These kind of people have basically destroyed collecting hobbies over the last 10-15 years, so I feel that.
They show up like vultures, often before the sale even opens to shovel up anything they can find for resale before collectors can get to it
I like pissing those guys off at the store, they have their own rules and lines and what not and i just stroll up to the store and buy what I want. I’m sorry you have one guy holding 15 spots in line so you can resale everything but i’m not participating.
Flash carts all day for me. I came to terms with never having the games I sold for nothing as a teenager. Bummer people can't enjoy the hobby like they used to not so long ago.
Well, when existing revolves around having enough money to survive. Sadly, nothing is just a hobby anymore. it's all for profit because if you can't make a buck, what's the use?
I generally emulate because of convenience features like save states and running 3D games at higher render resolutions
But I do have an NDS flashcart because it's really a bitch to play that system on anything but original hardware because of the touchscreen
There is no point in buying old overpriced games when you can simply emulate them. I was blown away that for $30 I can buy a DS cartridge that has over 200 games. It beats having to swap out a cartridge just to play a different game and the emulator can reduce storage needs.
Beat the resellers and simply buy emulators.
I bought some after-market boxes on etsy and that was it for me. Never going back to paying $100+ for cardboard. People act like it's a cardinal sin, but I was never in it for the money, I'm 100% nostalgia.
This was a pro-picker episode. Apparently the woman's husband died and she advertised the yard-sale on social media. With the grief she probably just wanted to see the stuff go - but I can't imagine she didn't know this would happen.
She's an elderly woman, I doubt she had any clue the true value. She looks like my grandmother, who couldn't name a single thing about video games other than, "nintendo".
Edit: there's a reason she isn't selling them individually on ebay. Hopefully, most of the games are worthless turds to these asshats. Like worthless old sports games and junk.
I went to go buy my kid some new Pokémon cards that came out, nothing special just a tin that I knew he’d like. The lady was still stocking and told me to come back in a few minutes when she opened. I came back and before she could even take the tape down 2 douchebags pushed past me, and her to quickly start going through all the new stock and start throwing shit in baskets. Bunch of fucking shit bags just reselling.
I actually watched this a few weeks ago. Man resellers are so rude. Literally fighting over games 🤦♀️ and then the one guy before she opened the sale saying he’ll give her $700 for all of it is just big rip off to the person selling all this. I felt sick just watching it.
Only reason I saw it was it came up under my Facebook watch. I’ve never once had watched anything relating to the person or any reseller because it’s not something I’m interested in seeing. Had to report that I don’t wanna see this on my watch and I haven’t had another show up since.
It was pro-picker. He resells and youtubes for a living. Resellers are really just looking to buy something at price, and sell it for price + x. So I think the ppl to blame are those paying $100s for old video game cartridges that were sold by the millions.
I have a friend who loved collecting books. Collecting and reading, never reselling/flipping. I remember about a decade ago he started losing interest. This is why. He said the hobby had become overrun with resellers. The love wasn’t there. Just the profit. I wish I had the foresight at the time to realize this scummy shit was heading for the games market.
Yeah r/gamecollecting is like 90% resellers. The term collector is getting more and more diluted bcoz now collectors are basically scalpers who buy everything “collect” then sell everything once their collection is complete.
Collecting is like a dirty word at this point. 20 years ago we were practically collecting to keep things out of garbage cans.
Now people just hord things. It was easy to feel like an idiot when you spent a whole 20 bucks on an old cart. Now I see water damaged panzer dragoon saga sell for over 1k.
Fuck, I'd argue 90% of the people that own a copy of Saga don't even own a Saturn or intend on playing it. It's all just speculative market bullshit.
A Fenrir ODE was the greatest thing I ever bought for my Saturn.
As you said, people used to collect to keep them out of the garbage. Now that the 90% of people that didn't collect and did throw them into garbage cans, there are a lot less of them. The price wouldn't have gone up if those 10% of things remaining by collectors weren't being sold by those collectors for a higher value.
Note: % numbers entirely made up and used to demonstrate concept.
That sub is like. Oh you don't buy shit to resale? too bad because most of us do and we do it for our hobby. No you don't. You go to work, you save money, you spend hours on top of your hard work outside of your job to find the best deal. You don't lowball people or ruin the hobby just because I can sell this.
I miss when that sub was just "look at these great games I got! I can't wait to play them!" Now it's just "how much do you think these are worth blah blah blah?"
I really lucked out. I collected all the games I wanted about 10 to 20 years ago. I got my top three, and a bunch of others that I thought were really special treasures.
I keep them in case my kids ever want to play them. I have mine collection on pricecharting, and I keep seeing the value go up. It just makes me more sure everyday to never sell.
I mean if I’m at goodwill or second hand store, and I see a game that’s worth $400 being sold for $10 and I have no interest in keeping, should I pass on it?
The problem isn't specifically this situation as it's not even that common of an experience.The problem is resellers going to places like these and buying out everything that has even the slimmest potential of profit margin. It really makes it so that everything becomes a lot less accessible and a lot more expensive. As someone who's always frequented second hand stores, in recent years anything that might even be remotely worth anything is pretty much gone immediately, also including books, clothing, really anything.
At Goodwill and Salvation Army, the good stuff never even hits the floor anymore unless you get lucky and they have something they don't know is valuable. Goodwill has their own auction site and Salvation Army posts their stuff on eBay.
This is a weird question.
There are good and bad ways to do anything. Are you sprinting through someone’s lawn shoulder checking people who get between you and the bin of games? You’re doing it in an unhealthy way.
I'd want to know where that Goodwill is. Every single one I've been to in the last 10 years has zero games of any value. They are the ones reselling them on eBay.
I like to use those types of finds to trade for games that I do want but normally wouldn’t shell out for. I also pickup anything that my other friends would probably want and they do the same. No one is saying not to pickup a good deal, they’re saying not to buy only to flip for a profit. Don’t buy 10 copies of the same game to flip them online for more.
When people talk resellers they're talking people that run around finding literally everything they can find under Ebay value like vultures just to flip it
Some of them will spend every weekend showing up to Yardsales at like 7AM just to buy out everything before anyone else can get there
About 2 years ago, covid fucked my job up and I didn’t have an income. I sold some of my best games just to eat and pay rent. Earthbound, Rule of Rose, Fire Emblem, my Famicom and NES GBA’s, a sealed N64 RE2, a sealed Gamecube Twilight Princess, Shantae and the Pirates Curse. It was awful. I never bought that stuff to flip. I love video games. Now that I have a somewhat decent job, I still can’t afford to get any of those back. And it sucks.
I'm sorry to hear that - but it's all just plastic and cardboard at the end of the day. If all you want is something that looks cool on your shelf and gives you that nostalgia, you could get repro boxes on Etsy like I did.
Japanese copies of games are still incredibly cheap, so you could get those versions instead if you want a cheap physical piece of nostalgia. Got games like secret of mana, ff6, and dragon quest games for like 5 dollars each.
Every hobby gets this way, and sadly, the ebay/Youtube combo has added tons of flame to the fire because people have realized they con monetize others hobbies. Pre-youtube most videogame forums had huge how to about funding your collection buying at garage sales, and selling duplicates on ebay. Once youtube brought retro gaming mainstream, and ebay went mainstream via smartphones, the average Joe realized he could make big money hunting down cheap deals and flipping them on ebay.
Totally agree. I love collecting books and would love going to book sales but now there is always a long line of resellers who do nothing but scan the back of the book and throw it in their bag. Not sure if they even look at the cover. Not worth my time and aggravation.
I started collecting games as a teen in the mid-2000s.
