normies didnt really give a shit about retro gaming before the early 2010s, but then fucking youtubers and influencers just had to make it mainstream and ruin the fucking hobby for everyone. I have to take out a fucking loan now if I can even dream of getting CIB copies of anything. Normies. Ruin. Everything.
Kiosk collecting isn’t for the average video gamer who complains about $80 gamecube games. I look out for kiosks and have 4 of them to my name hooked up in my garage, never payed more for $2000 for one(pokemon snap blockbuster kiosk), and lowest I paid was $700 for a sega genesis kiosk. Different price points for different collectors, don’t get angry because you find it too expensive. It’s not a stupid decision for me to buy stuff like this, but that’s because I can afford it. I also buy video games collections from eBay, collectors getting out of the game, ect, if you wanna start talking *money*, I’ve dropped well over $10,000 on a single collection before. Seriously please stop complaining about things you can’t afford. Most retro game collectors are like this, poor and picky, and complain about spending 60 bucks for tmnt on snes. And you are the kind of collectors I hate talking too. It’s like talking to a middle schooler when you are in college, you can’t take them seriously.
>>12884472Obviously you have to be a pretty dedicated gamer to want to collect at all but the collecting process can take as long as you want it to. Personally I don't like buying on Ebay because it's so impersonal so it takes forever to find shit because I'm mostly relying on pure chance of spotting it at a convention or a local retro store. But that does two things. First, it keeps it financially sane, and two, it actually makes it fun. You get a little endorphin hit every couple months when you spot a game you were looking for in the wild. I don't think I'd be as satisfied with the hobby if I were a millionaire and just told Jeeves to buy me a full NES set off Ebay, money is no object. I don't really care about the physical objects themselves. The hunt is the fun part.
A majority of the big collections you see are a result of someone who got into the hobby before it was considered retro gaming, or donations if your a high sub count tuber. Very few collection like this are from people that got into the hobby once prices started to sky rocket, most people do just emulate or buy digital rereleases. That's why most high dollar games take forever to sell because 99.9% of the world thinks its retarded to spend that much on one old game.
>>12884480So why don't they lower the god damned price and move product? It makes no sense. The people running actual physical stores, as well as big sellers on ebay are DEFINITELY involved in money laundering.Where is the actual demand for Tales of Destiny II for example? It's $200+ and almost no one knows about or cares to play it, and if they do they emulate it. So if you're the tiny, tiny minority that cares about obscure old JRPGs, then demand isn't competitive. And while supply is low, it has always been low since it was never a popular game. The economics aren't adding up. Not only that, it's not an amazing must-play game. If it was a cult-hit like Earthbound.If buying physical games is only for COLLECTORS, not players, then who the fuck is bothering to buy loose cartridges and discs? Collectors don't want that shit, they want boxes and manuals. Only people who play games buy loose. So the demand must be rock bottom for loose shit, yet the prices don't match up. They should be practically begging people to take them off their hands but they don't, they keep jewing and jewing away.And why is Pokemon inflated beyond imagination? These games have INCREDIBLE supply in the millions. Cartridges are dime a dozen, yet a loose Emerald with the front scratched off and a dead RTC so no berries sells for $250. Scratched up GBA SPs are selling for $350 with a simple battery replacement. It's disgusting and there's no excuse but plain and simple JUDAIC, HEBREW KIKERY.
>>12884464I hide all threads that open with images of this melting ogre. Just so you know.
>>12884517You just jealous that he can buy games cheaper, then inflate their prices and sell at a profit.
>>12884464>I'm mad that other people want the stuff I want
>>12884464this wasn't a youtuber problem, this was a "nerd culture" problem. shit like the big bang theory made nerd culture seem quirky in the late 2000s/early 2010s. that combined with 80s/90s nostalgia going big meant that there was more demand for older games/consoles. a similar thing happened with atari collecting in the early 2000s. shit sucks but people with disposable income in their 30s will always buy shit that reminds them of "muh childhood" and as long as there's a high demand, prices will always skyrocket. youtubers/e-celebs just happened after the fact in the 2010s. not saying you're exactly wrong but 2010s nerd culture is like a pre 9/11 vs post 9/11 thing for collecting video games. we're never going back.
