@@rubiesncreme their treasure troves of metal in the worlds landfills and junk yards. Honestly I’m shocked it’s not a priority to harvest scrap metal from trash.
Here's a fun story, in Poland we have a notorious scalper called Yuki. One day he bought around 50 copies of Tokyo Jungle, believing it will never have an international release. So one weekend he pulls out a stack of these, and was unpleasantly surprised at people ridiculing his price tag, as the game not only was released in the meantime, it came very cheap. He only ever sold a single copy, and even that one was swiftly returned, with the kid's mother threatening to call the police accusing him of scam XD
In my opinion doing that would be like some random scalper try to does this to some touhou project fan game and assume it won’t get an English translation or something or heck you could say that it would be the same with someone trying to scalp some other video games that they assume are hard to find/ are rare when they are not that rare or hard to find.
Literally; It's _that_ funny it made me crack up to the nines...And speaking as a man who's been completely wrecked by depression, isolation and abandonment ever since the pandemic that takes *a lot* of doing! 🤣💯👍
Funny how I missed this back then. I remember the LEGO Indiana Jones and the twilight princess games (obviously just go grab LEGO Indiana, much cheaper at the time)
It is time to add here the PS Classic, the scalpers bought a lot of these and in the end, no one wanted it since it wasn't that good of a product for the majority of the public...
Can say the same thing about the Genesis Mini. I see scalpers wanting at the minimum $100 for them on eBay, but every day I check Best Buy's online stock:all the stores still have them. The only difference is unlike the PlayStation Classic, the Genesis Mini is actually very good.
At $20 bucks though, they are amazing. Hacking them is extremely easy, just need a usb with some files on it and you can put as many games as you can fit
Note to self: Step 1: Produce shovelware game for a console. Step 2: Start rumor my game can hack the console (before it hits the bargain bin). Step 3: Profit.
@@petervansan1054 Yup, console hackers are smart people and have good communications. A rumour wouldn't be good enough. Shame though cos otherwise that's a genius idea. Better idea: Release game that ACTUALLY can hack console. Lose developer license from console manufacturer forever. Point out you don't have one because you're Datel. Laugh. Best idea: Set up electronic manufacturing company in Japan in 1946. Live long enough to cash in massively. It's not as profitable as Apple, but you don't have to see Steve Jobs in the mirror.
lol "My son's friend has the game, but he doesn't have it, so they're not friends anymore, until he gets a copy" Dear distressed parents, oblivious to the obvious, complaining to the cashiers.......... *they are not really friends.*
I ordered a set of towels on amazon from Korea and they were supposed to be high thread count and they were the sum of the thread count 800TC but they were 4 at 200TC each I was a little upset but I didn’t complain I just sent an email to get them to change the description as they were good quality
Lucky. I went through 2 fat PS2s and had to replace a slim as well before they stopped producing them. Both of my fat PS2's suffered from disc read errors. My first slim PS2's connection at the back of the unit to the power supply was faulty.
My original 360 died straight away and si did the replacement. Worst console luck ever or complete crap quality build. Mind you it was better than my ps3 death. That took years and I had so many saves especially a super ground Borderlands account. So if a consoles going to have a fault have the decency to break early during warranty. 😀
Even as a massive lifelong Nintendo fan, I know Nintendo's done some pretty shady stuff, which I totally abhor, but screwing over scalpers? I applaud that.
@@beauwalker9820 Yes, but Nintendo is (or atleast was when they were still dominating the video game market) really known for limiting their stuff, especially newly released games before Christmas. Just like Sony's consoles are always crap at launch and it takes them atleast half a year to fix the main bugs. Some things are just common knowledge.
if you want a real good laugh, at Nintendo NY (i live in NYC) when they were lining up people for the midnight release of the SNES mini, a group of obvious scalpers tried to cut the line, only to get managers and even the police involve so a fight don't break out. in the end, the managers told that group they will not be able to buy the SNES mini
This has literally made me remember getting our PS2. It worked. For about 3 minutes. Then the disc drawer jammed half open - with one of the discs INSIDE. Nothing we could do would make it budge. Needless to say we took it back to Woolies and got a replacement, which is to this day still (mostly) working. Although it can be a bit fickle about reading discs but that only cropped up as an issue YEARS later. Oh, and we forgot to get the disc out and returned the first time and we had to go back in the next day and sheepishly ask for it back. xD Was totally unaware that our console wasn't just a one-off. I might have to go do some reading up on that, it sounds interesting. :D
PredictedCyborg had a similar issue with our ps2, sucker stopped being able read dvds pretty quickly, started having trouble with ps1 games, started to have more trouble with ps2 games and eventually just not playing games at all.
That sucks. Never had a PS2 myself, although a friend did. I had a PS3 who's hard drive crapped out on me, though. Traded it in for a smaller PS3. Don't worry, I let them know the previous one's hard drive was malfunctioning.
They definitely must've upped the quality control after that because my PS2 Slim ran for for 5-7 years before it finally stopped reading discs. I do remember a friend with the Fat PS2 whose disc drive jammed, and one of the younger siblings ended up breaking the disc tray to get the disc out.
If your PS2 is having trouble with reading some games you may have to clean the laser lens. Sometimes it gets dusty and it wont be able to read certain games. Mine wasnt able to read God of War until i cleaned the lens because the GoW disc has this weird blue dual layer thing so they could fit it on one disc. And if that lens isnt clean then it wont be able to read bigger games
That Hannah Montana story is so fucking brilliant! That's the kind of trolling I can get behind. A similar story I witnessed first hand recently was with the SNES Classic preorders. Since retailers were popping up with preorders out of nowhere, people (and resellers) were following any lead they could to try and figure out where the next round would show. So there was a reddit troll who claimed Kmart would open up their preorders at some absurd hour. Kmart is a struggling, bankrupted retailer here in the USA. They didn't get any SNES classics. But I can only imagine some poor souls staying up in vain trying to get one.
To play devil's advocate ... some people might just want a system for themselves. I worked at Target during the NES classic and hatchimals craze last year and those parents just wanted one for their kids, very few, if any, were hitting ebay.
What people don't understand is refusing to buy the consoles at the inflated price and causing the scalpers to lose their money is also capitalism. Its a shame there is always people willing to give the scalpers money.
I have a friend who is a scalper. Amazon and eBay both have been cracking down on them. Amazon now only allows a limited amount of DVD and game sales per account and eBay is doing the same. He was so pissed that he had to get a job
Can you give your friend a big, special, gift-wrapped middle finger from me? Preferrably with a red bow. Shame he's forced to work like the rest of us and not benefit from forcibly taking limited stocks of things just to mark them up ludicrously high anymore, so figured he could use a gift. =D
I remember hearing a story of a girl and her mate were in a shop, a guy was following them because they had the last Ness Amiibo and he was hoping they would change their mind so he could get it and sell it for God Knows how much, they were aware and decided to take the piss by tossing it to each other before "Accidentally" dropping it, damaging the box slightly, he got SO mad at them for ruining his business and losing money as he left the shop
@@hideofreakingkojima5457 As a Rosalina fan, that one upset me. I worked Toys R Us during the amiibo craze and wound up buying one of each amiibo just because I thought they were cool and rare. Saw a lot of crap, but the exclusives to other stores were awful. Wound up importing a Rosalina from Japan because I open mine. I bet scalpers at the time would've cried if they saw all my figs (including Wii Fit Trainer) piled on a shelf.
@@hideofreakingkojima5457 Hopefully he hadn't bought as many of the the Rosalina figures as he could from ALL the sets that had her instead of only the Smash Bros Wii U/3DS ones.
This video makes me happy. I once bought six Xbox ones from a grocery store that had a small electronics section because someone in town was gonna do the same and mark them up. I got six receipts and sold all six Xbox ones for the price on the receipt to people in the community who couldn't have a chance to get one when the shops opened. I saw the guy in line behind me and the look on his face was beautiful.
i remember this one story about a guy who imported a shitload of tamagotchis back when they were starting to get popular, thinking he could sell them for a ton of profit... turns out everyone else had the same idea as him so by the time he got the things, everyone already owned one and the guy was left with a big-ass container full of what was essentially electronic paperweights
And yet, no matter how many times we call out their shitty behavior, it's like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good and tactical you are, it's just going to shit all over the board and strut around like it won anyway.
When a store buys 200k copies of a thing and jacks up the price, no one bats an eye. But when one guys sees an opportunity to buy 20 and seeks to make a profit by raising the price, everyone loses thier shit.
@@deadmilkman121 Scalpers and cryptominers are the biggest bane to the hobby right now, and, to a man, they are all worthless parasites that don't contribute anything to society. This is a fact that I present without evidence, but you know I'm right.
Oh I was hoping the Wii U one would be included, played out exactly as the NES mini & SNES mini one did. Because it's predecessor the Wii had been so popular, out of stock and scalped at launch (near Christmas) the scalpers thought the Wii U would be the same, little did they know that Nintendo had managed to confuse everyone with it's name and no one wanted on anyway. Widely in stock everywhere it left scalpers with mountains of them and trying to return 'em back to stores for refunds.
Well, plenty people did want one at launch, so you're somewhat incorrect. Nintendo mass produced Wii U's in order to prevent a Wii debacle similar to what happened a decade ago, expecting the sales numbers to be equivalent to each other. There was simply no reason to go online to by one at a higher price when it was in stores everywhere....except European retailers, but that's a story that people seem to ignore and forget and people generally just incorrectly assume different things happened with the Wii U than what actually did happen.
