Are video games the next baseball cards?

[Tanooki]

You're right. Here's one that came in the mail for me today and it's not a game, it's a G1 Transformer.

I've been watching for awhile. One of these with good legs, tip of the gun not busted off (both common), something missing (barrel cover, battery cover, pop up lens), electronics failed, light doesn't work, audio out....one in damn nice shape and with the instructions and tech card -- Shockwave is an easy $150.

I wrangled one for $100 shipped. Usually him alone and at times with that gun tip on the left hand snapped off is about right. The lens pop up is like a $20 part, same with the barrel, the battery cover is another $30, that often rotted hose (cracked/torn) is another $30 part. I could farm it out and make bank, but I wanted it, waited over a month and nabbed one. Patience is key to getting nice things and paying a past history price on it.

[Jmustang1968]

I am having a hard time understanding why it is ok to you for a transformer to be $150, but if a video game is, it is horribly overpriced by greedy sellers...

[TEKTORO]

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[Tanooki]

It's not ok, I wouldn't and didn't pay that. $100 isn't great either, I bit the bullet on it basically and second to that, it was paypal flip dough, I'd never pay that out of pocket I'm not insane. I have my limits on whatever it is between what is costing me out of my paycheck budget and sales funds over paypal.

I don't have psychological problems you all just like ganging up on me because I'm right and it stings anyone with an interest.

[BogusMeatFactory]

It's not ok, I wouldn't and didn't pay that. $100 isn't great either, I bit the bullet on it basically and second to that, it was paypal flip dough, I'd never pay that out of pocket I'm not insane. I have my limits on whatever it is between what is costing me out of my paycheck budget and sales funds over paypal.

I don't have psychological problems you all just like ganging up on me because I'm right and it stings anyone with an interest.

Yep. We are jealous of your superior brain.

[Jmustang1968]

It's not ok, I wouldn't and didn't pay that. $100 isn't great either, I bit the bullet on it basically and second to that, it was paypal flip dough, I'd never pay that out of pocket I'm not insane. I have my limits on whatever it is between what is costing me out of my paycheck budget and sales funds over paypal.

I don't have psychological problems you all just like ganging up on me because I'm right and it stings anyone with an interest.

No sting at all, I honestly wanted to know what the logic or reasoning behind the values. I think you face some opposition more by how you say things than what you say.

[MrPopo]

I don't have psychological problems you all just like ganging up on me because I'm right and it stings anyone with an interest.

The last time I "sold" something on this site was when I had an extra DC Twin Stick due to a shipping error (it was supposed to be a Saturn stick and the store was in Hawaii, so I didn't care enough to try and return it). And I use sold in quotes because I donated it to one of our charity auctions. I've got no interest in my games holding value or not; I'm keeping them forever. And I don't have a problem with you feeling like a game is costing more than you want to spend. The point where I have a problem is where you express it as an injustice.

[CRTGAMER]

Very true and that is a problem. My area here isn't very dense and people have a lower median income so those prices you see that look high online someone eventually scoops up, when it's attempted here it doesn't fly and it's not just video games but music, books, movies, toys, etc. I know I've said before that example of the CIB Golden Sun games at $40, I was at that store in the last hour, still there and more stuff I had seen went that was regionally priced, and other items that haven't been still there rolling another month onto the sticker where they date when it hits the shelf.

Brick and mortar have it tough, they go by online, but online doesn't always apply locally, yet I get them not wanting to feel like leaving money on the table too. It makes you wonder if it would be best if more stores like that one went the route of shopgoodwill and just don't even screw with people locally and let people duke it out over ebay or their own shop front online.

I was at the Swap Meet last Sunday where a reseller was grabbing every Wii game without even looking at the titles. Curses, I saw a couple in his hands that I would have bought and even more so when he bought them for fifty cents each! Really, resellers that never even play the games are the lower then whale piss! The guy at the booth was not smart either, some of those games had that mustache plumber in the game titles!

[marurun]

I understand frustration at missing a good deal, but "lower than whale piss?" Really? Our hobby is a national marketplace. It is niche, but still large. No reseller is going to be successful charging more than the market writ large thinks these games are worth. If I don't like a price, I don't buy the game. My value judgments are lower than the current market, so I don't buy much right now. That's not some seller's fault. It's just how stuff is right now.

[TEKTORO]

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