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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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| I don't need all those games.. I buy 10 games for a console and only play 2-3 as it is. All those stores rip you off.. glad he's going under. Maybe not him specifically, who know how he ran his store.. but those kind of stores piss me off. |
Ummm... What?
Yeah... fuck stores that sell games to systems you might never owned as a child, but just recently got ahold of. I mean here you are wanting to play a classic game, and this guy comes along and has it for sale! Fuck him. Fuck him in his stupid ass. Carrying hard to find stuff I want to buy! Who does he think he is?
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
Posts: 2747
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| Knyte wrote: |
| JonSnow wrote: |
| I don't need all those games.. I buy 10 games for a console and only play 2-3 as it is. All those stores rip you off.. glad he's going under. Maybe not him specifically, who know how he ran his store.. but those kind of stores piss me off. |
Ummm... What?
Yeah... fuck stores that sell games to systems you might never owned as a child, but just recently got ahold of. I mean here you are wanting to play a classic game, and this guy comes along and has it for sale! Fuck him. Fuck him in his stupid ass. Carrying hard to find stuff I want to buy! Who does he think he is? |
Not to mention imports, or possibly knowing people who can fix consoles or even cabinets! Especially since he's not propping up some monolithic chain retail store and *gasp* lives in the community, probably even gives back to it! Does his depravity ever cease?
Sorry. I had to.
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 Who likes role-playing games? Me. Way too goddamn much. |
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InvaderDim
Title: Dispondent Adolescent
Joined: May 19 2010
Location: Denver, CO
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come on, some kids are only allowed to shop at Wal-Mart
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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I've always wondered how a used game store stays in business. They never seem to actually sell anything.
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Ash Burton
Title: AshRaiser
Joined: Nov 10 2008
Location: Florida
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It's a terrible idea for a store. These stores overprice games hoping to cash in on nostalgia, however, gamers who fit this niche are smarter than your average dope and can use the internet thingy to get the same games at half the price on Ebay. Not to mention spending a few weekends at yard sales. I run a similar type business as a hobby, I pick up some games and flip the ones I don't need or want onto Ebay. It doesn't make me a fortune but it fuels a couple hundred bucks into my account so I can buy any games I do want. It does suck to see any local small business go under, but a little market research might have gone a long way for this guy. Anyways, I still want that Nintendo cabinet.
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Ash is probably just home humping his SNES collection.
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Drew Linky
Wizard
Joined: Jun 12 2009
Posts: 4209
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Game themed whore house, anyone?
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https://discord.gg/homestuck is where you can find me literally 99% of the time. Stop on by if you feel like it, we're a nice crowd. |
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JonSnow
Joined: Nov 03 2006
Posts: 763
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| I don't need all those games.. I buy 10 games for a console and only play 2-3 as it is. All those stores rip you off.. glad he's going under. Maybe not him specifically, who know how he ran his store.. but those kind of stores piss me off. |
Decoded dun dun duh!
In response to the idea of all pooling money and spliting the games, even if they're cool, if they're for personal use I'd hardly play any of them, since as it is, when I owned 10 games for one of my consoles, I only really liked and had time for 3, so more would be a complete waste.
The second part was on a totally different comment... Was commenting how many of those stores rip off the buyers, and especially rip off the sellers. Due to lack of options for the sellers. (Craig's list/e-bay are improving this). So was saying how i'm not all too sad to hear a store like that go under, when they've given so many people 10 cents on the dollar for items sold to them.
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Drew Linky
Wizard
Joined: Jun 12 2009
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I just want to go on record as saying we should use it for the apocalypse, as stated in the other thread.
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https://discord.gg/homestuck is where you can find me literally 99% of the time. Stop on by if you feel like it, we're a nice crowd. |
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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My local Mon & Pop used store is awesome. I traded in about $400 worth of PS1 games to them, and got almost $300 in credit which scored me a used Xbox 360 and 7 games. I would have been laughed out of Gamestop, or worse, they would have offered me $80, or $100 with an Edge card, and then asked if I wanted to pre-order Super Mega Franchise 9.
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ProtoScott
Title: New Robot Prototype
Joined: Jul 19 2010
Location: Ft. Wayne, IN
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I will gladly put up a 1000 dollars on this, who the hell needs textbooks anyway.
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FNJ
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Joined: Jun 07 2006
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| aeonic wrote: |
| What about a hundred and fifty people and two hundred bucks? I mean, there's got to be at least a hundred regular posters on this board. |
we could get other people we know involved. I guess it doesn't have to be a forum specific thing.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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And then we could have a reality show where we try to run the store!
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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