:29 pm ---Are you joking with me what a complete BS are you speaking off :o. Panzer dragoon only in the hand of collectors? and howcome I managed to snagg one for free just a bit over 1 year ago? The european version is only slightly less valuable than a US one very sought after. Finding deals a thing of the past in what world are you living, I've managed to snagg many deals even this very week. A 200+ 300 euro cib gameboy game for free and I've added many uncommon good games for free to the collection. And the week before that I managed to get zelda's adventure 2 times for only 7,50 to 20 pop a piece a game that easily fetches over 200 $ and usually way more. I pretty much always make deals every week. Even now I have a cheap ps1 lot incoming with 2 uncommon ps1 games for free or a bargain price. 2 games that usually go for 30 - 60 euro's a piece. I'm glad that I'm not living in your world where there are apparently no deals to be found while I make them almost weekly multiple times :P Gamestop will potentially take many great deals away, I am pretty certain of that, fortunately in my country our big gamestops aren't that popular for the mainstream people and are actually doing pretty bad financially, might be gone within the following years I hope ::). Mixed feelings about the smaller ones since I've managed to snagg many uncommon good games for 5 euro's or less. --- End quote --- It's called the US of A, and it's not a treasure-trove unless you are theflea. In the USA, PDS is probably the smallest print game for the Saturn, a console that is so uncommon, you rarely ever see even the top selling games. PS1 and N64 outsold Saturn like 10 to 1 here. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen Virtua Cop while game hunting over eight years. In that time of game hunting, supply has sharply declined on every front. But, I don't much care at this point. --- End quote --- In europe It might be even worse the print run of the sega saturn console is terrible in europe. There are barely any sega saturn deals in europe let alone nice condition games. It's already pretty nice to see a lose console let alone cib with nice games. In europe the sega saturn is also a pretty rare console, as for sale figures I have no precise indication but it can't be good since I'm pretty sure it might be even worse than 10 to 1 if I look at the current market and the offers for european sega saturn games and consoles here in europe. As far as hunting games in the wild goes It's pathetic, sega didn't do as well in europe as they did in the US. |
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