Most outrageously priced/overpriced game/item you've EVER seen?

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Aside from the time I accepted a shipment of 1 ct diamond engagement rings which the store only paid $100 a piece for, and was selling 'on sale' for $999.99 at the stores official opening, I'd have to say the most overpriced item I've seen was a copy of both Pocketbike Racer and Big Bumpin' from BK for ALOT more than they originally sold for at BK restaurants. The rings were misrouted to me and intended to head to the guard shack downstairs instead.

I was at a local flea market on Sunday and found copies of both games at the stand of the one guy who has an assload of games for sale. His price for PBR and BB was.... $27.

Yep, $27 for a $3.99 value meal game, which beats out the gouged price GS wanted for it($8) by ALOT.

Then again, this is the same guy who buys games from where I buy cheap games and marks them up(even when they've been GH for 2-4 years already @ $19.99) to OVER the GH price, even if he only paid $2-5 for them originally.

He must've gone to the Gamestop school of pricing....buy low, sell ridiculously high and hope ignorant mommies and daddies come in with their 'gimme' kids.
 
Yeah. Garage sales and flea markets always have stupid people trying to hok (hawk?) old sports games for full price. NHL 2002? $45! BARGAIN!
 
There is this rental place called Replay Video or something in town. Worst prices I've ever seen in my life.

They had MvC2 at or over $120, with a sticker that said, "yes, that is the real price". Jedi Academy for $45. Exceeding retail by a WIDE margin across the board. Anyone that buys anything there should be punished beyond losing all that money.
 
Back in the day I remember Gamestop in the mall selling a Dragon Ball Z GT for PSone for something like $79.99 used lol that was right about the time the USA was hitting the we are nuts for DBZ phase...

The most insane price I remember paying for something game related was Chrono Trigger at Besybuy when it was a new release $79.99 lol..
 
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Just kidding. Mostly.
 
The only over priced games I ever see are at K-Mart, CompUSA, and (the now defunct) MediaPlay. K-Mart usually lacks updated stickers and rings up at the right price but CompUSA is bad. MediaPlay was worse... I remember when they had Eternal Darkness for $50 when other places were selling it for $15. Well, now they're out of business so that's that.
 
Digital Planet (which I think is an extension of Wherehouse or something) has Marvel vs. Capcom 2 on XB for 69.99, and the Zelda collection with a silver background on Gamecube for 79.99 :)rofl:)
 
There's a whole bunch of em on gamestop.com under the game boy color section....

About 2 years ago a boxed sega genesis at a yard sale for 100$, some people just don't take depreciation into account.

Some used worthless sports game for 25$ at a yard sale this past weekend with a tag that said "used once" on it, as if that makes it any less used.
 
I remember when Circuit City had that Xbox bundle game Tetris worlds/Star Wars clone wars with a $99.99 price tag on it. The real jerky cashier that works there acted insulted when I asked him if that price was real...for a game that was supposed to be a FREE pack in. He said "See the other games that are $50? Well you get TWO games...I dont know why its so hard for you to understand"

A couple months later, when the CC computers clearenced that game out to 0.01 (info I got from this site), I went back in there and took three of the 14 they had up to that same guy and he scanned it...looked at it weird and said "Ill be right back" and he went around a half wall they had that went into the back of the store. I could hear him tell a manager "This guy is wanting to buy this game and its ringing up one cent" To which the manager said "Just sell those to him and when he leaves, pull the rest of them to the back". Well when he came out, I had walked over and picked up all the rest of them. It was funny to watch him glare at me as he slammed each game down hard on the security strip deactivator and scan each one. Walked out with all 14 of them for a total of 16 cents. Thanks CAGer for making this story possible ;)
 
Wow. This thread inspired a dream last night.
I was looking around GameStop and found a copy of Rush 2049 for the N64. Except the cartridge was HUGE, about the size of a basketball hoop backboard, and a clear red color. A special edition, AND it was autographed. The price on it was about $2000, marked down to $800.
There were also a lot of weird hacked N64 games and import games, but that was the funniest.
 
