There is a store a few towns over that also recently got a huge influx of games. Having said that I'd bet they paid full price getting them in because the prices are retarded. $1k for a complete megaman x 3 and $300 for CIB turtles in time etc. They has a nutty selection of games though and a lot were complete.
Don't be so sure on that one. They probably paid shit since it was likely an estate person that would literally take anything they were offered, and then the store got dollar signs in their eyes when they looked them up.
My grandfather's stamp collection was sold to a dealer for $10,000. I can't imagine how much it was actually worth. To us, a sealed Panic Restaurant and Toxic Crusaders is obviously some worth some cash at a glance. To anyone else, it's a list of 4000 things they don't want to individually try to look up or understand.
And while something may be worth a lot of money, how many people go to bookstores looking to spend a grand on a nes game; their market isn't as good as if they sold it on ebay. So it's just taking up shelf space, which for many bookstores is quite valuable.
Some high end ones are good, since they can use them to draw in eyeballs (and people, too!). Many game stores will have 1-2 high end items out in the open, intentionally over-priced. It's not there to be sold, at least not right away; it's there to get attention. And eyeballs. Eyeballs with more wallets than brains.
This. Advertise locally on Facebook “Look what just came in!” To get the oooh’s and ahhh’s. People decide to check the store out if not for nothing else to window shop the wares. As they go through the store the thought process becomes “well I can’t afford the high price tag for xxx game, but I do have about $50 I can put toward something.”
It’s a nice marketing tool to have some high end things otherwise you’re just known as the store that has nothing but common shit that you and everyone else already have.
There is a store a few towns over that also recently got a huge influx of games. Having said that I'd bet they paid full price getting them in because the prices are retarded. $1k for a complete megaman x 3 and $300 for CIB turtles in time etc. They has a nutty selection of games though and a lot were complete.
Don't be so sure on that one. They probably paid shit since it was likely an estate person that would literally take anything they were offered, and then the store got dollar signs in their eyes when they looked them up.
My grandfather's stamp collection was sold to a dealer for $10,000. I can't imagine how much it was actually worth. To us, a sealed Panic Restaurant and Toxic Crusaders is obviously some worth some cash at a glance. To anyone else, it's a list of 4000 things they don't want to individually try to look up or understand.
And while something may be worth a lot of money, how many people go to bookstores looking to spend a grand on a nes game; their market isn't as good as if they sold it on ebay. So it's just taking up shelf space, which for many bookstores is quite valuable.
Some high end ones are good, since they can use them to draw in eyeballs (and people, too!). Many game stores will have 1-2 high end items out in the open, intentionally over-priced. It's not there to be sold, at least not right away; it's there to get attention. And eyeballs. Eyeballs with more wallets than brains.
This. Advertise locally on Facebook "Look what just came in!" To get the oooh's and ahhh's. People decide to check the store out if not for nothing else to window shop the wares. As they go through the store the thought process becomes "well I can't afford the high price tag for xxx game, but I do have about $50 I can put toward something."
It's a nice marketing tool to have some high end things otherwise you're just known as the store that has nothing but common shit that you and everyone else already have.
This is exactly what my local store does. However, by the time you get there, all the good stuff is usually gone. And then I look at the prices compared to 15 years ago and there's no way I'd pay what people are asking nowadays.
Glad they are selling to someone at least. It keeps the local store in business.
I'm from the UK and there are lots of NES games popping up in second-hand game shops too, what's great as well is that the prices are better than Ebay. The bad part is that they only stock PAL games, no US or Famicom games I avoid collecting PAL games in general as only my Retron HD can play them.
Oh look the book and music exchange, how quaint. I come by this area once in awhile so I'll stop in. Some of that stuff has been in there for a lot of months now likely due to sticker shock and those pictures show lots more than I saw. That place used to be a great store to regular daily but after half price books started to full price ebay their stuff that store chain got cleared out and until they matched them in valuing stuff is didn't improve. It's fine to go in and treat it like a museum, or if you would rather touch a pricey old game before buying it then it's fine but for others it's just a sad memory of what once was. Also I know that chain and asked the manager about it awhile back when they started to first pop up and they don't pay over 40-50% on stuff at best and only if they think it's a very fast and easy mover.