Can’t wait for your follow-up episode about when the scalpers unexpectedly screwed themselves over by buying up as many PS5s and Xbox Series S and X’s as they can get their grubby mitts on only to discover some severe design flaw that renders their supply of launch edition units pretty much useless. 😂
It's why I usually have waited, from Ps2 onwards, a few months to get the newest generation. I waited a year and a bit to get my ps4 and in that time picked up a ton of crazy cheap ps3 games to tide me over and then chances are I'd get a decent console were much higher. I still havnt even thought of getting a ps5 yet. Probably be this time next year. I remember picking up a brand new GC, a great bundle with 2 controllers, about 6 games,(Mario Kart, the good Starfox, some Zelda game, Sonic Adventure 2, Resident Evil Remake and something else I can't remember) and memory card, coupons and two game magazines for about 150€ at the end of the GCs life.
@@Godslayer1975 good point. I am glad I waited for a while before my Ps4, I got a fat ps 3 and it broke, then replaced it with another fat one and broke again. Got a slim and still works. They seem to just get the kinks out and optimise the system after a few revisions.
There was one particularly shameless asshat on Twitter who showed a photo he took of his massive wall of PS5s he bought. He said something like "$800 for discless $1k for disc version, dial in." Less than a week later it came to light that his house was broken into and he was robbed of all the PS5s he had invested his money in.
@@R3SerialPro Apparently the guy wasn't smart enough to remember that it's probably not a good idea to announce to everyone that you have a bunch of valuable stuff in your house. Guess you can call it either karma or just stupidity.
Can confirm with Halo 2. I have a mint condition Steelbook copy I bought for like $4 in a pawnshop a while back and they're only worth like $9 full retail on a good day.
I remember it was a month or so before Halo 3 was to be released and I think I got a steel book Halo 2 for cheap. It came with the game and DVD, and the DVD is where I first learned of how the games were made. And the usefulness of the of that DVD documentary has been reduced since it should be somewhere on UA-cam.
Haahaahaaa... I'm sure it would have been hilarious if that happened, after all he would have tried to spike prices simply for his petard to hoist him back when the rumor was debunked!.
@@megagustman I always have to look up what "hoist by your own petard" means whenever I see it, because it's the only time I ever read or hear about a "petard".
@@k-leb4671 A _petard_ was a small explosive used for blowing through doors or walls, that was current weapons tech in Shakespeare's time. To be "hoist by your own petard" was to be blown up by your own bomb -- hurt by your own scheme against someone/something else. The idiom's use in _Hamlet_ helped keep it in circulation, long after petards themselves had been forgotten about.
Came back to this video after seeing the recent reports on scalpers getting their due on the PS5s. So great when they get destroyed by their own greed.
LOL! Gotta love karmic ass-kickings, especially when they're costly to scalpers too. Surprised the SNES classic was #1 on this...but MORE surprised a HANNAH MONTANA game got scalpled so absurdly at all.
I was extremely lucky to get a SNES mini this time around. I totally forgot what day it was even being released, and my boyfriend, who works at Walmart, texted me that we had 19 in stock for that night. So I hurried my ass to Walmart and was 12th in line. There was a woman there with her like 6 daughters or something and they all bought one and I'm 100% positive they were gonna scalp them.
The Gamestop I went to wanted me to show them my driver's license when I asked for a SNES Mini. I'm sure it was to prevent scalping. Needless to say, I only wanted one anyway. Didn't look like your Wal-Mart had measures in place. Congrats on getting one, though. Hope you're having fun with it.
This local geek store had an NES classic last year and they were selling it at eBay scalping prices. They also had two Switches, but you had to buy two games along with it to buy it when it only had three fucking games out at the time
Man last time I was on Amazon, the SNES Classic was $145-$500. For the Nes Classic it's around $200-$1,000. My local store I work at they are marketed on their Christmas catalog for $79. But when I ask about it, they don't know if they'll ever come in. I'm trying to be patient and hope they'll come in. I don't want to pay $145 for one.
Oh man. I'm glad I never bought stuff like this from eBay. But it's still funny to hear about people who tried to scam gamers, but to only have themselves be the ones to pay the price.
The sad thing is that Peter Molyneux has a good record of releasing damn good games. So you have to wonder what personal grudge Larry has that he isn't targeting other developers with far less quality releases.
I still don't understand why the makers of Steel Battalion didn't make that giant super controller for the PC instead. I'd have bought one just to use it for Mechwarrior games and space flight sims.
Someone definitely should make something similar for the pc. It'd be a pretty damn niche product sure, so perhaps crowdfunding could be the way to go. Now that there's a new Mechwarrior game coming out, it'd be high time for a mech-renaissance. I'd play the shit outta MW4 Mercenaries if I had a controller like that... Well, I do either way, but that just would be the tits. :P
Honestly, it's cool-looking, but having a huge brick of plastic controls like that isn't very convenient. I have a HOTAS which is just a pair of sticks that is much smaller and more practical for playing vehicle sims.
@@TheSeptet wait, From? The ones who made that one Zelda-like game that everyone seems to think anything resembling difficulty is based off of? That one series that is about as overrated as Frozen? Fuck them.
Wow! I have learned what Scalper means now. Thanks, Larry, good on ya for educating us! I take it that when the PS3 launched over a decade ago for $599.00 US dollars, those people that got one or more, and tried to sell them for over $1,000 US dollars, are scalpers, right? Thanks again.
k0ngbuster Yes they are. Also stupid choice on them. The PS3 was a complete failure at launch. Than the Slim came around and soon the PS3 outsold the 360.
I'm beginning to think that the first thing Larry does in his videos is come up with the Peter Molyneux jape and then construct the rest of the video around that... and I'm perfectly okay with that. Of course, Molyneux is such a plentiful target that they probably write themselves in most cases.
I do read the captions, Mr. Bundy. Been hearing impaired for much of my life, and while the bionic implant means I don't have to -rely- on them, I still turn them on out of habit and to help catch words I might otherwise miss. Please keep up the good work.
5:42 3 years later from this video, only Argos exists in the UK & Ireland in retail form even though Argos can mainly be found in Sainsbury's stores. There however Woolworths elsewhere in the world that are still around like in Australia (where it is a supermarket) and in Barbados where it split from the British branch and has operating independently since 1982. The Barbados one was established in the 1950s and stocked goods imported from the UK. Toys 'R' Us has had its place in the UK Toys industry taken over by The Entertainer. The GAME brand replaced the EB name at all former EB stores in the United Kingdom in 2002 and then GAME would go on to buy their rival, Gamestation in 2007.
I remember having to grab the little Playstation logo on the front of the disk drive and yanking it open to be able to switch games on my original PS2.
As someone who works in retail, I had a hearty chuckle at the "come back to this video" mention with the S/NES Mini debacle. The NES Mini can't seem to sell out now... They were being grabbed and we would sell out in literal seconds on a daily basis. Now we have like 40 of them just collecting dust. And I'm sure we'll get more in too.
7:00 That might be one of the few times that it is warranted to make that comparison though, as Steel Battalion was developed by From Software, creators of the Dark Souls series as well as Armored Core, another at-times brutally difficult mech game.
Anyone that pays anything more than pocket change for something that is pretty much nothing but a meme from a somewhat popular cartoon deserves what they get.
As far as the sauce goes, that stuff was all free as far as I know (with any order I assume,) so they technically won't lose any money. I'm sure some over obsessed fan will buy the stuff on eBay for a ludicrously high price though.
Yeah, if there was any to fucking *get* in the first place. Seriously, a good number of restaurants didn't get *any* sauce. Those that did get sauce got like next to nothing.
Super Mario Bros 2 was most definitely hard to find in 1988 because I didn't get it for Xmas that year but I did get two equally epic games instead: Blaster Master and Bionic Commando. I got it with my allowance/birthday money in early Feburary 1989 along with BurgerTime though!
That was probably an awesome gaming year for you friendo X) I got my NES system in 89/90 along with the "Mario/Duck Hunt" cartridge, but also with "Wizards and Warriors" and "Contra", sooo many memories 😊
Just leaving a comment to let you know I ABSOLUTELY read and appreciate subtitles on these videos. They are extremely nice to have especially in times where I'm working on something and didn't quite catch what was said. You asked for comments regarding this, so here it is. Thanks for all of your time and effort, CA Hunger Games winner!
And I've gotten used to them too -- a handy additional channel for the info to enter my brain, especially if I'm only half-awake. Thanks LB Jr, and all others who do it! ❤
I was working for eBay when that $400 PS2 got sold. It was allowed because the description was exactly what was delivered. The ad stated For Sale: PS2 Original Box and Receipt. The buyer got the PS2 Original Box and the receipt. The biggest issue was that NO ONE read the description and made assumptions that weren't true. READ the description CAREFULLY before bidding. Biggest lesson learned. My favorite karma story: A lawyer bought some expensive cigars, insured them including against fire damage. Smoked 'em all, the claimed they were destroyed in a series of small fires. The insurance company balked at this until a young know-it-all paid him off. The moment he cashed his check, they nailed him for insurance fraud for intentionally destroying his property with fire.
One weird Scalper story I know of is where this guy bought up vast quantities of Rosalina Amiibos because he hated the character so much he wanted no one else to get one.
Kinda pathetic, really, these scalpers. They deserve what you're doing. Don't forget to tell people to check their local retail stores every once in a while to see if there's a shipment in stock. Justice has come in two ways here: what Guru Larry said, and your own fine work.
