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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: justin8301 on February 27, 2014, 05:24:16 pm
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I've been buying games at my local goodwill for a few years now; and their pricing had always been $1 for CD based games and $3 for DVD based games. Today I walk in and everything is $5. I asked the manager if it was a price mistake and they told me that the games had gone up and that's the price now. I had like 8 games in my hand ready to buy, but I just set them on the counter and walked out. I was a little irked by the price spike. Goodwill has been my main source of ps1/ps2 games for a little while and now I don't know what I'm going to do..... It's a sad day.
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Each store sets their own prices. They have no real way to value all the stuff they get on a company wide basis. It will probably change back in a few days.
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I really hope so, cause that just made my whole day shit.
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I gave up on Goodwill about a year ago, mostly because they don't put out any decent games anymore, just sports and crappy budget titles. The reason why they don't put this stuff out is because they are throwing it on Ebay an shopgoodwill.com and charging market price or above for it. Yeah, each Goodwill is different, but at least all the ones in the Denver area have become ridiculously greedy. In fact, I have never seen a company go from good to greedy as Goodwill. Luckily there are many smaller and independent thrift stores for me to score games at now.
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I've been buying games at my local goodwill for a few years now; and their pricing had always been $1 for CD based games and $3 for DVD based games. Today I walk in and everything is $5. I asked the manager if it was a price mistake and they told me that the games had gone up and that's the price now. I had like 8 games in my hand ready to buy, but I just set them on the counter and walked out. I was a little irked by the price spike. Goodwill has been my main source of ps1/ps2 games for a little while and now I don't know what I'm going to do..... It's a sad day.
Man if I could pay 5 dollars for my games at the Goodwill I would feel good. 90 percent of the time, out of all my local Goodwills, the games are priced at 4.99-15.99 and some even 19.99. Very few times I will find them below 4.99. Well, a good bit of the time they will be under 4.99 but its very inconsistent. Sometimes, at the very same good will on the same day I have seen a n64 game at 2.99 and another n64 game sitting right next to it at 7.99. But yea, under 5 bucks is very rare these days. I notice employees at one of mine who collect games and he magically has all the good stuff complete in box in his collection. Pretty sure he gets it from the back room, and puts out all the cartridge only games on the shelf.
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I've been buying games at my local goodwill for a few years now; and their pricing had always been $1 for CD based games and $3 for DVD based games. Today I walk in and everything is $5. I asked the manager if it was a price mistake and they told me that the games had gone up and that's the price now. I had like 8 games in my hand ready to buy, but I just set them on the counter and walked out. I was a little irked by the price spike. Goodwill has been my main source of ps1/ps2 games for a little while and now I don't know what I'm going to do..... It's a sad day.
Man if I could pay 5 dollars for my games at the Goodwill I would feel good. 90 percent of the time, out of all my local Goodwills, the games are priced at 4.99-15.99 and some even 19.99. Very few times I will find them below 4.99. Well, a good bit of the time they will be under 4.99 but its very inconsistent. Sometimes, at the very same good will on the same day I have seen a n64 game at 2.99 and another n64 game sitting right next to it at 7.99. But yea, under 5 bucks is very rare these days. I notice employees at one of mine who collect games and he magically has all the good stuff complete in box in his collection. Pretty sure he gets it from the back room, and puts out all the cartridge only games on the shelf.
that sucks. now just close your eyes and repeat this out loud. he works at good will.
feels good doesn't it
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Pretty much every store is doing this. My goodwill used to charge like a dollar for any game, but now they are all blanket $4. Honestly, it's not so bad when they decide to put something out on the floor... but as has been said, they really love putting things on their auction site or the bid case these days. Half Price Books used to be my secret place to get games for cheap... but then they did a complete flip and now charge like 2x market price.
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I dont have many choices around here. I guess I'll have to start hitting Second and Charles, at least there I know the games are just a little bit below FMV.
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i just go to my local Pawn shop. sadly they dont have anything pre 6th gen
there is one that does but its a little more expensive and they never have anything but sports games
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I dont have many choices around here. I guess I'll have to start hitting Second and Charles, at least there I know the games are just a little bit below FMV.
