Will there ever be a TG16 price crash?

[roflmao]

I am ashamed to admit I have 3 fullsets of NA tg16.  One sealed (keeping), one cic (keeping for playing), and one cib (selling).

Over the next few weeks I will be selling these in the DoxPhile chat. I am proud to offer these to true gamers at bro prices. f*ck eBay and fb... I love you guys and am happy to spread the joy.

Enter me in this raffle.

[gex]

One sealed (keeping), one cic (keeping for playing), and one cib (selling).

Exactly how a Star Wars action figure collector sounds like

[StarDust4Ever]

Enter me in this raffle.

Most game raffles are a scam, and the few that are legit are illegal in most jurisdictions unless the proceeds go to a non-profit organization.

[gex]

Most game raffles are a scam, and the few that are legit are illegal in most jurisdictions unless the proceeds go to a non-profit organization.

+1 for StarDust in the next raffle

[Mathius]

I am ashamed to admit I have 3 fullsets of NA tg16.  One sealed (keeping), one cic (keeping for playing), and one cib (selling).

Over the next few weeks I will be selling these in the DoxPhile chat. I am proud to offer these to true gamers at bro prices. f*ck eBay and fb... I love you guys and am happy to spread the joy.

Enter me in this raffle.

I also enter Rolfmao into this raffle.

[BigusSchmuck]

*Looks at thread date* Jesus, are we still debating this? As I have stated in the past (others as well), if emulation hasn't killed it nothing will.

[780racer]

I am ashamed to admit I have 3 fullsets of NA tg16.  One sealed (keeping), one cic (keeping for playing), and one cib (selling).

Over the next few weeks I will be selling these in the DoxPhile chat. I am proud to offer these to true gamers at bro prices. f*ck eBay and fb... I love you guys and am happy to spread the joy.

f*ck, I missed the illegal raffle and lost all bro priced turbob

[Gentlegamer]

I buy and sell a lot, and have done so for about 8+ years now.  From $10-$15 carts to $1000+ sealed across many platforms.  And believe me, when you talk about people buying things on credit, you are talking about a very miniscule amount of collectors.  I get more people saying "Hey can I pay on payday" (maybe ~5-10% of people I've dealt with) than people just financing it on credit.  So all of those assumptions regarding the crash are flat out wrong.

What you do get are life priorities that take place over collecting.  You get married, want to fund a honeymoon.  You have kids, need to convert game room to nursery.  You buy a house / sports car and need  a down payment etc.

Or, as we age, your kid goes to college and you see a $20K+ a year bill coming your way.  Or you have to pay for funerals of loved ones.  Etc.  But those are longer term impacts that shouldn't even be addressed now.

Since the overwhelming majority of this stuff is NOT bought on credit, you won't see an tremendous collapse of people selling stuff for pennies on the dollar.  Besides, not sure if you noticed, but if you list a bunch of like items at 0.99 auctions (which firesellers would have to do), they tend to do well and come damn near (or beat) BIN prices anyway.

I do think prices will taper off at some point as our generation ages and collecting shifts behind other life priorities, but expecting a full on collapse is wishful thinking.

Are you administrating their PayPal accounts? How the hell do you know if they using credit? This is a serious question because you refer to it as a certainty and I don't see any way you would know at all. Do you have a storefront? You're making some pretty positive claims here.

In "collector" dominant circles like nintendoage, everyone bragging about being the biggest baller actually believes each other's ego-inflating/insecurity-masking stories. They're all rich and love to post the nerd gamer equivalent of pics of hundred dollar bills and gold jewellery and guns and stupid crap.

This is basically the mentality of omega level collectards:




They always have the same reaction when that stuff doesn't fly here: "you're all just jealous because you can't afford to hang with us true collectors!".


People like Goldenpp who post a short list of games they're looking for and then pay $3600 at once for a handful of them are not the vast majority of regular North Americans if it's not paid for by going into debt. He even admitted to not being familiar with Turbo games, yet buying ones he hasn't played based only on whims and videos.