>>12884464Just emulate bozo
>>12884464When a dude is so ugly he has triple chins and long oil grease hair that you don't know if there a tranny or not.
>>12885647He really needs a beard to hide those chins
>>12884480This.If you want you can get a lot of PS3 and PS4 titles for dirt cheap, because they're not old enough to be "retro", but not new enough to be modern, so it still happens, but it won't happen again with that which is retro already.
>ANOTHER "i got into the hobby late and it's everyone else's fault that i can't afford it!" thread
>>12884482
>>12885647he has a gf though, no-one here does
The gems aren't so hidden anymore
>>12884464why the fuck plastic is so important to you?real hardware is all that mattersconsole + homebrew is all you need if just want to have fun and not be a degenerated plastic holder
I took the Everdrivepill 10 years ago. Never looked back. Got them for all my cartridge based consoles and sold off the majority of my games except the ones that mean a lot to me. Never missed them.
>daily "Complaining about retro game collectors driving up the price of retro games when emulation is free, so high prices is only a concern to the collectors like OP who want to bitch and cry about a problem they created like the hypocrites they are" thread
>>12884472Do you take that 10k collection and part some of it out? I do this with $300-1k collections and try to sell locally at about 80% pricecharting before it goes to eBay and it's the biggest fucking waste of time so many of these bozos think I'm a full time reseller and this is my job so I'm super desperate to make sales. This is my hobby and I'd rather keep games local if I can first if not eBay. I fucking hate selling shit and I hate this community.
>>12885937It's his wife and she's old like him and has an old lady short hair cut. All the whores in his videos are his friends.
All antiques and collectibles are subject to trends and boom/bust cycles, this is nothing new. I don't know why retro gamer tend to be so myopic about this issue. I wonder if there are antique glass forums where newcomers are constantly bitching about how inflated the prices of fairy lamps are now.
>>12884464If the hobby is saturated with normies it's just a normie hobby now, you're a normie for liking it, sorry your super special little club is stopping you from owning vib ribbon or whatever the fuck.
>>12886431We're so much luckier in that we can always just get a flashcard or mister if we just want to play the games, our art of choice is distributal and eternal, owning the actual carts/discs is nice but it's all arbitrary.
Just like all hobbies the age of the internet kind of fucked them up and brought more niche hobbies to the general public.All of my "niche" hobbies have been affected, it is what it is. I like hunting, and I would pick up vintage firearms on the cheap back in the day and fuck with them. I got into doing restorations when I got my first Mauser. What was a fun resto hobby turned into "Vintage Collection" and now there's retards buying Mosins for $500+ but when I was in my teens they were on a bargain rack that the owner regretfully took in on a trade and would throw in a case of ammo with it just to get it out of the fucking store.Then there's fly fishing. I love it, it was relatively niche where I'm from due to it being prohibitively difficult because of the terrain here. My fist exposure to it was seeing someone else do it, I had no idea what it was before that. Now a major brand is backing an OF model.Same with Retro Gaming. I used to be able to go down to the local cash in culture store and pick up classic games cheap and go back to my apartment, get high and play some good old Gamecube or N64. Now it's way more expensive because its trendy. I go to estate sales still looking for stuff like that I'm getting crazy amounts thrown at me from just normal ass homeowners that are getting rid of their kids old stuff.
>>12886501sorry didn't finish my whole thought.At the end of the day tho, it being normified doesn't mean you have to give in to it being commoditized. You are choosing to spend the money on it, and if you want to, fine go for it. Nothing wrong with that. But its the money you CHOOSE to spend when you can just download an emulator and whatever games you want completely for free.