We have two of these in my area, and sadly they were both incredible places to hunt for games up until around December of last year. I found Monster Rancher on the PS1 for $5 and DBZ Budakai Tenkaichi 3 on the PS2 for $4 there just to name a few. However recently they got a ton of PS1 and PS2 JRPGs in and are charging double their average Ebay prices right now. I know the reason for this at least at one store is the buy back manager is a price gouging, greedy ass tool who flat out told me he prices these things high in order to take advantage of people who don't know what they are worth. I got on his case pretty bad about this, but insists he is not doing anything wrong *rolls eyes*
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Man if I could pay 5 dollars for my games at the Goodwill I would feel good. 90 percent of the time, out of all my local Goodwills, the games are priced at 4.99-15.99 and some even 19.99. Very few times I will find them below 4.99. Well, a good bit of the time they will be under 4.99 but its very inconsistent. Sometimes, at the very same good will on the same day I have seen a n64 game at 2.99 and another n64 game sitting right next to it at 7.99. But yea, under 5 bucks is very rare these days. I notice employees at one of mine who collect games and he magically has all the good stuff complete in box in his collection. Pretty sure he gets it from the back room, and puts out all the cartridge only games on the shelf.
Yup, that's how it is around here - and most of the games they do have are more recent, 360/PS3 stuff (donations from Target I suspect). Almost never see any older games. And the pawn shops - ick. They're downright scary. Wall-to-wall guns, and that's just about it - if they DO have any games by some miracle they charge a fortune for them. My best bet is to hit yard sales & hope I get lucky there. Wish we had a decent video game store that sold older stuff, but the only game stores here are Gamestop. I really miss Rhino. :(
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I think the fact that video games collecting has become too popular is the problem once more. It makes too many people aware that some games sell for stupid high prices, so they want that money too. The Salvation Army near me has nothing else than PC games and burned PS1 games. And the burned games are $5, it's stupid. :-\
It's become harder and harder to go video games hunting. I'm kinda happy that I don't have the opportunity to hunt as much as before, or else I would risk becoming bored by it.
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The goodwill by me isn't convenient convenient to get to so I hardly frequent it. I do visit a salvation army regularly, but I haven't found anything worth attempting to buy. I suspect my timing is wrong when I go.
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There are two thrift stores by me, a goodwill and an ARC thrift shop and the ARC is better on prices but don't get as good of stuff. I bought my Secret of Mana for $25 from Goodwill, a little high for a thrift store but cheaper none the less. Unfortunately, Goodwill's prices are ridiculous here right now, it seems like they used to look up prices on ebay and then charge like 5 to 10 dollars cheaper, but now it's like they go on ebay and look for the highest price, case and point, they have Gears of War complete for $30... That's insane
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Thrift stores are just resellers with a bigger market. They are now researching almost everything that comes into the building. I remember last year I was looking at one and noticed in the toy section was two board games. Mario Bros and the fairly rare Zelda game. I noticed $50 on the Zelda game and was like WTF? I knew it sold for more on Ebay but played innocent and went to the counter and asked if it was supposed to be $5 and not $50. The manager is summoned to the counter and he says "Why dont we Google this item?" So of course he pulls out his stupid cell phone and looks at Ebay and shows me that people are asking $150-200 on there. I snap back at him saying its a thrift store and that the item was given to them and that they really shouldnt be gouging their customers for items and that most people that shop at thrift stores do so cause they dont have any other options. Of course he didnt give a damn. Bad thing is I bought it anyhow. I knew the chances of me ever finding the game again in the wild was pretty much a fat 0 and it was totally complete and in pretty good condition. Got the Mario Bros game for another $15.
