NES classic mini discontinued

[godslabrat]

 

Around here it's a two-prong setup (at least it used to be, I don't know anyone who works at Goodwill anymore)- donate at the store, they throw away the garbage & unsellable stuff. Like porn & ammo. (That did happen once.) Then they price & put out stuff they might be especially low on, with most going to the wherehouse for further sorting & redistribution to the region's retail stores.

Unrelated, but does anyone remember the days of watching unmarked VHS tapes from goodwill to find homemade porn? Used to be a popular pastime before DVD got big.

[+jeremiahjt]

Went by my local game store today and they had an NES Classic for sale brand new. Only $249.99! If anybody wants it, you better hurry.

[Tanooki]

That is a sign if anything to find another game store to buy from if anything.

[Zonie]

Yeah, we had a great game store about 10 years ago. At one time it had three in the chain. Games +. I used to go there regularly and spend a little every time. I bought a lot of N64 and 2600 stuff including a complete N64 setup. It was owned by an old charismatic guy in a wheelchair. Eventually he closed two of the stores (employees were stealing, so I was told) and then sold the last one to one of his customers. The new owners was a young 20-something "kid" who also employed his younger brother. Older brother started gouging. He would use ebay in real time to price things. I got tired of getting gouged so I stopped going. Eventually they went out of business. It's sad as the younger brother, the one guy at the repair bench was cool, the other was a dick. The store degenerated into a stinky smelly nerd den anyway. Probably what eventually killed it. At least I traded a Sega Saturn and a bunch of old VHS tapes for a good working Vecrex from them.

Edited May 4, 2017 by Zonie

[Tanooki]

I feel that, same problem here. I'm originally from out west in southern california which I escaped. About my senior year in HS (1994-95) I found this wicked shop that had wall to wall games going mainly from the NES forward but there were also some random Atari and other stuff in boxes to look at too. The guy had somehow accumulated so much stuff, and not just US but Japanese too. Your average store would easily have some Nintendo, Sega, a few other oddball things in small numbers pre-1996. Him though, damn...a few hundred TG16 HuCards and CDs both loose and new, US and JP. A good pile of Neo Geo AES/MVS carts. Lots of Sega secondary stuff (32X, CD, and also GG+SMS stuff) in lower numbers but of good variety(just not many dupes) and the Nintendo stuff was into the 1000s. This was a period where your cheap game was $5 and you could choose to buy it loose or complete for the same price! I'd take a $20 in there each week pretty much through 2002 when I left town and come away with stuff. The worst things to buy at the time were no more than $50 for stuff like Tengen Tetris and CIB Dragon Warrior IV being the high stuff. The nauseatingly expensive things now were like $10-20 (Aerofighters SNES complete minus box, $20 for CIB Earthbound, $10 for Bubble Bobble 2+book, etc) list goes on. That place along with TZD loaded me up with so much US and JP CD games and US Hucards it was just amazing.

 

But as you said, 'dick' mentality creeps in. When people started to get greedy on Nintendo stuff around 8 years ago or so, the guys mind just snapped. He was a friend, but became an enemy to most. Suddenly everything was according to ebay, but then up charging 2-4x the paid prices on ebay because being local you could try it and get a warranty as if that were an excuse. And along with that if you wanted the box, the manual, the maps(if there), and even the dust sleeve each thing was an individual up charge. If you questioned it he'd get mad, and if you pressed it, you'd get tossed out. At the same time payout for traded in stuff was like a 50% value thing, and then it went down to like 10-15%, and sadly morons did it still, and he'd laugh about it after they'd leave and start tallying up the prices using a calculator right there on the counter. I quit going there after we stopped seeing things the same way. What got me when I asked him as a friend then, was that I asked him how he does it considering people can look it up. Simply put -- we're next to a boot camp military base and single guys get stuck there and very bored and have cash on hand, and also it worked to get kids ramped up for a game and then start to scream and cry for it when a parent would balk and sadly it worked ripping off weak parents and trapped patriots. A real scumbag move and I stopped buying. You know you're in the wrong when you do that, and then take a $5 game(then) of Top Gun or Little Nemo and charge $20-25 for them loose.

[0078265317]

Another cheapee popped up on ebay. But he has zero feedback. Probably a fake or scam.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Mini-NES-Classic-Edition-Game-Console-Region-Free-NEW-/152537688526?hash=item2383f469ce:g:2ZgAAOSwX61ZDIWD

[Kismet]

Another cheapee popped up on ebay. But he has zero feedback. Probably a fake or scam.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Nintendo-Mini-NES-Classic-Edition-Game-Console-Region-Free-NEW-/152537688526?hash=item2383f469ce:g:2ZgAAOSwX61ZDIWD

 

As a general rule, anything sold for less than MSRP, especially when other listings are in the 200's is counterfeit. If I still worked at eBay I'd remove this listing.

Edited May 7, 2017 by Kismet