>go to retrocon for vidya>every merchant is some soi>games are 10-20% more than on ebay>won't budge at allWhat happened to my hobby?
what's the appeal of going to something like this?
Honestly just buy on ebay. Make sure the seller is legit and get like $10 off asking price and if you ever resell it'll likely be worth more than you bought it.
>>12921632all the goodhearted ignorant old people that you scammed died off and were replaced by people who know how to do online research
>>12921632>retrooncon
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Is this in Tinley park?
>>12921632>every merchant is some soiGaming is the most soi hobby there is.
>>12921632Never been my experience and i go to about 5 shows a year. Though as a tip, typically avoid the vendors with large set ups that have stores somewhere else(though some smaller stores are alright). I go to the guys who just haul stuff out for shows only, smaller booths, guys selling other stuff that have a small amount of games they just brought along to try and get rid of. Last days of a show are also when vendors typically want to cut deals unless you are offering them retarded prices. I never pay over ebay value when i go to these things because i would just order it right there if i looked something up and online price was drastically cheaper.
>>12921653Nah, they still exist and i buy from them on a weekly basis. You would be surprised how often people dont give a shit. Usually clean-out people and women.
>>12921632There is some type of hilarious joke here. I know that con. Besides 'cartridges galore' that goes, every vendor there is below ebay. They use ebay as their 'we have to beat these prices' measuring stick.In fact you can SEE a local game stores logo in the back. Microgame. They outright admit they give 40-70% of ebay value to you in trade and sell for 70-90% of ebay value.Same with Megaton, Voltage, D&M gaming, etc. Most shoot for giving you 50% and selling for 80%. So op is retarded way off. Outright lying.
>>12921632When there is big money to be made, the wrong actors come in and ruin it.Happened to Pokemon cards, happened to the toy market and it happened to video games
>>12921632>What happened to my hobby?Huh?>Go to public event>Every solicitor is marketing exactly what I want>Product is 10-20% more than some decrepit, questionable, backwater, desperate mongrel from "somewhere" on the Internet>I can't bargain these local solicitors to match this 1-in-a-million example from The Web>Instant evaluation, efficiency, and no shipping SUX!C'mon man, really?
Cons and gaming stores are notoriously scammy. Just use ebay auctions and you can usually get a good deal.
>>12921632Youtube
>>12921745>>Product is 10-20% more than some decrepit, questionable, backwater, desperate mongrel from "somewhere" on the InternetThat's literally the con's participants dude.
>>12921686>Gaming is the most soi hobby there is.Except for arcade games. If you want them, sometimes you gotta Hulk out for them, or you ain't gettin' 'em.
>>12921738ebay is a huge pain in the ass for anything but higher value games>absolutely ridiculous fee structure that is based on the ENTIRE amount the buyer pays, including sales tax>have to pack and ship everything >buyer can get buyer's remorse, or for whatever reason can't get the game to work, even if you tested before shipping it out, and now you have to lose money on taking a return and risk getting a negative feedback>or buyer decides to start fishing for a partial refundHonestly outside of items that reach a price point where there's minimal chances of finding a local buyer, you're probably better off just selling on local groups for like 15-17% off ebay prices, since that's not going to be too far off from the amount you'd actually profit on an ebay sale after accounting for fees and shipping materials/time, plus you'll probably deal with fewer buyer-related headaches.
>>12921635See cool retro stuff you may have had at one point in life. Maybe purchase an old thing that you used to love. Poop on top of a toilet.
Used to be better deals at these things. Most of the stuff at these conversations sold these days is merch of varying quality
>>12921632Good thing Portland retro gaming expo was a total busy this year. I feel like we have a good reseller to paypig ratio right now that's going to cause the process to crash.
>>12921686Nah, that would be anime/manga.
>>12922157To be fair, the overlap between anime/manga fans and the kind of gamers who would attend a retro-focused gaming convention is dangerously close to 1:1.
>>12921632>every merchant is some soiyou're looking in a mirror
>>12922192from a 45 degree angle with you standing in front of it. checkmate
>>12921842>Poop on top of a toilet.how does one poop below the toilet?
>>12922250Poop typically goes in a toilet. But I was referring to an upper decker.
>>12921657trans out of nowhere. obsessed
>>12922473Cope, seethe and dilate
>>12921635If you're fascinated by weird creatures such congregations are always worth visiting. E. g. I hate modern art but I go to the modern art museum now and then (it's free or extremely cheap sometimes), sit down and just watch the freakshow these places attract. Guys in skirts, troons, landwhales, danger hairs, turbo autists with cat ears and plush toys, all the "good" stuff.
>>12921632>>games are 10-20% more than on ebayembarrassing
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>>12922563i wouldnt mind this as long as I am allowed to touch the games, inspect the discs, browse, etc. If this shit is all sealed behind glass i might as well buy blind on ebay
>>12921632I got Yuzo Koshiro to sign some of my original Sega stuff from my childhood.The stuff might have been expensive but I think its more about the experience of going to a place and hand picking a thing.I pretty much have every game I want, I mainly brought a few stickers as mementos.In the console area I did like seeing the old pong clones. They also had those big gamebooks and records, they were bigger than I expected.
>>12921635>what's the appeal of going to something like this?its a friend simulator
>>12922575hey there normal guy
>>12922586yeah, i would need to look at crap before i bought the crap, like i would in any other place offering physical sales>>12922598>I got Yuzo Koshiro to sign some of my original Sega stuff from my childhood.that stuff will be worth a lot of money in years time, depending on what you mean by "stuff'. hopefully carts? it's insanely difficult to get anyone of them from sega/nintendo etc. to sign things so it's considered rare. things to pass down to grandchildren kind of rare.