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There is a store a few towns over that also recently got a huge influx of games. Having said that I'd bet they paid full price getting them in because the prices are retarded. $1k for a complete megaman x 3 and $300 for CIB turtles in time etc. They has a nutty selection of games though and a lot were complete.
Don't be so sure on that one. They probably paid shit since it was likely an estate person that would literally take anything they were offered, and then the store got dollar signs in their eyes when they looked them up.
My grandfather's stamp collection was sold to a dealer for $10,000. I can't imagine how much it was actually worth. To us, a sealed Panic Restaurant and Toxic Crusaders is obviously some worth some cash at a glance. To anyone else, it's a list of 4000 things they don't want to individually try to look up or understand.
And while something may be worth a lot of money, how many people go to bookstores looking to spend a grand on a nes game; their market isn't as good as if they sold it on ebay. So it's just taking up shelf space, which for many bookstores is quite valuable.
Some high end ones are good, since they can use them to draw in eyeballs (and people, too!). Many game stores will have 1-2 high end items out in the open, intentionally over-priced. It's not there to be sold, at least not right away; it's there to get attention. And eyeballs. Eyeballs with more wallets than brains.
This. Advertise locally on Facebook “Look what just came in!” To get the oooh’s and ahhh’s. People decide to check the store out if not for nothing else to window shop the wares. As they go through the store the thought process becomes “well I can’t afford the high price tag for xxx game, but I do have about $50 I can put toward something.”
It’s a nice marketing tool to have some high end things otherwise you’re just known as the store that has nothing but common shit that you and everyone else already have.
Its good to see that those price stickers are not directly on those boxes.
I was thinking the same thing! I'd hate to see a box ruined by stickers....it drives me nuts!
Here, let me use this grease marker to write the price directly on the box instead.
Its good to see that those price stickers are not directly on those boxes.
I was thinking the same thing! I'd hate to see a box ruined by stickers....it drives me nuts!
Here, let me use this grease marker to write the price directly on the box instead.
I'm getting triggered just thinking of such nonsense!
There is a store a few towns over that also recently got a huge influx of games. Having said that I'd bet they paid full price getting them in because the prices are retarded. $1k for a complete megaman x 3 and $300 for CIB turtles in time etc. They has a nutty selection of games though and a lot were complete.
Don't be so sure on that one. They probably paid shit since it was likely an estate person that would literally take anything they were offered, and then the store got dollar signs in their eyes when they looked them up.
My grandfather's stamp collection was sold to a dealer for $10,000. I can't imagine how much it was actually worth. To us, a sealed Panic Restaurant and Toxic Crusaders is obviously some worth some cash at a glance. To anyone else, it's a list of 4000 things they don't want to individually try to look up or understand.
And while something may be worth a lot of money, how many people go to bookstores looking to spend a grand on a nes game; their market isn't as good as if they sold it on ebay. So it's just taking up shelf space, which for many bookstores is quite valuable.
Some high end ones are good, since they can use them to draw in eyeballs (and people, too!). Many game stores will have 1-2 high end items out in the open, intentionally over-priced. It's not there to be sold, at least not right away; it's there to get attention. And eyeballs. Eyeballs with more wallets than brains.
This. Advertise locally on Facebook "Look what just came in!" To get the oooh's and ahhh's. People decide to check the store out if not for nothing else to window shop the wares. As they go through the store the thought process becomes "well I can't afford the high price tag for xxx game, but I do have about $50 I can put toward something."
It's a nice marketing tool to have some high end things otherwise you're just known as the store that has nothing but common shit that you and everyone else already have.
This is exactly what my local store does. However, by the time you get there, all the good stuff is usually gone. And then I look at the prices compared to 15 years ago and there's no way I'd pay what people are asking nowadays.
Glad they are selling to someone at least. It keeps the local store in business.