I had a dream last night that I saw an eBay listing for two Zelda Game and Watches for like $13. I hurried to try and buy it but someone else got it before I did. Even in my dreams I miss out on good deals!
First weekend of yard sales of the season, first sale trying to sale games for Ebay prices. Hope it isn't a sign of things to come for the season.
The other day I hit a yard sale that pictured a PS2 slim + lot on CL about 20 minutes after it started. The PS2 lot was long gone, the guy running the yard sale told me he had people camping out in front of the house before they opened their doors. So yeah, not encouraging when people are now camping out for PS2 games.
Well I had hoped never to use this but here I am writing about my sob story
1 PM: I was on CL and decided to search for N64 stuff and I found this for $75
Called him up soon as I could... didn't pick up so I left a message but assumed he had already sold it.
I called him a few more time over the next few hours... nothing, by that point I given up hope,
5 PM: I hear the phone ring and I think to my self "Could it be!" he said he still had it, I was over the moon I told him I'd buy it and pick it up on Wednesday (Because I'm 15 and can't drive so I have to wait til my dad's day off) he says that's fine.
7:50 PM: I'm bragging to my friend about the badass case I just found and how awesome it was that he deleted the listing... so I'm in middle of typing about how awesome it is when I see a message pop up in my inbox from the guy. I had sent him an email before telling him what time I'b be there and asking him what his address was... I open the message "I'm sorry Bailey, the case has been sold. Someone came by today with cash in hand." SON OF A BITCH.
8:30 PM: Me typing about me missing out on the best deal I'd ever found on CL, and thinking about how I already had a spot picked out for it. *Sigh*
So these are my sorrows, I was already prepared to make a post in Finders keepers about the sick case I found.
sigh. caught a minimal listing for snes and 50 games on craigslist today. email seller and get pics and it's all the best stuff. I figured it was $1600 retail. he says he's taking offers so I start at $800 and he's says it's the best offer so far. a while later he comes back and says he looked everything up on lukie games and wants $1500. he follows up and says he wants $1700 non-negotiable. I try to reason with him and he says he's taking an offer for $1300. fucking people.
On Saturday, I was visiting the thrift store and I noticed a guy just sold them a lot of SNES games they were going to put in the store today. I noticed a few RPGs (Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana) I was interested in. I get there and the only RPG left is Mystic Quest... Still bought it but where did the others go? I was the first person to see the games apart from the store employees, so I think some asshole who works there took the games for himself. I hope he gets fired soon, that shit brings my piss to a boil
sigh. caught a minimal listing for snes and 50 games on craigslist today. email seller and get pics and it's all the best stuff. I figured it was $1600 retail. he says he's taking offers so I start at $800 and he's says it's the best offer so far. a while later he comes back and says he looked everything up on lukie games and wants $1500. he follows up and says he wants $1700 non-negotiable. I try to reason with him and he says he's taking an offer for $1300. fucking people.
So I've been trying to find a reasonably priced Pocky and Rocky for SNES for a while now. Saw a CIB copy that had very few bids on it. I sat and waited on it to see if it would rise. Well, it came down to the last hour, and still not many bids, so I put in a bid around $140 (the lowest CIB Pocky and Rocky is at $250 BIN currently). I'm watching the countdown, and I have the highest bid. Time runs out, and I got sniped by $1! One. Freaking. Dollar. Later, I'm scrolling through my watch list again, and a new Pocky and Rocky shows up. Someone mislabeled a Pocky and Rocky 2 as a regular Pocky and Rocky, and had listed it for a Pocky and Rocky 1 price ($90 BIN w/free shipping). In the literal 5 seconds it took me to click on the link, someone had snatched it. The page opened, and it was already sold. I was so angry...
If it makes you feel any better, you probably didn't get sniped for just $1... the person had probably put in a higher max bid, but the auction just goes incrementally higher than the 2nd place (your) max bid. Who knows, maybe the person's max bid was $300. You'll never know... But it still sucks!
Yeah I had the same thing. Copy of Mr Gimmick going for a song on an auction ending on a weekday at 4pm. My max was £120. Sold for £121 to some other guy. We both sniped IIRC. Extremely frustrating knowing that that other guy got such an amazing deal but the fact is that his max was higher. It might have been a lot higher.
sigh. caught a minimal listing for snes and 50 games on craigslist today. email seller and get pics and it's all the best stuff. I figured it was $1600 retail. he says he's taking offers so I start at $800 and he's says it's the best offer so far. a while later he comes back and says he looked everything up on lukie games and wants $1500. he follows up and says he wants $1700 non-negotiable. I try to reason with him and he says he's taking an offer for $1300. fucking people.
