Championship Dreamers Thread II: Hyper Adverts Retro Gaming Edition!!!

I'm dying, the game isn't even included.

The person commenting on it has told him it's worth 130, is it really? I would have thought that a boxed one would struggle at 130. I stopped selling on adverts about a year ago so maybe prices have just rocketed?

Speaking of which, have CEX always been unrepentant gougers or is this a recent thing? When they landed here you could expect roughly sold listing on Ebay kind of prices but they seem to be charging that +15% these days.

CEX are largely overpriced and serve to set a market floor. Which has been detrimental to those of us trying to collect in general.

That being said they are massively underpriced on a select few things also (some PSP games spring to mind, but only pop up rarely).

That being said, at least they have some stuff of interest and you can trade. When I was trying to build up with Wii collection, I found that any non shovelware game was madly expensive so I ended up buying complete Wii bundles to get the games I want and trading the Wii's and the shovelware back.. then using that money to buy more expensive stuff that I wanted but would not in a million years walk in there and pay cash for.

Speaking of which. Anyone looking for about 9 Wiis ? Lol.

She's a cracker alright, always a nice follow-up punchline in there as well with today's being the €50 postage casually tacked on.

Look at their sold ads, this stuff is actually shifting by the looks of it.

That's where collecting crosses the line and becomes a full on disease. Zero fun at that level.

The buyer. The "need to have it all" at any cost just isn't enjoyable.

Re obfuscation of sold ads, half of me thinks that's to cover shill buyers, and/or abuse the bumping system.

Was thinking a bit of that, but what's there looks legit, so figured it's a mixture of the bump thing mentioned and protecting prices. It's bleak reading regardless.

I'm in a bit of a hole for cash and was going to put up my snes collection on adverts, so a question to the masses here:

Has the world of collecting gone completely insane with prices now?

It's gotten to the stage where i'd feel like Dick Turpin if i put it up for anything close to what's being asked. Has covid skyrocketed the prices or is it just greed at this stage? I'm genuinely curious as i wouldn't be able to afford to begin collecting now and i'm working full-time and am in my 40's

Yeah it was already on the up as Inviere said, covid has had a huge impact too - across the board with lots of collecting hobbies, people just had more money to spend as they weren't going out/going away and were sitting board at home browsing the internet with loads of cash!

We might see a little bit of a cooling off period, watch collecting is cooling off a bit after prices going through the roof due to covid. Hard to know though.

Do you have many rare/valuable snes games? If I were you I'd start by putting them on ebay first.

Yeah you're right, I'll stick em up on adverts this evening and see what happens. Sure it'll help pay the gas bill either way

I'm increasingly finding it harder to decipher what's being posted with an Adverts tax and what's actually just a mental price.

12" Monochrome Monitor for 120 yo-yos: https://www.adverts.ie/other-computers/vintage-philips-monitor-monochromatic-12/27091742?utm_source=email&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=SearchAlert

Unless it's some of sort of collector's item I'm unaware of

Aye...even with any courier/duty costs on top of a freely available new one, it's taking the piss

Controller included might give some leeway, but not much, especially if you have others to hand. Great controllers TBF

I think if you're willing to pay 300 for one, (as if you get stung for the customs it's gonna bring it up to about that, and all things being equal, id take it into account), then new I'd say it's a no brainer over a used one.

Don't see any indication how old it is, how much use etc, but in any event its over the odds for what can be purchased new right now as you say. It's the Super NT that's far more inclined to be hard to get. Simple systems, so not much can go wrong, but I'd be far more comfortable with a fresh one.

I do love the M30, which may be hard to find in the 2.4g model (havent checked of late, but they certainly disappear from the likes of Amazon pretty sharpish), but as you say, there are many, many options so it's not a deal clincher by any means. Certainly not at 50note more.

MAME cab going for €1500 that looks to have consulted a checklist of ways to get featured on this forum.

People aren’t actually paying these prices, are they?

Managed to get a good deal on the shipping for the jaguar

http://www.adverts.ie/26950966