>>12885639That's stealing.
>>12886538Stealing from who? The original developers don't make any money from you buying a used game, clearly the physical resale market isn't being hurt by the existence of roms, who is the aggrieved party?
>>12886073>so many of these bozos think I'm a full time reseller and this is my job so I'm super desperate to make salesYou ever hear that meme that the 'X market' is so overrun with resellers that they are mostly selling to one another to keep prices inflated, but don't actually make a lot of sales? It's literally what these people believe. They keep telling themselves that "If I offer up HARD CASH, the reseller will accept a lower bid since no one else is interested, the high price is just wishful thinking by the reseller." They will offer you half of what you're asking, and act like they are doing you a favor with that offer. And they will always be confused that you reject their low-ball bid.Why? Because it worked once. At some point they made a lower offer for something, the seller accepted, and now they are 100% convinced that anyone paying the asking price for anything is a sucker, and that they should make lower offers for everything.
>>12886431> All antiques and collectibles are subject to trends and boom/bust cyclesRetro game hardware isn’t going down. Maybe individual games get inflated after a YouTuber makes a video, and then prices settle after a while, but in general these games and consoles aren’t funky pops or labubus, there’s only a limited number of them ever made and people want to horde them forever.>>12886538Making copies of games you own is legally protected by US law anon ;)
>>12885964Cartridges and discs are real hardware.
>>12885037Yes. Absolutely.
>>12886556Been collecting for 25+ years and in my experience, most resellers will take lower prices unless you are offering them basically nothing (and even then, ive had them take the offers on occasion). Especially true if something has been sitting for a while, they just want it gone and will even go below what they paid for it.
>>12884482>So why don't they lower the god damned price and move product?People do. Actual active sellers don't care about holding out for the top of the market prices and would rather move a product. It's mainly collectors that hold for the value of things. Quoting ebay sales of 100 doesn't mean something always goes for 100. The top is not the rule. I go to trade shows, cons ect. all the time. The people trying to sell their old stuff hold firm on crazy prices. The people running a business? They'll make a deal if you're buying. You learn faces and booths and figure out who is looking to move things and who thinks their old collection is gonna buy them a new car. It's hard work constantly selling old games, it's not a hidden lottery ticket, going to shows, driving around, being there all day, it's a job. Most of the long time sellers buy bulk collections. The method is buy low sell high, not cling till it till you get it's peak value.
When everything was cheaper I was a kid and couldn't afford it, now everything is expensive but I have a well paying job so I can buy some of the stuff I like, that's how life goes
>>12886431The big thing that remains to be seen with physical gaming is if they maintain their value as investments and if future generations still care about them. Gaming itself seems here to stay, and the gaming icons of yesteryear seem to be as popular as ever. Basically, while prices will ebb and flow, I don't think they'll be like Hummel figures, which seem like something that were very popular among a very particular generational group, but outside of group, most people think they're just junk. Like I'm sure many people, such as myself, have a bunch of old dinnerware and literal antique glassware which older relatives were certain would one day be valuable heirlooms, only to find that nowadays nobody under the age of 75 gives a shit about them, and the things that they once encouraged their kids to donate (or throw in the garbage) are worth many times more than what they were worth 25+ years ago. A good test is asking Gen Alphas what they think of old games. Millennials and Gen X kids could have told you they gave zero shits about Elvis dinner plates, which should have been a sign that nobody in their age group is going to want to drop thousands on them when they grow up.
>>12884464All of those late 2000s/2010s YouTubers like Pat the NES Cuck, MetalBoomerRocks, The Game Chasers etc all started because of AVGN. All of them cite him as their inspiration for doing YouTube. James unintentionally started all this.