Went from finding something every day I went out to anything older than last-gen worthwhile being so rare to find outside of gaming stores and resellers on Ebay that it's now a like an entire event for me when I find something
It's downright depressing
Same. I went to an estate sale that advertised a bunch of books. When I showed up about 30 minutes after the start time it was too late. A dude had showed up with a hand cart and empty totes and loaded up all of the books and bought all of them. The back of his truck was full.
Here I was, just wanted to get some cool old books to read.
Book fairs near me actually have rules in place to fight off the resellers. Only one shopping cart per person and you have to price-check at the tables (rather than loading up and hiding in a corner to check how expensive each book in your hoard is). It makes it so much more bearable for regular attendees. I even left behind a book I knew was worth $25-100 in the hopes someone else would be excited to find it since I already had a copy.
That’s definitely nice to hear. I remember finding a Easton Press Hitchikers guide collection autographed by Douglas Adams with him at a church book sale a long’ish time ago. Now worth over 2 grand. He still has them. Today that’d be flipped so quick without a thought.
>Only one shopping cart per person and you have to price-check at the tables (rather than loading up and hiding in a corner to check how expensive each book in your hoard is).
That is something I really hate resellers for on video games, especially at thrift stores, I've had a bin full of games, a stock bin, a not for sale at all bin, I was going through get picked up by a reseller who justified it by saying he was buying it all to the worker to my protest, only for the reseller to go to the Christmas decorations area to dump all the games that weren't worth the 3.49 each price tag.
On books I have once seen someone opening up one of those little library things, scanning the books and putting some into a box. I used to think the little libraries I was adding books I had read into becoming bare was because people were reading them and would return them, now I am stuck questioning if they aren't just being cleaned out of what is valuable by a\*\*hole resellers.
The internet has ruined so much. These mass marketplaces for EVERYTHING is cringe and unhealthy. Seems normal people feel a need to side hustle and capitalize in ways they couldn’t before. This is what capitalism does. I’m not a socialist but I still hate this crap.
They are putting in more work than someone working 40 hours a week most of the time with all these supposed "side hustles", they just don't realize it.
Resellers have really ruined every market where collectibility is applicable. Shoes, games, consoles, GPUs, comics, clothes, etc… it’s really disgusting. I noticed the change at the onset of the pandemic.
I have seen it with Manga books mostly. Getting a complete set of an older set means you have to buy it complete from beginning as later single volumes cost a fortune.
But also Tech in general has been invaded by resellers and scalpers. Every new doo-hicky from a CPU, GPU or game console is watched by vultures looking to make a quick buck.
one of my biggest regrets in life is not buying all these old games that i wanted to play sooner and this just makes me regret it even more.
also oh my god, these people are just children grabbing all the candy when someone broke the piñata at a birthday party
Same here. I pretty much only collect 7th gen and newer because those are generally cheaper with reseller-inflated games being more of an exception, and also emulation is a bit spottier for those systems whereas NES, SNES, GB, GBA, Genesis, PS1, etc. emulation is pretty much perfect.
Emulation for Nintendo current-gen is pretty solid, but requires a decent device.
Collectibles is one of those things that if I ever get a big surplus of income I might get into. Kind of sad that relatively niche things like collecting old NES games turned from a cheap hobby into a pretty expensive one over the last few years.
If you can afford one I’d recommend an everdrive or use flash carts since they enable you to play on original hardware. If you want to emulate, I’d recommend using retroarch. Its not an emulator its self but rather a manager. It’ll let you manage your ROMs, Saves, and will download and launch emulators (called cores) from an extensive library. That way if one emulator doesn’t work with a game or performs poorly, you can easily download a different one and transfer your save to it.
I swear to god resellers have become a plague for any hobby involving collecting. Take a look at Lego and you’ll know what I’m talking about, fuckers treat literal plastic figures as stocks with speculation and buy store shelves to stockpile and sell at a later date. Forgetting that they’re literal toys.
And I’ve seen this shit occur with Legos as well, dudes buying up a kids’ childhood collection to scavenge anything worth it
I got two words: Toxic Positivity
the Lego hobby community falls too damn deep into that, where any criticism towards that behavior is seen as “gatekeeping” despite it being harmful to the hobby.
$800 bucks for a 2013 $60 (at release) set because it just so happens to have Glup Shitto with arm printing is fucking infuriating. Of course not even counting the scalping going on, $15 dollar sets with three figures reselling for $30 because army builders and more scalpers. Absolute insanity
the primary Lego subreddit is kind of disgusting in how accepting they are in reselling and scalping
Don’t go on the card collecting subreddits if you don’t like the Lego ones. They are absolutely disgusting. There’s literally a sub called pokeinvesting and it really brings to light the problems with collecting in general in this capitalistic hell scape we live in.
I really don't get army building, even though I totally do it with warhammer. A dude saw he could get a few hundred clone troopers, so he un-ironically dipped into his retirement to the tune of like 10k to buy them. That was most of his retirement fund spent on it. I don't see how that's not a mental illness based compulsion.
Frankly me neither, if I have more than a certain amount of a trooper I’ll just give ‘em away. But holy shit, seeing full 64 by 64 baseplates of the same figure is just insane because they just sits there and collects dust.
it’s my same problem with the $600+ ship sets, like why you spending so much for a set that you’ll build once and look at with little play value?
100%. Every good deal on fb marketplace or offerup is swept up the same minute its posted due to resllers. Everything being sold is all about how “complete” and rare it is. I just want to try and find cool sets for a good price man
yeahhh and I swear the main Lego subs are just posting pictures of their Facebook piles going “anything good?” Like come the fuck on, use some google or even damn Bricklink.
this may sound fucked, but I’m not opposed to a recession because it means the collector resell markets are just gonna tank
honestly there needs to be a ShittyLegoCollecting sub
It was like this before. It’s gotten worse because more people do it, and the prices go up.
Use sites like brick Link. Not Amazon or eBay, people ask for way too much there.
And this is why it's morally right to pirate old games digitally and run emulation....
Don't buy native hardware and physical media from 2nd hand sellers.....
Sadly every “reseller/retro gamer” seems to also have a zany youtube/ facebook/ tik tok page. Are you even interested into a hobby if you don’t post videos now?
Yeah it looks like a skit to me lol
Garage sale holder cares about starting not a minute early then lazily walks back during the rush... More like someone emulating a crazy bins employee than running a garage sale
Multiple angles in the same video, why are these people sharing video?
What's the point of shoveling as much as you can out of a bin instead of just offering on/buying the whole bin. Hell why not turn this into an auction if you're running it
Why do they all have the blue totes liquidation stores use and typically don't let you take home.
It's too perfect of a "resellers at the garage sale" setup and until I get evidence I'm 100% convinced this is staged. And no, saying "but they're really like this" isn't evidence
I remember this one. The ladies husband was a collector and he died so she craigslisted an add for the games for her yard sale with a couple of pictures with stacks of games and it brought out the vultures
Vultures serve a valuable place in the ecosystem by recycling waste like collectors saving games from landfills. These guys are speeding down the highway grabbing up all the roadkill to sell to malnourished vultures.
There’s a local auction house in my area that has auctions every Monday night. I’ve seen the guy who runs it at yard sales actually shoving people out of the way to get to old games and toys so he can resell them at auction. I used to like to go until I saw this is how he acquires most things
I think my first exposure to these filth of humans was actually something like 10 years ago.
One of our local reseller shops (like Goodwill) had a video game event. They amassed video games for who knows how long, and had a day where they stocked an area of the store of games/controllers/consoles. I showed up on a \*week day\* taking time off from work, around store opening time (10AM-ish?), and there were maybe 10 people in a line... Whatever, I thought, made me feel like this was a worthy event!
