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Do you know what country they operate out of? I just notice the note on Vat/taxes, but don't see that specifically. Might be just missing it though. 

So lately I've been on a sort of bucket list journey to finally mod my consoles or have them repaired to full order. Recently I had my Colecovision and Intellivision repaired but each person seems to specialize a bit. Recently I discovered my turbo duo is having issues and the resources that used to exist seem to be gone, and I also need work done on my original PS2 and Xbox. I feel it used to be easier to find a cream of the crop as it were for these things but lately it isn't simple. The guy I got the ps2 from was from etsy and clearly not very good at this for example, so I guess I'm wondering if any of you all have any good resources or suggestions for people who do this kind of work well? Thanks, hopefully this can be helpful to others too!

Decided to get these together now that I finally have bonk 3 CD

Did some more sorting, this will be the last big NES haul to put away as I have about 8 left to find, but they are brutal too so they won't be coming fast let's say. 

They are trash but you don't have to use them so whatever. 

I dunno if bootlegs of these ever existed but they look real and are cheap to buy, kinda neat to add.

In that ones case I need the whole kit so unfortunately not, definitely tricky to find with the box though!

While I haven't had a ton of luck here I figure it might not hurt to put the feelers back out just in case, I'm not sure if adding bounties would help but I would work on it if anyone were to think so. Thanks all!

Collecting has sheltered it before, the reality is not everyone is impacted equally in a recession, people will keep spending and the people who can't might loosen some of their inventory sure, but in the end people who can afford it will still end up keeping them and hording them in turn.

6 hours ago, avatar! said:

Amazing... one day, I too, hope to have a limitless source of income

Samesies I made the mistake of estimating what I still need to spend and it's not great, I suspect I'll need to save about 2 years, I was kinda hoping to finish before I hit 40 but that might be tough in this market. 

Guess I can throw in stuff I'm putting away for the other 2. 

16 minutes ago, DarkKobold said:

Damn, what's the story on Amazing Tater? Did you sacrifice a goat to get it? 

 

I'm not an expert on goats but I assumed one is worth less than Amazing Tater

Been accumulating these for months but finally put them away, I only have 19 games I still want on Game Boy so I will never see a shot like this occur naturally again. 

Yeah it was from her, just kind of crazy to feel if it's how a mint box is meant to feel lol. 

This took a bit to get but this is a full US set for the Pokemon mini system, cute little thing.  It has an interesting history since they didn't really sell this in a 'videogame' section and more so a toy section, but it didn't sell much here at all and most of the games didn't make it in turn, yet it has ESRB ratings and other 'gamey' like designations. I mostly sprung for this because my fiancee would be into something like this, but I think it's a neat novelty to own if you're into Pokemon stuff. It operates more so along the lines of the Tamagotchi or VMU on Dreamcast sorts of things rather than a dedicated game system, but it has IR functionality and other things too.

So all the basic checks I do on these checks out here, but this box is so smooth and glossy that it worries me a bit and figured I should inquire. I don't usually get stuff in this nice of shape so maybe I'm not used to it, but I wanted to run it by anyone here, any help? Thanks!

Had to do some surgery on Aero sticker wise but I'm happy with with it, Claymates isn't rare but it's a pain to find the holographic card with it, and without it, it's just a black box. 

On 5/16/2022 at 8:01 AM, OptOut said:

Insert like any game ever, over the past two years, lol!

Obviously there is a little more trivia with this one too, like the fact it was the first Sonic game on a Nintendo (well, tied with SA2:B), and it was the first 2D sonic game in like a million years, unless you count the fuggin N-gage one, lol! 

Sonic Advance 2 was also pretty good, although I never bothered finishing Sonic Advance 3, it felt like they were kinda out of ideas again by the time they got to that one.

Well the N-gage one was just Sonic Advance isn't it? But butchered I think.

2 hours ago, Dr. Morbis said:

I totally agree, and have always had this philosophy.  I can't tell you how many times I've overpayed for a CIB game by anywhere from $10-$50 in the last two-plus decades, and whomever I'm with is flabbergasted and thinks I'm crazy and/or starts talking about how I should just wait until the bubble bursts.  Well buddy, that's a beautiful dream, but I'm only on this sphere once, and I'd like to play my games now, not when I'm 97 and can't see the TV through my cataracts or hold a controller due to arthritic pain.  And, as anyone who's been in this hobby any length of time already knows: prices have been climbing for twenty years, so every game I've ever overpayed for is worth more now than the price I payed when I bought it!  Gee, go figure...

The bottom line for me is this: every single time I've ever passed on a video game item for price reasons and declined to make the purchase, I have ended up regreting it down the road... Every - single - time....

I remember buying Shantae and Keio Flying Squadron for about 300 each and I was called stupid by many at the time, no one would ever pay that, they are both dead mint as well. I remember feeling queasy about spending that, now they are both worth crazy amounts. As an example of a counter, I opted to not buy Dynastic Hero for TG16 for like 700, it's worth like 3000+ now, I should have waited for that bubble to burst. 

