what are some current games that can be flipped for easy money?

[quote name='Doomstink']Don't you remember Rock Revolution at Target? People were buying 6+ copies a piece and flipping to Blockbuster and everyone was a-ok with it. All I'm saying is that if you switched "Rock Revolution" to "Soul Calibur IV" and "Blockbuster" to "eBay" people would throw a tantrum on this site. It's a double standard.

I understand where you're coming from, though, as a reseller I get beat to deals all the time (usually by other resellers) and it makes me as angry as the next guy. The thing you guys don't realize is that we're not all blood-sucking demons looking to steal deals away. There's been many ocassions where I've had a game in my hand at a store that someone else wanted and I've gladly handed it over. I'm not one to literally steal deals out from under someones nose. One time I even surrendered a copy of Persona: Revelations (PS1) marked at $14.99 to a kids mom who was looking for it for her daughter (who had just gotten into Persona 3). We're not all the villains that people on the board make us out to be.

There is exceptions, though, but they tend to be people who don't know shit about games. Many of the flippers in my area are old, toothless southerners, who wouldn't know the first thing about video games. They just buy whatever looks like a deal and they're the ones you need to be worried about. The resellers on CAG (at least the ones I know) are genuinely good people who are not out to rob you of deals. The aforementioned non-gamer flippers are the ones who lurk these boards and jump on your deals.[/QUOTE]

Still you would look retarded if it wasn't worth your time. I remember someone posting they bought 10 copies or so of rock rev from the bestbuy sale just to flip all into blockbuster. Then next thing they knew the TIV dropped the next few days. Returning all those copies would definately raise an :roll: or 2.

Another one was the Midnight Club deal from bestbuy where a certain DJ member (now banned). It's just sad to see 1 person buying up 40 copies trying to profit by trading them all in. What's worse was the pictures were posted of those numerous copies on fatwallet.com!
 
I think some of you are going a bit overboard. Flipping and selling games is just as unreliable as the stock market is. Will you be able to find a certain game in large quantities? At the price you want? Will the demand stay high? Will something happen to change the value, like a re-release? One month, you might found a ton of stuff. The next, not so much. You're risking your money the same way. And the stock market isn't this insane rollercoaster everyone makes it out to be. You can lose big money in it, but that's often when you try to win too big. There are safe ways to put money into the market. You won't make $10K in a day, but it will build up over time.

I'm sorry, but the stock market is a concept that's about a thousand years old. It works.
 
I think the only way that you can flip games as a job or career is by opening up your own little video game store. Some 18 year old kid opened up his own store so i guess that would be the best way.
 
One time I even surrendered a copy of Persona: Revelations (PS1) marked at $14.99 to a kids mom who was looking for it for her daughter (who had just gotten into Persona 3).
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Wow, you a very nice guy. I probably won't have given it to her but i could recall giving my copy of Castlevania Chronicles to my friend for Xmas because i knew he wanted it and would actually play than have it sit on my shelf. Yes, some CAG members do have hearts. Thank god i still have a copy of Persona 1 and Castlesvania Chronicles.
 
[quote name='dan13l858']I think the only way that you can flip games as a job or career is by opening up your own little video game store. Some 18 year old kid opened up his own store so i guess that would be the best way.[/QUOTE]

That's the worst way to make money off video games because you have to stock games that will lose money just to get people in. Then you have to pay overhead and don't forget about employees that will rip you off every chance they get.

Bigdaddybruce -- The stock market works. Video game selling works. Both have highs and lows. If you're better at picking winners in video games (picking up three copies of MGS3 LE when they came out) then why not continue to keep doing that?

Why would you rather take a huge risk investing in a start-up when you can put money into something you actually know about? I've said it before but I made money on video games the last couple years while my investments have gone down. I did slightly better than average but I still lost money. Stocks do tend to be long time investments while games can be and should be short term investments. If you're holding onto a game for more than three years, you're not doing it right.
 
[quote name='cranguy']This is actually a valid point.

eBay DOES have a "Vacation Setting" where you can make your listings temporarily unavailable. Or you can keep them available with a universal message that the seller is away and there will be a delay in shipping your order. Of course you're still paying the listing fees, even if you make them unavailable.

A better option for long term (1+ month) is to save all your listings in Turbolister and simply do a mass relist once you get back.

