Picked up a solid Genesis bundle from CL. I missed out on a top loader bundle with about 35 carts from the same seller. From the pic, I could see Ultima: Warriors of Destiny, CV III, a few Adventure Islands, and some other decent stuff. She sold me the Genny stuff for $20... :-(
Friday, I find a kijiji ad offering Mario allstars, Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger, Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country 2, and one other cart (common) for $100. They lived 4 hours away and were offering to ship the item so I jumped on it. Two days later an ad is posted for a CIB Little Samson in extremely great shape for $250 so I message the seller and lo and behold its the same person. I ask for some more pictures and within an hour I get four really nice pics sent to my email. I immediately agree to purchase the game. She offers to package it with the other games and ship them out Monday (even offering me another $10 off for the bundled purchase). I'm super excited and send the money through paypal. Monday rolls around, and I email her asking if she shipped the items and if she could provide me with a tracking number...and I get a message from Gmail saying the email account does not exist...
I've asked paypal to reverse the transaction but there's still a part of me (albeit small) thinking there was some mistake and the items are still on their way
edit: stupid me..after 5 mins of searching, I see at least one of those images came from a NA sale thread...gah, I should've taken my time instead of getting super excited about getting LS CIB for $250 lol. Oh well, live and learn, some things are too good to be true.
I don't really feel bad but i can't stop thinkin bout it. Swapmeet had a raiden arcade cab for 150. the cab had no dents no burn in and other than the shit load of stickers all over it looked to be in good shape. The lady couldn't have been a bigger bitch, after asking her about 15 times how much it was, as she'd turn around mid sentence and tell people prices for the 50 cent clothes she had instead of continung the convo with me she comes back with "I'm a busy woman!" I'm like i completly understand that maam, I just want to know how much the arcade cabinent your trying to sell is. She replies "150" I reply oh wow that's a good price whens the last time you played it? "I don't have time for kiddy games i'm a big time storage locker buyer, I don't even know if it works but if you want it take it if not leave me alone" I just said yup fuck it good luck bitch and left.
I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee shmups and woulda liked to have had it even tho i got my mame cab work'n now. But after all the drama, and the fact i woulda spent 100 on renting a truck to pick it up i don't feel that bad. Just drives me to utter insanity how annoying these resellers are now. They watch one episode of fuck'n storagewars and they suddenly are big time. Would the 250 investment been really bad if i did it? And my luck the fuck'n thing wouldn't have even worked anyway. oh well
Friday, I find a kijiji ad offering Mario allstars, Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger, Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country 2, and one other cart (common) for $100. They lived 4 hours away and were offering to ship the item so I jumped on it. Two days later an ad is posted for a CIB Little Samson in extremely great shape for $250 so I message the seller and lo and behold its the same person. I ask for some more pictures and within an hour I get four really nice pics sent to my email. I immediately agree to purchase the game. She offers to package it with the other games and ship them out Monday (even offering me another $10 off for the bundled purchase). I'm super excited and send the money through paypal. Monday rolls around, and I email her asking if she shipped the items and if she could provide me with a tracking number...and I get a message from Gmail saying the email account does not exist...
I've asked paypal to reverse the transaction but there's still a part of me (albeit small) thinking there was some mistake and the items are still on their way
edit: stupid me..after 5 mins of searching, I see at least one of those images came from a NA sale thread...gah, I should've taken my time instead of getting super excited about getting LS CIB for $250 lol. Oh well, live and learn, some things are too good to be true.
Yeah with any thing like craigs list or kjjjjijiji I would never trust anyone to ship anything. Honestly with a game like LS for that price i woulda drove ou that second. But hey bro it happens to all of us. Just keep hunting you'll find something cool.
I had a friend who went to a local pawnshop here and they had two different Castlevania games for SNES (HMM MAYBE THE ONLY TWO ON THE SYSTEM) for $15 each. My friend didn't bother calling me because he remembered I had one of them but couldn't remember which. When he told me about it a few days later I was fairly upset at missing Castlevania Dracula X for such a cheap price.
This guys has stuff listed then has the amazon price right next to it. He says for the LOZ SNES, it's not new, BUT NEW IT GOES FOR $300+ SO MAKE ME AN OFFER. For FF6 he says, it's also not new, but goes for $1500+. What a fucking joke. I already messaged him telling him aparently he has no idea what the difference between an unopened game and a loose game are.
