[quote name='contej85']Because you said it was a shame or whatever that someone who wanted the games to play would have to go on Ebay. People buying games JUST to play, don't care if there's a box/manual or whatever. Collectors and people who care about resale value and that sort of thing, care about that. This is ESPECIALLY true for pre-PSX games, where boxes were just paper and there was little reason to keep them around.[/quote]
Actually, aside from my Atari 2600 and it's multitude of games, I ALWAYS cared to keep my games complete and in mint shape. I wasn't one of those kids who tossed their games around like frisbees in the PS1 era or someone who left cart only games lying around the house. I always kept my games in their cases when not being played and I kept those cases in my closet or by my entertainment center stacked neatly.
When I find copies of the games to play now, I STILL look for the complete/mint or near mint copies, but if those are NOT available then I will begrudgingly take an incomplete copy.
I'm a 'sort of' collector, but without the checking Ebay to see if I'm getting a 'zomg rare' game. I collect games but I also do play them, if that makes any sense. Personally, I'd rather be able to find older games on CL without having to hit Ebay to snap up the games that some flipper took from someone from CL. That's why I said it's a damn shame, since someone like me might've wanted to play those games and would not have been thinking 'I wonder if I could make some $$$ on this game or that to make the rest of them 'free' '.
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ed by the Ebay assholes who come out of the woodwork and try to lowball them down to nothing and the high sellers get laughed at until they either drop their prices or remove their listing(s).