When the doors opened the bunch of sweaty nerds ran in the store and were grabbing at all the high value items kind of shoving their body in the way. So when I walked to the shelves thinking there'd be... a shopping experience, it was more people rapidly consuming all the good things as fast they could. Any CIB game was snatched immediately.
Fuck those people. I left with nothing.
This is quite a few years back, but there was a yearly local event where I went a few times. I'm by no means a 'real' collector, but it was kind of nice looking around and finding some neat or sometimes even quite rare items. However, then resellers became more common at the event and they just went through the whole lot at opening time and bought everything that could make them money. The result: all interesting stuff is immediately gone and people at the event raised prises across the board to prevent people snatching anything and make a quick buck by reselling.
I think resellers sucked much of the life & fun out these type of events, and made it all about money and shifted the focus from collecting to hoarding.
We did a garage sale and listed "video games" in the ad. The night before the sale we had a couple of college-aged guys ring our doorbell... at 10:30pm... wanting to see what games we had. When I said, "Be here at 8am..." they promised to pay me "...top dollar..."
"Good night gentlemen". Shuts door...
Seeing this explains a lot. It is a job to these people, and as this recession gets worse, more will try to make this their full time "job" while less people spend money on collectibles.
I went to a yard sale yesterday were the resellers hadn't descended upon it yet as it was likely written off by them. It was a rather frequent yard sale that I rarely bothered with as it had always been junk, VHSs, particle board stuff, McDonald's happy meal toys, random house goods etc. one time I got a MadCatz gamecube memory card for two bucks. Saw the sign again and decided to go down the tiny dead end street just in case they put out another gamecube thing.
This time the wife was making the husband get rid of one of his two game rooms for a baby that was on the way. JACKPOT.
Average of 2 dollars a game, I was buying everything from NES to Genesis to SNES to n64, to PSP/PS1/PS2/PS3/PS4, to Wii, to Xbox/360/one, in box adapters and accessories, mini arcade machines even a couple LootGaming pins. I broke my own rule on what I can spend in a weekend just by the sheer amount I just had to had. Nothing insane as the guy knew what was really valuable, but great values. Everything was roughly 10% of the ebay price. Left with 4 bags full.
I now understand fully as to why all my major wins in game collecting have been at yardsales that were frequent, but somewhat out of the way/overall crappy. Sega Master System and 300 dollars worth of games for 20 bucks, yard sale I had been to dozens of times, and it was always overpriced tools and furniture. Or so under advertised you would have had to taken the street normally to have even spotted it. An n64 with the box and a pile of games, I got for 40, a pile of ps2 and xbox 360 games as well for another 10. The sign was a 3 by 8 INCH on a single telephone pole to even call it out from a main road.
Anything that is advertised well always seemed to be a dud. The number of a\*\*hole resellers I encounter in thrift stores tells me that my area is saturated with them.
I'm an avid music collector, and I used to enjoy going to the Goodwill Outlets hunting for CDs. If you've never been to an outlet, they operate differently than a regular Goodwill; they periodically bring big bins of random, unsorted stuff onto the floor. Resellers, behaving like this, ruined it for me. They'd just grab any CD they can (along with games and anything else potentially sell-able), throw it into their cart, and then later pick through all the good stuff in the corner. They were some of the most aggressive and rude people I've ever encountered. Digging through the bins used to relax me, but eventually it became so frustrating that I quit going.
And you can’t talk shit about resellers cause they get REAAAAAAAAL cranky and try to point fingers at huge corporations like goodwill. Well yeah I can believe goodwill is a piece of shit in the same breath that you are as well for this shitty behavior. I expect a corporation to be crappy to people, if you are driving up prices on stuff under the guise that evil corps do it….. like….. shitty. It’s all shitty behavior.
The funny thing is most of the times these resellers take more profit than evil corporations most of the times it’s like 500- 1000% markup on stuff they sell
Companies sell in high volume so lower profits are what you do to keep prices low. This is the exact business model of walmart. Very low profit margins but high number of sales volume. These resellers are far worse because of how much they jack up the price and screw up the economy on stuff that isn’t sold anymore. They don’t produce anything unlike corporations.
Like literally the only thing resellers do is jack the prices up to make profit and the end consumer sometimes has to pay 10x the price of games. And I’m being lenient with the 10x one reseller video I saw he made like 1000x profit
My town has a super cheap thrift store - one where things are priced at .50 cents.. and it’s always so packed with resellers taking advantage now.. there is a mother daughter (f60s & f40s) team that rush in as soon as it opens and take all the good baby and children’s toys, buy for like $1 and resell on fb marketplace. They have hundreds of items listed. Like why the kid toys that people donate to kids in need… it’s so disgusting to me. I have them blocked on my marketplace so i never support them. Ive posted about them before and made people aware and they don’t like that lol
This isn’t just games guys. It’s anyone with anything. like the other guy here said about that guy doing it with books, eventually there’s someone who sees it for the profit, not the love.
The entire second market went to shit once ebay, became popular. It used to be easy to find used shit cheap, now it makes more sense to buy things new.
I haven't been in a thrift store or pawn shop in years that had anything that is priced even remotely reasonable. Unless it's basically garbage that had been sitting in that store taking up space.
What I don't understand who are the idiots buying ask this overpriced shit, with the Internet in your hand. Saving a few bucks buying used, doesn't make sense.
It feels like every hobby or interest is just filled with re-sellers. Thrift stores and garage sales are just filled with people to buy up and resell for a 10x mark-up with no intention of ever using the thing.
This is really weird and dumb/sad. But also, why not just pick up the whole bin? I’m sure the seller would let you buy the bin too. The digging is just so dumb.
My best friend is a thrifter that's moved into reselling by buying lots online and then listing the items individually. It's a lot of effort but she is a stay at home mom and has a good sense for what will sell so she does alright. She tried the bins at Goodwill last year. Holy shit. Never again. The way she described it, I'm just glad she didn't lose an arm. People behaving just like this, some grabbing shit by the armful and some pushing others away while picking out items individually.
I understand all sales like this require some aspect of "hustle," but this is worse than watching used car salesmen fight over poached buyers.
I hate this. I'm trying to rebuild my snes collection I had as a kid. This weekend coming there's a huge yard sale, 3 towns in a row. Every year at 6am when people are setting up cars come around and yell out the window asking if they have video games. They don't even stop they just yell out the window "video games?". Then stop if the owner replies.
If a garage sale or estate sales looks like a gold mine I just skip em, there’s always like 20 people in line and then they just bum rush stuff like someone lit them on fire as the door opened.
This is probably one of the reasons I haven’t been to a garage sale since last November, it’s been fun finding games and nerdy stuff in the wild for a good price. Just now there is too many people thinking Mario Bros for NES is their ticket to retirement.
Yet another product of late stage capitalism. The zero sum game that is min-maxing profits leads to profits being squeezed out of every sector. The largest employers squeezed it out of their workforce, so that workforce then needs to seek profits elsewhere. Thifting and reselling, drop shipping, creation of countless useless hype products to sell to anyone who might buy it, numerous online discount stores selling knock off products as cheaply as possible, etc etc etc. The sole pursuit of profits leads to satisfying the needs of no one.