Someone from CAG was selling a copy of Victorious Boxers for PS2 on ebay. THeir price? $99. It was funny, since the game is worth about $5 tops. I think I remember the name but Im not 100% certain so I don't want to put it.
 
[quote name='Derrick1979']Back in the day I remember Gamestop in the mall selling a Dragon Ball Z GT for PSone for something like $79.99 used lol that was right about the time the USA was hitting the we are nuts for DBZ phase...

The most insane price I remember paying for something game related was Chrono Trigger at Besybuy when it was a new release $79.99 lol..[/QUOTE]
Heh, I put my copy of that up on yahoo auctions (or maybe amazon, it's been years now), for 9.99. It sold for $147. I had no idea it was worth anything. I'd just bought it for $30, hated it, and was trying to get rid of it. So, basically, depending on when it was, $80 could have been a bargin. As to my vote: The Neo Geo. That damn thing was $700 with $200 games MSRP 15 YEARS AGO. Makes the PS3 look cheap. The most absurbly priced things I've ever bought though were the third-party N64 games when they first came out at $100 a pop.

Edit: As for a single instance though, there was a pawn shop that wanted $50 for STUN Runner for the Lynx, cart only, YEARS after the Lynx was VERY dead. Same place also had a Phillips CD-i at $330 used...
 
See, I was unsure if it was the NEO GEO that was priced at more than the PS3 currently is or not, otherwise I would've listed that as my prime example.

Oh and the one auction on Ebay last night for FFVII in Australia takes the cake as the most expensive item I've seen recently. The price was up to over $300 of their dollars by the time I was going to bed this morning.

I'll post a link if I find one for it, it's just too funny imo that a game thats THAT old is still that in demand. Of course, the $300+ bid was the OPENING one, so it could've just been someone making a 'joke bid' to mess with the seller.

Here's that Australian Ebay auction for FFVII(sealed and non GH): http://cgi.ebay.com/Final-Fantasy-VII-7-New-Sealed-Original-RARE_W0QQitemZ120120236978QQihZ002QQcategoryZ11056QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
 
I took a vacation to Switzerland. Super Mario Sunshine was equivalent to $118 over there thanks to the 100% sales tax.
 
I had a Neo Geo a long time ago that I got used. Don't recall what I paid for it, but I do know that you could get games for a lot less than $200 -- especially used. It was a nice system for its time, but of course the price of the system and its games is what killed it (that and the fact that its games were identical to the ones used in the arcade, and were thus not really very good for home play).
 
FF 7 non GH no doubt, saw one go over 200 once, but something I did pay overprice was X-men vs SF for saturn when it came out, with the 4MB cart and all, that game is flawless hopefully they make a compilation of the VS series someday...
 
[quote name='jousley']I remember when Circuit City had that Xbox bundle game Tetris worlds/Star Wars clone wars with a $99.99 price tag on it. The real jerky cashier that works there acted insulted when I asked him if that price was real...for a game that was supposed to be a FREE pack in. He said "See the other games that are $50? Well you get TWO games...I dont know why its so hard for you to understand"

A couple months later, when the CC computers clearenced that game out to 0.01 (info I got from this site), I went back in there and took three of the 14 they had up to that same guy and he scanned it...looked at it weird and said "Ill be right back" and he went around a half wall they had that went into the back of the store. I could hear him tell a manager "This guy is wanting to buy this game and its ringing up one cent" To which the manager said "Just sell those to him and when he leaves, pull the rest of them to the back". Well when he came out, I had walked over and picked up all the rest of them. It was funny to watch him glare at me as he slammed each game down hard on the security strip deactivator and scan each one. Walked out with all 14 of them for a total of 16 cents. Thanks CAGer for making this story possible ;)[/QUOTE]

That's an amazing story, I love the vindication.
 
Probably the most overpriced thing I've encountered....and bought.....was the GIANT FFVII:Advent Children Limited Edition set here in Japan. I was in Akihabara for the first time in fall of 2005, which happened to be the weekend after the movie had come out on DVD. I searched EVERY store and they were all completely sold of Advent Children, both the LE and normal versions. FINALLY I found a copy on the 6th floor of some anime shop for........44,000 yen. I figured I'd never see a new copy again so I bought it.
It's an amazing LE set, that's for sure, but when I managed to pick up a barely used XBOX 360 for 28,000 yen last summer I realized that I began to regret spending such an INSANE amount of money on a DVD. (especially now that the BluRay edition is coming out! ARGH!)
 
