**facepalm** **grabs whack-a-spoon**

good advice. I get sick off all the easy answer crap in the price check area.

Bella, I fucking love you.

If you would have come to the campout Wednesday night, you would love her more... that's all I'm saying.

If I had means or knew someone who went that lived locally, I probably would've been there. Just saying.

You just said what I've been thinking for the last couple of months, good post.

yes.

No math needs to be done to use my guide. Thanks for posting but it seems my revealing how I arrive at accurate prices has screwed everyone up. I apologize.

Ill go edit then. Thanks

You read my mind! Except why "write" when you can use a spreadsheet to automatically add for you. Nothing annoys me more than hitting the wrong damn key on a calculator and having to start over.

Some people are just to lazy IMO. Personally, I just scan the list for any big players, then multiply the rest by $2-3. If they are asking more than $2-3 per game in a big lot, then it really isn't worth my time.

so, to get this absolutely clear. The Price Guide does not include shipping costs?

I have been a bit confused about this since there are no games in the guide that costs less than 3$, while in reality there are lots of .25$ games on ebay, many of which are not even sold at that price

It doesn't count unsold games, and it's an average of sale prices.  If two copies sold, one for $7.75 and the other for a quarter, the guide price will be $4.

Ross,

You and I love her the most. 

Yea but I married her!!!

So in other words, you love her long time...

It's kinda common sense, yet oh so uncommon. *face-palm*

good work Bella!

Are people really that offended by price checks? If a new guy posts a list of 150 games it could take him an hour or two to set up a spreadsheet and manually enter eZine values. Or it could take one of us resellers about 2 minutes to answer with a good ballpark figure of what it is worth.

I don't mind helping out the new guys, it's the habitual offenders that get annoying. Don't post a price check on every single CL lot you see.

No, this is not the reality. Any game that has a shipping cost over $2 has the shipping cost padded by the seller. People "win" a game for a penny, then ignore paying $4 or even $6 for first class shipping that costs two bucks.

The issue is when you give a man a fish, I think.

Double for CIB?

CIB isn't covered in the guide at all.

I kind of agree with Jone here - I really hate the "What is a Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! cart worth?" threads, but I totally don't mind helping someone with less market knowledge with a large lot. If someone is price checking a 100-cart lot, I can give them a good price range within a minute or two, as opposed to them taking a half hour going through 1 by 1.

I don't mind helping people out at all

This is what I was trying to say in the other thread. There's nothing wrong with posting a lot of 100 NES cart-only games and asking for a price check. It would takr an hour to look up all the prices in the guide and add them up, and honestly, you don't learn much that way. The price guide is fantastic for smaller lots or individual games, but there is NOTHING wrong with asking for a quick answer on a large lot.

The poster could spend an hour adding everything up, or 30 seconds posting the list, and other users can spend 30 seconds skimming the list. Eventually, the poster will learn more about values, all the while using the price guide for smaller references, and they will learn to skim the lists themselves.

In short, this "guide" is fine for smaller stuff, and if someone has the time, larger lots. But when there are people willing to help save someone time on a forum, why say there's anything wrong with it? If it annoys you, just skip the CL price check posts. If everyone was annoyed and stopped helping people, eventually they'd have to add it up manually.

My favorite part was "clogging up the boards"