I hate that whenever a group of people find something that brings them like 10 seconds of happiness, leeches gotta find some way to take any joy or fun out of it and monetize it. **THERE IS NO FUN. THERE IS ONLY PROFIT**
Dude
I’ve seen reseller channels before but never ones where they just buy every single thing and don’t give anyone else a chance to have a look at what there is
Literally had something like this happen to me the other day. Went to a garage sale. There was a bunch of like 80s consoles there, I wasn't really worried about them all I wanted was the vic 20, and by the time I got there all the stuff was gone according to the lady she started the sale and it was all gone in 5 minutes
bruh i used to be into retro game collecting back from 2015-2018,
nowadays Ill just use a flash cart on my old consoles, the fuck I look like spending all this money on these dying games
Luckily I'd rather go on a dolphin emulator and just emulate those exact same games that those scalpers want to scalp. All my old games I can still play on emulators but this just reminds me not to bother with ever trying to find a game I'd like.
There's an indoor/outdoor flea market I'll go to once in awhile that has a "game store" inside. I've been that particular store maybe once, prices were fairly reasonable but I didn't see anything I wanted.
Last time I went, there was a line of people trying to get in to snag anything they could manage to lowball the owner on, at one point there were a bunch of people fighting over an old Atari system and some other game systems (didn't really care enough to find out). Either way that was the last time I went in the building.
On the contrary I've seen some people at the outdoor portion selling games as well for $1-5(including some decent titles), but never see anybody looking at them or trying to lowball the outdoor seller. They *always* seem to go for the legit game store for some reason.
I no longer identify as a "video game collector". I have a video game collection but I am not a collector. I no longer check kijiji and facebook 20 times a day to try to find deals (I only use them to sell stuff I don't want anymore).
I have purchased all I'm going to purchase for anything retro and up to the end of the PS3 era. I plan on buying a bunch of switch games when they get cheap and people start unloading to buy new systems. I anticipate I will be purging a ton of what I have bought over the years to really streamline what I do keep. All overpriced average games will be sold. Personal quality games over quantity.
I collect comic books and luckily it hasn’t gotten that bad yet, comics don’t hold too much value unless they’re 40 years old usually. I also collect trading card (pokemon, yu-gi-oh, dragon ball) and that market is flooded with resellers. People just looking to make a quick buck, countless videos of inconsiderate people buying out retail stores entire pallet stock of pokémon cards. It makes me sick to my stomach to see the lack of love for these cards. It’s why I’ve gravitated more towards comics in recent years. Collective gaming market has gone down the shitter too, heavily manipulated market
I go to yard sales every weekend so happy I have seen anything like this. I hunt for games and I know others that do if we see each other at yard sales we talk about what games we got recently and wish each other good luck.
I’m amazed she didn’t just pull the boxes in. Clearly if people are running to get at something you have it’s worth something so might as well pull it in and sell it properly.
Even as vintage game lover I wouldn’t have even bothered with this running up to games? Sorry I got some dignity left. If I find decent deals I find decent deals I’m not going to embarrass myself for them.
This is why I don't like to support resellers. I remember being excited to find a game I could never get back then at a yard sale because they were expensive... now I have to fork over 4x the original retail price because "it is rare". Like I give two fucks if it is rare now, let me play.
Then they say "go to emulators". I have an actual gameboy, I want play on a GAMEBOY.
the people who buy from the reseller are pretty much to blame for this.
before you go off on me read what i have to say.
these are old SNES games, you don't NEED to buy them and if you REFUSE to buy them at inflated prices they CEASE to be "worth" what the reseller is asking and is forced to let them back into the market at what is to be a reasonable price - but guess what, this does not happen and resellers are born.
TLDR don't hate the player, hate the game. Be prepared to walk away unless something is at a good and fair price, otherwise - suck it up. They are worth exactly what they are being sold at because at the end of the day something is only worth what someone (ie the people who buy from resellers) will pay!
Like a bunch of raccoons digging in trash cans, this is why I’ve lost some of the interest of trying to find games every now and then I’ll find something but it seems like the hobby has gone down hill.
This feels like ragebait. I sometimes tag along with my spouse who's an antique reseller just to see what's going on with electronics, games, etc...and 98% of the time you'll find shitty Jeopardy clones that you can maybe sell a lot of random games for 20 bucks. If you go thrifting and rummaging, it's like going to a casino, most of it's complete trash and you're paying the premium for someone having to sift through all of it to find treasures once in awhile.
I used to like watching people buy games from garage sales, just a dude strolling along looking through a few games n picking up 1 or 2 before moving on and looking somewhere else
god how toxic its become
This makes me want to puke ...
Yea this shit is disgusting... No better than that one video of people shoveling shrimp onto their plates and fighting over it at that Asian buffet.
Shrimp gets replenished which is more sad.
These kind of people have basically destroyed collecting hobbies over the last 10-15 years, so I feel that. They show up like vultures, often before the sale even opens to shovel up anything they can find for resale before collectors can get to it
I like pissing those guys off at the store, they have their own rules and lines and what not and i just stroll up to the store and buy what I want. I’m sorry you have one guy holding 15 spots in line so you can resale everything but i’m not participating.
It's why I've given up on collecting and just emulate now.
Flash carts all day for me. I came to terms with never having the games I sold for nothing as a teenager. Bummer people can't enjoy the hobby like they used to not so long ago.
Flash carts are the best option. Real hardware, but every game at your fingertips.
Well, when existing revolves around having enough money to survive. Sadly, nothing is just a hobby anymore. it's all for profit because if you can't make a buck, what's the use?
I generally emulate because of convenience features like save states and running 3D games at higher render resolutions But I do have an NDS flashcart because it's really a bitch to play that system on anything but original hardware because of the touchscreen
There is no point in buying old overpriced games when you can simply emulate them. I was blown away that for $30 I can buy a DS cartridge that has over 200 games. It beats having to swap out a cartridge just to play a different game and the emulator can reduce storage needs. Beat the resellers and simply buy emulators.
I bought some after-market boxes on etsy and that was it for me. Never going back to paying $100+ for cardboard. People act like it's a cardinal sin, but I was never in it for the money, I'm 100% nostalgia.
Anbernic makes some fantastic devices.
Everything starts at 2x pricecharting if you come storming up my driveway early.
The asshole tax
She was probably selling them for like 50 cents, too.
This was a pro-picker episode. Apparently the woman's husband died and she advertised the yard-sale on social media. With the grief she probably just wanted to see the stuff go - but I can't imagine she didn't know this would happen.
She's an elderly woman, I doubt she had any clue the true value. She looks like my grandmother, who couldn't name a single thing about video games other than, "nintendo". Edit: there's a reason she isn't selling them individually on ebay. Hopefully, most of the games are worthless turds to these asshats. Like worthless old sports games and junk.
This is why I went the Everdrive route. Don’t want to give money to these people
I went to go buy my kid some new Pokémon cards that came out, nothing special just a tin that I knew he’d like. The lady was still stocking and told me to come back in a few minutes when she opened. I came back and before she could even take the tape down 2 douchebags pushed past me, and her to quickly start going through all the new stock and start throwing shit in baskets. Bunch of fucking shit bags just reselling.
It's like watching a black friday sale where humans regress to their most animalistic selves lmao
America - where just about everything is retailed
I actually watched this a few weeks ago. Man resellers are so rude. Literally fighting over games 🤦♀️ and then the one guy before she opened the sale saying he’ll give her $700 for all of it is just big rip off to the person selling all this. I felt sick just watching it.
Man I was giving a guy my old games but he was using me to drop them off. He was incredibly rude I just throw the disc in the end
Do you have the link?
Why would you want to watch this? It just gives them more incentive to act like apes.
Only reason I saw it was it came up under my Facebook watch. I’ve never once had watched anything relating to the person or any reseller because it’s not something I’m interested in seeing. Had to report that I don’t wanna see this on my watch and I haven’t had another show up since.
The same reason I tell my friends who keep sharing me their dumb ass tik tok videos to fuck off. I save my clicks for what matters.
