Would love to see more videos like this! Never seen Kreesky until this video, but Phoenix Resale is hated in many reddit game collecting channels and for good reason. Phoenix once went to a gaming convention and would beg on camera for a discount from other vendors and then he would go back to his vending booth and flip the game there. Dude is absolutely despised at some conventions too. He also made a video awhile back that sparked huge backlash when he was collecting every Gamecube game from his "childhood dreams" only to sell most of them off a week after it was complete. As always, keep up the good work!
Resellers: Make sure you guys check the prices on the market because you may score big. Also Resellers: Why is the market so dry right now? And everything is overprice.
I’ve got a few comments: 1. You are 100% right. These resellers are too naive too realize they are making their “job” (I lol at even calling it that) harder because they are spreading awareness and then making more competition. 2. You are also 100% right at the fact that these people want all the deals to themselves and get mad when they can’t get one but then wanna sell stuff at full blown market value after. 3. These guys have killed video game collecting because the reseller vultures buy up everything. 4. And lastly all these resellers have the fakest and most unlikable personalities ever. I still haven’t found a likable one yet. Phoenix is definitely the fakest one of them all. He’s definitely an a hole behind the scenes. Kreesky I respect a little more because he doesn’t even hide the fact that he’s unlikable. He just displays it. I love how Kreesky is so desperate to avoid a job that he’s now flipping any and everything for a profit. LMAO.
That Phoenix Resale guy comes across as really unlikeable. Someone who cares about selling games for maximum profit rather than playing them will only end up raising the prices of games and such a person will easily earn the ire of gamers because he's making things worse for them for his own benefit. It's even sad seeing him finding bargains in a brick and mortar shop because instead of a good deal going to a gamer who will enjoy the game, it is instead going to someone who only sees it as potential dollar signs.
@@steviefreakinc if the re-sell market crashes.. what would he do? I keep thinking if they are paying high prices for games to resell and the market gets fatigue.. you are not going to make your money back. Eventually people will get tired of this and just not buy.
@@Consolerepairstore I can see why you would think this because it would make sense, but the problem with high game prices for used games, especially with older games, is that there are buyers out there with a lot more money than sense. That's why retro game prices are insane now. The average person might realize it is insane to pay multiple hundreds of dollars or even $1,000+ for a game because that is a considerable part of their income, but to people with tech jobs paying in the multiple six figures, that is a small part of their income so they will still pay it without giving it much thought. A lot of people with those high paying jobs are also relatively young and they likely missed out on buying retro games in the past due to their age and now they want to build collections regardless of the cost. So what is happening to the price of retro games is very similar to the phenomenon of gentrification that happens with housing prices. Once wealthy people are willing to grossly overpay for something, everyone else gets pushed out because they can no longer afford it and because these expensive prices aren't breaking the budgets of people with a lot of money, they are going to continue paying those prices. Though the problem is also extending beyond just retro games these days. With things like limited physical prints of modern games, those games tend to become really expensive really fast because pre-orders for them can sell out in a matter of hours. Scalpers thrive on this and really jack up the prices of these physical copies of games and collecting some physical games becomes mostly a hobby for those who can afford the large prices and everyone else aside from those few that got an early pre-order in really only have the option of getting the game digitally so they can afford it. There are even Switch games going for multiple hundreds of dollars because of this and the situation will likely only get worse over time as physical releases become less prioritized by publishers because digital is cheaper and publishers can also directly control the price of digital games and the less physical copies of a game out there, the less they have to worry about used game sales cutting into their profits from continued digital sales at whatever price they decide to set.
@@Consolerepairstore there not getting that point man i spent all night talking about this and there not budging on it but yes if they continue to discredit all resellers like this the market for games is gonna get so slim that it will eventually not exsist it would be different if they selling them over market vakue or selling broken stuff but I see nothing wrong with keeping something every loves going for many years to come yes some resellers are scum but its like in this case these guys are choosing to discredit them all and honestly I havent hesrd a single justified reason for it ether other then people are mad because they arnt getting the same deals its really just cry baby childish stuff man i agree with a lot of stuff heckin steeve says but this subject comes off as more personal hate then factual 🤦
It's funny seeing resellers and collectors get mad at what other people selling their stuff for when they're trying to get that stuff to flip themselves 😂
Seriously though. Just about every collector ends up selling their collections. If you know you're dealing with a reseller and you're still wanting to sell to them, theres no reason to get mad upset that they're not paying full price. People want the money fast and to move things in bulk and Phoenix is one of many that offers that kind of service. I have a friend who collected nearly every sega game up to dreamcast and he ended up selling it a year after completing it because it just sat there Also funny seeing them get mad about shilling their store in their own videos. like wtf lmao
@@PuroKross Selling a collection isn't re-selling though and your friend probably lost a good amount of money. Also, most re-sellers are very sly and secretive, they know what they're doing isn't very well received with a lot of people so they're not going to be honest and transparent and tell you that they are making money off of you or that they are a re-seller. Business deals between two people are no ones business though besides those 2 people but when you post it on the internet then you have to expect that some people might not like what they're doing.
