Originally Posted by
Cornelius
I'm sure you've read the past threads about new stores that I have, but I'm going to pass on what I've seen Joe write many times (in case he doesn't see this). ... GameStop is your best friend. Or, at least, the employees can be if you get to know them, cut them some deals, and make sure they'll send customers to you when they can't take the old stuff for trade-in.
I don't have any hated GameStop practices that you likely haven't read 1000 times. For the vintage game shops what bugs me is when even super common low-demand games are priced high. I understand stuff like SMB3 being marked up since there is demand and will sell that way just fine. What would get me into the store, though, is a chance to find any NES (for example) game I don't have and get it for maybe 5 bucks. Doesn't have to be rare at all, or maybe it is but also shitty and worthless, just something I don't have. It really irritates me to see games that won't sell on ebay for $4 shipped marked 8 bucks in a shop.