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NEC TG-16/TE/TurboDuo => TG-16/TE/TurboDuo Discussion => Topic started by: Bardoly on July 27, 2012, 10:58:16 AM
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Since I am a newcomer here to this site, I would like to ask you ‘old-timers’ who have strong price opinions to weigh in on what prices should be correct for U.S.-released TurboGrafx-16 HuCard games. I have some extras which I would actually prefer to trade for the ‘holes’ in my TG-16 collection, but I’m willing to sell them and then use that money to purchase the games that I want. I have noticed that many of the members here have VERY strong opinions about prices and I don’t want to get ripped to shreds because I accidentally priced a game over ‘pcenginefx market value’. Therefore, a list of the 94 U.S.-released TurboGrafx-16 HuCard games follows, and as members chime in with what they feel that fair market value is, I’ll edit the first post to reflect submitted prices and hopefully this community can come to a consensus, and this information will be available to be used by all.
HuCard HuCard/ Complete
only manual/ HuCard/
price case manual/
price box/case
price
Aero Blasters
Air Zonk
Alien Crush
Andre Panza Kick Boxing
Ballistix
Battle Royale
Blazing Lazers
Bloody Wolf
Bomberman
Bomberman '93
Bonk's Adventure
Bonk's Revenge
Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure
Boxy Boy
Bravoman
Cadash
Champions Forever Boxing
Chase H.Q.
Chew-Man-Fu
China Warrior
Cratermaze
Cybercore
Darkwing Duck
Davis Cup Tennis
Dead Moon
Deep Blue
Devil's Crush
Double Dungeons
Dragon Spirit
Dragon's Curse
Drop Off
Dungeon Explorer
Dungeons & Dragons: Order of the Griffon
Falcon
Fantasy Zone
Final Lap Twin
Galaga '90
Ghost Manor
Gunboat
Hit the Ice
Impossimole
Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf
Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu
J.J. & Jeff
Keith Courage in the Alpha Zones
King of Casino
Klax
Legend of Hero Tonma
Legendary Axe, The
Legendary Axe II, The
Magical Chase
Military Madness
Moto Roader
Neutopia
Neutopia 2
New Adventure Island
Night Creatures
Ninja Spirit
Ordyne
Pac-land
Parasol Stars
Power Golf
Psychosis
R-Type
Raiden
Samurai Ghost
Shockman
Side Arms – Hyper Dyne
Silent Debuggers
Sinistron
Soldier Blade
Somer Assault
Sonic Spike Volleyball
Space Harrier
Splatterhouse
Super Star Soldier
Super Volleyball
Takin' It To The Hoop
Tale Spin
Tiger Road
Time Ball
Time Cruise
Tricky Kick
Turrican
TV Sports Basketball
TV Sports Football
TV Sports Hockey
Veigues Tactical Gladiator
Victory Run
Vigilante
World Class Baseball
World Court Tennis
World Sports Competition
Yo Bro
--Turbografx CD System Card ver.2.0
--Super System Card ver.3.0
--U.S. TurboGrafx-16 console w/cords & 1 controller
--U.S. TurboGrafx-CD
--U.S. TurboDuo
--U.S. TurboExpress
--U.S. Turbo Booster
--U.S. Turbo Rooster Plus
--Turbo Pad controller
--Turbo Tap 5-player adapter
If there is anything else which should also be on this list, then please let me know, and I will update this post accordingly. After working this list up, I’ll add the CD games, unless someone wants to create a separate thread.
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hmm. I think there is already something like this on the site. I am not 100% sure though.
Edit: Yep, here it is. http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=7062.0
Its an older thread...BUT, can still be used as some sort of reference.
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hmm. I think there is already something like this on the site. I am not 100% sure though.
I looked for something like this, but couldn't find anything. If you do find something which could care for this community need, then let me know, and I'll shut this thread down.
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Yep, here it is. http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=7062.0
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Everyone's opinion differs on this subject, but unless the games are kinda rare (Legend of Hero Tonma, Neutopia 2, Beyond Shadowgate), then I just raffle them off if I get extras in a lot or whatever
Gotta give back to the community that gives so much up front
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Can we just make this the current price for Magical Chase?
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For games which never came as a case, the middle price is for HuCard + sleeve + manual.
HuCard HuCard/ Complete
only manual/ HuCard/
price case manual/
price box/case
price
15 20 25 Aero Blasters
25 30 50 Air Zonk
7 10 15 Alien Crush
5 10 15 Andre Panza Kick Boxing
5 8 15 Ballistix
7 10 15 Battle Royale
7 10 15 Blazing Lazers
10 20 25 Bloody Wolf
5 8 15 Bomberman
30 40 50 Bomberman '93
5 10 15 Bonk's Adventure
10 15 20 Bonk's Revenge
60 70 90 Bonk 3: Bonk's Big Adventure
5 7 10 Boxy Boy
7 12 15 Bravoman
15 25 30 Cadash
5 8 13 Champions Forever Boxing
15 20 30 Chase H.Q.
20 25 35 Chew-Man-Fu
5 7 10 China Warrior
15 20 25 Cratermaze
10 12 17 Cybercore
25 35 45 Darkwing Duck
5 7 10 Davis Cup Tennis
15 20 30 Dead Moon
5 7 10 Deep Blue
15 20 25 Devil's Crush
7 10 20 Double Dungeons
5 7 10 Dragon Spirit
15 22 27 Dragon's Curse
7 12 17 Drop Off
8 10 15 Dungeon Explorer
20 30 40 Dungeons & Dragons: Order of the Griffon
5 7 12 Falcon
5 7 10 Fantasy Zone
7 10 15 Final Lap Twin
5 7 12 Galaga '90
15 22 30 Ghost Manor
10 12 20 Gunboat
5 7 15 Hit the Ice
7 10 15 Impossimole
5 7 10 Jack Nicklaus' Turbo Golf
25 30 45 Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu
5 7 12 J.J. & Jeff
5 7 80 Keith Courage in the Alpha Zones
7 10 14 King of Casino
9 14 20 Klax
40 55 70 Legend of Hero Tonma
5 7 10 Legendary Axe, The
10 15 20 Legendary Axe II, The
200 250 400 Magical Chase
10 15 25 Military Madness
5 7 10 Moto Roader
15 20 30 Neutopia
30 35 50 Neutopia 2
25 30 50 New Adventure Island
10 15 25 Night Creatures
7 10 15 Ninja Spirit
5 7 12 Ordyne
5 5 8 Pac-land
20 25 40 Parasol Stars
5 5 8 Power Golf
8 12 17 Psychosis
10 15 20 R-Type
20 25 35 Raiden
30 40 60 Samurai Ghost
17 25 35 Shockman
10 15 20 Side Arms – Hyper Dyne
10 15 20 Silent Debuggers
15 20 30 Sinistron
30 40 60 Soldier Blade
20 25 40 Somer Assault
5 7 10 Sonic Spike Volleyball
7 10 15 Space Harrier
15 25 35 Splatterhouse
15 20 30 Super Star Soldier
5 7 10 Super Volleyball
5 7 9 Takin' It To The Hoop
7 10 15 Tale Spin
7 10 15 Tiger Road
7 10 15 Time Ball
15 20 30 Time Cruise
12 17 25 Tricky Kick
7 10 15 Turrican
5 7 10 TV Sports Basketball
5 7 10 TV Sports Football
5 7 10 TV Sports Hockey
12 17 24 Veigues Tactical Gladiator
5 7 10 Victory Run
5 10 15 Vigilante
5 7 10 World Class Baseball
5 7 10 World Court Tennis
25 35 50 World Sports Competition
7 12 17 Yo Bro
20 150 --Turbografx CD System Card ver.2.0
50 80 --Super System Card ver.3.0
30 80 --U.S. TurboGrafx-16 console w/cords & 1 controller
80 150 --U.S. TurboGrafx-CD
150 250 --U.S. TurboDuo
100 200 --U.S. TurboExpress
15 30 --U.S. Turbo Booster
30 60 --U.S. Turbo Rooster Plus
10 25 --Turbo Pad controller
10 25 --Turbo Tap 5-player adapter
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Damn, pretty much what I would say BT, except the 2.0 card I think is more like a $10 to $15 in my eyes....
Hell I would even sell cheaper then some of those prices to members here, a good foundation for prices.
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For games which never came as a case, the middle price is for HuCard + sleeve + manual.
HuCard HuCard/ Complete
only manual/ HuCard/
price case manual/
price box/case
price
20 150 --Turbografx CD System Card ver.2.0
Is that a typo? I thought the System 2.0 card came loose and either way I'd think a 3.0 card would cost way more.
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No, I think the prices listed in this topic are what the fellow forum members would pay among themselves. If I understand it correctly. Though, obviously on Ebay it's like double that.
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200 250 400 Magical Chase
17 25 35 Shockman
30 40 60 Soldier Blade
I'll take one of each please, CIB of course!
Those prices are unfortunately way too low.
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200 250 400 Magical Chase
17 25 35 Shockman
30 40 60 Soldier Blade
I'll take one of each please, CIB of course!
Those prices are unfortunately way too low.
Yeah, no kidding... I'll take two of each.
Realistically, the volume of sales for a lot of these items is pretty low, so it's hard to really estimate prices... however, I truly doubt that anyone would realistically be able to find a complete Magical Chase for $400.
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Yeah the only way you'd get it cheap would be if someone had it at a garage sale and didn't know how much it was worth.
