Dumb Buyers

[in99flames]

Im also sick of the damned NES mini craze. I love the idea of it, but the people paying crazy amounts...comon. Why spend the money on the nes mini when you can get a unique white nes console for 30k? One thats been "perfectly taken care of" yet has no boxes..manuals...dirt and cracks on the system.

Honestly though. It does disgust me to see auctions where people show off their literal pyramid of like 50 NES minis and then say "its sold out everywhere!! But it from me for 3x the price!"....yea its sold out because cum dumpsters like you bought them all to flip :-P

[Winniez]

The situation with the NES mini is appalling. And I think at some point ebay actively encouraged scalping those. The unit doesn't interest me much but I might have picked it up as a curiosity for the original MSRP and play around with it. It would have been a great gift for some of my mates who grew up with NES but have quit gaming long time ago.
The one good thing I can say about it is that the original retail price was surprisingly low given how much Nintendo tend to overvalue their old titles. Not that it matters since very few people got theirs for that price.

[gex]

The one good thing I can say about it is that the original retail price was surprisingly low given how much Nintendo tend to overvalue their old titles price.

Agreed, to the average consumer this is a very attractive product. Very well priced too like you said, considering everything included.

[Gypsy]

Not Turbobs but sweet holy shit: http://www.ebay.com/itm/172801605515?_trksid=p2471758.m4704

Wouldn't be surprised if it gets relisted due to non-payment...

[MrBroadway]

It is bad....its a terrible catch 22....some of the stuff you can only find on ebay yet the prices are through the roof. *sigh* even the non NEC stuff is just getting stupid. everyone thinks they have gold and wants to sell it as such. For instance....this moron:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/332183946418

850?!?!(not to mention 50 for shipping which is also a lot.) Ill have some of whatever he's smoking.

Hey, he's down to $699 now! 

[in99flames]

Lol. Awesome deal now!!

[Gypsy]

Maybe in time it will get down to the $100 or so that it might be worth.