[quote name='icruise']That's just under $400, for those of you not familiar with yen. Wow...[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but that is the version with the giant fucking cloud statue, if I'm not mistaken. The statue alone would probably go for $150-200 (I mean retail, if originally sold seperately, god knows what it goes for on ebay now), so it's not THAT insane. Shit, I paid $200 each for 400 blows and the killer criterion, and I didn't even get a statue...
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']See, I was unsure if it was the NEO GEO that was priced at more than the PS3 currently is or not, otherwise I would've listed that as my prime example.

Oh and the one auction on Ebay last night for FFVII in Australia takes the cake as the most expensive item I've seen recently. The price was up to over $300 of their dollars by the time I was going to bed this morning.

I'll post a link if I find one for it, it's just too funny imo that a game thats THAT old is still that in demand. Of course, the $300+ bid was the OPENING one, so it could've just been someone making a 'joke bid' to mess with the seller.

Here's that Australian Ebay auction for FFVII(sealed and non GH): http://cgi.ebay.com/Final-Fantasy-VII-7-New-Sealed-Original-RARE_W0QQitemZ120120236978QQihZ002QQcategoryZ11056QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem[/QUOTE]
Not really on the FFVII. It IS probably the second best game ever made. Time doesn't diminish quality of that level. I mean, hell, Pac-Man and Super Mario Bros. are both STILL great games and they are both better than 2 decades old. Unlike those games, however, FFVII hasn't been rereleased 50 million times.
 
[quote name='SaraAB']There's a whole bunch of em on gamestop.com under the game boy color section....

About 2 years ago a boxed sega genesis at a yard sale for 100$, some people just don't take depreciation into account.

Some used worthless sports game for 25$ at a yard sale this past weekend with a tag that said "used once" on it, as if that makes it any less used.[/QUOTE]

Ive never quite got the whole "used once" crap... geez... I have discs Ive used many many times that are immaculate... someone can scratch up a game in one use if they are not careful
 
[quote name='zman73']Ive never quite got the whole "used once" crap... geez... I have discs Ive used many many times that are immaculate... someone can scratch up a game in one use if they are not careful[/quote]

Same. It's like gamestop with their whole "it's never been played" speech when they try to sell you a display copy of a game. Even if it hasn't been played, it can be scratched to hell depending on how it was handled. Most games don't get scratched when they're being played, but rather when they're left out of their cases collecting dust..
 
http://www.mcvans.com/shopexd.asp?id=29249

LOL

from the site:

"This Sega CD item is used. This game may or may not come with original box and/or instructions."

(If you're crazy enough to order this, you'll probably get the one from the Evansville store... the one I go into and mock everyone and everything there, unless it's a complete Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow for $12.)

More lowlights from the Evansville store:

Shining Force II (cart only): $45
Vampire Savior (no RAM cart): $60 (OOH! crazy moon language! must...mark...up...)

hahaha.

-sailorneorune
 
[quote name='zman73']Ive never quite got the whole "used once" crap... geez... I have discs Ive used many many times that are immaculate... someone can scratch up a game in one use if they are not careful[/QUOTE]
When people say something was "used once" (or "watched once" in the case of movies) it always just makes me think that the item in question isn't very good. Why else would they want to get rid of it after only playing it once?
 
Gran Turismo 3 for $34.99 used (former rental) about a year after it became a GH with a $19.99 MSRP at Movie Gallery. They also had 4x4 Evolution 2 for $48.99 used, a whole $1 less than the new price.
 
[quote name='Gamerguy']I took a vacation to Switzerland. Super Mario Sunshine was equivalent to $118 over there thanks to the 100% sales tax.[/QUOTE]

What, what, what?! 100% sales tax? Is this on everything? Remind me never to got to Switzerland.
 