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Highest possible or hopeful possible selling prices should only interest sellers. Why would a buyer care about the MOST a game can sell for? Seriously, if you are looking to buy a particular game, why would you even be aware of the highest prices? Non-investor buyers should only be concerned with lower end prices, unless over-paying is part of your hobby (unfortunately, it is bragging rights for some). Dynastic Hero has only sold for $50 for what, the past year now? But we should ignore that and instead focus on the imaginary prices it could have sold for instead? Or does it only work in gouging-supporting ways?
I paid $5 for a sealed Magical Chase. Some clown paying $5000 for one is an extreme in the opposite end. Both are equally factual. The prices I listed are double what MC sold for up until the market began being unnaturally manipulated. I know of people who have bought and sold them for lower prices than I listed since then as well. Why do you guys think that MC is rarely listed for sale anymore, if it is so easy to sell for the gouged prices it supposedly demands? Soldier Blade has also slowed in sales in gouging circles, as those who snatch them up, believing them to be priceless, continue to see them failing to sell at crazy escalating prices. In the meantime, the credit card interest these people are racking up convinces them to continue to hold out for the market to support the fantasy so they can perhaps at least break even on their investments.
I've seen Shockman either sell or available to buy at the prices I listed a few times in the past six months, one of which I bought for myself. High-end eBay prices are above market value, by the very nature of eBay for both buyers and sellers. Checkout the current completed listings for Shockman and properly interpret the unsold, sold and total number of listings, factoring in eBay fees and now limited completed view, etc. And these are still higher than what some sold for on eBay not long ago.
People who promote ridiculous prices wonder how the rest of us find games for reasonable prices. The first steps are to stop using top prices to gauge value and stop dismissing low end prices as freak anomalies. The best deals here and elsewhere (even through eBay) are found off the public record. I have advertised several items on this forum over the past year for prices which gouged-price-supporters say don't exist. What those listings don't show, is how I actually offered most of the buyers even better deals. They didn't ask for it, didn't haggle or anything. I just offered them to people I like. I also scored several "impossible" deals for myself that weren't advertised in threads. Some of which were offered to me unsolicited.
This is how the Turbo community has operated over the past twenty years. I based these prices on my experiences as well as knowledge of how much the appeal or lack of appeal of each item affects their range of prices. At least as much buying/selling/trading happens out of public internet view as is on display. This is no different than when I've described scenes from PCE games that I'd played through and had my accounts challenged or have even been called a liar by people who hadn't played through the same games. The "pics or it didn't happen" accusation doesn't change reality. Just because you personally aren't aware of something doesn't mean that it isn't real. Those of us who never stopped hunting down Turbo games since it was launched have witnessed the natural progression in pricing and watched the recent deliberated price fixing and understand it. It isn't sustainable because it is built on nothing by speculators and artificially supported by speculators. It isn't a theory, because we watched it happen play by play, the exact same way that fads like Beanie Babies unnaturally suddenly lept out of control from outsiders jumping in to play a money game.
Not only does every eBay listing which fails to sell at any given price tell as much a story as those which do, but every time something is given away for free, it dilutes the real actual value of the item even further. Look around at how much stuff is being given away for free around here. You can look at games I valued at $5 - $20 each as actually being worth $20 - $50 each, but they are literally selling for $0.00 on a regular basis in this forum. Just as most of the best deals happen behind the scenes, people give away at least as much stuff without publicly talking about it. I valued the loose Turbo CD System Card higher because of the novelty value of allowing you to view warning screens. But after buying a Turbo CD on here for $90, I privately sent it to someone for free after they asked to buy it with money. I've given away more Turbo/PCE stuff than I've sold on this forum and most of it has been done in private. The more people go out of their way to defend gouged prices, the more I see that I should make a big deal out of my freebies, like many of the raffles do.
The most important thing that gouged price supporters fail to understand is that true value, what something is actually worth paying for to most people, can still sit far below what it (seldom) sells for. If 90% of Turbo fans wouldn't pay more than $100 for Magical Chase and literally never will, while 1% pay the hyped gouged prices which only transpire twice a year... that means that Magical Chase it literally worth no more than $100. If you can't wrap your head around that, then you're likely be stuck in that other 9% group.
If those who don't care enough about the games to keep them and are only playing an investment game, were to only advertise Magical Chase for $100,000 and Soldier Blade for $3,000 in today's dollars for the foreseeable future, are those suddenly their real values? What if one copy sells each year? When sales of a formally regular selling games slow to a halt, it is a sign of a severely over-inflated collectors price. The gears of the market literally grind to a halt when speculation drives estimated prices so far beyond true/naturally developed value that no one is selling or buying anymore.
Each time you criticize reasonable prices and prop up gouged prices, you encourage speculators to do ridiculous things like not-so-secretly offer a Magical Chase box for $1500 with no precedent to justify the price beyond this kind of hype.
The fact of the matter is those crazy isolated prices are contained with a small bubble market within the overall genuine market. The rest of us are continuing on with the natural market, even if it has been driven further underground by those who come in to exploit it.
Is that a typo? I thought the System 2.0 card came loose and either way I'd think a 3.0 card would cost way more.
It was sold in a box which also contained a Turbo CD. Most System 3.0 Cards have their cases, but the Turbo CD Card's box is much harder to find.
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Yeah the only way you'd get it cheap would be if someone had it at a garage sale and didn't know how much it was worth.
Then, you'd probably snag it for $5-$10, but that's a pipedream.
$400 is a very unrealistic price because:
* Those who know what Magical Chase is, will try to get >$1K or whatever the current Ebay price is for it.
* Those who have no idea what it is, will probably part with it for a few bucks (unfortunately, not too many people like this exist as the game did not have large sales numbers)
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$30 for a complete Ghost Manor seems like a steal. A lot of pricing is bang on, it's only a few that need some updating.
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Market value for video games is no different than anything else. I would love to hear some people here that list prices for games that go for 3 times what they say they're worth argue with an economics professor about what they are really worth. It may be what they're worth to you but they are not the current market value. It's sad these games go for so much now, I had a Turboduo as a kid but have only been collecting as an adult 3 1/2 years and just in that time the prices have doubled on most stuff. It sucks but it is what it is, I'm actually glad I "overpaid" years ago for some games like Cotton and DE2 because if I had waited I'd either neverhave owned them or paid way more than I did. I'm really glad I only collect games that have sentimental value or that I know I'll like to play because trying to collect them all at these prices would be insane.
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Good points Black Tiger. We all know eBay prices are overinflated. That's why I try to do my part to sell PCE stuff for as low as I can to forum members. Could I make more money on eBay? Probably, but I'd rather put games into the hands of gamers rather than some guy who will flip a game the next week on the same site he bought it on. Thanks for putting together a reasonable price guide. It's a fantastic start, but some of the prices are a bit optimistic considering the current climate. Soldier Blade in particular has really jumped up in price these days. Maybe it will fall again? We can only hope!
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Darwing Duck more expensive than Dragon's Curse? seriously?
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Magical Chase is the best example of both true value and value-based-solely-on-what-people-believe-others-value-something-for.
For 15 years, everyone could easily find Magical Chase for sale and the most it ever went for later on was $100 - $150. For the last few years before the artificial market leap, people here discussed how crazy it was that it even went for $100. We now have all these people who, for a decade and a half, declined to buy the game for <$150, because it apparently wasn't worth that much to them. Yet now, many of these same people are suddenly happy to pay $200+ for a game they didn't want, just because the game is now currently valuable to douchebags.
$150? Pfft, no thank you. :roll: What, it's worth $1500 to people who don't play games? :shock: Please take $300 of my money NOW! :o
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Part of it is word of mouth. They buy the console and hear / or read about an article online saying "Magical Chase is the holy grail of Turbo Grafx games", and that helps to garner in interested parties, driving the price up.
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Part of it is word of mouth. They buy the console and hear / or read about an article online saying "Magical Chase is the holy grail of Turbo Grafx games", and that helps to garner in interested parties, driving the price up.
Hearing about a game yesterday and having it instantly be worth $1500 to you, while most other games for the same console are worth <$30, is speculation based on the speculation of other speculators. This is why the bubble will inevitably burst. You can't continue feeding off of another, building up prices based on nothing.
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God damn Magical Chase. Here we go... ](*,)
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I would also like to point out that BT's list is pretty damn accurate for buying outside of ebay. REMEMBER! "buying.outside.of.ebay"
Bardoly, I would pretty much go by BT's list. There's some leeway but if you are going to sell here then those prices would be good and should sell fairly quickly.
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agreed, BT's list is pretty accurate, most of my collection has been purchased for less than his prices, with the exception of two games.
dragon's curse - $31 - wanted it real bad, didn't know about this site
Legendary Axe - $9 - eh, two bucks, pretty game, didn't care.
and to anyone who thinks he's crazy, i got shockman at the end of last year for $35, complete and damned sexy.
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I sold my copy of MC, complete with box/manual, a couple years back.
Don't recall what I got, must have been somewhere between $325-$375. No regrets. Never particularly cared for the game itself, and felt if someone wanted to pay that much for it, have at it.
Never thought about it until now, but its likely been flipped multiple times since then ,,, And sure, the bubble will pop. Its value is entirely intrinsic, and is worth only what someone is willing to pay for it. If I had another copy, I'd sell it now, rather than hoard it in the expectation that the price will double in a year.
I collect historical military things, primarily WW2 USMC, and Imperial & WW2 German - Talk about a mine field !
Bubbles pop, and new ones are formed. Things that might have been worth an easy $300 last month, you might be lucky to get $100 for ,,, And sometimes, the other way around. Plus, there are hoards of fakes to contend with, at least thats not much of a factor with video games.
I'm not an investment collector, so market trends don't affect me much one way or the other - I look at it the same was as with these games.
