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The Price of Retro Games

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  • #62
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,912 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Shill bidding and market manipulation is the only thing they deny. The shill bidding is a stretch but the video points this out but I think that the history of the companies employees with regards to shill bidding is very damning.

    Market manipulation on the other hand is kind of a nebulous thing to prove but I think the video pretty much says all there is to say about that one.



  • #63
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,123 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117801576#Comment_117801576

    eBay is the only way to really get proper cash for anything you have. Adverts is still just a car boot sale in comparison really!



  • #64
    Lemming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,174 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    @johnny_ultimate wrote:

    "Here is Heritage Auctions' response, in the interests of balance. Unsurprisingly, they refute it. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/report-alleges-auction-and-grading-fraud-is-behind-recent-surge-in-retro-game-prices/"

    From the above article, for all the claims that Jobst did not contact them prior to publishing his video/article, the following tweet would seem to disabuse those particular claims;

    https://twitter.com/karljobstgaming/status/1430560971169275906


  • #65
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 53,912 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    If I was him I wouldn't take up their offer for a tour of the business. With their shady past it would be the same as being a Saudi journalistic critic taking a trip to a Turkish embassy.



  • #66
    lmimmfn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭lmimmfn


    Enjoyable video interviewing Karl Jobst on his video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5kemY-Sjsk

    Ignoring idiots who comment "far right" because they don't even know what it means



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  • #67
    Lemming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,174 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117803946#Comment_117803946

    Oh, it'd be spun mercilessly for PR. As transparent as it may be, why give them the opportunity to begin with.



  • #68
    Jack burton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,798 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    I've seen a whole heap of stuff recently tearing every almost ever aspect of the price increase apart.

    Crazy times.

    If you ask me I think a lot it's just newer people with too much money. Im in a few Facebook collecting groups, one UK based Sega one, so many middle aged people there who only started a couple of years ago dropping £1000 on the likes of Death and Return of Superman and Pirates of Dark water.

    I really do wonder what's going to happen when the bubble bursts and there's another huge recession. Because I do think a big one is coming. Looking way beyond retro games, when the sh1t hits the fan are these people still going to hold onto their £1000 game investment or will they sell it for a loss?


    Whatever the case I'm cracking I sold a large chunk of my rarer mega drive games now. Although the pinballs they have been replaced with are also going insane in prices. Ones that were usuall 1500-2000 are now being sold for around 3000 in some cases



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