Yea, it's just a bad experience, there was a time at a pawn shop I found some pretty valuable 3ds games. There were no prices on their games and the guy at the counter didn't even know how to look up prices right so i sat there for like 20 minutes only for them to quote the higher sold listings of the games. It's just annoying as hell, wastes the customers time and will mostly just end up in people walking away.
We had a local "retro game store" open up and they had items priced but when you got to the counter they would look them up and changed them in the moment! Safe to say they aren't around anymore 😂
Our's isn't retro but their prices were 10-20 dollars higher on switch games. They're called EB Games but I call them Expenisive Buying Games because of obvious reasons
These are all my local pawnshops, been buying movies at these places for years. At 8:39 that dudes name is Bruce, he once told me his life story for 2 hours, but the prices are atrocious there.
Love your vids man. Brings me back to when I was young selling on eBay with my ma, going to resale stores. Clearance rack. Pawn shops . Flea markets. Anything we can make money off of. Not even about the money. The nostalgia feeling of it is the best. Going out and finding things you love, nothing better. Appreciate your vids brotha thank you. Love from Detroit
I think it's a bad policy for a store to manually look up each price before a sale. I certainly can understand why they do, the prices on games jump around A LOT. But it rubs customers the wrong way. Its just not what they expect or are used to. You wanna browse the store and see the prices and then talk about the ones that could make sense for you. Not watch them do inventory. You're sending the message "doing business with me isn't gonna easy. Let alone fun"
Yeah very stupid to put in all that work just to make a couple bucks you would have missed yesterday because the game jumped a couple bucks over night comes off as very picky and it wastes a whole lot of time that customers would be more willing to take there time and money else where so they can just buy there stuff and leave I mean what they do in there place is on them but being very boring and picky about prices like this is a very good way turn away customers so not very smart business sense at all that's for sure
They are doing the same thing he is doing for all we know they have an only store or place them online also. It's wrong for a business to make money but not the random guy buying things and selling them for a higher price the same day?
Pretty hypocritical of a reseller complaining about shops looking up prices when he himself looks up prices in front of them in order to sell for higher online.
@@nazunaaaaaa Here's the thing. If I want to pay ebay and amazon prices, I'll fucking go to ebay or amazon. I'm not going to a garage sale or pawn shop to pay online pricing, I'm there for a deal. Even aside from resellers, this is incredibly inconvenient for your customers in general, people like knowing what the hell something costs before bringing it up.
Looking stuff up at the register ruins the point of a pawn shop, a pawn shop (from what I've experienced) is a place to find hidden gems for a good deal!
This video was in my hometown! Super cool seeing you visit all these spots that I go to for all my gamecube games! That mega replay kills! Much love brother
I've been watching your resale guides again. They are really helpful. Thanks Caleb!!! You've definitely helped. Forget the haters you really seem to be genuine in your desire to help. Please make some more guides.
Caleb, I’m right there with you. I have a local video game place that hosts birthday parties but also sells video games. I finally made my way in there and same bs. They don’t have any games priced. I asked the worker and he told me to bring up the games I want and he’s let me know the price. Ahhh, no! That’s a major inconvenience to customers and part of my interest in a game is based on how it’s priced. It’s a turnoff. I turned around and walked out of the store and won’t be back. Kinda stupid on their part because they’re definitely losing business.
There’s a local store near me that looks up the prices and basically gives out the highest eBay listing regardless of condition. Needless to say I don’t shop there anymore
@@TupacShakur69 It's so funny that people don't realize the reason why this is happening is because of flippers like this dude. Video game prices are way to volatile right now it would be stupid to not look up every single game you're trying to sell. It takes 5 seconds per game and could cost the store 10's to 100s of dollars depending on the market.
@@seemlesslies I’ve seen other people also say reseller “caused this” and made stores start looking up prices to avoid losses but I still don’t understand how. If resellers are making the market more volatile how could stores lose money if they don’t look up prices before a sale? Even if they sold it for lower than market price they would still be making money if they sold it for more than they got. Yes they wouldn’t be making the highest amount possible off the sale but they wouldn’t actually be losing anything. Or am I missing something here?
@@aln2419 Because that's just not how business works. Also people are MUCH more sensitive to losing money than they are to gaining it. For instance if you think you sold someone for a fair price today, but found out a day or two later it was worth double it sits really poorly. I think you're under the impression that these gaming companies are your friend and want to give you good deals. They are businesses (most of them honestly struggling to keep above water), and they have realized these assholes will come into their store with a smile on their face and rip them off and then go post videos online and you expect these store owners to just be like ehhhh it was only 20 dollars.......
@@seemlesslies yes I know that how businesses work(apparently better than you) but to claim someone is getting ripped of or that they are losing money if false. If I bought a stock from someone and it goes up in price did I rip someone off? Did they lose any money? You can say you dislike what they are doing but you can’t say the the store is losing money from in or they’re getting ripped off. them making the market more volatile actually makes it possible for these stores to make more money. If a store sells a product under value no one has ripped them off and they haven’t lost a cent if they made more than what they bought it for. All I expect is for stores to be smart enough to price their products correctly instead of searching it up when you get there. Obviously it’s their right to do business how they want but most consumers don’t like these type of business practices.
I just started watching your videos and I'm hooked and craving more gamecube gambit. I don't resell, I just collect but it's still satisfying to see you find awesome stuff.
100% agree with you on the shop looking up prices! A local game store a deal with has certain employees that will look up the game when you go to check out and say oh this is higher than it's priced we didn't update it. I'm a big believer in priced as marked. They also go behind you and look at titles you picked up and looked at and change prices on them.