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Wow, this rambling, incoherent mess is wrong on so many levels. Additionally, there is a certain level of arrogance littered in this post. It states that anyone who doesn't agree with your prices is a gouger, idiot, etc. Apparently, you know more than the free market.
Highest possible or hopeful possible selling prices should only interest sellers. Why would a buyer care about the MOST a game can sell for? Seriously, if you are looking to buy a particular game, why would you even be aware of the highest prices? Non-investor buyers should only be concerned with lower end prices, unless over-paying is part of your hobby (unfortunately, it is bragging rights for some). Dynastic Hero has only sold for $50 for what, the past year now? But we should ignore that and instead focus on the imaginary prices it could have sold for instead? Or does it only work in gouging-supporting ways?
First off, that Dynastic Heroes for $50 was a once off, idiotic move by a seller. That is not Open Market Value. Lets look at actual completed auctions -
http://videogames.pricecharting.com/game/turbografx-16/dynastic-hero-%5Bsuper-cd%5D#completed-auctions
Regardless of your PERSONAL opinions on its value, it has been demonstrated in the real world what people value it at, and it is well above $50. A buyer should be concerned with what the current fair market value, so they don't get ripped off, and have a good expectation of what they should expect to pay. Numbers pulled directly from the ass of Black Tiger are hardly an indicator of value.
I paid $5 for a sealed Magical Chase. Some clown paying $5000 for one is an extreme in the opposite end. Both are equally factual. The prices I listed are double what MC sold for up until the market began being unnaturally manipulated. I know of people who have bought and sold them for lower prices than I listed since then as well. Why do you guys think that MC is rarely listed for sale anymore, if it is so easy to sell for the gouged prices it supposedly demands? Soldier Blade has also slowed in sales in gouging circles, as those who snatch them up, believing them to be priceless, continue to see them failing to sell at crazy escalating prices. In the meantime, the credit card interest these people are racking up convinces them to continue to hold out for the market to support the fantasy so they can perhaps at least break even on their investments.
Wow, you made up so much bullshit here, it makes Fox News look factual. Lets address them here.
#1. "MC sold for up until the market began being unnaturally manipulated." - How was the market unnaturally manipulated? This is basic freaking economics. MC is on everyone's want list - and there are nowhere near enough copies to go around. Thus, on the open market, i.e. Ebay, it goes to the person willing to pay the most. Any back-room deals or amazing finds don't count towards the actual value; they weren't exposed to an open market of buyers to determine the price.
#2. "Why do you guys think that MC is rarely listed for sale anymore, if it is so easy to sell for the gouged prices it supposedly demands? " Because there is no supply! The people who have it want to keep it! Why are there no Nintendo World Championships available if they sell for $23,000? Jeez, with this logic, the Mona Lisa should be for sale, since it would fetch $100 Million or more!
#3. "In the meantime, the credit card interest these people are racking up convinces them to continue to hold out for the market to support the fantasy so they can perhaps at least break even on their investments." Talk about fantasy. In this single line, you are determining that the people who are buying rare Turbografx games are A) only buying them as investments, and B) somehow you mystically know they are all in credit card debt. Perhaps this is a reflection on how YOU live your life.
That last point just makes my head spin. How anyone can take you serious after that is beyond me. You live in this fantasy world where you know so much about every ebay buyer and seller. The reality is you really don't know anything about these people; how they got the games they are selling, why they are willing to pay what they are, or what their current financial situation is.
I've seen Shockman either sell or available to buy at the prices I listed a few times in the past six months, one of which I bought for myself. High-end eBay prices are above market value, by the very nature of eBay for both buyers and sellers. Checkout the current completed listings for Shockman and properly interpret the unsold, sold and total number of listings, factoring in eBay fees and now limited completed view, etc. And these are still higher than what some sold for on eBay not long ago.
Ebay is the market value, if it sells! And yes, prices fluctuate, depending on who is currently looking for a game, and what they are willing to spend.
People who promote ridiculous prices wonder how the rest of us find games for reasonable prices. The first steps are to stop using top prices to gauge value and stop dismissing low end prices as freak anomalies. The best deals here and elsewhere (even through eBay) are found off the public record. I have advertised several items on this forum over the past year for prices which gouged-price-supporters say don't exist. What those listings don't show, is how I actually offered most of the buyers even better deals. They didn't ask for it, didn't haggle or anything. I just offered them to people I like. I also scored several "impossible" deals for myself that weren't advertised in threads. Some of which were offered to me unsolicited.
Once again, a private sale isn't the open market, and in no way determines the actual value of an item. Only when a group of buyers is allowed to make a choice of whether or not to buy an item, and for how much, is a real price determined.
Not only does every eBay listing which fails to sell at any given price tell as much a story as those which do, but every time something is given away for free, it dilutes the real actual value of the item even further. Look around at how much stuff is being given away for free around here. You can look at games I valued at $5 - $20 each as actually being worth $20 - $50 each, but they are literally selling for $0.00 on a regular basis in this forum. Just as most of the best deals happen behind the scenes, people give away at least as much stuff without publicly talking about it. I valued the loose Turbo CD System Card higher because of the novelty value of allowing you to view warning screens. But after buying a Turbo CD on here for $90, I privately sent it to someone for free after they asked to buy it with money. I've given away more Turbo/PCE stuff than I've sold on this forum and most of it has been done in private. The more people go out of their way to defend gouged prices, the more I see that I should make a big deal out of my freebies, like many of the raffles do.
If you win a free car on a game show, you are required to pay tax on its actual value. Just because you got the car for free doesn't mean that it doesn't have a market value (which you are taxed on!), and your free car is in no way factored into what people consider the car worth. People here are willing to give away games that they could get money for. That is awesome of them, but it has no effect on the actual value someone is willing to pay.
The most important thing that gouged price supporters fail to understand is that true value, what something is actually worth paying for to most people, can still sit far below what it (seldom) sells for. If 90% of Turbo fans wouldn't pay more than $100 for Magical Chase and literally never will, while 1% pay the hyped gouged prices which only transpire twice a year... that means that Magical Chase it literally worth no more than $100. If you can't wrap your head around that, then you're likely be stuck in that other 9% group.
Ugh, the arrogance here is amazing. You are determining exactly what the community should pay for MC, and anyone who doesn't agree is clearly a "gouger." The reason the prices are high twice a year is because that is all you see, the game available for sale twice a year.
The rest of the post continues to babble about "gougers" without any facts to actually substantiate this flawed view point. You are just claiming that you have some innate psychic ability to know what the community should value the game at. You use words such as true, actually, most people, etc. You don't know what people will pay, only your personal valuation.
In short, to quote Billy Madison,
Mr. Black Tiger, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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DarkKobold's rambling, incoherent mess is wrong on so many levels:
First off, that Dynastic Heroes for $50 was a once off, idiotic move by a seller.
It was twice, actually, but who's counting?
That is not Open Market Value. Lets look at actual completed auctions -
bullshit, inaccurate listing that only looks at eBay and doesn't take region or condition into account
Regardless of your PERSONAL opinions on its value, it has been demonstrated in the real world what people value it at, and it is well above $50. A buyer should be concerned with what the current fair market value, so they don't get ripped off, and have a good expectation of what they should expect to pay. Numbers pulled directly from the ass of Black Tiger are hardly an indicator of value.
So the only indicator of value is eBay auctions that end above some make-believe threshold? Sounds logical: EBAY IS THE ONLY MARKET, DAMMIT!!!
How was the market unnaturally manipulated?
By resellers buying up multiple copies of various titles to control the supply and only sell at wide profit margins. Duh - it's basic economics.
MC is on everyone's want list - and there are nowhere near enough copies to go around. Thus, on the open market, i.e. Ebay, it goes to the person willing to pay the most. Any back-room deals or amazing finds don't count towards the actual value; they weren't exposed to an open market of buyers to determine the price.
Again: EBAY IS THE ONLY MARKET, DAMMIT!!!
#2. "Why do you guys think that MC is rarely listed for sale anymore, if it is so easy to sell for the gouged prices it supposedly demands? " Because there is no supply! The people who have it want to keep it! Why are there no Nintendo World Championships available if they sell for $23,000? Jeez, with this logic, the Mona Lisa should be for sale, since it would fetch $100 Million or more!
Sounds like you missed the point. Surprise!
#3. "In the meantime, the credit card interest these people are racking up convinces them to continue to hold out for the market to support the fantasy so they can perhaps at least break even on their investments." Talk about fantasy. In this single line, you are determining that the people who are buying rare Turbografx games are A) only buying them as investments, and B) somehow you mystically know they are all in credit card debt. Perhaps this is a reflection on how YOU live your life.
That last point just makes my head spin. How anyone can take you serious after that is beyond me. You live in this fantasy world where you know so much about every ebay buyer and seller. The reality is you really don't know anything about these people; how they got the games they are selling, why they are willing to pay what they are, or what their current financial situation is.
The reality is that you know no more about their financial situation, yet are proclaiming that B.T. can't possibly be correct. Thank God for omniscient clowns.
Ebay is the market value, if it sells! And yes, prices fluctuate, depending on who is currently looking for a game, and what they are willing to spend.
Yet again: EBAY IS THE ONLY MARKET, DAMMIT!!!
Once again, a private sale isn't the open market, and in no way determines the actual value of an item. Only when a group of buyers is allowed to make a choice of whether or not to buy an item, and for how much, is a real price determined.
And once more for safety: EBAY IS THE ONLY MARKET, DAMMIT!!!
Ugh, the arrogance here is amazing.
Indeed. The hypocrisy ain't bad either.