I like how he spent $3,600 in one pop and still needs most of the rares.
#collectardfails

Goldenpp offered some insight into the mindset of those driving the market irrationally:

When I first began, things were cheaper, sellers were looser and in general it was a lot easier to deal with, it only took about 5 years for me to begin regretting going for complete titles because of the way pricing was jacking up so much, but when you get that far into something, it becomes difficult for some of us to back away and call it quits, even if it takes out a lot more money than expected. However, the urge for me to complete my various system collections comes from the desire to get it over with in the event the cost continue to rise, I do not want even more games to reach a prohibitive point that I can no longer ever afford to purchase them (as many have)


It's true I spend a lot of time collecting which is a lot less time I can use for the playing aspect, but if I spend too much time playing and not buying, suddenly that game I thought was 30 bucks is now 100 bucks, and that creates a lot of issues for me as i'm not a rich guy, this stuff takes a long time for me to save money for.

That is a vicious cycle that you cannot keep up with.

If there was a like button, I'd break my mouse clicking it for this post.

The great thing about collecting isn't buying the games, it's showing everyone online that I did.

[zetastrike]

I quit posting in haul threads on my other message boards a while ago.  I realized how silly it was to take pictures of my crap, upload them to imgur, and post them on a forum for others to see.  If I buy something, it's to enjoy it.  It's fine to share your experiences and opinions, but I'm not sure what I was trying to accomplish by producing photographic evidence that I bought a Saturn.

[crazydean]

I quit posting in haul threads on my other message boards a while ago.  I realized how silly it was to take pictures of my crap, upload them to imgur, and post them on a forum for others to see.  If I buy something, it's to enjoy it.  It's fine to share your experiences and opinions, but I'm not sure what I was trying to accomplish by producing photographic evidence that I bought a Saturn.

I used to be pretty active on a guitar forum and it's exactly the same. Maybe worse because most of the guitars posted are brand new. Like, anyone could go out and find that exact model in that exact color in stock at their local music store.

[gex]

Content/context I suppose, I see guys posting about finding $3 PS3 games at a pawn shop, and flipping them to a retro game store for $20 more. I'm always confused why they post something so uninteresting..  But on the other end I see guys posting quality stuff, like finding a TurboDuo at a garage sale for $20. Which is actually cool to see and is way less likely to happen. Anyone can go out and get those dirty pawn shop deals, just like anyone can spend their pay cheque and buy that $6,500 lot of TurboGrafx boxes on eBay.

[geise]

I am ashamed to admit I have 3 fullsets of NA tg16.  One sealed (keeping), one cic (keeping for playing), and one cib (selling).

Over the next few weeks I will be selling these in the DoxPhile chat. I am proud to offer these to true gamers at bro prices. f*ck eBay and fb... I love you guys and am happy to spread the joy.

Enter me in this raffle.

I also enter Rolfmao into this raffle.

I will not enter that raffle.  It's a trap set by null.

[zetastrike]

There was a guy on Atariage who posted finding a TG-16 and several games at an estate sale for $40.  That's the kind of stuff that's post-worthy.  I'd feel like a doofus if I posted a "Hey look at the cool stuff I bought" that anyone who can use a computer could have acquired.

[StarDust4Ever]

There was a guy on Atariage who posted finding a TG-16 and several games at an estate sale for $40.  That's the kind of stuff that's post-worthy.  I'd feel like a doofus if I posted a "Hey look at the cool stuff I bought" that anyone who can use a computer could have acquired.

More often than not, it's bragging rights. A lot of posts "look what came in the mail today" do not include the bounty paid for it.

[ChuChu Flamingo]

I don't their will be a bubble, more a correction and slow deflation. Kinda like keeping a balloon for a long time. This is due to faggers always wanting to sell stuff for more than they paid and never less, and would rather keep it.