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

[tbone3969]

Stocks at $34.

Well did you sell?

Stocks at $36.32.  I only bought 10 shares as that is all I could afford.  I'm gonna hold onto them and see if Nintendo can make a come back long term.  With my luck they will probably shit the bed with the NX.

[bob]

Stocks at $34.

Well did you sell?

Stocks at $36.32.  I only bought 10 shares as that is all I could afford.  I'm gonna hold onto them and see if Nintendo can make a come back long term.  With my luck they will probably shit the bed with the NX.

mini will be a hot christmas item

[tbone3969]

Stocks at $34.

Well did you sell?

Stocks at $36.32.  I only bought 10 shares as that is all I could afford.  I'm gonna hold onto them and see if Nintendo can make a come back long term.  With my luck they will probably shit the bed with the NX.

mini will be a hot christmas item

Yes I agree.  These are all short term boosts however.  I am hoping Nintendo gets a steady stream of great IOS games up and running and that the NX is a successful system.  If this happens I think the stock will be above $50 in a year or two.  If the NX fails again and their IOS games don't sell so well Nintendo could be outta business.  They can't afford another disaster like the WiiU.  The stock market is a gamble.  I am betting on Nintendo making a comeback.  We shall see.  I used to play a lot of craps.  I like my odds better here.

[Punch]

This makes me think I should start investing on the NYSE. Buying stuff from gaming companies might be easier and more fun than doing Dow style graph analysis.

[jonebone]

Kinda on topic, I bought 300 shares of Nintendo when they were $12 last February, when stock was down but Amiibo craze was in full hype.  Figured it was a no-brainer.  It jumped to $18 about 6 weeks later and I sold them all off, was happy with that return.

But boy, could have held onto them for awhile!  To be honest I don't like Nintendo at $30+ a share until they are more definitive about this NX hardware.  The mobile games are going to be very little revenue streams.  That mini USB thing is something to be excited about though.

[Mathius]

No one posted the Magical chase card and manual?  I'm pretty sure he paid somewhere around $3500-$4000 for the combo, barely even 2 weeks ago.  This guy spends a lot of money fast (probably $25k+) then unwinds a lot of purchases and does it all over again.  Was into mostly Nintendo stuff, some Atari, some Sega, but now looks like some TG16 too.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAGICAL-CHASE-for-Turbografx-16-CARD-AND-MANUAL-ONLY-WOW-RARE-MINT-/262612857066

...and this is why people around here treat collectards the way they do.  This is a perfect example of what has been going on for years with many different resellers.  They just keep inching the prices up and up  and up.  And the newb collectards just keep buying.

No, he's not indicative of the average collector.  He's a pure speculator, or perhaps speculatard, by this forums definition.  The "collectard" is generally buying for keeps or at least buying and holding awhile until something of higher importance shows up.  This guy literally may buy on a Monday, open it on Wednesday and have it for sale Thursday.  That's obssessive compulsive disorder or something, not being a collectard.

Lost Monkey's point could have been clearer: Lost_Monkey was pointing out that the collectard and the flipper are a symbiotic relationship (cancerous for the hobby)...

The reason why flippers are willing to take risks is because uninformed/foolish collectards throw lots of $$$ at games.

The flipper and collectard fulfill each other, both having an orgasm: the collectard wants games and ejaculates for Magical Chase CIB, the flipper sells Magical Chase CIB at ridiculously inflated prices, having multiple orgasms as PayPal account grows bigger and bigger.

I found this way too entertaining to read so, denying myself this, I'm gonna go angrily beat off on my repro of Magical Chase.

[xelement5x]

No one posted the Magical chase card and manual?  I'm pretty sure he paid somewhere around $3500-$4000 for the combo, barely even 2 weeks ago.  This guy spends a lot of money fast (probably $25k+) then unwinds a lot of purchases and does it all over again.  Was into mostly Nintendo stuff, some Atari, some Sega, but now looks like some TG16 too.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MAGICAL-CHASE-for-Turbografx-16-CARD-AND-MANUAL-ONLY-WOW-RARE-MINT-/262612857066

...and this is why people around here treat collectards the way they do.  This is a perfect example of what has been going on for years with many different resellers.  They just keep inching the prices up and up  and up.  And the newb collectards just keep buying.