>>12886775Pre-Gen 5 stuff had already gone back down, most NES and SNES games are pretty affordable outside the super rare or limited run stuff. Atari games are practically worthless, I remember tgey spiked for a little bit when boomers wanted to play their childhood games again but the trend died down. Im sure eventually Gamecube, PS2 and PSX ganes will go back to normal eventually. But thr downside of course is that electronics age poorly, capacitors need replaced, controllers fail, any rubber bands need replaced for disc or tape drives, etc. Most people have no idea how to fix electronics nowadays because everything now is designed to be disposable and difficult to repair.
>>12886775A lot of the really iconic stuff gets ported. Mario, Sonic, Megaman, Final Fantasy ect. If people really want to play older stuff roms will always float around. But yea, is anyone going to care about Little Samson in 30 years?
>>12886950I think that for low print games like that you don't really need a lot of interest to keep prices up.
>>12886982Interest is what makes people buy it though. If no one wants it, who is paying for it? Action Comics #1 only goes for so much because Superman is still popular today. Detective Comics #1 is rare as well, but goes for far far less, as Batman isn't in that one. I think demand will shift and things like original NES Mario games may actually over take low print games. As in 30 years a copy of a mario game on NES could be seen as Action Comics. Though, Im speculating 30 years down the line. I'll probably be dead.
>>12886892James is Vader.Mike is Palpatine.
>>12886073Yeah fuck em dude, if they don't fucking appreciate it then just resell the shit online. Is the issue that they think you're asking too much or that you're not asking enough and act snooty like you're a failing reseller?
>>12886445I kek'd at the Vib Ribbon line, good one to throw in that joke
>>12886649I went to Pat the NES Punks booth at TooManyGames in 2022 and he's a fucking dickhead.. I was looking at his games and I said "Hey man, been a big fan of yours for years" (I wasn't but wanted to be nice) and he said "For years huh?" And I noticed he had a loose Donkey Kong on NES with a really good condition label and asked about it (my label was fucked up on my copy). This motherfucker wanted 60 dollars for DK NES loose. It was worth like 40 tops in 2022. I was like "Well it's in great shape... How about $50?" And he grabbed It out of my hands and said "Look, this ain't a charity pal, you want the game or not?" I was like "I think I'll pass but thanks anyway" and tried to play it off like he was joking around but he just said "Mm" and I walked off.
>>12889457He could very well just be a dick, but old game collecting has become such a cutthroat thing that he probably runs into people who say they're fans specifically because they're trying to get a discount.
>>12884482The only brick-and-mortar shops operating sell and package shit for ebay on the side. They operate at a loss 90% of the time and the owner is slowly leveraging his dead parents' assets or something. I feel sad when I see another one close, but I know the people making decisions had every opportunity to cause shit to circulate. Business is busy-ness.
>>12884482>So why don't they lower the god damned price and move product?It's not an issue specific to gaming. It's a consequence of online marketplaces enabling a culture of trying to resell anything you can for easy money. The hustle, the grift. There are people that have warehouses full of shit and it's also accessible enough that anybody can do it using spare space in their house. There's always somebody okay with sitting on something for years. For example I'm sure there are hundreds of people with homes overflowing with unopened trading card boxes.
>>12884482That is one of the problems with modern "endlessly relisted, primarily fixed price" ebay becoming the go-to salesplace and pricing tool. You have people who are selling entirely as a source of supplementary income or fun-money who are perfectly fine letting something sit on ebay for months, or even years, without selling, because they don't need the money to support a business or themselves, plus they think that eventually somebody will come along and buy it. And the reality is, unless it is insanely overpriced, they're probably right, because eventually somebody will be desperate enough to buy it, or the market price will shift to match what they've listed it for. Plus, for low end stuff, ebay fees are so ridiculous (the fee applies to the entire amount the buyer pays, including shipping and taxes) that it makes it not really worth the time and effort to list an item for under $10 (unless you have a huge volume of stuff), so that starts to push up the perceived value of low end games which probably should only be worth a couple bucks.
