Who are your rivals?

[Bluteg]

I'm talking VG hunting here.

Have you ever missed any great deals because of your local rivals?

My closest main rivals are Ghouls N Ghosts and Raedon as I visit both of their hometowns occaisionally in the hunt. Are there any amazing VG finds you missed because of a rival DPer? And damnit any other VG hunters in East Texas?

I searched and could not find a topic, so delete a way mods if such exists.

[PapaStu]

Well I think my biggest rivals would tend to be the other PlayStation nuts here. So that would mean Dangerboy, Kevincure, GoodWillHunter (for ONE game ), Achika and some others i'm sure are slipping my mind. However I've been helped or help a few of these rivals quite often so I dont really see it as that. When it comes to something big or OMG that might show that more than one of us would go after i'd let them know before an attack that would just end up costing the purchaser more money for the item in the first place.

Funny thing is that none of these people are anywhere near 'local' to me.

[Cryomancer]

I don't THINK I have an DP members as rivals in my area...maybe if i went to Rockford to hunt I would though. I do take the occasional trip to madison to hunt though, might be someone there.

If there IS someone nearby, let me know, we could pool our resources.

[-hellvin-]

Hmm. I really don't know any other collectors in my area at all. The only ones I know well are Nez, cause he lives right down the street and tynstar who I've met a few times. I do major thrifting and hit up a few game stores regularly and always pick up pretty nice deals. Nez doesn't collect most of the same stuff I do so it's no problem.

Sometimes I do wonder who some of the "insert system here" people are. For example, at the Yard Sale store the clerk always talks about a "Nintendo guy" and at Gamezone, the owner Tim always talks about this saturn obsessed person who asks him for saturn games every week. Sometimes I wonder if they're DP people or what not, hehe.

[AtariBuff]

I know two local "rivals" here in my town one of whom i have contact from time to time. he's more into collecting 16bit and has no car so he's not very mobile
the other one also collects 8bit but I haven't met him on the fleas for a long time. maybe he quit.

[robotriot]

To my own amazement I found out a while ago that there are four other collectors in my area, I haven't met any of them yet. I guess I'm the most active on flea markets because I live in town directly, so I don't "fear" them as much ;) At least I haven't noticed them getting any of my deals so far ;)

[WanganRunner]

There's one guy on ebay w/a store called "Mad Gear LLC".

He has tons of stuff, lives very close by, and I imagine he's buying up lots of local stuff.

I see tons of "I buy old games" craigslist postings competing with mine, I believe they might be his.

I never get anything worthwhile through those postings...either.

[Flack]

My rival is out there; I just don't know his/her name yet.

http://www.digitpress.com/columns/extendedplay.htm

[anagrama]

I'm not aware of any local DPers (I think Cauterize is probably the closest about 150 miles away), though there are 2 other members at dreamcasthistory.com who are/were in Newcastle. Strange, since it's a much smaller community than here.

[Chainsaw_Charlie]

I dont have rivals, there's really no competition for games here

[jdc]

I live in a very small city in Ontario Canada and yep.....there is another DP member who lives here, NESgamer.....which is remarkable, sort of like findiing a needle in a haystack. We met each other by accident last year. We were talking retro games and I asked him whether he'd heard of a site called Digital Press. He doesn't post every day. I believe that he collects NES, SNES, DC and other vintage systems. I collect N64 and will flesh out my DC games when the opportunity allows, so we aren't rivals.

Other than that, I've met only two other hardcore retro collectors...neither of them being DPers. One guy doesn't have a room of doom. He has a house of doom and owns every North American system launched which, I believe, includes all color variations.

[Big Papa Husker]

I dont really know if anyone here is a collector in my area, but it seems that when the Goodwill stores get stuff and I pass on it and come back a day later, everything is snatched up. I dont know if its a collector or some guy that thinks every game that is older than PSX is super rare... EX) Asteroids for 2600 was priced at 5 bucks... it was gone along with the other assorted games (College Football 96 for $5.99). Crazy people....

[Kejoriv]

I dont know of any collectors personally around where I live but there has to be. I have missed out on a few pretty big lots at the flea cause I was a little late.

[kainemaxwell]

I'd think perhaps the other DP'ers living here in NJ, though far as I know, I'm the only one in Morris County. *shrug

[Nature Boy]

My rivals are the seven people ahead of me in the Frogger high score list

[Nez]

I guess Hellvin but we don't get in each others way to much. Theres only a couple of deals that he "stole" from me and vice versa, shit happens.

I jacked a bunch of complete O2 boxes that Jagdiesel wanted so I guess I'm a small rival to him. But pry not.

[Queen Of The Felines]

Squirrelnut is the closest to me, with tonyvortex and ScottK a close second.

Don't know about the other two guys, but Tony's the bastard that keeps getting kick-ass stuff traded in at his used cd/dvd store. Boxed Quadrun for the 2600, Congo Bongo for the Intellivision...I hate him.

Kristine

[GrayFox]

There's tons of rivals in my area. It's ridiculous.

I know Goodwill Hunter has snagged numerous deals from me, same with The Collector. They're much too sneaky.

I don't THINK I have an DP members as rivals in my area...maybe if i went to Rockford to hunt I would though. I do take the occasional trip to madison to hunt though, might be someone there.

If there IS someone nearby, let me know, we could pool our resources.

I'm right on Madison's campus

Though, I don't do much hunting there, no car up here. When I go home, then that's when I hunt.

[blissfulnoise]

Geon_DP is the only other collector on these boards that is very near me.

Vespertillio is within 50 miles or so, I guess that makes us in competition (especially down at the Mile High Flea).

But to be honest, my finds in the wild are limited, but I have stops I hit for deals/speciality items that no one else seems to know about. And Geon_DP and I work together on a lot of projects.

I know there are a few other "collectors" around; but I don't think there's anyone else other than Geon_DP and myself that are in the same league in a 20 mile radius.

[Pantechnicon]

Lessee...Altairboy seems to be the only other DP'er in town, but there's no competition `twixt us. If anything we point out good finds to one another when they arise. Anyway he's almost exclusively about Atari (which is my primary but not sole focus) so it works out well.

There's a new local shop I started going to when I wanted to look for some games for my recently acquired TG16. The owner only had a few sports games for this system, and indicated that someone had come in recently and cleaned out the considerable remainder of his TG16 inventory . I don't see this as a loss for me since this happened before I had my TG16, but it was interesting to note. I'll have to keep my eyes open for this clown...

One of the local thrift stores has a guy working there who, after a couple small discussions, I can tell is too knowledgeable about gaming to be in the position he is i.e. - in between the donation drop-off and the sales floor. I am amply convinced that this guy leeches things he likes and puts the scraps out on the floor. And there's a big dusty pile of Saturn sports titles at this thrift which backs up my hunch .

Last example: I was in a Gamestop a couple of weeks ago when this middle-aged couple, who looked like refugees from the Cracker Barrel gift shop, came in and asked the sales assoc for "something really old...like an Atari or a Nintendo." Heh...stupid Ebayers looking for gold in all the wrong places....The assoc started trying to sell them a Flashback.

Other than those examples, Albuquerque is fairly rival-free, too bad there aren't more sweet deals to gather up.