No, he's not indicative of the average collector.  He's a pure speculator, or perhaps speculatard, by this forums definition.  The "collectard" is generally buying for keeps or at least buying and holding awhile until something of higher importance shows up.  This guy literally may buy on a Monday, open it on Wednesday and have it for sale Thursday.  That's obssessive compulsive disorder or something, not being a collectard.

Lost Monkey's point could have been clearer: Lost_Monkey was pointing out that the collectard and the flipper are a symbiotic relationship (cancerous for the hobby)...

The reason why flippers are willing to take risks is because uninformed/foolish collectards throw lots of $$$ at games.

The flipper and collectard fulfill each other, both having an orgasm: the collectard wants games and ejaculates for Magical Chase CIB, the flipper sells Magical Chase CIB at ridiculously inflated prices, having multiple orgasms as PayPal account grows bigger and bigger.

I found this way too entertaining to read so, denying myself this, I'm gonna go angrily beat off on my repro of Magical Chase.

We are just missing the inclusion of JO crystals and this could be historic

[seieienbu]

Nullity sent me a fully charged JO Crystal when I bought his Turbo Express.  Right nice of him.

This is very much an off topic post as the price was quite friendly and not a gauge in the least.

[Damon Plus]

I haven't bought a TG game since like, 2014. I took a look yesterday in Ebay and there were almost no games being sold, and even the most common games start now at 15$, loose. I would've wanted to get some more games, but I guess I'll have to settle with the 30 or so I have already.

[fsa]

I haven't bought a TG game since like, 2014. I took a look yesterday in Ebay and there were almost no games being sold, and even the most common games start now at 15$, loose. I would've wanted to get some more games, but I guess I'll have to settle with the 30 or so I have already.

I went to a Video Game swap recently and anything to do with the TurboGrafx-16 is way overpriced, one person was selling a complete copy of KC for $20.00. Those re-sellers are driving up the prices for all retro games.

[crazydean]

I went to a Video Game swap recently and anything to do with the TurboGrafx-16 is way overpriced, one person was selling a complete copy of KC for $20.00. Those re-sellers are driving up the prices for all retro games.

Blaming resellers for high prices is like blaming McDonald's for fat people or drug dealers for drugs. People need to learn how to take some f*cking personal responsibility.

[technozombie]

I went to a Video Game swap recently and anything to do with the TurboGrafx-16 is way overpriced, one person was selling a complete copy of KC for $20.00. Those re-sellers are driving up the prices for all retro games.

Blaming resellers for high prices is like blaming McDonald's for fat people or drug dealers for drugs. People need to learn how to take some f*cking personal responsibility.

This is not quite a 1:1 comparison. I have gone to flea markets and personally experienced sellers going around buying up games for cheap from other vendors and then trying to sell them to me for profit. Resellers/flippers(dedicated to extracting as much profit from a game as possible) are very unnecessary middle men.

A more appropriate comparison would be the eyeware industry.

[Black Tiger]

This thread documents years of unsold overpriced games by naive sellers. Has that $500 Bonk 3 manual been up for a decade yet?

[Gypsy]

I went to a Video Game swap recently and anything to do with the TurboGrafx-16 is way overpriced, one person was selling a complete copy of KC for $20.00. Those re-sellers are driving up the prices for all retro games.

Blaming resellers for high prices is like blaming McDonald's for fat people or drug dealers for drugs. People need to learn how to take some f*cking personal responsibility.

This is not quite a 1:1 comparison. I have gone to flea markets and personally experienced sellers going around buying up games for cheap from other vendors and then trying to sell them to me for profit. Resellers/flippers(dedicated to extracting as much profit from a game as possible) are very unnecessary middle men.

A more appropriate comparison would be the eyeware industry.

Magic The Gathering had a strong parallel recently, though on a bigger scale than a fleamarket I'm not sure the video game market has seen anything quite like it yet.

TL;DW: Some people bought out just about every available copy of various Magic cards, and are now sitting on them while having them listed for way more money.

Edit: Reddit post about Moat: https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/4p3r4t/reserved_list_shenanigans_moat/

[seieienbu]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't this sort of thing been happening with video games for a while now?  I see no other way possible that Adventures of Lowmax could've gone up 8 times what it cost just a year ago.