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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: htimreimer on January 05, 2014, 05:29:48 am
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we all love collecting games for many reasons, from experiencing new games to preserving history of a form of media that we love but there is somethings about collecting that just suck, what is something about VG collecting that you hate
cleaning: just like any other collectors item, the people who bought the console/computer in the past didn't think there was gonna be a collectors market for the console/computer they just bought and because of this, consoles/computers are neglected and need some attention, this is for me is the worst part of collecting because you don't know whats under the hood and don't know what hell you have gotten your self in to until it's too late
so far i have experienced spider,spider,dust,cobweb,spider, spiderweb and mysterious sticky brown mold (at lest i think its mold) that smells like a cross between BBQ sauce and wet dog that also burn a hole in to the label
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Was there a question to the "Question of the Month"?
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Was there a question to the "Question of the Month"?
:o
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Was there a question to the "Question of the Month"?
I think it was "what is something about video game collecting that you hate?"
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Was there a question to the "Question of the Month"?
I think it was "what is something about video game collecting that you hate?"
Questions of the month about what I hate ;)
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we all love collecting games for many reasons, from experiencing new games to preserving history of a form of media that we love but there is somethings about collecting that just suck, what is something about VG collecting that you hate
cleaning: just like any other collectors item, the people who bought the console/computer in the past didn't think there was gonna be a collectors market for the console/computer they just bought and because of this, consoles/computers are neglected and need some attention, this is for me is the worst part of collecting because you don't know whats under the hood and don't know what hell you have gotten your self in to until it's too late
so far i have experienced spider,spider,dust,cobweb,spider, spiderweb and mysterious sticky brown mold (at lest i think its mold) that smells like a cross between BBQ sauce and wet dog that also burn a hole in to the label
Glad I'm not the only one who cleans their games :p. I have cleaned some pretty gross games over the years including spiders webs, food, what looked and smelled like poo (was on a good game, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered), and a variety of other things. I have a friend who probably had it the worst; he bought a N64 off Craigslist, took it home, powered it up and about 5-minutes into testing it roaches started coming out of it. Lol I draw the line at insects :p.
But the one thing I hate about collecting, right now at least, is how difficult it has become to collect on the cheap. I started collecting around 4-years ago and at the time very few people were doing it. Now everyone and their mom is doing it, and businesses and people have started taking advantage of retro collectors. I used to be able to walk into virtually any thrift store and buy any gamer older than 6th-gen(PS2,Gamecube,XBOX) for no more than $3 each, good stuff too. Now all there are is a bunch of sports games. There are also a ton, A TON, of resellers in this hobby that have made it hard to find games for a good price. Don't get me wrong, I still find a lot of stuff, but I have to work for it 50-times harder than I used to and get fairly creative to find the deals.
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I actually don't think there is too much about the hobby that I hate. I actually rather enjoy cleaning the consoles and games. In fact, my consoles that are in use get cleaned inside and out every couple of months. This really started with the XBox 360, as modern consoles require it. Anything with a fan needs cleaned. I now open everything, give it a once over with compressed air and clean the casing. It's somewhat relaxing to do with a movie on in the background.
The only thing I hate is the pricing that some things have. Now, there are certain high profile games that deserve to be that high due to extreme rarity. NWC carts are an example of something that has a pricing I at least understand. However, Surprise at Dinosaur Peak, Earthbound (which is coming down in value), and several others have a price that is artificially ramped up by speculation. Sure, Surprise at Dinosaur Peak is rare. However, there is no doubt that the recent (within 5 years) jump was artificial. Every console has this in some way. However, Nintendo and Sony are filled with those. I stay away from these markets completely due to the scene that surrounds them. Which is disappointing as I had fun collecting for the NES in the 90s and wouldn't mind doing it again. It's just not fun anymore.
