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| CMDLineKing:
--- Quote from: TDIRunner on April 15, 2015, 11:09:54 AM --- --- Quote ---Might actually find more games at more yardsales! --- End quote --- On the flipside though, I'm afraid that many people who don't know any better will assume that any old video game will be worth a boat load. You'll see people asking $30 for Mario/Duck Hunt because it's "old." --- End quote --- People already do that. If nothing else, it will normalize pricing in a lot of cases because they can look it up on gamestop, or see how much gamestop is asking for it. Now, it gamestops pricing is CRAZY high, that will suck. If it's not... Great! --- Quote from: cojack16 on April 15, 2015, 11:11:26 AM --- --- Quote from: CMDLineKing on April 15, 2015, 10:43:46 AM ---People who INVEST in retro games should be scared.. Gamestop will drive a lot of the pricing. And you can almost bet they will be LOW for a while, then adjusted over time. Should definitely shake up the environment over the "pricecharting" site. The nice part might be some new interest in Retro games over all which will help create a more fluid market, vs. the stagnant one you see right now. Might actually find more games at more yardsales! :) --- End quote --- Really? I feel the opposite and eventually there would be a lot less old games at flea markets --- End quote --- Why? Right now you have just a few game shops and some e-bay markets for older games. Basically, it's in the hands of a very limited market. Once you expand that out to Gamestop, you're going to have a lot more people who purchase and play these older titles. Do you think they will be willing to sell them back to Gamestop in most cases? I'd wager they'll try to sell them on their own first, so Craigslist, Yard Sales and flea markets should at least see a jump in some people selling. I can't even count how many times I've seen people post stuff for sale because they have buyers remorse after playing it for a few weeks, well past the 7day return at Gamestop and they aren't willing to take 1/10th of what they just paid gamestop for them to take their merchandise back. --- Quote from: wiggy on April 16, 2015, 02:48:58 AM ---Nobody's gonna trade their old games in at GameStop. This idea is DOA. --- End quote --- You'd be shocked how many people still try to.. I was in one the other day and someone walked in with a Sega Genesis and a Super Nintendo and they turned them away. Happens even MORE often with Gamecube and XBOX stuff. I don't know if this will be good or bad overall, but it should at least shake stuff up a little, which won't be a bad thing, all my local shops have some CRAZY high pricing so they will feel this the most, I have a feeling that most decent retroshops won't have any issues, but the price gougers will suffer. |
| larryinc64:
--- Quote from: wiggy on April 16, 2015, 02:48:58 AM ---Nobody's gonna trade their old games in at GameStop. This idea is DOA. --- End quote --- I've run into people attempting to sell their retro games to Gamestop. I got a sweet $40 bag of stuff from someone who was trying to sell NES, N64, NGC and PS2 games, I scored a Mario Party 3, Kirby 64, and all of this stuff ---> http://s419.photobucket.com/user/larryinc64/media/1-28-15_zps91a73336.jpg.html?sort=3&o=35 Though I've seen FYEs trying to sell retro games, and they never have a good assortment. --- Quote from: TDIRunner on April 15, 2015, 11:09:54 AM --- --- Quote ---Might actually find more games at more yardsales! --- End quote --- On the flilpside though, I'm afraid that many people who don't know any better will assume that any old video game will be worth a boat load. You'll see people asking $30 for Mario/Duck Hunt because it's "old." --- End quote --- I brought my GBA SP into High School one, and some other kids thought it was worth a ton of money, they were disappointed when I said it was worth around $30~. The pennys some people will get for stuff I feel will piss some people off. |
| tiktektak:
This will never work. I can see GS offering you 5 bucks for your N64 or 2 bucks for a NES or 10 for a GC and reselling it for 50, 80 and so on. They are just douchebags and will always be some. |
| wiggy:
--- Quote from: tiktektak on April 16, 2015, 12:31:46 PM ---This will never work. I can see GS offering you 5 bucks for your N64 or 2 bucks for a NES or 10 for a GC and reselling it for 50, 80 and so on. They are just douchebags and will always be some. --- End quote --- This. There are two types of people who have old games sitting around; people who "know what they're worth", and people who think nothing of them. The former will sell em on CL or eBay 99% of the time, while the rest will only part with them when they decide tha they're taking up too much space in the closet. Those might end up at GS, or they may end up on CL or eBay as well. Seriously. This won't take off. Not at all. I'd bet the farm on it. |
| Arseen:
What I really also fear is that they will fuck up the packaging either by misshandling/storing badly or outright throw them away. |
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