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"So I said 'hey man, you can get the FUCK outta here!!' " As someone who works retail, my GOD this feels good to hear out loud! 😂😂 It's like catharsis by proxy for all the people I've dealt with over the years.
Working in retail myself, much like Ian, I’ve seen and heard it all. You can take it up to a point, but when it crosses that line of taking me for a chump......the gloves come out!
It would be funny if Pat went full Randy Pitchford. "Hey Pat can you give me a deal on all these games? They're for my collection." Pat: "Why you f*cking me?!" lol
I didn't realized that Ducktales 2 is worth so much money after this podcast and I have this game including the booklet. It was one of my favourite games.
A guy did this to me. Recently, I sold about 100+ Wrestling figures on Shpock, some rare, some old, some not so good. I just sold them for like £70 and this guy really convinced me he collected them and shit then as soon as he got them he just relisted them on separate listings at reseller prices! Really pissed me off!
Marc Carran no, it wasn’t the fact that he resold them so much as I was also selling separately an large talking ultimate warrior figure and another which I can’t remember. He begged me to get include these in the sale “ for his collection !” Then he listed them for sale as soon as he got them for about £50 when I’d thrown them in for nothing. wed agreed on £70 it then it cost me £20 to post due to weight. Finally these were my 11 year old twin sons that they had asked me to sell for them.
Pat butthurt because the guy got over on him making money he couldn't. If you can't handle a guy making money on what he buys from you, don't sell to him.
The best thing was the first time they told this story and if I remember correctly Pat or Ian said that the labels looked like they were printed on a Fischer Price My First Printer
I used to work at a game store, and collected retro games for a while. One thing I definitely do not miss is some of the toxic-assed slimeballs who would try to hustle you over every sale or trade.
This opens up a few new questions: what is the most credit Ian issued in a single trade in? What is the largest store credit balance Ian has seen a customer hold?
That's a good question. Largest ticket I've written out was about 1,100-1,200. Low thousands. Had a customer who built up around 2k in credit and then slowly spent it over a year or so.
Next year I'm looking forward to shopping at your guys both at SoCal Retro Gaming Expo 2019. Plus I'm still planing a trip to San Diego to shop at Luna Games. You guys are awesome.
There once was a guy named gord who told of what he did to people who tried to resell him obv fakes. He would grab a disc and pretend he was inspecting the merch and just start carelessly snapping them in two until the guy got the hint
I think that happens 90 percent of the time with people who bitch about "greedy sellers" asking the going rate for a game or other item. When it comes time to sell their shit, they don't offer anyone a discount.
You really can't take somebody's stated reason for wanting something into account when setting a price or you'll get cleaned out by guys claiming to have sick mothers in the hospital whose dying wishes are for a copy of Tengen Tetris.
I trade in a lot of rare stuff at the game store I frequent and I never bring counterfeit items, even though the owner doesn't know half of the items I've bought in.
As long as they mark it as such and the price is reasonable. My LGS has two or three repros which are marked. They also have a real Little Samson and Dinosaur Peak though, so it's legit.
Exactly, no way in hell you would throw the rarest (excluding championship edition bother gray and gold carts) in a box with other games especially if they are not in protective clear cases (like how Pat keeps his NWC cart nice and protected) this guy was trying to BS Ian !!!!
I was at the flea market once and I saw a reseller who had nes games. He had a blue megsmsn tepro that had all the nes games on one cart. He wanted $60 and claimed it was a European copy.
When u called the guy a shaggy bastard I thought not groomed bummy !! When u references yourself as a shaggy bastard I could only think international spy who gets lots of woman!! YAY BABY!!!
I have a very pricey suikoden II non greatest hits game. I accidently bundled it with some old ps1 games i went to trade in at my local independant gameshop. Guy goes through it and holds up Suikoden II and says "Dude you don't want to get rid of this" and i"m like oh crap. Taught me to pay more attention to what i'm doing.
Little Samson from Europe is more common. Basically the SNES was out in the US in 1991 and the SNES didn't come out in Europe until well into 1992. So a handful of games from 1992 and onward had more copies released in Europe than North America. (There's a common belief too that Europeans were more frugal with stuff like gaming and kept one system longer.) Also I'm not sure about Little Samson specifically but a few of those games that are rare in North America and more common in Europe are specifically more common in Scandinavia for whatever reason.