Game store I went to said anything with an orange sticker is old price and they’d have to look up the new price while EVERYTHING had an orange sticker on it. PokeMon coliseum bonus disc was 150 with an orange sticker and after this woman made a phone call she said it be 500. I’m a believer it’s a way to launder money somehow because no chance they make any sales
@@lennydoeswalkthrough mines even worse all their stickers still look the same but they will cross it out in pen and write it in by hand! It's like Everytime a price moves they cross it out when you get up to pay and go oh it's more..... Never price it under when it goes down though and Its only certain employees not all of them weird.
I mean if they pay out based on looking it up and selling it for max, I have no issue. But if they pay based on a fixed price, they should fix the mark up and be done with it. That's how both ways work. Don't mix the two. So he should have tried to pawn something to see how fair they were.
@@petek7217 Exactly! I don't mind if they are unmarked then look it up that's on them I mean it's not a great business model imo but to each their own. If they want to mark up do it after or before store opens check some of the titles and mark them. Don't have it priced then I get up to check out and go oh that's not right this went up now it's higher.
That first levs used to be a great place to pickup retro, but they recently started marking stuff at ebay price. The other lev's had a Cheetahmen II cart that another local collector got for an amazing deal.
yeah, star wars rogue squadron 2 was definitely one of the games I played most back as a kid and I always enjoyed it so I'm glad to see you add it to the collection. I definitely think it deserves a spot. Also, you should have picked up shrek 2, I played a lot of that for some reason, so even though I'm sure it's awful, it holds a special place in my heart.
Really wish there was more stores like this in south FL (Miami, etc.) big businesses are king down here and the pawn shops straight up blow. Regardless if there was anything good in a pawn, goodwill, etc. the competition and hustle down here is insane. Impossible to find stuff like this as often as you do.
Two local game stores look up prices during checkout even if there's a price tag on the game. It's really annoying. I looked up the rule on this and apparently, businesses can do this. I agree with you that it does rub customers the wrong way. I prefer not to go to these stores.
That's odd, I thought the department of weights and measures rule was that a product MUST be sold for the price stated on it. I have used this rule to get a sphero r2d2 from kohl's for 50.00 acouple years ago, as well as items from target and frys Electronics. Kohls had stated the price to me over the phone and held it for me, I had to request a store manager to get it. On target it was for a Air cleaner and they had the wrong price on the end cap and on the box, upon checkout they said it was 300.00, but I asked for a manager and had taken a pic to show him which helped because they'd sent someone to check and he lied about the price and changed it but he didn't know it had the pic. Frys electronic were Jenks and didn't want to sell a 10.00 camera stand for like 7.00, the manager blew me off, I wrote a email to the store manager and also the az dept of weights n measures who faulted frys for shenanigans having items on a end cap or sticker but selling for more. This was all like 8 years ago but I can't imagine it's changed much.
I won't buy from stories like that. Part of going to these stores to get under pricecharting- finding that gem that you can afford. No point if they are using pricecharting or ebay for every single game every single time. Nope
the reason sonic adventure dx has no camera control was due to it being a dreamcast port which had only one analog stick. still a great game even though tons of people think it hasn't aged well. for a game that was trying to be that advanced in 99 i think it still holds up, assuming you are used to playing older games.
Stumbled across your channel for the first time. Stopped when you said going up into Indiana and figured you were from Kentucky and would never make it to Fort Wayne. I paused the video at the Lev's pawn stop showing the Clinton St. sign thinking that was the one here in Fort Wayne. Indeed you did make it to north east In. in Fort Wayne. I hope you enjoyed our city.
I think having to look up prices because they are not pricing items is wrong. I'll pretty much never buy from those kind of sellers. Usually a waste of time, overpriced and no deals to be found
Love seeing you in my home town of Fort Wayne! I definitely need to check out the pawn shops around here. Mega replay is real hit or miss and besides that it’s a desert for retro games up here.
Seeing the Mega Replay location I go to is so weird feeling. Because I'd never expect to see anyone actually recording it or even go in there from so far out
10,000% agree with your frustration on the pawn shop looking up all their prices. Like you said, it's their right to do that. However, I can almost guarantee that they did not do that when they bought in the games from whoever sold them to the pawn shop. If you're going to charge full price for things (and basically be a game store), you better be competitive when you buy games in, and you better have a money-back guarantee that everything you sell is tested, working, and authentic. Otherwise, I will not support you by buying anything from you, knowing that you most likely paid pennies for it and are selling things as-is. That is just... unethical behavior, in my opinion.
My local game stores don’t price anything out. Anything I’m interested in I ask to ask and they look up the price online. It’s happening a lot more especially with garage sales, everyone wants ebay prices but are not willing to put in the work.
happy to see you going for gamecube a collection :D I would love to have a full collecttion of that and the n64 and have been working hard to obtain it :D about 6 years ago i had 2 orange spice gamecubes imported from japan(one CIB) and found a XD lugia variant GC at a yardsale. I start working for a collectable toy and video game store next week doing console repairs and i think itll be great to have first dibs on what comes in. Super stoked. Loved the vid
Sonic Adventure DX is one of my top ten favorite games of all time. Love the different gameplay styles each character selection offers, and to me at least, the story is great. Regarding the pricing issues, there's a reason you are suppose to look up the price of the game then put it on the shelf. Buyers will feel cheated if you have constantly fluxuating pricing that moves with the market at a moment's notice. You will kill a business by doing that. Look for the profit margins that you are willing to maintain before putting it out on the shelves. If you wish to do inventory, do it when no one is in the store. Even more so when you are a thrift store. You have to realize that most of your buyer pool are second hand sellers themselves. You won't be able to sell yourself if you price at full market value.
my number one suggestion has to be Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Not one that you can get a full feel for just by playing 30 mins. The mindfucks barely start by then. But it's a game where if you leave it paused to long it starts playing tricks on you. Going black screen to think your TV shut off. Playing a cinematic of your character being attacked making you think that it unpaused somehow. I think there's one point where if you leave it paused too long the screen starts Dripping blood. Those are just the pause screen features to mess with you head. On top of that I thought the story was above par. The atmosphere of creepiness holds throughout majority of the game.
