without buying that guide??? im new to this site as u can tell
how can i find if a game is rare??
without buying that guide??? im new to this site as u can tell
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I'd think that the Online Guide (link in the bar at the top) would be back up sometime soon. You can check the Collector's Guide forum for info on that. It's been down since the recent server reload.
If it were up right now, I'd point you there.
RIP bargora, you will be greatly missed.That is how we do things on Giedion Prime.
Send the games to me. If I don't return them, they are probably rare.
Look for other copies, If you can't find any, It's rare.
(Online Rarity Guide was ha><ored, be back soon)
It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ass.
Re: how can i find if a game is rare??
Contribute something to the other users here before you start sponging off the Guide or knowledgable users around here...Originally Posted by GWEEDO
Also the fact that you want the info but you wont pay for the guide i think is completely rude... Its a bloody good book and not expensive one bit!
Even if you are new, who cares, u seem to have a good idea why you are here...
That info has taken a great deal of work from numerous people to be so precise and accurate...
Im fed up of Deadbeat users like you, who have about 10 posts or less, and except to have full access to information like that
It shouldnt work that way...
Have a think about what you just said!
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i always wondered why the electronic guide was free anyway
ive always favored a paper copy myself (but would be cool to also have an electronic version you could put on a PDA )
mabey it should be free to all who purchased the books OR a pay per view $1 for 10 days of use (but that would alienate people with no credit cards or paypal)
also, kids that have money to buy games should be able to afford a sneek peek.
i dont know how often the online guides get accessed, but if the use is heavy, a small fee could even pay for keeping the site on line and the new security stuff.
The human operates out of complex superiority demands, self -affirming through ritual, insiting upon a rational need to learn, striving for self-imposed goals, manipulating his environment while he denies his own adaptive abilities, never fully satisfied.
--Frank Herbert
I've had forum members send me PMs and price checks just so they can sponge off my knowledge of things without selling it. IN fact, one person has done this on multiple occasions, so I stopped answering his PMs. I don't like giving out 9238239283 bits of info when you don't even SELL me an item. Anyways, that has nothing to do with this except for people using other members for bits of knowledge. BOO!
The online database should be available soon. Adam is heading back to the US today and will have it connected sometime this weekend.
http://www.digitpress.com/DP/cmf/search.cmf
eBay is a fairly rough guide to what is and what isn't. Chances are, if you have something rare, you'd soon find out using eBay...
Buying the guide is not a bad option; I'd like to buy them both myself, but $36 for shipping is ludicrous! There's got to be some sort of cut-rate combined shipping available for us Canucks. I receive things much bigger and heavier on a constant basis that don't cost anywhere near so much in shipping.
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The books look incredible though, I can't wait to get them one way or another.
eBay is a good guide to what is the MAX POSSIBLE value a game could fetch. It's not the rarity value. It's not reality among collectors. It's a piece of the much larger puzzle. If you use eBay as a guide, you are spending too much or asking too much.
The end.
Canada is $8.30/guide. $18 is for international.
"I never should the games I sold and I have replaced them but they are not the game just a hollow shell of the same game." -RugalSizzler
eBay is a good place and not just for MAX POSSIBLE value. I'd wager to say it is by far the biggest open market for classic games anywhere. You will find things selling there for much less and also much more than they are worth. For instance, the other day a complete copy of Winning Post for Saturn went for less than $40, which I think most would agree it's worth considerably more than that. The next week, a complete copy in comparable condition went for over $100. Search for your game and watch every one that is ending in a single week, keeping in mind some may not be complete or certain sellers with different reputations devaluing a game, plus overall condition. At weeks end, the mean ending value gives you a very good idea of worth on the open market. The problem with using eBay for the rarest games is that there aren't enough copies to get a good average, and in that case you do find what the MAX POSSIBLE value is. The best way is to use the DP quide AND eBay together. The guide is extremely accurate when applied to collectors and also very accurate when applied to the mean values of eBay. But eBay isn't static like the quide and auction prices will *always* differ from what the guide says. Only on extemely rare occasions will a game sell for exactly what the guide says it should. Definitely use both.
Ya wtf 36$ for shipping?
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As other's have said you can check the free guide when it goes up - but the actual guides are well worth it. I suppose if you just want info one one game it might seem like a waste, but if you plan on finding out the value of numerous games - or just want a handy guide on just about everything to do with gaming, they're a bargain.
Speaking of the rarityguide, wasnt it suppose to come back up yesterday?
jajaja -- readreadread.
hehe, tnx flack
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