Saw a post on craigslist for a SNES with all the hookups, Mega Man X, Mega Man X3, Super Mario Kart, Super Mario All Stars, Super Mario All Stars/SMW, Donkey Kong Country and a few other decent games. He didn't have a price listed so I texted him with an offer for $80 (hoping he didn't know what he had) and he said yes. I bounce from work to go meet him at a CVS. Right around the time we are supposed to meet he texts me saying he was pulled over and would be there in 10 min. After this, I never heard back from him 45 min later after attempting to text/call him several times I left.... Not sure if someone else called with a better offer or if he was just planning on fucking me to start. Oh well...
This guys has stuff listed then has the amazon price right next to it. He says for the LOZ SNES, it's not new, BUT NEW IT GOES FOR $300+ SO MAKE ME AN OFFER. For FF6 he says, it's also not new, but goes for $1500+. What a fucking joke. I already messaged him telling him aparently he has no idea what the difference between an unopened game and a loose game are.
Yup guy is a total wind bag wow worst of craigslist right there. Good post helps others avoid the heck out of guys like that.
Saw an hour old posting late last night for an NES lot with 30-odd games for $120, one of which being Power Blade 2. Texted the guy and was told someone was already ahead of me and picking it up this morning, which they did.
Eh, win some, lose some. Perhaps that will mean luck at the garage sales tomorrow.
This is more of a "should have been" mail day arrival. I would have gotten a copy of "Super Robot monkey team hyper force go" today in the mail, but the guy I ordered it from on eBay sent it in a obvious envelope, and guess what, there's a rip in the side, indicating that someone stole it. So now I have to deal with getting my money back, on top of the knowledge that another copy of this already extremely rare game, is now in the hands of some thief that has no idea what it's valued at and just stole it for kicks.
I have needed a special case from the company Russound. Saw one after years of looking with best offer. Given an all metal casing shipping is crazy expensive. So I went just a few bucks under ask and lost it to a person who did BIN. So pissed as waiting to get this case is keeping me from starting new project mods. I feel so stupid -__-
There was a really decent garage sale that had plenty of good Nintendo stuff but I got there thirty minutes after it opened and found one guy walking off with a huge pile of early Nintendo Powers and another guy was about to purchase a very nice Castlevania 4 box w/manual, Chrono Trigger and Star Fox carts, some older guides, and a small pile of manuals for $75. Had I known that there was a Castlevania 4 box I'd have gotten there on time.
saw walk it out for wii a few weeks back at goodwill. 4.99, said eh I think I heard some hype about this, but whatever. I left it. probably could have sold it for $40 but oh well.
Had a Craigslist posting for a boxed Sega Master System and 80 CIB games for $75. Guy told me they were mine, but he couldn't meet until the next day. About an hour later he emails me and tells me someone offered him more and already came and got them. Did not give me a chance to match the offer and no mention of the fact that he said he wasn't available until the next day.
So lame. From my perspective, once you've made a deal to sell something and both parties have agreed, that's it. If someone offers the seller twice as much 5 minutes later, I feel the seller is obligated to hold the item for the original buyer. It is my personal policy, and just seems to me like the honorable thing to do.
About a month ago, I was hitting up yard sales in my area. At one yard sale, I asked the gentleman running the sale if he had any old videogames he might be interested in selling. His face lit up and he started to walk back into the house when he turned around with a wince in his face. "Oh, I just remembered. We had a box of Atari and Nintendo games, but the kids didn't want them so I left them out on the curb with the trash two weeks ago."
I stopped by my local retro store on my way to work today to have a look around. While checking out their gameboy consoles I noticed 2 large stacks of Nintendo Powers behind the counter, and got excited. I got the clerks attention, and asked about them. He told me they had just got them in, and they looked to b in good condition. I asked to have a look at them, and he told me no, they were going to sell them on eBays because they could get more money for them. The hell? I asked if he'd consider selling them to me in store to save on fees and he again said no, they'd get more money online. This seriously pissed me off, and I'm thinking about not going to this store anymore, where ive spent hundreds of dollars. No wonder I hardly ever find any thing good there any more, they sell all the shit online.