One funny thing about that Chicken Range game is that he got the "code in a box" version of the game. What was being shown on PriceCharting is the physical version of the game, which you'd usually find going for at most $20, but you'd more likely buy a new or used copy at $10 or less. The bundle with the gun accessory has gone to $20, and that also has a version of the game as a download code in a case. As someone who actually collects a lot of Nintendo Switch games, I find some of the stuff being highlighted as "flippable" to be laughable because the games are either complete shovelware, or are simply not prices I'd expect most people to pay. Heck, if there's a game you really want that's expensive for an ESRB copy (Limited Run releases, for example), you could get an imported copy of certain games with English support for much cheaper. I do enjoy Switch collecting, but I've noticed a bit of a trend lately of certain individuals jumping in only with reselling profit in mind, and people like Phoenix Resale do rub me the wrong way a lot of the time.
GameXChange is not a mom and pop business. It's a coorporate chain. There are dozens and dozens of stores. Mario Kart on the SNES is a 30 dollar game. Amazon prices are different than market value.
What's tough for a store is they want to help out their customers so they can price below price charting and be the store people want to go to in their local community, and then you have flippers like Phoenix here that is going to pillage a store, doesn't care for the community and will take advantage of this store's lower pricing to try to profit off of them. I see more stores moving towards a subscription/Patreon-based model where they give a bigger discount if you are a member and they keep flippers like this out of it so they would have to pay full price vs the member price.
What’s wild, is that people would rather spend time on the net, looking at prices, noting it into memory, go driving place to place for some extra cash. When they could instead, seek education, take some online courses or go to a university. Create a career and make real money. But it’s easier to be a asshole
Sometimes I "resell" consoles, I'll buy them untested or not working for a few bucks and fix, clean, and sometimes mod them. After I fix them, I just sell them for what I paid plus the parts and time.
People buying broken stuff, fixing them, and then reselling them I don't think people have an issue with. Most people don't know how to fix these things, so people repairing them are putting more product back onto the market. They also actually did something to justify selling it for more than they paid for the item.
Yeah. I realized the only reason these guys can sell is because of demand. After everyone pretty much has all their shit, it ends... especially because it's then causing the inflated profit
"A method worth investing in" yeah this guy is crazy. You want to invest in currency (aka rare coins) historical documents, Fine Arts, War memorabilia, and index funds. Whoever this guy is that you're talking about is absolutely insane but I think he knows what he's doing in that in more ways than one.
Remember when amazon was a place to get good deals on stuff, dont get me wrong, you still can but man I miss when it was just big companies selling stuff for cheap instead of just resellers selling retro games for way more than what theyre worth and resellers charging full price for stuff they found at the clearance section at walmart.
can you do one on retro rick or pixel game squad? both of them basically film episodes that are like QVC until they go to sell the stuff they find in videos on whatnot, then get paid ontop of that for being sponsored by what not. Hobby ruined by these fakes
Having no interest for anything but money is such an American plague. "We ruin YOUR hobby for OUR gain" type beat. Like, look at NTSC-J games vs US vs PAL games, It's a culture problem and we keep putting these people up by watching their content. I wish there were more video game channels that did game hunting and DIDN'T just resell stuff. Like getting lots and selling some of the dupes or games you didn't want is fine, but man at least want the stuff you buy. it's so sickening and saddening.
Hey Steve you remember the video when Phoenix Resale was going to the pawnshop and he lied about grabbing a game off the shelve. But the man told him he didnt it was so funny.
I would actually get into this hobby just to buy these games and consoles just so these pieces of garbage can't get their hands on them and I will just hold on to them
I can literally go into that store at anytime and I can buy out the whole store if i wanted to, that's how much money I have I'm independently wealthy that's what I should do ...could somebody give me the name of that store I will go there personally and I will buy every game and console
11 dollar profit? Won't he just lose that on shipping and handling? I don't get it. Last time I sold a console on eBay. The seller paid for the shipping but eBay took the money and I still had to pay shipping. How the f*ck is that supposed to work? I guess he has a deal with Amazon to ship items for free? But that still don't cover packaging. There's obviously something I'm missing.
