5 Oct
2003
5 Oct
'03
3:50 p.m.
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, TeoZ wrote:
Its (almost) funny how much people will pay for an
item when they have
money burning a hole in their pockets, and how much they will let things go
for when they dont. I think the economy going down the last few years has
killed alot of the "rare" retro gaming market, or maybe the fad is over. I
Thank gawd. It was rather annoying. It's nice to be able to buy things
at sensible amounts again (at least in most cases).
personally like huge fads like this because while the
prices rise everybody
digs the rare items out of the attic, and when it falls you can get the
items for very little money (for the long term collector). Its when the
Exactly. Which is why I always preached against using eBay to price stuff
or to even buy stuff from. If you learned your lessons of patience as a
youth then you should have eventually gotten what you wanted at a much
more reasonable (and REALISTIC) price.
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