Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )

[mrhaboobi]

Someone in the market for a complete copy of Soldier blade is not a gamer. They are a collector. Buy a HU-card, buy a jp HU-card, buy a Wii, or play it free through PC. If you don't want to pay a premium on cardboard and paper, don't. You have many options.

What the f*ck is a HU-card.


Funny, I am in the market for a complete copy of Soldier Blade.

Are you saying I'm not a gamer?  That would be a stupid thing to say.

Dont know how the hell you find time to be a gamer what with all the shit you got going on  

A Thesis ? Proto cards, writing games.. honestly i wish i had the same motivation you did.. And whats the thesis on..

[Arkhan]

Impacts on computation efficiency thru the use of advanced C# features targeting productivity,

or something like that.  I haven't made a good title yet.  lol

[mrhaboobi]

ahh so i assume Bsc Comp Sci?  Advanced c# features lol.. drag and drop for monkeys.. .. ( yes im a bitter c# coder ).

[OrangeArmy]

Hi Arkan,

Nice to meet you. Your posts are always funny and entertaining, even when you're just parroting some of the other butt hurt economicly ignorant drones on here. I guess I have to accept that game collector is the new wall street speculator. Now I know how the Jews feel. I'm not a fan of resellers, but I don't lose sleep over them and I'm certainly not going to post endlessly on how they're ruining my hobby. That's like posting 100 posts over 3 months being angry about the weather. Who needs the high blood pressure or the ulcers?

I love ebay because it gives me an actual chance to find stuff. I don't have the connections a lot of you good ole boys round here seem to have and after years of comming up empty handed at pawn shops, garage sales, flea markets etc, it is incredible just to be able to have a fair shot at owning some complete titles. Sure, if I layed low on these forums, built up my "cred" wracking up hundreds of puff posts in top ten threads, not calling people out for acting like elitist douche bags, and pretended not to be a collector, I could probably have made a few nice trades or buys in the wtb thread. I'm not going to hold my breath.

Some of you people remind me of the Vampires vs the goths in south park. You know what? Burn down the hot topic, don't let it take your soul. Burn down the hot topic. And take control.

Hey Arkum, were you a Nickelback fan before it was uncool to be a Nickelback fan?

[Sadler]

There was a period in time when being a Nickelback fan was cool?  

EDIT: No disrespect meant Orange, just joking around.

[KingofGames]

A gamer wants to play. How do the box and manual increase playability? A real gamer would buy the cheapest version possible (Wii) and use the money saved to buy more games to... well, play.

[Necromancer]

Dear worthless price gougers: Get the f*ck out of my thread!

This thread is for complaining about ludicrous pricing found on eBay or elsewhere.  If you don't like it or want to justify your 'reasoning', go start your own thread and/or go f*ck yourselves.

[vestcoat]

Not what I wanted to write for my first post, but here goes:

This thread is so full of butt hurt, it's hillarious. Wah! TG games are going up in price - let's all get mad and take it out on everyone who doesn't have enough forum cred (noobs, resellers, collectors, people with spending money, theives of childhoods, murderers lol).

I've been lurking here for over a year as I've been a stalwart advocate of the TG16 since it first was released in north america and I was really excited to find a community of people who have the same passion - but the sheer vitriolic mob mentality expressed in this thread makes this otherwise awesome site feel like a clubhouse for angry cliquey TG elitests who lack even a basic understanding of free market principals. And then to whine about hipsters LOL!

I LOVE ebay! I spent $250 on a boxed Soldier Blade last year (or was it $340?) - guess that means I'm an impatient idiot (because waiting 18 years to get a game I really wanted is the very definition of impatient and frivilous). I spent $150 on a boxed Ghost Manor (ya, that was me) and about $120.00 on a boxed Jackie Chan. I'm not going to waste time telling you how hard it is to find this stuff where I live and how many good auctions are not available to people outside the continental US or even share my sob rags to middle class childhood story about getting 2 games a year, but keeping them in mint condition (yes, CIB lol) until this very day..

Hi. I'm OrangeArmy. Longtime TG16 fanatic and north American CIB HuCard collector and I'm proud to announce I'm doing my part to inflate HuCard prices. I'm taking this stuff out of the market permanently while I can afford it, and I fricken love it. If you're reading this, I'm willing to pay $100 of my hard earned cash for a CIB super star soldier, $200 for a minty CIB Cadash. Please, take advantage of my stupidity! Popularity contests were never really my thing anyways...

