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to restore, or not to restore...that is the question.

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paigeoliver:
The guys who make actual MONEY off the big name titles are not doing reverse conversions, they are picking up the complete games for cheap via ads in the newspaper and bulk buys.

If you want to make small scale money then go to the auction and buy yourself a half dozen dead games at $75 or less, fix whatever is wrong with them, clean them up, and then sell them in the paper at $200 each.

Prices have dropped too far on the classics to make reverse conversions profitable anymore.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: RayB on March 29, 2005, 05:12:07 pm ---You'd probably make more money buying old game carts and consoles at garage sales and then Ebaying them.


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Ther'es no money in that.  There used to be, and I used to do it, but the bottom has fallen out now that every garage sale seller says "well, I could get $5 each for those on ebay" and prices them accordingly.  The ironic part is that they couldn't, the market fell out for anything other than top stuff.

Flinkly:
yeah, i'd love to go to auction too, but the closest ones are down deep in california.

ChadTower:
Most of the time, if you get the cab cheaply enough and can do all the work yourself, you can pretty much break even or have a small loss when you sell.  Sometimes you can make a small gain.  It's never that far from what you paid, though...

...that is, IF you do the work yourself.  That includes the electronics repair work.

RayB:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on March 30, 2005, 09:55:32 am ---Ther'es no money in that.
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