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I looked around and didn't see a thread for terrible deals that people see when they are hunting for games. I have seen an appauling number of awful deals lately, and sometimes you just need to get them off of your chest.

Like yesterday I stopped at a new pawn shop I found. They didn't have any pre-PS2/XBox games displayed, so I asked what they had and they showed me a small stack of 12 or so NES games. Not much, but a few decent titles. None of them were priced, so I picked out a few (Baseball Stars 2, Ghostbusters 2, Caveman Games, Contra, etc) and asked them to get prices for me. Most of them were in the $5-$8 range, other than Contra which they wanted $34 for! I have seen Contra go for some obsene prices, but never $34.

Some others I have seen recently:

Uncharted Waters: New Horizons (Genesis, loose) - $54.99
Romance of the Three Kingdoms III (Genesis, loose) - $47.99
Dragon Warrior VII (CIB, PS1) - $64.99

Who would actually pay these prices for games?

I have seen some stupid prices on stuff but I can't think of anyone "deal" right now. I am trying to think what I have bought and the was like why did I do that.

*thrusts McVan's Video Games into the spotlight of suck (tm)*

AND I have a website to prove it!

Shining Force CD: for the low, low price of $150! (http://"http://www.mcvans.com/shopexd.asp?id=29249")

 :rofl: :stupid:

I saw a used Tiger Woods 2000 for PS1 today; $26.99

Good lord.

Insanely (http://video-games.search.ebay.com/super-mario-rpg_Games_W0QQcatrefZC12QQfasiZ1QQfromZR8QQsacatZ62053QQsascsZ2QQsbrbinZt) high (http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&catref=C12&from=R10&sbrbin=t&satitle=earthbound&sacat=62053%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=16823&sascs=2&fasi=1&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=) prices? (http://search.ebay.com/chrono-trigger_W0QQa14Z24222QQalistZa14QQcatrefZC6QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfasiZ1QQfromZR10QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQgcsZ1135QQpfidZ1413QQpfmodeZ2QQreqtypeZ1QQsacatZQ2d100QQsaprchiZQQsaprcloZQQsascsZ2QQsbrbinZt) Nahh. (http://video-games.search.ebay.com/wii_Systems_W0QQcatrefZC12QQcoactionZcompareQQcoentrypageZsearchQQcopagenumZ1QQfasiZ1QQfromZR10QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQsacatZ62054QQsaprchiZQQsaprcloZQQsascsZ2QQsbrbinZt)

WHAT A DEAL!!!!!!!!

A record shop near me has $70 Xbox 360 games and my personal favorite: Metroid Prime Pinball used - $44.  Also a bunch of $15 PS1 sports games...

Goodwill sells Atari 2600s for $120 but thats their standard price for them I believe.

i see a lot of rip-offs that people try to pull on ebay for turbo duo games all the time a lot of them are from ebay user sofsec2000 and their ebay store software seconds.
they have forgotten worlds for $69.99 used when you can buy it from www.tzd.com NEW for $29.99. thats a rip off.
i dont see how some places even make any money when everyone else on ebay is selling theirs for cheaper.

http://cgi.ebay.com/J-B-HAROLD-MURDER-CLUB-Turbografx-16-Duo-Turbo-Grafx_W0QQitemZ104753448815QQcategoryZ62053QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
jb harold murder club for tg-cd. their selling it for $99.99 new where at www.tzd.com its $19.99 NEW.

There used to be a regular old guy at car boot sales who sold nothing but games. They were all priced at £4, whatever it was. Not an insanely high price but enough to annoy me. Like £4 for a loose Master System cartridge, but then £4 for complete Zeldas. I got a few things from him but I wasn't too happy about it. Every time I asked if he would do a deal he said he was selling them for someone else. My arse! He was buying them cheap from other people and selling them on.

There's an indie shop on Ghetto Street that does just used games, DVDs and CDs. His CDs and DVDs are well priced at about £2.50-3 each. He makes prices up on the spot, though. So sometimes his prices are high and sometimes they're silly. Although, I've had some bargains there. And he's a good place to get rid of cheap Mega Drive doubles because he gives £2 for any of them.

Times like that I want a junk ebay account so I could send them the TZD link.

I have always had good luck at Goodwill. The last time I was there, I got MINT  CIB copies of Super Star Wars and Super Empire Strikes Back for SNES for $0.99 each, and Mechwarrior 2020 MINT CIB for $1.99.

Goodwills around here suck ass.

It's amazing what a simple typo can lead a person to think.
If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna, like, wash out my brain or something.

Fixed

picked up a prostitute for $50, next morning when i woke up my dick was gone. it was a super bad deal in my opinion.

damn penis stealing whores.

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I'd say you got ripped :)

Star Wars Battlefront GREATEST HITS version for the low low price of 27.99.


