[quote name='needler420']Like 99% of comics even from the golden and silver age are worthless.
Too many people bought comics thinking that will pay for their kids college in the future.
That same problem is coming to games.
You see a lot of people on CAG now talking about the value of games and the monetary gain. I do it myself. As well as the game hoarding. Sort of like my dad did with comics. The amount he had anyone could tell he couldn't have read them all. Plus with his lack of knowldge for the amount of comics he owned you could tell he was hoarding, buying by cover art, buying multiple dupes thinking value will go up etc. Everything i seen my dad do in the comic industry i see happening to the game industry.
The bad thing is my dad thought it would have a much higher return rate. Which it doesn't for what you spend thousands on you'll get back hundreds.
He learned the same lesson with sports trading cards. Spent thousands and got back hundreds. Part of it was being in the market while it was booming and thinking stuff like Mark and Sammy's rookie cards would go up in value from their battle on homeruns. Plus the market on trading cards died more then the others.[/QUOTE]
i certainly agree with you on cards. the trick is the sell them at the right moment. i sold off a ton of magic and yuigoh cards that dropped quite a bit in value and if i still had them theyd be worth less even now. i ended up getting back into the game for far cheaper and with a far bigger collection.
however like comics and games now. there are some really old comics that are worth a ton in new or sealed or whatever condition. there are a few games like that too. but you are right 98% of the games lose value and logically game hoarding isnt a valueable thing.
then again you are righ people collect all kinds of crap.
some games ive collected are worth a lot. some i got due to game hoarding. some due to i wanted to play and did play. and others are in the never ending backlog likely to never be played in a 1000 years and whatever kids i might end up having will have to sit through them because daddy was a game collector at some point same with those cards and whatever unknown crap ive collected.
then again i think im screwed genetically. my parents both possess a collecting trait of random crap. some of it due to the 5 kids. some of it due to who knows why....like my dads phone book collection which is quite impressive or his collection of old computer parts(he is 70 so let this sink in) and moms collection of old magazines and other stuff she intended too get to and use(like my game backlog lol) but at 67 is realizing she never will use any of this but getting too old to really deal with it.
and there is of course my grandparents. one of which could of been on hoarders the amount of trash he had collected. and the others just collecting lots and lots of stuff.
though thankfully im not like my sister who is in serious debt over this.
so i suppose i was genetically screwed to want to hoard something.
another sister im not sure if she is in debt over it or not.
another is a flipper of everything but video games which she apparently got from my mom who is no longer a flipper but this one sister can find something worth 200 dollars and get it for 5 dollars. seriously name something shell find it for 5 dollars. her deals are better than slick deals and i have no idea where she gets them. if there is a flipper master its this girl. and like a true flipper will hold onto it till the value goes back up and get a return or gift card of 100 dollars on something she paid 5 bucks for(5 bucks being expensive...)...how she does or where her sources are i dont know. she'd shame any of you flippers here lol.
my brother not really...though until he sold a bunch of dogs i think he could of been a dog hoarder he had like 8. but his wife i think wont stand for it she is the oppossite of hoarding. if it is of no value the trash it goes.
point of this rant??? i dont know just now realizing my family is a bunch of hoarding collectors and the only one we think are idiots in the bunch is the sister in debt lol. guess it explains my tendency to want to collect something...
ultimate point? almost none of this crap is worth anything anymore except a few oddball exceptions lol. i suppose i should learn my lesson and cancel my second copy preorder of xenoblade that im counting on a sealed one being worth a lot. though in all fairness xenoblade probably could be worth something limited print and all or maybe im just lieing to myself lol
Too many people bought comics thinking that will pay for their kids college in the future.
That same problem is coming to games.
You see a lot of people on CAG now talking about the value of games and the monetary gain. I do it myself. As well as the game hoarding. Sort of like my dad did with comics. The amount he had anyone could tell he couldn't have read them all. Plus with his lack of knowldge for the amount of comics he owned you could tell he was hoarding, buying by cover art, buying multiple dupes thinking value will go up etc. Everything i seen my dad do in the comic industry i see happening to the game industry.
The bad thing is my dad thought it would have a much higher return rate. Which it doesn't for what you spend thousands on you'll get back hundreds.
He learned the same lesson with sports trading cards. Spent thousands and got back hundreds. Part of it was being in the market while it was booming and thinking stuff like Mark and Sammy's rookie cards would go up in value from their battle on homeruns. Plus the market on trading cards died more then the others.[/QUOTE]
i certainly agree with you on cards. the trick is the sell them at the right moment. i sold off a ton of magic and yuigoh cards that dropped quite a bit in value and if i still had them theyd be worth less even now. i ended up getting back into the game for far cheaper and with a far bigger collection.
however like comics and games now. there are some really old comics that are worth a ton in new or sealed or whatever condition. there are a few games like that too. but you are right 98% of the games lose value and logically game hoarding isnt a valueable thing.
then again you are righ people collect all kinds of crap.
some games ive collected are worth a lot. some i got due to game hoarding. some due to i wanted to play and did play. and others are in the never ending backlog likely to never be played in a 1000 years and whatever kids i might end up having will have to sit through them because daddy was a game collector at some point same with those cards and whatever unknown crap ive collected.
then again i think im screwed genetically. my parents both possess a collecting trait of random crap. some of it due to the 5 kids. some of it due to who knows why....like my dads phone book collection which is quite impressive or his collection of old computer parts(he is 70 so let this sink in) and moms collection of old magazines and other stuff she intended too get to and use(like my game backlog lol) but at 67 is realizing she never will use any of this but getting too old to really deal with it.
and there is of course my grandparents. one of which could of been on hoarders the amount of trash he had collected. and the others just collecting lots and lots of stuff.
though thankfully im not like my sister who is in serious debt over this.
so i suppose i was genetically screwed to want to hoard something.
another sister im not sure if she is in debt over it or not.
another is a flipper of everything but video games which she apparently got from my mom who is no longer a flipper but this one sister can find something worth 200 dollars and get it for 5 dollars. seriously name something shell find it for 5 dollars. her deals are better than slick deals and i have no idea where she gets them. if there is a flipper master its this girl. and like a true flipper will hold onto it till the value goes back up and get a return or gift card of 100 dollars on something she paid 5 bucks for(5 bucks being expensive...)...how she does or where her sources are i dont know. she'd shame any of you flippers here lol.
my brother not really...though until he sold a bunch of dogs i think he could of been a dog hoarder he had like 8. but his wife i think wont stand for it she is the oppossite of hoarding. if it is of no value the trash it goes.
point of this rant??? i dont know just now realizing my family is a bunch of hoarding collectors and the only one we think are idiots in the bunch is the sister in debt lol. guess it explains my tendency to want to collect something...
ultimate point? almost none of this crap is worth anything anymore except a few oddball exceptions lol. i suppose i should learn my lesson and cancel my second copy preorder of xenoblade that im counting on a sealed one being worth a lot. though in all fairness xenoblade probably could be worth something limited print and all or maybe im just lieing to myself lol
Oh, could you post some pics of your ps2 and xbox games? you can't really make them out in the other pics.
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ing amazing deal in 5 seconds! You are a true CAG! You seriously deserve some sort of badge under your SN for that transaction 
