MiamiSlice

I would have been so livid! Sorry to hear about that

Yeah I would have been willing to continue negotiating if the seller had been honest about it. Might have even gone up to $300 for everything, which is stretching but the Wii U and Dokapon could probably make that back. Circumstances being different I'd probably still be willing to pick up the rest of the lot for $150 like I said but I don't like the bait-and-switch, intentional or not. Buying online is easier, no shady tactics to deal with, I like what I see in the picture, I click buy, a week later I have the stuff, no need to communicate. I'm surprised that CL seller actually responded. Usually I drive away, I figure I'll never hear from that person again. Pretty cool that they at least were willing to give it to you after all. Maybe they felt embarrassed? Who knows!

Bump. Open to offers, worst I can say is no. Got some new items up, have a look!

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Super loser weeper here I haven't seen anything good in my local area in a long time. Don't know why. My area usually isn't any good for game hunting but I had some good hauls a year ago. Lately, there's been nothing, not even good listings that I miss out on, just nothing. Finally last night I see a good listing go up, nothing crazy, but there's a Wii U SMB 3D World bundle in box with a bunch of Wii U games, a loose Wii with some Wii games, a Wii U Pro Controller, and an Xbox 360 loose with two controllers and a bunch of Xbox games. Asking $225. I'm excited because altogether it's a good price for everything but also there's a copy of Dokapon Kingdom in one of the Wii piles. Plus the Wii / Wii U games have some other decent titles, nothing as valuable but a good lot still. It's farther than I would usually travel, 30 minutes one way driving for me, but for the first good haul in a while and picking up some Wii / Wii U titles for my collection plus the Wii U Pro Controller, and flipping the rest to make my money back including the Dokapon Kingdom being a quick sale, I'm down. I tell the guy I can do $200 and pick up tomorrow (now today), we agree, cool, he sends me some messages later that night about "I've been getting a lot of messages blah blah" but I don't bite. But I know where this is going. I wake up this morning and decide to check the listing again. What's this? Really? Shocking! Some of the photos are missing. I message him asking what happened, did some of the pictures disappear? Are some of the Wii and Wii U games not available anymore? He asks me which ones I wanted, I say "I'm pretty sure there was another Just Dance game in there and Dokapon Kingdom," he doesn't respond for a while and then makes an excuse about how he took the pictures wrong, he didn't mean to include that pile, he will have to make another listing. I ended up messaging him on the new listing asking a few more questions, he makes another unprompted excuse about "my girlfriend took those games, they will be sold separately," ok dude. If I had to guess I would say someone offered to buy just Dokapon Kingdom and he went for it and maybe was hoping I wouldn't notice. His asking price for the new listing is $199, I could probably do $150 and take it but at this point it's not worth it. I'm passing out of principle. I'm just annoyed and wanted to vent. I don't get why people don't realize that if you have a big pile of stuff to sell, and then you part out the good items and sell them separately, you are going to end up stuck with a big pile of undesirable stuff that no one will want to buy off you. Hate this zip code sometimes. I get better hauls online, which is sad. OK rant over

Selling Club Nintendo Zekkyo Senshi Sakebrain CIB for $18 shipped to @captmorgandrinker

Will be tracking feedback here. So far: 9 transactions confirmed and 1 pending!

Nothing too wild from the past week. Decided not to buy too much on Black Friday, I figured the items I passed up will go on sale again or I might be able to land them in trades. Pictured: - Caved and bought a used dock set, it’s not in the best condition but it works and won’t brick my system. I have two screens on opposite ends of my house and can’t be disconnecting my dock all the time! - CTR and Overcooked 2 were $15 each Black Friday deals. My kids immediately fell in love with Overcooked 2, we’ve been playing it daily. CTR I’m not sure about yet. - Rocket Slime I bought at a decent price, finally found a CIB copy with no blemishes aside from the case plastic which I can always swap - The two FEFs I got in a trade, I’m close to a complete FE set but sadly I’m missing the GBA games which aren’t cheap and Three Houses

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Does someone have the clay model from #1?

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I think battery leakage can happen regardless of whether they are hermetically sealed or not. Batteries leak as a natural byproduct of discharging, and even a battery that is not connected will self-discharge over time, but the batteries inside of a cartridge *are* connected and are therefore more likely to leak. It depends on the battery though, some are more likely to leak than others, and the button cell batteries inside of NES carts seem to be less inclined to leak than say, AA batteries. Heat is far more likely to cause battery leakage, which is why they should be stored at room temp, or if you really want them to last longer, then at colder temps. But my slightly educated guess is that the box / slab being sealed doesn't change anything. The nice thing about sealed games is that the cartridge, disc, etc could be totally ravaged by time, completely useless, and no one will ever have to know. Edit: since I brought up discs, I think discs are better preserved when hermetically sealed though that's my best guess, I'm not an expert on disc rot. Also with cartridges, the metal being exposed to oxidation is what causes them to rust, and I think if they are hermetically sealed then that would be less likely as well.

double post, whoops

There's a list of GunCon compatible games here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GunCon And a list of all the games that are compatible with the Konami Justifier here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Justifier

