I tried convincing zoomies in the other thread that these prices are NOT selling. NO one is buying Mario World for $250. The finished auctions you see on ebay are scalpers buying from themselves to fake demand.
this,sometimes i sell games im done with and know i wont replay and the expensive ones i can never sell for the pricecharting price,havent tried on ebay but frick that.
>The finished auctions you see on ebay are scalpers buying from themselves to fake demand.
So they still have their inventory which isn't earning them anything AND they just paid a cut to the 3rd party? How do they make money?
I tried convincing zoomies in the other thread that these prices are NOT selling. NO one is buying Mario World for $250. The finished auctions you see on ebay are scalpers buying from themselves to fake demand.
I'm going to blow this threads mind and add that ebay doesn't remove "sold items" that were canceled or returned. There doesn't even have to be a loss of money lol
>Sell game to yourself for stupidly high price >Cancel order >All fees refunded >Pricecharting and Ebay still show it as a sale >morons now think game is worth the fake price you set
It's literally that easy
Do you have any proof of this ever happening? Sounds like some lunatic's rant about not being able to afford the game that everyone else wants.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Lol it happens all the time because the retro game market is so easy to manipulate due to the low supply. You can even see the resellers that do it buy up all the stock available on Ebay just before. This coomlector talks about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH8EpVc3JoY
2 years ago
Anonymous
I once sold a pokemon game on ebay auction, and the buyer really pumped up the price on it then didn't pay. Had to wait a week before ebay resolved everything and I could sell the item again
Lol it happens all the time because the retro game market is so easy to manipulate due to the low supply. You can even see the resellers that do it buy up all the stock available on Ebay just before. This coomlector talks about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH8EpVc3JoY
They are selling but not to gamers. There's been an influx of high rolling speculators who are just buying up everything. Suit and tie types who were doing baseball cards and comic books have finally moved into the gaming space and it's completely fricking up the market. Because they aren't into the hobby itself they don't know what anything is actually worth or how rare or common it is. Either prices are going to stay astronomical and these guys are just going to price everyone else out and pass the games around among each other or they'll liquidate after not getting a good return on investment and the prices will crash and go back down to normal.
Probably. What was keeping gaming prices relatively stable for a long time was that the only people buying games were people who were playing games. The number of shelf collectors was negligible. A huge influx of independently wealthy speculators just annihilated any semblance of stability.
NEET that doesn't get NEETbux here. I kept all of my old consoles, lots of my original childhood games, and even a bunch of CRTs that are still in good shape for many years. I'd go out once a week and seeing what retro games I could find during the early to mid 2010s out of nostalgia. I wasn't reselling anything or even trading anything due to not having any friends. I couldn't afford modern games and didn't like them anyways. It was nice during the days I could come across $4 SNES games easy including titles like Super Metroid, Battletoads and Double Dragon, Harvest Moon, and Pocky and Rocky. Now in that same shop since the boomer is addicted to his smart phone thinking he knows everything. He wants to sell crusty carts that are practically broken and full of dirt that he probably pulled out of dumpsters near storage units for over $50 a piece now. Don't get me started on the moron selling atari games for near $100 a piece.
I don't know if this is happening with vidya, but if you look at "sold" used Disney VHS tapes on ebay, there's clearly some of that shit going on. I also wonder if some sellers with bulk supply of a certain tape do this to increase ebay's suggested/normal selling prices for the titles they have in surplus, so their boxes full of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin VHSs can sell for $6 a piece instead of $4.
They are selling but not to gamers. There's been an influx of high rolling speculators who are just buying up everything. Suit and tie types who were doing baseball cards and comic books have finally moved into the gaming space and it's completely fricking up the market. Because they aren't into the hobby itself they don't know what anything is actually worth or how rare or common it is. Either prices are going to stay astronomical and these guys are just going to price everyone else out and pass the games around among each other or they'll liquidate after not getting a good return on investment and the prices will crash and go back down to normal.
There are some legit game collectors in the market who missed out on the glory days of 90s to very early 2010s used game collecting who don't know anything but overpriced old games. They look at some random common/uncommon SNES or GameCube or whatever game, and see a luxury good worthy of a high price; just check YouTube and Reddit game collecting groups and see how they lose their shit over the most mundane of old games like they're precious antiques. Sure, there have always been rare games that collectors coomed about, but the prices were still typically much lower, and the (relatively) really expensive titles were generally actual rares.