I bought Steel Battalion for $99 instead of $199, so I can't complain about it. On the other hand, I remember seeing "Hey You! Pikachu!" for $4.74 at Wal-Mart and it stayed that way for months. After those many months passed and Wal-Mart was still selling it for under $5, I ventured into an old decrepit K-Mart and found that they were selling it for $80! $74 was normal for N64 games when they first launched, but $80 for a game that Wal-Mart couldn't even sell for under $5? That's bull. I can see that it may have returned to the $74 price point because of the included hardware, but marking it UP when everyone else was going DOWN is crazy (PS2, Dreamcast, etc were around when this happened... perhaps even the GC & XBOX). K-Mart still adds a mark-up to a lot of thier game stuff (Wii accessories for example).
 
[quote name='jousley']I remember when Circuit City had that Xbox bundle game Tetris worlds/Star Wars clone wars with a $99.99 price tag on it. The real jerky cashier that works there acted insulted when I asked him if that price was real...for a game that was supposed to be a FREE pack in. He said "See the other games that are $50? Well you get TWO games...I dont know why its so hard for you to understand"

A couple months later, when the CC computers clearenced that game out to 0.01 (info I got from this site), I went back in there and took three of the 14 they had up to that same guy and he scanned it...looked at it weird and said "Ill be right back" and he went around a half wall they had that went into the back of the store. I could hear him tell a manager "This guy is wanting to buy this game and its ringing up one cent" To which the manager said "Just sell those to him and when he leaves, pull the rest of them to the back". Well when he came out, I had walked over and picked up all the rest of them. It was funny to watch him glare at me as he slammed each game down hard on the security strip deactivator and scan each one. Walked out with all 14 of them for a total of 16 cents. Thanks CAGer for making this story possible ;)[/quote]

16 cents? Damn, you still got ripped off...
 
I remember FYE had some of the worst prices immiganble. I guess they assumed if you were going in you knew next to nothing about what going rates of any kind of media was so they could fleace you.

I remember when Soul Calibur 2 had gone to 20 on each of the platforms they had a used xbox copy for 52.99.

I do remember another store, not sure their name but they were a retail chain, that had some HK bootlegs of Love Hina collection going for 99 dollars.

I almost wanted to tell them but i didnt.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']LOL The auction has been removed already, but heres a pic of just SOME of what was included: 1500+ Playstation games(including long box variants and GH titles):

super_psx_ebay.jpg


Guess the price on this? $30,000, but with 'free shipping'. So, there is your winner for most overpriced.

This auction was covered by Kotaku and others already though.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/playstationton/the-biggest-ebay-playstation-auction-ever-262237.php[/QUOTE]

with all the development stuff, japanese and european systems and games and other rarities that auction was far from over priced if you were to break everything down but then again everyone just sees the $30000 and says "OMG thats overpriced!!!" I bet now that they are separating the items since it was cancelled by ebay that the items separated would easily top that total
 
Toy Story for SNES $69.99

FYE is also absolutely ridiculous with pricing too. The legitimate FYE, not previous Strawberries stores.
 
I remember seeing a complete copy of that Xena game from N64 for $59.99 at a pawnshop a couple years ago. Note that this was USED. They also had several SNES sports games for $8 each. Never went in there again.
 
$100 for a complete Superman 64 at an independent game store.

I should also mention it had a subtitle in front of it, on a paper tent: "Yes, $100 to keep you from purchasing the worst game in HISTORY!"
 
Midnight Club 3 and Second Sight for $110 total at a yard sale. I found it really odd that they wanted that much for those games. I didn't want to insult them and make them feel stupid by quoting that you could get that for much cheaper at Best Buy. If someone wants to charge that much for two games, that's OK by me, but I'm not going to buy them.

They quoted the price at least three times and I told them I didn't have that much each time. And they still didn't budge on the price. Oh well, hopefully, they don't read this site. If they do, sorry, business is business.
 
Going back a long time here- I remember going into a KB Toys looking for Sega Genesis games when I first got one. Found a copy of Earthworm Jim. Take a guess. 175 bucks. Now, to a 14 yr old, 175 is a massive chunk of change (to me anyways.) It seemed tht any new genesis game first came out, it was 100+ (I saw others, cant remember the names). I know i ended up paying 40+ for x-mutants....
 
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