Not eBay but amazon, while I was picking up a orange cube from amazon japan I thought i’d Look through the games section as there’s a few titles i’d Have like to add. Err screw that, what the hell happened to the prices of new cube games lol. So many titles that used to cost maybe £10 more than retail cost are now been slapped on there at 10,000yen and above some of them even hitting beyond 20,000yen like Kirby air ride it’s utter madness I am so glad I got the majority of my stuff back in the day as if I was looking for new titles now you can forget it. Well assuming those new titles don’t have wrecked slipcases as even if they are sealed all those years of shelf wear will bend the edges around the plastic cases. Think I will have to skip any new cube games unless I can buy in person.
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Originally posted by importaku View PostNot eBay but amazon, while I was picking up a orange cube from amazon japan I thought i’d Look through the games section as there’s a few titles i’d Have like to add. Err screw that, what the hell happened to the prices of new cube games lol. So many titles that used to cost maybe £10 more than retail cost are now been slapped on there at 10,000yen and above some of them even hitting beyond 20,000yen like Kirby air ride it’s utter madness I am so glad I got the majority of my stuff back in the day as if I was looking for new titles now you can forget it. Well assuming those new titles don’t have wrecked slipcases as even if they are sealed all those years of shelf wear will bend the edges around the plastic cases. Think I will have to skip any new cube games unless I can buy in person.
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Originally posted by Zaki View PostYeah, the Japanese sellers are like retro eBay sellers now. Cart only Mario World £80. It's retro! It's gotta be worth that much!
Back in 2001 old games were dirt cheap. Didn't matter the era, the majority of games, apart from a few specific rarities, were obscenely cheap. Even the expensive stuff was cheap.
As of 2013 they seem to have cottoned on to Westerners paying through the nose for stuff, so retail stores sell for more, and tend to have very limited stock since online sellers vacuum up titles to sell to foreigners online for a fortune.
Oh how the world's game economy has mutated.
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That doesn't quite explain amazon japans marketplace as those sellers don't sell to outside of japan 99.9% of the time so those crazy prices are aimed at the domestic market, i know sealed gamecube stuff is not super common anymore but the way the prices have rocketed i have found rather shocking. Maybe people are finally cottoning on that the cube was actually a great little console. Shame more people didn't actually bother to give it a chance instead of falling for the fanboy crap and laughing at the colour & handle.
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Originally posted by Hohum View PostSaw this and had to laugh. Frankly I'm not so sure this is completely unused anyway based on pics, but even if it is... hardly rare or mint is it? Crazy.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brand-new...G/174146361149
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The sloppy way those cables are in the box means there's no way in hell that isn't a used machine. Even the joypad is a dead giveaway as sony love to put the cables in a little baggy before they put the entire thing in a larger bag. But i guess people are always out to rip off people who don't know better and yeah ew a pal machine unless that thing is modded it might as well be trash.
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Originally posted by importaku View PostThe sloppy way those cables are in the box means there's no way in hell that isn't a used machine. Even the joypad is a dead giveaway as sony love to put the cables in a little baggy before they put the entire thing in a larger bag. But i guess people are always out to rip off people who don't know better and yeah ew a pal machine unless that thing is modded it might as well be trash.
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Originally posted by importaku View PostThe sloppy way those cables are in the box means there's no way in hell that isn't a used machine. Even the joypad is a dead giveaway as sony love to put the cables in a little baggy before they put the entire thing in a larger bag. But i guess people are always out to rip off people who don't know better and yeah ew a pal machine unless that thing is modded it might as well be trash.
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Originally posted by dyer60 View PostCouldn’t agree more, but why on earth are people being that blind and bidding silly money,!?!????
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