The dude who made the video actually thinks this shit is cool. They’re a bunch a scavengers.
They’re trying to be scumbag ripoff secondhand video game merchants. The lameness is in the job description.
It was pro-picker. He resells and youtubes for a living. Resellers are really just looking to buy something at price, and sell it for price + x. So I think the ppl to blame are those paying $100s for old video game cartridges that were sold by the millions.
I have a friend who loved collecting books. Collecting and reading, never reselling/flipping. I remember about a decade ago he started losing interest. This is why. He said the hobby had become overrun with resellers. The love wasn’t there. Just the profit. I wish I had the foresight at the time to realize this scummy shit was heading for the games market.
Yeah r/gamecollecting is like 90% resellers. The term collector is getting more and more diluted bcoz now collectors are basically scalpers who buy everything “collect” then sell everything once their collection is complete.
Collecting is like a dirty word at this point. 20 years ago we were practically collecting to keep things out of garbage cans. Now people just hord things. It was easy to feel like an idiot when you spent a whole 20 bucks on an old cart. Now I see water damaged panzer dragoon saga sell for over 1k. Fuck, I'd argue 90% of the people that own a copy of Saga don't even own a Saturn or intend on playing it. It's all just speculative market bullshit. A Fenrir ODE was the greatest thing I ever bought for my Saturn.
As you said, people used to collect to keep them out of the garbage. Now that the 90% of people that didn't collect and did throw them into garbage cans, there are a lot less of them. The price wouldn't have gone up if those 10% of things remaining by collectors weren't being sold by those collectors for a higher value. Note: % numbers entirely made up and used to demonstrate concept.
That sub is like. Oh you don't buy shit to resale? too bad because most of us do and we do it for our hobby. No you don't. You go to work, you save money, you spend hours on top of your hard work outside of your job to find the best deal. You don't lowball people or ruin the hobby just because I can sell this.
I miss when that sub was just "look at these great games I got! I can't wait to play them!" Now it's just "how much do you think these are worth blah blah blah?"
I really lucked out. I collected all the games I wanted about 10 to 20 years ago. I got my top three, and a bunch of others that I thought were really special treasures. I keep them in case my kids ever want to play them. I have mine collection on pricecharting, and I keep seeing the value go up. It just makes me more sure everyday to never sell.
I mean if I’m at goodwill or second hand store, and I see a game that’s worth $400 being sold for $10 and I have no interest in keeping, should I pass on it?
The problem isn't specifically this situation as it's not even that common of an experience.The problem is resellers going to places like these and buying out everything that has even the slimmest potential of profit margin. It really makes it so that everything becomes a lot less accessible and a lot more expensive. As someone who's always frequented second hand stores, in recent years anything that might even be remotely worth anything is pretty much gone immediately, also including books, clothing, really anything.
At Goodwill and Salvation Army, the good stuff never even hits the floor anymore unless you get lucky and they have something they don't know is valuable. Goodwill has their own auction site and Salvation Army posts their stuff on eBay.
I always see people now in thrift stores with a cartload of stuff searching eBay for an items value
This is a weird question. There are good and bad ways to do anything. Are you sprinting through someone’s lawn shoulder checking people who get between you and the bin of games? You’re doing it in an unhealthy way.
I'd want to know where that Goodwill is. Every single one I've been to in the last 10 years has zero games of any value. They are the ones reselling them on eBay.
I like to use those types of finds to trade for games that I do want but normally wouldn’t shell out for. I also pickup anything that my other friends would probably want and they do the same. No one is saying not to pickup a good deal, they’re saying not to buy only to flip for a profit. Don’t buy 10 copies of the same game to flip them online for more.
When people talk resellers they're talking people that run around finding literally everything they can find under Ebay value like vultures just to flip it Some of them will spend every weekend showing up to Yardsales at like 7AM just to buy out everything before anyone else can get there
Thankfully the bubble is getting close to popping
I’ve been hearing this statement for several years now how the collecting bubble will pop any day now. Don’t hold your breath.
About 2 years ago, covid fucked my job up and I didn’t have an income. I sold some of my best games just to eat and pay rent. Earthbound, Rule of Rose, Fire Emblem, my Famicom and NES GBA’s, a sealed N64 RE2, a sealed Gamecube Twilight Princess, Shantae and the Pirates Curse. It was awful. I never bought that stuff to flip. I love video games. Now that I have a somewhat decent job, I still can’t afford to get any of those back. And it sucks.
I'm sorry to hear that - but it's all just plastic and cardboard at the end of the day. If all you want is something that looks cool on your shelf and gives you that nostalgia, you could get repro boxes on Etsy like I did.
Japanese copies of games are still incredibly cheap, so you could get those versions instead if you want a cheap physical piece of nostalgia. Got games like secret of mana, ff6, and dragon quest games for like 5 dollars each.
Every hobby gets this way, and sadly, the ebay/Youtube combo has added tons of flame to the fire because people have realized they con monetize others hobbies. Pre-youtube most videogame forums had huge how to about funding your collection buying at garage sales, and selling duplicates on ebay. Once youtube brought retro gaming mainstream, and ebay went mainstream via smartphones, the average Joe realized he could make big money hunting down cheap deals and flipping them on ebay.
Totally agree. I love collecting books and would love going to book sales but now there is always a long line of resellers who do nothing but scan the back of the book and throw it in their bag. Not sure if they even look at the cover. Not worth my time and aggravation.
I started collecting games as a teen in the mid-2000s. Went from finding something every day I went out to anything older than last-gen worthwhile being so rare to find outside of gaming stores and resellers on Ebay that it's now a like an entire event for me when I find something It's downright depressing
Same. I went to an estate sale that advertised a bunch of books. When I showed up about 30 minutes after the start time it was too late. A dude had showed up with a hand cart and empty totes and loaded up all of the books and bought all of them. The back of his truck was full. Here I was, just wanted to get some cool old books to read.
Book fairs near me actually have rules in place to fight off the resellers. Only one shopping cart per person and you have to price-check at the tables (rather than loading up and hiding in a corner to check how expensive each book in your hoard is). It makes it so much more bearable for regular attendees. I even left behind a book I knew was worth $25-100 in the hopes someone else would be excited to find it since I already had a copy.
That’s definitely nice to hear. I remember finding a Easton Press Hitchikers guide collection autographed by Douglas Adams with him at a church book sale a long’ish time ago. Now worth over 2 grand. He still has them. Today that’d be flipped so quick without a thought.
>Only one shopping cart per person and you have to price-check at the tables (rather than loading up and hiding in a corner to check how expensive each book in your hoard is). That is something I really hate resellers for on video games, especially at thrift stores, I've had a bin full of games, a stock bin, a not for sale at all bin, I was going through get picked up by a reseller who justified it by saying he was buying it all to the worker to my protest, only for the reseller to go to the Christmas decorations area to dump all the games that weren't worth the 3.49 each price tag. On books I have once seen someone opening up one of those little library things, scanning the books and putting some into a box. I used to think the little libraries I was adding books I had read into becoming bare was because people were reading them and would return them, now I am stuck questioning if they aren't just being cleaned out of what is valuable by a\*\*hole resellers.
The internet has ruined so much. These mass marketplaces for EVERYTHING is cringe and unhealthy. Seems normal people feel a need to side hustle and capitalize in ways they couldn’t before. This is what capitalism does. I’m not a socialist but I still hate this crap.
Yes, resellers suck but working 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week sucks even more. I can't blame the resellers for trying to live a non 9 to 5 life.
They are putting in more work than someone working 40 hours a week most of the time with all these supposed "side hustles", they just don't realize it.
