Mega Tank

4 minutes ago, 3rdStrongestMole said:

My wife's grandma passed away and had hundreds of glass and porcelain figurines. Does anyone know anything about valuations on these kinds of things?

Or, best way to sell them for a decently fair price? I have no idea where to start, and her grandpa wants me to help him sell them off.

There's a lot more than pictured,  but that's an idea of what I'm working with.

Thanks in advance.

Hey, sorry for your loss.

I don't know how much these figurines go for, but I always see a ton of them at local auction houses. Maybe look around and see what kind of a cut they take and go from there.

8 minutes ago, fcgamer said:

Generally the people that act in the above manner do not plan on sticking around, or are not actively involved in the community. If it is a teenager or younger person, it is a different story; however, if an adult starts trying to pull said shady shit, they should be outed, period.

Edit: Also, @Mega Tank no idea what folks down your way are smoking, but if we had issues previously but you would into my shop with cash and my guys are on the register, I'm more than happy to sell you whatever. Money is money, business is business. 

I would take my business elsewhere.

We have good stores and bad stores. Locally, there's not much as far as good stores are concerned. In this particular incident the employee had no idea on prices. After a a few items they brought out the owner. The owner was watching something on their tablet in the backroom and was upset and came out to "help". If you come out and are that upset to try to make a 4 figure sale, I'll just walk.

Quoted from another thread, but...

2 hours ago, fcgamer said:

I don't allow this crap to happen. If a seller or agent or whoever does this to me, I call them out, then escalate to the point that they back down and send the item, or fear that their reputation will be in shambles.

There's honestly no need for this kind of bullshit, full stop. @Linkfollowed through with a deal, despite realizing too late that he sold it too cheap, I'd do the same without thinking twice, and have sold stuff too cheap occasionally in similar situations.

 

 

I would strongly advise against this. New collectors shouldn't get so wound up about getting burned no matter how bad it may have been. You never know what that seller/resell/store might have down the road and burning them to the ground over one transaction is simply not worth it. People/places that have bad service are eventually going to close down.

I had a very bad experience at two stores in the past, one more recently than the other. One store had damaged the NES pins and refused to refund me. I took store credit and got some items I still have to this day.

Another store had a crappy attitude when I asked about their higher end items I was genuinely interested in purchasing. Although their items were marked up beyond the going rate I was not going to negotiate with the level of service displayed by the owner. Maybe it was a bad day, maybe they were annoyed they had to talk to a customer since their employee couldn't provide pricing information. All I know is one day they might have something I'd want to overpay for and if I had "left their reputation in shambles" I know I'd never get the chance to buy something again.

18 minutes ago, Code Monkey said:

You're missing the box. PM @fsped09he may have have one

2 minutes ago, Code Monkey said:

I did see that. But logically, if he's making them, I'll just wait until they're in stock. At no point did he mention they were only made to order.

Hey man, for a small fee, I'd be happy to follow up on little reminders like this. PM me if you're interested.

Just now, a3quit4s said:

Don’t be dunking on the newbies rookies 

2 minutes ago, a3quit4s said:

I started a post awhile back to see if there was interest in getting some boxes needed from him. It turned out he had some stock left and the rest is history. 

Some people don't read posts thoroughly.

33 minutes ago, Code Monkey said:

How? They're not listed on his site.

11 minutes ago, RH said:

 

It’s honestly worth watching. It was produced by Peter Jackson and I mean that as a good thing (considering he rather hit or miss.)

I've seen District 9. I was poking fun at @Gloves 

2 minutes ago, Reed Rothchild said:

Yeah,I guess I haven't done a Blomkamp film,and that's the most notable one.  I still bet it would get 8 votes.

1 being never seen it

1 minute ago, G-type said:

Life is Beautiful
Toy Story 3

Oh I haven't seen Life is Beautiful in some time, but what a good movie.

Toy Story 3 snuck up on people, same as Up's opening minutes.

Anytime I look around and I'm on the higher end of known sales makes me nervous. I always have to remind myself certain items are limited and don't get listed as often or may never be seen again in as good of a condition as I'm looking at. When it's all said and done and the item arrives, I'm over the regret of spending whate ever I did, provided the item arrived as described.

46 minutes ago, RH said:

 

I've heard this so much, and this is the only reason I really, really want to pick up a copy of this game and play it.

I'm also not into Basketball games, but man, NBA Jam was amazing. I've heard this Blitz is the NBA Jam of Football, so I really need to do myself a favor and give this a try some time.