Congrats on turning it into a finders keepers lol
ha, forgot I posted that here. I figured there was no way it was going to work out in my favor.
On Saturday, I was visiting the thrift store and I noticed a guy just sold them a lot of SNES games they were going to put in the store today. I noticed a few RPGs (Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana) I was interested in. I get there and the only RPG left is Mystic Quest... Still bought it but where did the others go? I was the first person to see the games apart from the store employees, so I think some asshole who works there took the games for himself. I hope he gets fired soon, that shit brings my piss to a boil
you can NOT honestly try and tell me if you worked there and had that opportunity that you wouldnt have bought them? if i was him i would have bought them all. Employees get perks with the crap jobs they have otherwise
On Saturday, I was visiting the thrift store and I noticed a guy just sold them a lot of SNES games they were going to put in the store today. I noticed a few RPGs (Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana) I was interested in. I get there and the only RPG left is Mystic Quest... Still bought it but where did the others go? I was the first person to see the games apart from the store employees, so I think some asshole who works there took the games for himself. I hope he gets fired soon, that shit brings my piss to a boil
you can NOT honestly try and tell me if you worked there and had that opportunity that you wouldnt have bought them? if i was him i would have bought them all. Employees get perks with the crap jobs they have otherwise
I know their job may not be the best in the world but that doesn't give them the opportunity to buy the games before customers can buy them. They should be grateful to even have a job at all! Trust me, I wouldn't steal a game from a store if I worked there, even if it was a CIB Hagane. That game would belong to the store and not me, therefore it would be theft if I took the game for myself. And theft is not cool woth me
Shit happens, what you dont think game store empolyees dont get first dibs on games that come in on trade and set them in the back to buy them later?
How it works chief, thats the advantage you get as an employee is first pick/dibs on stuff that comes though, customers are second.
A good store will have a freeze period on things that come in where employees aren't allowed to buy. Having your employees snatch up the good stuff is going to hurt your customer base. What's the point of going to the store if you never have a chance to get those titles?
Shit happens, what you dont think game store empolyees dont get first dibs on games that come in on trade and set them in the back to buy them later?
How it works chief, thats the advantage you get as an employee is first pick/dibs on stuff that comes though, customers are second.
A good store will have a freeze period on things that come in where employees aren't allowed to buy. Having your employees snatch up the good stuff is going to hurt your customer base. What's the point of going to the store if you never have a chance to get those titles?
I would'nt say that a store is bad because they allow their 1 maybe 2 employee's first pick. The Game Crazy stores I used to run I would only allow my minions 4 games on hold and they had one week to pick them up, if they did not pick up their hold loot, I would take said hold pile loot and put it out on the shelves.
I also would not allow mulitple copy employee purchaces on older generation stuff, back when I managed Dreamcast/N64/PSX/PS2 were new gen.
My stores always had plenty of awesome shelf fodder and loads of the rare and obscure, never once did we have a complant on how thin our inventory was unless it was new games, we could not keep N64 in stock as it was our top selling system at our Redmond Location next to Nintendo of all places!
Thrift Stores might do thing different, I dont know I never worked at one just spend a lot of money at them
Shit happens, what you dont think game store empolyees dont get first dibs on games that come in on trade and set them in the back to buy them later?
How it works chief, thats the advantage you get as an employee is first pick/dibs on stuff that comes though, customers are second.
A good store will have a freeze period on things that come in where employees aren't allowed to buy. Having your employees snatch up the good stuff is going to hurt your customer base. What's the point of going to the store if you never have a chance to get those titles?
Exactly. Why go there if you only get shitty sports games because of the employees...
A lot of stores won't allow employees to purchase things while they're on shift. When their shift ends, they're allowed to purchase items from the shelves...but until that time, they can't "hold things back" so to speak. That's a pretty fair policy, as it gives the customer first dibs at the item for the most part. Granted, I don't know how hardcore the store management typically is on ensuring the employees aren't holding things back...but the policy is sound in theory.
It wasn't much of a loss, but I'm still pretty salty about it.