Yeah...except there is nothing inherently unlawful or rule breaking on the platform to list something you have on hand at a ridiculous price. All his time wasted reporting isn't going to do shit except make him feel good about himself for essentially doing nothing.
Reporting for what? Yeah it's scummy. But I'm pretty sure it's not illegal or against any rules of Facebook. So I'm not sure what you think reporting is going to do.
I had an original model PS2 and it lasted me for a long time - about 3 years. I remember how upset my mom was when GameStop refused to sell it without us also purchasing an "extended warranty" 4 months after launch that would let us just outright replace the PS2 in case it died. It was an extra $100, but it was good for 3 years. Towards the end of that, the disc tray would occasionally get stuck, but that was easily remedied by sliding a post card slid into the top. My mom reminded me of the warranty when I complained about it, so we took it in and got a free brand new PS2 almost 3 years after we purchased it. LOL
That's crazy they refused to sell it to her. That is surely illigal? I guess you got them back since you replaced it just before the warranty was up, but that's a really scumbag move on GS. Im from Dublin and last week I was in Belfast. Same island but a different country and now out of the EU... Its a 90 min drive and every year I go for a weekend of Christmas shopping. Anyway I couldn't find anything I liked in Game(a game shop that predates Gamestop) but missus wanted Spyro for the Switch... So I go to pay and the bloke is pushing this membership crap on us...wanting like 18 pound upfront and a monthly fee after... I said 'no, I live in the Republic, we don't have Game anymore...not worth it'... He spent 2-3 minutes trying to persuade me that it would be worth it! I was being polite and couldn't believe how much he was pushing this and taking up time. Because it was a busy Saturday evening, thhe place was jammers...i just got annoyed and firmly stated 'I visit here once a year. I rarely buy games in shops. The only reason I'm getting this is because it just happens to be in stock and she wanted it. No I won't be making trips up to Belfast to buy games and no I don't want to spend a single penny more than the price of this. No ifs ands or buts, I don't want to hear the benefits again, I don't want to hear about savings.. I just want to buy the game and leave' He stood there for a second until I said'Yeah can you ring that up for me we are in a hurry'... Cheeky little cunt didn't even say thank you or goodbye. Just silently completed the transaction and didn't make eye contact! Had a huge pout on him! 😂 I'd say he was 24-25 or something and was sulking! 😂 The family behind me heard it all and as I was leaving I heard the mam say 'and I don't want any of that membership thing either OK?'
@@mccarthy5825 Larry covers the reasons why GameStop did it: Subquality components and/or manufacturing. Heck, the clerk at GameStop told us that about half of the consoles they sold were failing. I suspect that people were shoving them into little cabinets in entertainment centers and killing them with heat, but I knew at least two people who had the controller port failed and they took damn good care of their stuff. I got lucky and had a good one, but I can honestly say I've never been disappointed or ripped off by buying an extended warranty. As for being illegal to not sell, in the USA stores have the right to refuse service to anyone they want so long as it isn't a violation of the law, i.e. race, sex, or religious discrimination.
@@TheZoenGaming thanks for the reply 👍 oh it's the same here, like you have the right of refusal for anyone for any reason , but I just think it's a very predatory practice to literally force someone to pay extra for a warranty. I wonder how many people only had enough for the system and had to walk away. There's no way they would get away with that now! A neighbour of mine went through like 4 360s in a month. All from the same shop. They were so used to it they barely questioned it. I reckon it will be this time next year before I think about a PS5. They are very hard to get here... My mam is retired but she got a job working for a huge toy/video game superstore chain until Christmas and she was saying that they get a small amount in every few weeks and every single time, no matter how quiet they keep it there's a huge line of people waiting for it. All night even. She's well used to getting consoles and the 'it' toy or game each Christmas, since my mega drive in 1991 and she said she's never seen anything like it. A few weeks ago there was a big fight for the last one. A young lady with a kid in a pram got it and a few people started on her... They had to get security to bring her to her car and make sure she got out OK. Hopefully the chip shortage and supply problems will go away and a slim version comes out so it won't be an expensive nightmare to try get this console! There's a few videos I've seen of incredibly modded Ps2s and Xboxes. They are jailbroken, have big hard drives and just full of emulators and Ps2 isos. Seem well worth it.
@@mccarthy5825 The PS5 is hard to get anywhere. 🤣 Same with the Series X. I almost never buy a console when it first releases. Actually, now that I think about it, I remember buying games for the PS2 for nearly a year before I had the console... That might be why mine lasted so long. I'm going to have to double check with my mom about when we bought it. I hope she remembers.
@@mccarthy5825 Okay, she says we bought it in Feb. 2001 so it was indeed 4 months after launch here in the USA but nearly a year after the Japanese launch. Oh, and the warranty was only $50 for three years.
Facebook's pretentious pages: _"Buying something for 1$ and selling it for 2$ is called Business"_ Literally everyone else: _It's called a scam and everybody hates scams_
Perhaps I didn't phrase this correctly but this is a scam when you're buying them off someone else already distributing this and already taking the effort to create what you're selling AND distribute it themselves and you just sell it higher to profit off of something they could get at their original price otherwise
@@Jack_Woods soo... like how a grocery store buys food from a distributor (usually refusing to buy their products till they nearly expire to get them at a lower cost) who buys the food from the farmer.
I meant this comment aged like milk because we have people who are basically scamming and scalping items for the sake of fear aka the virus. Fb businesses are not stores. Most of them are scammers or sellers from China that give you bootleg or low quality products.
You deserve so much more subscribers, your channel is a hidden gem and you've got a lot of great content you make lists out of! You don't make stuff like "Top 300 Facts You Already Know About Mario" and you do your research on all the interesting topics you cover. You've earned yourself another sub!
Nintendo isn't the problem. They've had two failed console launches in recent memory (3DS and Wii U) Both systems were properly stocked and they saw stagnant sales. By limiting the stock they are able to move all the units they produce and create more demand from the public. (It's a safe tactic) This is what Toy manufacturers do around Christmas to appear as the "Hot Toy for Christmas" which then creates more demand for the product.
IKMNification Nintendo knows for a fact that these are hot items. Not so much with other 2 consoles you mentioned. Otherwise they wouldn't announce they will have enough snes classics for launch. Hell, you make it sound like it's hard to ramp up production on these things in short notice. The nes classic was scarce for months. And don't let me start on the amiibos.
Had an In-Game scalping event recently in World of Warcraft. If you had "Legendary" items below item level 1000 in your inventory you would obtain an in game currency for certain activities that could be used to obtain upgrades for your current legendaries. Once you had all your items upgraded, the currency would stop coming in. Then Blizzard announced that in an upcoming patch you could use that same currency to obtain new legendaries you did not yet have. There was some legendary items that were made by players, and if they made them in the past before the previous patch they would be under item level 1000, and so the currency would still drop for you. So any of the lower level legendary items for sale on the auction house were all bought up by scalpers and marked up 3 to 5 times their original price. Within a few days Blizzard introduced a hotfix into the game that changed it so anyone of max level will ALWAYS have the currency drop for them no matter if they had any legendaries to upgrade currently or not. So that players could stockpile the currency prior to the patch that allowed them to then buy the new legendaries. Therefore leaving all the scalpers with large piles of now greatly devalued and sub-par items, as no one wants to buy the item you would have to spend a bunch of game time to upgrade again toi max level. I sure hope a bunch of them lost millions in gold in their little scalping attempt.
With how protective some companies can be of their properties, and how much they want money, I am surprised that many game publishers create scenarios where scalpers can thrive. With how protective Nintendo is with their IP, even with fan projects or fair use, you'd think they'd work harder to combat the scalpers who make a profit off their work.
Most of the time I have no idea what your saying, i just come here because your voice is the only thing that keeps me grounded to reality when I’m hammered.
I finally got mine in the summer of 2004, which was the SCPH-50001 model, and it more or less works flawlessly to this day with the exception of a minor control port issue.
"The Settlers Platinum Edition" was a limited edition steel casing, too, and released a year earlier ;) Though it was a collection of all Settlers games up to that point, so not a new release.
There is also the story about The Devil's Third. It only came out in specific regions and was quickly bought by scalpers. The thing has that the game was kinda shit so no one wanted it in the first place, so the scalpers sat on tens of copies I a game no one wanted in the first place.
Seems like Scalpers haven't learned their lesson since they seem to be doing the same thing with the PS5. Wonder if history will repeat itself with the PS5 having the same launch problems with the PS2?
@@deadmilkman121 voting with our wallets is the only way to beat these scum unfortunately. I'd much rather wait for months or emulate a game than give a cent extra to c*nts like scalpers. I remember years ago a guy that either had some inheritance or was wealthy enough went and bought a ton of wiis around Xmas time. Easily 100 or more. Then he sold them at cost(and shipping) to parents so their kids wouldn't be disappointed. Only one per customer too. Funny thing was of course people had to rip into him and say he was wrong and not fair because people are free to make a profit and all! 😂
@@wolfetteplays8894 eh no I didn't mean that. I meant like for example the way publishers are pulling classic titles and then reselling them to you, like GTa and now Sonic... Id rather emulate even PS2 stuff than pay publishers for the same game again. Or instead of paying scalpers for new games just wait.
