It's just nuts what anything goes for in this market. It's GOT to cool down. I don't expect a burst and everything to be worthless again, but there's def a lot of titles where I feel like they're just way over-inflated. People paying like $200 for Silent Hill on PS1, a common game. That kind of stuff cannot be sustainable forever. The market has always been really lopsided in favor of sellers. No one pays near what they try to resell something for, so they don't care to sit on it until people get desperate. At some point this desperation needs to dry up.... Why does Blades of Vengeance have to be a $50+ cart only game, when there are probably 30+ copies available on eBay? The price does not reflect the demand, a common theme in the retro game market. The price never reflects the demand, it certainly doesn't reflect condition, and prices almost NEVER decrease over time on anything.
In my store the other day, I noticed like all the common fodder tier NES games had been bumped up from like $17 each. All of the common PS3 games, $17 was also the average price. The store wants to make sure they're getting what most eBay sellers get with shipping charges included on this common stuff. Hilariously, they had bumped up a copy of Time Crisis 4 from $12 to $57. Which is wrong, as the game's value has not increased at all. They must have price matched it to a copy that had the gun-con, which they did NOT have. Just shows how desperate they are to stick these horrible prices to the customer, that they won't even do their homework.