Welcome to the forums OA. I don't know what the hell a "stalwart advocate of the TG16" is supposed to be, but if you truly have been building your collection slowly since 1989 (unlikely, considering your recent ebay purchases) then I don't really have a problem with you. 

You just accused everyone of a lot of things, but it's only really me, Arkhan, and a couple others ripping into these guys. If you've got a problem with anyone you should be specific, because if you go over to the raffles or the repair forum or virtually any other thread outside of Fighting Street and Gouging Much, you'll see a completely different side to the people around here (but hey, if you've been lurking for a year, you already know that!).

I don't know. I used to keep my mouth shut and try to empathize or even defend dickbags like KG while everyone else, even the mods, would attack them. Things would get out of control, threads would be locked, and time after time I realized that the guy with the inflated prices in the sales thread, or the noob collector, or the reseller, really was a jerk and I was wrong to give them the benefit of the doubt. Despite their lip service to the community, the most anyone like KG has ever given in the way of research, or game advice, or troubleshooting, or lively discussion has been posting pictures of a collection.

Anyway, I don't really know what you're complaining about. Like Arkhan said, ebay bitch threads like this are par for the course if you've ever been on a video game forum before. You should see what happens to the idiots who pull this reseller crap at smaller communities like the 3DO forum.

One more thing - capitalism is great, but even economists acknowledge that the "free market" doesn't exist outside of dismal, ninth-grade textbooks and republican primaries.

[PikachuWarrior]

Such language!

[nectarsis]

Not what I wanted to write for my first post, but here goes:

This thread is so full of butt hurt, it's hillarious. Wah! TG games are going up in price - let's all get mad and take it out on everyone who doesn't have enough forum cred (noobs, resellers, collectors, people with spending money, theives of childhoods, murderers lol).

I've been lurking here for over a year as I've been a stalwart advocate of the TG16 since it first was released in north america and I was really excited to find a community of people who have the same passion - but the sheer vitriolic mob mentality expressed in this thread makes this otherwise awesome site feel like a clubhouse for angry cliquey TG elitests who lack even a basic understanding of free market principals. And then to whine about hipsters LOL!

I LOVE ebay! I spent $250 on a boxed Soldier Blade last year (or was it $340?) - guess that means I'm an impatient idiot (because waiting 18 years to get a game I really wanted is the very definition of impatient and frivilous). I spent $150 on a boxed Ghost Manor (ya, that was me) and about $120.00 on a boxed Jackie Chan.

BWAHAHHAHHA did someone turn on the Huey shaped idiot signal lately?

[Arkhan]

ahh so i assume Bsc Comp Sci?  Advanced c# features lol.. drag and drop for monkeys.. .. ( yes im a bitter c# coder ).

Masters


and, OrangeArmy, the point is, seeing the market take a giant dump due to retarded resellers over the years is really awful.  It happens in every scene.  The Commodore 64 scene is pretty bad too.  It sucks to see it because it makes it hard for people who will actually PLAY this stuff.

also, Nickleback was never good.  Their CD sounds like 1 really long song.  it blows.


Gamers want to play, yes.  Also, some gamers want to have the entire experience which includes the manual.  They are entitled to it, really.

Ever try playing Ultima or Wizardry 1 without a manual?  Good luck.

[OrangeArmy]

Stalwart advocate meaning back in the day I was the only kid I knew who owned a TG and ever defended it's awesomeness, tried to promote it and expose my friends to it. I always wished there were other kids around with one so we could trade games, talk about how great it was and what not. Finding a whole site with NEC console fans blew my mind!

I completely understand the scourge of resellers coming in here and basically gaming the well intentioned, often generous fan community to make a quick buck, and I agree that shit is LOW, but not every new guy fits this bill.

I don't understand the hate for collectors. Most of us are gamers too and in my case I'm not interested in sealed. Games are for playing. That said, I kept my 8 original games I've owned since childhood in immaculate condition (box and all). I used to go to the game store and study the box art (of all the titles I'm finally able to add to my collection after all these years) for what felt like hours, wondering what each game was like and which one I would choose to be my Christmas present. Looking at those boxes, I imagined and played each one in my head many times over. I enjoy the nostalgia and sense of accomplishment that holding a boxed TG game I've finally earned and added to the shelf brings. If I had the money 10 years ago to get this stuff cheap, believe me; I would have.