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Thrift stores are just resellers with a bigger market. They are now researching almost everything that comes into the building. I remember last year I was looking at one and noticed in the toy section was two board games. Mario Bros and the fairly rare Zelda game. I noticed $50 on the Zelda game and was like WTF? I knew it sold for more on Ebay but played innocent and went to the counter and asked if it was supposed to be $5 and not $50. The manager is summoned to the counter and he says "Why dont we Google this item?" So of course he pulls out his stupid cell phone and looks at Ebay and shows me that people are asking $150-200 on there. I snap back at him saying its a thrift store and that the item was given to them and that they really shouldnt be gouging their customers for items and that most people that shop at thrift stores do so cause they dont have any other options. Of course he didnt give a damn. Bad thing is I bought it anyhow. I knew the chances of me ever finding the game again in the wild was pretty much a fat 0 and it was totally complete and in pretty good condition. Got the Mario Bros game for another $15.
Absolute truth >:(
Exactly the same shit that all of those "Fast Cash" (Pawn shops) are pulling now :-\
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I don't have these issues with my Goodwill. I'm talking the official Goodwill:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a2/Goodwill_Industries_Logo.svg/341px-Goodwill_Industries_Logo.svg.png)
Cartridge games are $2-$5, depending on what it is (Atari goes on the $2 end, Nintendo on the $5 end, Sega in-between).
PS1, Dreamcast, & PC Games are $3.99 (they lump them in with CD pricing).
DVD-sized case disc-games are $4.99 (lumped in with DVD pricing).
Granted, there's often times I can't find much. But at the same time, I've really found some gems there like Chrono Cross, Rampage on SMS, Paper Mario Thousand-Year Door, Super Mario Kart & MK: Double-Dash, Arc the Lad, a freaking Commodore 64; just to name a few.
However, I haven't seen any cartridge games in a few months, now. I don't know if it's just because no one's donated them in that long, or if they just stopped carrying them. I have seen Sega Genesis and Atari 2600 systems, though.
I was just in the other day and picked up Star Wars: Dark Forces, a Dual-Shock Controller, and A Bug's Life all for PS1. Granted they're not the highest sought-after items, but you can't complain for a few bucks. And I got True Lies and First Blood on that trip.
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I think the thing we all need to understand about places like goodwill and other thrift stores like Salvation Army is that they are charities first. Their mandate is to get as much money from the donated items as possible to help the underprivileged of society. Their mandate is NOT to give video game collectors cheap games.
The fact that some of us cry and moan about the prices yet STILL pay them in some instances seems to bear out the idea that they are justified in their approach. The post about the board games is a prime example. You can take your chance and wait and hope that either the price gets eventually lowered or no one else buys it or you suck it up and pay the price then and there if you want it badly enough.
Now this is different for places like pawns and Savers/Value Village who's mandate is company profits (Savers/VV does give some money to charity but they are primarily a for profit company) and like any company, we speak with our money. If the price is too high, walk out. I do that often anymore. I would rather support the mom and pop thrifts and pay their prices than a corporations or simply go online and pay the going rate.
No one has a RIGHT to cheap video games, we've just become so accustomed to it that we think that's the way it should always be. That's not the world we live in.
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Man.
God bless clueless Mexican sellers in my hometown for pricing their crap cheap. 8)
And God smite down the idiots that ask for $20 for a common NES game that's beat up to hell. >:(
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Man.
God bless clueless Mexican sellers in my hometown for pricing their crap cheap. 8)
And God smite down the idiots that ask for $20 for a common NES game that's beat up to hell. >:(
Thrift stores used to be my go to place for cheap games, but for about a year and a half it has been the flea market. Most people have no clue what stuff is worth, for better or for worse. There is one infamous reseller who knows what absolutely nothing is worth on her table, so assumes everything (including Madden 03 for the XBOX) is worth like $15. Caught her slippin on a copy of Elemental Gearbolt last summer for $12. And she thought she was getting the better end of the deal!! BWAHAHAHAHA BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
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I swung by my local Goodwill today, inspired by this thread. As usual they didn't really have anything - a couple of 360 games in a case where I couldn't see the titles (but I don't have a 360 anyway) and several PS2 sports games and music games. I did find, mixed in with the cds, a copy of Blitz 2000 for the Dreamcast. I usually pass on sports games by default, but since Blitz is more arcade-y and it WAS a DC game, I grabbed it. Only $1, so can't really complain about that.