It kills me when these stores and sellers think theyre so smart by pricing like that. That's not how you move inventory. You price like that if you wanna accumulate inventory smh lol
Still puts fighters 20 years later to shame with the awesome content in that game. I don't get why a Team Battle equivalent isn't in modern fighters, we used to have 10 people playing in a single match with that.
Bro I just got into your videos and I recently watched this video today. I saw familiar places in the video and then I realized you were around Fort Wayne. I never thought you would come all the way over here! Happy to see that my area gets some love haha. Good luck with your gamecube gambit bro, hope you achieve it!
Your 200% right on that pawn shop, if your going to look up ebay price then sell it there! Makes no sense they payed next to nothing on those, so yea man your in the right, I would have walked
I had the same thing happen to me several times as far as me buying some real nice bly-rarys and they gave them to me dirt cheap. They are trying to clear some rack space so right now during the pandemic when sales for them are slow is the best time to go out and get some deals.
I can't stand it when I go to a shop, especially actual video game stores, and nothing is priced. There's a place not far from me that has a really nice selection of stuff but I seldom go there specifically because I know every game is just getting looked up. I dont mind paying a fair price it just feels like a tremendous waste of time and a bad retail experience.
Personally I don't mind if a place looks the prices up at the register since they are trying to maximize the most out of their investment, and I wouldn't complain myself especially if I was openly looking up prices on my phone to maximize what profits I could make. To each their own, enjoying the series and keep up the great work.
@@VideInfra You missed his point. Not labelling games with prices and instead looking up prices when customers ask for it is an inconvenience to the customer because it's a time waste just so that the store doesn't lose out on a couple bucks. What he does is not the same because it uses up no one's time but his own.
@@Vanguardmetrics I totally agree & im not a reseller I just buy games for myself. I thought the store looking up the prices in front of the customer was pretty odd. Might as well just buy the games online. Although the store isn’t wrong for doing that, they have every right. Maybe they should just be prepared & have games individually priced/labeled already.
Even not from a reseller's perspective it is annoying as a customer if you see a lot of games you want and then they have to one by one search them for price, It also doesn't really make sense since if you are a collector you still want deals or else you would be spending your money on ebay since it is more convenient than going to a pawn shop.
soul caliber with the gamecube special edition with link was one of the sickest crossovers they ever did! he was a complete badass in that game and the only player I would use since the others were to gore or dressed too sexy
Pawn shops, even some game stores now, not pricing their games because they're too lazy to price update and want to maximize profit is the WORST THING POSSIBLE. They want to make ALL the money with NONE of the work at the expense of the customer's experience. They want to price at market? COOL. Then price at market but that whole "we'll look them up at the counter" is SHITTY AF. I even saw a game store in Florida that priced games but had signs up that they're going to relook them up at the counter to adjust for market value.....THEN WHY ARE YOU PRICING?!?!?
Caleb, I get that it's annoying but you can't get upset that you can't take advantage of every store pricing stuff below market. Those stores don't exist for you. Be happy when opportunity strikes and remember you are going to strike out more times that you hit a home run.
Great content man! Just came over from Hairy Tornado shouting you out in his most recent live video. Very well done video and great ad lol the scream part. New subscriber here, looking forward to checking out more of your videos! 👍🔥
The “store looking up prices” issue is always kinda hypocritical of resell channels. If someone sells at fair value, it’s always “WHY DON’T THEY SELL ONLINE THEMSELVES”. But if they sell ridiculous cheap, it’s always “HAHA THEY DIDN’T KNOW THE VALUE AND NOW I CAN MAKE $$$$”. Like the pawn shops have a store they pay rent and employees just like a reseller has their own fees/costs. If you don’t like it, don’t buy anything geez. Not all stores are built for reselling. Sometimes as a collector, you can still get deals by saving on delivery and seeing the condition right away. I think Phoenix did well. Buying a game and moving on. Let stores run their business however they want and the customers will decide if they survive.
That whole “let me look up the price” was absolutely disgraceful. You are a 100% right on it being a inconvenience to the customer. What’s the point of having a storefront if you’re going to run it like that. They Might as well save the rent money and have a online store.
Damn wish I would of new your were in Fort Wayne. That my home town and were I'm living at. Was cool seeing you go to places I go to all the time. Are mega replay it awsome. Also you came when they were remodeling the outside of that shopping center.
The ULTIMATE channel to inspire you to do some late night spending! I've spent £250 so far.... Thanks!... GameCube is quite possibly my favourite console of all time, I've got the uncommon Panasonic Q.
I actually disagree- I think the pawn shop has every right to sell its games at a competitive price. Video game prices fluctuate all the time. To me, good on them for pricing efficiently!
I second this, they have a business to run and although it may be inconvenient depending on the method they use they’re trying to sell their products at market price.
I think a pawn shop should have eBay/Amazon policy if they wanna price the same. Amazon delivers it to your door and gives a 30 day free return policy for any reason. So shipping, game quality (selling games in mint condition) and return protection is all baked into the price. So if a pawn shop looked up prices and marked everything 30% less then eBay that would likely be a more accurate price of the actual value of that game.
@@KyleEvans09 this is true. Can't sell in person and expect to get retail. And if you price your inventory close to retail they're just gonna sit.......and sit...till they finally mark them down reasonably.
@@KyleEvans09 Amazon games are not always in "mint condition". Look at the descriptions and see some of the garbage that gets offloaded on amazon even as FBA. You get to see what you are buying at the pawn shop so they don't owe you a lower price.
Lev's used to be amazing about 2 years ago. I don't even bother going there anymore. Awesome to see you running around my home town. Next time swing by my small store in Columbia City IN, Legacy Games llc. It's about 25 min away from where you are in this video.
