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Best Buy Fail (again)
dre-w:
--- Quote from: Malenko on February 03, 2012, 09:04:28 am ---So have you been to a gamestop/ebgames lately?
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Haha. I'll never set foot in either of those places.. Matter of fact, probably not ANY used vg store ever again after the recent finds I've been getting from the swapmeets, pawn shops, goodwills, etc.
What really did it for me was when I went to the swapmeet and ran into the store manager from one of the vg stores by my house.. he was like "ooohh hey, yeh I haven't been here in a long time and just decided to go this morning." stack of games in hand.. and I was like ehh, so this is where you guys are getting all your games from.. then sellin them for more in your store.... which I guess is ok for the people that are too lazy to get out of bed in the morning and would rather just go the vg store and pay a lil more for their "swapmeet services"... but after that I haven't been in one since and don't plan on it anytime soon.
Although it does seem to be getting more difficult to find good deals on vgs in the wild, it's like everyone has become "aware" of vg's now. Most pawn shops and goodwills around the OC have them behind glass. I blame those stupid pawn shop shows and storage hunting shows. Now everyone thinks their stuff is rare L@@K valuable.. and now I'm even seeing notes on the price tags reading "AS SEEN ON EBAY" ..since when did Ebay become a legitimate price guide??!
Well Fed Games:
--- Quote from: dre-w on February 03, 2012, 09:26:06 pm --- Now everyone thinks their stuff is rare L@@K valuable.. and now I'm even seeing notes on the price tags reading "AS SEEN ON EBAY" ..since when did Ebay become a legitimate price guide??!
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Yeah, this cracks me up. Craigslist ads... "no lowballs I saw one of these sell on ebay for $xxxx"
SavannahLion:
The whole "eBay as a price guide" thing is kind of annoying. I think InQuest used to do that for their price guide.
Followed the scent of VG's into a pawnshop one time and was shocked by the asking prices. All the prices were really skewed, $5 for pack-in Nintendo carts? $2 extra if I wanted the sleeves??? A ton of stuff didn't even have price tags. WTF?
After a short talk, I come to find she was basing her prices off of eBay. If I wanted anything in the store (tagged or not) she checks the prices on eBay and decides right then and there what to stiff you for.
I looked in on the store a year later and it was shuttered. Doesn't take a genius to figure out why.
Richard_Nixon:
--- Quote from: Turvey on February 03, 2012, 06:23:44 pm ---But surely THIS CABLE is going to be better than the $5 one because it's got "a Dielectric-Bias System that reduces distortion and 100% Perfect-Surface Silver conductors for improved signal clarity" ;) :) :) :)
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Read the reviews for that cable. They are hilarious! :laugh2:
--- Quote ---I bought this cord to replace my unborn son's umbilical cord. It seemed the one he was supllied with from his monther had less throughput, more distortion and certainly no perfect-surface silver conductors.
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Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on February 03, 2012, 11:17:57 pm ---The whole "eBay as a price guide" thing is kind of annoying. I think InQuest used to do that for their price guide.
Followed the scent of VG's into a pawnshop one time and was shocked by the asking prices. All the prices were really skewed, $5 for pack-in Nintendo carts? $2 extra if I wanted the sleeves??? A ton of stuff didn't even have price tags. WTF?
After a short talk, I come to find she was basing her prices off of eBay. If I wanted anything in the store (tagged or not) she checks the prices on eBay and decides right then and there what to stiff you for.
I looked in on the store a year later and it was shuttered. Doesn't take a genius to figure out why.
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The problem about ebay is you are looking at the ASKING price, not the price the product sold for. It's a big flaw in regards to ebay actually.... you can't easily search ended auctions. In general eBay can be a good guide though, you just have to use common sense.
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