Say that to those who have tickets to concerts and you didn’t have money to buy them early so you need them the day of Scalpers can be good but I hate flippers
@@badvoodoo2097 there’s always a few hundred people who buy concert or sports events tickets for which they planned on attending but last minute couldn’t for whatever reason so they sell them - this is *not* a scalper. They’re neither hoarding nor hijacking the price of tickets. Hell a lot of these people that can’t attend the concerts end up just giving away their tickets, my bf and I got front row seats to a Tamp Bay Lightning game this past March because a total stranger on FB gave us their two tickets since they were out of state and couldn’t go.
"Subtitles by Larry Bundy Jr (please let me know if you read these!)" I do Larry, and I appreciate you taking the time to write them instead of leaving it up to auto-generation!
The PS2 came out on my birthday that year, so naturally, being a 12 year old kid, it was what I asked for for from my parents. We went down to what was then Electronics Boutique on the day, and there was a queue right through the shopping center. So as a kind of hail Mary, we tried the local indie shop. The place was empty and they had a bunch of them in stock. We just walked right in and bought one, then took a smug stroll past the queue for EB with it XD
I remember buying a lucina amiibo for $50 on ebay because all the stores in Australia sold out & I was fuming when I walked into a game shop months later to see that they had reissued the amiibos & I could've had one for $20 instead. Serves me right for not being patient.
Man last time I was on Amazon, the SNES Classic was $145-$500. For the Nes Classic it's around $200-$1,000. My local store I work at they are marketed on their Christmas catalog for $79. But when I ask about it, they don't know if they'll ever come in. I'm trying to be patient and hope they'll come in. I don't want to pay $145 for one.
Ha, I knew you'd mention the SNES Classic, just didn't expect it to be so high up! Great video as usual, Larry! Keep up the good work and thanks for continuing to inspire me! I just reached 500 subs myself! ^_^
Haha, nah I briefly exchanged words with Larry's Twitter about it before he published the video a few days ago. I was just continuing on from that conversation. Aside from that though, I guess that would be a big hint, right? Though you should never always judge a video by it's cover. :P
It's assholes like this who ruined eBay. Honest sellers are now automatically punished because any scammer can buy something, then claim "item not as described" and get their money back, costing the seller the shipping, and/or the item. I have experienced this first hand.
"Limited until the world's supply of metal runs out." Best line right there.
Just called a company - having metal supply issue... Not kidding!
That line aged super horribly with all these chip shortages
@@zenksren8206 I mean, the metal's still there.
@@rubiesncreme not so much with Russian sanctions, they did make plenty of metal.
@@rubiesncreme their treasure troves of metal in the worlds landfills and junk yards. Honestly I’m shocked it’s not a priority to harvest scrap metal from trash.
Here's a fun story, in Poland we have a notorious scalper called Yuki. One day he bought around 50 copies of Tokyo Jungle, believing it will never have an international release. So one weekend he pulls out a stack of these, and was unpleasantly surprised at people ridiculing his price tag, as the game not only was released in the meantime, it came very cheap. He only ever sold a single copy, and even that one was swiftly returned, with the kid's mother threatening to call the police accusing him of scam XD
Is he an ebay member?
That sounds similar to my friend who bought several Steel Batallion controllers!
In my opinion doing that would be like some random scalper try to does this to some touhou project fan game and assume it won’t get an English translation or something or heck you could say that it would be the same with someone trying to scalp some other video games that they assume are hard to find/ are rare when they are not that rare or hard to find.
@@jean-lucpicard5510 not sure, but would guess he is. He even has a youtube channel and goes by YukiDeSan
@@Touhou20246Holy run on sentence, Batman!
That Hannah Montana hoax has to be one of the funniest things Larry’s ever talked about.
Literally; It's _that_ funny it made me crack up to the nines...And speaking as a man who's been completely wrecked by depression, isolation and abandonment ever since the pandemic that takes *a lot* of doing! 🤣💯👍
This has got to be the only list ever created to feature both Steel Battalion and Hannah Montana
1. Steel Battalion
2. Hannah Montana
what about the top ten best mechs in gaming
Top Fifty Worst XBox 360 games?
@@TheDragonflyzero Hanna montana is my favorite mech
Top 50 best games of all time XD
that Hannah Montanna troll is the greatest thing I ever heard
It's delicious isn't it? Amazing that it's not more well known!
Probably better than the singer herself.
Funny how I missed this back then. I remember the LEGO Indiana Jones and the twilight princess games (obviously just go grab LEGO Indiana, much cheaper at the time)
sometimes, trolls do god's work.
@@Larry wonder if the Hannah publishers themselves leaked it?
It is time to add here the PS Classic, the scalpers bought a lot of these and in the end, no one wanted it since it wasn't that good of a product for the majority of the public...
Can say the same thing about the Genesis Mini. I see scalpers wanting at the minimum $100 for them on eBay, but every day I check Best Buy's online stock:all the stores still have them.
The only difference is unlike the PlayStation Classic, the Genesis Mini is actually very good.
At $20 bucks though, they are amazing. Hacking them is extremely easy, just need a usb with some files on it and you can put as many games as you can fit
I Noticed AtGames started selling their Sega consoles for like 2x the price they used to be, once the "official" Mega Drive Mini came out.
@@lmcgregoruk Tommo did that with their Neo Geo handheld when the Neo Geo Mini thing was first released.
I got a PS Classic at a Dollar General for $25 last Thanksgiving. Yeah, it bombed that bad.
Note to self:
Step 1: Produce shovelware game for a console.
Step 2: Start rumor my game can hack the console (before it hits the bargain bin).
Step 3: Profit.
Step 4: Change company webpage to text that reads: "LOL no refunds fgts"
Bad Player Step 5: "Get fucked"
@@poisonouslead85 Most stores don't pay refunds for games as soon as they are opened or if they were sold unsealed.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo why would anyone open them if there is no guaranteed hack?
@@petervansan1054 Yup, console hackers are smart people and have good communications. A rumour wouldn't be good enough. Shame though cos otherwise that's a genius idea.
Better idea: Release game that ACTUALLY can hack console. Lose developer license from console manufacturer forever. Point out you don't have one because you're Datel. Laugh.
Best idea: Set up electronic manufacturing company in Japan in 1946. Live long enough to cash in massively. It's not as profitable as Apple, but you don't have to see Steve Jobs in the mirror.
lol
"My son's friend has the game, but he doesn't have it, so they're not friends anymore, until he gets a copy"
Dear distressed parents, oblivious to the obvious, complaining to the cashiers.......... *they are not really friends.*
Or the kid is lying about his friend to make his parents think he needs it. Guilty of this a few times.
@@shotgunninja0 lmao
@@shotgunninja0 Probs the case big brain
@@shotgunninja0 That's not a very good lie, "buy this game for me so my friend won't leave me."
I remember someone I knew bought a playstation 2 on ebay. He got 2 playstation 1's.
soulfreaz did he at least get a polymozation card?
That's just math...
Hahaha that's hilarious tho
I ordered a set of towels on amazon from Korea and they were supposed to be high thread count and they were the sum of the thread count
800TC but they were 4 at 200TC each I was a little upset but I didn’t complain I just sent an email to get them to change the description as they were good quality
@@primevalwalrus1998 damn, who brought the mathlete
Plot Twist: It was Hanna Montana herself who trolled the forums claiming her garbage game could hack the Wii 😂😂😂
To help boost sales... Is that was the case, then I will give Miley some credit for once
I still have my launch PS2, and I've never had a problem with it.
Guess it came from a a factory that wasn't crap.
There are also people who have launch XBox 360s that never got the Red Ring of Death. Shoddy hardware isn't an exact science.
Slye_Fox so do I and when I got a Ps3 I gave it to my autistic brother...he breaks everything lol unintentionally BUT it still works fine! I’m shocked
Mine still works and it was the first version of it. Still love that thing.
Lucky. I went through 2 fat PS2s and had to replace a slim as well before they stopped producing them. Both of my fat PS2's suffered from disc read errors. My first slim PS2's connection at the back of the unit to the power supply was faulty.
My original 360 died straight away and si did the replacement. Worst console luck ever or complete crap quality build. Mind you it was better than my ps3 death. That took years and I had so many saves especially a super ground Borderlands account. So if a consoles going to have a fault have the decency to break early during warranty. 😀
Shout out to Larry Bundy Jr for the closed captioning. It's nice to see accurate captions in a video instead of youtube guessing whats going on.
It does make it funny with some of its mistakes though lol
looks like someone discovered project64 with anti aliasing!
Oh hey look it's the guy, it's the boundary break guy
Lol
@Aidan Eaglesfield :0 he does
@@luciousp226 Whoa..that's so majestic ._.
Ikr
Even as a massive lifelong Nintendo fan, I know Nintendo's done some pretty shady stuff, which I totally abhor, but screwing over scalpers? I applaud that.
Daniel Sullenberger Sony & Microsoft have done crumby & similar things too. But yeah, glad to see them outsmart the scalpers.
No video game company is totally innocent, I'm sure.
@@beauwalker9820 Yes, but Nintendo is (or atleast was when they were still dominating the video game market) really known for limiting their stuff, especially newly released games before Christmas. Just like Sony's consoles are always crap at launch and it takes them atleast half a year to fix the main bugs. Some things are just common knowledge.
I was a Sega man, so I don't share the same level of love for Nintendo, but I do have to agree that is pretty fucking hilarious!