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I frequented a few Goodwills in my area, but have in general stopped. I have found a few games that were cheap that I wanted to add to my collection, but for the most part it usually isn't worth the time, unless I am going to browse for other stuff.
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So glad this isn't a problem for me. I love my Goodwill and I'm in there a couple times a week. Most of the "recent finds" posts I make, are Goodwill purchases.
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I have two Goodwill's I visit, but only one ever has anything. It's weird how the closer one almost never has anything game related in any way, but the other almost always does. Pricing is very iffy, 3 to 5 bucks a game, other stuff like controllers and things can be alot pricier, but I've found a few things there. I got a Game Boy Color carrying case there, which was awesome as it was the only thing left in their put out bins lol But not long ago I went there and they were selling a Gamecube, which had me interested since I don't own one, but it was like around 40 bucks, obviously close to around Ebay pricing. The biggest problem I had, was they sealed it with tons of tape in some plastic bag thing, so I couldn't see the condition it was in and among the three controllers I saw, the third was clearly not a GC controller, but some random PC USB controller. That bugged me.
Thankfully the Salvation Army shops I go to get games in once in awhile, usually GC/Xbox and newer and they are only around 2 to 3 bucks a piece. Just got a Wii Lego Indiana Jones for 2 bucks the other day and I could've gotten a huge stack of Xbox Original games awhile back, though I have no interest in Xbox stuff outside of a few titles lol
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The town where I live has an electronics-only Goodwill and I think it gets all of the media other stores would normally carry. It was a pretty great spot to hit every 3-4 weeks to check the inventory -- I picked up a complete Tomba! 2 there once for $4 and a few other great games on the cheap like Link to the Past and Bubble Bobble.
But I went in there this weekend and they added a display case. They're now grabbing the good stuff and marking it up for the display case. They had a Fire Emblem for $30 and Super Mario World for $12, so this outlet for games is pretty much dead to me now :(
Other Goodwills have gotten excessively greedy as well in the past few years. Salvation Army is still far better on their pricing, but do not seem to get nearly as many games as Goodwill.
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I think the thing we all need to understand about places like goodwill and other thrift stores like Salvation Army is that they are charities first. Their mandate is to get as much money from the donated items as possible to help the underprivileged of society. Their mandate is NOT to give video game collectors cheap games.
The fact that some of us cry and moan about the prices yet STILL pay them in some instances seems to bear out the idea that they are justified in their approach. The post about the board games is a prime example. You can take your chance and wait and hope that either the price gets eventually lowered or no one else buys it or you suck it up and pay the price then and there if you want it badly enough.
Now this is different for places like pawns and Savers/Value Village who's mandate is company profits (Savers/VV does give some money to charity but they are primarily a for profit company) and like any company, we speak with our money. If the price is too high, walk out. I do that often anymore. I would rather support the mom and pop thrifts and pay their prices than a corporations or simply go online and pay the going rate.
No one has a RIGHT to cheap video games, we've just become so accustomed to it that we think that's the way it should always be. That's not the world we live in.
I do agree, as much as I wish I didn't. Honestly, I just wish I had some of these...::googles Value Village:: oh hey, there's one a 20 minute drive away!
Anyway, it's nice, but there's no rule saying that thrift stores (charity or not) can't charge closer to market value, we've just grown accustomed to the cheaper prices.
Honestly, I'd just be happy if I found ANY video games here in the wild these days, it's rather difficult.
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For some reason I decided to go back to my Goodwill today and to my surprise I found a nice little Genesis lot. For $30 I picked up the following:
Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Starts
RBI Baseball 3
Combat Cars
F-15 Strike Eagle II
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
NBA Jam
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park Rampage Edition
The Adventures of Batman & Robin
Vectorman
The Revenge of Shinobi
Im not sure if my faith has been completely restored. But its a start.
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I popped into the one that I said never has anything and got a Gameboy Advance SP carry case lol I've found two Gameboy cases now at a Goodwill, so apparently that is what I can expect from them.
