I remember grabbing whole collections of NES games at yard sales for like $10-20. It’s wild how much people would just let stuff go for. And the general consensus was always that they didn’t know what they were worth. Like… You dropped $60 on one of these games, and now I’m buying them off you for $2 a piece? I’m just gonna hand you the money, try not to look excited, and walk away like this was a smooth drug deal…
A few months before Sony announced that they would no longer be making any more PS1 discs, I waked into my local GameStop, and found a box. Inside of the box were between 10 to 15 copies each of FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, Chrono Cross, and Legend of Mana. Every single one was marked $5. I went ahead and picked them all up figuring that having extras would be useful one day. My GF at the time thought I was crazy, but just shook her head.
Fast forward about 3-4 months, and Sony announces no more PS1 discs, and the price of every single one of those games shot up to $200 - $300 a piece on E-Bay. I left the $5 stickers on the ones I sold, but took pics of the ones I kept that I had meticulously removed the price stickers from. I got back some unique feedback for that.
I remember grabbing whole collections of NES games at yard sales for like $10-20. It’s wild how much people would just let stuff go for. And the general consensus was always that they didn’t know what they were worth. Like… You dropped $60 on one of these games, and now I’m buying them off you for $2 a piece? I’m just gonna hand you the money, try not to look excited, and walk away like this was a smooth drug deal…
A few months before Sony announced that they would no longer be making any more PS1 discs, I waked into my local GameStop, and found a box. Inside of the box were between 10 to 15 copies each of FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, Chrono Cross, and Legend of Mana. Every single one was marked $5. I went ahead and picked them all up figuring that having extras would be useful one day. My GF at the time thought I was crazy, but just shook her head.
Fast forward about 3-4 months, and Sony announces no more PS1 discs, and the price of every single one of those games shot up to $200 - $300 a piece on E-Bay. I left the $5 stickers on the ones I sold, but took pics of the ones I kept that I had meticulously removed the price stickers from. I got back some unique feedback for that.