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January 2013 pickups
mojoeskateco:
--- Quote from: madrocsz on January 10, 2013, 02:23:03 PM ---I completely understand the business mentality behind that reasoning, what I disliked is how he said it like such. Given, I may look like a gamer and know a bit about such, but suppose I was not and maybe one of the "stupid people"
That and a morality comes into play, even if I sell extras I don't try and jack up prices simply because I can, unfortunately I have a conscious. I understand a certain retail value but I wouldn't want to be that retailer that prices things as such as it could potentially alienate my customer base and instill a lack of distrust.
To your point of it's worth what it's worth, considering you can find it cheaper online it really goes to show they are preying on those more uniformed customers and someone has to speak up for the little guy . ;)
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Also agree. When I resell things online locally I don't overprice them. I try and look at ebay completed auctions and charge at or lower than that price and will usually take about 80% of market value depending on the volume I'm selling and if I acquired the items for cheap.
madrocsz:
--- Quote from: mojoeskateco on January 10, 2013, 02:27:00 PM ---
Agree here. If people are stupid enough to pay a price then that's their problem.
I actually like places like this because you can trade them a bunch of Mario titles and then find a good / rare / expensive game that they didn't bother to research for cheap.
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Yeah, but thats the kicker, I called back later and asked what the trade in value was for it, 3$ credit for 1.50 cash. l o l
mojoeskateco:
--- Quote from: madrocsz on January 10, 2013, 02:37:13 PM ---
--- Quote from: mojoeskateco on January 10, 2013, 02:27:00 PM ---
Agree here. If people are stupid enough to pay a price then that's their problem.
I actually like places like this because you can trade them a bunch of Mario titles and then find a good / rare / expensive game that they didn't bother to research for cheap.
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Yeah, but thats the kicker, I called back later and asked what the trade in value was for it, 3$ credit for 1.50 cash. l o l
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Well then yeah ... that's terrible. I wonder if they would do that if you had just walked in, saw it for $65 or whatever if they would offer $3 on trade.
I like finding places that just over value the popular games altogether and don't price check everything.
I picked up Pocky and Rocky 2 for SNES for $40 this summer and the guy was selling Super Mario World at $30.
I traded him Super C, Castlevania 1 & 2 and a some mario games which were cheap finds for me so it worked out great.
mojoeskateco:
Picked these up at the post office today.
3 more off the NES hit list
madrocsz:
Good pickups, I remember in my giant craigslist purchase last year I had a boxed jetsons which I sold and spend 1/3rd of that back to get the cart only lol.
The capcom/hanna barbera/disney games have been getting retardedly expensive lately, glad I got them when I did
Might final fight was one of my pickups last year too, pretty fun game and its only increasing in value and of course, can never go wrong with MM5, looks awesome to see 1-6 on my shelf in their UGC's
Whats left for your NES list? I *say* i finished mine but keep looking and may end up breaking that lol