Author Topic: WTB: 6 Complete US TG16/SuperCD games.  (Read 6075 times)

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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #135 on: June 12, 2016, 01:04:19 AM »

Let's make out.

Fine, I guess.

lol.  only if you're buying...and null films it.


back to pp-head:  im not sure where the whole "somebody deserves it more" thing came from, as i dont believe anybody is better than the next or deserves it more at all.  i also dont think anybody cares what you paid in all honesty.  truth ne told, i am glad you lined jellos pockets by over $1000 overpayment for what you got.  he's a good dude and does great repair work.  you know...somebody who contributes any way he can.  it doesnt take much, find some turbo/pce nugget nobody realized, add a mag scan or two, help a member answer a question they dont know, etc. 
any time a good "for sale" thread pops up that is well under market you will often find its a good member and they will set rules.  generally a minimum post count (even if your count is high, it shouldnt be 100 posts in word association or something stupid like what the f*ck SP stands for).  but i digress, can you find a few other areas of the site to post in so you dont keep digging a bigger hole for yourself.

i am trying to help.
« Last Edit: June 12, 2016, 02:33:14 AM by gynt »

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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #136 on: June 12, 2016, 02:52:36 AM »
I don't think am entirely "oblivious" of the issues that stir the "collectard" debate. I just personally don't care, and perhaps it's a blanket statement, but the only reason I see others do is because they are affected by the increase in prices. They are affected because they have more sense than money, have waited patiently to eventually acquire a game, only to become unobtainable due to "collectard's"/"insta-collectors" who don't subscribe to their same ideology driving prices up.

I'm a gamer and not a collector, so it doesn't really affect me (I'm perfectly happy with my Everdrive and CDRs and some choice originals), so it's the long term collectors who chastise the new collectors as if their long time membership in this exclusive club gives them entitlement over the supply of games in the wild. And from what I see, these folks getting rattled over not being able to complete their collections is just as weird to me as the ones who pay 3.6K for their instant collections. But at the end of the day, to each their own.

Now I'll take Esteban's suggestion and go back to trying to beat Gate of Thunder in Hard; that last level is giving me fits!

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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #137 on: June 12, 2016, 06:48:48 AM »

Let's make out.

Fine, I guess.

lol.  only if you're buying...and null films it.


back to pp-head:  im not sure where the whole "somebody deserves it more" thing came from, as i dont believe anybody is better than the next or deserves it more at all.  i also dont think anybody cares what you paid in all honesty.  truth ne told, i am glad you lined jellos pockets by over $1000 overpayment for what you got.  he's a good dude and does great repair work.  you know...somebody who contributes any way he can.  it doesnt take much, find some turbo/pce nugget nobody realized, add a mag scan or two, help a member answer a question they dont know, etc. 
any time a good "for sale" thread pops up that is well under market you will often find its a good member and they will set rules.  generally a minimum post count (even if your count is high, it shouldnt be 100 posts in word association or something stupid like what the f*ck SP stands for).  but i digress, can you find a few other areas of the site to post in so you dont keep digging a bigger hole for yourself.

i am trying to help.

I'd like to see your method to finding that combination of titles for 1000 dollars less, unless that method includes sitting on here praying someone post a 'sweet deal' anyways. The pricing he and I worked out was actually him giving it out cheaper than the normal eBay prices, especially for the condition. Rather, I would say the pricing I paid was somewhat in line with what the average listing was going for a year or two ago. His pricing was (almost always) a decent bit below eBay pricing on an individual basis anyways. As they say, something is only worth what people are willing to pay, I do believe that I could easily resell that stuff and make at least a decent profit right now, let alone in a year or so with god knows how it will keep trending.

Thankfully I hope to die with these still in my possession, but I just don't think it's fair to me or jello to imply I got ripped off, as he seems like a nice and fair individual (who may have made a profit based on what he once paid, but not for what it could be worth today), and I am generally pretty savvy when it comes to realistic value.

At worst, it was fair, but I won't be testing those waters to find out.

« Last Edit: June 12, 2016, 06:51:49 AM by goldenpp72 »

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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #138 on: June 12, 2016, 08:09:54 AM »
If the difference between good and very good = $1000 or the difference between CIC games and CIC + disposeable boxes is $2000, it is not difficult at all to figure out the difference in price between what you paid and what you could gave gotten them for on eBay. You even added several premium disclaimers yourself. You paid a massive premium for a potentially slight bump in condition and/or superfluous completeness. If the $1000 difference in condition between great and omega great is indiscernible while seeing them on your shelf and only while they are in your hands next to the slightly less perfect copies that you didn't actually buy... you can feel that it was money well spent. But don't play dumb pretending that you don't understand how they would have cost $1000 - $2000 less purchased separately. Unless you really have no idea of what they sell for. Just agree that you could have settled for less than the best for less, but money is no more of a concern for you than knowing if you care enough about a game before dropping double to triple its going rate to buy it and add to the queue of games you might try only after you've completed piecing together your complete set. You are more interested in the real life cardboard collecting sim than any game that exists in the Turbo library. This is a Turbo game enthusiast community and not a cardboard sim community.

