Well, I always go for CIB. I don't own a single game that's not CIB except for a few Saturn games I miss the spinecard and/or sticker sheets/calendars, and other inserts.
Now, I'm seriously considering breaking my little "tradition".
I want to collect, and mostly play, more Famicom games, but I seem to have a rather big problem when it comes to availability. Nearly all the games I want are either pretty expensive if CIB, or are only available in cart-only.
I'm only using eBay, but I've compared alot of eBay prices to prices on Yahoo Japan, and to be honest, there aren't really many notable differences. Plus, you have to pay the proxy you're using aswell.
So, yeah, I've kinda decided to step down from the CIB madness to buy quite a few cart-only Famicom games. This will be the first, and only, system I'll get games that aren't CIB for. I was hesistant at first, but when I put about 12 Famicom cart-only games in the shopping cart over at risingstuff.com, I realised that I can get those 12 games (games that I really want to play) for the same price, or maybe even cheaper, than a CIB Rockman game.
Your thoughts?