What's the worst trade you've ever made?
About a year ago, I got a rare NES game called Bandit Kings of Ancient China, which I then foolishly traded for a pricy, but common game, Mega Man 5 (and a Dogbone Controller).
As you'd might expect, Mega Man 5 is dropping, Bandit Kings is rising, which represents a classic mistake of trading a rare game for an overpriced common game.
What was YOUR worst trade ever?
As you'd might expect, Mega Man 5 is dropping, Bandit Kings is rising, which represents a classic mistake of trading a rare game for an overpriced common game.
What was YOUR worst trade ever?
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Can't think of anything right now other then the obligatory stack of games to GameStop for pocket change.
This is probably the most popular answer
Can't think of anything right now other then the obligatory stack of games to GameStop for pocket change.
This is probably the most popular answer
yeah it was only GameCube and Xbox games for me luckily. And I at least had the foresight to keep the first party Nintendo games. So overall not a big loss
Originally posted by: Jonny_Blades
I had just got a PS1 for Christmas and decided to trade in my SNES for trade credit at a local gaming store. They gave me a measly $5 for it and although my parents urged me not to, I traded it. If my kid was going to do that I would give him the $5 in exchange for the system and just put it in storage. When you are 6 years old and have little to no understanding of money, you make stupid decisions just like this one.
That is actually quite sad, though on the flipside your parents did you a justice with a great life lesson.
Originally posted by: Jonny_Blades
I had just got a PS1 for Christmas and decided to trade in my SNES for trade credit at a local gaming store. They gave me a measly $5 for it and although my parents urged me not to, I traded it. If my kid was going to do that I would give him the $5 in exchange for the system and just put it in storage. When you are 6 years old and have little to no understanding of money, you make stupid decisions just like this one.
That is actually quite sad, though on the flipside your parents did you a justice with a great life lesson.
That is true. But I was only 6 and at the time didn't care about anything other what I had just got for Christmas. But I have a snes again now and way more games than I ever had growing up so I can't complain too much
I ran into trouble with that manager later when I preordered TLOZ: Windwaker. He told me that they were out of the promo Ocarina of Time discs that they were supposed to give out with preorders. A guy in one of my college classes told me that the manager gave all the preorder goodies to people that he was trying to be friends with. I ended up talking to the manager at the other GameStop in town, he gave me a disc, and I'm pretty sure that the guy got fired because I never saw him there again.
When I was a kid I always played NES at my grandma's, so when I moved 8 hours away at 17(2001), I bought my first NES, along with some games at a local store in my new town, one of those games was Bubble Bobble 2 for $2, I later traded that game at Gamecrazy for next to nothing towards Capcom vs SNK for Xbox. This was when GameCrazy was selling their NES games for $1-$2. I stopped in the next week because my copy of Mario 3 was glitching and my roommate and I were trying to beat it. the guy working the counter said they were out of stock, asked me if I played much NES, and I told him that I had traded off all of the games except the ones I had good memories of as a kid, and the only reason I was buying the game was because my copy was acting up. He told me that he was a NES collector, and that someone had traded in a copy of a $50 game, and he got it for $.50. I asked him what it was, and he said Bubble Bobble 2. He also told me that he picked up tons of games at garage sales, and that I may be able to find a copy of Mario 3 at one. That was when I started going to garage sales more often, at first It was to get the rest the games I had played as a kid, and secondly to get back all the money I had lost trading in games.
I'm sure others will have some cringe-worthy examples to follow.
About a year ago, I got a rare NES game called Bandit Kings of Ancient China, which I then foolishly traded for a pricy, but common game, Mega Man 5 (and a Dogbone Controller).
As you'd might expect, Mega Man 5 is dropping, Bandit Kings is rising, which represents a classic mistake of trading a rare game for an overpriced common game.
What was YOUR worst trade ever?
That isn't a bad trade at all. MM5 + a dogbone is about right. Plus, you'd probably never play BK, and MM5 is totally playable.
If you want to make yourself feel better, buy this nice looking box and folded manual for 70. Not a bad deal:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Bandit-Kings-of-Ancient-China-BOX-AND-MANUAL-ONLY-NES-Nintendo-/182298756458
I once traded a Don Mattingly rookie card for an '87 Spike Owen, because it was the last Red Sox player I needed for my team set. Doh.
Action 52 for Contra Force.
Master system and 19 games (including a CIB Moonwalker) for a PS1.
Mega Man 5 for Little Mermaid (no regrets on that one though, in the same position I'd do the same trade again).
In hindsight those are probably the "worst" ones I've done.
About a year ago, I got a rare NES game called Bandit Kings of Ancient China, which I then foolishly traded for a pricy, but common game, Mega Man 5 (and a Dogbone Controller).
As you'd might expect, Mega Man 5 is dropping, Bandit Kings is rising, which represents a classic mistake of trading a rare game for an overpriced common game.
What was YOUR worst trade ever?
Yeah, but Mega Man 5 is the far more entertaining game, in my opinion and I don't think many would disagree, unless you really dislike Mega Man. At least you have a really fun game in your collection as opposed to a mediocre, rare turd.
worst that I still think about with regret from time to time, pristine CIB model one sega cd with CIB final fight and Vay for symphony of the night and a memory card. Still mad thinking about it.
Bandit King of Ancient China is an excellent Koei game, it isn't just a 'rare turd'.
The games are apple to oranges, that much is obvious, but I don't know how anyone can say it's more entertaining than a Mega Man game, unless you specifically dislike the Mega Man style. And it certainly hasn't aged anywhere near as well as all of the Mega Man games. I wasn't saying it was awful, and they are very different games, but it's not like it's a game that most people will go back and play like they would a Mega Man game.
game value now shows its been at the same steady price for a year.
Mega man 5 is dropping? Since when?
game value now shows its been at the same steady price for a year.
That was my thought.
I got the 64 and it was put together poorly where it was not even all the way together, and the RGB mod, and 64 did not even work. I ended up having to spend an additional 30 or $40 on a scart cable to test it, and in the end I ended up just counting it as a loss and I still have it somewhere. The guy had apparently bought it from someone on a Facebook page and had never tested it or make sure it worked and then traded it to me like that.
Only time I've ever really been scammed on a game trade, and it was on this site with a completely legit member.
The funny part of that story is that one of the former owners of the pawn shop was selling games on Ebay a few years ago when I started collecting again and I likely bought my original copy of a CIB off him; after I paid he sent a message proclaiming he owned a shop in my home city that he was sending and it was a small world. We had a little back and forth message chat and he even claimed to remember the day I walked in like an idiot and left with 50$ for my stack of great games.
Live and learn as they say!