Just enjoy playing your prefered game and stop trying to win over Turbo game fans with sim talk. If you want to join the Turbo discussion, ignore this thread and join some of the game discussion or create a thread to talk about your game experiences.
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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #139 on: June 12, 2016, 08:37:16 AM »
It's kind of like a comic book. Condition condition condition and what you are willing to pay and or value.


Example. I have a .5 graded copy of the first appearance of the Juggernaut. What I really wanted was


A key issue to add to my comics

"Pretty cover" condition.

And I got just that.  For $35.

For some that wouldn't have been good enough and would have paid the premium $1,000 plus for a 9.what ever condition copy.

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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #140 on: June 13, 2016, 05:19:07 PM »
My balls, my sack, my mangina and my crack.

what is...nulls christmas party?



Let's make out.

Fine, I guess.

lol.  only if you're buying...and null films it.


back to pp-head:  im not sure where the whole "somebody deserves it more" thing came from, as i dont believe anybody is better than the next or deserves it more at all.  i also dont think anybody cares what you paid in all honesty.  truth ne told, i am glad you lined jellos pockets by over $1000 overpayment for what you got.  he's a good dude and does great repair work.  you know...somebody who contributes any way he can.  it doesnt take much, find some turbo/pce nugget nobody realized, add a mag scan or two, help a member answer a question they dont know, etc. 
any time a good "for sale" thread pops up that is well under market you will often find its a good member and they will set rules.  generally a minimum post count (even if your count is high, it shouldnt be 100 posts in word association or something stupid like what the f*ck SP stands for).  but i digress, can you find a few other areas of the site to post in so you dont keep digging a bigger hole for yourself.

i am trying to help.

I'd like to see your method to finding that combination of titles for 1000 dollars less, unless that method includes sitting on here praying someone post a 'sweet deal' anyways. The pricing he and I worked out was actually him giving it out cheaper than the normal eBay prices, especially for the condition. Rather, I would say the pricing I paid was somewhat in line with what the average listing was going for a year or two ago. His pricing was (almost always) a decent bit below eBay pricing on an individual basis anyways. As they say, something is only worth what people are willing to pay, I do believe that I could easily resell that stuff and make at least a decent profit right now, let alone in a year or so with god knows how it will keep trending.

Thankfully I hope to die with these still in my possession, but I just don't think it's fair to me or jello to imply I got ripped off, as he seems like a nice and fair individual (who may have made a profit based on what he once paid, but not for what it could be worth today), and I am generally pretty savvy when it comes to realistic value.

At worst, it was fair, but I won't be testing those waters to find out.



lol.  and you see one or two people paid this much, so that is what it must be worth.
since i just heard of the turbografx two weeks ago, and i need the games immediately, there is no time to research beyond most recent sold ebay listings.
« Last Edit: June 13, 2016, 05:34:05 PM by gynt »

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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #141 on: June 14, 2016, 04:45:16 AM »
My balls, my sack, my mangina and my crack.

what is...nulls christmas party?



Let's make out.

Fine, I guess.

lol.  only if you're buying...and null films it.


back to pp-head:  im not sure where the whole "somebody deserves it more" thing came from, as i dont believe anybody is better than the next or deserves it more at all.  i also dont think anybody cares what you paid in all honesty.  truth ne told, i am glad you lined jellos pockets by over $1000 overpayment for what you got.  he's a good dude and does great repair work.  you know...somebody who contributes any way he can.  it doesnt take much, find some turbo/pce nugget nobody realized, add a mag scan or two, help a member answer a question they dont know, etc. 
any time a good "for sale" thread pops up that is well under market you will often find its a good member and they will set rules.  generally a minimum post count (even if your count is high, it shouldnt be 100 posts in word association or something stupid like what the f*ck SP stands for).  but i digress, can you find a few other areas of the site to post in so you dont keep digging a bigger hole for yourself.

i am trying to help.

I'd like to see your method to finding that combination of titles for 1000 dollars less, unless that method includes sitting on here praying someone post a 'sweet deal' anyways. The pricing he and I worked out was actually him giving it out cheaper than the normal eBay prices, especially for the condition. Rather, I would say the pricing I paid was somewhat in line with what the average listing was going for a year or two ago. His pricing was (almost always) a decent bit below eBay pricing on an individual basis anyways. As they say, something is only worth what people are willing to pay, I do believe that I could easily resell that stuff and make at least a decent profit right now, let alone in a year or so with god knows how it will keep trending.

Thankfully I hope to die with these still in my possession, but I just don't think it's fair to me or jello to imply I got ripped off, as he seems like a nice and fair individual (who may have made a profit based on what he once paid, but not for what it could be worth today), and I am generally pretty savvy when it comes to realistic value.