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another thing i hate, RF boxes because they don't work and doesn't matter how old or new the TV you are using is
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Things I hate about video game collecting (well, "hate" is a strong word, more like pet-peeves):
-Sellers that think just because the game says "Final Fantasy" or "Mario" on it, that it must be worth $50 or more, even if it's not rare, is a Greatest Hits edition, or disc only.
-Individuals that aren't professional sellers, but sell or trade from their own collection and decide that they want $30 for their $5 copy of Super Mario Bros. due to "personal value". That's great that people love their games and all, but in the real world that doesn't add monetary value to anything.
-Shady sellers on eBay and Amazon that leave things out of descriptions or are purposely deceptive about their condition.
-Those same shady dealers then demanding that I pay for the shipping back, meaning I'm out of money for their deceit.
-The obvious trolls that populate so many online gaming communities. Thank you VGCollect for not being one of them!
-People that make fun of you for not playing GTA V or the latest Call of Duty. Do they realize that's like a developmentally-delayed person calling another developmentally-delayed person a retard? We're all gamers, the games you play doesn't make you anymore or any less geeky than the next gamer.
-Sega CD and Saturn game cases. Could they make these things any freaking easier to damage?!
-Poor selection of retro-games in my local area.
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Things I hate about video game collecting (well, "hate" is a strong word, more like pet-peeves):
-Sellers that think just because the game says "Final Fantasy" or "Mario" on it, that it must be worth $50 or more, even if it's not rare, is a Greatest Hits edition, or disc only.
-Individuals that aren't professional sellers, but sell or trade from their own collection and decide that they want $30 for their $5 copy of Super Mario Bros. due to "personal value". That's great that people love their games and all, but in the real world that doesn't add monetary value to anything.
-Shady sellers on eBay and Amazon that leave things out of descriptions or are purposely deceptive about their condition.
-Those same shady dealers then demanding that I pay for the shipping back, meaning I'm out of money for their deceit.
-The obvious trolls that populate so many online gaming communities. Thank you VGCollect for not being one of them!
-People that make fun of you for not playing GTA V or the latest Call of Duty. Do they realize that's like a developmentally-delayed person calling another developmentally-delayed person a retard? We're all gamers, the games you play doesn't make you anymore or any less geeky than the next gamer.
-Sega CD and Saturn game cases. Could they make these things any freaking easier to damage?!
-Poor selection of retro-games in my local area.
Quoted simply because I would pretty much post the same verbatim.
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speaking of ebay sellers, don't you love how they slap the word rare on every fucken game they sell as if it matters
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so far i have experienced spider,spider,dust,cobweb,spider, spiderweb and mysterious sticky brown mold sauce (at lest i think its mold) that smells like a cross between BBQ sauce and wet dog that also burn a hole in to the label
FTFY
For me it is finding a place to put all my games! I bought way to much crap when I got into the hobby, I wish I had been more selective at the start.
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speaking of ebay sellers, don't you love how they slap the word rare on every fucken game they sell as if it matters
It is a good selling point to someone willing (gullible?) enough to buy it. Not saying I'll do the same indiscriminately, it's a marketing plug.
-Shady sellers on eBay and Amazon that leave things out of descriptions or are purposely deceptive about their condition.
-Those same shady dealers then demanding that I pay for the shipping back, meaning I'm out of money for their deceit.
-People that make fun of you for not playing GTA V or the latest Call of Duty. Do they realize that's like a developmentally-delayed person calling another developmentally-delayed person a retard? We're all gamers, the games you play doesn't make you anymore or any less geeky than the next gamer.
-Poor selection of retro-games in my local area.
This.
As a collector who wants to have games to be complete, as in game, case, manual, and/or applicable inserts... It's a love/hate relationship.
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speaking of ebay sellers, don't you love how they slap the word rare on every fucken game they sell as if it matters
This is an enormous pet peeve of mine, especially when you take into account that 98% of all games would never fall into the genuinely "rare" category no matter how you spin it. Even a game like Panzer Dragoon Saga which received a print run of about 30k copies I think is pushing it slightly. Valuable maybe, but not rare. It's especially annoying when "rare" is attached to anything with Mario, Zelda, Sonic or any other popular video game franchise. Even Price Charting is guilty of arbitrarily branding many games as rare when they are not at all.
