I haggled with a Game Store Owner

Wiinerd37Wiinerd37
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So there's a game store near me that had a bunch of $5 games I wanted but there was no way I would pay $5 for most of them. So i asked the guy "If i bought like 30 games could i get them for $3 a piece?" he said "how about $4?" and i said "what if i bought 40?" and he was alright with that so i got all these for $3 a piece. How do you think I did? i'd say I did pretty well.



Extreme Pinball

Grand Theft Auto 2



God of War



Geist



Ecco the Tides of Time



Hang on & Safari Hunt



Barker Bill's Trick Shooting (Sealed)

Shooting Range (CIB)

The Mafat Conspiracy (CIB)

Silent Service (CIB)

F-15

4 Quatro Sports

After Burner

Trojan 5 screw

Gumshoe 5 screw

Wild Gunman 5 screw

Gyromite 5 screw

Xenophobe

Milon's Secret Castle

Star Tropics ($5)

Dick Tracy

Xevious



Robocop Vs. Terminater

Super Godzilla

Acme Animation Factory

Wolfchild

Drakken

Cutthroat Island

Lawnmower Man

Jungle Book

Super Chase HQ ($5)

Porky Pig

Cool World

Kablooey!



it doesn't equal 40 cause my friends bought 6




















Comments

  • MrClutchMrClutch
    I'd say you did well. You can barely ship a game for $3. So anytime you can grab something for your collection in the wild for under $5, it's a win in my book.
  • DexterDexter
    Definitely good. I'd buy the ones I don't have for 5 a piece, even.
  • zeldaboyzeldaboy
    Nice! I am on the hunt for a GTA2, good pickups.
  • JaxsBoxJaxsBox
    So he basically gave you 10 games free??? Is it me or does he suck at math...lol
  • Wiinerd37Wiinerd37
    I suppose, I don't know what game stores pay for games that they sell for $5. I would guess he wouldn't be stupid enough to sell them at a loss. A lot of the games i bought weren't popular ones so they probably sat around for awhile
  • DreamStarDreamStar
    Nice!
  • Kosmic StarDustKosmic StarDust
    At my local Game-X-Change, most common or unpopular non-sports NES titles are $4.95 a piece, and they have a policy buy 3 get one free for games 7.95 and under. Unfortunately, the freebie eligible games are only the lowest priced games in my order. Buy 12 games and only the lowest 3 games are free.



    For instance, if I bought 4 games for $7.95 each, and a $1.95 Atari game, only the $1.95 game would be eligible for the discount. So I'll remove the $1.95 game from my shopping basket and get one of the $7.95 games for free, pay with my credit card, then I turn back around and buy the $1.95 game with spare change from my wallet. This saves me a grand total of $5.00 + tax, so I usually separate my lowest priced items (like $1.95 Atari carts) and check them out separate. It pisses them off when I break up game purchases into multiple checkouts on the same visit, but I get better discounts that way, so in a way I'm kind of hustling the system I guess.
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