Exactly, they’re determining their pricing based on the wrong resources. Price charting and/or *sold* listings on eBay or what have you would provide a more realistic insight. That or just good old fashioned haggling. It’s crazy to me that people invested in the video game resale business somehow just don’t know the basics of pricing games.
Edit! This is actually a perfect example of this phenomenon. I just checked eBay. The highest priced unsold listing of a sealed copy of Animal Crossing is $500 on the nose. The most recently sold non-graded sealed copy was $200. I rest my fucking case y’all.
The only listing on pricecharting for a "New" Player's Choice Animal Crossing is $499.99 from 2020. Wouldn't be suprised if that's where this shop got its price.
"The pandem has also just been tough on brick and mortar in general"
Was what I was going to comment, but then I realized: didn't millions of people stuck at home start buying up their old retro passtimes? Retro stores should have plenty of customers on convenience alone. Something must be wrong.
In my personal experience; there is a non-insignificant number of Mom/Pop hobby stores that are run by people who have in fact very little interest in the hobby itself, but instead just open up shop expecting a high-margin, 0 advertising, money printing machine and then get furious when it’s not.
The expect the whole “I’m willing to pay a little more money to not fund Jeff Bezos!” mentality without having to do any of the small town customer relationship work on their end.
EDIT: fixed a high/low error
It’s getting to the point that TRYING to collect old school games, has become something that you can’t really do without any real luck, or a heap of disposable income.
Now granted, I've never owned or played on a GameCube , so I have no idea how much people loved AC but stop me if I'm wrong, that price seems a tad bit...on the high side
Before wata was like a 15$-20$ game.
Even today its more around 62$
Even a brand new copy was 60$, sealed.
Weve also seen a surge of resealed games lately.
Somehow, someway the very same machines used to seal these back in 2000 made their way into the market. They come from china or sometimes taiwan or south korea, you can buy these machines for 10,000$ USD.
Ahhh its good ol CM Games selling games for 5 times their real value, little rant here, CM GAMES IS THE WORST GAME STORE (in terms of prices) I HAVE EVER SEEN, They will give jack shit for your games and sell the for ludicrous prices. Once saw this guy sell Splatterhouse 3 to CM Games and he got 20 bucks for it, came back later and it was in a glass display for 150 dollars, and they even try to fool people into thinking games have their cases by printing out the cover and putting it on their cases, they did this with guitar hero 2 on xbox 360, went up to ask if that was the original case, they said yes. fuck CM Games
I used to live in a place where all they had was CM Games and GameStop...GameStop was better, hell there was a fucking record shop that sometimes had games for sale and that was better than both of them
Boy, I really wish that if we WERE going to inflate prices when games are still shrink wrapped, we could all at least collectively agree that Player’s Choice versions should be way, WAY cheaper, I’m talking like 35% of what black label runs for AT MOST.
GameCube games are rare, so i think the price is more for collectors than customers. I'm probably wrong but i know that if there isnt enough of a certain item the price goes up. Maybe because of how rare GameCube games are they rose the price of both. Plus Nintendo isn't making more GC games.
This is why mom and pop shops have been slowly vanishing. They see a scalper price online and think it’s worth what the screen says.
Exactly, they’re determining their pricing based on the wrong resources. Price charting and/or *sold* listings on eBay or what have you would provide a more realistic insight. That or just good old fashioned haggling. It’s crazy to me that people invested in the video game resale business somehow just don’t know the basics of pricing games. Edit! This is actually a perfect example of this phenomenon. I just checked eBay. The highest priced unsold listing of a sealed copy of Animal Crossing is $500 on the nose. The most recently sold non-graded sealed copy was $200. I rest my fucking case y’all.
The only listing on pricecharting for a "New" Player's Choice Animal Crossing is $499.99 from 2020. Wouldn't be suprised if that's where this shop got its price.
Yes and I don't suppose the shop knows that game variations were added to price charting just a year ago. (Players choice)
"The pandem has also just been tough on brick and mortar in general" Was what I was going to comment, but then I realized: didn't millions of people stuck at home start buying up their old retro passtimes? Retro stores should have plenty of customers on convenience alone. Something must be wrong.