So since retro gaming where is live has been completely dead for the past 15 years, I usually head out to the UK twice a year and hit up a local car boot sale. Retro games are pretty rare nowadays but I've found some decent finds before. So around two years ago I come across a SNES complete with the leads and two games : Link to the Past and Donkey Kong Country. He wanted £15 pounds for the lot. Naturally I snatch it up and tell him I'm going to pay for it, so I lay the console on the table to get my cash out. While I'm fishing out my wallet, some jerk-off pushes me aside and grabs the Link to the Past cartridge and offers him £10 for just the cart, and the seller obviously agrees despite the fact that I told him I was going to buy it.
I buy the rest of the system (at least he knocked off £5 from the lot), and turn around to look at the guy who bought Zelda who tells me something along the lines of "Sorry kid but you don't deserve to find this game so cheap", and proceeds to give me a business card for his eBay account, which I naturally ripped up in front of him. What a prick.
I was reading about famiclones the other day, and realized I have one. I picked it up in a thrift store years ago for a couple bucks. I assumed it was a Sega clone or something, 'cause I didn't recognize the shape of the cartridge slot. So it's sat in a box for years. When I found out it was a Famiclone, I was excited. Spent the next three hours at work thinking about it. Then I got home and found out it needs 220v
On a nearby town's buy/sell facebook group someone posted a NES with roughly 20 games for $50. Before I saw it there were already a dozen replies. Among the games I noticed a nice copy of Panic Restaurant... qq
Pretty recent bummer. CL is usually awful in my area, but found a nice N64 lot listed at $39. Smoke clear with matching controller, Fire and watermelon controllers as well and about 20 games (Ogre Battle/harvest moon, you get the idea of the lot).
He Responded and said it was available, I assumed due to normal CL prices he had a typo, asked how low he would go (not trying to tip him off about the pricing). Told me list price(which didn't clarify anything) told him okay.
No response for a little while, refresh the CL post to see $70. He emails me back saying he meant $70, obviously still into it and let him know it is fine. Nothing more for another few mins, refresh to see the price removed and get an email saying, "wow. i just looked this stuff up. i'm sorry but i have to hold off. apologize for backing out but i clearly did not do my research on these items and need to go do that and re-list". Sends me a chart from amazon all priced out and offers me $30 under.
My assumption is salty guy who lost out had to inform him of the value. The elusive crazy good CL deal still evades me...
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Originally posted by: jchestnut31
First weekend of yard sales of the season, first sale trying to sale games for Ebay prices. Hope it isn't a sign of things to come for the season.
The other day I hit a yard sale that pictured a PS2 slim + lot on CL about 20 minutes after it started. The PS2 lot was long gone, the guy running the yard sale told me he had people camping out in front of the house before they opened their doors. So yeah, not encouraging when people are now camping out for PS2 games.
1 PM: I was on CL and decided to search for N64 stuff and I found this for $75
Called him up soon as I could... didn't pick up so I left a message but assumed he had already sold it.
I called him a few more time over the next few hours... nothing, by that point I given up hope,
5 PM: I hear the phone ring and I think to my self "Could it be!" he said he still had it, I was over the moon I told him I'd buy it and pick it up on Wednesday (Because I'm 15 and can't drive so I have to wait til my dad's day off) he says that's fine.
7:50 PM: I'm bragging to my friend about the badass case I just found and how awesome it was that he deleted the listing... so I'm in middle of typing about how awesome it is when I see a message pop up in my inbox from the guy. I had sent him an email before telling him what time I'b be there and asking him what his address was... I open the message "I'm sorry Bailey, the case has been sold. Someone came by today with cash in hand." SON OF A BITCH.
8:30 PM: Me typing about me missing out on the best deal I'd ever found on CL, and thinking about how I already had a spot picked out for it. *Sigh*
So these are my sorrows, I was already prepared to make a post in Finders keepers about the sick case I found.
sigh. caught a minimal listing for snes and 50 games on craigslist today. email seller and get pics and it's all the best stuff. I figured it was $1600 retail. he says he's taking offers so I start at $800 and he's says it's the best offer so far. a while later he comes back and says he looked everything up on lukie games and wants $1500. he follows up and says he wants $1700 non-negotiable. I try to reason with him and he says he's taking an offer for $1300. fucking people.
