supply and demand firsthand at funcoland

[dnehthend]

yes, that rhymed

I just remembered back in 2000 or so my friends and I bought every single mario/duck hunt they had at our local Funcoland for 10 cents each, we must have walked out the door with 20-30 of them. The next week the price at their stores had jumped to almost a dollar

Just popped into my head

[peachstapler]

Great story. Tell us more.

[Porksta]

Are you sure the price didn't go up because of a Yahoo news article about the game?

[Baloo]

Could it have been just inflation at the time? Funcoland was a chain, I'm sure all the stores probably followed the same pricing.

[Superman]

Funcoland did base their prices on demand, rather than rarity. So if you bought a lot of copies, that would be an increase in demand. Of course, on a larger scale, your 20 copies were probably insignificant to sales in the whole chain.

I guess they could have noticed that someone bought a lot of the same game at the same time, which is probably unusual. They might have thought you knew something about future demand and were trying to get ahead of the game.

[chrisbid]

it couldve been based on store supply as well.

some indie stores will reduce the price of a game when there are multiple copies on hand

[csgx1]

I remember buying the smb/dh carts for $0.19 around 2003 but i dont remember any price hike. Gyromites were $0.99, and i would always try and find the ones with the converter inside.

Any one remember the monthly paper price listings that funco used to print? I used to study these more then I studied my school text books...lol

[Ed Oscuro]

Textbook, just textbook

(Who's this an alt for?)

[skaar]

I hear that Sony had the president of Funcoland assassinated with an NBA 2Ball demo.

It was on another forum. Or a Google search. Right, Google news.

[josekortez]

I always loved it when they mismarked NES cartridges with the wrong price stickers. I got my copy of Mario Bros. for 25 cents because they priced it as Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt.

[Gapporin]

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7979/80386076.jpg

Seems relevant.

[Razor Ramon]

I always loved it when they mismarked NES cartridges with the wrong price stickers. I got my copy of Mario Bros. for 25 cents because they priced it as Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt.

hey yo! I can relate. I bought Castlevania for $1.99 because it was marked as CastleQuest haha. that's better than $9.99!

[tentencanidae]

I found an old Funcoland Price List/Newspaper a few weeks ago, while cleaning up the basement. Should I scan it? It has all there NES/SNES/GENESIS prices from before GameStop took over and canned the retro gaming side of the biz.

[nesgamer]

I remember buying the smb/dh carts for $0.19 around 2003 but i dont remember any price hike. Gyromites were $0.99, and i would always try and find the ones with the converter inside.

Any one remember the monthly paper price listings that funco used to print? I used to study these more then I studied my school text books...lol

Converter? Tell me more....

[bartre]

in certain 5-screw versions of Gyromite there were actually just the famicom game boards with an adapter inside them instead of an actual NES board.
i found an article online a while back, but i can't seem to find it now...

[betamax001]

I found an old Funcoland Price List/Newspaper a few weeks ago, while cleaning up the basement. Should I scan it? It has all there NES/SNES/GENESIS prices from before GameStop took over and canned the retro gaming side of the biz.

I would love to see this! I always get a kick out of old game ads.

[c0ldb33r]

is this thread a portal to gameFAQs? :(

[portnoyd]

Twitter's that way, cheech.

[DigitalSpace]

Gapporin wins the thread.

[DOAsaturn]

I found an old Funcoland Price List/Newspaper a few weeks ago, while cleaning up the basement. Should I scan it? It has all there NES/SNES/GENESIS prices from before GameStop took over and canned the retro gaming side of the biz.

I just happened to find one too a couple days ago clearing up my basement. Of course I'm saving it, along with all my other video game nic-nacs (I don't throw out anything gaming related, sadly lol). I'm about to leave for work but I'll dig mine out and see what date it is when I get back.

[kedawa]

When Babbage's still operated in Canada, they had some weird system for pricing used games, where the fewer copies they had in stock, the more trade in value they would offer. I got nearly $30 for Virtua Racing for Genesis, when most of the other games I was trading in were only a few dollars. My friend went in the next day to trade in his copy, and they only offered him $12.