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speaking of ebay sellers, don't you love how they slap the word rare on every fucken game they sell as if it matters
This is an enormous pet peeve of mine, especially when you take into account that 98% of all games would never fall into the genuinely "rare" category no matter how you spin it. Even a game like Panzer Dragoon Saga which received a print run of about 30k copies I think is pushing it slightly. Valuable maybe, but not rare. It's especially annoying when "rare" is attached to anything with Mario, Zelda, Sonic or any other popular video game franchise. Even Price Charting is guilty of arbitrarily branding many games as rare when they are not at all.
Truth.
I remember FF VII prices being pretty inflated some years back & tagged as "rare" -and- there were only what...7 - 10 *Million* copies sold, or something :o
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speaking of ebay sellers, don't you love how they slap the word rare on every fucken game they sell as if it matters
This is an enormous pet peeve of mine, especially when you take into account that 98% of all games would never fall into the genuinely "rare" category no matter how you spin it. Even a game like Panzer Dragoon Saga which received a print run of about 30k copies I think is pushing it slightly. Valuable maybe, but not rare. It's especially annoying when "rare" is attached to anything with Mario, Zelda, Sonic or any other popular video game franchise. Even Price Charting is guilty of arbitrarily branding many games as rare when they are not at all.
Truth.
I remember FF VII prices being pretty inflated some years back & tagged as "rare" -and- there were only what...7 - 10 *Million* copies sold, or something :o
Yeah I remember that. At one time FF VII and Legend of Dragoon were the 2 most expensive PS1 games to find on Ebay. I can name a place right now in my area that has at least 10 complete copies of FF VII for $35 each.
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speaking of ebay sellers, don't you love how they slap the word rare on every fucken game they sell as if it matters
I just happened to run across this guy on ebay mikefarrar7: Check out his listings:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/mikefarrar7/m.html?item=370977066280&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 (http://www.ebay.com/sch/mikefarrar7/m.html?item=370977066280&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562)
Not everything is rare, some things are mega-rare, or ultra-rare, or in some cases ULTRA-MEGA-RARE!!!!!
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speaking of ebay sellers, don't you love how they slap the word rare on every fucken game they sell as if it matters
I just happened to run across this guy on ebay mikefarrar7: Check out his listings:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/mikefarrar7/m.html?item=370977066280&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 (http://www.ebay.com/sch/mikefarrar7/m.html?item=370977066280&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562)
Not everything is rare, some things are mega-rare, or ultra-rare, or in some cases ULTRA-MEGA-RARE!!!!!
That is so terrible!
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speaking of ebay sellers, don't you love how they slap the word rare on every fucken game they sell as if it matters
This is an enormous pet peeve of mine, especially when you take into account that 98% of all games would never fall into the genuinely "rare" category no matter how you spin it. Even a game like Panzer Dragoon Saga which received a print run of about 30k copies I think is pushing it slightly. Valuable maybe, but not rare. It's especially annoying when "rare" is attached to anything with Mario, Zelda, Sonic or any other popular video game franchise. Even Price Charting is guilty of arbitrarily branding many games as rare when they are not at all.
Truth.
I remember FF VII prices being pretty inflated some years back & tagged as "rare" -and- there were only what...7 - 10 *Million* copies sold, or something :o
Yeah I remember that. At one time FF VII and Legend of Dragoon were the 2 most expensive PS1 games to find on Ebay. I can name a place right now in my area that has at least 10 complete copies of FF VII for $35 each.
A couple of week ago I found a black label FFVII at used media store and one of the employees tried arguing that the game was rare just because it "goes for over $100 on Ebay!" I told him to recheck Ebay and the definition of rare seeing how the game was a best seller and sold millions worldwide. The guy is also a clueless reseller that usually snags all the decent games before customers have a chance to get them, but that is another can of worms.