Congrats on turning it into a finders keepers lol
Originally posted by: 8thStPHX
Originally posted by: TheFinder
So I've been trying to find a reasonably priced Pocky and Rocky for SNES for a while now. Saw a CIB copy that had very few bids on it. I sat and waited on it to see if it would rise. Well, it came down to the last hour, and still not many bids, so I put in a bid around $140 (the lowest CIB Pocky and Rocky is at $250 BIN currently). I'm watching the countdown, and I have the highest bid. Time runs out, and I got sniped by $1! One. Freaking. Dollar. Later, I'm scrolling through my watch list again, and a new Pocky and Rocky shows up. Someone mislabeled a Pocky and Rocky 2 as a regular Pocky and Rocky, and had listed it for a Pocky and Rocky 1 price ($90 BIN w/free shipping). In the literal 5 seconds it took me to click on the link, someone had snatched it. The page opened, and it was already sold. I was so angry...
If it makes you feel any better, you probably didn't get sniped for just $1... the person had probably put in a higher max bid, but the auction just goes incrementally higher than the 2nd place (your) max bid. Who knows, maybe the person's max bid was $300. You'll never know... But it still sucks!
Yeah I had the same thing. Copy of Mr Gimmick going for a song on an auction ending on a weekday at 4pm. My max was £120. Sold for £121 to some other guy. We both sniped IIRC. Extremely frustrating knowing that that other guy got such an amazing deal but the fact is that his max was higher. It might have been a lot higher.
Originally posted by: alekx
Originally posted by: Lincoln
sigh. caught a minimal listing for snes and 50 games on craigslist today. email seller and get pics and it's all the best stuff. I figured it was $1600 retail. he says he's taking offers so I start at $800 and he's says it's the best offer so far. a while later he comes back and says he looked everything up on lukie games and wants $1500. he follows up and says he wants $1700 non-negotiable. I try to reason with him and he says he's taking an offer for $1300. fucking people.
Congrats on turning it into a finders keepers lol
ha, forgot I posted that here. I figured there was no way it was going to work out in my favor.
Originally posted by: Vectrex280996
On Saturday, I was visiting the thrift store and I noticed a guy just sold them a lot of SNES games they were going to put in the store today. I noticed a few RPGs (Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana) I was interested in. I get there and the only RPG left is Mystic Quest... Still bought it but where did the others go? I was the first person to see the games apart from the store employees, so I think some asshole who works there took the games for himself. I hope he gets fired soon, that shit brings my piss to a boil
you can NOT honestly try and tell me if you worked there and had that opportunity that you wouldnt have bought them? if i was him i would have bought them all. Employees get perks with the crap jobs they have otherwise
Originally posted by: Vectrex280996
On Saturday, I was visiting the thrift store and I noticed a guy just sold them a lot of SNES games they were going to put in the store today. I noticed a few RPGs (Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana) I was interested in. I get there and the only RPG left is Mystic Quest... Still bought it but where did the others go? I was the first person to see the games apart from the store employees, so I think some asshole who works there took the games for himself. I hope he gets fired soon, that shit brings my piss to a boil
you can NOT honestly try and tell me if you worked there and had that opportunity that you wouldnt have bought them? if i was him i would have bought them all. Employees get perks with the crap jobs they have otherwise
I know their job may not be the best in the world but that doesn't give them the opportunity to buy the games before customers can buy them. They should be grateful to even have a job at all!
Trust me, I wouldn't steal a game from a store if I worked there, even if it was a CIB Hagane. That game would belong to the store and not me, therefore it would be theft if I took the game for myself. And theft is not cool woth me
What if he paid for them?
Then it's unfair for the customer.
Originally posted by: Vectrex280996
Originally posted by: Geoff
What if he paid for them?
Then it's unfair for the customer.
Shit happens, what you dont think game store empolyees dont get first dibs on games that come in on trade and set them in the back to buy them later?
How it works chief, thats the advantage you get as an employee is first pick/dibs on stuff that comes though, customers are second.
Originally posted by: Shinju
Originally posted by: Vectrex280996
Originally posted by: Geoff
What if he paid for them?
Then it's unfair for the customer.
Shit happens, what you dont think game store empolyees dont get first dibs on games that come in on trade and set them in the back to buy them later?
How it works chief, thats the advantage you get as an employee is first pick/dibs on stuff that comes though, customers are second.
A good store will have a freeze period on things that come in where employees aren't allowed to buy. Having your employees snatch up the good stuff is going to hurt your customer base. What's the point of going to the store if you never have a chance to get those titles?
Originally posted by: Lincoln
Originally posted by: Shinju
Originally posted by: Vectrex280996
Originally posted by: Geoff
What if he paid for them?