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My joy for my local Goodwill continues. See this post here to find out why:
http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,1824.345.html (http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,1824.345.html)
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My joy for my local Goodwill continues. See this post here to find out why:
http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,1824.345.html (http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,1824.345.html)
Man if you collect VHS you should come to Delaware.... my goodwill has TONs of VHS, let me know if there is something in particular you are on the look out for and I'll keep an eye out the next time I go. I picked up a copy of Starwars Episode 1 widescreen Special Edition there a few weeks back. Its complete with the film and art book. Now its just collecting dust. I dont even have a VHS player lol.
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Yeah two of the Goodwills around me are great for VHS, particularly one of them has so much Disney stuff, if you wanted to collect all of the Disney clamshells, you probably could in practically one go lol
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My joy for my local Goodwill continues. See this post here to find out why:
http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,1824.345.html (http://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,1824.345.html)
Man if you collect VHS you should come to Delaware.... my goodwill has TONs of VHS, let me know if there is something in particular you are on the look out for and I'll keep an eye out the next time I go. I picked up a copy of Starwars Episode 1 widescreen Special Edition there a few weeks back. Its complete with the film and art book. Now its just collecting dust. I dont even have a VHS player lol.
Thanks, but it wouldn't be worth the shipping. I pick up the VHSs because they're only $1 a piece.
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Another successful Goodwill run: 8)
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They also had Robo Aleste for Sega CD, complete. But my Sega CD bit the dust a couple years ago. Still, I was tempted to pick it up just because I had been looking for that one for so long. Of course I come across it after my Sega CD stopped working.
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Goodwill stores in Arizona have gotten ridiculous as well.... I have seen NES consoles with 100$ price tags on them.... To be honest here it is bad all around now.... Craigslist, Savers, Pawn Shops, you name it and they think they're some collectors second hand expert when it comes to gaming.... I have been working specifically with retro video game retail for 3 years now and the change in the industry has astonished me.... Even a large portion of customers walk in my door and call me out on my prices saying that they're either too low or too high.... I'll be honest and say that it bothers me when people treat me like I have no clue what I am doing and tell me their Intellivision in barely working condition with no box or manual is worth over 100$ and they get mad at me like I'm trying to rip them off.... It happens SO often now.... I blame the internet.... We'll never have consistent Goodwill good deals again.... :(
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Goodwill sells games? YMMV. Here, people donate games only to Salvation Army, never to Goodwill.
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Goodwill stores in Arizona have gotten ridiculous as well.... I have seen NES consoles with 100$ price tags on them.... To be honest here it is bad all around now.... Craigslist, Savers, Pawn Shops, you name it and they think they're some collectors second hand expert when it comes to gaming.... I have been working specifically with retro video game retail for 3 years now and the change in the industry has astonished me.... Even a large portion of customers walk in my door and call me out on my prices saying that they're either too low or too high.... I'll be honest and say that it bothers me when people treat me like I have no clue what I am doing and tell me their Intellivision in barely working condition with no box or manual is worth over 100$ and they get mad at me like I'm trying to rip them off.... It happens SO often now.... I blame the internet.... We'll never have consistent Goodwill good deals again.... :(
A friend of mine who manages a local game store had a women with a bunch of really common NES games come in asking how much she could get in cash for them. From what I remember she had about 10 games with the most valuable one being Mario/Duck Hunt. My friend told her she had about $10 cash in games and she totally flipped out. She was so sure she was sitting on a fortune and seriously though the lot was worth thousands. She pretty much stormed out and told my friend that she was going to contact BBB and the news about how much they are trying to rip people off. Lol she was dead serious I guess.
But yes, the internet s heavily to blame, as are stupid fake reality shows like American Pickers, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars. The producers intentionally sensationalize what they find (almost all which is planted or staged in some way) and make people believe their box of worthless baseball cards is worth thousands, or their son's old Super Mario World is worth over $100. I contacted a guy about a yellowed, beat up NES he had on CL for $2000 to ask where the hell he pulled that price out of (we all know the real answer to that lol), and he seriously said Storage Wars. . . I nearly peed myself laughing :P
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The only games I have seen in Goodwills around here, about 4 of em, are PC games.
