Best Places to Buy Retro Games Online - Vote

[shwisha]

Is that the same Pedro that's a Power Seller on eBay? I've bought from him a few times, off eBay, and haven't had a problem.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Jamisonia]

Is that the same Pedro that's a Power Seller on eBay? I've bought from him a few times, off eBay, and haven't had a problem.

Yes. I once but an SNES mini from him. If you read the feedback concerning consoles specifically you'll see that there's always the same problems. Mainly that he waits until the last minute to ship which is usually 3-4 weeks after you buy it (he always posts a very long processing time, but doesn't actually ship within that time), he ignores your messages, or is downright rude. He refused to tell me he had even shipped the stuff. He stuff isn't in the condition as described, for instance he sent me third party accessories with the game system, and there was some cosmetic damage to the case, he described it as near mint. His game sales feedback seem to be okay, but if you look closely at his negative feedback it details a pretty consistent case of atrociously negative customer service, but his sales volumes are so high that it keeps his percentages of positive high. It seems most people who buy something that never interact with him are satisfied, but anyone who has to actually talk to him gives him negative feedback.

On top of this he claimed to have blocked me from buying further things, him and a crew of other people selling out of the same area in North Carolina, which ironically happens to be my hometown. After that sale I happened to message a seller friend of his on eBay, about a Sega CD. He replied that he would not sell anything to me because Pedro had told him not too, and I was essentially blocked from buying most games on eBay because they held a virtual monopoly.

[Breetai]

If anyone is planning on buying from Lukiegames.com soon, I have a 10% off code. PM me for it. It expires on 14 March, 2012.

[ryanofcali]

I would suggest no one buy from the monopoly robber barons called pedro and lukie games, ridiculous prices and shipping costs and their condition ratings are always ridiculously inflated, jjgames is great.

[Breetai]

I would suggest no one buy from the monopoly robber barons called pedro and lukie games, ridiculous prices and shipping costs and their condition ratings are always ridiculously inflated, jjgames is great.

WTF man!?! Shipping is FREE to both US and Canada. In fact, out of every site on the first page I looked at, they are the ONLY ones to have free shipping to Canada and also require the LEAST amount of purchases ($25) to get free shipping.

I've compared prices. Yeah, some of their stuff is overpriced, but so are the rest! For cheap/common games, they are priced just fine. Their service is also GREAT. Not sure on their condition ratings, as I was never really worried about it. Everything I've got from them was at least "good", IMO, other than a few cracks on some CD game cases.

I think you're f'n nuts (not to mention outright lying about shipping costs).

[harper]

Um, not to be a hater, but I definitely do not recommend gametz.com. My reason is most of the people there seem to have crummy attitudes and there's a lot of immature crap in the forums. Most people seem to be there literally only to avoid ebay fees, what I mean by that is, they want to charge what they would charge on ebay, and not have to worry about fees. That's fine for people who want to pay those prices but when I joined, I was under the impression that people used that site to get/give good deals and I was apparently wrong.

There have been a couple of times when I've asked about games and the person was asking more than what I could get it for on ebay. I'm sorry but people should really check their prices. Why would I pay some guy $10 for something when I could go on ebay right now and get it for $8 shipped? This is just an example.

I don't have anything against ebay prices or whatever, there are good deals to be had there sometimes, but I shop around and that includes other sites like amazon and half.com and any others that I happen to come across. I always look for the best deal possible and if you don't have it, I'm not buyin'.

Sorry if that just became an incoherent rant, but I just really don't recommend that site, especially not for new users.

[noiseredux]

I would suggest no one buy from the monopoly robber barons called pedro and lukie games, ridiculous prices and shipping costs and their condition ratings are always ridiculously inflated, jjgames is great.

what??? Lukiegames is always good to me. I've ordered from there at least a dozen times. There was one occasion where I received a wrong game (similar titles, so it was an obvious misunderstanding) and he sent me the right game free and let me keep the wrong one.

[Breetai]

what??? Lukiegames is always good to me. I've ordered from there at least a dozen times. There was one occasion where I received a wrong game (similar titles, so it was an obvious misunderstanding) and he sent me the right game free and let me keep the wrong one.

Same thing happened with me. I ordered Super Off-Road: The Baja, and got the original Super Off-Road instead. No big deal, and they did the same for me as they did with you.
Honest error.

This guy didn't even have his facts right (how is free shipping overcharging???), so I say take what he says with a grain of salt. They are not the best priced on a lot of things, but they are certainly not overcharging by a lot compared to similar sites. Personally, I do find lots of their stuff high, but they are simply being competitive with their peers.

They are also working on offering Sega Master System, Game Gear and TG-16 games. My big complaint about them is that their Genesis stuff is all loose.

[ryanofcali]

I was mainly speaking on Pedro's shipping prices they were ridiculous on eBay but it seems he is no longer there at all an obvious example of his scamming ways, lukie seems to have ok shipping prices nowadays on ebay but I do recall them being on par with pedro's in the past.

[Breetai]

I was mainly speaking on Pedro's shipping prices they were ridiculous on eBay but it seems he is no longer there at all an obvious example of his scamming ways, lukie seems to have ok shipping prices nowadays on ebay but I do recall them being on par with pedro's in the past.

Just "ok"? They are free!

If you are going to rip someone/thing apart, do at least the minimal research. All you're doing is spreading lies and then getting caught; looking like a complete tool in the process.

Now isn't the past. Now is now.