Then it's unfair for the customer.
Shit happens, what you dont think game store empolyees dont get first dibs on games that come in on trade and set them in the back to buy them later?
How it works chief, thats the advantage you get as an employee is first pick/dibs on stuff that comes though, customers are second.
A good store will have a freeze period on things that come in where employees aren't allowed to buy. Having your employees snatch up the good stuff is going to hurt your customer base. What's the point of going to the store if you never have a chance to get those titles?
I would'nt say that a store is bad because they allow their 1 maybe 2 employee's first pick. The Game Crazy stores I used to run I would only allow my minions 4 games on hold and they had one week to pick them up, if they did not pick up their hold loot, I would take said hold pile loot and put it out on the shelves.
I also would not allow mulitple copy employee purchaces on older generation stuff, back when I managed Dreamcast/N64/PSX/PS2 were new gen.
My stores always had plenty of awesome shelf fodder and loads of the rare and obscure, never once did we have a complant on how thin our inventory was unless it was new games, we could not keep N64 in stock as it was our top selling system at our Redmond Location next to Nintendo of all places!
Thrift Stores might do thing different, I dont know I never worked at one just spend a lot of money at them
Originally posted by: Shinju
Originally posted by: Vectrex280996
Originally posted by: Geoff
What if he paid for them?
Then it's unfair for the customer.
Shit happens, what you dont think game store empolyees dont get first dibs on games that come in on trade and set them in the back to buy them later?
How it works chief, thats the advantage you get as an employee is first pick/dibs on stuff that comes though, customers are second.
A good store will have a freeze period on things that come in where employees aren't allowed to buy. Having your employees snatch up the good stuff is going to hurt your customer base. What's the point of going to the store if you never have a chance to get those titles?
Exactly. Why go there if you only get shitty sports games because of the employees...
So since retro gaming where is live has been completely dead for the past 15 years, I usually head out to the UK twice a year and hit up a local car boot sale. Retro games are pretty rare nowadays but I've found some decent finds before. So around two years ago I come across a SNES complete with the leads and two games : Link to the Past and Donkey Kong Country. He wanted £15 pounds for the lot. Naturally I snatch it up and tell him I'm going to pay for it, so I lay the console on the table to get my cash out. While I'm fishing out my wallet, some jerk-off pushes me aside and grabs the Link to the Past cartridge and offers him £10 for just the cart, and the seller obviously agrees despite the fact that I told him I was going to buy it.
I buy the rest of the system (at least he knocked off £5 from the lot), and turn around to look at the guy who bought Zelda who tells me something along the lines of "Sorry kid but you don't deserve to find this game so cheap", and proceeds to give me a business card for his eBay account, which I naturally ripped up in front of him. What a prick.
Originally posted by: Vectrex280996
EDIT: Never mind, removed the eBay listing so the guy wont get backdoored
what did you miss on that one?
Originally posted by: Lincoln
Originally posted by: Vectrex280996
EDIT: Never mind, removed the eBay listing so the guy wont get backdoored
what did you miss on that one?
Big NES lot with a few gems (Felix the cat and others I can't remember) for a fair price
He Responded and said it was available, I assumed due to normal CL prices he had a typo, asked how low he would go (not trying to tip him off about the pricing). Told me list price(which didn't clarify anything) told him okay.
No response for a little while, refresh the CL post to see $70. He emails me back saying he meant $70, obviously still into it and let him know it is fine. Nothing more for another few mins, refresh to see the price removed and get an email saying, "wow. i just looked this stuff up. i'm sorry but i have to hold off. apologize for backing out but i clearly did not do my research on these items and need to go do that and re-list". Sends me a chart from amazon all priced out and offers me $30 under.
My assumption is salty guy who lost out had to inform him of the value. The elusive crazy good CL deal still evades me...
Gamecube
Zelda Promo Disc
Luigi's Mansion
And three other games
I sent a text as soon as it listed but fat-fingered the number and didn't notice for several hours ><
Seller told me they sold it for 2K
Originally posted by: acomicbookguyc
I just missed out on this Stadium Events.
Seller told me they sold it for 2K
Dude, heartbreaker.
I guess someone tipped the seller off re: the value?
Originally posted by: acomicbookguyc
I just missed out on this Stadium Events.
Seller told me they sold it for 2K
You didn't miss anything, that listing was bullshit. That's the photo from the 5 screw SE listing discussed here: http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=114838