I've been called out in this thread many, many times for past purchases (Soldier Blade, Neutopia 2, Ghost Manor, Shockman) but those games were worth what I payed for more reasons than (I'm retarded, I'm a trendy retro hipster, I got mommy's credit card, I'm a reseller, I'm cobbling together a collection with my student loan) so I feel like a lot of the hate I see over and over in here is misdirected and partly a symptom of crowd mentality. If I'm going to get flamed before I even post because I'm a 'collector' then f*ck you all, you elitist dicks - is kind of the mentality in my first post.

Is that specific enough?

Edit: I'm Not a Nickelback fan either but I don't understand the hate. It's not their fault the radio played them to death and it's not their fault most of their fans tend to be douchebags.

[nectarsis]

Stalwart advocate meaning back in the day I was the only kid I knew who owned a TG and ever defended it's awesomeness, tried to promote it and expose my friends to it. I always wished there were other kids around with one so we could trade games, talk about how great it was and what not. Finding a whole site with NEC console fans blew my mind!

I completely understand the scourge of resellers coming in here and basically gaming the well intentioned, often generous fan community to make a quick buck, and I agree that shit is LOW, but not every new guy fits this bill.

I don't understand the hate for collectors. Most of us are gamers too and in my case I'm not interested in sealed. Games are for playing. That said, I kept my 8 original games I've owned since childhood in immaculate condition (box and all). I used to go to the game store and study the box art (of all the titles I'm finally able to add to my collection after all these years) for what felt like hours, wondering what each game was like and which one I would choose to be my Christmas present. Looking at those boxes, I imagined and played each one in my head many times over. I enjoy the nostalgia and sense of accomplishment that holding a boxed TG game I've finally earned and added to the shelf brings. If I had the money 10 years ago to get this stuff cheap, believe me; I would have.

I've been called out in this thread many, many times for past purchases (Soldier Blade, Neutopia 2, Ghost Manor, Shockman) but those games were worth what I payed for more reasons than (I'm retarded, I'm a trendy retro hipster, I got mommy's credit card, I'm a reseller, I'm cobbling together a collection with my student loan) so I feel like a lot of the hate I see over and over in here is misdirected and partly a symptom of crowd mentality. If I'm going to get flamed before I even post because I'm a 'collector' then f*ck you all, you elitist dicks - is kind of the mentality in my first post.

Crowd mentality LMAO.....you've been lurking here over a year, and haven't figured out that people say what they feel, and have the brains to think for themselves?


"If I'm going to get flamed before I even post because I'm a 'collector' then f*ck you all, you elitist dicks - is kind of the mentality in my first post."

It's not because you're a collector, as much as you defend overpaying due to being stupid/impatient, and respond like a mongoloid 3rd grader.

[Arkhan]

Having the games from when you were 8 doesn't count.  You obviously played the shit unless you were some OCD kid with 8 games that you just stared at and never touched.

Collectors are people who just horde shit, and if you ask them about it, the farthest they can tell you about it is "ITS WORTH $$$$$"

[Samurai Ghost]

A gamer wants to play. How do the box and manual increase playability? A real gamer would buy the cheapest version possible (Wii) and use the money saved to buy more games to... well, play.

No, a real gamer would stick with the PC Engine! That way you can find complete copies of the exact same game with better cover art for around 15% of the cost and play them on the actual hardware. See this minty copy of Soldier Blade? Got this shipped to me last week for around $30. It's practically brand new. How did I get it so cheap? I knew where to look and I waited for a good deal to pop up.



I could see why you'd want the US version if you are nostalgic for the US box art or whatever, but the game is exactly the same. And screw the virtual console; sorry to break it to you but paying for emulation is like paying someone to let you breath air. Just download the ROM for free if you are going to go that route. Or save all the money you'd be spending on the VC and buy a flashcart for your TG-16 or whatever other system you like. Or buy a modded Xbox and load it with every ROM for every game system up until the 32-bit era and be done with it. You'd never have to buy another game again!