Has Ebay been sucking lately or is it just me?!
Not that long ago, like two years, I remember typing in "panesian" and getting like 4 or 5 results. There was a "Stadium Events" NTSC like every month. Every couple of months or so you would see a DIFFERENT nwc cart. Not the fucked up one that gets reposted every 28 days or so. Loose "Cheetahmen II" carts floating around. Test carts, you name it!!!!!!!
Now it seems like there's more of those "retro duo cheap ass bullshit" systems than anything else. Littered with the most common carts. I mean God forbid a "BB2" or "F2" shows up and everyone gets a boner. And to top it all off, the site is running slower than ever, and the fees are going up!!!
What does everyone think? Am I totaly over reacting? Or does anyone feel the same?
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i get tired off seeing all the "retro-duels" fake controllers and stores selling carts for %20 more then most auctions sell them for.
and yea, the fees suck too.
As a result most small timers have switched over to amazon, craigslist, or other auction sites. There aren't less of these games available they just aren't concentrated in one place like they used to be. You have to look harder to find them.
~~NGD
I think the average person might keep an old video game system for another generation or two. That's basically like keeping the NES around until the end of the N64. By then most people have traded in their systems for money to go towards the newer stuff.
I will end on a semi-positive note though. With the impending economic doom on the horizon, I believe we will see more collectors sell off this year than in any year past. Time will only tell...
It's kind of unfair to blame eBay and saying they suck, it's just that this market is naturally drying up. We're 23 years removed from the release date of the NES, do you people really expect there to be just as many people clearing them out of the attics as there were 10 years ago? Of course not...
I think the average person might keep an old video game system for another generation or two. That's basically like keeping the NES around until the end of the N64. By then most people have traded in their systems for money to go towards the newer stuff.
I will end on a semi-positive note though. With the impending economic doom on the horizon, I believe we will see more collectors sell off this year than in any year past. Time will only tell...
Hey Jonebone,
I think you're right about collector's starting to sell off. While I'm not completely convinced that the economy is as bad as everyone's making it out to be, I'm starting to see some very choice items pop up on eBay.
I just bought a collector out for over 100+ Turbo Grafx games and they were choice games like Dynastic Hero, Beyond Shadowgate, Godzilla etc, and I got it all for a song.
Some people are getting nervous and that's good for us collectors and resellers.
The fact of the matter is, that last year and the year before we were still twenty+ years removed from the end of NES and games were still pretty plentiful. E-bay has made seriously poor decisions that have affected small time sellers (read: collectors) more than any other group.
The collectors are holding on to the choice games and they aren';t wholesellers. I for one have stopped selling my extras on Ebay because of their shit policies and I promise I am not the only one.
- Ebay shuts out small-time sellers
- A number of new sealed games actually come from collectors (they play a useful role in this world after all) though we're not sure if people like bronty, ganevin here are actually online retailers too.
- Being 20 over years removed from the Nintendo Entertainment System (though it's only half-correct as an independent argument)
- games getting crappier
But well, I take the bulk of blame on the bidders (buyers/resellers).
The logic of any economic recessions states that in bad times, prices fall (you get more for the same dollar and assuming you are still employed at same mediocre job paying the same damn wages for the last twenty years your real income actually increases) but it isn't really true at least in my country (where prices of public transport, flour, food, and utilities all increased) and when you take this context online it becomes less true: sellers are still "testing buyer response" by setting up $2500 for a new sealed copy of Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo (not that I can't afford of course, but such colossal wastage of money I find to be personally vulgar but well, those nerd collectors and "smart" "investors" think differently
Casually saw a new Megaman 5 NES game won by someone recently for 350 online. Hmm, well the box art for Megaman V is extremely ugly (just like the entire US series seriously), and I think the buyer is but the dumbest person in the universe where one can get a new copy of Rockman 5 for the Famicom (with superior box art and all) or the PSX Japanese re-released special version (Rockman Complete Works) new for 1/5 of that price.
Oh yes his retort would be "but this is my childhood memory!!" Right. Ugly memory you have. I feel sorry for you.
What some of you say is quite true ie
- Ebay shuts out small-time sellers
- A number of new sealed games actually come from collectors (they play a useful role in this world after all) though we're not sure if people like bronty, ganevin here are actually online retailers too.
- Being 20 over years removed from the Nintendo Entertainment System (though it's only half-correct as an independent argument)
- games getting crappier
But well, I take the bulk of blame on the bidders (buyers/resellers).
The logic of any economic recessions states that in bad times, prices fall (you get more for the same dollar and assuming you are still employed at same mediocre job paying the same damn wages for the last twenty years your real income actually increases) but it isn't really true at least in my country (where prices of public transport, flour, food, and utilities all increased) and when you take this context online it becomes less true: sellers are still "testing buyer response" by setting up $2500 for a new sealed copy of Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo (not that I can't afford of course, but such colossal wastage of money I find to be personally vulgar but well, those nerd collectors and "smart" "investors" think differently
Casually saw a new Megaman 5 NES game won by someone recently for 350 online. Hmm, well the box art for Megaman V is extremely ugly (just like the entire US series seriously), and I think the buyer is but the dumbest person in the universe where one can get a new copy of Rockman 5 for the Famicom (with superior box art and all) or the PSX Japanese re-released special version (Rockman Complete Works) new for 1/5 of that price.
Oh yes his retort would be "but this is my childhood memory!!" Right. Ugly memory you have. I feel sorry for you.
what?
So therefore, your most vulgar enemies are not ebay, its administrators, founder, or sellers (to some extent), but you people, the bidders. The buyers, collectors, resellers.
huh?
Wading through RandolfRuckerfield's nonsensical blathering makes it obvious (to me) that he's completely full of shit. There, I fed the troll
Been thinking the same thing for a couple weeks, just didn't want to be the one to say it.