>>12923965I got him to sign a game console that was the family system. I was thinking what to bring like Sonic SMS but in the end I thought getting him to sign a thing I just brought on ebay wouldn't be as special. Its about having the thing he held and signed, even if the signature was wiped off, it still wouldn't make much of a difference to me. I would have got him to sign Archion (what Victor Ireland would have called Earhion if he bought it to the west back in the day) if it was released in time.I shudder at the thought of some flipper trying to low ball my on it and not even knowing who he is.One cool thing another place was going to do was do a multiplayer match with 8 Lynxes, there should more of that type of thing.
>>12922157This is cope. Video games are for the beta omega males of society. If you play video games for more than 15-20 minutes, you're either a child or a fucking soiboy faggot who has a small dick, no real friends, and no real hobbies. There's literally nothing distinguishing you pixel huffers except for your pol mindset and if you talk aloud, you'll realize you sound like a worthless chud who has no love in his heart.
>>12921786Thats cute Faraz, but we know you are a skinny pussy who couldn't lift more than three Xboxs stacked on top of each other
>Limited supply of things that won't be made again>Booths cost more money than ebay and you're guaranteed hyped-up people with some interestWhy won't they sell me what they have for less money than market value, REEEEEE!
>>12924750>has a small dick, no real friends, and no real hobbies. There's literally nothing distinguishing you pixel huffers except for your pol mindset and if you talk aloud, you'll realize you sound like a worthless chud who has no love in his heart.I have a small dick but I'm more of a grower than a shower. Flaccid it's a couple of inches but erect it is about 6 inches. Who cares. I was reading gossip on the korean internet and the girls say that hardness matters more than size. No one wants a big wet noodle.Friends are a meme. Only kids have friends. No adults have real friends. What for. We're men here.Hobbies are also a meme. Hobbies are something you do once or twice a year just to say that you do it. Yeah my hobby is skiing or something. Whatever.But I'm a winner. I have financial freedom, I speak several languages fluently, I have good numbers in the gym and a good body, I have sex with a lot of women. And I love everyone. So the worthless chud is you, kiddo.
>>12924786Honestly, it's a lot of fun fucking around on GTA Online with strangers and frens so it's not like it's a HORRIBLE Jewish thing to do, video games are a pretty based invention but only in moderation. It's another drug and companies design it like a slot machine, roulette, etc. You get addicted to it and it deteriorates the quality of your life. People dream of being good goyim more than they dream of being free and strong.
>>12921632>>games are 10-20% more than on ebay>>won't budge at allYeah but you aren't paying for shipping, and you can personally inspect the game before buying. You can't do that with ebay.
>>12921635i know it's hard to imagine for a brain-damaged autist like yourself that has a panic attack at just thinking about talking to another person, but we humans (not (You), you're a lesser incomplete human) are social creatures and we crave social interaction and connection. conventions give that.
>>12922541>going to modern art shows to watch the people, not the artYou could probably label this as modern performance art and make a decent amount of money with your hobby, anon. Then the freaks will even pay you for staring at them kek.
>>12921740>>12921636>>12921632Yep, I refuse to buy from people setting those prices. There should be some incentive to buy from them in-person rather than online.They're stupid too because it's counterproductive to set your prices like that, most customers look up prices too and your inventory will move very slowly versus sellers who actually give reasonable deals and get way more sales.
Pretty much all collecting is like that. Reseller are willing to our history collect dust and rot in their hoarder home before they'll ever sell it for less than top dollar. The mom and pop gaming store I use to live by was going out of business so I paid a visit and even with their sale nothing was worth it. But I get it. If these people don't price things on par with the market then some other reseller is going to just buy them out and have an even bigger over priced hoard. If prices are going to ever go down all the dominos will have to fall at once.
>>12921632What bothers me more than anything is that none of the people that insert themselves into hobbyist spaces have anything beyond surface level knowledge/taste. It's just tiresome. I want to hear about things you like not things a youtuber told you to like.
>>12924750By your reasoning, even the average milf on her phone playing candy crush is an omega beta with limp puss flaps.
>>12925162Disregarding the fact that she withholds sex for power, she is a beta chud because she doesn't provide any value considering a good mother doesn't waste her time playing candy crush in the first place. She's just an overgrown teenager that popped a baby out and is now a "mom". Proper moms are groomed for the job and have experience dealing with kids from a younger age.Not all are like that but a vast vast majority are and unfortunately that is the state of America today. People are literally slaves to dopamine.
>>12924849And the seller should feel incentivized to sell in person. Granted, if you have a local store, there's a chance of a return, but you're probably less likely to run into issues like that versus selling on ebay, where there's that looming cloud of a buyer randomly deciding to initiate a return for whatever reason.
>>12922541Based
>>12921837>absolutely ridiculous fee structure that is based on the ENTIRE amount the buyer pays, including sales taxthey mmade changes in the last year or so that makes it so now all the fees are put on the buyer so you dont have to worry about that anymore. the buyer sees it in the price of the item which is different to what you list at
>>12921632I go to look and maybe get something for cheap or market price if I really want it, but I usually go to free events or have a cheap entry fee and I'll hang with a buddy or two to talk about the vidya we see. most cons are like this btw, anime stuff can get just as egregiously expensive, but the pooint is to hang with friends, see random cool things, maybe buy a couple things.
>>12922181ITT: /vr/ discovers that nerds exist
>>12925379This.If you're set out on just buying it and don't care about anything else, look for offers on Ebay and keep tracking them until something good shows up, and if you care mostly about playing then just emulate. Events like this work mostly for the environment and the interactions.
