WELL THIS IS INTERESTING.. Retron 5

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oxymoron wrote:I'm going to flip my PS4 during the hype of the Christmas season and use the 100 -300 to buy one of these.
So you're buying a Ps4 at launch only to get rid of it a couple of months later just to buy a damn clone console?

Why even buy the Ps4 at all? Just spend your money on this.
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AppleQueso wrote:
oxymoron wrote:I'm going to flip my PS4 during the hype of the Christmas season and use the 100 -300 to buy one of these.
So you're buying a Ps4 at launch only to get rid of it a couple of months later just to buy a damn clone console?

Why even buy the Ps4 at all? Just spend your money on this.
No. I want to buy the PS4 for $400 sell it for $550 and use $150 to buy a Retron 5 and a few games. Later go and use the $400 left over to buy a PS4 to keep.
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Dude you only just now started working and the money you make off of that isn't going to be much. It's pointless.

Just cancel your preorder and buy the RetroN straight up.
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AppleQueso wrote:Dude you only just now started working and the money you make off of that isn't going to be much. It's pointless.

Just cancel your preorder and buy the RetroN straight up.
You got it messed up. I want a PS4 and a Retron 5. If I do this I can kill 2 birds with one stone.
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He believes he can buy the PS4 for $400 and then sell it immediately for $500. So he can use the extra $100 dollars for a RetroN 5 and then rebuy a PS$ with the $400 left over.

Btw oxymoron...this isn't a community that is a fan of people who buy and flip gaming stuff.
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KDub wrote:He believes he can buy the PS4 for $400 and then sell it immediately for $500. So he can use the extra $100 dollars for a RetroN 5 and then rebuy a PS$ with the $400 left over.

Btw oxymoron...this isn't a community that is a fan of people who buy and flip gaming stuff.
Unfortunately, you live in a country where capitalism is king.
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That is a ridiculous statement with that quote in your signature.
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KDub wrote:That is a ridiculous statement with that quote in your signature.
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I'm still going to wait until its out and the reviews are in, but given the fact that it's coming out at the end of October at the earliest I might just wait until Christmas too.
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oxymoron wrote:
AppleQueso wrote:
oxymoron wrote:I'm going to flip my PS4 during the hype of the Christmas season and use the 100 -300 to buy one of these.
So you're buying a Ps4 at launch only to get rid of it a couple of months later just to buy a damn clone console?

Why even buy the Ps4 at all? Just spend your money on this.
No. I want to buy the PS4 for $400 sell it for $550 and use $150 to buy a Retron 5 and a few games. Later go and use the $400 left over to buy a PS4 to keep.
Yeah you and about a million other people are planning on flipping a PS4. Just wait and see, the supply will be so high that you will pretty much just break even after ebay or Amazon fees of 15-20%. I know this from experience. I was able to obtain 6 different PS3's at launch and had so many problems with bad buyers jerking me around that it took weeks to finally get 5 of them sold for an average of $100 profit on each after fees. I couldn't sell the last 60GB model for more than I paid for it so I just ended up keeping it. This was in 2006 before I became so easy and prevalent to just hit the "order" button on any website that will carry it. What I am saying is, that it will be much easier to obtain systems this time around and overall profits per system will probably not amount to much after it's all said and done. Save your time and effort and just get a Retron if that's what you want.
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