You are determining exactly what the community should pay for MC, and anyone who doesn't agree is clearly a "gouger." The reason the prices are high twice a year is because that is all you see, the game available for sale twice a year.
Yep, that's all you see on eBay and thus the only thing that matters!
The rest of the post continues to babble about eBay being the one true source for values (except for aberrations where something sells for less than some preconceived notion of worth) without any facts to actually substantiate this flawed view point. You are just claiming that you have some innate psychic ability to know that the community believes that eBay is the end all, be all of market pricing. You use words such as true, actually, most people, etc. You don't know what people will pay, only your personal valuation based on high priced BINs that go unsold.
Too long, didn't read version: D.K. is weeks late and a few IQ points short, yet he's worn the clown shoes well.
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DarkKobold you seem to have it all figured out. Please go back to ebay with that attitude.
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First off, that Dynastic Heroes for $50 was a once off, idiotic move by a seller.
It was twice, actually, but who's counting?
Alright, genius, if that is what it is worth, I'll pay you $75. Easy $25 profit. Go find a copy for $50. Waiting...
Oh wait, you can't.
That is not Open Market Value. Lets look at actual completed auctions -
ACTUAL f*ckING DATA!
How was the market unnaturally manipulated?
By resellers buying up multiple copies of various titles to control the supply and only sell at wide profit margins. Duh - it's basic economics.
You are making a substantial claim here. You provide the proof. Waiting...
MC is on everyone's want list - and there are nowhere near enough copies to go around. Thus, on the open market, i.e. Ebay, it goes to the person willing to pay the most. Any back-room deals or amazing finds don't count towards the actual value; they weren't exposed to an open market of buyers to determine the price.
Again: EBAY IS THE ONLY MARKET, DAMMIT!!!
Ebay, Amazon, half, etc are the only markets open to the general public. Unless you consider PM deals here "open market." If you do, then you are retarded.
#2. "Why do you guys think that MC is rarely listed for sale anymore, if it is so easy to sell for the gouged prices it supposedly demands? " Because there is no supply! The people who have it want to keep it! Why are there no Nintendo World Championships available if they sell for $23,000? Jeez, with this logic, the Mona Lisa should be for sale, since it would fetch $100 Million or more!
Sounds like you missed the point. Surprise!
Really, then, oh grand master, what is the point? Magical Chase isn't available for sale, to anyone at the moment. Prove me wrong.
#3. "In the meantime, the credit card interest these people are racking up convinces them to continue to hold out for the market to support the fantasy so they can perhaps at least break even on their investments." Talk about fantasy. In this single line, you are determining that the people who are buying rare Turbografx games are A) only buying them as investments, and B) somehow you mystically know they are all in credit card debt. Perhaps this is a reflection on how YOU live your life.
That last point just makes my head spin. How anyone can take you serious after that is beyond me. You live in this fantasy world where you know so much about every ebay buyer and seller. The reality is you really don't know anything about these people; how they got the games they are selling, why they are willing to pay what they are, or what their current financial situation is.
The reality is that you know no more about their financial situation, yet are proclaiming that B.T. can't possibly be correct. Thank God for omniscient clowns.
I made NO CLAIM as to what their financial situation was. For all we know, some sellers could be exactly like BlackTiger said. However, without any factual data, we can't make any factual assertion either way. BlackTiger quoted his credit card bullshit as fact. I simply stated that "fact" was a made up fantasy.
And once more for safety: EBAY IS THE ONLY MARKET, DAMMIT!!!
You keep saying this. However, beyond Amazon and half.com, what are "open markets" available for the general public to make buying decisions? Given the world-wide nature of eBay and its ilk, you aren't going to find a more accurate indicator of what people are willing to pay, based on the availability of an item.
only your personal valuation based on high priced BINs that go unsold.
Actually, BINs that don't sell are a perfect example of the free market working. People post things, they don't sell. Ergo, they are not worth what the person asked. If you somehow thought I was suggesting that unsold BINs are an indicator of actual value, then there is no hope for you.
Too long, didn't read version: D.K. is weeks late and a few IQ points short, yet he's worn the clown shoes well.
Sticks and stones. Provide facts and data, instead of making baseless assertions and cutesy insults.
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How was the market unnaturally manipulated?
By resellers buying up multiple copies of various titles to control the supply and only sell at wide profit margins. Duh - it's basic economics.
You are making a substantial claim here. You provide the proof. Waiting...
Look here, dickbag, a lot of us have been here for years, bought our Turbos when they were in stores, we've beaten the subjects of Magical Chase, and price guides, and market manipulation to death (use the goddamn search tool), and we're not really interested in dredging the lake every two weeks when some a$$hole noob with fifty posts waltzes in and demands an explanation of why we don't think ebay prices are some kind of sacrament from God. You might find a couple of receptive listeners, but you're basically arguing with a bunch of grognards and surly old misanthropes. In case you didn't notice, we have a nearly 200-hundred-page thread bitching about ebay prices and half the guys here are members of the f*ck Ebay Club. If you're so smart and we're so arrogant, then crawl back to ebay or try to find good deals and raffles on Racketboy. If you don't like our views, you're caucusing with the wrong party.
Anyway, here's one account for your proof:
What really gets me is a particular guy who sells on ebay... I asked him if he had MC, because of the items(s) he was selling, and he told me he had 6 or 8 copies. And when I keep harassing him, presumably to sell me a copy, he told me he was holding on to them for investment purposes.
Magical Chase isn't available for sale, to anyone at the moment. Prove me wrong.
There is one copy of MC available on the public market right now. You have to be a little bit resourceful to find it, but it's there and the price, while outlandish by our standards, would probably be reasonable by yours, considering its condition.
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Yep, here it is. http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=7062.0
$175 for magical chase, I wish
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Look here, dickbag, a lot of us have been here for years, bought our Turbos when they were in stores, we've beaten the subjects of Magical Chase, and price guides, and market manipulation to death (use the goddamn search tool), and we're not really interested in dredging the lake every two weeks when some a$$hole noob with fifty posts waltzes in and demands an explanation of why we don't think ebay prices are some kind of sacrament from God. You might find a couple of receptive listeners, but you're basically arguing with a bunch of grognards and surly old misanthropes. In case you didn't notice, we have a nearly 200-hundred-page thread bitching about ebay prices and half the guys here are members of the f*ck Ebay Club. If you're so smart and we're so arrogant, then crawl back to ebay or try to find good deals and raffles on Racketboy. If you don't like our views, you're caucusing with the wrong party.
You actually do a good job of explaining it, this is basically the republican party. "We have our ideas, who cares about the facts?" However, I think you are speaking for far too much of the community. Don't pretend you speak for everyone here.
Also, there are plenty of people here who have been awesome to me. I've gotten good trades, good deals, and etc. I like it here, because I do get good deals. How do I know they are deals? Because they are below eBay prices! :) I have no intention to resell. In fact, I've been hesitant to sell any of my extra turbo-stuff (despite numerous offers). I'd rather keep it to trade and build my collection.
Nintendo stuff? I'll sell that crap like a madman.
Finally, just because I'm new here, doesn't mean I'm new to collecting.
Anyway, here's one account for your proof:
What really gets me is a particular guy who sells on ebay... I asked him if he had MC, because of the items(s) he was selling, and he told me he had 6 or 8 copies. And when I keep harassing him, presumably to sell me a copy, he told me he was holding on to them for investment purposes.
Interesting. I wonder how this is going to work out for him. I've said it elsewhere (I'm far more active at www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting (http://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting)), but I find video games to be a very bad investment. The short argument is that a good investment should have high liquidity. In poor economic times, video games have very very poor liquidity, as people do not have discretionary income. (People often confuse disposable and discretionary.) However, resilience in poor economic times is the exact reason to have good investments. In essence, he is banking on the continued prosperity of his economy - a bet I'd not be willing to take in the current world economic climate.
There is one copy of MC available on the public market right now. You have to be a little bit resourceful to find it, but it's there and the price, while outlandish by our standards, would probably be reasonable by yours, considering its condition.
Interesting. I found one PCE copy available (which I don't count, but some might.) Just because I defend eBay prices, doesn't mean I'm willing to pay them. I don't know if you are willing to share it, but I'd be curious to see it. Also, wolfsaq2 would probably love to see it as well - and would possibly be happy to pay the price. The poor guy just wants to finish his TG set.
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Alright, genius, if that is what it is worth, I'll pay you $75. Easy $25 profit. Go find a copy for $50. Waiting...
Oh wait, you can't.
Did I say that those two auctions are the only determinants in estimating value? Nope, but keep grasping at straws - your floundering makes me smile.
That is not Open Market Value. Lets look at actual completed auctions -
ACTUAL f*ckING DATA!
Yep, and the actual f*cking data shows that its current value is $47.99. You're right - it's 100% accurate!
You are making a substantial claim here. You provide the proof. Waiting...
And you're making an equally substantial counter claim. I'm anxiously awaiting your proof. :roll:
I and many others here have witnessed resellers like Pompey Parsons buying multiple copies when they can get 'em cheap and reselling high, but I needn't provide proof to fools (vestcoat did it for me anyway). If you want to stick your head in the sand and ignore the facts of how resellers operate (a.k.a. basic economics), that's your problem.
Ebay, Amazon, half, etc are the only markets open to the general public. Unless you consider PM deals here "open market." If you do, then you are retarded.
And only a retard would ignore open forum sales threads, craigslist deals, local retailers, buying stuff at game conventions, etc.
Really, then, oh grand master, what is the point? Magical Chase isn't available for sale, to anyone at the moment. Prove me wrong.
The point, oh ignorant one, is that people aren't listing it for sale because it does not sell at the inflated prices clowns proclaim it to be worth.
