RH | 4,895 Posted January 24, 2020 Share Posted January 24, 2020 21 minutes ago, AirVillain said: The Price Charting website is basically unusable on mobile. I can't switch to CAD, or change the filter so the games are alphabetical. I literally came in here only to say that. I'm trying to take a look at some prices and it's a piece of shit. That is all. I guess I'll DL the GVN app again.... I thought the app was ded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirVillain | 485 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 On 1/23/2020 at 6:44 PM, DoctorEncore said: It's not perfect, but it works fine for me. Which browser are you using? Safari... Could be that I 'spose.... GVN website seems to be down as well....? https://gamevaluenow.com/ (Pardon the swearing) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NierAutomata | 23 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 JJgames site working again under the new management. Looks like they'll only sell those newer licensed, rerelease games. Guess I'll never use it again, shipment 16$, no thanks lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estil | 1,261 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 44 minutes ago, NierAutomata said: JJgames site working again under the new management. Looks like they'll only sell those newer licensed, rerelease games. Guess I'll never use it again, shipment 16$, no thanks lol. Told ya! Did I call it or what? Their so-called "going out of business sale" was just a gimmick promotion like it's often used for...they just pretended like they're going out of business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,488 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 53 minutes ago, NierAutomata said: JJgames site working again under the new management. Looks like they'll only sell those newer licensed, rerelease games. Guess I'll never use it again, shipment 16$, no thanks lol. Did Piko buy them out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NierAutomata | 23 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 (edited) 14 hours ago, Tulpa said: Did Piko buy them out? Dunno, but the contact they provide through email is llcvgbrands@gmail.com, dunno who those guys are, but I'm betting it's someone related to gocollect, because they now ONLY sell sealed stuff lol. And it's mostly common games. Edited February 16, 2020 by NierAutomata 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 11,759 Administrator · Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 7 minutes ago, NierAutomata said: Dunno, but the contact they provice through email is llcvgbrands@gmail.com, dunno who those guys are, but I'm betting it's someone related to gocollect, because they now ONLY sell sealed stuff lol. And it's mostly common games. Lol what a generic company name. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nugfish | 652 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 14 hours ago, Tulpa said: Did Piko buy them out? If Piko is involved it'll be a complete dumpstorm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 14 hours ago, Estil said: Told ya! Did I call it or what? Their so-called "going out of business sale" was just a gimmick promotion like it's often used for...they just pretended like they're going out of business. I don't think that's quite what happened. It does appear that somebody else bought the name at least, since the stuff being sold now doesn't match anything he used to have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye | 1,595 Homebrew Team · Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 My guess is Piko bought them. They are selling preorders of a Piko game that just ended it's Kickstarter. https://www.jjgames.com/#!/Jim-Power-Standard-Edition-Preorder/p/175081122/category=34163003 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiSlice | 3,089 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 38 minutes ago, Deadeye said: My guess is Piko bought them. They are selling preorders of a Piko game that just ended it's Kickstarter. https://www.jjgames.com/#!/Jim-Power-Standard-Edition-Preorder/p/175081122/category=34163003 Gotta be, look at this: is this lucrative? Selling modern releases for older consoles? Seems like a poor return for whatever it cost to buy a major used games URL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineappleLawnchair | 88 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Check out the Gamecube section. Looks like they're straight up resealing used games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grondorr | 49 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 Guessing site and inventory where sold off to top seperate groups. Whoever bought the site probably just wanted the web traffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiSlice | 3,089 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 7 hours ago, Grondorr said: Guessing site and inventory where sold off to top seperate groups. Whoever bought the site probably just wanted the web traffic. JJ might have kept the inventory. They also sold stuff through PriceCharting and eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grondorr | 49 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 1 hour ago, MiamiSlice said: JJ might have kept the inventory. They also sold stuff through PriceCharting and eBay. I'm pretty sure he got rid of it. Why would someone want to pay to store a warehouse full of loose games that you aren't in the business of selling? If it was high end sealed stock, I could maybe see hanging onto it for the potential appreciation/collectibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiSlice | 3,089 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 3 hours ago, Grondorr said: I'm pretty sure he got rid of it. Why would someone want to pay to store a warehouse full of loose games that you aren't in the business of selling? If it was high end sealed stock, I could maybe see hanging onto it for the potential appreciation/collectibility. Like I said, JJ didn’t just sell stuff through his site. He also sold stuff through PriceCharting marketplace and eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grondorr | 49 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 15 minutes ago, MiamiSlice said: Like I said, JJ didn’t just sell stuff through his site. He also sold stuff through PriceCharting marketplace and eBay. But he said he was getting out of loose retro game sales, because he didn't want to compete with digital downloads. I'd assume that means ebay and pricecharting marketplace too. Actually, I can say for sure he's stopped selling on pricecharting marketplace, because I used to get flooded with announcements for the hundreds of carts for GBA he would regularly list. I haven't seen any since the announcement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiSlice | 3,089 Posted February 16, 2020 Share Posted February 16, 2020 3 hours ago, Grondorr said: But he said he was getting out of loose retro game sales, because he didn't want to compete with digital downloads. I'd assume that means ebay and pricecharting marketplace too. Actually, I can say for sure he's stopped selling on pricecharting marketplace, because I used to get flooded with announcements for the hundreds of carts for GBA he would regularly list. I haven't seen any since the announcement. Oh ok, you are probably right then. I didn’t know that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grondorr | 49 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 2 hours ago, MiamiSlice said: Oh ok, you are probably right then. I didn’t know that. There was an interview somewhere, but a big factor seems to have been the loss of Gamestop overflow. Gamestop used to bulk sell off their less attractive carts, but as they cut back their buying, this supply dried up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,929 Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 Ok I imagine you (some) from years ago when I was on NA knew I was friends with Piko (Eli) well I still am. Considering all the back and forward guessing and comments I just asked him as I'm writing this. Yes, he did buy out JJGames. He says he bought it out and more than just the name/domain. It's currently under reconstruction and reorganization. Part of the buy out also extended into various stocks of stuff. He's looking to add to the site his words here: About 6500 items, independent items, and about 17000 games total. Of that around 6000 will be used games and 1250 factory sealed games, and also around 500 toys. Those 2 game boxes showed, Custodian is something he published under Piko. Right now he's trying to figure out the shipping mess, as JJ had it, it's not sustainable. He can't give you free domestic shipping and $4USD international. Shipping to the EU on the whole should be around $13, Canada $9, Mexico with another shipper should be $10 with a 6 day arrival. Currently he's looking to move, so due to that he can't put a lot of that up for sale until after. And of all that the JJ stuff it's like 5 pallets of inventory. I'm not sure how much that clears stuff up, but it's what I was told so far. 5 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NierAutomata | 23 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 On 2/17/2020 at 2:17 AM, Tanooki said: He can't give you free domestic shipping and $4USD international. Shipping to the EU on the whole should be around $13, Canada $9, Mexico with another shipper should be $10 with a 6 day arrival. This is basically why I'm not buying there again, this business now is basically directed towards North America only. JJgames was a great place to get stuff under 25$ that wasn't released in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange | 1,700 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 Not gonna lie, that dinosaur game for GBC looks kind of cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,929 Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 7 hours ago, NierAutomata said: This is basically why I'm not buying there again, this business now is basically directed towards North America only. JJgames was a great place to get stuff under 25$ that wasn't released in Europe. In principle I entirely agree, but it's not really him to blame for not wanting to eat probably $10 or more in shipping on some piddly order to keep internationals happy. It's a business after all, not a give away and I can imagine choking those costs down has to hurt. 4 hours ago, The Strangest said: Not gonna lie, that dinosaur game for GBC looks kind of cool. I entirely agree I wanted to buy that back in the GBC days. Tyrannosaurus Tex looked awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoTwizer | 123 Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 On 2/15/2020 at 11:24 PM, PineappleLawnchair said: Check out the Gamecube section. Looks like they're straight up resealing used games. I noticed that as well, wonder whats going on there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,929 Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Ok Piko can't seem to log in and was talking to me about that non-sense about resealing used games. They're not, or at least they shouldn't be. The games in question came from a distributor in Europe. He's fairly certain they are new, but if not he wouldn't be sure, or they could be a sloppily sealed last run of stuff towards the end of the system life/run of the games. (I'm asking) Is there anything concrete here you can eyeball beyond all doubt to call the stuff a reseal? I'm really curious. He says he also got a lot of new but not sealed up Genesis games, basically open box new like product due to no seal, but they've not been played before. They'll get sold as a complete in box product since the seal is lost after all. Piko is not aware though clearly what a proper GC seal is, he knows about the Y seal and they all are just that. He linked me a guy opening a legit sealed Batman GC game up on youtube and says his seals looked like that one. So going back to my own question in the middle there, is there a real certainty those GC games aren't new? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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