Your complaining about pawn shops looking up prices & setting individual prices... You do the same crap when you sell them back on Amazon or ebay...?? I get it you don't own a shop/store but that's still not an excuse. I get some places price differently but those are the shops that don't bother lossing or researching their products. I'm all for your channel but let's be real to. Merry Christmas 🌲.
Bro money is the goal id be mad if I invest in something and I don’t get the return I want because people learn more about it. It’s fucked up but I care about myself I’ll rip 100 people off before I lose out on money myself
@@rapetrane You said it yourself investing on something you bought brand new & with time being worth more Absolutely get your $$$ back and some!! Hell yeah! But to go inside someone business & question the way they price their own stuff as your scanning stuff on your phone on other websites (which obviously online will be cheaper) Now that hypocritical. Here's the answer if it's not priced at your liking just walk away...I enjoy watching his videos but some days you win some. Others you loose some.
I have a semi-local retro reseller shop around that does the pricing at the end by looking it up. However he's very straightforward with you and will look up the prices with you. Once he sees the average selling cost of whatever item in whatever condition, he will then knock some money off that price (usually 10-15%) and throws bundle deals/discounts left and right. The process is a little annoying, but I do enjoy knowing he's not over or under selling an item. It can cause some delays when there's numerous people in there, but you can tell he just wants to make sure everyone is happy with the pricing. I walked out of there with Pikmin 1&2 for GC, Doom long box and Final Doom for PS1, Doom 64, and a few other smaller games I don't remember all in really great CIB condition for under $140 and he threw in this cool Doom tin lunchbox since I'm a Doom nerd. Additionally because it's a 45 minute drive to his store he always tosses in freebies, discounts, etc. just for making the drive and supporting his business.
I disagree on your thoughts of them taking out a game and then looking up the price. This counters them from being rip offed. Exactly who you ripped off with those people at that sale with the Pikachu 3DS XL for 40. That was scummy of you and could have given more than that. So in my opinion they can look up the value before giving you the price. Retail or not. Resellers these days are becoming more of jobs and there are people putting an end to it. So don’t be too surprised if you see this happening. Love your vids.
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. It would be silly to say pawn shops should never look up their inventory. It’s impossible to run any kind of resale business without doing that. What you shouldn’t do is wait to look something up until a customer wants to buy it. Inconveniencing customers over nickels and dimes is what bothers me.
Proud of myself that I was able to immediately recognize that TY case at the beginning of the video without me even paying much attention to it or even trying to recognize games.
Nice pick ups. I remember playing the demo for Sonic Adventures on the Dreamcast lots of fun there. I still say if you haven't gotten Luigi's Mansion get in that collection. And places pricing close to online or above I say knowledge is power. In this climate of uncertainty sometimes if you feel you need to maximize it, otherwise to sell for less so move that inventory.
Bro! I actually thought you almost got hit with the little truck clip LOL I had to rewind it. Decided to go back into reselling again. Probably don't remember but I had that issue with Amazon FBA losing all my stuff and was out a good chuck of change. Decided to do merchant fulfilled only.
Looking stuff up at the register is an awful policy not just for resellers.
Yea, it's just a bad experience, there was a time at a pawn shop I found some pretty valuable 3ds games. There were no prices on their games and the guy at the counter didn't even know how to look up prices right so i sat there for like 20 minutes only for them to quote the higher sold listings of the games. It's just annoying as hell, wastes the customers time and will mostly just end up in people walking away.
Trust me it gets alot worse, every store in England has everything priced at, around or above market value.
Same for some shoe stores
Yeah agreed. The ONLY pawn shop near me does this and I HATE it
That's when you just walk away
We had a local "retro game store" open up and they had items priced but when you got to the counter they would look them up and changed them in the moment! Safe to say they aren't around anymore 😂
Our's isn't retro but their prices were 10-20 dollars higher on switch games. They're called EB Games but I call them Expenisive Buying Games because of obvious reasons
These are all my local pawnshops, been buying movies at these places for years. At 8:39 that dudes name is Bruce, he once told me his life story for 2 hours, but the prices are atrocious there.
Love your vids man. Brings me back to when I was young selling on eBay with my ma, going to resale stores. Clearance rack. Pawn shops . Flea markets. Anything we can make money off of. Not even about the money. The nostalgia feeling of it is the best. Going out and finding things you love, nothing better. Appreciate your vids brotha thank you. Love from Detroit
I think it's a bad policy for a store to manually look up each price before a sale. I certainly can understand why they do, the prices on games jump around A LOT. But it rubs customers the wrong way. Its just not what they expect or are used to. You wanna browse the store and see the prices and then talk about the ones that could make sense for you. Not watch them do inventory. You're sending the message "doing business with me isn't gonna easy. Let alone fun"
Agreed
Yeah very stupid to put in all that work just to make a couple bucks you would have missed yesterday because the game jumped a couple bucks over night comes off as very picky and it wastes a whole lot of time that customers would be more willing to take there time and money else where so they can just buy there stuff and leave I mean what they do in there place is on them but being very boring and picky about prices like this is a very good way turn away customers so not very smart business sense at all that's for sure
Yes and it makes us not go to stores but buy it online instead. Store owners shoot their self in the foot like this
They are doing the same thing he is doing for all we know they have an only store or place them online also. It's wrong for a business to make money but not the random guy buying things and selling them for a higher price the same day?
Let him have a taste of his own medicine smh…
I find it annoying when they look up prices. I agree with you on this one. There’s a difference from retail and online.
Pretty hypocritical of a reseller complaining about shops looking up prices when he himself looks up prices in front of them in order to sell for higher online.