That's what we in the business call "Doing God's Work"
An Angel gets its wings if a scalper loses their money
if you want a real good laugh, at Nintendo NY (i live in NYC) when they were lining up people for the midnight release of the SNES mini, a group of obvious scalpers tried to cut the line, only to get managers and even the police involve so a fight don't break out. in the end, the managers told that group they will not be able to buy the SNES mini
TheNovaWind oh yeah I remember seeing that.
I remember when GAME had lines, luckily I Pre-ordered with a £50 deposit, so I was getting my one regardless
Yep i remember hearing that.
This has literally made me remember getting our PS2. It worked. For about 3 minutes. Then the disc drawer jammed half open - with one of the discs INSIDE. Nothing we could do would make it budge.
Needless to say we took it back to Woolies and got a replacement, which is to this day still (mostly) working. Although it can be a bit fickle about reading discs but that only cropped up as an issue YEARS later.
Oh, and we forgot to get the disc out and returned the first time and we had to go back in the next day and sheepishly ask for it back. xD
Was totally unaware that our console wasn't just a one-off. I might have to go do some reading up on that, it sounds interesting. :D
PredictedCyborg had a similar issue with our ps2, sucker stopped being able read dvds pretty quickly, started having trouble with ps1 games, started to have more trouble with ps2 games and eventually just not playing games at all.
That sucks. Never had a PS2 myself, although a friend did. I had a PS3 who's hard drive crapped out on me, though. Traded it in for a smaller PS3. Don't worry, I let them know the previous one's hard drive was malfunctioning.
Never has a problem with my ps2 in fact it still works to this day and I bought it on launch day
They definitely must've upped the quality control after that because my PS2 Slim ran for for 5-7 years before it finally stopped reading discs. I do remember a friend with the Fat PS2 whose disc drive jammed, and one of the younger siblings ended up breaking the disc tray to get the disc out.
If your PS2 is having trouble with reading some games you may have to clean the laser lens. Sometimes it gets dusty and it wont be able to read certain games. Mine wasnt able to read God of War until i cleaned the lens because the GoW disc has this weird blue dual layer thing so they could fit it on one disc. And if that lens isnt clean then it wont be able to read bigger games
I love how Master Chief manages to beat bad guys in real life.
Alternate title: Lary roasts scalpers for fourteen and a half minutes.
Deku Kitty -and we love it
*Top Ten Anime Beatdowns*
And it's glorious. Every second of it
Peter Molyneux hardest hit
We wouldn't complain at all if that was the title
kudos to that german troll who duped all the people about hannah montana. they were doing god's work there.
Biggest shock in that story is a German with a sense of humour
As someone who is actually hearing-impaired, I GREATLY appreciate your usage of closed captions! Thank you! I love these stories.
That Hannah Montana story is so fucking brilliant! That's the kind of trolling I can get behind. A similar story I witnessed first hand recently was with the SNES Classic preorders. Since retailers were popping up with preorders out of nowhere, people (and resellers) were following any lead they could to try and figure out where the next round would show. So there was a reddit troll who claimed Kmart would open up their preorders at some absurd hour. Kmart is a struggling, bankrupted retailer here in the USA. They didn't get any SNES classics. But I can only imagine some poor souls staying up in vain trying to get one.
I know that the K Mart around my area does not even sell video games. I think they use that section to *sell* appliances.
Ripping off scumbags is the kind of trolling I can get behind.
I miss K Mart. The one in my area just closed recently.
The one left in my area literally has the former electronics section blocked off with a sheet.
To play devil's advocate ... some people might just want a system for themselves. I worked at Target during the NES classic and hatchimals craze last year and those parents just wanted one for their kids, very few, if any, were hitting ebay.
Step 1: Go back in time and buy shitloads of copies of Steel Battalion from scalpers.
Step 2: Scalp them yourself.
Step 3: Profit.
I mean if you had a time machine you could just make a lot more money memorising lottery tickets
"That's capitalism" - every scalper defending themselves
True but it literally is as well
What people don't understand is refusing to buy the consoles at the inflated price and causing the scalpers to lose their money is also capitalism. Its a shame there is always people willing to give the scalpers money.
Capitalism is to blame for scalpers taking PS5s.
@@BlueNitroTiger It's also the reason why the PS5 even exists.
"Captialism sucks" - some guy who uses a product that only exists due to capitalism
"There's people out there scummier than scalpers."
No Peter Molyneux joke as a follow up? You're slipping Larry!
He joked about Peter at the start. He said something like "Some people wish their games were good enough to be scalped", at around 1:03.
Oh I know, it's just that that was the perfect set-up for a double hit ^^
I have a friend who is a scalper. Amazon and eBay both have been cracking down on them. Amazon now only allows a limited amount of DVD and game sales per account and eBay is doing the same. He was so pissed that he had to get a job
Though he also moved from games to toys, which they've not cracked down on
Can you give your friend a big, special, gift-wrapped middle finger from me? Preferrably with a red bow. Shame he's forced to work like the rest of us and not benefit from forcibly taking limited stocks of things just to mark them up ludicrously high anymore, so figured he could use a gift. =D
A.C. Dragonlover I gave him a middle finger when he bought 6 fire emblem radiant dawn for $1 each and tried to sell it to me for $90
sounds like you've got some good friends
Anyone who does that shouldn't be your friend. In fact, you should punch him in the dong.
**casually updates the thumbnail to look relevant**
Edit: This is the top comment and the replies are a fucking cesspool
Lmao right? He has the cheek to call publishers “neurotic”
I was wondering why the thumbnail had a PS5 and the video is 3 years old, lol.
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed
Right, I clicked just out of sheer confusion
@@xehP you think updating a thumbnail is neurotic?
Me: I'm going to buy an amiibo!
Scalpers: *i'M GOinG To buY An AMiiBo!*
That one asshole: *i'M GoNnA bUy aLL oF tHE ROSalInA AnD LUmA AMiIBOs tO scREW OvER rosALinA fAnS*
*That wasn't even a joke, that actually happened
@@hideofreakingkojima5457 someone got mad when they lost a smash bros game so they legit spent over $3000 on amiibos just so nobody could have them.
I remember hearing a story of a girl and her mate were in a shop, a guy was following them because they had the last Ness Amiibo and he was hoping they would change their mind so he could get it and sell it for God Knows how much, they were aware and decided to take the piss by tossing it to each other before "Accidentally" dropping it, damaging the box slightly, he got SO mad at them for ruining his business and losing money as he left the shop
@@hideofreakingkojima5457 As a Rosalina fan, that one upset me. I worked Toys R Us during the amiibo craze and wound up buying one of each amiibo just because I thought they were cool and rare. Saw a lot of crap, but the exclusives to other stores were awful. Wound up importing a Rosalina from Japan because I open mine. I bet scalpers at the time would've cried if they saw all my figs (including Wii Fit Trainer) piled on a shelf.
@@hideofreakingkojima5457 Hopefully he hadn't bought as many of the the Rosalina figures as he could from ALL the sets that had her instead of only the Smash Bros Wii U/3DS ones.
You alliteration skills are top notch, Larry. But just barely below your Molyneux Mockery, your Peter Punchlines and your Scummy Salesmen Stories.
Hm?
And his Lionhead Lie-detection!
But, hello you!
This video makes me happy. I once bought six Xbox ones from a grocery store that had a small electronics section because someone in town was gonna do the same and mark them up. I got six receipts and sold all six Xbox ones for the price on the receipt to people in the community who couldn't have a chance to get one when the shops opened.
I saw the guy in line behind me and the look on his face was beautiful.
Heartwarming story. You are a good bloke Mitch 👍 fair play
i remember this one story about a guy who imported a shitload of tamagotchis back when they were starting to get popular, thinking he could sell them for a ton of profit...
turns out everyone else had the same idea as him so by the time he got the things, everyone already owned one and the guy was left with a big-ass container full of what was essentially electronic paperweights
LazyTomato he must still be sat in the container right now trying to keep all the buggers alive
And yet, no matter how many times we call out their shitty behavior, it's like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good and tactical you are, it's just going to shit all over the board and strut around like it won anyway.
And that's when you backhand it.
That is the best analogy I've heard in a while.
When a store buys 200k copies of a thing and jacks up the price, no one bats an eye. But when one guys sees an opportunity to buy 20 and seeks to make a profit by raising the price, everyone loses thier shit.
This is a brilliant comment
"Itsh Caaaaaaaaaaaaapitalismuhhhhhh...."
Pretty funny how this suddenly turns up in my feed 2 years later, with the RTX 3080 drama and all....
Scalpers are always going to be relevant as long as there are still parasites that contribute nothing to society out there.
@@deadmilkman121 Scalpers and cryptominers are the biggest bane to the hobby right now, and, to a man, they are all worthless parasites that don't contribute anything to society. This is a fact that I present without evidence, but you know I'm right.
Oh I was hoping the Wii U one would be included, played out exactly as the NES mini & SNES mini one did. Because it's predecessor the Wii had been so popular, out of stock and scalped at launch (near Christmas) the scalpers thought the Wii U would be the same, little did they know that Nintendo had managed to confuse everyone with it's name and no one wanted on anyway. Widely in stock everywhere it left scalpers with mountains of them and trying to return 'em back to stores for refunds.
I thought the scalpers didn't even touch the Wii U for the same reason barely anybody bought one.
Well, plenty people did want one at launch, so you're somewhat incorrect. Nintendo mass produced Wii U's in order to prevent a Wii debacle similar to what happened a decade ago, expecting the sales numbers to be equivalent to each other. There was simply no reason to go online to by one at a higher price when it was in stores everywhere....except European retailers, but that's a story that people seem to ignore and forget and people generally just incorrectly assume different things happened with the Wii U than what actually did happen.