They must not know about Walmart. LOL

I've seen a bunch of you post 'rare' games and games with a huge demand which would mean that they aren't exactly a bad deal. Now off the top of my head, a game which costs a lot but isn't a bad deal is Panzer Dragoon Saga, which sells for a few hundred.

Unlike the eBayers who post every Dreamcast game as 'Rare' because people have already forgotten the system and moved on.  Fortunately for me, most end up being fairly cheap anyways due to low demand.

 :speechless:  :speechless:  :speechless:  Are you shittin' me?

Have you ever bought any thing from them?  I've been on the site before but was reluctant to buy from them.  Are they reputable?

The same place had a CIB wizardry for NES. First time I saw it, it was $7.99, decided to pass b/c I was getting some other NES games they had at more fair of a price. The next week I went it was $9.99, and the week after that it was $12.99. Passed both times obviously. The highest it went was $17.99 before it dissapeared (I'm assuming someone bought it).

It's weird because the same place I've scored outstanding deals. Picked up a boxed Little Samson there for $9.99.

Sounds like the trends going on at a local here in Indiana.  Nes games used to be 2 for $5.  Now there 2 for $8 unless there "rare".  How bout a super mario bros./duck hunt for 10.00.  I'm no expert but that game is not rare or worth $10.

A year or two ago I was driving back from my sisters house and I saw that a new independent video game store opened up, so I figured I should at least look around.

They had a ton of games for older systems.  Everything from Atari on up.  I started off at the Master System games and was a little put off at the prices there.  $15 for Altered Beast.  $12 for Great Golf.  $20 for Rocky.

I thought, that's probably just for the Master System because the system was kind of obscure, so I went over to the Genesis games.  Every game was at least $10.  Even for the Madden games.

I checked some other games before I left in disgust and saw the worst price for a game ever.  $40 for Sonic Blast.  I've never left an establishment that fast in my life.

I came across a store like that north of St. Paul. They had a fantastic selection, but there wasn't a game under $10. If memory serves, they wanted $150 for Chrono Trigger.

well its good old Gamestation in sunny England that the king of "retro" ripoff, some of the shops have older consoles in the window all at the most superb prices like  a Mater system for £30 a SNES for £45 and a Gamecube for only £25!?!

thing is all these machines and games are loose dirty and at one point they were giving them away now their "rare"

I saw SMB2 for $19.99 :speechless: and SMB for $10.99 :speechless:

Kid Icarus (Beat up cart) $32
Contra cart $25
Super C $30
FF XI GH $79.99 w/guide $69.99 wo
FF VIII GH $79.99 w/guide $69.99 wo
FF Origins $69.99
FF X $49.99 w/guide

Basically anything FF is worth alot to here. Most her stuff goes by ebay prices but alot of them are rediculous.

From a mom and pop store about 30 miles from me

Among the worst Ive seen is last year in West Palm Beach, Florida.  Mickeys USA Speedway for the N64 was marked used at $54.95!!  I thought it was a pricing error, but nope, the computer said it was right!!

PS1 Final Fantasys  are marked at insane prices here too.

lately I saw:
State of Emergency $40
Halo $30

http://cgi.ebay.com/GAME-CUBE-BUNDLE-PACK_W0QQitemZ250129737556QQihZ015QQcategoryZ41043QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

The Pawn America in my area must have revised their pricing strategy, because they now don't have a single NES game for less than $10. I don't remember many specifically, but they wanted $20 for SMB 2 and 3, and $15 for a light gun. $15 for a light gun!!!

The PS1 Final Fantasy games aren't too bad here, outside of FFVII, which pretty regularly sells for $40-$50. It also sells for that much on eBay these days, even for the Greatest Hits version. Kinda makes me upset that I gave my GH version to a friend for free because I also have the original. Oh well. They other FF PS1 games are somewhere around $20, which is reasonable.

Either some one hacked into that person's account and thought that it'd be a real hoot to list something like that plus incur one hell of a huge listing fee or the actual seller is a complete and utter moron.  :stick:

Ebay offers set list fees deals all the time. So they could have done that for 20 cents or so.

Ah, so it's probably just the actual seller being a wise ass then. Maybe he figures it's a lot like playing the lottery, there's a one in a zillion chance some rich idiot will actually buy it.

Thats my guess.

It's more likely for good publicity for their exactly identical other auction at a lower price.

Interesting. I didn't notice that. Wonder what Ebay would think of that sort of marketing ploy.

It sure worked, seeing all the attention it has gotten here :P

still no one has placed a bid on his other auction.

http://www.amazon.com/JONNY-MOSELEY-MAD-TRIXX-PS2/dp/B000RDIM96/ref=sr_1_12/103-7715223-4499031?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1182754689&sr=8-12

wow that's very pricey

I bought that game for $2 a while back and still felt cheated.

I lol'd at this

http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=2829908

saga dreamscape, complete with bootleg game

i want a dreamscape

At 11 bucks I don't think that is a bad deal. Just a stupid title.