I made NO CLAIM as to what their financial situation was. For all we know, some sellers could be exactly like BlackTiger said. However, without any factual data, we can't make any factual assertion either way. BlackTiger quoted his credit card bullshit as fact. I simply stated that "fact" was a made up fantasy.
Wrong again: stating that B.T. was living in a fantasy world negated the possibility of him being correct. Aren't semantics fun?
You keep saying this. However, beyond Amazon and half.com, what are "open markets" available for the general public to make buying decisions? Given the world-wide nature of eBay and its ilk, you aren't going to find a more accurate indicator of what people are willing to pay, based on the availability of an item.
See above.
Actually, BINs that don't sell are a perfect example of the free market working. People post things, they don't sell. Ergo, they are not worth what the person asked. If you somehow thought I was suggesting that unsold BINs are an indicator of actual value, then there is no hope for you.
And yet there were unsold copies of Magical Chase for less than what it's sold for on eBay. I'm confused.... it's worth less than the unsold BINs while simultaneously worth at least as much as the sold price?
Sticks and stones.
Says the twelve year old that came out swinging for B.T.
Provide facts and data, instead of making baseless assertions and cutesy insults.
I'll use your 'facts and data': Dynastic Hero is currently worth $47.99.
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I make a killing buying and selling off craigslist. If craigslist were FMV, that would be impossible.
Wrong again: stating that B.T. was living in a fantasy world negated the possibility of him being correct. Aren't semantics fun?
No, the fantasy world was that he knew exactly the financial situation of these people.
However, after thinking about it, I realized that it would take a special brand of stupid to put an investment in video games on a credit card. Lets take a scenario, with the mythical Legend of Hero Soldier Chase Blade TG-16 game. There is an auction right now on Ebay starting at .99c. Our faithful reseller, WhiteTiger, bids it up to $100, and wins. Now, obviously, all the other bidders on LoHSCB weren't willing to pay more than $100, so it has a FMV currently of $100. According to the theory of Credit-Gouging, WhiteTiger immediately relists it on Ebay BIN for twice the price. If it sells, he makes $68 - shipping. ($200 * .84 (ebay/paypal fees) - $100 = $68)
However, all buyers interested in LoHSCB weren't willing to pay over the $100, so they aren't going to be interested in it at $200. So, he is stuck with it for a month, and has to pay his credit card bill. Credit card fees are currently an average of 16.87%. He's now only at $51 profit. But wait, it didn't sell another month! He now has to pay interest on his balance plus his interest! He's now got a balance of $136.59 on his credit card! Down to $32 in profit. If it doesn't sell that 2nd month... He has now spent $159.63 on the initial $100 investment. His profit is at $9, if he sells in the third month. Then it starts going negative.
Three things: Credit card debt is very, very, very bad debt to have. Buying off ebay to resell on Ebay is bad business, and third, does anyone have a copy of LoHSCB for sale? I've been looking everywhere.
I'll use your 'facts and data': Dynastic Hero is currently worth $47.99.
I'll agree. The PCE version is worth exactly that. Its not a perfect algorithm. Looking at the actual list of completed auctions, the TG-16 version is worth $300-700.
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Interesting. I wonder how this is going to work out for him. I've said it elsewhere (I'm far more active at www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting (http://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting)), but I find video games to be a very bad investment. The short argument is that a good investment should have high liquidity. In poor economic times, video games have very very poor liquidity, as people do not have discretionary income. (People often confuse disposable and discretionary.) However, resilience in poor economic times is the exact reason to have good investments. In essence, he is banking on the continued prosperity of his economy - a bet I'd not be willing to take in the current world economic climate.
For those in it for the money, modern video games will probably be a bad investment (just like modern baseball cards, comics, action figures, and Magic Cards). It's always the "golden age" (in this case 8-and-16-bit) stuff that people ignored and abused as kids that does well. Also, entertainment always does well in depressions (as does alcohol). The Great Recession ('08-09) was exactly when prices really went out of control and "retro gaming" went mainstream. Unlike some folks here, I don't think the NEC bubble will ever burst (unfortunately), but neither do I subscribe to the ebay price guide or the belief that my possessions don't depreciate in value.
There is one copy of MC available on the public market right now. You have to be a little bit resourceful to find it, but it's there and the price, while outlandish by our standards, would probably be reasonable by yours, considering its condition.
Interesting. I found one PCE copy available (which I don't count, but some might.) Just because I defend eBay prices, doesn't mean I'm willing to pay them. I don't know if you are willing to share it, but I'd be curious to see it. Also, wolfsaq2 would probably love to see it as well - and would possibly be happy to pay the price. The poor guy just wants to finish his TG set.
Sorry. Not to give you the high hat, but I think collectors should be resourceful and that if someone really wants it, they'll find it. This particular copy has been mentioned on the forums a couple of times, so I'm not keeping a secret from anybody. I don't know Wolfsaq2, but I don't have much sympathy for members that come around solely to cross-post the same WTB's here and on a bunch of other forums. There are a lot of members here who are both much more active and who've been looking for a copy much longer than he has.
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DarkKobold, as I mentioned in my posts that got you so excited, we were here while all of this bullshit began to evolve. Everything you demand proof of is documented in this forum. Magical Chase's instant jump in price is legendary around here. People sitting on multiple copies of "rare" games like Magical Chase, crooked sellers with multiple accounts buying up everything below their gouged prices, insane lies used to mislead buyers... all the crap that has led to an insulated premium market for noobs which coexists along side the "give-it-all-to-me-as-proof!" market is detailed right here.
Before you jumped in to make a fool of yourself, I actually described your ridiculous argument. Why would we help someone like you scoop up some of these killer deals? We have everything to lose and nothing to gain. We aren't arrogant and don't need to bust our asses to prove anything to someone who demands we hand over our games to them.
If we're a pack of liars, then why even try arguing with us? Why don't you let us get back to paying top end eBay prices and then lying about?
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For those in it for the money, modern video games will probably be a bad investment (just like modern baseball cards, comics, action figures, and Magic Cards). It's always the "golden age" (in this case 8-and-16-bit) stuff that people ignored and abused as kids that does well. Also, entertainment always does well in depressions (as does alcohol). The Great Recession ('08-09) was exactly when prices really went out of control and "retro gaming" went mainstream. Unlike some folks here, I don't think the NEC bubble will ever burst (unfortunately), but neither do I subscribe to the ebay price guide or the belief that my possessions don't depreciate in value.
Funny you should mention MtG. I had a P9 set I put on Ebay about 7 years ago. The price on that has now more than doubled. I was sure that MTG was going to die soon, and I'd better get the most I could out of my cards while I could. Oh well.
So, I disagree with your statement that video games grew during the '08 recession. This chart agrees with me:
http://videogames.pricecharting.com/
However, this chart agrees with you:
http://www.whitehutchinson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Share-graph.jpg
As a scientist, I have to present both sets of data I found ;) That said, I feel like video game prices are spiking now, because the American economy is recovering. Times of recession, people need to spend what they have on essentials, and video games are far from that. We'd need to dive into the data further to really get at whether recessions increase or decrease video game spending.
As far as the NEC stuff goes, I don't know if you can call it a bubble (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble). It is a rare game system that many video game collectors (like myself) didn't get a chance to own, and therefore are willing to pay a premium to finally have it. With more game collectors entering the market than leaving, prices are naturally going to rise. For it to be a bubble, it would have to be traded in far higher volume, and there would have to be some sort of corrective measure to restore "equilibrium pricing"
Sorry. Not to give you the high hat, but I think collectors should be resourceful and that if someone really wants it, they'll find it. This particular copy has been mentioned on the forums a couple of times, so I'm not keeping a secret from anybody. I don't know Wolfsaq2, but I don't have much sympathy for members that come around solely to cross-post the same WTB's here and on a bunch of other forums. There are a lot of members here who are both much more active and who've been looking for a copy much longer than he has.
That's cool. I wouldn't be buying it anyway. I'm just curious what they are asking.
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Is this not the guy that joined after finding that awesome Craigslist lot of TG-16? What's his deal?
EDIT: Think I got DK mixed up with another new member. Anyway, attacking the members here that actually give to the community aint kool man. :cry: Saying folks are retarded for feeling a certain way, ect. We feel the way we feel about eBay prices for the exact reasons Black Tiger mentioned.
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So, I disagree with your statement that video games grew during the '08 recession. This chart agrees with me:
http://videogames.pricecharting.com/
However, this chart agrees with you:
http://www.whitehutchinson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Share-graph.jpg
I wouldn't be surprised if other systems caught on a year or two later, but 2008 was the year for Turbo gouging on ebay and CIB noob collectors on PCEFX. IIRC, it was the year MC first doubled in price, thanks to one man. TZD shut down around the same time and the Virtual Console ramped up. The last good deals at Gameexpress and mom-and-pop online dealers were gobbled up, and BIN listings really started to surpass auctions.
Until 2008, every Turbo game could be found for less than $100, with the exceptions of Magical Chase and Dynastic Hero... and maybe Bonk 3 SCD and Super Air Zonk if you didn't have friends.
Anyone know when those retrogaming magazines started coming out? Or when Racketboy started its "rare and valuable" guides?
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Is this not the guy that joined after finding that awesome Craigslist lot of TG-16? What's his deal?
EDIT: Think I got DK mixed up with another new member. Anyway, attacking the members here that actually give to the community aint kool man. :cry: Saying folks are retarded for feeling a certain way, ect. We feel the way we feel about eBay prices for the exact reasons Black Tiger mentioned.
