Recent content by Sinistarr

For resale purposes, even if it was a toaster NES, for $60 and assuming everything works, I'd buy lots like that all day long. For personal use? Eh, I dunno, but I'm sort of tired of having a million older systems around that I only play once in a great while, so take what I say with a grain...

Look into whatever Insignia model Best Buy is currently selling. I got an Insignia Blu-ray player from BB on Black Friday a year or 2 back, and it's held up like a champ. Only Profile 1.1 (no online capability) and no analog audio outs, but I don't care about/need either of those; it does...

Not to pile on, but... $30 for a non-flat-screen, coaxial-input-only, RCA CRT? Pretty much all of it. Realistically, the only CRTs that seem to sell on Craigslist - around me, anyways - are newer Sony flat-screen units. Most everything else - even 32 inchers from time to time - are usually...

I believe there was a drop on President's Day 2 years ago. I had just started a new job with an abysmal commute and I seem to recall spending part of the extra day of my 3-day weekend out looking for guides.

It's obviously seems to bother you, so go back and explain what happened. Odds are good that, by this point, nobody there is going to care and/or look at you like you're a goof for worrying an old, nigh-worthless game of which they probably have a number of copies rotting in the drawer. If they...

Checked the Mass Effect guide at BB tonight on the way home from work; rang up $19.99. Didn't check the ME artbook, though.

Wow, talk about a necropost. This went OOP well before Geneon even announced they were exiting the market, so your only hope for CCS at this point are your usual secondhand outlets - Amazon, eBay, Half and so on - and even those might be scattershot in terms of availability. Be prepared to pay a...

Bollocks. I've picked up HD-DVDs a number of times from GS using B2G1 or B2G2 promos with no problems, and Blu-Rays should be no different.

If your ordered all the movies on the same order, and want to cancel all of them but one already shipped, you're stuck. Once one part of an order ships, they can't do anything about the rest of it. I tried having a couple items from a bigger order canceled a while back; every time I called...

Unfortunately, my Ramblish translator seems off-kilter at the moment, so I'll just follow what some others were talking about. Regarding bidding wars, as a seller, I say: bring 'em on. There's nothing quite like seeing a cheap, common game (SMB3 for the NES, for example) get bid up to $12 or so...

I was ready to call it out as a boot as well, but a quick look on CDJapan shows that the R2J covers are, in fact, that ugly. If there are Chinese subtitles on it, then it's a bootleg, albeit one done up to look like the official Japanese release very well. If not, then it's legit.

The White Marsh store closed a while back; good riddance, I say. As far as I know, the College Park store is still around. I think there may have been a store in northern VA; if there is/was, I don't know if it's still around. As for indy stores around here, none are listed because there aren't...

I'm usually not one to bag on people's choices when they're looking for a deal, but I gotta agree with KL here. If you've never seen the series before, and want to sample it through the movies, you're really doing yourself a disservice. At Otakon a year or 2 back, I went with a friend to see the...

Worst: So hard to keep track of the truly bad prices among the usual dreck (overpriced Game Boy/Genesis games, etc.), but one that stands out: -Dirty, loose copy of E.T. for the Atari 2600 - $15 Best: Again, hard to keep track of all the better stuff, but some standouts: -Mint, sealed copy...

Definitely go for it. You could offload the extra hardware for most, if not all, of what you paid in the first place.