The Wii-U is a _console?!_ With a name like that I'd always thought it was the toilet facilities in a German underground station! 🚇🚽🇩🇪😋
That Hannah Montana one was hilarious. Good vid.
Can’t wait for your follow-up episode about when the scalpers unexpectedly screwed themselves over by buying up as many PS5s and Xbox Series S and X’s as they can get their grubby mitts on only to discover some severe design flaw that renders their supply of launch edition units pretty much useless. 😂
It's why I usually have waited, from Ps2 onwards, a few months to get the newest generation. I waited a year and a bit to get my ps4 and in that time picked up a ton of crazy cheap ps3 games to tide me over and then chances are I'd get a decent console were much higher. I still havnt even thought of getting a ps5 yet. Probably be this time next year.
I remember picking up a brand new GC, a great bundle with 2 controllers, about 6 games,(Mario Kart, the good Starfox, some Zelda game, Sonic Adventure 2, Resident Evil Remake and something else I can't remember) and memory card, coupons and two game magazines for about 150€ at the end of the GCs life.
Why happend once to me and in month had replacement and so stupid buying any console first run or last run same odds getting bad system
@@Godslayer1975 good point. I am glad I waited for a while before my Ps4, I got a fat ps 3 and it broke, then replaced it with another fat one and broke again. Got a slim and still works. They seem to just get the kinks out and optimise the system after a few revisions.
There was one particularly shameless asshat on Twitter who showed a photo he took of his massive wall of PS5s he bought.
He said something like "$800 for discless $1k for disc version, dial in."
Less than a week later it came to light that his house was broken into and he was robbed of all the PS5s he had invested his money in.
@@R3SerialPro Apparently the guy wasn't smart enough to remember that it's probably not a good idea to announce to everyone that you have a bunch of valuable stuff in your house. Guess you can call it either karma or just stupidity.
Can confirm with Halo 2.
I have a mint condition Steelbook copy I bought for like $4 in a pawnshop a while back and they're only worth like $9 full retail on a good day.
I remember it was a month or so before Halo 3 was to be released and I think I got a steel book Halo 2 for cheap.
It came with the game and DVD, and the DVD is where I first learned of how the games were made.
And the usefulness of the of that DVD documentary has been reduced since it should be somewhere on UA-cam.
Thanks for the real subtitles, Larry! Signed, a hard of hearing subscriber
70% deaf user reporting in!
That sneaky thumbnail change
Scchh!
WHAT
I wonder if the person who started that rumor of the Hannah Montana game was a scalper with many copies and made to rumor to spike the value.
Haahaahaaa... I'm sure it would have been hilarious if that happened, after all he would have tried to spike prices simply for his petard to hoist him back when the rumor was debunked!.
@@megagustman I always have to look up what "hoist by your own petard" means whenever I see it, because it's the only time I ever read or hear about a "petard".
@@k-leb4671 A _petard_ was a small explosive used for blowing through doors or walls, that was current weapons tech in Shakespeare's time. To be "hoist by your own petard" was to be blown up by your own bomb -- hurt by your own scheme against someone/something else. The idiom's use in _Hamlet_ helped keep it in circulation, long after petards themselves had been forgotten about.
Came back to this video after seeing the recent reports on scalpers getting their due on the PS5s. So great when they get destroyed by their own greed.
This video made me feel less bad about my Halo 2 steel case being all fucked up
No need to feel bad its not worth the tin it cost to make it lol. I have both halo 2 was my life back then.
LOL! Gotta love karmic ass-kickings, especially when they're costly to scalpers too. Surprised the SNES classic was #1 on this...but MORE surprised a HANNAH MONTANA game got scalpled so absurdly at all.
Awesome updated picture with the dodgy looking dude holding a PS5 🤣
It's Fagin from Oliver Twist :)
its that time again
the new NVIDIA cards have been scalped
at least all 3 of them
And bot accounts have been making bids to push it so high that very few have been sold.
when do they realize it gets to at point where no one will buy it
And now PS5 as well.
It is that time again, right on time
Its about time for another scalping video.
There is a ton of content from this past year that he can cover.
I wish this kind of stuff happened more often. So long as it doesn't hurt devs at least, or at least hurt them far less than scalpers. .-.
I was extremely lucky to get a SNES mini this time around. I totally forgot what day it was even being released, and my boyfriend, who works at Walmart, texted me that we had 19 in stock for that night. So I hurried my ass to Walmart and was 12th in line. There was a woman there with her like 6 daughters or something and they all bought one and I'm 100% positive they were gonna scalp them.
I really doubt that woman said the truth when she say that those 6 girls were her "daughters".
The Gamestop I went to wanted me to show them my driver's license when I asked for a SNES Mini. I'm sure it was to prevent scalping. Needless to say, I only wanted one anyway. Didn't look like your Wal-Mart had measures in place. Congrats on getting one, though. Hope you're having fun with it.
Strange. I saw 2 SNES Minis and 4 NES Minis over the weekend at CEX in the UK. Maybe they're more common over here?
This local geek store had an NES classic last year and they were selling it at eBay scalping prices. They also had two Switches, but you had to buy two games along with it to buy it when it only had three fucking games out at the time
Man last time I was on Amazon, the SNES Classic was $145-$500. For the Nes Classic it's around $200-$1,000.
My local store I work at they are marketed on their Christmas catalog for $79. But when I ask about it, they don't know if they'll ever come in. I'm trying to be patient and hope they'll come in. I don't want to pay $145 for one.
Oh man. I'm glad I never bought stuff like this from eBay. But it's still funny to hear about people who tried to scam gamers, but to only have themselves be the ones to pay the price.
*something* *something* _PETER MOLYNEUX_ *something* *something*
Dragoon Inferner Every Fact Hunt vid ever.
Yea, the Peter jokes are getting very old and stale. We get it, everyone thinks fable is shit.
i only come for these jokes
The sad thing is that Peter Molyneux has a good record of releasing damn good games. So you have to wonder what personal grudge Larry has that he isn't targeting other developers with far less quality releases.
Oscar Velazquez And stay for the information.
I still don't understand why the makers of Steel Battalion didn't make that giant super controller for the PC instead. I'd have bought one just to use it for Mechwarrior games and space flight sims.
It was made by From Software, and they hate the PC.
Someone definitely should make something similar for the pc. It'd be a pretty damn niche product sure, so perhaps crowdfunding could be the way to go. Now that there's a new Mechwarrior game coming out, it'd be high time for a mech-renaissance.
I'd play the shit outta MW4 Mercenaries if I had a controller like that... Well, I do either way, but that just would be the tits. :P
Honestly, it's cool-looking, but having a huge brick of plastic controls like that isn't very convenient. I have a HOTAS which is just a pair of sticks that is much smaller and more practical for playing vehicle sims.
@@TheSeptet It was made by Capcom, not From.
@@TheSeptet wait, From? The ones who made that one Zelda-like game that everyone seems to think anything resembling difficulty is based off of? That one series that is about as overrated as Frozen?
Fuck them.
Wow! I have learned what Scalper means now. Thanks, Larry, good on ya for educating us!
I take it that when the PS3 launched over a decade ago for $599.00 US dollars, those people that got one or more, and tried to sell them for over $1,000 US dollars, are scalpers, right?
Thanks again.
k0ngbuster Yes they are. Also stupid choice on them. The PS3 was a complete failure at launch. Than the Slim came around and soon the PS3 outsold the 360.
I'm beginning to think that the first thing Larry does in his videos is come up with the Peter Molyneux jape and then construct the rest of the video around that... and I'm perfectly okay with that. Of course, Molyneux is such a plentiful target that they probably write themselves in most cases.
Baalrogg Good point. When a video is absent of a Molyneux reference, I feel like I missed it or Larry is off his game.
It just wouldn't be a _Fact Hunt_ video without a jab at Molyneux.
+Chaos89P rite?
I do read the captions, Mr. Bundy. Been hearing impaired for much of my life, and while the bionic implant means I don't have to -rely- on them, I still turn them on out of habit and to help catch words I might otherwise miss. Please keep up the good work.
5:42 3 years later from this video, only Argos exists in the UK & Ireland in retail form even though Argos can mainly be found in Sainsbury's stores.
There however Woolworths elsewhere in the world that are still around like in Australia (where it is a supermarket) and in Barbados where it split from the British branch and has operating independently since 1982. The Barbados one was established in the 1950s and stocked goods imported from the UK.
Toys 'R' Us has had its place in the UK Toys industry taken over by The Entertainer.
The GAME brand replaced the EB name at all former EB stores in the United Kingdom in 2002 and then GAME would go on to buy their rival, Gamestation in 2007.
I remember having to grab the little Playstation logo on the front of the disk drive and yanking it open to be able to switch games on my original PS2.
As someone who works in retail, I had a hearty chuckle at the "come back to this video" mention with the S/NES Mini debacle. The NES Mini can't seem to sell out now... They were being grabbed and we would sell out in literal seconds on a daily basis. Now we have like 40 of them just collecting dust. And I'm sure we'll get more in too.
This comment aged like milk on a summer afternoon.
“This does put a smile on my face”-Thanos
7:00 That might be one of the few times that it is warranted to make that comparison though, as Steel Battalion was developed by From Software, creators of the Dark Souls series as well as Armored Core, another at-times brutally difficult mech game.