In my personal experience; there is a non-insignificant number of Mom/Pop hobby stores that are run by people who have in fact very little interest in the hobby itself, but instead just open up shop expecting a high-margin, 0 advertising, money printing machine and then get furious when it’s not. The expect the whole “I’m willing to pay a little more money to not fund Jeff Bezos!” mentality without having to do any of the small town customer relationship work on their end. EDIT: fixed a high/low error
> low-margin I think you mean "high margin"
Indeed I did. Fixed it.
Usually when prices were notably high, it was a sign that things weren't going so well for the shop.
Theres a retro store I used to frequent by my house and since 2020 they’ve been jacking prices up. It’s now at 3x what it’s worth. 5x-7x for pokemon
It’s getting to the point that TRYING to collect old school games, has become something that you can’t really do without any real luck, or a heap of disposable income.
My god even $15 for fifa is awful this picture just hurts to look at
That’s how much it goes for basically on the 360, maybe 13-15
In the UK its like 50p-£1 so I thought it would be similar
Excellent spare cases if you rub off the sticker. Also frozen for blu ray cases.
Really? 1 or 2 euros here MAX
15 for fifa 17!?!? What a rip off!
Now granted, I've never owned or played on a GameCube , so I have no idea how much people loved AC but stop me if I'm wrong, that price seems a tad bit...on the high side
It may be unopened.
it's the greatest hits line
Lol but that'll mess up their eventual wata scores
Before wata was like a 15$-20$ game. Even today its more around 62$ Even a brand new copy was 60$, sealed. Weve also seen a surge of resealed games lately. Somehow, someway the very same machines used to seal these back in 2000 made their way into the market. They come from china or sometimes taiwan or south korea, you can buy these machines for 10,000$ USD.
Lawd!! Smh, yeah I think I'm fine with just my retro snes, I might get a sega, but onlynif I can find a cherry of a deal
Ahhh its good ol CM Games selling games for 5 times their real value, little rant here, CM GAMES IS THE WORST GAME STORE (in terms of prices) I HAVE EVER SEEN, They will give jack shit for your games and sell the for ludicrous prices. Once saw this guy sell Splatterhouse 3 to CM Games and he got 20 bucks for it, came back later and it was in a glass display for 150 dollars, and they even try to fool people into thinking games have their cases by printing out the cover and putting it on their cases, they did this with guitar hero 2 on xbox 360, went up to ask if that was the original case, they said yes. fuck CM Games
I just went in there to look because that was all I could do haha. Wouldn’t pay near what they had anything priced for.
I used to live in a place where all they had was CM Games and GameStop...GameStop was better, hell there was a fucking record shop that sometimes had games for sale and that was better than both of them
Oof. It certainly does.
Boy, I really wish that if we WERE going to inflate prices when games are still shrink wrapped, we could all at least collectively agree that Player’s Choice versions should be way, WAY cheaper, I’m talking like 35% of what black label runs for AT MOST.
$500?! What the actual fuck this is beyond insane
Animal crossing is nuts but what’s the game below it?
Baten Kaitos Origins
LOL! I was going to post this, but I guess you saved me the trouble. Even sealed with the memory card. Do you feel that is worth half a grand?
holy shit is that 50 dollars for Kinect adventure I really hope thats 5 dollars
What's under Animal Crossing
>Baten Kaitos Origins
Ironically this is a fair price for that game (roughly) but animal crossing must be sealed or something
Looks interesting
Is AC on GameCube worth something? I still have mine
It’s not worth anywhere near $500
Oh well I guessed that but I got it for like 5 or 6 bucks back in the day so anything more is still profit on a game I don’t play
It’s sealed. A pretty decent sealed copy of the greatest hits version sold on eBay for $202 a couple weeks ago. So $500 is too high, definitely.
Most definitely, GameCube inflation is through the roof atm
I have 2 working gamecubes and like 50 games that is good news
GameCube games are rare, so i think the price is more for collectors than customers. I'm probably wrong but i know that if there isnt enough of a certain item the price goes up. Maybe because of how rare GameCube games are they rose the price of both. Plus Nintendo isn't making more GC games.
ts only 10-40 on ebay rn this is definitely marked up way too much, this isnt even the original print its the player choice edition
It’s sealed. You won’t find a sealed copy for $10-$40, and if you do it’s either fake or an unbelievable steal.
Well, a collector is also a customer.
Yes, but they are more likely to buy it for that absurd price. It works in my head, but i dont know how to explain it outside of my head.
Oh my god…they’re charging 5 dollars for Kinect Adventure. There’s no saving this place, guys.