>>12889709Yeah, I think shows like Storage Wars, tales of people finding a five figure item in a Goodwill bin, newly released items almost instantly going up many multiples in price, and people pulling super valuable things from card packs have made a lot of people think they're going to win the thrifter/reseller lottery. I also think it doesn't help that general finance unease (like skyrocketing housing prices and general inflation) makes people think that the only chance they have of getting financially ahead in life is via some sort of large financial windfall, as opposed to werkin' hard and pinchin' pennies.
>>12889907Financial issues have definitely accelerated the issue but I'm not foolish enough to believe there was never going to be a period of financial issue ever again. This had already started happening to classic cars for at least a decade, people sitting on 40+ cars waiting to resell for as much as they can. The difference there is the amount of money you need to do that is much greater and the space is a much more limiting factor. Smaller items taking up less space and lower prices for entry make it significantly easier to get into reselling for cards and games. Almost anyone can start doing it quite easily, make a profit off one or two items and keep going. The grading scams also bring more attention to these items for resellers/scalpers looking for new markets, it teaches them they could make money here. It's really not much different from scalpers which is a similar thing for new items.
>>12889976There's a lot of gambling involved in some of the modern reselling schemes (be it finding the right garage sale, pulling the right card, sending your card/videogame/whatever the fuck to a grading company and hoping that whatever grade they bless it with will be what turns your $300 item into a $30,000 instead of one that barely covers the grading fee), which certainly helps with the addictive nature.
>>12889692People have no idea how true this is. I'm friends with a few people who own stores in my city (not gonna be more specific, I don't want anyone ID'd), and everyone knows everyone, so I get to hear about it.Many stores actually just are leveraging family money. One of the stores in my city is owned by the son of a famous singer from the 70s/80s, and his father covers the costs to keep him out of trouble. Better to distract the nepo-baby from doing coke and burning out again. Beyond guys like that, basically nobody makes a full living off it (you'll find many aren't actually open much, maybe 3 days a week), with many having other jobs; it's basically just a fancy hobby for them, and/or it helps them organise community events. Then there's repair/modding services. Flipping games is a marginal part of their business, even if they love it.Guys mostly want to move stock quickly because it means people are thinking of them. Which means they hang out there. Which means events ("Come on down to retro night every Thursday, this week we're having a LAN tournament for Halo 2!" Then they sell snacks at a mark up and convince everyone they're buddies). Other Products, potentially some with actual margins. Word-of-Mouth. Are there some full-time stores and shit? Yeah, but they're also supplementing income heavily, like with shitty social media videos, and other products like cards. You think dogshit like DKOldies makes money just from selling consoles? Endless retards watch their dogshit videos like slack-jawed apes. Only collectors looking to get out need/want "full price" because they have literally nothing else to get from it.
>>12890059I'm just a small timer, own 6 retro consoles and about 100 games, valuation for everything is under 10k. Recently had a garage sale where I was selling a bunch of garbage sports games and various other games for $5-10, just trying to clean the junk I had from buying collections and the people I met seriously made me reconsider my passion for this hobby. I honestly think it's a me problem though and not the community but I couldn't stand a single person I talked to, if the were a scalper or collector it didn't matter I didn't like them one bit. I'm glad I sold everything else I wanted gone on eBay, I don't ever want to see these people again.
>>12890201I've listed extras on FB Marketplace many times. Just to offload extras. I always make sure it's a good deal just to move things.The sub-humans that crawl out of the woodwork are infuriating. Putting aside all the retarded haggling methods everyone else has listed already, cunts are will try and ask about other shit I own, any collections, so that they can try and buy shit.I used to play along with some small talk because I'd like to make a sale and I'm polite, but I'm not your fucking friend. I have friends. As an example, I had a guy send a photo of their collection, and ask for a shot of mine. Sure, whatever, and then they're desperately hitting me up to buy my shit. That story? It came up when I tried to buy a $10 game from them. I have a million stories, and it's make me dread buying or selling anything. I remember trying to sell a big stack of PS2 games as a bulk lot. It was around 55 games, and my price amounted to around $2 US per game. Mostly shovelware, but a couple of okay titles mixed in, i.e. the shit that makes someone want the lot. The title and first line of the listing explicitly say the lot won't split. I had a flood of over 50 people in a day message me, and literally 80% asked to split out the games, and 20% offered me a third or less of my asking price, which was already hysterically low. I sold it the instant a normal just said he'd take it. That still took two days, because the freaks have alerts set up to annoy anyone who lists anything.
