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burningdoom:
"Black market"

sworddude:
Well well the justice police has showed up once again ::)

No I do not mean the criminal market lol.

Sites such as craigslist ebay etc wich i guess are not the black market.

Still though places such as ebay and especially craigslist are pretty shady not everyone is big fan to use them. Allot of people have gotten scammed in such places especially with current gen stuff. It is a black market in some way if you would like my opinion not to mention that some black market activity has taken place on sites such as craigs list.

98dgreen:

--- Quote from: sworddude on April 06, 2018, 08:58:19 pm ---Well well the justice police has showed up once again ::)

No I do not mean the criminal market lol.

Sites such as craigslist ebay etc wich i guess are not the black market.

Still though places such as ebay and especially craigslist are pretty shady not everyone is big fan to use them. Allot of people have gotten scammed in such places especially with current gen stuff. It is a black market in some way if you would like my opinion not to mention that some black market activity has taken place on sites such as craigs list.

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The correct term is gray market for craigslist that is eBay isn't even that.

dharmajones93:
I of course can empathize with the OP. They are at a somewhat unreasonable price. I have noticed them peak, if not come down in the last two years. I've just used it as an opportunity to get ahead of the curb and grab the PSX and N64 games I want before they skyrocket. Just being patient with the SNES for now and only getting games I know I will play soon.

To combat this, I have been getting the Genesis/Mega Drive versions of games when possible. Contrary to SNES, it is hard to find a game for more than $20, at least in my neck of the woods. They are not what I am nostalgic for, but sometimes when I sit down with the games I realize that the genny versions are sometimes better than what I remember on the SNES (Earthworm Jim, for example).

marvelvscapcom2:

--- Quote from: dharmajones93 on April 11, 2018, 01:39:30 pm ---I of course can empathize with the OP. They are at a somewhat unreasonable price. I have noticed them peak, if not come down in the last two years. I've just used it as an opportunity to get ahead of the curb and grab the PSX and N64 games I want before they skyrocket. Just being patient with the SNES for now and only getting games I know I will play soon.

To combat this, I have been getting the Genesis/Mega Drive versions of games when possible. Contrary to SNES, it is hard to find a game for more than $20, at least in my neck of the woods. They are not what I am nostalgic for, but sometimes when I sit down with the games I realize that the genny versions are sometimes better than what I remember on the SNES (Earthworm Jim, for example).

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N64 has gotten quite outrageous too as of late. I'm glad you beat the spike :). I used to always upset myself about the price changes. How a game as common as smash melee can cost 60-70 bucks. But then I tried to find a silver lining and it was hard but here is how I convinced myself.

I kinda see it as a mixed blessing. On one hand the pricing makes it so us collectors get their wallet's beatened everytime we move the wrong way or want something we actually love because resellers want to send their kids to college like thevious manipulating snakes, hipsters buy them all and resell them and all and all the market suffers ridiculous price spikes that hurt everyone other than the sellers. But at the same time it seems other consoles cool down when ones get hot. And our collections value not only in terms of money but trade value increases along with the rates. It makes it so any doubles us collector's already have such as say you have 2 copies of Mario Party or Chrono Trigger. It makes it so we can get other things we want from other platforms easier just because everyone is so quick to buy those games. :D

One way of looking at it anyway :)

It's really depressing though but I guess it comes with the surge of the new comers and just the landscape of collecting things and the more time passes the worst it'll get. I reckon we'll see a day when Smash Melee is a few thousand dollars. It's that bad and the saddest part is some desperate collector would pay it if it were the only means. Resellers can dictate whatever price they want and if every other seller followed suit we'd always pay it. Which is unfair.

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