I am going to have this problem soon, as I'm planning to teach in Japan for a year next year. Either I have to find someone who will ship for me or my inventory's gonna sit for a year, which isn't going to be good for its value. Else, I could have a big liquidation beforehand, which might be the best option, considering.

darkslime, you just beat up kids and take their stuff? I should try that. I've been leading them to my gingerbread house with trails of sweets and then stealing their Petz gamez. Your method seems a lot quicker and would cut down on my sweets budget.[/QUOTE]

LOL, just give your inventory to me, cranguy...I'll take goooooood care of it. :D

Or liquidate it to me, LOL.

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And of course darkslime had to just go and spill the beans about how we REALLY get all our amazing scores! That dude I bought the monster Transformers lot from a couple of weeks ago? Buried in the Nevada desert. That huge SNES bundle with $5 Earthbound? I slapped that couple around until they gave me the deal I was looking for. But the real secret to huge scores is the home invasion robbery technique that is used on anti-hoarders. We find CAG stick-in-the-muds and jack all their loot. < /sarcasm>
 
[quote name='ferzan']wait, where did you sell "old madden games" FOR 25 DOLLARS. please tell me[/QUOTE]

Gullible sounds like "green bear" when you say it out loud really slow. Try it.
 
[quote name='DarkRider23']I tried to stay away from this thread because it just sounds like a bunch of idiots arguing back and forth (no offense to those of you who I know ;)), but I just had to intervene here. As was said before, clearances are the worst places to buy flips. Especially well-advertised clearances like this BB clearance.

I won't mention names, but there is a CAG who stocked up on 18 copies of a certain game for around $14-$17 each. For arguments sake, lets say he got 9 disc only and 9 complete. Complete copies are now worth $80-$100 and disc only are about $60.

Lets do some simple math here.

18*$17(Using the higher number just for arguments sake) = $306 investment
9*$60 + 9*90 = $1,350 before ebay fees
$1,350 * .11 (Around what he would have paid ebay) + $1,350*.03 (Paypal fees) + 2.5*18 shipping fees = $234 in fees/shipping costs

$1,350-$234 = $1,116 profit

That CAG more than tripled his initial investment in less than 3 weeks time. If you can show me someone who can do that in the stock market without taking a huge risk, then please direct me that person so I can give him/her all my money to invest in the stock market.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, that's cute and all, but unfortunately that sort of example is the exception and not the rule. You run into scalability issues because ultimately, as with everything, you are limited by supply and demand issues. Saturate the market with a specific game you found, and the value/price will plummet and along with it, your profit margin. Dude may be living high off the hog for that week or two, but be starving the next month.

And the converse also can screw you - decrease the supply/increase the demand and certainly, the value will go up, but it will be that much more difficult to find said product for you to flip.

I'm not against flipping and/or selling games for profit and livelihood - hell I'm all for it (as long as I'm not personally losing out on a deal, LOL! I'll be the one to admit, unlike others, that it only pisses me off when I lose out because I AM SELFISH!), but as others have said, it's a hell of a lot of work and a hell of a lot of a time commitment, no matter how rosy some may paint it. No one should kid themselves and think that it's easy or highly profitable, as in, "you can make mid to high five figures, or even more, annually doing it". To compare games as an investment to the stock market? LOL, I'm not even going to bother addressing the apples and oranges of that one.

I make a very good living - not to toot my own horn but I have an extremely high paying job as well as own my own profitable business, and no it's not flipping games. There is no way I could make the kind of money I do by simply flipping games or even other shit I would find via craigslist, yard sales, flea markets etc. Hell, it would be next to impossible to clear 6 figures unless you happened upon an unlimited supply of extreme rarities, or antiques, at pennies on the dollar. With games and other media alone? Well, good luck is all I can say.

Sure your example made a very good return, but in all honesty, $1,000 or even $10,000 profit in a month is peanuts. $10K/month pretax is $120K a year. Even if you are self employed/own your own business and have all of the deductions in place to basically pay nothing in taxes on that (watch out for AMT!), that's really not all that much, particularly if you live in or around a city/major urban center. I live in Beverly Hills. Just trust me when I say the finer parts of Los Angeles are not cheap by any stretch of the imagination, and 100K doesn't go very far at all.