I stopped by my local retro store on my way to work today to have a look around. While checking out their gameboy consoles I noticed 2 large stacks of Nintendo Powers behind the counter, and got excited. I got the clerks attention, and asked about them. He told me they had just got them in, and they looked to b in good condition. I asked to have a look at them, and he told me no, they were going to sell them on eBays because they could get more money for them. The hell? I asked if he'd consider selling them to me in store to save on fees and he again said no, they'd get more money online. This seriously pissed me off, and I'm thinking about not going to this store anymore, where ive spent hundreds of dollars. No wonder I hardly ever find any thing good there any more, they sell all the shit online.
I hear you. It seems that all the shops and even Goodwill and such now sell good stuff on FEEbay.
My post above yours, as we were finding good stuff and making offers the guy would say no I'm going to save that for online because I know what I can get for it.
He has a SoM CIB with Guide in MINT conditionand he said he would'nt even sell it locally.
About a month ago, I was hitting up yard sales in my area. At one yard sale, I asked the gentleman running the sale if he had any old videogames he might be interested in selling. His face lit up and he started to walk back into the house when he turned around with a wince in his face. "Oh, I just remembered. We had a box of Atari and Nintendo games, but the kids didn't want them so I left them out on the curb with the trash two weeks ago."
Happened to me too. Someone I know was about to give me her old NES, but her husband threw it in the trash a week before...
So a new local in the military has been posting that he had a huge selection of retro games/regular games for sale today for the past week on CL and locally. I had talked to him the first day and a few times since and he was very cool and said he was good with prices and went an average of 80% less than ebay.
I ended up meeting him where he was having the sale this morning right as he started and right away he had a lot of great stuff. Boxes on GameCube, Ps2, Ps1, only a few cart stuff though but a bunch of systems and a COMPLETE NINTENDO POWEER COLLECTION.
So I start digging through his boxes and moving stuff around, helped a few people who came to look find stuff I had went through and pick games and such. He has GOLD THERE, like 5+ copies of all sorts of rare games. Gamecube both Zeldasx5+, Luigies mansion, ssbm, mario sunshine, animal crossing, all sorts of stuff multiple copies.
I ended up with a good pile of games that I need, mainly the harder to find GameCube games (Like 10) some Ps1 games (FF7 BL Tactics BL and like 3 others, and Mario RPG.
He says he would want like $400...Um...What???
Turns out he used to sell on ebay all the time but doesnt anymore because of work, he was litterly asking high end BIN prices on everything.
I started my offer for what I had at $140. And ended at $220, which he declined. At this point I had taken all the PS1 games out other than FF7+Tactics and the gamecube games, and was really trying to get it for like $200, which I feel is a very fair and reasonable price for a local bulk buy from a private seller. He said he would be more like $300 and said the negotiation was starting to turn him off of the deal so I just said "Thanks then and good luck" and left.
I am really disappointed overall and just wanted to rant to some fellow collectors.
Thanks for reading and feel free to comment.
PS. I am going out of town this weekend and plan to do some major searching in Athens where I'm going but am thinkng about seeing if he'll go down on prices after the first few days or see about getting a bunch of commons to fill in holes. Don't know though : /
It just depends on what you were picking out there; for example I might be loathe to drop below a certain figure on Mario RPG because I know it's an easy sale online. If you were offering around $20, that might be close to what I would have into it and I'd have to stick to at least $30.
I stopped by my local retro store on my way to work today to have a look around. While checking out their gameboy consoles I noticed 2 large stacks of Nintendo Powers behind the counter, and got excited. I got the clerks attention, and asked about them. He told me they had just got them in, and they looked to b in good condition. I asked to have a look at them, and he told me no, they were going to sell them on eBays because they could get more money for them. The hell? I asked if he'd consider selling them to me in store to save on fees and he again said no, they'd get more money online. This seriously pissed me off, and I'm thinking about not going to this store anymore, where ive spent hundreds of dollars. No wonder I hardly ever find any thing good there any more, they sell all the shit online.
The clerk you were talking to probably didn't have a price figured out or was too low on the food chain to make the deal. Some of those stores are just nuts though, I remember seeing a local comic book shop with a Dragon Warrior 3 cart listed for $15 cheaper online--in the physical display case it was marked $50.
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I've asked paypal to reverse the transaction but there's still a part of me (albeit small) thinking there was some mistake and the items are still on their way
/sad panda
http://imageshack.us/g/850/c2y8.png/
quite a doozy for a first post lol
edit: stupid me..after 5 mins of searching, I see at least one of those images came from a NA sale thread...gah, I should've taken my time instead of getting super excited about getting LS CIB for $250 lol. Oh well, live and learn, some things are too good to be true.
I loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee shmups and woulda liked to have had it even tho i got my mame cab work'n now. But after all the drama, and the fact i woulda spent 100 on renting a truck to pick it up i don't feel that bad. Just drives me to utter insanity how annoying these resellers are now. They watch one episode of fuck'n storagewars and they suddenly are big time. Would the 250 investment been really bad if i did it? And my luck the fuck'n thing wouldn't have even worked anyway. oh well
Originally posted by: Mithin
Friday, I find a kijiji ad offering Mario allstars, Mario RPG, Chrono Trigger, Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country 2, and one other cart (common) for $100. They lived 4 hours away and were offering to ship the item so I jumped on it. Two days later an ad is posted for a CIB Little Samson in extremely great shape for $250 so I message the seller and lo and behold its the same person. I ask for some more pictures and within an hour I get four really nice pics sent to my email. I immediately agree to purchase the game. She offers to package it with the other games and ship them out Monday (even offering me another $10 off for the bundled purchase). I'm super excited and send the money through paypal. Monday rolls around, and I email her asking if she shipped the items and if she could provide me with a tracking number...and I get a message from Gmail saying the email account does not exist...
I've asked paypal to reverse the transaction but there's still a part of me (albeit small) thinking there was some mistake and the items are still on their way
/sad panda
http://imageshack.us/g/850/c2y8.png/
quite a doozy for a first post lol
edit: stupid me..after 5 mins of searching, I see at least one of those images came from a NA sale thread...gah, I should've taken my time instead of getting super excited about getting LS CIB for $250 lol. Oh well, live and learn, some things are too good to be true.
Yeah with any thing like craigs list or kjjjjijiji I would never trust anyone to ship anything. Honestly with a game like LS for that price i woulda drove ou that second. But hey bro it happens to all of us. Just keep hunting you'll find something cool.
I had a friend who went to a local pawnshop here and they had two different Castlevania games for SNES (HMM MAYBE THE ONLY TWO ON THE SYSTEM) for $15 each. My friend didn't bother calling me because he remembered I had one of them but couldn't remember which. When he told me about it a few days later I was fairly upset at missing Castlevania Dracula X for such a cheap price.
This guys has stuff listed then has the amazon price right next to it. He says for the LOZ SNES, it's not new, BUT NEW IT GOES FOR $300+ SO MAKE ME AN OFFER. For FF6 he says, it's also not new, but goes for $1500+. What a fucking joke. I already messaged him telling him aparently he has no idea what the difference between an unopened game and a loose game are.
Originally posted by: Viper0hr
http://okaloosa.craigslist.org/vgm/3901041076.html
This guys has stuff listed then has the amazon price right next to it. He says for the LOZ SNES, it's not new, BUT NEW IT GOES FOR $300+ SO MAKE ME AN OFFER. For FF6 he says, it's also not new, but goes for $1500+. What a fucking joke. I already messaged him telling him aparently he has no idea what the difference between an unopened game and a loose game are.
Yup guy is a total wind bag wow worst of craigslist right there. Good post helps others avoid the heck out of guys like that.
Eh, win some, lose some. Perhaps that will mean luck at the garage sales tomorrow.
http://item.ebay.com/221247828821
there's a complete Gargoyle's Quest II in that $20 lot.
Originally posted by: Jobber8742
Had a Craigslist posting for a boxed Sega Master System and 80 CIB games for $75. Guy told me they were mine, but he couldn't meet until the next day. About an hour later he emails me and tells me someone offered him more and already came and got them. Did not give me a chance to match the offer and no mention of the fact that he said he wasn't available until the next day.
So lame. From my perspective, once you've made a deal to sell something and both parties have agreed, that's it. If someone offers the seller twice as much 5 minutes later, I feel the seller is obligated to hold the item for the original buyer. It is my personal policy, and just seems to me like the honorable thing to do.
Originally posted by: th0rpe
I stopped by my local retro store on my way to work today to have a look around. While checking out their gameboy consoles I noticed 2 large stacks of Nintendo Powers behind the counter, and got excited. I got the clerks attention, and asked about them. He told me they had just got them in, and they looked to b in good condition. I asked to have a look at them, and he told me no, they were going to sell them on eBays because they could get more money for them. The hell? I asked if he'd consider selling them to me in store to save on fees and he again said no, they'd get more money online. This seriously pissed me off, and I'm thinking about not going to this store anymore, where ive spent hundreds of dollars. No wonder I hardly ever find any thing good there any more, they sell all the shit online.