My deal is that I'm a big free market believer. I believe I've done a good job of toning down the anti-reseller rhetoric at my main hangout, /r/gamecollecting. It has always gotten under my skin when someone says "This is worth $X, and everyone who thinks it is worth more is wrong." This, to me, is the epitome of arrogance. Any item is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and it is an attempt to exert control over other people by calling people gougers for charging what they want to get for an item.
I'm actually the one that got the awesome estate sale. However, as I said before, I was a big turbo-fan (emulator only) before I got that lot. (Tool-Assisted Speedruns no one here cares about.)
Also, I actually only called BlackTiger's posting arrogant, not the man himself.
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I like milkshakes... and cookies.
Good news, I dont think the x68000 bubble will hit for many more years!
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Wow DarkKobold your posts are almost all in sales threads and about collecting. You act so high and mighty but i'd like to see some posts in the high scores threads, clears, or participation in the completing all turbo games.
Do you even play your stuff or just let them sit on your shelf calculating their value, how much you paid and salivating to completed ebay listings?
I haven't been into turbo since day one but I will tell you this, those prices in BlackTigers list DO happen regularly in this forum and will continue to do so as long as there are true turbo GAMERS and this place doesn't just get run over by flippers and gougers like yourself.
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I hate to say this, but I kind of agree with DarkKobold on a number of points...
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Also, there are plenty of people here who have been awesome to me. I've gotten good trades, good deals, and etc. I like it here, because I do get good deals. How do I know they are deals? Because they are below eBay prices! :) I have no intention to resell. In fact, I've been hesitant to sell any of my extra turbo-stuff (despite numerous offers). I'd rather keep it to trade and build my collection.
I make a killing buying and selling off craigslist. If craigslist were FMV, that would be impossible.
Perhaps forum members should stop giving this guy any deals, considering he immediately follows up by saying he is exploiting us by flipping his Craigslist finds at higher prices? It is one thing to do it, it is another thing to brag about doing it and to expect to continue to be treated well. I wasn't going to butt in, because I think pricing is a funny issue that is subjective and in the eye of the beholder, but this rubbed me the wrong way.
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Also, there are plenty of people here who have been awesome to me. I've gotten good trades, good deals, and etc. I like it here, because I do get good deals. How do I know they are deals? Because they are below eBay prices! :) I have no intention to resell. In fact, I've been hesitant to sell any of my extra turbo-stuff (despite numerous offers). I'd rather keep it to trade and build my collection.
I make a killing buying and selling off craigslist. If craigslist were FMV, that would be impossible.
Perhaps forum members should stop giving this guy any deals, considering he immediately follows up by saying he is exploiting us by flipping his Craigslist finds at higher prices? It is one thing to do it, it is another thing to brag about doing it and to expect to continue to be treated well. I wasn't going to butt in, because I think pricing is a funny issue that is subjective and in the eye of the beholder, but this rubbed me the wrong way.
How do you have it quoted that "I don't sell turbo stuff," and then go "How dare he sell the turbo stuff he gets here!" ???
Its in your quote of my text! I'm not flipping things I get here, you even quoted that factoid!
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Also, there are plenty of people here who have been awesome to me. I've gotten good trades, good deals, and etc. I like it here, because I do get good deals. How do I know they are deals? Because they are below eBay prices! :) I have no intention to resell. In fact, I've been hesitant to sell any of my extra turbo-stuff (despite numerous offers). I'd rather keep it to trade and build my collection.
I make a killing buying and selling off craigslist. If craigslist were FMV, that would be impossible.
Perhaps forum members should stop giving this guy any deals, considering he immediately follows up by saying he is exploiting us by flipping his Craigslist finds at higher prices? It is one thing to do it, it is another thing to brag about doing it and to expect to continue to be treated well. I wasn't going to butt in, because I think pricing is a funny issue that is subjective and in the eye of the beholder, but this rubbed me the wrong way.
How do you have it quoted that "I don't sell turbo stuff," and then go "How dare he sell the turbo stuff he gets here!" ???
Its in your quote of my text! I'm not flipping things I get here, you even quoted that factoid!
I didn't mention anything about you selling Turbo stuff. What was made clear by your previous posts is:
1.) You like to purchase games cheaply and then resell them for a "killing." You have used Craigslist for your cheap purchases in the past.
2.) You have gotten games at "good deals" on this site. I am not sure if this was via trade or purchase.
My deductive reasoning has led me to believe that if you get good deals on games on Craigslist and then sell them for a killing, you would likely do the same with your good deals here. You seem very keen on FMV and profitability, so there is not much of a stretch in my logic. Additionally, the games that you acquire on Craigslist in a good deal, you would likely trade them on this site at a higher value than you received them for, in order to continue your killing ways. This is unfortunate, because it seems the people on the other side of your trades have been fair with their offers.
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My deductive reasoning has led me to believe that if you get good deals on games on Craigslist and then sell them for a killing, you would likely do the same with your good deals here.
Except for when I specifically said I'm not selling turbo stuff. Plus, the "good deals" here were by no means good enough to make a profit on, just enough to save a couple bucks off what I'd pay on Ebay. You don't even know what the deals were, yet you are "deductive reasoning" a bunch of hooey.
Additionally, the games that you acquire on Craigslist in a good deal, you would likely trade them on this site at a higher value than you received them for, in order to continue your killing ways. This is unfortunate, because it seems the people on the other side of your trades have been fair with their offers.
SO WAIT A MINUTE, by your logic, if I pay $10 for Beyond Shadowgate on Craigslist, then i am somehow morally obligated to only trade it for that value? That logic is silly.
Also, the "deals I've made" have all been private, and have been fair FMV wise. I don't know what the other traders paid for their goods, or how they acquired them, and I don't care. Nor should they care how much I acquired my stuff for. What they should care about is that they got a fair deal, and are happy with what they got.
Oh, and as a final note, both trades were suggested to me, not by me.
Your deductive reasoning failed.
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DK - I'm so sorry you've encountered arrogant people on the internet. Black Tiger and Necro - please go and reactivate all of those gougers' ebay accounts. We're wrong to police the entirely of the internet - sellers can charge what they please!
DK - Now go read fifty pages of the "gouging much" thread. We've argued with idiots like you about the free market. We've argued with dudes who disagree with our estimates. We've argued with schmucks defending gougers' rights and we've argued with overly-sensitive noobs about anti-reseller rhetoric. We've argued why we believe what we do and why ebay =/= a price guide. Do Ebay and Amazon really equal a "free market" or are they an unbridled monopoly comprised of two corporations? Do ebay policies really create a buyers' market, or do they put all of the power in the hands of the power sellers? These topics and more await you in the Gouging thread!
Ignored.
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There are flippers in any collectible market, I hear the exact same arguments in military collecting, they tend to get very heated.
Flippers don't set trends in themselves, but are caught up in the trends ,,, And in addition to making a profit, there can be a strong attraction to the "thrill of the chase" type of thing.
They are always treated with disdain by those passionate in their particular field, and with indifference by most others.
Myself, as I detailed in my recent intro thread, I have a decent collection enough to make any flipper drool. I have resisted thoughts of selling it over the years, and don't see that changing any time soon. I'd have no shame however in maximizing my profit when and if I ever do though.
Since I'm old enough to have bought many games first hand when they were available for sale at Toys R Us, and still have all but 1 of them 20+ years down the road, I guess I'd be classified as anti-flipper.
I don't look at my collection as an investment, so I rarely pay attention to pricing trends unless I'm looking to buy or sell something specific.
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My deal is that I'm a big free market believer.
No you're not - you're an eBay market believer. If goods sold anywhere outside of eBay don't count for determining value, then you don't believe in the entire free market.
It has always gotten under my skin when someone says "This is worth $X, and everyone who thinks it is worth more is wrong." This, to me, is the epitome of arrogance.
But there's no arrogance in you saying "This is worth $X, and everyone who thinks it is worth less is wrong."? You're a hypocrite and a fool.
Also, I actually only called BlackTiger's posting arrogant, not the man himself.
Typical double talk from a clown. The post was just inanimate words and therefor incapable of arrogance - the act can only be attributed to the person composing the words.
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I make a killing buying and selling off craigslist. If craigslist were FMV, that would be impossible.
How do you have it quoted that "I don't sell turbo stuff," and then go "How dare he sell the turbo stuff he gets here!" ???
Its in your quote of my text! I'm not flipping things I get here, you even quoted that factoid!
What????
I'm confused at everything in this thread.
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First off, that Dynastic Heroes for $50 was a once off, idiotic move by a seller. That is not Open Market Value. Lets look at actual completed auctions -
It's Dynastic HERO. H E R O.
How can we take anything you say seriously if you don't even know the titles of the games. You've got 58 posts and you're calling Black Tiger arrogant. That's f*cking golden.
This is the typical new guy in town that knows everything trainwreck. you just got here, you just started posting, and you're already an expert on the entire Turbo Grafx-16/PC Engine world and all of its rares.
Protip: You aren't.
I bought my Dynastic Hero for like 30$. It's Japanese. I don't give a f*ck. It's the same game. The roundeye one is worth more because some dick said it is and people were stupid and believed him.
If I want Magical Chase, i'll get the Japanese one for like 30-50$ and laugh at anyone who thinks the Round eye one is worth more.
You'll notice the majority of the community doesn't talk about the OMGRAERS.
Why, you ask? Because there's so many other games on the console that are easy as shit to find and more worth the time than some bitch on a broom flying around shooting shit.
Oh, wait, you could do that with Cotton too! See? These are games, not trophies.
Also, you want the honest truth from someone who's seen this shit go down many times?