These collector types always scream about physical media and it makes sense. They don’t want it to be accessible, and all they care about is the physical material the money etc. i hate these people. I enjoy the game, the experience and the piece of art. Emulators have already preserved all this shit so these people are just delusional or want the money.
Hey man, don’t talk about sticking things in thingys when talking about Phoenix Resell. He’s a good little Christian boy, he doesn’t know what that means. 😂
When I first saw that clip, I watched it like 100 times lol. It was in some Seagal compilation called Steven Seagal's Odd Moments or something like that.
I swear I had the bell hit. I had to hit it again. I was just sitting watching some tube and I was like. What the heck! Steve hasn't posted in a minute.... Wrong! Dude been posting almost daily.
And also all these ads on RU-vid have gotten excessive. Especially these big creators who have memberships, a patreon, merch, etc.....most are completely greedy!!!! Smfh.....Kreesky isn't a big creator but he's one of the most greedy ones I've seen!
@@steviefreakinc v’ry nice steve, v’ry nice indeed. I hope that in your usual NO f$&@s Given style you will attack RGT for selling to him and then hitting Phoenix for being part of the travesty and sadness that is the retro game market. These people have destroyed the ability of a man to just be able to buy a game he loves with out having to trade his first born!
@@willgibson8534 I was hoping sooooo hard in my heart that RGT was going to sell to retro stores (as he mentioned in a vid.) It makes me so sad that it went to the worst decision for the gaming community.
At the end of the day phoenix put the work in so imo he deserves to make a profit, why hate on the guy for killing it! If it was easy why isn’t everybody doing it? Stop hating!
There are literally resellers everywhere these days. There’s about 40 of them I can name off the top of my head that make RU-vid videos right now. How many people do you think all of these channels have inspired to do the same thing? Take Wii Sports for example. That game is like $30 despite having over 102 million copies produced at the very least. So why is it $30? Reseller gate keeping that’s why
No....that's just drop shipping. If he's buying them at the store FIRST, then listing them for sale, it's just flipping. Drop shipping is listing an selling an item without keeping inventory yourself.
I think a lot of us stopped watching phoenix after he sold his Gamecube collection. I was watching him because of that and was happy to see him collect it but seems like he did it for the viewes and sold everything smh.
I follow a lot of resellers because I like seeing the pickups. Chase After the Right Price and Retro Rick are probably my favorite bigger channels. Smaller ones are just as entertaining like KodywithaK and GamersManuel. Seeing people find Rule of Rose in the wild is just plain exciting.
I’ve only seen Rule of Rose once in person and that’s because I worked at a local game store. If I saw that in the wild while game hunting, I would shit a nut.
Can’t watch Chase, guy is just such a dbag to me. Saw him rip off a little girl and her grandma at a garage sale and I was done after that. Froggy Flips is the only reseller I’ve found on the platform who is a standup guy. He pays people more than they ask if he’s going to do well, he’s friendly, humble, and not a “praise Jesus for resale” type (like so many of the CATRP, Phoenix, Rick guys are)
I been watching phoenix resell for a long time and honestly I just dont get the hate towards well at least the ones I seen anyway cant speak on ones I havent I mean its basically a job to them they find deals then resell them at market value classic right place right time situation now if they sold there stuff way over market value like certain store cough DKoldies then I would understand but this is really not hurting anyone or anything there just basically trying to turn a profit and I dont really see the harm there big name stores do it all the time so if anything I think its rather ironic when a customer comes in and does it to them for a change there not raising the market value there jist taking advantage of deals when they see them its totally luck based and just common buisness practice its not like there scamming anyone or anything cough again dkoldies
It's because he's buying up all those games dude in bulk and then turning around and selling them for dramatically increased prices taking away those deals from people who actually want those games that's the problem if he actually bought those games and sold them at a fair price nobody would be complaining about what he's doing but he doesn't want to do it that way he wants to jack up the prices
@@great1004 hes getting deals then selling them for market value hes not jacking up and price and hes not taking away any deals from anyone a deal is not the base price you do realize that right and its not like you or anyone else cant find deals your selves
@@great1004 let me ask you when you sell something to your local pawn or gamestop and they pay you like say $5 for a $20 game do you think they should sell it for $5 or $20 there giving money to make money why would they sell something there not gonna get any profit out of that is not how basic buisness works theres inflation and then there trying to earn a dang pay check to pay your bills ya all treating him like hes DK oldies pr something when hes not no one has any issues with him ether his comment section is pretty docial and most of the store people he deals with say hes a nice guy I even spoke to a couple personally and they say hes just a guy trying to earn a living man no seller is gonna just give you free shit or pay for all the gas or labor for you they went through the effort to sell the stuff on there store front with there cars there gas and there time and supplies yes they deserve to at least get retail you crying over this honestly just sounds like selfish greed
@@great1004 now when his stuff is way over market value and your problem isnt wah I want deals to call me other wise suck it up buttercup there are way worse resellers out there and phoenix is not even close to there level of scum why dont you go after them instead of a guy whos just doing what he loves what your doing is like attacking joey for something drew did yeah resellers suck but this type of reselling is no where near as bad as any of you are making it out to be
You prefer big cooperation ripping you off? Oh wait, that would be harder to make hate videos than individual people.. let the guy make some money, its a free market thankfully.