For me it's all about the thrill of the hunt and increasing my own collection. Deals need to be worth my time, and if I'm not going to be making at least $100 an hour profit for the time I put into a deal, it's not worth it to me. Hell, even then it's not really worth my time. I'm not saying it to brag, it's simply the way it is. Believe me or don't, I won't give a fuck. Hate me for a score or don't, I don't give a fuck. Personal opinions, particularly on a relatively anonymous message board, are irrelevant when all is said and done. I come here to find deals, see what others have scored, and document my scores.

Utlimately though, I believe a tremendous amount of the bad blood and ill will toward flippers/ebayers etc. stems from Schadenfreude - it is human nature for us to revel in the misfortunes of others and be deeply jealous of their successes. Obviously some succumb to these feelings far more than others. Some people just can't stand anyone else's success, are bitter they missed a particular score, etc.
 
[quote name='ferzan']wait, where did you sell "old madden games" FOR 25 DOLLARS. please tell me[/QUOTE]pitfallharry is a dirty liar, he just doesn't want you to start trading them in too and have more competition. there is a glitch in the gamestop system that allows you to trade them in for 25
 
[quote name='darkslime']pitfallharry is a dirty liar, he just doesn't want you to start trading them in too and have more competition. there is a glitch in the gamestop system that allows you to trade them in for 25[/QUOTE]

Okay now, seriously. STOP. Why did you even have to mention the glitch?!? Don't listen to darkslime, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He's making up nonsense. Seriously. It's a lie. Besides, you need to trade in every Madden on a particular system to get the glitch to work, so for PS2 you'd need Madden 2001-2009, all traded in at the same time, ALL of them have to be complete and mint (no refurbishing fees or it doesn't work) for the bonus glitch to activate and give you the bonus $24.90 per game. I got $200 in credit last week with it, but it's getting next to impossible to put together a complete set of mint Maddens to do this.
 
[quote name='depascal22']

Bigdaddybruce -- The stock market works. Video game selling works. Both have highs and lows. If you're better at picking winners in video games (picking up three copies of MGS3 LE when they came out) then why not continue to keep doing that? [/QUOTE]
very good point.

now for some entertainment (not my auctions btw, but i would take it any day of the year)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Star-Fox-64-Sea...fPCQ5fVideoQ5fGamesQ5fGamesQQsalenotsupported

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...em=&sspagename=STRK:MEWAX:IT&salenotsupported

chicken shoot will be worth something like this one day, i can feel it :bouncy:
 
[quote name='karkyco']Okay now, seriously. STOP. Why did you even have to mention the glitch?!? Don't listen to darkslime, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He's making up nonsense. Seriously. It's a lie. Besides, you need to trade in every Madden on a particular system to get the glitch to work, so for PS2 you'd need Madden 2001-2009, all traded in at the same time, ALL of them have to be complete and mint (no refurbishing fees or it doesn't work) for the bonus glitch to activate and give you the bonus $24.90 per game. I got $200 in credit last week with it, but it's getting next to impossible to put together a complete set of mint Maddens to do this.[/QUOTE]

I'm actually sitting on a complete, mint set! But I have no use for GS credit. I will sell it to any CAG for $150. PM me...NOW!
 
I think it's funny how people are getting all up in arms over flipping and hoarding. I don't care if you did buy all 8 copies of Iridium Runners on clearance, it's pretty impressive if you make a profit on them (I don't see how it's possible, but I believe you).

I'm into collecting, so I don't care to make a profit on any games, but if you can, more power to you. I'm rootin' for ya, slugger.
 
[quote name='Chairman_LMAO']I think it's funny how people are getting all up in arms over flipping and hoarding. I don't care if you did buy all 8 copies of Iridium Runners on clearance, it's pretty impressive if you make a profit on them (I don't see how it's possible, but I believe you).

I'm into collecting, so I don't care to make a profit on any games, but if you can, more power to you. I'm rootin' for ya, slugger.[/QUOTE]which platforms and genres you mostly collect?
 
Make friends with people at EA. The company store sells console games for $20 and PC games for $10. I've made $1000 just on Sims 3 these past two weeks.
 
[quote name='phear3d']which platforms and genres you mostly collect?[/QUOTE]

I get games for every platform. I've got at least five Lynx games, and I don't own a Lynx.

I collect every genre except sports, with an emphasis on RPGs. I've got so many bad ps2 RPGs.
 
[quote name='cranguy']Just curious, as a question of logic, how do you equate my being self-employed to not knowing how to do my own laundry?

