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General / Re: Value Increase of Games Lately

« on: July 16, 2020, 11:14:30 pm »

I'm making over $1500 a month selling video games on Ebay over the past three months. Gamecube games are selling for more than I paid for them new. Being paid $75 each for Mario Party 4-7, Zeldas and Resident Evil games has been an easy trade to make. If things in my collection are worth exorbitant prices to people these days I will gladly sell them. Goodbye Chibi RObo! Hello $125! Goodbye PS2 Clock Tower 3! Hello $80! I think I got $120 for my Gamecube Paper Mario, its ridiculous.

I don't need a game room to post pictures of on Reddit to try to validate myself as a human being but I love taking these fools money. All of this stuff can be played via emulators and it looks better and these fools can give me all their money while they brag about their CRT sony TVs! I grew up with that stuff. Good riddance and goodbye suckers! Give me hdmi and HD any day...and all of your stimulus checks!

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General / Re: I just watched a documentary

« on: February 19, 2020, 10:54:33 pm »

A feature-length documentary on local video game stores and the final days of physical media.

I guess if you are going to take it with you when you go then it won't matter.

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General / I just watched a documentary

« on: February 19, 2020, 10:52:11 pm »

Not for Resale (2019). It makes you think about when you might want to consider jumping ship as a collector and recouping your expenses while you can.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6483458/

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Off Topic / Re: Question: Do You Remember People Calling The NES (The Regular Nintendo)

« on: December 16, 2019, 10:32:02 pm »

We called them the Nintendo and the Super Nintendo.

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Off Topic / Re: I work in retail (kind of - a pharmacy) and was robbed today

« on: October 31, 2019, 09:20:23 pm »

Glad you are still here and able to post this!

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Off Topic / Re: What is your favourite brand of microwave?

« on: March 17, 2019, 09:17:27 pm »

Probably the most important forum posting that I have ever seen.

My favorite is one that doesn't beep every time I push a button.

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Off Topic / Re: That Thing You Miss

« on: March 16, 2019, 07:49:45 pm »

I miss the world before the "smart" phone and social media. Social diseases were better than social media.

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Off Topic / Re: Did You? Or Do You Currently Smoke?

« on: March 16, 2019, 07:45:54 pm »

I started in college because my girlfriend did but I stopped when I became a dad at 25. There was a Hank Williams Jr. song that had a line "I used Lifesavers to help me give up cigarettes, but you know for your love I ain't found no Lifesaver yet." Instead of Lifesavers I ate a ton of salted, shelled sunflower seeds until the inside of my mouth felt pickled and shriveled and then I gave those up too.

I wish the child that I gave up smoking for hadn't taken up the habit now.

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General / Re: The worst people on Ebay are the ones who buy video games

« on: March 06, 2019, 10:38:42 pm »

Thanks, buddy! I've read your posts here for awhile. My post has nothing to do with the members of this site, it is just an observation of an Ebay buyer/seller for close to 20 years. I can sell ten thousand dollar sports card listings without a care but that $50 video game sale is going to be a true PITA!

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General / The worst people on Ebay are the ones who buy video games

« on: March 06, 2019, 10:16:15 pm »

No matter what I sell on there, I always cringe when I list a video game. The people who bid on them are by far the most immature and annoying people I have ever dealt with. Not all of them are, but on the whole I know that I'm about to deal with some real a$$ clowns every time I list a video game.

I always want to reply to them with "Are you 14 years old or do you just act like it?" Music, movies, electronics, baseball cards...all of them are better to deal with than the video game buyers. And many of them try to rip you off but they always go away quietly when you provide the tracking number with delivery confirmation for the game they "didn't receive."

I'm sure none of you fall into this category, but as a seller I always know I'm about to deal with a bunch of garbage every time I list a video game.