Goodwill Problems [Archive] - Page 3 - Retrogaming Roundtable

Tanooki

01-18-2014, 07:18 PM

It MAY be a mistype, or it's the greed of the individual with the price gun.

I got a fun example. Half Price Books (the closer of 2 to me in town) has had a few copies of the guide MGS2 for PS2. They were like $5/ea and they'd never sell and in time hit the discount bin for a buck and eventually sell as no one really cared and they go for nothing on ebay too shipping aside. Oddly the fool whoever one day 4-6mo ago now got one decided it was rare, marked it with a hand written star and then priced it at $59.99. It's still there, lost in the cracks and oddly hasn't been priced back since it's such a rare treasure.

8-Bit Archeology

01-18-2014, 07:56 PM

The worst is "oh thats for a system called nintendo, its extremely rare" everytime i hear that i whip out my phone and show a pic of my collection and respond with "so i guess im a millionaire from your logic.

sloan

01-18-2014, 09:41 PM

The worst is "oh thats for a system called nintendo, its extremely rare" everytime i hear that i whip out my phone and show a pic of my collection and respond with "so i guess im a millionaire from your logic.

Excellent reply.

JSoup

01-19-2014, 12:58 AM

The worst is "oh thats for a system called nintendo, its extremely rare" everytime i hear that i whip out my phone and show a pic of my collection and respond with "so i guess im a millionaire from your logic.

"'Extremely rare' and 'worth a lot of money' are not necessarily synonymous " would be my reply.

Gameguy

01-22-2014, 02:53 AM

I meant to post this yesterday but the forum was down. For reference, the Dollarama is literally next door to this Value Village.

http://i43.tinypic.com/20h0wlu.png

Gameguy

01-23-2014, 12:59 AM

For some reason this thread wasn't bumped back up when I posted, so I'm bumping it up now.

Rickstilwell1

01-23-2014, 01:43 AM

I meant to post this yesterday but the forum was down. For reference, the Dollarama is literally next door to this Value Village.

http://i43.tinypic.com/20h0wlu.png

Yeah but this one is extremely rare because it actually sold once. Most people know these things are cheaply made and will fall apart quickly, leaving them on the shelf.