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Goodwill stores in Arizona have gotten ridiculous as well.... I have seen NES consoles with 100$ price tags on them.... To be honest here it is bad all around now.... Craigslist, Savers, Pawn Shops, you name it and they think they're some collectors second hand expert when it comes to gaming.... I have been working specifically with retro video game retail for 3 years now and the change in the industry has astonished me.... Even a large portion of customers walk in my door and call me out on my prices saying that they're either too low or too high.... I'll be honest and say that it bothers me when people treat me like I have no clue what I am doing and tell me their Intellivision in barely working condition with no box or manual is worth over 100$ and they get mad at me like I'm trying to rip them off.... It happens SO often now.... I blame the internet.... We'll never have consistent Goodwill good deals again.... :(
A friend of mine who manages a local game store had a women with a bunch of really common NES games come in asking how much she could get in cash for them. From what I remember she had about 10 games with the most valuable one being Mario/Duck Hunt. My friend told her she had about $10 cash in games and she totally flipped out. She was so sure she was sitting on a fortune and seriously though the lot was worth thousands. She pretty much stormed out and told my friend that she was going to contact BBB and the news about how much they are trying to rip people off. Lol she was dead serious I guess.
But yes, the internet s heavily to blame, as are stupid fake reality shows like American Pickers, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars. The producers intentionally sensationalize what they find (almost all which is planted or staged in some way) and make people believe their box of worthless baseball cards is worth thousands, or their son's old Super Mario World is worth over $100. I contacted a guy about a yellowed, beat up NES he had on CL for $2000 to ask where the hell he pulled that price out of (we all know the real answer to that lol), and he seriously said Storage Wars. . . I nearly peed myself laughing :P
made me squirt coffee outta' my nostrils reading this, so = my "Post-o-the-Day"! ;D
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But yes, the internet s heavily to blame, as are stupid fake reality shows like American Pickers, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars.
Did you see the episode of storage wars with the NES. That guy thought he had the first NES because of the serialnumber nes 0001 or something like that which is on al NES machines ;D.
And yes, in Europe we can also see those 'shows'.
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But yes, the internet s heavily to blame, as are stupid fake reality shows like American Pickers, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars.
Did you see the episode of storage wars with the NES. That guy thought he had the first NES because of the serialnumber nes 0001 or something like that which is on al NES machines ;D.
And yes, in Europe we can also see those 'shows'.
NES-001! That is the first Nintendo DS!!!
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But yes, the internet s heavily to blame, as are stupid fake reality shows like American Pickers, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars.
Did you see the episode of storage wars with the NES. That guy thought he had the first NES because of the serialnumber nes 0001 or something like that which is on al NES machines ;D .
And yes, in Europe we can also see those 'shows'.
Lol yep, and that was the Craigslist guy's source for legitimizing a $2000 NES that didn't even look like it worked lol.
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A friend of mine who manages a local game store had a women with a bunch of really common NES games come in asking how much she could get in cash for them. From what I remember she had about 10 games with the most valuable one being Mario/Duck Hunt. My friend told her she had about $10 cash in games and she totally flipped out. She was so sure she was sitting on a fortune and seriously though the lot was worth thousands. She pretty much stormed out and told my friend that she was going to contact BBB and the news about how much they are trying to rip people off. Lol she was dead serious I guess.
But yes, the internet s heavily to blame, as are stupid fake reality shows like American Pickers, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars. The producers intentionally sensationalize what they find (almost all which is planted or staged in some way) and make people believe their box of worthless baseball cards is worth thousands, or their son's old Super Mario World is worth over $100. I contacted a guy about a yellowed, beat up NES he had on CL for $2000 to ask where the hell he pulled that price out of (we all know the real answer to that lol), and he seriously said Storage Wars. . . I nearly peed myself laughing :P
Well, can't say I've ever had someone threaten that.... Usually its just bad reviews on yelp or something.... I did have someone accuse me of being racist in one once.... I find that hilarious because my coworkers are black and mexican and we get along famously....