I have an entire box of really really good condition GameCube games, including fire emblem, but I've never sold anything on eBay before and I've read a lot of horror stories that people buy shit and then say it's defective, or they never got it and ebay sides with them more or less without question.
I would just take them to some retro store but the only one within like 100 miles shut down during covid
I know it's entirely possible to get fricked through Ebay but most people just want to pay for their game and get it with no hassle. I've sold only a handful of things (most expensive one was a GBA game for $70) but as long as you package it well there should be no problems. A lot of the horror stories you see are things that can happen but you have to remember that thousands upon thousands of sales happen each day with 0 problems.
>Go online looking to buy Gamecube game you remember from being a zoomlet >See they're too expensive for you >Save photo and post on /vr/ about it, claiming to be above such things when really you're just priced out
Oh that's great. So don't b***h when you want physical copies and make a thread just like this one when you're butt hurt about not being able to afford them.
Big Scalper on the forefront of the new world order
Your kids will learn to collect used video games in school
You'll own everything and you'll be happy
it's not like the wii is the easiest console to mod ever that even a child could do it
I tried convincing zoomies in the other thread that these prices are NOT selling. NO one is buying Mario World for $250. The finished auctions you see on ebay are scalpers buying from themselves to fake demand.
this,sometimes i sell games im done with and know i wont replay and the expensive ones i can never sell for the pricecharting price,havent tried on ebay but frick that.
Tell that to every trash retro store in the US trying to sell even the most common game on any system for 50-60 bucks
Store close to me trying to sell a copy of crash bandicoot for 70 dollars...blatant moronation and people are going for it
On the plus side, they are marking down the consoles hoping people empty their wallets for the games..hard/soft mods have never been so easy
I feel so blessed to have a decent game shop. Last time I went in they had FFVIII Greatest Hits for $10
>The finished auctions you see on ebay are scalpers buying from themselves to fake demand.
So they still have their inventory which isn't earning them anything AND they just paid a cut to the 3rd party? How do they make money?
I'm going to blow this threads mind and add that ebay doesn't remove "sold items" that were canceled or returned. There doesn't even have to be a loss of money lol
That's a strong cope right there.
>The finished auctions you see on ebay are scalpers buying from themselves to fake demand.
no sellers do this.
this is the oldest fricking trick in the book you dummy
it's called a wash trade
But don't they lose money due to fees and shit?
a small tax to pay when some sucker finally bites. its part of the investment.
>Sell game to yourself for stupidly high price
>Cancel order
>All fees refunded
>Pricecharting and Ebay still show it as a sale
>morons now think game is worth the fake price you set
It's literally that easy
Oh. I don't pay attention to this so I don't know every last detail.
I guess you're right? Still not certain.
Do you have any proof of this ever happening? Sounds like some lunatic's rant about not being able to afford the game that everyone else wants.
Lol it happens all the time because the retro game market is so easy to manipulate due to the low supply. You can even see the resellers that do it buy up all the stock available on Ebay just before. This coomlector talks about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH8EpVc3JoY
I once sold a pokemon game on ebay auction, and the buyer really pumped up the price on it then didn't pay. Had to wait a week before ebay resolved everything and I could sell the item again
No sellers do it.
see
prove it.
do you have a counterargument to whats said in the video? or are you asking me as if i claimed i was a primary source on the matter?
I'm not watching a video you already have contempt for the creator of, what good is that? Levy some proof or frick off.
no u homosexual
They are selling but not to gamers. There's been an influx of high rolling speculators who are just buying up everything. Suit and tie types who were doing baseball cards and comic books have finally moved into the gaming space and it's completely fricking up the market. Because they aren't into the hobby itself they don't know what anything is actually worth or how rare or common it is. Either prices are going to stay astronomical and these guys are just going to price everyone else out and pass the games around among each other or they'll liquidate after not getting a good return on investment and the prices will crash and go back down to normal.
These are the same buttholes who bought Pokemon cards in bulk last year right?
Probably. What was keeping gaming prices relatively stable for a long time was that the only people buying games were people who were playing games. The number of shelf collectors was negligible. A huge influx of independently wealthy speculators just annihilated any semblance of stability.
>A huge influx of independently wealthy speculators just annihilated any semblance of stability.
Tale as old as fricking time right there.
>They are selling but not to gamers.