4 hours ago, Bonanza125 said:

I hear you. Those are resellers sitting at the computer every moment looking for anything to make a profit especially a bargain. That has increase a lot over the years and that will never change. Has a lot to do with people growing up and more increase number of resellers or bargain hunters on whatever is available. I was referring to the demand for people to pay fair market or a small discount. To me the word "fairly" is fair market value or 5%-10% discount. Aero Fighters CIB is more of an in demand game which will have lots of interest on the open market. Eventually that price will come down when people aren't the price and more Aero Fighter CIB sell for cheaper. 

Has this ever happened in any meaningful fashion? If I listened to all the speculation about bubble bursting over 15 years, my 200k collection would have cost me a million dollars essentially, and while NES and SNES have kind of leveled out, the Game Boy keeps reaching new ridiculous heights. Unless people die off and flood the market, I don't see it, and by then most of us won't care. I have almost 10,000 games over this span of time, and I think people are fine to speculate but every time I hear it, no one is able to present facts which we have plenty of access to due to places like ebay or price charting. I do think covid was an unnatural boom but overall the curve always goes up, and I hate that. Telling people it will burst just seems like a recipe for people to miss things they could have got. 

If you buy into the idea that you only live one time, it makes little sense to put this stuff on the back burner given the data we have, either you'll miss the boat entirely or if it does burst way down the line, you'll likely be too old to bother. If enjoying it now matters to you, nothing points to this stopping anytime soon. 

Keep in mind, I have no horse in the race of value, I've worked a decent job my whole collecting career but I'm by no means a high roller of any kind, the price has always been a hurdle for me not a blessing because I never intend to sell nor do I want to pay much. The cost of the games doesn't excite me it just makes me annoyed, so I'm not the person trying to drive the prices up, I'm just the person that has to pay. 

7 hours ago, Bonanza125 said:

 

Nothing that is priced 'fair value' last for an hour, that's the thing. Just because some idiot puts Aero Fighters up for 10k for 3 years, that doesn't mean people don't want it. The moment one pops up for 3000 people snatch it up in an hour, and that's the point. Yeah people listing Krion for 800 won't yield much, but if the current going rate is say, 300, it will sell that day at 300. We're at a point where everyone wants to overprice things, but that just means the moment it is priced fairly it'll go instantly. I've had things I'm hunting be sold within 3 minutes of being listed just because it was priced as it should be. I'm only really familiar with CIB collecting but I can tell you now, it's never been more expensive and annoying than it is right now, which is a common theme in this hobby. 

8 hours ago, Bonanza125 said:

I've seen the demand for retro cart only/complete games drop significantly over the years. Back 10 years ago people were buying those up for there collection. I think now like someone else said people are more into the modern stuff. People who have grown up on retro games pretty much have everything they want as far as a collection and again like some have said there is more people looking to make profit instead of collect. Eventually that bubble will burst and you will find that those people will have all this inventory on hand and not much of a demand for it unless its discounted out.  

This has certainly not been my experience with anything in decent shape, the prices have never been higher and the amount of inventory to find is crippling. The reality is many games exist that didn't circulate much and they likely will forever be impacted unless everyone who cares dies, it will vary based on the time and age of course, just, something like The Krion Conquest is likely never going to be inexpensive to find in reasonable shape because of the Mega Man like intrigue mixed with its obscurity. I'd definitely need to see graphs of the downtrend because I've not stopped in 14 years and am trying to get out ASAP due to price fatigue. While there may not be as many people chasing them, the amount of remaining inventory is also very low, this becoming a different trend might take 10-20 years and most of us aren't willing to 'hold out' that long. At most I've noted some systems have 'leveled off' or rather, some games hit their ceiling and aren't changing much, so your Little Samsons or Haganes might not be increasing in value because they are already obscene, but there are other future games that will likely reach ridiculous territory as soon as the variables align, which is kind of always how it's been. How many games have increased drastically only to trend down a lot that weren't based on some kind of relevant boom, such as Pokemon Go or a recent media release that might pique interest?

Off hand, I have a full tiger game.com set, Neogeo Pocket Color, and N-gage. I think those are the only systems I did full sets for due to the size.

Since I don't import I end up being surprised to find out some series kept going, never would have guessed Milon ended up on DS.

I'm not up to date on the discussion here but, one of the big catalyst for my collecting was using NA awards to focus on areas to collect, so in turn I have really robust collections for series ranging from Nintendo, Sega, Sony and Microsoft stuff, has there been any traction on maybe considering series awards? Also, is this a good place to suggest for certain ones? I have a complete Neogeo Pocket Color, N-Gage and Game.com set as example but don't think there are awards here, I don't have many console full sets but figured I should try for the ones I did do

Since NA went away I've moved and have built up my collection a lot, so it would be cool to have a new excuse to take pictures, hopefully this time without the '+5 non game' item requirement, since I can fulfill that usually but don't really care to picture that stuff.