@@nazunaaaaaa LMAO fax
@@nazunaaaaaa exactly lmao like they’re both doing the same thing just one is at a shop front and the other is online. Regardless it’s reselling
@@nazunaaaaaa Here's the thing. If I want to pay ebay and amazon prices, I'll fucking go to ebay or amazon. I'm not going to a garage sale or pawn shop to pay online pricing, I'm there for a deal. Even aside from resellers, this is incredibly inconvenient for your customers in general, people like knowing what the hell something costs before bringing it up.
@@TachibanaTengoku lame af
Looking stuff up at the register ruins the point of a pawn shop, a pawn shop (from what I've experienced) is a place to find hidden gems for a good deal!
This video was in my hometown! Super cool seeing you visit all these spots that I go to for all my gamecube games! That mega replay kills! Much love brother
Merry Christmas Everyone!
You too man
@@duncangt5604 you have a merry Christmas too
Merry Christmas!
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That shot of you adding the game to the collection was just beautiful
I've been watching your resale guides again. They are really helpful. Thanks Caleb!!! You've definitely helped. Forget the haters you really seem to be genuine in your desire to help. Please make some more guides.
Caleb, I’m right there with you. I have a local video game place that hosts birthday parties but also sells video games. I finally made my way in there and same bs. They don’t have any games priced. I asked the worker and he told me to bring up the games I want and he’s let me know the price. Ahhh, no! That’s a major inconvenience to customers and part of my interest in a game is based on how it’s priced. It’s a turnoff. I turned around and walked out of the store and won’t be back. Kinda stupid on their part because they’re definitely losing business.
I won a copy of pac man world 3 in an auction for $17 recently! I was surprised it was really a $50-70 game on ebay!
Oh wow that’s awesome
There’s a local store near me that looks up the prices and basically gives out the highest eBay listing regardless of condition. Needless to say I don’t shop there anymore
You can thank resellers like this guy for that.
@@TupacShakur69 It's so funny that people don't realize the reason why this is happening is because of flippers like this dude. Video game prices are way to volatile right now it would be stupid to not look up every single game you're trying to sell. It takes 5 seconds per game and could cost the store 10's to 100s of dollars depending on the market.
@@seemlesslies I’ve seen other people also say reseller “caused this” and made stores start looking up prices to avoid losses but I still don’t understand how. If resellers are making the market more volatile how could stores lose money if they don’t look up prices before a sale? Even if they sold it for lower than market price they would still be making money if they sold it for more than they got. Yes they wouldn’t be making the highest amount possible off the sale but they wouldn’t actually be losing anything. Or am I missing something here?
@@aln2419 Because that's just not how business works. Also people are MUCH more sensitive to losing money than they are to gaining it. For instance if you think you sold someone for a fair price today, but found out a day or two later it was worth double it sits really poorly.
I think you're under the impression that these gaming companies are your friend and want to give you good deals. They are businesses (most of them honestly struggling to keep above water), and they have realized these assholes will come into their store with a smile on their face and rip them off and then go post videos online and you expect these store owners to just be like ehhhh it was only 20 dollars.......
@@seemlesslies yes I know that how businesses work(apparently better than you) but to claim someone is getting ripped of or that they are losing money if false. If I bought a stock from someone and it goes up in price did I rip someone off? Did they lose any money? You can say you dislike what they are doing but you can’t say the the store is losing money from in or they’re getting ripped off. them making the market more volatile actually makes it possible for these stores to make more money. If a store sells a product under value no one has ripped them off and they haven’t lost a cent if they made more than what they bought it for. All I expect is for stores to be smart enough to price their products correctly instead of searching it up when you get there. Obviously it’s their right to do business how they want but most consumers don’t like these type of business practices.
I just started watching your videos and I'm hooked and craving more gamecube gambit. I don't resell, I just collect but it's still satisfying to see you find awesome stuff.
Love seeing you come to my area!! “Oh I’ve been there!!!!” It’s like I’m shopping for treasures with you!!!
MAN...that last pickup was MONEY!
100% agree with you on the shop looking up prices! A local game store a deal with has certain employees that will look up the game when you go to check out and say oh this is higher than it's priced we didn't update it. I'm a big believer in priced as marked. They also go behind you and look at titles you picked up and looked at and change prices on them.
Game store I went to said anything with an orange sticker is old price and they’d have to look up the new price while EVERYTHING had an orange sticker on it. PokeMon coliseum bonus disc was 150 with an orange sticker and after this woman made a phone call she said it be 500. I’m a believer it’s a way to launder money somehow because no chance they make any sales
@@lennydoeswalkthrough mines even worse all their stickers still look the same but they will cross it out in pen and write it in by hand! It's like Everytime a price moves they cross it out when you get up to pay and go oh it's more..... Never price it under when it goes down though and Its only certain employees not all of them weird.
I mean if they pay out based on looking it up and selling it for max, I have no issue. But if they pay based on a fixed price, they should fix the mark up and be done with it. That's how both ways work. Don't mix the two.
So he should have tried to pawn something to see how fair they were.
@@petek7217 Exactly! I don't mind if they are unmarked then look it up that's on them I mean it's not a great business model imo but to each their own. If they want to mark up do it after or before store opens check some of the titles and mark them. Don't have it priced then I get up to check out and go oh that's not right this went up now it's higher.
@@pokenoodlepacks yeah, that's more like it. Price it daily... I retract half my intent from my statement.
Always love how you flip and collect at the same time
There is nothing quite like finding games not priced yet! So sweet!
Not gonna lie...its more fun to watch when your hunting collection pieces. Have fun with those pick ups and keep up the great new series!
I was a tester on GameCube Sonic Heroes.....glad you picked that one!
That first levs used to be a great place to pickup retro, but they recently started marking stuff at ebay price. The other lev's had a Cheetahmen II cart that another local collector got for an amazing deal.
yeah, star wars rogue squadron 2 was definitely one of the games I played most back as a kid and I always enjoyed it so I'm glad to see you add it to the collection. I definitely think it deserves a spot. Also, you should have picked up shrek 2, I played a lot of that for some reason, so even though I'm sure it's awful, it holds a special place in my heart.