At worst, it was fair, but I won't be testing those waters to find out.



lol.  and you see one or two people paid this much, so that is what it must be worth.
since i just heard of the turbografx two weeks ago, and i need the games immediately, there is no time to research beyond most recent sold ebay listings.

Do you conveniently overlook things stated just to make a point that makes no sense? I've been collecting on this system for a couple years now, and I use the same resources everyone else uses (price charting, ebay, rarityguide, etc)

Typically, if something is obscure and hard to find, the last time it sold will become the new bar. As example, a copy of Kid Dracula (GB) sold for 400 bucks 3 years ago, the last one sold for 700 dollars. So using your logic, because that game pops up maybe once a year, it should be practical to find for 400 dollars, right? To use a more recent example, a copy of Shadowrun sold for something like 200 on the Snes, which seemed really high compared to the normal, I found a copy for about 80 in excellent shape, which is more in line with the usual pricing, but because it's common enough to run into, it doesn't cause a feeding frenzy.

If so, it would explain why so many people are not finding what they want. Curious, I recently obtained a nice condition Super Air Zonk, what price would you say that one would be able to get for it realistically, or rather, if an auction of 1 dollar was made, how aggressive do you think people would go on it?
« Last Edit: June 14, 2016, 04:50:53 AM by goldenpp72 »

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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #142 on: June 14, 2016, 04:54:36 AM »
I like how almost every single post he's ever made on this forum revolves around buying games or bragging/defending his collection.

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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #143 on: June 14, 2016, 05:11:38 AM »
i wont even comment on your other two "resources", but i love the SAZ comparison.
you can play the exact same game, running on any USA hardware for $50 if you can get over the fact its the PCE version.  essentially, you are paying almost what, $450 for a USA case/manual.  so come on,  that has to sound rediculous to even you.

at least use a comparison of bonk 3 CD or beyond shadowgate since they were usa exclusives.  in a weird way, i can understand the premium since its only option.
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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #144 on: June 14, 2016, 05:28:29 AM »
I liken it to other forms of collecting. Comics and toys might be cheaper I buy if it was made in Canada or what have you.


The walking dead issue 1


US copy $1,000 or what ever

Canada copy $40

Similarly to buying a NA copy of a video game that's $200 or a famicom copy that's $20

For many on these found myself included we do not mind buying the cheaper option for a game as we just want to play it and experience it. Which is why ever drives and newer CD based options to play ripped roms woke for us. The condition of the game, and if it is germain to the country we are from isn't a factor.


However, for a collector who values things such as condition, and country of origin for their collection it does. It affects price and willingness to spend that kind of money.


Which can be very polarizing to many in these forums. It leads us to feel that collectors who pay a premium price for games is causing a trickle down effect to the affordability, accessibility, and enjoyment factor for us to get a game or a system without some reseller saying "well mine has label damage and is loose so it's $75 because a CIB copy goes for $150. Or what have you.

I am sure comic book collectors and toy collectors had a similar issue once their hobbies became "mainstream" and affordability and accessibility for their hobbies exploded in price because people would buy at a premium higher quality comics or key issues.


So my advice?  View video game collecting like comic books. Systems are like comic companies and games could end up being seen as "key" issues.

Just look at Deadpool. I picked up the first appearance of Deadpool a few years ago for $40 mint condition. That same comic with the popularity of the character and movie is probably now $200.

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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #145 on: June 14, 2016, 03:36:32 PM »
I find this thread difficult to masturbate too.....
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Re: WTB: 13 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #146 on: June 17, 2016, 01:40:24 PM »
I don't imagine i'll get many more hits on this topic (well, the good kind, anyways) but I figured i'd edit it again. Here is a pic of my bigger pick up haul, but i'll likely be winding down from buying for awhile outside of the TG stuff and a few other stragglers. I also have a Splatterhouse on the way from someone here but it has not been delivered just yet :P Magical chase is a reproduction in all ways btw, but still really cool.


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Re: WTB: 11 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #147 on: June 17, 2016, 03:07:47 PM »
I hope that you bought that Magical Chase box from Sparky.
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Re: WTB: 11 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #148 on: June 17, 2016, 03:13:32 PM »
I hope that you bought that Magical Chase box from Sparky.

From my knowledge he is the only one who makes them...at lest on this forum.

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Re: WTB: 11 Complete US TG16/CD/SuperCD games, and a Turbo Express
« Reply #149 on: June 17, 2016, 03:53:10 PM »
I hope that you bought that Magical Chase box from Sparky.

I bought them from someone who bought it from him i'd assume, I actually did buy a box from Sparky some time ago for Keith Courage, but at the time I had delusions of finding MC legit, I give up :p It's cool that on the back, it says not a real version, but it looks real nice. I got the repro HUcard from the site listed here too, very nice looking.
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