theclaw wrote:Gamestop opens new games to sell as used. They also don't accept trade-ins of new games and will open them.
Pretty senseless to me. I really wish they would start taking retro stuff as trade - a quick Ebay search would show them just how much money could be made. Even a collector-oriented environment would be completely awesome to see...but no, they want to focus on selling Ipods, Iphones, and pre-kindergarten hardware.
It might happen sooner than you think, they have been planning a return to retro games in some form.
I don't like the place. I don't like the fact that they trash perfectly good cases for games, I don't like how small and cramped they all are, I don't like the atmosphere, I don't new games sold unsealed, I don't like the pushy subscription/rewards cards/whatever, etc. These are why I don't shop there.
I don't want to shop at Gamestop for retro stuff, and I don't want all of the good local goods to be siphoned over to them. I don't want local retro stores to be strongarmed out of business either.
Plus, the last thing the hobby needs is even more visibility, prices are spiking high enough as it is.
AppleQueso wrote:I don't like the place. I don't like the fact that they trash perfectly good cases for games, I don't like how small and cramped they all are, I don't like the atmosphere, I don't new games sold unsealed, I don't like the pushy subscription/rewards cards/whatever, etc. These are why I don't shop there.
I don't want to shop at Gamestop for retro stuff, and I don't want all of the good local goods to be siphoned over to them. I don't want local retro stores to be strongarmed out of business either.
Plus, the last thing the hobby needs is even more visibility, prices are spiking high enough as it is.
The hobby gains more visibility by the day - Youtube and Ebay are prime contributors to that, though not the only ones. If anything, EB starting to take older games on trade might actually LOWER online prices and likely encourage people to dig out that old box of games in the basement they think is just collecting dust. Imagine what people that aren't internet savvy have laying around their homes gamewise! My grandmother played SNES back in the 90's and just recently dug out a box that had complete copies of Lufia, Secret of Mana, Earthwork Jim, Mario RPG, and some of the more common ones. If people wanted to "upgrade" their older stuff for newer, EB could be the place they go to trade in if their prices were reasonable.
Even talking about EB stocking retro games is unlikely - but what usually happens when a market with limited supply becomes flooded with new stock? The original stock loses its value, and prices crash/stabilize. Not saying it would 100% happen, but it is a possibility.
Retrogamer0001 wrote:Even talking about EB stocking retro games is unlikely - but what usually happens when a market with limited supply becomes flooded with new stock? The original stock loses its value, and prices crash/stabilize. Not saying it would 100% happen, but it is a possibility.
Retrogamer0001 wrote:Even talking about EB stocking retro games is unlikely - but what usually happens when a market with limited supply becomes flooded with new stock? The original stock loses its value, and prices crash/stabilize. Not saying it would 100% happen, but it is a possibility.
But it wouldn't be new stock...
But it would be - if you look at my earlier post, I mentioned people that have these games buried in their basements, attics, etc. This is stock that is essentially "out" of the market. When people trade these games in, consumers now have access to them, and they become part of the market from that point on. The people most likely to trade these games in are those that don't realize their actual value to collectors and on sites like Ebay (and yes they are out there, ask anyone who works at a pawn shop and deals in old video games). With these "new" copies up for grabs, fewer purchases for the same games could be made online. A lot of ifs and buts, of course, but it's a scenario, and not the most unlikely either.
Retrogamer0001 wrote:Even talking about EB stocking retro games is unlikely - but what usually happens when a market with limited supply becomes flooded with new stock? The original stock loses its value, and prices crash/stabilize. Not saying it would 100% happen, but it is a possibility.
But it wouldn't be new stock...
But it would be - if you look at my earlier post, I mentioned people that have these games buried in their basements, attics, etc. This is stock that is essentially "out" of the market. When people trade these games in, consumers now have access to them, and they become part of the market from that point on. The people most likely to trade these games in are those that don't realize their actual value to collectors and on sites like Ebay (and yes they are out there, ask anyone who works at a pawn shop and deals in old video games). With these "new" copies up for grabs, fewer purchases for the same games could be made online. A lot of ifs and buts, of course, but it's a scenario, and not the most unlikely either.
What's stopping these people from just taking that stuff to a pawn shop or dumping it at a garage sale or something right now?
Why didn't they trade this stuff in back when Gamestop/EB/Babbages actually did take retro stuff?
