I went to a pawn shop about 25 miles south of my home yesterday looking for some Atari games. This pawn shop carries quite a bit of older systems including Atari, Genesis, NES, SNES and Saturn.
The first thing I noticed was a sign that said they were going out of business. ARGH! Everything was 50% off of the sticker price though so it wasn't all bad....until I looked at the prices.
I found an Atari 2600 with everything except for the power adapter which had a sticker price of $9.95. I figured I could get him down a few bucks considering there was no power adapter included. Nope, he said "We usually sell Atari joysticks for $5 so I'm not lowering the prices any". I just thought to myself "yeah, thats why you have a box full of Atari joysticks sitting here".
I snickered and said "That's why you are going out of business" and walked away.
Here are some examples of the crazy prices:
3DO system - $59.99
Sega Saturn system - $59.99
Sega CD - $59.99
Super NES - $39.99
Sega Genesis - $39.99
NES games - $5.99
SNES games - $9.99
Sega Saturn games - $19.99
Oh well.