Ironically, this shit is happening right now to those scalpers who bought SNES classics and that fucking sauce at McDonalds
Anyone that pays anything more than pocket change for something that is pretty much nothing but a meme from a somewhat popular cartoon deserves what they get.
As far as the sauce goes, that stuff was all free as far as I know (with any order I assume,) so they technically won't lose any money. I'm sure some over obsessed fan will buy the stuff on eBay for a ludicrously high price though.
Yeah, if there was any to fucking *get* in the first place. Seriously, a good number of restaurants didn't get *any* sauce. Those that did get sauce got like next to nothing.
SNES Mini is the subject of the 5th segment. Someone didn't watch the video before commenting.
Just make it at home.
Funny how this has been recommended to me during the scalping of the PS5 lmaoo
I'm getting that a lot ATM :D
@@Larry Fantastic video btw! Subscribed!
Super Mario Bros 2 was most definitely hard to find in 1988 because I didn't get it for Xmas that year but I did get two equally epic games instead: Blaster Master and Bionic Commando. I got it with my allowance/birthday money in early Feburary 1989 along with BurgerTime though!
That was probably an awesome gaming year for you friendo X) I got my NES system in 89/90 along with the "Mario/Duck Hunt" cartridge, but also with "Wizards and Warriors" and "Contra", sooo many memories 😊
Dayum, I actually consider those two way more superior to SMB2!
I have a feeling we'll be able to add super Mario 3d allstars to this list soon
Tanco plays I doubt it since the stores I visited have tons of copies.
People on FB in my area tried to do that....prices went from $120 for a sealed copy to $60 within a week....the real test will be in March....
Ps5 is definitely going on the list.
Just leaving a comment to let you know I ABSOLUTELY read and appreciate subtitles on these videos. They are extremely nice to have especially in times where I'm working on something and didn't quite catch what was said.
You asked for comments regarding this, so here it is. Thanks for all of your time and effort, CA Hunger Games winner!
And I've gotten used to them too -- a handy additional channel for the info to enter my brain, especially if I'm only half-awake. Thanks LB Jr, and all others who do it! ❤
fancy meeting you here, person from DST forums
@@bloopahVIII Heya. Small world here in UA-cam-land, eh?
0:06 Forgot to turn down the volume here.
That was more jarring than seeing Peter Molyneux with hair
Its fine, I consider the soundtrack of that game to be one of the greatest.
I happen to be a hug breaking Benjamin fan so I wasn’t complaining. 😋
Me:*sees tittle* wait scalping is still a thing?
Me after watching:ohh not THAT scalping.
Well, I guess that THOSE scalpers screwing themselves would not be Family Friendly content...
"Dog turds wrapped in human flesh." 😂😂😂
i love how you keep finding ways to take a shot at Peter Molyneux in the intro.
Loved all the N64 footage in this ep 😍
N64 Glenn Plant dude Buck Bumble and Mystical Ninja Staring Geomon 😌
Although for some reason he had the sound in the Jet Force Gemini footage playing
N64 needs more love.
I was working for eBay when that $400 PS2 got sold. It was allowed because the description was exactly what was delivered. The ad stated For Sale: PS2 Original Box and Receipt. The buyer got the PS2 Original Box and the receipt. The biggest issue was that NO ONE read the description and made assumptions that weren't true. READ the description CAREFULLY before bidding. Biggest lesson learned.
My favorite karma story: A lawyer bought some expensive cigars, insured them including against fire damage. Smoked 'em all, the claimed they were destroyed in a series of small fires. The insurance company balked at this until a young know-it-all paid him off. The moment he cashed his check, they nailed him for insurance fraud for intentionally destroying his property with fire.
One weird Scalper story I know of is where this guy bought up vast quantities of Rosalina Amiibos because he hated the character so much he wanted no one else to get one.
Lukethefox oh yea I did remember that,whatever happened to the guy
What a freak lol
Fuck Mariotehplumber!
Thats not really a scalper but that's hilarious
I was going to include that, but as he didn't want to sell them, he's technically a hoarder, rather than a scalper.
I've been actively reporting every local scalped SNES Classic I see on my facebook marketplace. Thanks for doing a video on the topic Guru Larry.
Kinda pathetic, really, these scalpers. They deserve what you're doing. Don't forget to tell people to check their local retail stores every once in a while to see if there's a shipment in stock. Justice has come in two ways here: what Guru Larry said, and your own fine work.
Yeah...except there is nothing inherently unlawful or rule breaking on the platform to list something you have on hand at a ridiculous price.
All his time wasted reporting isn't going to do shit except make him feel good about himself for essentially doing nothing.
Snitches get Stitches
Reporting for what? Yeah it's scummy. But I'm pretty sure it's not illegal or against any rules of Facebook. So I'm not sure what you think reporting is going to do.
Thanks, I thought it might make an interesting topic, especially as no one has covered scalping from a historic aspect before!
I had an original model PS2 and it lasted me for a long time - about 3 years. I remember how upset my mom was when GameStop refused to sell it without us also purchasing an "extended warranty" 4 months after launch that would let us just outright replace the PS2 in case it died. It was an extra $100, but it was good for 3 years. Towards the end of that, the disc tray would occasionally get stuck, but that was easily remedied by sliding a post card slid into the top. My mom reminded me of the warranty when I complained about it, so we took it in and got a free brand new PS2 almost 3 years after we purchased it. LOL
That's crazy they refused to sell it to her. That is surely illigal? I guess you got them back since you replaced it just before the warranty was up, but that's a really scumbag move on GS.
Im from Dublin and last week I was in Belfast. Same island but a different country and now out of the EU... Its a 90 min drive and every year I go for a weekend of Christmas shopping. Anyway I couldn't find anything I liked in Game(a game shop that predates Gamestop) but missus wanted Spyro for the Switch... So I go to pay and the bloke is pushing this membership crap on us...wanting like 18 pound upfront and a monthly fee after... I said 'no, I live in the Republic, we don't have Game anymore...not worth it'... He spent 2-3 minutes trying to persuade me that it would be worth it!
I was being polite and couldn't believe how much he was pushing this and taking up time.
Because it was a busy Saturday evening, thhe place was jammers...i just got annoyed and firmly stated 'I visit here once a year. I rarely buy games in shops. The only reason I'm getting this is because it just happens to be in stock and she wanted it. No I won't be making trips up to Belfast to buy games and no I don't want to spend a single penny more than the price of this. No ifs ands or buts, I don't want to hear the benefits again, I don't want to hear about savings.. I just want to buy the game and leave'
He stood there for a second until I said'Yeah can you ring that up for me we are in a hurry'...
Cheeky little cunt didn't even say thank you or goodbye. Just silently completed the transaction and didn't make eye contact! Had a huge pout on him! 😂 I'd say he was 24-25 or something and was sulking! 😂
The family behind me heard it all and as I was leaving I heard the mam say 'and I don't want any of that membership thing either OK?'
@@mccarthy5825 Larry covers the reasons why GameStop did it: Subquality components and/or manufacturing. Heck, the clerk at GameStop told us that about half of the consoles they sold were failing. I suspect that people were shoving them into little cabinets in entertainment centers and killing them with heat, but I knew at least two people who had the controller port failed and they took damn good care of their stuff. I got lucky and had a good one, but I can honestly say I've never been disappointed or ripped off by buying an extended warranty. As for being illegal to not sell, in the USA stores have the right to refuse service to anyone they want so long as it isn't a violation of the law, i.e. race, sex, or religious discrimination.
@@TheZoenGaming thanks for the reply 👍 oh it's the same here, like you have the right of refusal for anyone for any reason , but I just think it's a very predatory practice to literally force someone to pay extra for a warranty. I wonder how many people only had enough for the system and had to walk away. There's no way they would get away with that now!
A neighbour of mine went through like 4 360s in a month. All from the same shop. They were so used to it they barely questioned it.
I reckon it will be this time next year before I think about a PS5. They are very hard to get here... My mam is retired but she got a job working for a huge toy/video game superstore chain until Christmas and she was saying that they get a small amount in every few weeks and every single time, no matter how quiet they keep it there's a huge line of people waiting for it. All night even. She's well used to getting consoles and the 'it' toy or game each Christmas, since my mega drive in 1991 and she said she's never seen anything like it. A few weeks ago there was a big fight for the last one. A young lady with a kid in a pram got it and a few people started on her... They had to get security to bring her to her car and make sure she got out OK.
Hopefully the chip shortage and supply problems will go away and a slim version comes out so it won't be an expensive nightmare to try get this console!
There's a few videos I've seen of incredibly modded Ps2s and Xboxes. They are jailbroken, have big hard drives and just full of emulators and Ps2 isos. Seem well worth it.
@@mccarthy5825 The PS5 is hard to get anywhere. 🤣 Same with the Series X. I almost never buy a console when it first releases. Actually, now that I think about it, I remember buying games for the PS2 for nearly a year before I had the console... That might be why mine lasted so long. I'm going to have to double check with my mom about when we bought it. I hope she remembers.
@@mccarthy5825 Okay, she says we bought it in Feb. 2001 so it was indeed 4 months after launch here in the USA but nearly a year after the Japanese launch. Oh, and the warranty was only $50 for three years.
The only good scalper is a scalper who's losing money
FinalFantasySete or a dead one
Nah, just leave em alive and with a massive health debt. Better that way :p
I'm still amazed that my launch day PS2 survived for 7 years.