>>12890201>>12890206Entitlement from buyers is such shit. People used to understand that regular folks selling stuff are regular folks. It's way shit people are being this way in person now. Like, fuck off. FB has pretty much always been shit, but ebay and craigslist used to be casual. I remember I was selling some toys and it was a lot of a few figures. 1 which spiked in interest. A marvel guy, think a movie just cam out, and was now going for 70. So that week Im getting messages on my listing frequently. My lot was 80. It was a buy it now and people were messaging me "how much just for the 1 guy?" Like... It's all of 10 dollars more and you get more figures. Im looking to sell this lot to someone who wants the whole lot. I remember having so many people send me dumb messages trying to convince me to split it up, and then some guy who never messaged me just buys it. Like, you snooze you lose dudes. I always find chill booths at cons. Not everyone is chill, some are scalper fuck heads, but some are really cool people who love this shit and don't want it in the trash. You gotta learn to gauge people a bit. The Simpsons Comic Book Guy type people exist, but so do some fun nerds.
>>12890201I am frequent in the garage sale scene mainly to not pay eBay prices on stuff Those are full time scalpers not collectors. They don’t have any passion for games they just heard it’s the hype thing to sell so they get pretty shitty when trying to get their goods. You can tell actually collectors because they are cool and being selective what they get
>>12884464What about a hidden chin
>>12889457Yea i kinda got that aura from him during times ive interacted with him at shows. On the flipside, i bought a 5 dollar Atari game from James once at a con that he accidentally signed thinking i was in his meet & greet line until i told him it was one of his games.
>>12890285Yeah I really didn't mind the scanner guys that were just on their phone checking everything and left when they realized I already made sure I didn't slip a $80 game in there. The ones that were persistent in getting the best possible price were annoying as fuck. Sometimes you find deals, sometimes you don't, I had some games half off pricecharting and people were still trying to jew me. I'm never having a garage sale again and I never want to ever see these people again. Made me seriously reconsider my love for games because I don't want to have any association or similarities to any of these people. I'm just going to keep to myself and if I have to make space I'm listing on eBay.
>>12890536I really think for some people it becomes about winning, maybe even more than getting a good deal. Yeah, maybe they catch a seller slipping or who really just wants shit gone, but just taking their great initial offer doesn't give them that sense of "winning" the transaction, gotta get the seller to knowingly knock $5 off their price just so the buyer can feel like they asserted dominance and walked away with a story of how they not only found a $300 game for $100, but they also got the seller to knock off another $5.I remember a public sale of a pair of extremely expensive games listed for literally single digit percentage of their combined value, and even then somebody in the comments was trying to get them to knock even more off the price.It's kinda the same reason why it feels so shitty to cut good deals nowadays, because chances are the buyer isn't grateful and instead just thinks they "won" the transaction and will try to flip for profit ASAP.
>>12884464>before the early 2010Nintendo launched the virtual console in 2006. This was the beginning of the retro fad.
>>12890059>Are there some full-time stores and shit? Yeah, but they're also supplementing income heavily, like with shitty social media videos, and other products like cards.Yeah either they do outside revenue or they have another specific selling point that keeps them openThe one near me is actually an arcade that charges a certain amount for hourly play and that's how it stays in business Selling games is just the side portion of the store
>>12884482>Where is the actual demand for Tales of Destiny II for example? It's $200+ and almost no one knows about or cares to play itWell later they will list it for 160dorrar and some people will be like WOAH look at this deal!
