How is sosafan2 getting these prices? Congrats Dan!


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Have prices gone WAY UP on these games since 6 months ago.....or is he into some Voodoo shit?!

Maybe new collectors who will pay anything ?

I'm looking at some of the recommended related auctions and all I can say is that dude is way overpriced for the norm.

i think part of the reason being that he is a trusted seller. I'm very please with all my purchases with him.

I can kinda see your point, but at the same time, you can get these much less by taking a gamble and usually, there really isn't much of a problem.  I'd rather pay 50 bucks and take a chance than shell out a good 160 bucks on a guarantee, that's a wide margin. Besides, part of being a trusted seller is offering your customers a good fair price and that's not really the case here.

It's the holiday season don't forget so someone probably got this for that special NES collector.

Hehe..please don't double the price, your games are too sexy to resist and you might make me broke AGAIN. To be honest, i never buy any high end stuff with sosafan. But what joey said is quite true, some of the popular games are way above the normal price. 

Ahh okay, I guess I won't since you asked nicely. 

Newbs love sellers with uber high feedback, more than life itself sometimes.

Tis the Season to gouge like a mofo.

My Shantae and my N64-USB Adaptoid are going up there. I know I could pull around $150 on the game, and the range is nuts on the part going from like $150-250 on it. Tired of sitting on them and Shantae has been getting low ball offers only so far.

Proof, that Christmas is JUST around the corner :-p

Its all about his huge feedback,people are willing to pay more money for an item from a seller that has a huge feedback score on ebay then someone who has a small one.

When you have 1,000s of items, you don't want to price them low or even "fair", because then they'll sell too fast and you'll be out of inventory. He intentionally prices a bit high so items sit and he can maintain his inventory.

Also, MM2 and MM3 have definitely spiked a lot over the past year. When I was first collecting, I assumed MM2 was about $20-$25 as a CIB, MM3 about $15-$20. Maybe $10 more for a Minty copy.

Nowadays, I wouldn't sell a Minty MM2 for anything under $50-$60, or a Minty MM3 under $40. Those games have practically doubled in CIB value... probably because those are the favorites in the series.

Wow, didn't know that about the MM2 and MM3, good to know. Thanks Jonas.

Sellers like him gouge new collectors and people buying for others that lack the knowledge most veteran collectors have. His prices are criminal even with the fees he has to pay to Ebay and Paypal.

If those are the going prices for games then I'M RICH!!

Yeah if those rates are real, we're all ready to get made big time. By his logic my 135~ NES game pile of nearly all loose and 1/4 with manuals probably has a value into the thousands easy and I don't even have a rarity better than Bonk's Adventure to my name.

I wonder what my Panic Resturaunt would go for?  I'm rich biyach! I gonna go golfing with my NEW friends. Haha.

With this guys idea of prices, you probably could buy one of the smallest independent countries in the world.

Man, you guys really need to tone down the language choices on here. "Gouging", "criminal" and your general lack of respect for someone who's a member on here and a long-time reseller is way out of line. A lot of people have gotten parts of their collection through him, and he's always been more than fair.

Edit to add:  And you are an idiot if you think these prices are not market-value for the Christmas season.  It's this way every year.  So grow up and quit bitching that someone's making a couple bucks.

sosafan is good in my book. don't knock it 'til you try it.

no need to knock a good guy, guys. no need for this thread to be closed either. kudos to the man who's making bank. It's what he does for a living, and com'n, we don't knock peoples' well being.

^no doubt, guys. Sosafan2 is considered one of the more respected resellers around, an all-around good guy, and also a long-time member here. You must have forgotten DK Oldies and DiscountGames, both of which had questionable tactics and track records. Sure some of his prices are high, but this is a full-time business for him, and it's also the holiday season. What Jone mentions is very true, that if you price too low, you will definitely be out of inventory quickly. I made that same mistake myself when I first started reselling. Some of the better items will always be priced higher than "market" so that they can use those items to drive traffic to their other listings. It's just common sense, and there's no need to flame him for this common reseller marketing tool.

Not sure who you're referring to here Jon, but hopefully not me. I never suggested Dan was a criminal, I actually said "congrats" in my OP. I was just very shocked that he was getting sale prices that "seemed" much higher than actual values to me.

I can also see the point that some are making that new collectors or people buying gifts for others are at a disadvantage and buying something for much less than it is typically worth. But if sosafan isn't trying to convince buyers that these are going rates and is just listing his shit and its selling, I can't really find fault with that. I certainly over-paid myself on a handful of games when I started collecting and part of your job as a buyer is to try to educate yourself as much as possible on fair value.

And I honestly have no idea what Christmas market value is because I just started collecting CIBs this last January.

Nesguy's comments were obviously directed towards the 0 feedback new user, hence the quotes of "criminal" and "gouging". No need to be offended.

But if you want something today, you pay a premium. Simple as that.

Sure you can wait for a 0.99 auction to pop up and win it for cheaper, but if you are buying for Christmas, you probably don't have that luxury. Or in the case of a game like Duck Tales 2, there will be a point where there are no CIBs on the bay and your $175 price tag might get a bite.

It's smart from a business perspective, but it may piss you off as a collector. Which is perfectly fine because you aren't obligated to buy from him at all. Move along and go about your business.