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| You ever see these idiots listing something wayyy insanely overpriced? |
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| dreama1:
You ever see these idiots listing something wayyy insanely overpriced? Can anyone explain this? I'm talking about few 100 dollars or a few times over 1000 dollars. |
| thewelshman:
Usually just a scam, or in some cases its a laundering scheme. |
| bikingjahuty:
it's part of the reason I rarely have ever bought any used games from the Amazon marketplace. I don't know if there is some disconnect or if people on their genuinely believe their prices, but I've never consistently seen so much overpriced shit as I have there. I see it on ebay too, but rarely for more than 20% of what the game goes with via Buy it Now. I thought a lot about why people do this, and while ignorance is certainly a factor for some of these outlandish prices, I think most of the time it boils down to people just wanting top dollar for their stuff, which I can understand. However, when some moron prices something for double, triple or more I seriously have to question their intelligence, morals or both. |
| sworddude:
Intelligence has nothing to do with it no matter how dum or smart some might be nostalgia can be pretty thick I have had some very highly educated rich people aquantances of mine think that their old PC stuff lose floppy's no boxes not to mention allot of copied stuff are worth a fortune and interesting for an investment later on. I did say it was not pretty worthless everyone who was a big pc gamer back in the day has them boxes full of floppies and here is just no demand there is more of it than one might think only for certain games and cib in nice shape if you have the right stuff and some very few exceptions wich pretty no one has and even than were usually not talking big money. however I understand that the nostalgia is pretty priceless to them there is no denying that. I Have seen some try sell a snes nes console for more than 1K, because they think it is new while it is not It's insane but some people don't know and are super excited for having it however they later find out it is only worth 30 - 40 $ Nostalgia is a super big factor for some to sell it for a way higher price than it is actually worth, looking at the highest sealed prices also does not help, also the fact that they usually do not know not to mention do not sell on the black market that much. Finding stuff of value in the attic etc is pretty exciting for some especially the less wealthy people who could use some extra cash. edit One last factor is obviously the original costs back in the day wich is expensive, seeing the retro game hype they might think that stuff is worth a fortune but in reality only very few things are worth more than their original retail price especially used and usually just a fraction even the pretty decent expensive titles to be fair 30 - 50$. |
| emporerdragon:
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on December 03, 2017, 03:46:16 am ---it's part of the reason I rarely have ever bought any used games from the Amazon marketplace. --- End quote --- Check the Warehouse Deals section. That's the used/open box stuff directly through Amazon rather than a person with a storefront. Much more reasonably priced. |
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