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Anyone else noticed that there's alot of 'wishful' pricing? Been seeing alot of insane prices over the last couple months and nobody is buying them.
 
Anyone else noticed that there's alot of 'wishful' pricing? Been seeing alot of insane prices over the last couple months and nobody is buying them.

Are you talking about here or somewhere else?

I know CL is always crazy but lately everything does seem to be overpriced. I think these "reality" pawn and storage shows give people the idea that they have a goldmine with their 30 year old Ms Pac Machine.
 
prices on the local CL have been both decent and crazy, i don't think they've really changed. just jealous of the $300 super pacs i have missed in the last few months. i really need a bigger house.
 
It's funny. 10 years ago prices where kinda high. Then prices started dropping quite a bit as the economy took a dump. Now, if the economy starts getting better and prices start going back up, people start bitching? Yeah, it sucks if you're buying, but you should hope they start selling that way if you ever need to sell...
 
I think its a combination of reality shows and people trying to pay their mortgage. Years ago, you found $50 to $100 deals because people just wanted to get rid of their large "paperweights". Now, they are trying to survive off their little "goldmine".
 
It's simple, people need money now, so they ask a lot. That is the ones that think they have a gold mine on their hands and don't know any better.
 
Anyone else noticed that there's alot of 'wishful' pricing? Been seeing alot of insane prices over the last couple months and nobody is buying them.

Hey..every machine is a rare classic...and if you don't buy it at my ridiculous price..I'm..I'm gonna part it out and burn the cab. :p
 
You dont have to buy it. Everyone cant give everything away. Maybe they bought it high when the prices were high the first time around. Its the sellers right to sell what they want to sell for, Us as buyers can either buy or not buy. Cant blame a person for trying. Everyone price police's to much. If a game can sell for x amount of dollars, Why would they give it away just cause you think they should. If you got a great deal and want to pass it on to the next person, Great more power to you. But if you can make a few bucks on it, Whats the big deal?
 
Right, I've had an eye on CL for a while. I gave up on Ebay other than parts.

Are you talking about here or somewhere else?

I know CL is always crazy but lately everything does seem to be overpriced. I think these "reality" pawn and storage shows give people the idea that they have a goldmine with their 30 year old Ms Pac Machine.
 
Anyone else noticed that there's alot of 'wishful' pricing? Been seeing alot of insane prices over the last couple months and nobody is buying them.

I've seen allot of "wishful prices" since I started collecting 15 years ago lol. The phenomenon will never change or go away.
 
It's shows like 'Storage Wars' that make my skin crawl. Just makes me want to really get my stuff out as quickly as I can build another garage or something. Now THAT show is scary.
 
That's part of the problem anymore. They won't say no. They won't say anything. Dickering is a lost art. In the given scenario, you still want it, maybe even badly. Seller has an asking price, you make a counteroffer - he's supposed to come back and eventually you both hit somewhere in the happy middle. But with email - you send an offer and you don't hear a darned thing back and risk further contact. Crickets begin chirping.
I've had this happen once or twice and when it did I didn't want to risk the entire sale so I agreed to their initial asking price. Low and behold all the communication started up again.
But on occasion, I mean if the price is totally out of whack, there's just no negotiating it. If they're asking $600 for a nonworking $200 cabinet, it'd be like slapping them in the face and they won't respond well :).
Funny that someone mentioned 'gold mine'. I once knew an op that took us to a barn where I actually discovered my Warlords buried under rat poop and hay. He wouldn't sell me the Missile Command upright, claiming that was his gold mine there. :D

You can always make an offer. Worst they can say is no.
 
Unless you find a Cube Quest or something, a) more will come along and b) the seller will likely sit on it at that price. Just find another.
 
I think it's retail superstores that have really numbed people to the concept of bid and ask. You come across the same prices for items wherever you go and only have low level retail employees who have no negotiating authority.

I'll try and justify my offer price (needs such and such replaced, or going rate is whatever). If they're unreasonable or say no after that it's just easier to move on rather than get emotional about it.
 
You dont have to buy it. Everyone cant give everything away. Maybe they bought it high when the prices were high the first time around. Its the sellers right to sell what they want to sell for, Us as buyers can either buy or not buy. Cant blame a person for trying. Everyone price police's to much. If a game can sell for x amount of dollars, Why would they give it away just cause you think they should. If you got a great deal and want to pass it on to the next person, Great more power to you. But if you can make a few bucks on it, Whats the big deal?

When I was still searching for a Pump, there was an eBay seller that had a Pump DX that was missing a whole bunch of stuff. No monitor, no marquee box or arches. A fun restoration project if you find the parts. He would continually list it, BIN, for $2500, month after month, never lowering the price. Why did it piss me off? Because it was exactly the kind of project cabinet I was looking for, take an old beat-down DX with a dead monitor and restore it beyond its former glory, the icon risen again... but there it sat, at a price point well beyond the going rate for working, complete DX cabinets. I eventually traded locally for a complete GX that needed a handful of major repairs, because the deal was right and I was tired of waiting.

Would it be priced reasonably, I could save it, and make a proper restoration out of it. Instead, almost a year after I first set eyes on it, it's still there, waiting somberly for its clueless seller to just give up and burn it. I will shed a tear when that day comes.
 
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