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What did that Storage Wars episode with the NES say it was valued at and what did it have? Kinda curious lol
As for something said earlier, I agree, the store isn't there just for us to get cheap stuff, nothing wrong with wanting to be a little selfish due to our collecting habits and wanting the best deals, but I think on principle the place is meant to be an affordable means of getting used items, so jacking up prices to the highest (and beyond) of current market values just seems kinda awful for what they are supposed to be. Thankfully I haven't come across it yet, but I haven't been lucky to find anything older than Gamecube so far, but I'm not there every day either.
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What did that Storage Wars episode with the NES say it was valued at and what did it have? Kinda curious lol
If memory serves me correctly, I believe the bozo on Storage Wars said it was worth ten grand because it was the "rare" model 001. I guess he was basing this appraisal off of an ebay auction where an NES console sold for that much. What the show conveniently failed to mention is that this ebay listing had several games with it as well, including a stupid little game called Stadium Events. But yeah, no, THAT one of ten-million NES console is the reason the auction ended for 10g *rolls eyes*
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What did that Storage Wars episode with the NES say it was valued at and what did it have? Kinda curious lol
If memory serves me correctly, I believe the bozo on Storage Wars said it was worth ten grand because it was the "rare" model 001. I guess he was basing this appraisal off of an ebay auction where an NES console sold for that much. What the show conveniently failed to mention is that this ebay listing had several games with it as well, including a stupid little game called Stadium Events. But yeah, no, THAT one of ten-million NES console is the reason the auction ended for 10g *rolls eyes*
Well in the end the show does show him going to a used games place & the owner tells him the system is worth around $10 or so.
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Well in the end the show does show him going to a used games place & the owner tells him the system is worth around $10 or so.
Exactly, and it's something that these Storage Wars quoting idiots conveniently forget to mention when they pompously declare they have an NES worth thousands.
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What did that Storage Wars episode with the NES say it was valued at and what did it have? Kinda curious lol
If memory serves me correctly, I believe the bozo on Storage Wars said it was worth ten grand because it was the "rare" model 001. I guess he was basing this appraisal off of an ebay auction where an NES console sold for that much. What the show conveniently failed to mention is that this ebay listing had several games with it as well, including a stupid little game called Stadium Events. But yeah, no, THAT one of ten-million NES console is the reason the auction ended for 10g *rolls eyes*
Well in the end the show does show him going to a used games place & the owner tells him the system is worth around $10 or so.
Well that is good at least. Still doesn't stop people from using that episode as a source for why they are overcharging for NES stuff I guess :p
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So apparently my awesome Goodwill, will now be joining the ranks of crappy Goodwills.
I went there today, got this for $5, which I'm not complaining about:
(http://vgcollect.com/images/front-box-art/36255.jpg)
But under the glass case was a Sega Genesis with Golden Axe and Columns. How much do you think they wanted for it?
...$45. Seriously. For a Genesis.
I tried to talk to the guy behind the counter and explain to him that I wasn't interested in it, just a game collector. But as a game collector, I know that $45 is way too overpriced with that. Of course the guy acts offended like I just insulted his mother. He tries to tell me that Golden Axe and Columns go for $10 a piece for crappy copies. I couldn't stifle the laughter, and said "What?" Then said, "No, you can get those games for a couple bucks, they're incredibly common." He swears up and down that they're rare. So then I tell him how Golden Axe was a pack-in game for the Genesis like Super Mario Bros. was for NES so there's no way it's rare; and add that even if it wasn't, it's been re-released on about a dozen different game collections, driving the value down.
The guy was obviously pissed at me for questioning his pricing and wasn't backing down, so I just ended it and said, "If you think it's worth $45, alright, but nobody is gonna pay $45 for a Genesis when they can get one for $20."
They also had an original Game Boy for $25, no plug-in or accessories or anything, just the Game Boy. And the funny thing about it is that there was a Game Boy Color right next to it for $15. I pointed that one out (on another day), and their reasoning was that the original was older. I tried to explain that the Game Boy Color plays GBC games AND the old GB games and even enhances the old GB games. But again, no sell. And again, I wasn't personally interested in them as I already have both units, just trying to give them free information to help them out.