>>12890881Exactly. It's worst with games, but it's escaped to anything like FB Marketplace and Craigslist.It's reached the point where I list things for $5-10 above what I actually want so I can let these sub-humans think they won. It's not about the price to them, it's all about "winning".
8 bit games are pretty cheap
>>12890881>I really think for some people it becomes about winning, maybe even more than getting a good dealOh it's totally this, and it's on both sides. Collectors selling their shit want to hit the top prices they've seen, buyers want to basically get stuff for free. The middle area is boring. Where people just buy and sell things at reasonable rates. It's the gambler mentality. Win a little bit here and there and it really scratches the dopamine.
>>12884464>normies
>>12884464yes blame normalfags instead of the autistic losers that wouldn't shut up about it
>>12891906It's both. You can definitely sense that the shift in what brings in the big bux nowadays is driven by normalfags. Hardcore collectors used to care about the unique and the obscure, normalfag collectors are more interested in mint copies of popular, common games with an easily digestible number on it to assure them it's in good condition. Collectors of old went nuts when it seemed like somebody had found a copy of Bio Force Ape, a game previously only really known through screencaps in magazines. Modern day collectors go nuts when somebody finds the best condition unopened copy of a regular NES Mario game that was sold for years at every electronics store in the country.
>>12892089Gotta agree with this from my experience. I sell at a very small game show and i was selling a crt and had one of the Cho Aniki games running on it because it's funny and i wanted to let people see the condition of the set. Every single person that came up to look/play it asked me wtf this game was, even a few other vendors. You would think there would be more people supposedly hardcore into the hobby that would recognize things beyond the most surface level stuff.
>>12884464They also made the mini consoles cost $400+.
>>12892117Yeah no, it shouldn't be surprising at all that no one in your small irl game show recognized a game like that.
>>12892117>>12892820I first heard about Cho Aniki during the early wave of online videogame humor during the early 2000s. I'd imagine that a decent number of longtime collectors/gamers, age 35+, would remember it from that. But yeah, nowadays, I'd imagine not many are exposed to Japan-only games and only care about them if they're a Certified Hidden Gem or a Japanese version of a game that came out in the US/Europe.
>>12884464I didn't read this thread and I don't care about collecting but damn imagine looking like this dood.
>>12892117It's a nostalgia cycle, which means shit from 20-25 years ago, like when the NES initially blew up in retro circles. The references people are making aren't to that material anymore. They're referencing shit from around the PS1/GameCube eras.Of course they're not understanding your references. You're old. Soon, even younger millenials will reach the point where their references are phasing out of the wider circle. We're old, in the field of old toys.
>>12889907There's a sucker born every minute, you can just look at an average reseller and most of them don't look successful, their clothes are usually dirty, they drive around in shit box cars filled to the brim with garbage. I don't think I ever want to become a reseller. Maybe I'm wrong but it looks like a miserable life.
>>12893507So much reselling, especially when done by "hobbyists", is done by guys who are retarded. They waited 6 months to flip a game at 110% market value (let's say they sold it for $60) after hassling som guy on Facebook to take $5 off the top of $40, and they drove 20 minutes in their shitbox each way to get it. Then they burn all the time and energy trying to sell it. Now multiply that exponentially.It's the sort of shit where they don't realise that time is money, and they're going nowhere because what would be a good deal for a collector isn't a good deal for a retailer. You see it happen everywhere for a while now (ask women about clothes and shit being flipped), but games have been far shittier for far longer, by far more autistic faggots.
>>12893507It depends on the person. There are indeed what one may refer to as "scumbags" that just buy up anything they can to flip online without any knowledge nor interest in it beyond monetary value. I have also met however plenty of people that i have befriended that use the weekly flea market as a true swap-meet. Fellow retro gamers that know what each person is looking for specifically and will trade or cut deals with each other and can actually hold a conversation about vidya.
