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Was this directed at me? Sorry, I was replying to Zoltor about the website that was linked in the previous page.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thunderblaze16
Pics of ebay auctions is the only way to make sure it stays up for a while. Also, ebay links tend to get posts auto moderated here.
Thought you meant me, and I agree with your second comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by sheath
This certainly doesn't happen at my Goodwill. I got my complete copy of MUSHA there for $3.99, and I picked up 3 PlayStation games there yesterday for the exact same price.Quote:
Originally Posted by tz101
Every game they sell there is $3.99, except for sports games, which are a dollar cheaper.
How old did you say you were again, Zoltor? 32?
@ OP = your premise is pretty reasonable but you're exaggerating the degree of its effect. Prices rise. EBay in fact was cheap to begin with. When auctions went online the value of nearly every collectible in the world took a hit; video games just weren't much of a collectible then and have become much more collectible since. Want to know how much all this stuff would cost were it still sold in regular shops? Go to GameStop. Then double it cz they only sell current or one gen old commons, think what the markup would be for anything truly vintage or rare. And yeah everybody likes to talk about the deals he gets from his local independent gameshop but those are all run in solidarity by other gamers in reaction to ebay, were there no online source they'd be getting squeezed out by more competitive retro shops.
re Zoltor = give the dude a break, he's just defensive cz he overpaid for his Sega CD Cart. It happens. I have about 100 DC games I overpaid for at 20 cents the Memorex CDR. Live and learn.
It's not just this one occasion, he's always like this.
My local Half Priced Books has started checking ebay, I can't find a single deal there on games anymore. But they don't exactly have a huge game section. I can still find games for cheap at Goodwill, but it is a crapshoot whether they will be in good condition, or a good game.Quote:
Originally Posted by jerry coeurl
Now when bids start at a decent price looks what happend
http://www.ebay.com/itm/290666397601...84.m1435.l2649
Fucker beat me by a dollar though I knew I shoulda bid 80 instead of 75.
Guys, quit it with the Zoltor bashing already.
As for the prices being driven up. You guys don't take into account that classic gaming is becoming more in demand. As more and more people try to collect classic games, the supply goes down. On top of that, more and more people from the SNES/N64 era of kids are growing up, having kids, and getting jobs, and want to say "Hey, I want to buy those games that I played when I was a kid so my kid can play them!" and then they go to eBay and don't have a big idea on what the price is worth so they pay whatever. And when the supply goes down, and the demand goes up at the same time like this, the prices go up.
Simple economics. It's not because eBay decided to have free listings.
Actually, I'm coming onto the opposite side of the fence here. I had an item listed recently that was bought by someone with like 1 feedback, and was in a country I don't ship to. The buyer did not reply to ANY of my messages or make an attempt to pay, so I had to take up a case with ebay. Not knowing when/if I would get my listing fees back (still new at this) I relisted the item at a higher price than before, and it sold the next day. If it were actually free to list an item, I would have done so at the original price, but since it wasn't I raised the price for the next guy. Moral of the story is that I'm not out to get rich (well I acknowledge ebay isn't the launchpad for me at least), I price my items to sell, and the less ebay and paypal takes from me the less I can charge people and still feel good about the transaction.