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speaking of ebay sellers, don't you love how they slap the word rare on every fucken game they sell as if it matters
I just happened to run across this guy on ebay mikefarrar7: Check out his listings:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/mikefarrar7/m.html?item=370977066280&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 (http://www.ebay.com/sch/mikefarrar7/m.html?item=370977066280&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562)
Not everything is rare, some things are mega-rare, or ultra-rare, or in some cases ULTRA-MEGA-RARE!!!!!
I will say this seller has a lot of great sets for sale but the Ultra rare tag is funny ;D He might as well sell Mario Bros./Duck Hunt for NES and slap it with a "ONLY 10 COPIES MADE ULTRA RARE GAME!" or something. Crazy crazy.
But the blue ps1 is interesting. I never heard of a blue ps1. Did they really make these, or did he paint a ps1 and make it up?
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I will say this seller has a lot of great sets for sale but the Ultra rare tag is funny ;D He might as well sell Mario Bros./Duck Hunt for NES and slap it with a "ONLY 10 COPIES MADE ULTRA RARE GAME!" or something. Crazy crazy.
But the blue ps1 is interesting. I never heard of a blue ps1. Did they really make these, or did he paint a ps1 and make it up?
Yeah that's a thing. That one looks legit too. Some people will paint one themselves and try and pass it off as the real thing lol.
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Its a debug unit. They arent very common and usually sell for a high price.
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Ooh. Now I want one. For a decent price, of course.
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Ooh. Now I want one. For a decent price, of course.
An ultra mega rare price.
I'm trying to determine the hierarchy.
Obviously
RARE is the most common, and ULTRA MEGA RARE is the least common, but in between is a little murky. What is rarer, Ultra, or mega rare?
A little comparative analysis:
So what is more rare: Astal(Saturn) in very good condition, or Conquest of the world(Odyssey2)
House of the dead(Saturn) or IN-THE-BOX VINTAGE BALLY ASTROCADE ARCADE EXPANDABLE COMPUTER
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I loath the popularity of our hobby. I liked it better back a few years ago when people were throwing carts out. Now days there are tons of people with more money than sense in our world. People will drop hundreds on bad games. To be honest, if I get close to a full set; I'll drop $600 on Flintstones. It'll happen, but I don't like it.
The popularity has brought vipers into it too. I'm not talking about people that grab that extra Mega Man for trade bait. I'm talking about assholes that buy up games with no love. They search and search for the $5 Castlevania just to try to sell if for $20. He has no intention of keeping it or even playing it. Does he know that Metal Storm is an awesome, but overlooked game? Hell no. He just looked it up on eBay an saw a BIN of $75. Eff that guy and all the ones like him.
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I loath the popularity of our hobby. I liked it better back a few years ago when people were throwing carts out. Now days there are tons of people with more money than sense in our world. People will drop hundreds on bad games. To be honest, if I get close to a full set; I'll drop $600 on Flintstones. It'll happen, but I don't like it.
The popularity has brought vipers into it too. I'm not talking about people that grab that extra Mega Man for trade bait. I'm talking about assholes that buy up games with no love. They search and search for the $5 Castlevania just to try to sell if for $20. He has no intention of keeping it or even playing it. Does he know that Metal Storm is an awesome, but overlooked game? Hell no. He just looked it up on eBay an saw a BIN of $75. Eff that guy and all the ones like him.
could not agree more
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Now, I need to throw a disclaimer out there.
I love the popularity of our hobby because places like VGCollect.com and RetrowareTV.com exist. In fact, I'm starting a new topic. Stand by for a positive thread.
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Now, I need to throw a disclaimer out there.
I love the popularity of our hobby because places like VGCollect.com and RetrowareTV.com exist. In fact, I'm starting a new topic. Stand by for a positive thread.
I'm loving your optimism! It is nice to have a community to be a part of.