I went overboard in the past week. Gonna have to sell some stuff to offset my spending - Ring Fit Adventure: finally pulled the trigger on this one with the first time shopper deal on Google Shopping, got it for $70, I've been wanting to get back into working out and this was what I needed. I love it. Extremely innovative and it actually makes exercise fun. - Retro City Rampage I got in a trade - Shakedown Hawaii I got from eBay, then I find out the next day Vblank is having an early Black Friday sale. So I'm getting the collector's edition in the mail and then I'll eventually sell one or the other - Rogue Legacy, Freedom Planet and Bomb Chicken were all on my wantlist, and I found a great opportunity to get them for $95 + tax on Mercari, so I had to take it. They came with the cards too, all sealed, from a great seller I would buy from again. - Collection of Mana for $20 in an early Black Friday Deal - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 from the same trade as RCR - Downwell finally arrived, I thought I had gotten it before but that was another game. - And then, I finally got my first and probably last Buyee shipment. It was one of those bucket list things. I got the Wii SFC Classic Controller, the Club Nintendo 2011 desk calendar, an indigo/clear GC controller, the Mario hat DS game rack (something I wanted for a long time), the Peach music compilation, Korg M01, and (not pictured) a Mario hat DS case. Finally knocked off some Club Nintendo items I should have picked up years ago! With fees and shipping I didn't really save any money on most of these items, but I was able to get some stuff that is harder to find on eBay. - Tornado - Not a good game, but it has a slipcover, got it off eBay - Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey was the last game I needed to complete the Mario & Luigi set, another early Black Friday deal - And lastly, the two GBA games, Hello Kitty Happy Party Pals and Connect Four / Perfection / Trouble, were from a local FB marketplace listing. A lady was selling these sealed for $5, but she was a little too far to drive, so I offered her $10 to ship them to me. She said in her listing that she wanted them to go to someone who would open them and enjoy them, and I was down with that. Unfortunately she mailed them in a padded envelope so they got a bit crushed, but these are worthless so who cares. My kids love Connect Four and they will probably enjoy the Hello Kitty game too. Also it's fun to open old sealed games, you get to smell the past.

I never had Super Mario Bros. 3, but I knew some kids that did, and when I would visit their house this is what we would play. I didn't have my own copy until Super Mario All Stars for SNES. I never had Play Action Football, but my dad did. He picked up a Nintendo and started buying games for it after the SNES was already out. I would go to his house sometimes on weekends, and this is the game that we played the most. So yes, when I started collecting NES games again a few years back, these were 2 of the games I had to get. I didn't meet my wife until high school, but she has all these stories about games she played with her sister when they were growing up. They had a SEGA Genesis and not many games, but one that she remembers fondly was Tiny Toons: Buster's Hidden Treasure. I picked up a copy of it in great condition earlier this year and was excited to show it to her.

I wouldn't be surprised if the buyer that claimed he was going to drop $100k+ bids was a friend of the seller trying to hype up the item. For the record, this kind of manipulation exists on eBay too. You can "sell" something to a friend, then cancel the order, and it will still show up as a successful sale in eBay's sold listings. Or you can have a friend shill-bid your auction just to try and bait the other bidders into offering more. Or you could do a sale, then refund your buyer some money, just to have a higher sale price. Etc. etc. None of this matters when game collecting is just a niche hobby and people are just looking to buy stuff to have or to play. People who are in it for the long term can be patient enough to wait for the right deal, or do the legwork to try and get stuff for below market value. But once the comic book / trading card hype cycle begins, casuals will come along looking at this as a chance to make money, and they will feel pressured to chase prices or miss out on the money making opportunities by supposed "authorities" who aren't disclosing their conflicts of interest. Then we will get a hype cycle (like beanie babies, remember that?) - which is fine, because people are free to spend their money however they want - no one is holding a gun to their heads forcing them to shell out tens of thousands. But eventually this hype cycle will crash, because the demand is inflated. Once the people who are in it for the money run out of people to sell to, and realize they won't be making money, but rather losing money, on their "investment," the party will be over, and it won't be fun anymore. Anyway, make money while you can, you are early!

Is the market setting the prices when the auction house buys one of the items up for auction? Is the market setting the prices when these guys stage a fully scripted segment where they pretend not to know each other and get someone who is basically a celebrity to play along with their name-a-price game? Is the market setting the prices when these same guys are claiming they've had legit offers for $300k with no proof? We all know how often people say they will make an offer and never come through. So what if someone made a private offer - it's not a sale. It's definitely not "the market setting the price." People will fall for this stuff, the intention is to create hype and boost values beyond what the market is currently pricing things at. Not everyone sees through it like we do.

Minus, I like the idea of grading CIBs for the reasons you stated (preserving them, having a mark of authority on the quality of the piece, etc). I have to agree with the Doctor on one thing, though: collecting CIBs is not easy. There's so much mismatching out there, plus instances of fake box contents (they are getting harder to detect than fake carts themselves) and just general cases where an insert or something else is missing. At least with NES there's a lot of info on what was supposed to come in the box, and with other systems like PS1 / 2 it's quite simple since most games just came with a manual and nothing else, but for Nintendo stuff for say, Game Boy through DS, it's seriously hard. Even scrutinizing as best I could before buying, I've still had the experience multiple times where I buy something that is supposed to be COMPLETE in box and it either turns out it's not complete or some of the inserts / cover art are damaged. With sealed stuff, outside of the box getting crushed, at least you don't have to worry about anything else if the seal is authentic. With CIB stuff, man, it can be very frustrating.

FTFY I kid, I kid

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The first one! But I’ve only played the first two. But my wife is on the third and she still prefers the first as well.

Some CIB, some sealed, but I plan to open the sealed ones eventually... which one is your favorite!?

Does Perfect Dark come with the expansion pak?

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