@@steviefreakinc You can't sell products that aren't produced anymore for MSRP man.. If you are, you are obviously leaving money on the table. Simple fact is, there needs to be people like him to redistribute those out of production things because if it was up to game stop or some bigger cooperation that only dealt with vintage games, they would do the same. DKoldies cough cough.. It's all just business at the end man, I know it sucks but nostalgia has always been a great money maker. I want a 1990 Mclaren P1 for MSRP but those damn collectors and dealers hoarded them all and are asking 30x the original price..That's just how these things work in a free market. Beating on individual sellers that are fixing the leaks in the system to make a profit isn't a bad thing.
@@Motorsportsgeek Phoenix Resale actually sells a lot of things that you can still buy though. He's scummy in general. Hell, he just made a video where he's giving away 15 games with money he was sponsored. The dude can't even put his own money towards giveaways.
The only re-seller I really watch is Chase after the Right Price. Chase to me is very humble. He takes good care of his employee's... treats them like family.
I hate resellers because they're not collectors or not Gamers they don't know anything about the gaming industry he wants a lever they only buy crap to shoot up the price and they're all the same rip people off lie about things a lot actually
@@steviefreakinc may I just get tired of seeing resellers like they care about the Gaming Community when they don't I can tell them screwing people over especially older people who don't know no better
@@RickueEvans-oi1iz Oh yeah man it’s selfishness and greed. They even have to take mail in trades with their fans now because they’ve made sourcing difficult on themselves lol
@@steviefreakinc I doubt that even if you had the money and I do I do have $2,000 I have a lot more than that I would never invest into doing something like that because I wouldn't stoop down to the level that this guy is stooping down to
@@steviefreakinc you should see his other videos this guy's just going around and yard sales and stuff and just like basically scraping the bottom of the barrel taking advantage of these poor people.. I wouldn't do to these people what this guy was doing to them even if I hated them it's about personal morals dude this guy has no sympathy No Remorse for nothing did he just will take advantage no qualms whatsoever
@@steviefreakinc because I will tell you one thing you will never ever become a millionaire doing something like what these guys are doing never it will never happen
I buy and sell at flea markets. Phoenix resell is not that bad compared to the sharks I see at the swap shop and garage sales. Hunt local and see what the reselling scene is in 2023 before casting stones at people. I have to make money. Everyone has to make a living in this world.
The worst is garage sales cleaned out before their "start time" by sharks. It's frustrating when people are cleaning everything out at 7:45am when the listed start time is at 8am.
@@steviefreakinc naw I talked to a few of the people he buys from they all say hes pretty nice man he does asks for deals a lot but aside from that he wont keep asking if you dont want to he even made a few videos stating how its ok to ask for deals but how he cant stand resellers who act entitled to it and how people need to understand there a buisness and they gotta make money just as much as he does you know bills and all that some resllers buy up stuff and sell way over market value but i have yet to see phoenix resell go that far and normally when he does make a mistake for anything he will appoligize down the road he once appoligized just for saying a price wrong on a video just to clear up any misunderstanding
@@steviefreakinc now I will say the resellers tgat are the true problem are the type to buy a load of ps5s then sell them for $1000s online you got trying to make a profit then you just highway robbery and scalpers I would say phoenix is jist basically doing his job at best I can see why some would be bothered by it but compared to what he could be doing its not really as big a deal as it could be
@6:11 oh he wants to help me with my own switch collection? its all digital besides a copy of aleste collection, he can help by sending me chicken range for starters.
I love how I got a Steam Deck and it made Game collecting a complete non-issue for me. I hit my limit on game collecting after going to local stores, dealing with local resellers and seeing overpriced retro consoles and games. Worst part? I live in a military town, these game prices are set here because soldiers. They are actively ripping off soldiers! And like, after I came to the realization that this hobby is expensive as fuck for no reason....I got a Steam Deck locally for $300. They were selling being they didn't use it! Even came with a 256GB microSD. Been emulating Gamecube/PS2 games flawlessly AND playing steam games. Even got a dock!
