I work at a retro game store ask me anything

>>3941330

I don't want to ask you anything but seeing that copy of New horizons makes me want to fire it up again.

What's your profit margin on Earthbound?

>>3941346
Best part of working here. I'm only 20 but I get to see and learn about old games everyday:3

>>3941348
We give about 100$ and sell for 180

why are you such a faggot. I bet you charge 100 dollars for a used yoshis story you sick fuck

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We have fairly cheap prices, and give out a lot.
I love working here

>>3941351
You are about to trigger so many people holy fuck

>>3941358
Nope still 18$...
We are the best around bro

>>3941361
Why because I'm 20?
Most 20 year olds don't know what a Coleco or VIC-20 is ive had a chance to play and learn about all this awesome stuff

>>3941330
Thanks for not putting stickers on the labels.
Also, stop charging fucking ebay prices. At least charge 5-10% less, since ebay isn't taking fees for your sales, and you're not paying shipping.

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:3

>>3941364
I bet you've given an honest chap 30 dollars for 100s of ps1 games

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Also most of our stuff isn't eBay price

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We've given out 100's before.

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Feels good mang

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I live in heaven

Looks like Game Xchange

>>3941376
what state

>>3941378
You would be correct sir!!!!
We pride ourselves by beating GameStop:3

>>3941373
>legends 2 for $55
Fuck, would buy that in a heart beat, I live in Chicago and see it for a $100 or more where ever I go.

>>3941384
Cool. Had my first experience with them yesterday while traveling through Texas. Picked up Super Punch Out for a fair price. Nice to see considering the last place I looked at had 50% markup on pretty much everything

>>3941372
It's higher.

Star Wars Arcade for Atari 2600 is $17.00 shipped in no less than 5 listings on ebay.
Pitfall can be had for $18 shipped, there's also a listing for 5 CV games including pitfall for $30.
Motocross Racer is at $15 at most unless it has the gold label.

Pitfall 2 is a good price though, I'll give you that.

>>3941389
You also have to understand we have 1000's of games it's hard to price everything correctly.

>>3941387
Yeah the people who work and shop here are amazing

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Example of good price:
Controllers and everything

>>3941391
>You also have to understand we have 1000's of games it's hard to price everything correctly.

So do I, but I still have everything in my collection catalogued and priced and I update the pricing every year.

It takes a couple of days every year to do it.

Besides, shouldn't you, as a store, have some kind of inventory tracking software?

You could use pricecharting.com to put prices into the software during any down time in which the store is cleaned and in order and you have no customers.

Then just apply a 10% discount to ebay prices across the board.

Also, some higher price rare items won't sell for anywhere near ebay price in a brick and mortar store unless a collector with deep pockets happens to wander in.

I had a friend who ran a used game store for 6 years and he noticed after 3 years that nobody was buying his copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for $300.

He lowered it to $250 and it sold within 2 months.

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>>3941407

>>3941398
please fuck off and stop making the world a worse place

>>3941330
Have you ever seen a copy of Fire Emblem; Thracia 776?

How much should I pay for a copy of super metriod? And how much will you give me for Sega CDx?

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>>3941417
Yes we have had all of them

>>3941443
Pay no more than like 45$
And we give up to 180$ cash

>>3941445
I assume you dont have it anymore?

It's one of the ones im still looking for for my Fire Emblem collection, the retro ones happen to be my favorites

>>3941448
Yeah no we sell fire emblem anything like hotcakes

>>3941450
That was what i expected, but hey you never know if you dont ask

But when we have it is 14.95

>>3941354
Game and box or just game.

Why have PS1 games gone up so much in recent months?

>>3941461
Just game

>>3941468
Because PlayStation network is planning on re releasing a lot of ps1 games on their subscription service.
And that's why it's been fluctuating so much recently

>>3941471
That doesn't make any sense

Hipsters are lazy and prefer convenience, so if they can download a game as opposed to tracking down an old one they're gonna download it, which should decrease the value of older games.

Got any Amiga or ST stuff?

>>3941475
Posting in an obvious bait thread but I'm bored so I'll bite.
The value of retro games doesn't have anything to do with the amount of people playing them digitally. As long as collectors are willing to pay the prices sellers ask for them they won't fluctuate easily.

>>3941475
I just look at information online and know for a fact how our store works.
People like Pokémon go so prices of gab Pokémon goes up people have a remaster of parappa the price goes up,
They release a classic remake the price goes up.
No bait intended

>>3941365
Because you don't know where the dollar sign is supposed to go.

Why shouldn't I just kill myself tonight instead of burdening everyone else?

>>3941469
The fuck? I think ill pick it up here caise its 200 for all

>>3941940
You think you're a waste as a living person, but the true waste is destroying what you could be.

>>3941368
Holy shit, kys or go back to r/gaming you fucktard. No one cares about your blog.

>>3941330
why does your store smell like cat piss

>>3941330
What's it like to be part of the problem?

>>3941330
Describe the most hipster looking person who came into your store.

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Legit question, how much does a Gale of Darkness GCN go for these days?

>>3941365
Pepper II on Coleco-vision is best game.

>>3942008
communist

>>3941330
How do you price your games? I see that F-zero (a popular franchise) is 9 dollars compared to Super Ghouls n Ghosts for almost 30?

One question: how much for a SNES

Do you have Battletoads?

>>3942010
I've seen a guy once drinking Starbucks with a sidekick, man bun, bleached black hoodie, a pair of glasses with no glass,
And he was driving a vw bus.
Pretty hipster

>>3942445
Please tell me you did your duty to humanity and end his life.

>>3942445
>a pair of glasses with no glass
Holy shit, what?

I fully understand the aesthetic aspect of glasses, but goddamn. At least have non-prescription lenses in there or something.

Ever saw any e-celebs walk in?

>>3941395
Hey man. You seemed to be a pretty happy dude and I figure it's probably a good reflection of Game XChange as a business so I went to another one nearby and picked up Super Ghouls n Ghosts and Final Fantasy III.

I'm a bit confused though, because their pricing is pretty much the same as averages online for loose carts, which seems odd for a retail store. Do you guys just make your money off new games or something?

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>>3941351
>:3

>>3942758
You drunk son.

What do you think that is cheap now will be rare in 5-10 years?

Doylestown?

>>3942774
white girls