I hear you. It seems that all the shops and even Goodwill and such now sell good stuff on FEEbay.
My post above yours, as we were finding good stuff and making offers the guy would say no I'm going to save that for online because I know what I can get for it.
He has a SoM CIB with Guide in MINT conditionand he said he would'nt even sell it locally.
Originally posted by: teh lurv
About a month ago, I was hitting up yard sales in my area. At one yard sale, I asked the gentleman running the sale if he had any old videogames he might be interested in selling. His face lit up and he started to walk back into the house when he turned around with a wince in his face. "Oh, I just remembered. We had a box of Atari and Nintendo games, but the kids didn't want them so I left them out on the curb with the trash two weeks ago."
Happened to me too. Someone I know was about to give me her old NES, but her husband threw it in the trash a week before...
Originally posted by: Viper0hr
So a new local in the military has been posting that he had a huge selection of retro games/regular games for sale today for the past week on CL and locally. I had talked to him the first day and a few times since and he was very cool and said he was good with prices and went an average of 80% less than ebay.
I ended up meeting him where he was having the sale this morning right as he started and right away he had a lot of great stuff. Boxes on GameCube, Ps2, Ps1, only a few cart stuff though but a bunch of systems and a COMPLETE NINTENDO POWEER COLLECTION.
So I start digging through his boxes and moving stuff around, helped a few people who came to look find stuff I had went through and pick games and such. He has GOLD THERE, like 5+ copies of all sorts of rare games. Gamecube both Zeldasx5+, Luigies mansion, ssbm, mario sunshine, animal crossing, all sorts of stuff multiple copies.
I ended up with a good pile of games that I need, mainly the harder to find GameCube games (Like 10) some Ps1 games (FF7 BL Tactics BL and like 3 others, and Mario RPG.
He says he would want like $400...Um...What???
Turns out he used to sell on ebay all the time but doesnt anymore because of work, he was litterly asking high end BIN prices on everything.
I started my offer for what I had at $140. And ended at $220, which he declined. At this point I had taken all the PS1 games out other than FF7+Tactics and the gamecube games, and was really trying to get it for like $200, which I feel is a very fair and reasonable price for a local bulk buy from a private seller. He said he would be more like $300 and said the negotiation was starting to turn him off of the deal so I just said "Thanks then and good luck" and left.
I am really disappointed overall and just wanted to rant to some fellow collectors.
Thanks for reading and feel free to comment.
PS. I am going out of town this weekend and plan to do some major searching in Athens where I'm going but am thinkng about seeing if he'll go down on prices after the first few days or see about getting a bunch of commons to fill in holes. Don't know though : /
It just depends on what you were picking out there; for example I might be loathe to drop below a certain figure on Mario RPG because I know it's an easy sale online. If you were offering around $20, that might be close to what I would have into it and I'd have to stick to at least $30.
Originally posted by: th0rpe
I stopped by my local retro store on my way to work today to have a look around. While checking out their gameboy consoles I noticed 2 large stacks of Nintendo Powers behind the counter, and got excited. I got the clerks attention, and asked about them. He told me they had just got them in, and they looked to b in good condition. I asked to have a look at them, and he told me no, they were going to sell them on eBays because they could get more money for them. The hell? I asked if he'd consider selling them to me in store to save on fees and he again said no, they'd get more money online. This seriously pissed me off, and I'm thinking about not going to this store anymore, where ive spent hundreds of dollars. No wonder I hardly ever find any thing good there any more, they sell all the shit online.
The clerk you were talking to probably didn't have a price figured out or was too low on the food chain to make the deal. Some of those stores are just nuts though, I remember seeing a local comic book shop with a Dragon Warrior 3 cart listed for $15 cheaper online--in the physical display case it was marked $50.
Originally posted by: Vectrex280996
So I found an Atari 5200 for next to nothing... then I woke up
I've been there man...
Originally posted by: Vectrex280996
So I found an Atari 5200 for next to nothing... then I woke up
Saw one at a Habitat for Humanity Re Store for $15 with broken controllers and passed on it. Came back later to see if it was still there, but no