Just curious: How often did you call? Did you say the same thing to them everytime you called? Just something like: "Hey do you have Stadium Events for NES?"
I ask because I would feel a little strange doing it over and over so I'm curious how it worked out for you.
My reason why I'd never do that is because any half-intelligent person should realize you're asking like that because it's too expensive on eBay or at least very hard to come by. Which means IF they get it in they should and probably will research the value.
Well I was told by an employee for PnT that some of the more harder to find titles they get in. They go off of the prices on Ebay. When I was there they had a MM3 cart only for $32. I picked a CIB MM3 up for under $20 on Ebay days before I went in there. Now if some of the employees are knowledgeable in rare NES games, you think they would let something like SE even hit the shelf?
all of that makes sense, but the funny thing with that is, they pay all their employees like 7 bucks an hour, and their turnover is huge, so they don't have any long time employees, and there all teenagers who even told me, hey 100 bucks?, I'd never pay that for a nes game!, they were pretty stupid in that respect, and yes I just asked the same thing everytime I called, and everytime I went in there, amazingly, no one ever caught on!, and the price in there system currently for SE is 102 bucks cart only, 140 bucks CIB !!!!
At the end of the NES' life cycle I saw MegaMan at Toys R' Us for $10. I didn't buy it thinking I could come back and get it later. There was also another time at a local department store I found a Ninja Gaiden 3 for $20. I got Rainbow Islands instead. I must have been out of my mind. Even my dad tried to get me to get NG3 (because it was cheaper than RI). Rainbow throwing kids over Ninja's? What was I thinking?
I was flipping through some of my notes randomly the other day and I came across something a little heartbreaking. I found a list of games from a seller that I was considering buying from a couple years ago. If I remember right, all of the games were like 3-5 dollars or something like that. One of the game I wrote down, but didnt buy was Mermaids of Atlantis.
For some reason I just remembered missing out on what would've been the best deal I could've come across, thanks more to a friend that didn't pull through. A good buddy of mine worked in a (now closed down) game trading/comic/card shop in my town. I would go down there 2 or 3 times a week and I always told him if he came across anything good, if he didn't care to hang on to it for me (or call me), I'd likely gladly pay whatever price the owner wanted for it. Long story short, I showed up about a half an hour AFTER he'd sold a cart-only Bubble Bath Babes for $49.99. It had been traded in that morning and he'd "meant to call me" but only remembered when the guy asked for the game, since it was already out for sale.
In retrospect, I wish he he'd never told me in the first place.
I went to a GameStop the day after Christmas about 4 years ago. In the SNES bin, they had both Donkey Kong Country and Star Fox competition carts, $7.99 each (the same price as their regular counterparts). I even picked the DKC one up, and said to my brother "Hey I remember playing this back at Blockbuster back when they had that contest!"
The only thing I walked out of that store with that day? A CIB Roger Clemens baseball, 99 cents.
I remember walking into a gamestop far from my house, and they had a pile of about 30 Super Mario World (non million seller version) all sealed, 4.99 each. I can always picture them in that pile, and to think if I had just bought them all...
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Just curious: How often did you call? Did you say the same thing to them everytime you called? Just something like: "Hey do you have Stadium Events for NES?"
I ask because I would feel a little strange doing it over and over so I'm curious how it worked out for you.
My reason why I'd never do that is because any half-intelligent person should realize you're asking like that because it's too expensive on eBay or at least very hard to come by. Which means IF they get it in they should and probably will research the value.
I bought a cart with no label once and it was Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. I was dissapointed.
I had more luck. Received the cart with no label today. Cleaned it first; so I saw it had a MMC3B mapper chip; no demo cartridge "looks".
Putting it in my NES it boots up with "Irem" logo.
http://www.nintendoage.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NES.View&egID=1214&lgID=5462
it's a nice "discovery". Always better than a SMB/DH cart
In retrospect, I wish he he'd never told me in the first place.
The only thing I walked out of that store with that day? A CIB Roger Clemens baseball, 99 cents.