I have to admit the truck jumpscare actually got me
It is awesome to see you in Fort Wayne hitting the pawn shops. Merry Christmas
I was about to say the same thing. I was like that looks like the forts mega!
Yep! I stop at that mega replay at least 3 times a week! Really good prices when you find the right games!
Happy to see other Fort Wayne peeps watching!
One video and I'm in love with this series. Subbed!
Yes, that Crazy Taxi brings memories. Love that game with those epic music tracks.
Really wish there was more stores like this in south FL (Miami, etc.) big businesses are king down here and the pawn shops straight up blow. Regardless if there was anything good in a pawn, goodwill, etc. the competition and hustle down here is insane. Impossible to find stuff like this as often as you do.
I absolutely understand this man - super annoying when I lived in Miami
Two local game stores look up prices during checkout even if there's a price tag on the game. It's really annoying. I looked up the rule on this and apparently, businesses can do this. I agree with you that it does rub customers the wrong way. I prefer not to go to these stores.
That's odd, I thought the department of weights and measures rule was that a product MUST be sold for the price stated on it. I have used this rule to get a sphero r2d2 from kohl's for 50.00 acouple years ago, as well as items from target and frys Electronics. Kohls had stated the price to me over the phone and held it for me, I had to request a store manager to get it. On target it was for a Air cleaner and they had the wrong price on the end cap and on the box, upon checkout they said it was 300.00, but I asked for a manager and had taken a pic to show him which helped because they'd sent someone to check and he lied about the price and changed it but he didn't know it had the pic. Frys electronic were Jenks and didn't want to sell a 10.00 camera stand for like 7.00, the manager blew me off, I wrote a email to the store manager and also the az dept of weights n measures who faulted frys for shenanigans having items on a end cap or sticker but selling for more. This was all like 8 years ago but I can't imagine it's changed much.
I won't buy from stories like that. Part of going to these stores to get under pricecharting- finding that gem that you can afford. No point if they are using pricecharting or ebay for every single game every single time. Nope
Good Ole Fort Wayne! Been to that Cash America and the Game Quest down the street! Cool to see familiar places in videos! Great vid!
Ur youtube is awesome been looking for diffrent pace in videos im bout to binge watch ur old videos
Merry Christmas 🎄 Everyone 😊 Great video
the reason sonic adventure dx has no camera control was due to it being a dreamcast port which had only one analog stick. still a great game even though tons of people think it hasn't aged well. for a game that was trying to be that advanced in 99 i think it still holds up, assuming you are used to playing older games.
I've beaten Mario 64 multiple times, I can handle it
Stumbled across your channel for the first time. Stopped when you said going up into Indiana and figured you were from Kentucky and would never make it to Fort Wayne. I paused the video at the Lev's pawn stop showing the Clinton St. sign thinking that was the one here in Fort Wayne. Indeed you did make it to north east In. in Fort Wayne. I hope you enjoyed our city.
I can't believe you passed on the greatest game ever made. Shrek 2. I still have my copy and it's priceless to me.
Caleb, if you were to take amazon out of the picture and only sell on ebay, Facebook marketplace, mercari, ect. How well do you think you'd do?
Not as well
Just came across your page. What app do you use to scan the games when researching resell value
he uses the Amazon app since he sells on Amazon , you can do it on the eBay app too just scan the barcode on there
what app
Paper Mario thousand year door is my favorite GameCube game and holds up beautifully imo. Most others I've gone back to didn't hold up.
Just found your channel, love the content bro. Enter the matrix was my favourite GC game. Much Love from the UK
I think having to look up prices because they are not pricing items is wrong. I'll pretty much never buy from those kind of sellers. Usually a waste of time, overpriced and no deals to be found
this series is probably my favorite on the channel
Love seeing you in my home town of Fort Wayne! I definitely need to check out the pawn shops around here. Mega replay is real hit or miss and besides that it’s a desert for retro games up here.
Seeing the Mega Replay location I go to is so weird feeling. Because I'd never expect to see anyone actually recording it or even go in there from so far out
10,000% agree with your frustration on the pawn shop looking up all their prices. Like you said, it's their right to do that. However, I can almost guarantee that they did not do that when they bought in the games from whoever sold them to the pawn shop. If you're going to charge full price for things (and basically be a game store), you better be competitive when you buy games in, and you better have a money-back guarantee that everything you sell is tested, working, and authentic. Otherwise, I will not support you by buying anything from you, knowing that you most likely paid pennies for it and are selling things as-is. That is just... unethical behavior, in my opinion.
My local game stores don’t price anything out. Anything I’m interested in I ask to ask and they look up the price online. It’s happening a lot more especially with garage sales, everyone wants ebay prices but are not willing to put in the work.
Lmfao big facts!!!
happy to see you going for gamecube a collection :D I would love to have a full collecttion of that and the n64 and have been working hard to obtain it :D about 6 years ago i had 2 orange spice gamecubes imported from japan(one CIB) and found a XD lugia variant GC at a yardsale. I start working for a collectable toy and video game store next week doing console repairs and i think itll be great to have first dibs on what comes in. Super stoked. Loved the vid
Sonic Adventure DX is one of my top ten favorite games of all time. Love the different gameplay styles each character selection offers, and to me at least, the story is great. Regarding the pricing issues, there's a reason you are suppose to look up the price of the game then put it on the shelf. Buyers will feel cheated if you have constantly fluxuating pricing that moves with the market at a moment's notice. You will kill a business by doing that. Look for the profit margins that you are willing to maintain before putting it out on the shelves. If you wish to do inventory, do it when no one is in the store. Even more so when you are a thrift store. You have to realize that most of your buyer pool are second hand sellers themselves. You won't be able to sell yourself if you price at full market value.
