buying games just to resell?

[AUSyTyIN]

Yep. You are terrible. I've done it too so I'm awful as well. Sorry to have to let you know that.

LOL, well played sir.

 

[Spyridon]

Flipping a game for profit is fine. I just don't like people that buy a game and when it doesn't sell in three days, they part it out.

 

[cabsR4pimps]

I wish I could make some money flipping games around me, but the only thing anyone buys in my area is Meth.

 

[chuchunesme]

Why does everyone on KLOV exist in constant tact crisis?

If you need real life, bill paying cash then this hobby is not a sound investment and I suggest finding some perspective (unless you're going huge like the major distributors/retailers). Go find something else to put your money into.

If you're swooping up public deals underneath people just to Windex and flip the next day for a mark up, yeah, your friends list isn't going to grow. It's your right to do it, but "rights" don't shield you from coming off greedy and self serving in an otherwise communal hobby.

Re: Jehuie "Sitting on it for 6 months" tends to work because everyone winds up under the impression you got your enjoyment out of it, put some elbow grease into it and you're looking to move on. Even your Astro Attack was done (from my perspective) more out of interest and curiosity for the thing than profiting off of "suckers that didn't get there first". Hardly what I mentioned in the previous paragraph.

Now go into your garages and play/work on some games.

P.S. people profiting isn't the problem...so stop confessing like it is a sin. The issue exists in how you go about it.

I have a good job and make decent money, I miscalculated my funds and with my recent Cruis'n Exotica purchase I'm short the money I need for my move. I know I can make the move and I'll get by, I just don't want to borrow against my next check to do it if I can avoid it. I agree that arcade games aren't a very good investment, unless you get a rare machine super cheap. My original plan was to grab the pin, shop it and sell it. My main thing was I wanted it super clean and fully functional when I sold it but after that work it would kill me to see it roll out the door. If I didn't like the game or pin it would be a different story but the TFTC is a favorite of mine. Oh well, I'm not going to flip it but shop it and add to the collection! Now if I can only find a cheap Star Wars.......

 

[ArcRevival]

Flipping a game for profit is fine. I just don't like people that buy a game and when it doesn't sell in three days, they part it out.

That is why I buy games to flip. So they don't fall into the wrong hands and get parted although here in Idaho no one seems to be parting them. I will be buying and flipping games in CA, better to buy and flip than have them get bought and mamed, parted or made into a 60 in 1.

 

[RayWest]

I have done my share of buying and reselling especially when you buy in bulk chances are you are going to resell games.

Very true, say you get 5 games for $500.00 and there is 2 games you want to keep. The other 3 are worth 200.00 each if resold. Do you sell them for 200.00 each, make a profit of 100.00 and end up with 2 games for free? Or do you sell the 3 games for 100.00 each? Then you spent 200.00 on the games you wanted and you have some piece of mind you didnt do something unethical?

 

[chuchunesme]

Very true, say you get 5 games for $500.00 and there is 2 games you want to keep. The other 3 are worth 200.00 each if resold. Do you sell them for 200.00 each, make a profit of 100.00 and end up with 2 games for free? Or do you sell the 3 games for 100.00 each? Then you spent 200.00 on the games you wanted and you have some piece of mind you didnt do something unethical?

I agree, if you buy some games in a lot but don't want a few then by all means flip them. I know people get all pissed if you buy something cheap and resell it for a reasonable profit but my thought is if you found $100 bill is it worthless because you didn't pay anything for it? In all honesty, if I came across something that I wasn't going to buy I'd pass it along to someone else here. I'd also be happy to go check something out or even pick up a game or part for someone off the board if no one else was able to do it.

 

[cadillacman]

ive done it.. i still collect though too.

Whenever i can get a good deal, if its something im not too interested in personally i will pass it on here first, cheap. I make a little money, that lets me buy gas for next conquest heh..

case in point the only purchases this year so far were champ sprint and lethal enforcers, sold one dirt cheap, traded the other for a game i wanted more.

Myself and the two folks i dealt with are all very happy. win-win-win in my book.

 

[PrairieDillo]

Basically I totally disagree with your quote below

"life is about money and the easiest way to make it"

+1

that type of statement is what's wrong in this world IMHO.

I think that buying a cab to flip it is a bad way to go. If you buy it and fix it to put value into it or save a cab, then flip it... it's ok... Most people don't know how to save/fix cabs so you do the hobby a service in that case.

I've seen working cabs sell for $150 or less... get sold and relisted shortly afterwards as a 60:1 or in the same condition with more money.

This CL guy sorta local to me is just horrible.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/tag/2638738060.html

He's constantly flipping and is shady... he says it's for his "half way house" but I don't believe it. He just takes in teen age kids off the street but he isn't under the regulations of anyone. There's something errie about his place. Don't make me say it.

 

[yellowstitch]

"life is about money and the easiest way to make it"

I must be selling the wrong games because its a pita to sell them and the profits is awful.

 

[local413]

Speaking of 60-1

Someone mentioned flippers parting games and turning them into 60-1's..
Last year I saved a mint HUO Burgertime that was on the block ready to be parted and turned into a multi game

Problem was, the guy couldn't get a decent price for his classics.. We are talking about $350-500 for mint games.. So instead of giving them away and losing what he paid for them.. He decided to multi them.. And get his money back, plus some..

Thankfully I was at his place at the right time.. One more day, and this amazing game would have been someone's man cave toy..