At conventions, the resellers who often run GAME STORES show up with multiple copies of shit. You'll see them buy more of the same game at the conventions.
The reason? Buy as many as possible. Sit on them. Control the market because you have 6-10 copies of a rare ass game.
One guy walks around with a barcode scanner and an iphone and looks shit up on ebay to get prices. He buys things from sellers before the convention opens. Then he goes and tosses them on his table for 2-3x as much. That's f*ckin shady. Prebuying and adding inventory for more money.
Then he stumbles around and leaves his flyers on other peoples booths when they aren't looking.
His name is GAME KING, and he's a stupid dick. They have stores in Kentucky. I sure hope hes not the head honcho. If he is, I feel sorry for everyone that works for him because he's a terrible person.
I ripped his flyer up and tossed it in the trash. Resellers can blow me.
There was this guy Worldlam in the Commodore 64 scene. He used credit to buy a ton of Commodore goods thinking he'd be turning a huge profit.
Yeah. like 20000$+ later, he done f*cked his life up and vanished. Who the hell buys a Breadbin for 20$ anyway.
Idiots that don't know what they're talking about.
That's who.
Also, your mona lisa argument is dumb. That painting wasn't made in mass quantities, and it wasn't designed to be played for enjoyment.
Magical Chase is a VIDEO GAME.
A factory made many of them. They were sold in stores for retail price. They were made to be opened and played.
d u h hhhhhhrrhrrrrrr
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A Duo is worth about $5 loose, I can tell you that! It worked fine, it was just untested. Also got a boxed AES for $70 from the same place.
I've paid that much for one before at chain of stores where used retro video games is one of their specialties.
Current market does dictate prices, but if you only use a couple limited sources to gage pricing (like just eBay and Amazon, like Mr/Ms. Kobold did), well... you're an idiot.
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COLLATERAL DAMAGE: I am not going to enter this debate. I just want to say that I have been damaged, broken and left an empty husk. Why?
I gave up on acquiring certain titles a few years ago when the prices went beyond my budget. Sure, prices had been creeping up for more than a decade (inflation), but the sudden spike in prices simply deflated my hope.
Then, noticing the overall trend towards significantly higher prices (an increasing number of titles have ridiculous prices), the last little gasp of optimism escaped from my lips.
I can't afford to buy many games these days, but I'm glad that the folks here at pcefx.com want to help one another (generally) instead of simply being a profiteer.
DarkKobold, you are certainly not the only selfish person who tries to exploit others. I'm sure a lot of people here do selfish things and profit from it (most don't brag about it because they fear the repercussions). I'd be surprised if there weren't some shady folks who routinely take advantage of us here.
Or, inevitably, a lot of current, dedicated folks here (good-hearted folks) will have a "change of heart" at some point in the future and sell items for a handsome profit.
We can't control everything. But at least the community here is trying to support one another and focus on *playing the games* and attempting to keep our hobby *affordable* and not some other bullshit.
NOTE: I don't have a collection. I despise that term. I have a f*cking library of games. I play them. I keep them. My thoughts revolve around playing games. I lend out my games. I usually get them back. I wish all PCE & TG-16 games were dirt cheap and LOST VALUE over time. Personally, and this is my own selfishness, I wish only folks who actually played games bought them. Capitalism is a blessing and a curse. The entire video game industry exists to generate profit (games!) but it also encourages folks to exploit relationships (damn!).
/missive
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Im a shameless profiteer when it comes to the region mod chips....
Pcb: $1.60
components: $1.50
bubble mailer: $0.75
shipping: $3.50
Royalties: $4.00
total cost: $11.35
Price: $18 shipped
I profit $6.65 a mod chip.
I am le gouger!
:D
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Im a shameless profiteer when it comes to the region mod chips....
Pcb: $1.60
components: $1.50
bubble mailer: $0.75
shipping: $3.50
Royalties: $4.00
total cost: $11.35
Price: $18 shipped
I profit $6.65 a mod chip.
I am le gouger!
:D
Damn you Beemer!!! Now let's have some RGB amps please :D
As far as Dark Kobold goes... I kind of feel sorry for him. I don't think he gets that eBay isn't a shop. That's why I don't pay "market value" for games, but wait until the ones I want appear for a price I think is reasonable, and then buy them. Takes a little patience, sure, but it f*cking happens.
And then guess what? If I find something I already own and it's a decent price, I'll snap it up and offer it to the community. Sure I'm not going to sell at a loss, maybe even a few $ profit, but less than the cheapest on eBay. But if you've done me a favour on here (and the list is growing) I'm likely gonna hand it over at cost price, and believe me, I'm such a cheapskate that it's gonna be a deal.
So in that way, the dedicated community here skims the cream from the "free market" (eBay to everyone else) and leaves all the other BINs I see recycling every other week to some guy with money to burn who really wants to play it now.
It's like this: Everyone else is queueing up at the gate, paying $10 to get in, when there's a massive hole in the fence over there, if you can be bothered to look.
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I'm saddened by this. You seem like a nice guy.
DarkKobold, you are certainly not the only selfish person who tries to exploit others. I'm sure a lot of people here do selfish things and profit from it (most don't brag about it because they fear the repercussions). I'd be surprised if there weren't some shady folks who routinely take advantage of us here.
Who have I exploited here? I've already dispelled this notion in a post above you. Please don't make accusations, or perpetuate them, without proof.
NOTE: I don't have a collection. I despise that term. I have a f*cking library of games. I play them. I keep them. My thoughts revolve around playing games. I wish all PCE & TG-16 games were dirt cheap and LOST VALUE over time. Personally, and this is my own selfishness, I wish only folks who actually played games bought them.
Two things:
Dictionary definition of a library: "a collection of any materials for study and enjoyment, as films, musical recordings, or maps. " So, a library is still a collection. I don't understand why people here are so anti-collecting, especially leading into the second point...
Who says collectors never play their games? I play my TurboDuo plenty (I'm now on my 4th playthrough of Dungeon Explorer 2, might start speed running it.) For some reason, the rhetoric here paints any collector as this Gargamel style evil figure, that doesn't allow anyone to touch their games. It makes this wild jump of logic that collecting automatically means the collectors only value games for their monetary value, not playability, and don't ever turn on their systems.
vestcoat said it best, there is a built-in rhetoric that is totally irrational, but is continually perpetuated.
I gave up on acquiring certain titles a few years ago when the prices went beyond my budget. Sure, prices had been creeping up for more than a decade (inflation), but the sudden spike in prices simply deflated my hope.
Then, noticing the overall trend towards significantly higher prices (an increasing number of titles have ridiculous prices), the last little gasp of optimism escaped from my lips.
Well, I have absolutely great news for you. Since you don't care about collecting, you don't need to have any turbografx games any more, aside from this one:
http://krikzz.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=57
There you go - for $80, you can play any Turbografx game ever made, on a Turbografx system. This is 100% identical to playing it on the original HuCard.
If this doesn't seem sufficient to you, then on some level you are a collector, you place a value on having the original HuCards. I'm not saying this idea is wrong - I certainly place a value on having the originals. I'm just asking you to not vilify collectors, and continue silly rhetoric.
As far as Dark Kobold goes... I kind of feel sorry for him. I don't think he gets that eBay isn't a shop. That's why I don't pay "market value" for games, but wait until the ones I want appear for a price I think is reasonable, and then buy them. Takes a little patience, sure, but it f*cking happens.
Somehow, I got misquoted into people believing I only pay eBay prices for games. I've only tried to state that sold eBay auctions define "market value." If you find a game for less than "market value," then it is a deal; and plenty of great deals exist in this world. Sure, there are other markets in which games are sold, everything from conventions to flea markets to play n' trade to garage sales and even more. I'm not denying these exist. What I am trying to say is that they don't define "market value" in the same open way eBay does. No one has access to this data, it isn't stored anywhere. Saying "I paid $5 for Magical Chase at a garage sale" doesn't mean Magical Chase is worth $5.
Finally, I pity sellers like "Pompey Parsons" who continue to list the same over-priced games month after month after month. In the long run, there is no benefit to keeping stock. He and his ilk are banking on someone desperately needing a game, and willing to pay over market value. This is not the best business decision, as you want things to keep flowing. Holding inventory to make an extra 10% benefits no one.
When I list items on eBay, I try and list them as the cheapest item available, so that I keep stock flowing in and out.
And finally, yes, I resell things I find on craigslist and at garage sales. A seller lists something for a price, I pay that price. I keep what I need for my collection, and sell the rest so I have money to continue collecting. No one is exploited here.
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So when are any of your deals coming the forum members way? :D Plenty of your fellow members are looking for turbo games and would gladly take them off your hands. Currently I'm looking for Chase HQ.
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I just want to say that I don't have a problem with DarkKobold, as a forum member. He simply was on the receiving end of a rant against collecting, in general. Please don't take anything personally, DK, since, honestly, I really don't want to single you (or anyone) out as a dirty profiteer (even if you are, ha!, I'll live with it and we can be friends).
NOTE: I don't have a collection. I despise that term. I have a f*cking library of games. I play them. I keep them. My thoughts revolve around playing games. I wish all PCE & TG-16 games were dirt cheap and LOST VALUE over time. Personally, and this is my own selfishness, I wish only folks who actually played games bought them.
Two things:
Dictionary definition of a library: "a collection of any materials for study and enjoyment, as films, musical recordings, or maps. " So, a library is still a collection. I don't understand why people here are so anti-collecting, especially leading into the second point...
I am making an important distinction between library and collection. I can use any labels (they are arbitrary), but it is more effective to co-opt existing terms that are already used by the community.
(*) A library is actively used and enjoyed. It exists as a resource (historical, social, entertainment, etc.) and may or may not be comprehensive.
