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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4890 on: May 15, 2014, 08:19:10 AM »
Wait,....Where is ninja? He likes to use that crap...

Eat me. i dont use tapatalk either PC or web browser on phone and then i have a keyboard there too lol

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4891 on: May 15, 2014, 08:39:18 AM »
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4892 on: May 15, 2014, 08:46:48 AM »

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4893 on: May 15, 2014, 08:48:48 AM »
Wait,....Where is ninja? He likes to use that crap...

Eat me. i dont use tapatalk either PC or web browser on phone and then i have a keyboard there too lol

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Really?  What was his name?
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4894 on: May 15, 2014, 08:59:48 AM »
Really?  What was his name?

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4895 on: May 15, 2014, 10:25:59 AM »
Funny thing Hailing, I took a 45 min one way trip to a store in Mass a few months back to pick up a few games he had. Got some master system games pretty decent price. Started looking at his turbo stuff and he only had a few with prices, saw lords of the rising sun, an ok game, no price, I ask the guy what are you getting for it. Whats he do? pulls out the friggin laptop and looks it up, then says i'll give ya the mid range price........DOUCHE BAG. but I wanted to play it and have it for my system so I paid. Don't recall how much but it didn't break the bank.

At least he didn't super-gouge, yeah?

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4896 on: May 15, 2014, 01:20:40 PM »
Funny thing Hailing, I took a 45 min one way trip to a store in Mass a few months back to pick up a few games he had. Got some master system games pretty decent price. Started looking at his turbo stuff and he only had a few with prices, saw lords of the rising sun, an ok game, no price, I ask the guy what are you getting for it. Whats he do? pulls out the friggin laptop and looks it up, then says i'll give ya the mid range price........DOUCHE BAG. but I wanted to play it and have it for my system so I paid. Don't recall how much but it didn't break the bank.

At least he didn't super-gouge, yeah?

He was likely looking at asking prices, not a combo of Sold and un-sold Completed listings to gauge the going rate.

If you look at all three on eBay right now, no one is bothering to list it since it's hard to get anything for it, there are different sold and failed-to-sell CIC copies at $10 and sealed MIB copies go for as much as $40. So if the store had a played condition CIB copy with a worn cardboard box, he should have been asking $15.

That CIC copy which failed to sell at $10 was originally listed at $50... then $25... then $10... then "why bother" and was returned to the store shelf. Perhaps the very store which Ninja visited. I'm guessing that he offered him the mid-range of what that copy failed to sell at all for.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4897 on: May 15, 2014, 05:46:26 PM »
Funny thing Hailing, I took a 45 min one way trip to a store in Mass a few months back to pick up a few games he had. Got some master system games pretty decent price. Started looking at his turbo stuff and he only had a few with prices, saw lords of the rising sun, an ok game, no price, I ask the guy what are you getting for it. Whats he do? pulls out the friggin laptop and looks it up, then says i'll give ya the mid range price........DOUCHE BAG. but I wanted to play it and have it for my system so I paid. Don't recall how much but it didn't break the bank.

At least he didn't super-gouge, yeah?

He was likely looking at asking prices, not a combo of Sold and un-sold Completed listings to gauge the going rate.

If you look at all three on eBay right now, no one is bothering to list it since it's hard to get anything for it, there are different sold and failed-to-sell CIC copies at $10 and sealed MIB copies go for as much as $40. So if the store had a played condition CIB copy with a worn cardboard box, he should have been asking $15.

That CIC copy which failed to sell at $10 was originally listed at $50... then $25... then $10... then "why bother" and was returned to the store shelf. Perhaps the very store which Ninja visited. I'm guessing that he offered him the mid-range of what that copy failed to sell at all for.

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4898 on: May 15, 2014, 06:59:12 PM »
Funny thing Hailing, I took a 45 min one way trip to a store in Mass a few months back to pick up a few games he had. Got some master system games pretty decent price. Started looking at his turbo stuff and he only had a few with prices, saw lords of the rising sun, an ok game, no price, I ask the guy what are you getting for it. Whats he do? pulls out the friggin laptop and looks it up, then says i'll give ya the mid range price........DOUCHE BAG. but I wanted to play it and have it for my system so I paid. Don't recall how much but it didn't break the bank.

At least he didn't super-gouge, yeah?

