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  3. Posted

    This thread should be of some help to you. I asked a little while back about someone fixing mine. Mine wont power on, I believe it is the fuse that can go bad in these. The user that replied that he could fix it has a website full of things he gets done for people, and charges about what you are offering here. I would email him from his web site and go from there.

     

    I started with wanting to get my Sega CD model 1 fixed and now I'm getting my money in line for a full mod on a VCS from him as well.

  4. Posted

    I will keep maybe 1 "backup" though it is normally also another model of the same console. So I have a front loading and top loading NES for example. I try not to keep 2 of the exact same model in the house.

     

    Not too long ago I started getting 1 boxes and 1 loose system of all the more common consoles for this reason. I can have a back up console and display it in the box instead of having to take consoles out of boxes all the time to play them.

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    You can own a gaming shop or booth somewhere, and make money without taking advantage of your customer base. I have seen it done. I can, and I have walked away laughing, but when I happened on the auction from which they were buying, first I was just buying games for me. Then I started getting trouble from these folks. Two of them tried to have me banned from the auction, all three of them would just tell me to leave when I showed up at their booth. I guess they were angry because I was buying the stuff they were trying to get to sell. They have every right to decide not to do business with me because I purchased something from someone else instead of giving them their cut. I have the right, and more importantly the ability, to shut them down.

     

    These are also the people that are cashing in on new collectors not knowing how to know the real value of an item. Its one thing to make up the price some to cover the costs of running a business, its another to sell games at twice their value because the person buying doesn't know better. I could just say "buyer beware" and move on, but I could also do something about it. I take the more active roll.

     

    At the end of the day these guys are jerks and they are just cashing in on the community. They have no desire to be part of the community or serve the community. They could be a friend to the collector and make money off the collector, instead they try to rip the collector off and act like you should be happy to over pay for these things.

     

    In large part this all upsets me because I do want to support the people that do these things locally. I don't mind paying what the game is worth plus a buck or two for them to run a business. If they buy the game low, and sell for a few bucks over value they can make good money, I save on shipping, and I'll see them every weekend to see whats new. When the prices are screwed up I can't support local people at all, and they wont hear reason. It ticks me off. "Well they sell for $25 on eBay and you don't have to pay shipping here" kills me because its a BIN price and they know it.

     

    Not to mention, flea market people around here do not keep their games in good shape.

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    Very nice spreadsheet HatefulGravey! I would like to see a non price - price guide. I mean expensive titles would be the higher numbers on a scale of one to ten. Some games are not rare but they command higher prices then some rare titles do. For example I have Panic Restaurant and Pac-Mania for the Nes. Both close in rarity but not in price. If you used something like a $ instead of R. That way when prices change you only change the scale number.

     

    Anyone know of any guides like that?

     

    Prices are going to change so much that it isn't even funny. I use this kind of spreadsheet as a way to know what games from the complete set I don't have, and as a way to know how likely I am to see that game again. The prices will vary, but with a list like this on a smart phone (which is what I do with these) you will always know if the game is rare enough to go a head a pick it up just off how likely you are to run across another in the wild.

     

    Also, on my smart phone I have the pricecharting app and that helps a ton with pricing items in the wild. It is the best source I have found. So you will have to combine a few things to get where you want to be, but an android phone will help you out with both.

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    There are other dealers in these places I don't mess with at all. There are some I'll outbid just because, and there are some I wont bid against at all. Believe me the classic gaming scene in my area isn't hurting for shutting these few people up and out.

     

    I don't mind the $5 a game people too much anymore. It used to bug the crap out of me. I hate to see a large box of NES games that aren't being sold because they are asking too much for them. I see very common and low priced items I don't have all the time for $5 and think how I would love to add them to my collection, but the game just isn't worth $5. So I end up buying a lot of games to get the few I want at a reasonable price and selling the rest online and or to the local gaming store. Just one of those things. I never complain about spending the right money on a game, I might pass if I can't afford it, but I wont complain because I can't get a great deal on. The other side of that is I can't stand paying $5 for a game I could get for $1.

     

    That said, I think NES prices are getting really stupid these days.

  11. Posted

    EA needs to bring back Mutant League Football.

     

    I would gladly spend my money on a remake of MLF. They could do just like they did last time and I would be thrilled. Same code, new look for the players, add landmines and players exploding into pieces on a hard hit. Sounds like a great time to me!

     

    As for the Madden games, I just can't see the price on them. Not to mention how complex they have gotten. I tried a few years ago to play and after I was done with the video showing off how to do everything in the game I was completely lost.

     

    The 2K series of these games was just as good, and sold for a lot less because they knew they were just changing a few things about last years game. Madden then picked up the rights to be the only people making NFL games and in doing so ruined NFL games for me. Just can't do Madden, and having no other option hurts.

     

    I did find recently where people have just been updating the code on ond NES games to include current teams and line ups. Pretty funny and a lot more fun than Madden IMO.