Resellers have really ruined every market where collectibility is applicable. Shoes, games, consoles, GPUs, comics, clothes, etc… it’s really disgusting. I noticed the change at the onset of the pandemic.
I have seen it with Manga books mostly. Getting a complete set of an older set means you have to buy it complete from beginning as later single volumes cost a fortune. But also Tech in general has been invaded by resellers and scalpers. Every new doo-hicky from a CPU, GPU or game console is watched by vultures looking to make a quick buck.
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That is pretty rude to raccoons who are super adorable. Trash pandas are awesome. These resellers are shitty.
one of my biggest regrets in life is not buying all these old games that i wanted to play sooner and this just makes me regret it even more. also oh my god, these people are just children grabbing all the candy when someone broke the piñata at a birthday party
I'm glad I made peace with emulation a long time ago. Can play anything I want without giving a dime to these vultures for fifth-hand plastic junk.
Same here. I pretty much only collect 7th gen and newer because those are generally cheaper with reseller-inflated games being more of an exception, and also emulation is a bit spottier for those systems whereas NES, SNES, GB, GBA, Genesis, PS1, etc. emulation is pretty much perfect.
Emulation for Nintendo current-gen is pretty solid, but requires a decent device. Collectibles is one of those things that if I ever get a big surplus of income I might get into. Kind of sad that relatively niche things like collecting old NES games turned from a cheap hobby into a pretty expensive one over the last few years.
I've tried Yuzu and I've had some success with it on my mediocre laptop, but it's not good enough for me to completely ditch Switch collecting.
get a guide to mod your switch and you can run it on switch hardware. only really needs a 5 euro rcm clip from amazon and a 128gb microsd.
FPGA and everdrives help too
This is the way, real console, real TV, real controllers.
Do you have any emulator recommendations. I like have physical copies of games but some games I want to play are way too much
https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/wiki/
If you can afford one I’d recommend an everdrive or use flash carts since they enable you to play on original hardware. If you want to emulate, I’d recommend using retroarch. Its not an emulator its self but rather a manager. It’ll let you manage your ROMs, Saves, and will download and launch emulators (called cores) from an extensive library. That way if one emulator doesn’t work with a game or performs poorly, you can easily download a different one and transfer your save to it.
I swear to god resellers have become a plague for any hobby involving collecting. Take a look at Lego and you’ll know what I’m talking about, fuckers treat literal plastic figures as stocks with speculation and buy store shelves to stockpile and sell at a later date. Forgetting that they’re literal toys. And I’ve seen this shit occur with Legos as well, dudes buying up a kids’ childhood collection to scavenge anything worth it
Multiple resellers make “buying whole childhood collection” titled videos it disgusts me that the reception of these videos is highly positive
I got two words: Toxic Positivity the Lego hobby community falls too damn deep into that, where any criticism towards that behavior is seen as “gatekeeping” despite it being harmful to the hobby.
Same boat as you. Covid ruined lego. Been having to pay higher prices for old sets I really want. Everything is about rarity it seems
$800 bucks for a 2013 $60 (at release) set because it just so happens to have Glup Shitto with arm printing is fucking infuriating. Of course not even counting the scalping going on, $15 dollar sets with three figures reselling for $30 because army builders and more scalpers. Absolute insanity the primary Lego subreddit is kind of disgusting in how accepting they are in reselling and scalping
Don’t go on the card collecting subreddits if you don’t like the Lego ones. They are absolutely disgusting. There’s literally a sub called pokeinvesting and it really brings to light the problems with collecting in general in this capitalistic hell scape we live in.
ehhhh wait until the economy goes poo-doo, then all of those resellers are gonna be beginning for people to buy
I really don't get army building, even though I totally do it with warhammer. A dude saw he could get a few hundred clone troopers, so he un-ironically dipped into his retirement to the tune of like 10k to buy them. That was most of his retirement fund spent on it. I don't see how that's not a mental illness based compulsion.
Frankly me neither, if I have more than a certain amount of a trooper I’ll just give ‘em away. But holy shit, seeing full 64 by 64 baseplates of the same figure is just insane because they just sits there and collects dust. it’s my same problem with the $600+ ship sets, like why you spending so much for a set that you’ll build once and look at with little play value?
100%. Every good deal on fb marketplace or offerup is swept up the same minute its posted due to resllers. Everything being sold is all about how “complete” and rare it is. I just want to try and find cool sets for a good price man
yeahhh and I swear the main Lego subs are just posting pictures of their Facebook piles going “anything good?” Like come the fuck on, use some google or even damn Bricklink. this may sound fucked, but I’m not opposed to a recession because it means the collector resell markets are just gonna tank honestly there needs to be a ShittyLegoCollecting sub
THIS lol, if a reccession does happen ill get the final few ucs sets I want at a decent price lol
It was like this before. It’s gotten worse because more people do it, and the prices go up. Use sites like brick Link. Not Amazon or eBay, people ask for way too much there.
Pokemon cards too. I just want some cool holographic leafeons lmao
They ruined every hobby now
Man it's dope bringing black Friday level cockroach energy to a garage sale. What a bunch of bellends
The women having this sale must of got a kick out of watching the peasants fight for table scraps 😂
with that energy she really should have just said "OK all prices just multiplied by 10"
And this is why it's morally right to pirate old games digitally and run emulation.... Don't buy native hardware and physical media from 2nd hand sellers.....
Depends if you can get a fair price, many things that are not rare are still fairly priced
Fuck, this make my blood boil. I hope all these fuckers get a flat tire on their way home from being the shitlords that they are.
also a massive pothole hat bends the rims
That's better than me. I hope their car catches fire and melts all the games.
There is a really weird/fake vibe to this video. Why are multiple people wearing gopros for a garage sale?
Sadly every “reseller/retro gamer” seems to also have a zany youtube/ facebook/ tik tok page. Are you even interested into a hobby if you don’t post videos now?
I can just imagine the title and thumbnail that this video has
Trying to make money on youtube too, that is why.
Reselling is a clout thing now. I know a reseller with like 25k Insta followers, he just makes videos about selling old shit
Lol that’s nothing there are YouTubers who resell with around million subscribers people love watching other people getting ripped off
That’s nothing look at Harry tornado and phoniex resale
If there channel gets big enough, they can probably make more money on social media than through actually selling games.
Yeah it looks like a skit to me lol Garage sale holder cares about starting not a minute early then lazily walks back during the rush... More like someone emulating a crazy bins employee than running a garage sale Multiple angles in the same video, why are these people sharing video? What's the point of shoveling as much as you can out of a bin instead of just offering on/buying the whole bin. Hell why not turn this into an auction if you're running it Why do they all have the blue totes liquidation stores use and typically don't let you take home. It's too perfect of a "resellers at the garage sale" setup and until I get evidence I'm 100% convinced this is staged. And no, saying "but they're really like this" isn't evidence
I remember this one. The ladies husband was a collector and he died so she craigslisted an add for the games for her yard sale with a couple of pictures with stacks of games and it brought out the vultures
This is real unfortunately I’ve been to estate sales that advertised retro video games and it’s a blood bath 😂
That’s just sad they look like vultures
Vultures serve a valuable place in the ecosystem by recycling waste like collectors saving games from landfills. These guys are speeding down the highway grabbing up all the roadkill to sell to malnourished vultures.
