Anyone else have the problem of impulse buying? Every time I start looking at games for sale I end up buying a few. I have spent just over $700 in the last 3 months!
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Anyone else have the problem of impulse buying? Every time I start looking at games for sale I end up buying a few. I have spent just over $700 in the last 3 months!
I know exactly what you mean, for I also have this impulse.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnyb37
CDs, DVDs, games. If I find 1 or 2 that I want to buy, I'll go through all the seller's inventory to try and make a combo purchase.
I buy Genesis games on ebay that I don't particularly want, just because they're complete & cheap.
See, this is exactly what I'm talking about. I want this game, but there's no way it's worth this much!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Batman-Sega-Gene...QQcmdZViewItem
They must be on crack. I'll keep my eyes open around here for it.
Another one was Earthworm Jim 2 for $50. Cartridge only.
If Ebay was cheap like the old days I might try that also. I would have an auction for every game I have. If I sold one I would be making out like a bandit.
It`s great buying something on impulse and comming across the same game a few days later at half the price! Once I make my mind up on buying something I dont feel like looking around or playing the waiting patiently game.
I do that sometimes. Every now and then I'll just go on a binge and pick up a bunch of MVS games or something. Fortunately, I can generally stop around the $200 mark.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnyb37
Got a complete Zombies Ate My Neighbors for under $20. That was all I was hoping for. What are the odds that I'll be able to get a CIB Herzog Zwei for under $30?
yeah I went on an impulse binge this month and blew almost two grand! argh! Most of the buying was at excellent prices (benefit of economic downturn) a few though I overpaid but only a few and I didn't overpay by much. Neo Geo stuff is expensive.
Hmmm... don`t think the odds will be too good.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMatthews
Perhaps not by conventional methods
I payed $199.99 for Cyber-Lip for NEO-GEO in 1991. That was the most expensive game I ever bought. I got my money back though, I could not justify keeping it. As for an expensive game that was actually worthwhile, I didn't mind paying $99.99 for Phantasy Star IV as soon as it reached U.S. stores in February 1995.
I bought Herzog Zwei twice in 1990. I think Babbage's had it for either $39.99 or $44.99, it wasn't priced the same as most Genesis games. The first time I bought it, around late July or early August 1990, I had already planned to return it because the money was meant to be for AfterBurner II coming out later in the summer or very early fall. I just decided to try HZ thinking I wouldn't like it. But it turned out I liked it SO much, it was so much fun building up defenses and strategizing, I promised myself I'd buy it again as soon as I could, when I had more money after ABII. So the second time I got HZ, sometime in late August or September 1990, I kept it, and have the same copy to this day, I never let it go.
Herzog Zwei is one game every Megadrive/Genesis owner should have. If it wasn't my favorite Genesis game, it would at least be on my top-5 list.
You didn't make not having this game any easier, thanks.
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