They were selling to NEETs that got NEETbux during covid and aren't selling because they are autistic as hell.
NEET that doesn't get NEETbux here. I kept all of my old consoles, lots of my original childhood games, and even a bunch of CRTs that are still in good shape for many years. I'd go out once a week and seeing what retro games I could find during the early to mid 2010s out of nostalgia. I wasn't reselling anything or even trading anything due to not having any friends. I couldn't afford modern games and didn't like them anyways. It was nice during the days I could come across $4 SNES games easy including titles like Super Metroid, Battletoads and Double Dragon, Harvest Moon, and Pocky and Rocky. Now in that same shop since the boomer is addicted to his smart phone thinking he knows everything. He wants to sell crusty carts that are practically broken and full of dirt that he probably pulled out of dumpsters near storage units for over $50 a piece now. Don't get me started on the moron selling atari games for near $100 a piece.
Wow, this couldn't be schizoid posting could it?
I don't know if this is happening with vidya, but if you look at "sold" used Disney VHS tapes on ebay, there's clearly some of that shit going on. I also wonder if some sellers with bulk supply of a certain tape do this to increase ebay's suggested/normal selling prices for the titles they have in surplus, so their boxes full of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin VHSs can sell for $6 a piece instead of $4.
There are some legit game collectors in the market who missed out on the glory days of 90s to very early 2010s used game collecting who don't know anything but overpriced old games. They look at some random common/uncommon SNES or GameCube or whatever game, and see a luxury good worthy of a high price; just check YouTube and Reddit game collecting groups and see how they lose their shit over the most mundane of old games like they're precious antiques. Sure, there have always been rare games that collectors coomed about, but the prices were still typically much lower, and the (relatively) really expensive titles were generally actual rares.
All they have to do is sell to 1 idiot a week to keep the prices up. There's enough suckers and enough nintendo games out there to keep is going.
My friend used to do that with vintage wrestling tapes and action figures. Got away with it for years.
I already bought this ~7 years ago for like $50, waiting on the next one. Heh.
I got it unopened for 90
Imagine paying even 90 for a GameCube game.
I mean this was like 2013 so the game had been out of print for a while but hadn't really jumped in value yet.
sup ebay scalper
you ever consider gettin into real estate instead pretending old kid toys mean anything?
>Paying for a plastic box to wrap around a disc
I made the right choice not buying shitty GameCube games then and I made the right choice now.
I have an entire box of really really good condition GameCube games, including fire emblem, but I've never sold anything on eBay before and I've read a lot of horror stories that people buy shit and then say it's defective, or they never got it and ebay sides with them more or less without question.
I would just take them to some retro store but the only one within like 100 miles shut down during covid
I know it's entirely possible to get fricked through Ebay but most people just want to pay for their game and get it with no hassle. I've sold only a handful of things (most expensive one was a GBA game for $70) but as long as you package it well there should be no problems. A lot of the horror stories you see are things that can happen but you have to remember that thousands upon thousands of sales happen each day with 0 problems.
>Go online looking to buy Gamecube game you remember from being a zoomlet
>See they're too expensive for you
>Save photo and post on /vr/ about it, claiming to be above such things when really you're just priced out
>Projecting your abject poverty onto others
Heh
path of radiance is the shit
its like some asiatic understood kriegspiel and made a cheap asian shit copy of it but with Black person rpg mechanics
go collect ps3/360/wii
Not sure what your troglodyte brain is trying to convey, but I have all of those with soft mods that let me yoink every game 🙂
Oh that's great. So don't b***h when you want physical copies and make a thread just like this one when you're butt hurt about not being able to afford them.
Big Scalper on the forefront of the new world order
Your kids will learn to collect used video games in school
You'll own everything and you'll be happy
I sold my launch copy of FE: PoR for $200 to a moron like OP
I used the money to buy a Mega Everdrive Pro :))
Sorry bro you were late to collect GC, try with PS4
We get it. You don't like old games.
KRIKZZ WHERE IS MY EVERDRIVE? UKRAINE HASN'T UPDATED THE PACKAGE TRACKING SINCE THE 15TH OF JUNE.
>Mario World for $250
Must be a US thing. I was in CEX in the UK last weekend and they had mario world boxed for £30
The tax people pay for being too autistic to hard mod lol
Who do resellers think they’re fooling with these triple digit prices?