Unnecessary belittling FTL. And you said I have the mentality of a 12-year-old?[/QUOTE]

:lol: I just meant that there is a difference between still living at home while "flipping for a living" and living on your own while "flipping for a living". If you are the latter, I don't see why you would take offense to that remark.
 
[quote name='karkyco']Okay now, seriously. STOP. Why did you even have to mention the glitch?!? Don't listen to darkslime, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He's making up nonsense. Seriously. It's a lie. Besides, you need to trade in every Madden on a particular system to get the glitch to work, so for PS2 you'd need Madden 2001-2009, all traded in at the same time, ALL of them have to be complete and mint (no refurbishing fees or it doesn't work) for the bonus glitch to activate and give you the bonus $24.90 per game. I got $200 in credit last week with it, but it's getting next to impossible to put together a complete set of mint Maddens to do this.[/QUOTE]

Yeah that's an amazing glitch, I made about $2000 in gamestop credit with it, try it out guys.
 
[quote name='Cheapass24']Yeah that's an amazing glitch, I made about $2000 in gamestop credit with it, try it out guys.[/QUOTE]

:whistle2:$ Let them do the legwork and find out about it themselves :whistle2:#
 
Title says it all what are some current games that can be flipped because
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The madden glitch worked at game crazy, back when they took classic games. Trick is, you had to have complete games, and only for Genesis, Saturn, PS2, and Madden 99 for N64. I got over $3,500 in one transaction. Too bad you can't do it anymore.
 
I know this thread is old, but I just got a chance to read it over for the first time and I wanted to put my 2 cents in.

The one thing that people tend to point out that bothers me most about their "anti-flipping" rants is that they will bring up one instance of a sale or a particular item, point out that their was no profit in that, and then claim there is no way we can make any money.

For example:

"Best Buy clearance sale games were 10.00 and they could be sold for 12.00" or something along those lines. And then there's the "Your town will dry up and you won't find anything". Ok, thanks for pointing that out as well. But the one thing you don't understand is that we are smarter than you.

Let me check out my purchases log for this month, yep, just as I expected...I've bought something EVERY SINGLE DAY of this month to resell. Places you'd think I'd buy from as well as places you'd never expect to look. Did I buy anything that I can only resell for a few bucks profit? Yes, I did. I spent roughly a grand on DVD box sets from Big Lots. Not worth it you say? Of course not, not right now. Once every fool who took his rent money for a quick flip sells theirs at cost, I'll be bundling some nice sets together and doing pretty well with them during the holidays.

Now, let's say that the biggest town near me has "run out" of deals. No biggie, because my purchasing range is much farther than that. I go from EDITED OUT TOWN NAMES (Let's say about a 150 mile radius), and many many places inbetween. A lot of gas huh? Must be losing money by driving so much huh? You'd think that, but then again, I'm smarter than you...because every trip out of town yields enough purchases to make some pretty sweet profit. And on top of that, the IRS lets me write of 55 cents per every mile that I drive.

You'd be amazed at the money that CAN be made doing this, I make so much that my wife quit her job so she could focus on school, AND we still save money, as well as live a pretty comfortable lifestyle. Can anyone do it? No, they can't, you pretty much have to eat, sleep and breathe reselling, because you have to be on TOP of the game or you'll miss a lot, or worse, you'll miss a new flipping source. You'd be surprised at where you can make some pretty sweet profit from...and as a little "teaser", I'll just say that out on my flip runs I usually stop by the grocery store. ;)

EDIT: One more thing. Flippers who tend to try and defend themselves often get called out for "being angry" or "starting trouble" or something along those lines, but keep in mind that we aren't the ones who initially start this. I have never once heard someone say "fuck those PLAYERS man, if it weren't for those PLAYERS I'd have bought all those games". We're usually laid back people, it's the other side that's full of animosity. So before you go calling a flipper "angry", remember, we're just defending ourselves. Kind of like if I walked up and punched you, and you fought back, and when the cops arrived I blamed it all on you...
 
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[quote name='Cmosfm']and as a little "teaser", I'll just say that out on my flip runs I usually stop by the grocery store. ;)[/QUOTE]

I totally agree with you on this. At the grocery store I work at, we sell factory returned DVDs for stupid cheap, and I'm sure these could be flipped for at least 3x price paid. I bought two seasons of the TMNT cartoon and a three disc set of Hulk Hogan's classic Thunder In Paradise for $4.00 each.
 
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