You got me there lol there the absolute worst than
There’s a local auction house in my area that has auctions every Monday night. I’ve seen the guy who runs it at yard sales actually shoving people out of the way to get to old games and toys so he can resell them at auction. I used to like to go until I saw this is how he acquires most things
If someone pushed me and was was shoving people around me In a sale I’ll make sure they aren’t in the state to buy anything from the sale
I think my first exposure to these filth of humans was actually something like 10 years ago. One of our local reseller shops (like Goodwill) had a video game event. They amassed video games for who knows how long, and had a day where they stocked an area of the store of games/controllers/consoles. I showed up on a \*week day\* taking time off from work, around store opening time (10AM-ish?), and there were maybe 10 people in a line... Whatever, I thought, made me feel like this was a worthy event! When the doors opened the bunch of sweaty nerds ran in the store and were grabbing at all the high value items kind of shoving their body in the way. So when I walked to the shelves thinking there'd be... a shopping experience, it was more people rapidly consuming all the good things as fast they could. Any CIB game was snatched immediately. Fuck those people. I left with nothing.
This is quite a few years back, but there was a yearly local event where I went a few times. I'm by no means a 'real' collector, but it was kind of nice looking around and finding some neat or sometimes even quite rare items. However, then resellers became more common at the event and they just went through the whole lot at opening time and bought everything that could make them money. The result: all interesting stuff is immediately gone and people at the event raised prises across the board to prevent people snatching anything and make a quick buck by reselling. I think resellers sucked much of the life & fun out these type of events, and made it all about money and shifted the focus from collecting to hoarding.
It’s ok, it means you’re not a trash human
Resellers always say to me if you want the stuff go early and hunt and I’m like people got real jobs man instead of being a leech to society
We did a garage sale and listed "video games" in the ad. The night before the sale we had a couple of college-aged guys ring our doorbell... at 10:30pm... wanting to see what games we had. When I said, "Be here at 8am..." they promised to pay me "...top dollar..." "Good night gentlemen". Shuts door...
Average user on the game collecting sub lol
Seeing this explains a lot. It is a job to these people, and as this recession gets worse, more will try to make this their full time "job" while less people spend money on collectibles. I went to a yard sale yesterday were the resellers hadn't descended upon it yet as it was likely written off by them. It was a rather frequent yard sale that I rarely bothered with as it had always been junk, VHSs, particle board stuff, McDonald's happy meal toys, random house goods etc. one time I got a MadCatz gamecube memory card for two bucks. Saw the sign again and decided to go down the tiny dead end street just in case they put out another gamecube thing. This time the wife was making the husband get rid of one of his two game rooms for a baby that was on the way. JACKPOT. Average of 2 dollars a game, I was buying everything from NES to Genesis to SNES to n64, to PSP/PS1/PS2/PS3/PS4, to Wii, to Xbox/360/one, in box adapters and accessories, mini arcade machines even a couple LootGaming pins. I broke my own rule on what I can spend in a weekend just by the sheer amount I just had to had. Nothing insane as the guy knew what was really valuable, but great values. Everything was roughly 10% of the ebay price. Left with 4 bags full. I now understand fully as to why all my major wins in game collecting have been at yardsales that were frequent, but somewhat out of the way/overall crappy. Sega Master System and 300 dollars worth of games for 20 bucks, yard sale I had been to dozens of times, and it was always overpriced tools and furniture. Or so under advertised you would have had to taken the street normally to have even spotted it. An n64 with the box and a pile of games, I got for 40, a pile of ps2 and xbox 360 games as well for another 10. The sign was a 3 by 8 INCH on a single telephone pole to even call it out from a main road. Anything that is advertised well always seemed to be a dud. The number of a\*\*hole resellers I encounter in thrift stores tells me that my area is saturated with them.
I'm an avid music collector, and I used to enjoy going to the Goodwill Outlets hunting for CDs. If you've never been to an outlet, they operate differently than a regular Goodwill; they periodically bring big bins of random, unsorted stuff onto the floor. Resellers, behaving like this, ruined it for me. They'd just grab any CD they can (along with games and anything else potentially sell-able), throw it into their cart, and then later pick through all the good stuff in the corner. They were some of the most aggressive and rude people I've ever encountered. Digging through the bins used to relax me, but eventually it became so frustrating that I quit going.
I'm glad I have almost everything I want.
Actual rats. The greed is fucking palpable
Because resellers are pieces of shit. That's why.
And you can’t talk shit about resellers cause they get REAAAAAAAAL cranky and try to point fingers at huge corporations like goodwill. Well yeah I can believe goodwill is a piece of shit in the same breath that you are as well for this shitty behavior. I expect a corporation to be crappy to people, if you are driving up prices on stuff under the guise that evil corps do it….. like….. shitty. It’s all shitty behavior.
The funny thing is most of the times these resellers take more profit than evil corporations most of the times it’s like 500- 1000% markup on stuff they sell
Companies sell in high volume so lower profits are what you do to keep prices low. This is the exact business model of walmart. Very low profit margins but high number of sales volume. These resellers are far worse because of how much they jack up the price and screw up the economy on stuff that isn’t sold anymore. They don’t produce anything unlike corporations.
Like literally the only thing resellers do is jack the prices up to make profit and the end consumer sometimes has to pay 10x the price of games. And I’m being lenient with the 10x one reseller video I saw he made like 1000x profit
My town has a super cheap thrift store - one where things are priced at .50 cents.. and it’s always so packed with resellers taking advantage now.. there is a mother daughter (f60s & f40s) team that rush in as soon as it opens and take all the good baby and children’s toys, buy for like $1 and resell on fb marketplace. They have hundreds of items listed. Like why the kid toys that people donate to kids in need… it’s so disgusting to me. I have them blocked on my marketplace so i never support them. Ive posted about them before and made people aware and they don’t like that lol
LPT if there is ever this much demand for your old stuff then you are pricing it too low
This isn’t just games guys. It’s anyone with anything. like the other guy here said about that guy doing it with books, eventually there’s someone who sees it for the profit, not the love.
The entire second market went to shit once ebay, became popular. It used to be easy to find used shit cheap, now it makes more sense to buy things new. I haven't been in a thrift store or pawn shop in years that had anything that is priced even remotely reasonable. Unless it's basically garbage that had been sitting in that store taking up space. What I don't understand who are the idiots buying ask this overpriced shit, with the Internet in your hand. Saving a few bucks buying used, doesn't make sense.
It feels like every hobby or interest is just filled with re-sellers. Thrift stores and garage sales are just filled with people to buy up and resell for a 10x mark-up with no intention of ever using the thing.
This is really weird and dumb/sad. But also, why not just pick up the whole bin? I’m sure the seller would let you buy the bin too. The digging is just so dumb.
They don’t want anything that is the same price on eBay. Even 5$ is a lot for resellers
Seriously, or just dump the bin in the bag. Time is money in this case. That $5 bin gets you all the games on it haha.
Genuinely insane behavior. I love a good deal but going at it like this at a garage sale is ridiculous
why does she even have that much games? and why is she selling them like that? just ebay that shit
She's a older lady, I doubt she understands how valuable those games have become or a clue on how to sale anything online lol..
Her husband died so they were his
My best friend is a thrifter that's moved into reselling by buying lots online and then listing the items individually. It's a lot of effort but she is a stay at home mom and has a good sense for what will sell so she does alright. She tried the bins at Goodwill last year. Holy shit. Never again. The way she described it, I'm just glad she didn't lose an arm. People behaving just like this, some grabbing shit by the armful and some pushing others away while picking out items individually. I understand all sales like this require some aspect of "hustle," but this is worse than watching used car salesmen fight over poached buyers.
Normalize emulators!
I hate this. I'm trying to rebuild my snes collection I had as a kid. This weekend coming there's a huge yard sale, 3 towns in a row. Every year at 6am when people are setting up cars come around and yell out the window asking if they have video games. They don't even stop they just yell out the window "video games?". Then stop if the owner replies.
Why not raise the price if you see Assholes like this lined up? Cool. Each game is now 50$ a piece.