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    I have shut down two resellers in the last few years. I found the local auctions they were picking games up at and started buying the games at the auction before they had a chance to jack the prices up at the flea market. Its great, they just want the game at less than $5 so they can sell it for $5 and make money, I just want to shut them down and would rather spend that $5 with the auction company than these guys at the flea market. So far I have shut down 2 or them at the local flea market, and I have the third on the ropes.

     

    Well that's just dirty to me, buying at an auction and reselling is perfectly fine. I buy from vendors all them time and encourage others to support their local vendors.

    It's the folks who go to dirty tactics to keep others away or scam them who are the bad guys, not someone who just trying to make a few extra bucks.

     

    JMHO.

     

    You should see the way these games are priced and sold when they make it to the flea market. Maybe I'm playing a dirty game too, but it has always been giving them what they were giving out. These are the kind of resellers that want $15 for Super Mario on the NES becasue it's Super Mario on the NES. The thing that really got me started on this was the way they treated me when I tried to buy from them. When I saw a copy of a game I wanted I stood tall and offered good money, and was given this "you are lucky to see that game" kind of responce. These people have no desire to be part of the hobby even as just resellers, they want to cash in on people not knowing what things are worth and ruin the way games are priced in the local market. Screw em, they are bad for the hobby. I feel no regret in doing this to them.

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    I have left that "make an offer" mark on my sale threads in the past. More often than not I'm looking for anything reasonable and I'll let the item go. Most often I put this on common things I want to move and am willing to give someone a deal that needs this common hardware in their collection. I don't have high hopes for items I list this way, but still I normally get that insane low ball offer. This is why I have gotten away from this kind of sale. There are people that never post here, but respond to every "make an offer" with the kind of money a reseller would look to pay for that item.

     

    To the point the OP was making. I use Pricecharting.com to get close enough to talk about the game price. You can get a pile of good information on completed auctions there and get an idea of what a good offer looks like. I have only had one person act like I was trying to get over on them with PC prices.

  17. Posted

    I have shut down two resellers in the last few years. I found the local auctions they were picking games up at and started buying the games at the auction before they had a chance to jack the prices up at the flea market. Its great, they just want the game at less than $5 so they can sell it for $5 and make money, I just want to shut them down and would rather spend that $5 with the auction company than these guys at the flea market. So far I have shut down 2 or them at the local flea market, and I have the third on the ropes.

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  18. Posted

    When playing single player I'm slow moving when I know the enemy is around. I have been playing Fallout New Vegas recently and I love to get the kill long before the enemy knows I'm there. This method of moving through the game means I don't run out of ammo, I don't get swarmed by enemies, and I live to play another day.

     

    When playing multiplayer I'm kind that runs into the crowd holding a granade and waiting to blow us all up because that is just funnier.

  19. Posted

    the number one reason to buy it is Pac-Man VS

     

    three players control the ghosts, using the tv screen and gamecube controller. they have a limited view of the playing field and must work together to get Pac-Man.

     

    Pac-Man uses the GBA (and GBA screen, naturally) and can see the entire maze.

     

    fun times.

     

    And I'll be looking into buying that right now. I over looked this option as I thought it was mostly crap, but that sounds like an amazing time.

  20. Posted

    I would worry about my Sega CD dying again before I worried about the games. If you want to play a burnt game because you can't find or afford the real deal I understand that completely, but I can't see being so worried about the games that I refuse to play them. That just goes against the hobby as a whole.

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  22. Posted

    I have always been a collector of something. With this round of gaming, which includes many more systems, started about 3 or 4 years ago. I found the old collection and started playing it again, and thought I should go get some of those games that I always wanted to play and never did. One thing lead to another and I had to turn one of th guest rooms into a game room to make room for all the game again. The first round started in 2002 (when I got out of high school and could get a job to buy these things) and paused around 2006 and picked back up around 2008.

     

    During this time I collected action figures, Hero Clix, and comic books as well. Mostly anything that was dorky back then I was into. It all seems much more mainstream now.

  24. Posted

    I have always been a collector of something. NES was one of those things years and years ago. I had maybe 200 games, the system, and all the major accessories for it. I sold them all for a pretty good profit because I got them cheap in local pawn shops and flea markets when you could still do that, and sold them when everyone started wanting them again. I just wasn't using them as much as I should and wanted something else at the time. I can't remember what it was, but I know I never actually got it.

     

    I played Magic: The Gathering for the first 8 years the game was out. I sold my entire collection to a single person for a large profit. Turns out cards in great shape from the first few sets were worth a lot of money and I had tons and tons of them. As a friend got out of the game they normally gave me their stuff or sold it too me cheap so I ended up with thousands and thousands of cards.

     

    If I had to sell what I have right now I would take a little loss on most of it. Nothing major, but I would lose money because I would lot it out. I don't have time to sell everything solo like I should if I decided to do this right now. I would make a good bit on my arcades so that would cut the loss some, but not entirely.

  25. Posted

    Most of the dups I have are also donor carts. Bad labels and the like. I do have a few dups worth selling or trading to other people, but so far my other collections have produced more dups then my VCS collection. This is also in part because I keep different labels and such though. So I do have a few different copies of many games on the shelf too.

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