(*) A collection has the *potential* to be actively used and enjoyed, but primarily exists as a stockpile of artifacts. Collections often encourage a voracious "catch-them-all" mentality where the goal seems to be "______% of collection completed!" instead of "I friggin' loved Valis III, so I gotta check out Valis IV!" In other words, the very essence of a "collection" is to collect objects (tautology!) and perhaps even reach a finite end. It might as well be a collection of ceramic pigs, though, since the act of "collecting" is the primary focus. Playing the games is secondary.
Personally, if I had a shitload of ceramic pigs, I'd play with the damn things. (http://junk.tg-16.com/images/pcgs.png)
SUMMARY: Library and collection are two very different things, functionally as well as philosophically. I suppose they represent opposite ends of a spectrum and we will all occupy different points on the spectrum.
ON ROMs/ISOs: 99.99% of the time, I play games I have purchased. I have purchased two flash carts, but have been too busy to try them out. I will, eventually, because I am curious about the demos and fan translations that folks have created.
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This thread is both pointless and stupid. You pay want you are willing to pay for something. End of story.
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This thread is both pointless and stupid. You pay want you are willing to pay for something. End of story.
Sounds about right to me.
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This thread is both pointless and stupid. You pay want you are willing to pay for something. End of story.
Yes! totally agree. Plus games fluctuate so fast.
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My deal is that I'm a big free market believer.
Yeah, that's pretty much the problem right there. Living in America we are indoctrinated from birth believe in the sacred infallible free market and ignore the obvious fact that a) there has never been such a thing and that b) it wouldn't regulate itself anyway.
Relating to point a): A free market, a truly free market, would allow for slavery, forced prostitution, nuclear arms sales, assassinations, and other such stuff. The market is regulated very heavily to make these things almost non-existent. It would also open the boarder between, for example, Mexico and the US eliminating what is essentially an economic apartheid and equalizing wages between the two countries. People actually being paid a fair wage? Brown people? We can't have that.
Related to point b) The "free market" of the 90s saw a huge explosion in popularity of 15MPG SUVs with the carbon footprint of a burning WalMart. In the end, that shit is going to cost us sums of money currently unimagined. A GMC Envoy was only $40,000 in 1997, but that's because they didn't include the cost of building dykes around New York City 50 years from now, the trillion dollars we spent failing to steel Iraq's oil, the ecological damaged caused by drilling, and dozens of other factors. And frankly, cars are barely even a problem compared to something the beef industry which causes ecological damage on a nearly Tolkien-esque scale just so Americans can stay fat for less money.
When I was in high school they told us that home ownership was so f*cking important and that you are better off having a house because property values will always go up. ALWAYS. Like f*cking magic people repeated that axiom. Economists want to believe so badly that their field is a science, but they are the least scientifically minded of all people because they work from the solution (ie: greed is good) and work backward from there to fill in the theory.
Well, I bought a house in 2009 for %50 less than it was worth in 1990, as did about a million other people. How's that magic money school of thought going now, eh?
When I hear someone who isn't worth at least a few hundred million dollars repeating the beliefs and "laws" of economics I don't know if I should laugh or cry. The system is only there so you won't question the truly well off. If they can make a single mother living in a trailer park working three jobs believe that she too could be as rich as Mitt Romney if only she worked harder, then their position is secure.
More on topic: I recently sold something on eBay for the first time in ages to discover that there are no longer insertion fees. That little thing ALONE is going to drive the prices up on this kind of shit enormously. This works great for eBay since now you (and everyone else) can ask whatever outrageous price you want for shit. Since eBay takes a fixed percentage, that just means more money for them. This isn't too different from what happened to the housing market. The price of housing is totally unrelated to the value of housing since only %2 of the US can actually buy a house with cash. Most people are limited by how much they can borrow. The banks decide what you can afford to borrow, but they also take a fixed percentage. Therefore, if they loan you more money, they get more money. It doesn't matter what you actually spend the money on.
I don't know if the 16-bit market will actually "crash" exactly, but it will reach a limit. The imminent disappearance of any form of physical media is right around the corner. That alone will be enough to make people fond of being able to actually own a physical copy of a game. At the same time, Magical Chase isn't going to increase at the same rate that it recently has. There just isn't enough money out there to keep the value that high.
Collectors are a hard group to understand or predict. One thing I collect besides games is Laserdisc. I'm constantly surprised to see "hardcore" collectors who never even had the stuff when it was current. What draws them to the format? One of the most hardcore collectors on LDDB.com has only been hoarding for 7 years. Its been about 10 years since the format died so...what on Earth led him to collect so many high priced discs so quickly?
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Im a shameless profiteer when it comes to the region mod chips....
Pcb: $1.60
components: $1.50
bubble mailer: $0.75
shipping: $3.50
Royalties: $4.00
total cost: $11.35
Price: $18 shipped
I profit $6.65 a mod chip.
I am le gouger!
:D
Yeah, except you actually make that shit. You took some parts that are useless to most people here and made them into someone almost essential. Flipping a f*cking video game for profit is just parasitic.
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i agree, the modders here can basically charge what they want because the provide a service/feature that you could not get otherwise. yet they are reasonable because of thier support for the community. Its what makes this place so great.
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Negativity aside, this thread has been a great read. Interesting, enlightening and a little irritating but entertaining enough to persist with reading on.
I'm passionate about gaming, nothing will ever change that, that's all I need to know.
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Thanks for kicking ass all over the place like usual, Zeta.
If there's one thing I hate, it's "free market" mythology. Our tattered fragments of democracy and government regulation are the only things keeping us from serfdom. Talk to a real economist and they'll agree that the free market doesn't exist outside of the most dismal ninth-grade textbooks.
I'm constantly surprised to see "hardcore" collectors who never even had the stuff when it was current. What draws them to the format? One of the most hardcore collectors on LDDB.com has only been hoarding for 7 years. Its been about 10 years since the format died so...what on Earth led him to collect so many high priced discs so quickly?
Seriously. Go pillage somebody else's childhood.
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If you feel its pointless and stupid...why did you even post?
This thread is both pointless and stupid. You pay want you are willing to pay for something. End of story.
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This thread is both pointless and stupid. You pay want you are willing to pay for something. End of story.
The whole point of a price list is so people don't overpay for something. If I'm willing to pay for an item that I don't know the value of and realize later that I totally reamed myself, I would be fairly pissed. That would never happen though since I do research first on what an "average" price would be. Just because you feel an ABBA vinyl record is worth $500 doesn't mean that it really is.
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I know what you mean geise, but... I guess if you really want something now, you have to weigh up the price vs enjoyment or whatever. Then despite the fact that you could have bought it cheaper, you were happy paying that at the time. Hindsight's a bitch.
However for most people here, there's a lot of great games you can get, so say you see Soldier Blade for $50 and Blazing Lasers for $5. The fact is, while Soldier Blade is AMAZING, it's not 10 times better than Blazing Lasers. I'd consider the smart thing to do, would be buy Blasing Lasers for $5, and play that to keep you happy, and figure out over time how much SB fluctuates.
It took me 2 years to find Rainbow Islands for a price i was willing to pay (£30 rather than the usual ~£50) and it might take me as long again for Dracula X.
And don't forget, BIN prices aren't carved in stone. I might be a pain in the ass, but it never hurts to ask: Recently I decided it was time to pick up Marchen Maze. I've been watching for a while, so I know the prices, which do seem a tad high for the kind of game it is. Then I see one selling for £19, which is close to the same as shipped from Japan, so I offered him £15. It's clearly a decent offer, and about the limit to what I want to pay for it, so we made a deal.
the same when you see something in a bundle, half the people you ask won't split, but if you don't ask you don't get. I got City Hunter for £15 like that, and Beavis and Butthead (gameboy) for £5, but I've also been turned down loads too.
And Zeta, thanks for an educational post. You make a lot of sense.
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...Our tattered fragments of democracy and government regulation are the only things keeping us from serfdom...
Really? Government regulation is keeping us from serfdom? Actually it sure seems that government regulation is leading us into serfdom.
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oh boy....
hi ho hi ho... its off to fighting street we go!!
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If you feel its pointless and stupid...why did you even post?
This thread is both pointless and stupid. You pay want you are willing to pay for something. End of story.
Hahaha I was going to post about this comment as well... I got as far as "balls to that" then had a beer :P
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Im a shameless profiteer when it comes to the region mod chips....
Pcb: $1.60
components: $1.50
bubble mailer: $0.75
shipping: $3.50
Royalties: $4.00
total cost: $11.35
Price: $18 shipped
I profit $6.65 a mod chip.
I am le gouger!
:D
Yeah, except you actually make that shit. You took some parts that are useless to most people here and made them into someone almost essential. Flipping a f*cking video game for profit is just parasitic.
Oh I know. I just figured I'd throw it out there as an example of a fair and acceptable way to make a profit. I'm providing a service and a product that makes modding a system a lot easier and at the same time making a modest profit for myself. Its win all around. Now if corporations could figure that stuff out....
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Oh, here is another lame price list that these ebay gougers are using:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/turbografx-16/the-rarest-most-valuable-pc-engine-turbografx-16-games
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Oh, here is another lame price list that these ebay gougers are using:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/turbografx-16/the-rarest-most-valuable-pc-engine-turbografx-16-games
interesting, I mean yeah if you pick the most wanted games out there and make a list of course the prices are going to be high. Also by having a hugh variation in low to high cost, you can make it seem like a game is worth $2000. but yeah you can do basic research on e-bay and figure out these numbers anyway, doubt it'll change anything as far as gouging.