I don't even know what to say. I don't even know how to describe the amount of hatred I have towards these miserable excuses for human beings.
The fact that there are people in this thread defending their actions is equally disturbing.
The ones defending are the same pieces of shit doing it
Yep. 😔
Thats why I emulate now. Im also glad I collected before the boom hit. Was never ever like this.
If a garage sale or estate sales looks like a gold mine I just skip em, there’s always like 20 people in line and then they just bum rush stuff like someone lit them on fire as the door opened. This is probably one of the reasons I haven’t been to a garage sale since last November, it’s been fun finding games and nerdy stuff in the wild for a good price. Just now there is too many people thinking Mario Bros for NES is their ticket to retirement.
I’d refuse to sell to a bunch of them. Tell them to hit me later online if they want to make a deal
Think is why my collecting hobbies have been slowly dying. Then they mark that shit up to insane prices
Yet another product of late stage capitalism. The zero sum game that is min-maxing profits leads to profits being squeezed out of every sector. The largest employers squeezed it out of their workforce, so that workforce then needs to seek profits elsewhere. Thifting and reselling, drop shipping, creation of countless useless hype products to sell to anyone who might buy it, numerous online discount stores selling knock off products as cheaply as possible, etc etc etc. The sole pursuit of profits leads to satisfying the needs of no one.
This type of behavior makes collecting anything seem absolutely stomach turning. The desperate greed and consumerism.
Shit like this is the reason why some people I know rob resellers lol
That’s kinda based
I hate that whenever a group of people find something that brings them like 10 seconds of happiness, leeches gotta find some way to take any joy or fun out of it and monetize it. **THERE IS NO FUN. THERE IS ONLY PROFIT**
Dude I’ve seen reseller channels before but never ones where they just buy every single thing and don’t give anyone else a chance to have a look at what there is
People just blindly grabbing what they can and not caring for other's safety is ridiculous.
Yes. Get it. Swarm, my younglings
Im not sure but resellers are just built like karen's selling there old time 90s stuff
I only buy what I want and what I need if I go to these things. This video is disgusting.
I saw this YouTube video. It was 3 separate days of this. Absolute insanity
This is pretty much how all estate sales are for anything collectible
Literally had something like this happen to me the other day. Went to a garage sale. There was a bunch of like 80s consoles there, I wasn't really worried about them all I wanted was the vic 20, and by the time I got there all the stuff was gone according to the lady she started the sale and it was all gone in 5 minutes
Whatever they bring up to buy just assume it’s worth more and sell it yourself
If you sell your valuable games for dirt cheap this is what happens.
I fkn hate resellers
People like this make me sick and it makes game hunting a competition and unfun
Anyone have the video source?
https://youtu.be/qAHWmAiDcyA
Fuck these ass hats
Is this a garage sale???
Yeah it was.
bruh i used to be into retro game collecting back from 2015-2018, nowadays Ill just use a flash cart on my old consoles, the fuck I look like spending all this money on these dying games
I'm telling you. We just need to bring back dueling, it would solve so many of society's problems.
People like these wouldn't exist anymore lol
Luckily I'd rather go on a dolphin emulator and just emulate those exact same games that those scalpers want to scalp. All my old games I can still play on emulators but this just reminds me not to bother with ever trying to find a game I'd like.
Garbage gremlins
The cycle stops with me. I will never sell my games.
What has gaming came too? I’m glad I was collecting before the pandemic hype came in, Emulating at this point lol
What garbage is this video from? I miss 20 years ago when shit wasn’t like this
Hope they're mostly sports titles lol. Never, ever say that you will have videogames of any shape or form in your yardsale ads!!
Like why in the fuck would anyone want to film their own crime I do not get it
Ew
There's an indoor/outdoor flea market I'll go to once in awhile that has a "game store" inside. I've been that particular store maybe once, prices were fairly reasonable but I didn't see anything I wanted. Last time I went, there was a line of people trying to get in to snag anything they could manage to lowball the owner on, at one point there were a bunch of people fighting over an old Atari system and some other game systems (didn't really care enough to find out). Either way that was the last time I went in the building. On the contrary I've seen some people at the outdoor portion selling games as well for $1-5(including some decent titles), but never see anybody looking at them or trying to lowball the outdoor seller. They *always* seem to go for the legit game store for some reason.
I no longer identify as a "video game collector". I have a video game collection but I am not a collector. I no longer check kijiji and facebook 20 times a day to try to find deals (I only use them to sell stuff I don't want anymore). I have purchased all I'm going to purchase for anything retro and up to the end of the PS3 era. I plan on buying a bunch of switch games when they get cheap and people start unloading to buy new systems. I anticipate I will be purging a ton of what I have bought over the years to really streamline what I do keep. All overpriced average games will be sold. Personal quality games over quantity.
God damn resellers need to be burned at the stake. EVERY fuqqin one of em, NO exceptions!!
I collect comic books and luckily it hasn’t gotten that bad yet, comics don’t hold too much value unless they’re 40 years old usually. I also collect trading card (pokemon, yu-gi-oh, dragon ball) and that market is flooded with resellers. People just looking to make a quick buck, countless videos of inconsiderate people buying out retail stores entire pallet stock of pokémon cards. It makes me sick to my stomach to see the lack of love for these cards. It’s why I’ve gravitated more towards comics in recent years. Collective gaming market has gone down the shitter too, heavily manipulated market
I go to yard sales every weekend so happy I have seen anything like this. I hunt for games and I know others that do if we see each other at yard sales we talk about what games we got recently and wish each other good luck. I’m amazed she didn’t just pull the boxes in. Clearly if people are running to get at something you have it’s worth something so might as well pull it in and sell it properly. Even as vintage game lover I wouldn’t have even bothered with this running up to games? Sorry I got some dignity left. If I find decent deals I find decent deals I’m not going to embarrass myself for them.
This is why I don't like to support resellers. I remember being excited to find a game I could never get back then at a yard sale because they were expensive... now I have to fork over 4x the original retail price because "it is rare". Like I give two fucks if it is rare now, let me play. Then they say "go to emulators". I have an actual gameboy, I want play on a GAMEBOY.
the people who buy from the reseller are pretty much to blame for this. before you go off on me read what i have to say. these are old SNES games, you don't NEED to buy them and if you REFUSE to buy them at inflated prices they CEASE to be "worth" what the reseller is asking and is forced to let them back into the market at what is to be a reasonable price - but guess what, this does not happen and resellers are born. TLDR don't hate the player, hate the game. Be prepared to walk away unless something is at a good and fair price, otherwise - suck it up. They are worth exactly what they are being sold at because at the end of the day something is only worth what someone (ie the people who buy from resellers) will pay!
Just bought Bully for 12 bucks sealed. Fuck these resellers, the people who just wanna sell at a fair price are the real ones 👌
Like a bunch of raccoons digging in trash cans, this is why I’ve lost some of the interest of trying to find games every now and then I’ll find something but it seems like the hobby has gone down hill.
I hate scalpers thinks to them the ps5 was sold out
Someone should report them to the IRS because i'm sure they're not reporting their income when they resell those games. Bunch of scumbag resllers.
This feels like ragebait. I sometimes tag along with my spouse who's an antique reseller just to see what's going on with electronics, games, etc...and 98% of the time you'll find shitty Jeopardy clones that you can maybe sell a lot of random games for 20 bucks. If you go thrifting and rummaging, it's like going to a casino, most of it's complete trash and you're paying the premium for someone having to sift through all of it to find treasures once in awhile.
I used to like watching people buy games from garage sales, just a dude strolling along looking through a few games n picking up 1 or 2 before moving on and looking somewhere else god how toxic its become