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| Cartagia:
--- Quote from: wolff242 on July 02, 2021, 05:07:12 pm --- --- Quote from: Cartagia on July 02, 2021, 02:39:42 pm --- --- Quote from: oldgamerz on July 02, 2021, 01:36:32 pm ---without stores there is no economy, no economy mean sadness depression, and vary few jobs or reason to leave your house and have a family outing. --- End quote --- "no stores where I live, outside a few small specialty shops, that [ s ]ell CD's anymore" --- End quote --- Thanks for taking the time to correct my typo... --- End quote --- It's not about the typo, it's about oldgamerz only responding to the first part of the sentence and how there are "no stores". |
| sworddude:
It's kinda interesting how this hasn't been brought up In them recent times factory sealed graded games of pretty common games have gone for insane prices. previously some games could buy you a car nowadays you can buy a pretty nice house ::) Mario bros for over 500K zelda nes for over 800K Mario 64 for a whopping 1.5M :o https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2021/7/super-mario-64-game-fetches-1-5m-at-auction-breaking-record-667309 Supreme condition or not those prices seem like madness to me. Even the snes ps1 dev console didn't sell for those amounts at just 300K a significant piece of gaming history. Seems like a steal compared to the common stuff that is sold at these heritage auctions. it's kinda funny how even just a few years back people where already saying that 10 - 50K was insane for a stadium events or them NWC cardridges wich where at the very least legitamtely rare yet going for a fraction. I wonder if these sales are legit. and if they are why the hell didn't these people buy copies of mario 64 factory sealed for a mere fraction elsewhere this can't be natural ::) |
| Flashback2012:
--- Quote from: sworddude on July 24, 2021, 08:04:07 pm ---It's kinda interesting how this hasn't been brought up In them recent times factory sealed graded games of pretty common games have gone for insane prices. previously some games could buy you a car nowadays you can buy a pretty nice house ::) Mario bros for over 500K zelda nes for over 800K Mario 64 for a whopping 1.5M :o https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2021/7/super-mario-64-game-fetches-1-5m-at-auction-breaking-record-667309 Supreme condition or not those prices seem like madness to me. Even the snes ps1 dev console didn't sell for those amounts at just 300K a significant piece of gaming history. Seems like a steal compared to the common stuff that is sold at these heritage auctions. it's kinda funny how even just a few years back people where already saying that 10 - 50K was insane for a stadium events or them NWC cardridges wich where at the very least legitamtely rare yet going for a fraction. I wonder if these sales are legit. and if they are why the hell didn't these people buy copies of mario 64 factory sealed for a mere fraction elsewhere this can't be natural ::) --- End quote --- All of those are (allegedly) money laundering rackets. The problem with that is it makes the mouth-breathing dummies who don't know better think they're sitting on a damn gold mine when they aren't. :P |
| Warmsignal:
Yeah, I don't believe for a second anyone would pay those prices. The word is that auctioneer has been accused a fraudulent practices many times before. It might be worth that if it's still sealed and intact 600 years in the future, but not today. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: Warmsignal on July 25, 2021, 09:18:15 pm ---Yeah, I don't believe for a second anyone would pay those prices. The word is that auctioneer has been accused a fraudulent practices many times before. It might be worth that if it's still sealed and intact 600 years in the future, but not today. --- End quote --- i doubt it especially when it's graded probably stored in a bank vault. also with the mentality of value today I don't see it getting lost. Maybe if it becomes worthless in the future but when it's rare 600 years later as a result of that it wouldn't really matter since nobody cared at that point. I also highly doubt even raw sealed games are going to evaporate/ degrade in 600 years within normal living conditions. In an old shed sure but what serious collector stores there collection in a poorly isolated shed anything would end up damaged in those conditions even things that are build to last. |
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