He was likely looking at asking prices, not a combo of Sold and un-sold Completed listings to gauge the going rate.

If you look at all three on eBay right now, no one is bothering to list it since it's hard to get anything for it, there are different sold and failed-to-sell CIC copies at $10 and sealed MIB copies go for as much as $40. So if the store had a played condition CIB copy with a worn cardboard box, he should have been asking $15.

That CIC copy which failed to sell at $10 was originally listed at $50... then $25... then $10... then "why bother" and was returned to the store shelf. Perhaps the very store which Ninja visited. I'm guessing that he offered him the mid-range of what that copy failed to sell at all for.

Yeah that seems about right. Damn I wish I could remember what I paid,,,,I want to say 25 - 30 so it wasn't too bad. At that point I really didn't care much because I got a boat load of SMS games the round out my collection a bit more for a really good price. I think $15 bux was the highest SMS game price and that was a complete Phantasy Star in very nice condition and a few others at around 3-5 dollars each. All in all it was worth the trip as there are no good stores near me and I have to go to Mass. anyhow :-)

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4899 on: May 16, 2014, 02:15:19 AM »
Now a days if a game for the Turbo that is in decent condition and sells for half of what it would be new, I would call that a deal.  I mean most games are about 22-25 years old.  Shit, I bet some games are older than the majority of some of our members.  Now with all the collectors fascinated with the turbo and turning it into a market of their own we're lucky to even get a price under what a new copy of a common game goes for.  I still always want to rage when I think about the f*ckers that never cared about or heard of the Turbo, and are now "collectors" of the system.  f*ck all of you lurking collectard f*ckers reading this!

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« Reply #4900 on: May 16, 2014, 02:29:24 AM »
Now a days if a game for the Turbo that is in decent condition and sells for half of what it would be new, I would call that a deal.  I mean most games are about 22-25 years old.  Shit, I bet some games are older than the majority of some of our members.  Now with all the collectors fascinated with the turbo and turning it into a market of their own we're lucky to even get a price under what a new copy of a common game goes for.  I still always want to rage when I think about the f*ckers that never cared about or heard of the Turbo, and are now "collectors" of the system.  f*ck all of you lurking collectard f*ckers reading this!

Well said sir. Some people never even heard of it until recently. I'm 40 this year so I have been around and grew up with the system. I also believe that no game should ever go for more than it retailed new for the period. I know that will never happen and it's wishful thinking but thats my thought.

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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4901 on: May 16, 2014, 02:42:40 AM »
Now a days if a game for the Turbo that is in decent condition and sells for half of what it would be new, I would call that a deal.  I mean most games are about 22-25 years old.  Shit, I bet some games are older than the majority of some of our members.  Now with all the collectors fascinated with the turbo and turning it into a market of their own we're lucky to even get a price under what a new copy of a common game goes for.  I still always want to rage when I think about the f*ckers that never cared about or heard of the Turbo, and are now "collectors" of the system.  f*ck all of you lurking collectard f*ckers reading this!

Well said sir. Some people never even heard of it until recently. I'm 40 this year so I have been around and grew up with the system. I also believe that no game should ever go for more than it retailed new for the period. I know that will never happen and it's wishful thinking but thats my thought.

I am torn on this. On one hand these new collectors have ruined the hobby for a lot of people. On the other some of these younger guys have been great members of the community. Now if we are just talking about young farts and old smelly fatheads that didn't care or hear one iota about the Turbo back in '89? Yeah they can f*ck off.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4902 on: May 16, 2014, 03:12:38 AM »
People that want to play the games and enjoy 'em are good in my book, regardless of their age.  It's the guys that are primarily interested in owning and showing off their collections that can get f*cked.
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Re: Turbo Gouging on Ebay ( r.i.p. - gouging much )
« Reply #4903 on: May 16, 2014, 03:35:48 AM »
Necro,

Who do you think these people will be showing off their collections to? I am 39 and married and when people find out that I still play video games I get ridiculed. When growing up my brothers and I were the only ones I knew with A TG system. None of my current friends play games and the ones that did played either on playstation or Xbox.

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« Reply #4904 on: May 16, 2014, 03:48:00 AM »
Who do you think these people will be showing off their collections to?

To other collectards on youtube, nintendo age, digit press, etc.  Such places are littered with braggarts showing off their game rooms, game "hunting" expeditions, and unboxing videos.
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