People who only hunt games, don't buy online

[Einhander]

Are any of you people game hunters and refuse to buy a cheap game online if you want it? I have a friend who does this and I cannot relate to it. Now, don't get me wrong. I like to get out the house and do things. I'm open to going to garage sales, flea markets, retro stores, or Gamestop. But I'm not going to refuse to get something 5 to 10 dollars on Ebay if I want it, only so I can still have the challenge of finding it out in the wild.

To him, most of the fun is in hunting the video game down. And he always has a 5 dollar rule. I just can't relate to this kind of mentality. He's also the same guy who likes to put all his playstation discs in a binder to fill it up.

Some games are too rare and expensive to buy online and you just have to hope that one day you'll find it cheaper in the world. I understand that sometimes you have to keep your eye open. But I would never stop myself from just buying a game I wanna play only so I don't ''spoil'' the fun of finding it out in the wild. Everyone has their own thing, but when you start making these kinds of rules, aren't you losing track of what's important?

[Megatron]

I'm this way with N64 games mostly.  I am not a fan of this system, and have pretty much every game I want for it - at least games I am willing to PAY for.  So I will buy any N64 game I see in the wild under $5 or so, but refuse to order online for them, or pay more than a few dollars really. 

[larryinc64]

I try to keep to this to lower my game game spending and intake. I have a lot of games I got recently and no time to play them.

Also, when I started in 2009, I was 14 with no job or credit card/ Paypal. I could only get things offline if I could get my Mom or Sister to do it (I got my Genesis and NES this way)
I had to build up my collection from Goodwill, Tag Sales, Friends, and whatever else I could find. I got quite a sizable collection this way, and stories behind everything I got.
My first older system was from a tag sale, There was a N64 controller on a table, I asked if she had the system, she came out with a PS1. This was on Sep 20, 2009
I got a SNES from A friend, My N64 was from a friend of my sister, my 2600 6-Swich was from Cregs List, The house was far away and hard to find. My 3DO was form Goodwill, I did a double take when I saw it, Someone else was looking at it, probably trying to figure out what it was, put it down and I quickly went over and grabbed. I found CIB NES, SNES, and Genesis games in a old video store. I got some Mario SNES games for cheep off some a$$hole in high school, Hell, the day I found a complete Sgt. Pepper LP at Goodwilll. I had a great stack of NGC games, I was with some friends, who were yelling at ducks outside, and I was checking out with Matt, and I saw in a shopping cart of new stock a blue and yellow corner of the album. I also got another Abbey Road a greatest hits, and a strange White Album were someone remade the front cover and portraits badly.
It's always fun to find this stuff in the wild. It's been dead recently until I found some CIB DKC games

When I first got a steady job and a Paypal, I was finally able to get things off line and it did kill a little bit of the fun of collecting, I only buy online when I know it is hard to find and I want to play it right now, or it's a good deal.

[the7k]

I don't think I could possibly do this considering I primarily collect for the Sega Saturn, Neo Geo MVS and Neo Geo Pocket. Finding even the most common games for those systems in the wild is a long shot.

That said, I do most of my shopping for those games on online forums and retro gaming stores where I'm friends with the owners (which happens to actually be most of them I've been to, somehow), saving eBay as an absolute last resort - not only do forum prices tend to be cheaper than eBay, but I also like supporting people I know.