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Konacha wrote: Whenever I see a rare game I don't take my chances and sandwich the rare game together with a few crap games.

That's actually a idea I feel like I've heard several times before and actually not a bad one at that....if only I saw yard sale signs more often XD

Street Fighter II for SNES isn't even that rare. Isn't it like $10 ?

storino03 wrote:Street Fighter II for SNES isn't even that rare. Isn't it like $10 ?

I know, I couldn't understand WHY they would think that.

Still, it gave me an idea with real rare games after watching some Youtube videos talking about the same thing. Leaves a bit of bad taste in my mouth after all.

Konacha wrote:

storino03 wrote:Street Fighter II for SNES isn't even that rare. Isn't it like $10 ?

I know, I couldn't understand WHY they would think that.

Still, it gave me an idea with real rare games after watching some Youtube videos talking about the same thing. Leaves a bit of bad taste in my mouth after all.

This is a very smart way to go. Any thrift-shopping gamer would approve.

Or you could just rip the labels off of all the cartridges so they aren't any wiser. No harm, no foul!

storino03 wrote:Or you could just rip the labels off of all the cartridges so they aren't any wiser. No harm, no foul!

I'm confused. I guess I'm not that smart.

Nope.

I usually just ask the seller to give me prices on the games before I pick them out (i.e., "How much are the Nintendo tapes?"). If he or she does not give me a flat price ("It varies."), I get prices on a few common games I don't want, reject all of them as too expensive, and see if he or she comes down before selecting the games I really want ("How much for Tony Hawk?" "$10" "Hmmmm...How about Tecmo Bowl?" "$8" "OK...what about this one?" <holds up Shantae> "$6" "I'll take it.").

If games are marked at a flat rate sometimes I will do that since I hate sellers swapping prices on me. Usually if it's something really good I toss a few extra bucks there way and tell them its worth a bit more then what they were asking leaves me with a cleaner consonance and most often makes their day .

Another good thing to try is simply asking how much they would take for all their games seriously you would not believe how many great deals I have gotten that way. Some people just don't like selling and if they can sell a huge chunk of stuff at once they will take substantially less.

A great example of this would be how I got the majority of my Atari 2600 collection. Guy was selling a boat load of Atari 2600 games and there were so many that I didn't have that it would have taken me forever to pick out everything I wanted. His listed priced was $2.50 a game but he said I could have them for $1 a piece. After about 10 minutes of digging and slowly building a huge stack I told him jokingly that it would be easier for me to buy them all and look through them later. He then told me for $70 I could have them all . So I ended up with around 240 Atari games for $0.30 a piece.

hmm, I guess.

seems to me instead of getting mmx2 for $5, you got it for $15. each his own.

I have had a game be pulled from me because they "accidentally" put it out for sale LOL. I agree with the above poster, get a price on the whole box or just tell them what they got and offer a more fair yard sale price. Though if they put a price on it then they should honor it.

On the game deal side, hit up two Gamestops with the B2G1 sale and did pretty good. Picked up a lot of games that I had been wanting to get for a great deal. Trying to put together a non-sports, non-workout/dance game collection for the PS3. I am about 250 games into it now. I have what I think are all the rares now and am picking up a lot of cheapys at this point. Any more, when I am going for complete sets of more modern systems I do not collect sports titles as part of it. There are just too many and absolutely none of them will see any play time.