Id be annoyed if they have to look up prices.
my number one suggestion has to be Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Not one that you can get a full feel for just by playing 30 mins. The mindfucks barely start by then. But it's a game where if you leave it paused to long it starts playing tricks on you. Going black screen to think your TV shut off. Playing a cinematic of your character being attacked making you think that it unpaused somehow. I think there's one point where if you leave it paused too long the screen starts Dripping blood. Those are just the pause screen features to mess with you head. On top of that I thought the story was above par. The atmosphere of creepiness holds throughout majority of the game.
Stop cursing its a sin.................
Man your video quality has gotten better and better. Really love the improvement bro
Haha I was working when you came through. Glad you enjoyed our store!
It kills me when these stores and sellers think theyre so smart by pricing like that. That's not how you move inventory. You price like that if you wanna accumulate inventory smh lol
Soul Caliber 2 should’ve been on the list. It’s such a fun party style fighter. So good
Still puts fighters 20 years later to shame with the awesome content in that game. I don't get why a Team Battle equivalent isn't in modern fighters, we used to have 10 people playing in a single match with that.
The first minute of this was DIVINE
Bro I just got into your videos and I recently watched this video today. I saw familiar places in the video and then I realized you were around Fort Wayne. I never thought you would come all the way over here! Happy to see that my area gets some love haha. Good luck with your gamecube gambit bro, hope you achieve it!
Bro why you get salty when they are doing the same hustle your doing.
Your 200% right on that pawn shop, if your going to look up ebay price then sell it there! Makes no sense they payed next to nothing on those, so yea man your in the right, I would have walked
Another solid video! Love the series.
I had the same thing happen to me several times as far as me buying some real nice bly-rarys and they gave them to me dirt cheap. They are trying to clear some rack space so right now during the pandemic when sales for them are slow is the best time to go out and get some deals.
I can't stand it when I go to a shop, especially actual video game stores, and nothing is priced. There's a place not far from me that has a really nice selection of stuff but I seldom go there specifically because I know every game is just getting looked up. I dont mind paying a fair price it just feels like a tremendous waste of time and a bad retail experience.
Personally I don't mind if a place looks the prices up at the register since they are trying to maximize the most out of their investment, and I wouldn't complain myself especially if I was openly looking up prices on my phone to maximize what profits I could make. To each their own, enjoying the series and keep up the great work.
Yes! He literally does the same to them in front of them.
He really resells and says how a store can sell a game to close to resell value. Might be a bit bias from him
@@VideInfra You missed his point. Not labelling games with prices and instead looking up prices when customers ask for it is an inconvenience to the customer because it's a time waste just so that the store doesn't lose out on a couple bucks. What he does is not the same because it uses up no one's time but his own.
@@Vanguardmetrics I totally agree & im not a reseller I just buy games for myself. I thought the store looking up the prices in front of the customer was pretty odd. Might as well just buy the games online. Although the store isn’t wrong for doing that, they have every right. Maybe they should just be prepared & have games individually priced/labeled already.
Even not from a reseller's perspective it is annoying as a customer if you see a lot of games you want and then they have to one by one search them for price, It also doesn't really make sense since if you are a collector you still want deals or else you would be spending your money on ebay since it is more convenient than going to a pawn shop.
soul caliber with the gamecube special edition with link was one of the sickest crossovers they ever did! he was a complete badass in that game and the only player I would use since the others were to gore or dressed too sexy
Hell yeah. So glad you went back and got gems. What a score from mega replay
Pawn shops, even some game stores now, not pricing their games because they're too lazy to price update and want to maximize profit is the WORST THING POSSIBLE. They want to make ALL the money with NONE of the work at the expense of the customer's experience. They want to price at market? COOL. Then price at market but that whole "we'll look them up at the counter" is SHITTY AF. I even saw a game store in Florida that priced games but had signs up that they're going to relook them up at the counter to adjust for market value.....THEN WHY ARE YOU PRICING?!?!?
Stop cursing its a sin dude.............
Caleb, I get that it's annoying but you can't get upset that you can't take advantage of every store pricing stuff below market. Those stores don't exist for you. Be happy when opportunity strikes and remember you are going to strike out more times that you hit a home run.
Great content man! Just came over from Hairy Tornado shouting you out in his most recent live video. Very well done video and great ad lol the scream part. New subscriber here, looking forward to checking out more of your videos! 👍🔥
Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 I am so enjoying these videos.
The “store looking up prices” issue is always kinda hypocritical of resell channels. If someone sells at fair value, it’s always “WHY DON’T THEY SELL ONLINE THEMSELVES”. But if they sell ridiculous cheap, it’s always “HAHA THEY DIDN’T KNOW THE VALUE AND NOW I CAN MAKE $$$$”. Like the pawn shops have a store they pay rent and employees just like a reseller has their own fees/costs. If you don’t like it, don’t buy anything geez. Not all stores are built for reselling. Sometimes as a collector, you can still get deals by saving on delivery and seeing the condition right away. I think Phoenix did well. Buying a game and moving on. Let stores run their business however they want and the customers will decide if they survive.
That whole “let me look up the price” was absolutely disgraceful. You are a 100% right on it being a inconvenience to the customer. What’s the point of having a storefront if you’re going to run it like that. They Might as well save the rent money and have a online store.
Damn wish I would of new your were in Fort Wayne. That my home town and were I'm living at. Was cool seeing you go to places I go to all the time. Are mega replay it awsome. Also you came when they were remodeling the outside of that shopping center.
The ULTIMATE channel to inspire you to do some late night spending! I've spent £250 so far.... Thanks!... GameCube is quite possibly my favourite console of all time, I've got the uncommon Panasonic Q.