I went through three in five years. the best console ever but damn it had a short use life
I've been pretty lucky with consoles. My bread bin PS3 lasted until a couple of years ago and my OG 360 is still going.
Funny how the "cost-reduced" slim version turned out to be so much better quality-wise
Facebook's pretentious pages: _"Buying something for 1$ and selling it for 2$ is called Business"_
Literally everyone else: _It's called a scam and everybody hates scams_
Um. Thats how a store works? They buy tomatoes for a few cents and sell it for about a dollar.
This comment aged like milk
Perhaps I didn't phrase this correctly but this is a scam when you're buying them off someone else already distributing this and already taking the effort to create what you're selling AND distribute it themselves
and you just sell it higher to profit off of something they could get at their original price otherwise
@@Jack_Woods soo... like how a grocery store buys food from a distributor (usually refusing to buy their products till they nearly expire to get them at a lower cost) who buys the food from the farmer.
I meant this comment aged like milk because we have people who are basically scamming and scalping items for the sake of fear aka the virus.
Fb businesses are not stores. Most of them are scammers or sellers from China that give you bootleg or low quality products.
You deserve so much more subscribers, your channel is a hidden gem and you've got a lot of great content you make lists out of! You don't make stuff like "Top 300 Facts You Already Know About Mario" and you do your research on all the interesting topics you cover. You've earned yourself another sub!
How to "beat" scalpers:
Don't buy from them!
LiamNimble
This. To all the people who buy from scalpers, you're part of the "problem". And so is Nintendo.
Nintendo isn't the problem. They've had two failed console launches in recent memory (3DS and Wii U)
Both systems were properly stocked and they saw stagnant sales. By limiting the stock they are able to move all the units they produce and create more demand from the public. (It's a safe tactic)
This is what Toy manufacturers do around Christmas to appear as the "Hot Toy for Christmas" which then creates more demand for the product.
A tube sock full of wood screws works too, or a nice sturdy branch
Shotgun lowball all of them on ebay. One of them will crack.
IKMNification
Nintendo knows for a fact that these are hot items. Not so much with other 2 consoles you mentioned. Otherwise they wouldn't announce they will have enough snes classics for launch.
Hell, you make it sound like it's hard to ramp up production on these things in short notice. The nes classic was scarce for months. And don't let me start on the amiibos.
Had an In-Game scalping event recently in World of Warcraft. If you had "Legendary" items below item level 1000 in your inventory you would obtain an in game currency for certain activities that could be used to obtain upgrades for your current legendaries. Once you had all your items upgraded, the currency would stop coming in. Then Blizzard announced that in an upcoming patch you could use that same currency to obtain new legendaries you did not yet have.
There was some legendary items that were made by players, and if they made them in the past before the previous patch they would be under item level 1000, and so the currency would still drop for you. So any of the lower level legendary items for sale on the auction house were all bought up by scalpers and marked up 3 to 5 times their original price. Within a few days Blizzard introduced a hotfix into the game that changed it so anyone of max level will ALWAYS have the currency drop for them no matter if they had any legendaries to upgrade currently or not. So that players could stockpile the currency prior to the patch that allowed them to then buy the new legendaries.
Therefore leaving all the scalpers with large piles of now greatly devalued and sub-par items, as no one wants to buy the item you would have to spend a bunch of game time to upgrade again toi max level. I sure hope a bunch of them lost millions in gold in their little scalping attempt.
With how protective some companies can be of their properties, and how much they want money, I am surprised that many game publishers create scenarios where scalpers can thrive. With how protective Nintendo is with their IP, even with fan projects or fair use, you'd think they'd work harder to combat the scalpers who make a profit off their work.
The Super Mario Bros. 2 shortage was legitimate because of a Chip famine in 1988
pieman19 a similar story to the switch, this also happened with a few snes games which is why some licenced games are more common on the genesis
Sure, but some cases have good reasons behind them and clearly aren't that, such as with SMB2 and the Switch.
Maximillian Lylat, one story that comes to mind about that is Toy Story on the SNES.
xXL3g3NdLaloXx It may be naïve, but where is the evidence ?
Most of the time I have no idea what your saying, i just come here because your voice is the only thing that keeps me grounded to reality when I’m hammered.
And I waited patiently for X-Mas 2003 to get my PS2. Best choice my parents ever made.
I finally got mine in the summer of 2004, which was the SCPH-50001 model, and it more or less works flawlessly to this day with the exception of a minor control port issue.
"The Settlers Platinum Edition" was a limited edition steel casing, too, and released a year earlier ;) Though it was a collection of all Settlers games up to that point, so not a new release.
Dog turd wrapped in human skin hahahaha. I love that lol!
There is also the story about The Devil's Third. It only came out in specific regions and was quickly bought by scalpers. The thing has that the game was kinda shit so no one wanted it in the first place, so the scalpers sat on tens of copies I a game no one wanted in the first place.
It wasn't even "KINDA" shit. Devil's Third was god-awful.
Seems like Scalpers haven't learned their lesson since they seem to be doing the same thing with the PS5. Wonder if history will repeat itself with the PS5 having the same launch problems with the PS2?
Now they are doing it with Pokémon card packs in fucking McDonald's happy meals. Can we move to Mars now and leave these useless parasites behind.
@@deadmilkman121 voting with our wallets is the only way to beat these scum unfortunately.
I'd much rather wait for months or emulate a game than give a cent extra to c*nts like scalpers.
I remember years ago a guy that either had some inheritance or was wealthy enough went and bought a ton of wiis around Xmas time. Easily 100 or more. Then he sold them at cost(and shipping) to parents so their kids wouldn't be disappointed. Only one per customer too. Funny thing was of course people had to rip into him and say he was wrong and not fair because people are free to make a profit and all! 😂
@@mccarthy5825 good luck emulating a ps5 lmfao 🤣
@@wolfetteplays8894 eh no I didn't mean that. I meant like for example the way publishers are pulling classic titles and then reselling them to you, like GTa and now Sonic... Id rather emulate even PS2 stuff than pay publishers for the same game again. Or instead of paying scalpers for new games just wait.
Scalpers are truly the worst humans on earth.
Say that to those who have tickets to concerts and you didn’t have money to buy them early so you need them the day of
Scalpers can be good but I hate flippers
@@badvoodoo2097 don't defend them
@@badvoodoo2097 there’s always a few hundred people who buy concert or sports events tickets for which they planned on attending but last minute couldn’t for whatever reason so they sell them - this is *not* a scalper. They’re neither hoarding nor hijacking the price of tickets. Hell a lot of these people that can’t attend the concerts end up just giving away their tickets, my bf and I got front row seats to a Tamp Bay Lightning game this past March because a total stranger on FB gave us their two tickets since they were out of state and couldn’t go.
those who don't understand how basic economics works are worse to me.
Amusingly enough, you can hack the Wii without any game disc at this point. :-P
At this point yeah, but they had no idea how to, without the help of a game back then
literally did that to a wii last weekend
"Subtitles by Larry Bundy Jr (please let me know if you read these!)"
I do Larry, and I appreciate you taking the time to write them instead of leaving it up to auto-generation!
The PS2 came out on my birthday that year, so naturally, being a 12 year old kid, it was what I asked for for from my parents. We went down to what was then Electronics Boutique on the day, and there was a queue right through the shopping center. So as a kind of hail Mary, we tried the local indie shop. The place was empty and they had a bunch of them in stock. We just walked right in and bought one, then took a smug stroll past the queue for EB with it XD
I like the new thumbnail with the PS5.
I remember buying a lucina amiibo for $50 on ebay because all the stores in Australia sold out & I was fuming when I walked into a game shop months later to see that they had reissued the amiibos & I could've had one for $20 instead. Serves me right for not being patient.
Man last time I was on Amazon, the SNES Classic was $145-$500. For the Nes Classic it's around $200-$1,000.
My local store I work at they are marketed on their Christmas catalog for $79. But when I ask about it, they don't know if they'll ever come in. I'm trying to be patient and hope they'll come in. I don't want to pay $145 for one.
who ever started the Hannah Montana one is my hero...
A brother in law gave me the Halo 2 Collectors Edition a few years back when him and my sister were cleaned out old stuff that they didn’t want.
You should've totally made a joke about Peter Moleneuix's "scalp" (i.e. his head)
Lol hannah is happy she thought everyone loved her game hahahha
8 months later, I can literally walk into any Walmart to get a SNES classic mini. I waited in line for them and now anybody can just get one
Ha, I knew you'd mention the SNES Classic, just didn't expect it to be so high up! Great video as usual, Larry! Keep up the good work and thanks for continuing to inspire me! I just reached 500 subs myself! ^_^
Congrats dude!!! :) Hopefully things will start speeding up for you!
What gave it away? It couldn't have been the man holding one in the thumbnail, absolutely not
Haha, nah I briefly exchanged words with Larry's Twitter about it before he published the video a few days ago. I was just continuing on from that conversation. Aside from that though, I guess that would be a big hint, right? Though you should never always judge a video by it's cover. :P
Thanks! Really appreciate the kind words. :)
no one cares + good job on spoiling the video , twat
It's assholes like this who ruined eBay. Honest sellers are now automatically punished because any scammer can buy something, then claim "item not as described" and get their money back, costing the seller the shipping, and/or the item. I have experienced this first hand.
Favorite part of the Halo 2 limited edition: it came with a DVD that I had to play on my PS2!