When it came out, Super Mega Baseball was very fun. Feels very close to a grown up Back Yard Baseball from PC a long time ago.

NFL Blitz was a very fun game. Probably a 9, but I gave it a 10 as it's easy for anyone to pick up and play and it's an extremely fun game.

https://youtu.be/tiG3HziMjWI?feature=shared

25 minutes ago, Red said:

Not a pinball game!  Why don't you believe me?  Look at the flippers.  Way too close together.  How could a ball get passed them?

The game/level has mini balls and big flippers 

2 minutes ago, Red said:

Sadly, it's not a Pinball game.  I've played it and not once did I activate a flipper or plunger.  All I got were some unlikable characters endlessly yammering about nonsense which was occasionally interrupted with a sequence of mindless button mashing.

I'm going to guess Cuphead since you mentioned unlikeable characters and button mashing.

I know I''m wrong lol

4 minutes ago, G-type said:

I like stickers up to a point...when it's old rental stores putting stickers on their products (that were new at the time), I can appreciate that sticker as yet another connection to that era. But when it comes to modern stores slapping new stickers onto retro stuff with no regard for covering up the item, that's just a sign that they don't know what they're doing and don't give a shit:

 

This particular sticker adds nothing to that manual. No game store name, location... nothing. Not only that, it's large and just obnoxious. The rental store stickers I like are these... not my pictures. I can give Blockbuster a pass though.

1 hour ago, DarkKobold said:

Oh man, I hate rental store/price stickers etc. I care about the history of Super Mario Bros 1. How it was created, who designed the levels, the music, and etc.  I don't care about the history of any one copy of SMB1. It's one of the reasons I absolutely despise provenance. I give negative shits about who held a game before me. Drives me insane, tbh. 

It's about it showing a store that used to exist. I have a game that was used in some summer camp in central Florida. It's a glimpse of what used to be.

9 minutes ago, RH said:

I like really clean games.  I definitely will remove price tags and stuff but I am getting to the point where that if I find a game with a rental label, I’d rather put it in the FS/FT pile rather than clean it off and put it on my shelf.  I may want sticker free games, but I appreciate the history and would rather pass it off to you guys who like those things.

29 minutes ago, fcgamer said:

Where I live, we don't go throwing stickers on a repro to make it look legit. Same with less than mintyness factors. Therefore, if there's a sticker or two and some wear, it's not a repro or a modern fake.

Now in the West it might be a totally different situation, but that's pathetic if it's gotten to the point of people throwing stickers on repros to make them seem legit. Sure it's happened before, but at that point everyone should be looking inward and reflecting.

People do what they do to make money. It's shell, label and board. If there's a sticker on a game, so be it, but it doesn't do anything to help mark it as a legit copy. I don't rely on a sticker to help identify a real game from a fake.

We are talking about collecting as a whole... I have not seen a sticker on a fake game, but to say it helps is misleading.

@fcgamer Not sure why you would think it helps verify a game being legit. Care to explain?

7 minutes ago, fcgamer said:

I prefer the stickers too, helps when trying to verify whether it's a legit item or not.

5 minutes ago, AirVillain said:

Another thing that burns my ass is... I notice label "upgrades" (aka putting a new, FAKES-ASS BULLSHIT, sticker, on the NES cart that is a copy of the OG label) it on Reddit alot.... I want to dunk on them so bad, but nobody seems to care anymore. It hurts. It hurts so bad.

What gets me is people removing blockbuster and rental store stickers. To each their own, but there's people that appreciate those too, look around before removing them!

11 hours ago, fcgamer said:

I guess that's my issue on the whole thing: take ten seconds to do an ebay search before asking the value of something, do a Google search and read about how to do a battery replacement, etc. So much of the information is now out there and readily available via a quick search, so at least put in a little effort before asking someone else to do your homework for you. Such effort makes people see that you may be new, but at least you want to learn a bit about whatever.

It can come off as lazy, but over time I've realized sometimes it's not so easy for some to look stuff up. Some people may find Rarity Guide, which was a thing some time ago. If someone is looking to sell and price their games according to that site, they are going to price too low. Also, there's a lot of information out there that is just simply wrong or can be misleading, so it doesn't hurt to ask a community that may know the answer.

On 1/28/2024 at 6:34 AM, Gulag Joe said:

The “play as Barkley” version of NBA Jam for snes has officially been marked as rare.