I actually disagree- I think the pawn shop has every right to sell its games at a competitive price. Video game prices fluctuate all the time. To me, good on them for pricing efficiently!
I second this, they have a business to run and although it may be inconvenient depending on the method they use they’re trying to sell their products at market price.
3rd this like I get the frustration but they are doing the same thing you are I guess
I think a pawn shop should have eBay/Amazon policy if they wanna price the same. Amazon delivers it to your door and gives a 30 day free return policy for any reason.
So shipping, game quality (selling games in mint condition) and return protection is all baked into the price.
So if a pawn shop looked up prices and marked everything 30% less then eBay that would likely be a more accurate price of the actual value of that game.
@@KyleEvans09 this is true. Can't sell in person and expect to get retail. And if you price your inventory close to retail they're just gonna sit.......and sit...till they finally mark them down reasonably.
@@KyleEvans09 Amazon games are not always in "mint condition". Look at the descriptions and see some of the garbage that gets offloaded on amazon even as FBA. You get to see what you are buying at the pawn shop so they don't owe you a lower price.
disagree, pawn shop are the same as everyone they're trying to make profit. you're reselling a game to make profit so what's the difference?
My hometown! Fort Wayne , can’t believe you were in town.
Lev's used to be amazing about 2 years ago. I don't even bother going there anymore. Awesome to see you running around my home town. Next time swing by my small store in Columbia City IN, Legacy Games llc. It's about 25 min away from where you are in this video.
Your complaining about pawn shops looking up prices & setting individual prices... You do the same crap when you sell them back on Amazon or ebay...?? I get it you don't own a shop/store but that's still not an excuse. I get some places price differently but those are the shops that don't bother lossing or researching their products. I'm all for your channel but let's be real to. Merry Christmas 🌲.
Bro money is the goal id be mad if I invest in something and I don’t get the return I want because people learn more about it. It’s fucked up but I care about myself I’ll rip 100 people off before I lose out on money myself
@@rapetrane You said it yourself investing on something you bought brand new & with time being worth more Absolutely get your $$$ back and some!! Hell yeah! But to go inside someone business & question the way they price their own stuff as your scanning stuff on your phone on other websites (which obviously online will be cheaper) Now that hypocritical. Here's the answer if it's not priced at your liking just walk away...I enjoy watching his videos but some days you win some. Others you loose some.
@@rapetrane stop cursing its a sin.............
I have a semi-local retro reseller shop around that does the pricing at the end by looking it up. However he's very straightforward with you and will look up the prices with you. Once he sees the average selling cost of whatever item in whatever condition, he will then knock some money off that price (usually 10-15%) and throws bundle deals/discounts left and right. The process is a little annoying, but I do enjoy knowing he's not over or under selling an item. It can cause some delays when there's numerous people in there, but you can tell he just wants to make sure everyone is happy with the pricing.
I walked out of there with Pikmin 1&2 for GC, Doom long box and Final Doom for PS1, Doom 64, and a few other smaller games I don't remember all in really great CIB condition for under $140 and he threw in this cool Doom tin lunchbox since I'm a Doom nerd. Additionally because it's a 45 minute drive to his store he always tosses in freebies, discounts, etc. just for making the drive and supporting his business.
Not a gamer, but your vids are entertaining and appreciate your hustle!
I disagree on your thoughts of them taking out a game and then looking up the price. This counters them from being rip offed. Exactly who you ripped off with those people at that sale with the Pikachu 3DS XL for 40. That was scummy of you and could have given more than that. So in my opinion they can look up the value before giving you the price. Retail or not. Resellers these days are becoming more of jobs and there are people putting an end to it. So don’t be too surprised if you see this happening. Love your vids.
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. It would be silly to say pawn shops should never look up their inventory. It’s impossible to run any kind of resale business without doing that. What you shouldn’t do is wait to look something up until a customer wants to buy it. Inconveniencing customers over nickels and dimes is what bothers me.
You were game hunting in my hometown!!! I thought things looked familiar for a while there, and then I saw the downtown skyline.
Living in Fort Wayne it’s so dope to see your vids when you come here man
Proud of myself that I was able to immediately recognize that TY case at the beginning of the video without me even paying much attention to it or even trying to recognize games.
My dad found a gamecube in the dumpster as well as an electric guitar a few years ago. Still have both
I had fitted bed sheets with the exact same design as your hat back when I was a kid lol
My favourite GameCube games are Zelda , final fantasy crystal chronicles and Mario galaxy . The GameCube was such an underrated console
the best thing in the video is the poliwhirl cap just amazing.
21:42 wouldbe bought that desert storm in a heartbeat i love those games they are literally my childhood
Nice pick ups. I remember playing the demo for Sonic Adventures on the Dreamcast lots of fun there. I still say if you haven't gotten Luigi's Mansion get in that collection. And places pricing close to online or above I say knowledge is power. In this climate of uncertainty sometimes if you feel you need to maximize it, otherwise to sell for less so move that inventory.
K I played sega geniuses at home sonic the hedgehog is harder than 3
Bro! I actually thought you almost got hit with the little truck clip LOL I had to rewind it. Decided to go back into reselling again. Probably don't remember but I had that issue with Amazon FBA losing all my stuff and was out a good chuck of change. Decided to do merchant fulfilled only.
Great video!! Really enjoying the GameCube hunting
Love these videos, good stuff this episode!
Video was posted a year ago and is still MONEY! Fairly new subscriber and catching up on all the content. Good stuff.
Jeopardy is more collection had me dying.
Glad you were able to find gotcha force!
Riff!! Tombstone killed me 😆 awesome bud
21:23 THAT’S ME BAYBEEEEEE
I knew you'd go back for that Gems collection as soon as you put it down....haha too funny.
Also, sonic gems collection is very rare, 50 bucks is a great price for gems collection
Thank you alot for the Sonic Adventure DX review I will try that one.