No problem!Blu wrote:That's quite awesome, and a rarity nowadays--share with us your secret buying spots!prfsnl_gmr wrote:I am also lucky that my best local resource prices games based on videogamepricecharts.com. They use the "cart only" price for all games, which means that I get a fair price on carts...but an incredible price on CIB titles.
http://www.goodwillsp.org/shop/computer-works
It is an amazing local resource. It gets new games regularly, and the prices are high enough that resellers generally cannot make money flipping the inventory. Moreover - and since it sells everything that get donated in the area - it gets some incredibly obscure systems and games. (Last week, it had a complete Atari Jaguar along with a stack of complete TG-16 games...<drool>)
Certainly a local store has to pay overhead, but its prices absolutely have to remain competitive if it is going to last more than a few months. Moreover, while there is certainly value in getting to inspect an item personally before purchasing it, there is also value in having an item delivered to your home. It also seems to me that most video game stores encounter "cash flow" issues at some point - and this is especially true if they try to squeeze every last penny out of every single one of their games. Accordingly, I think it is probably a good business practice for stores to price more expensive games at market value, but games that routinely sell for less than $10 (i.e., the games I am usually interested in...) should probably be priced to keep cash coming into the business.Ziggy587 wrote:IDK guys, I disagree. You can have a small business selling games on eBay with no overhead cost, working out of the house. That's not true for a store, especially a small store. A $100 game should be $85 because $15 is going to eBay and PayPal fees and whatnot. But if there is no eBay, PayPal, etc then that same $15 is going to the store's overhead. It's not like the guy selling the game doesn't have fees to pay. The fees are actually much larger. Do you know how expensive it is to operate a small store? It's more than eBay. So if this logic follows than the games should actually cost more in the store than on eBay.
I don't run a video game store, however; so, I don't really know if these are good business practices. That said, all of the game stores in my area that have lasted for more than a few months adopt them. I suspect that the new games and inexpensive games keep the lights, pay the employees, and pay the rent, and I suspect that the more expensive titles make the store profitable for its owners.
