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I recently picked up a Red Complete in Box with all of the paperwork. The box is decent to good condition along with the paperwork. The cart and label are in great condition, and look just like new. I already own red cartridge, and because of my purchase, I now have 2 of them. The difference is that the one I owned prior to this purchase, was my birthday gift when I turned 7... and I held onto it for all of these years because that game took me to a whole new amazing world that really ramped up my love for rpg's and gaming in general. I used and abused that game. And as such, the label was tearing off. The box and paperwork/manual are long gone...
Now on to the purchase: I paid about 70$ for it. I normally see a comparable go for 100+. I was able to get it for 70$ because I waited for about a year, and slowly hunted on Canadian eBay. I knew exactly what I was looking for: the Canadian dollar is currently .74c to 1USD$. I waited a year to find a Canadian who had made the mistake of listing a BIN at roughly the USD$ value of the game CIB...and would be paid in Canadian Dollars. (This arbitrage gives me a 25% discount on the game). The person should have accounted for the 25% differential between the Canadian dollar and the US dollar. 99% of people do this... but I knew if I waited long enough, I'd find the person that slipped up.

I bought the game CIB so that I could feel EXACTLY how I did decades ago on that night of my 7th birthday... and you know what? It didn't disappoint. It felt great holding that game again, and remembering exactly how it felt to read through the book sized manual that came with it, overly excited to pop the cart into the gameboy and start playing.

The overall point I'm driving at here:
There is a difference between collecting and investing. And while the two actions can coexist, there is an art to doing it the right way. In my example, I wanted the game so that I could literally time warp myself back to those feelings of excitement the night of my 7th birthday. But I executed the purchase in a way that may or may not allow me to at least recoup what I paid for it, and maybe even a bit more, should I ever decide to sell one day. I work 2 jobs, one on wall st.. and I see people mixing up the definition of what it means to truly invest in something all the time... and my answer is usually the same every time.
Patience pays.

My 2 cents ]]> Are gameboy games with box overpriced? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=184276 2019-06-03T11:04:59 -05.00 14u2ponder 53 Are gameboy games with box overpriced? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=184276 2019-06-01T19:25:32 -05.00 14u2ponder 53 Originally posted by: VmprHntrD

I don't either. On the original gameboy I've got a CIB copy of Final Fantasy Adventure (square version with the poster), Super Mario Land 2, and Pinball Dreams. I have a few others with manuals though, and one sealed Pokemon Red version. GBC is about as thin too again with a couple complete, some more with the manual or manual and poster. GBA I think I have the most complete for and that amounts still to less than 10 and more titles with the manual still too. That FFA has just about doubled in price recently. Even a bad cib is going for about $80. I think I paid $56 at a video game store, and I kinda thought I was paying too much. It was a trade though so I did it, only to find out that one just like mine went for about $100. You can get good deals at shops these days if they are going by pricecharting alone. I got Astroboy Omega Factor for $48 recently and could probably get $90 to $100 for it on ebay now. So.

]]> Are gameboy games with box overpriced? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=184276 2019-06-01T00:17:47 -05.00 14u2ponder 53 Are gameboy games with box overpriced? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=184276 2019-05-31T08:48:50 -05.00 14u2ponder 53 Are gameboy games with box overpriced? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=184276 2019-05-30T20:48:05 -05.00 14u2ponder 53
It already was a behemoth to collect for even if you were going in on the cheap with game alone because there are so many releases it's ridiculous, even more if you go into the region specific stuff outside of the US into Japan and the PAL territories. The real problem is just paper as pointed out, especially the cardboard paper because handheld games were seen more as throw away value on anything but the cart more than other stuff due to their handheld nature. More manuals and a hell of a lot more boxes would get pitched. Gameboy is the one Nintendo system I really bother to occasionally buy something for still you can find freely around as it's not a headache and wallet wrecking to find something nice to do. ]]> Are gameboy games with box overpriced? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=184276 2019-05-30T19:08:05 -05.00 14u2ponder 53 Originally posted by: jonebone

Just be thankful that there isn't as much GB demand as NES or GB prices would be 3 to 5 times where they are already. The rarest GB games make the rarest licensed NES games (other than SE) look common. Some GB boxes you will just never get unless you pry them out of a collection with an above marker offer.

If you are solely worried about return on investment then stick to auctions not BINs. That doesn't mean they will appreciate but you typically get a more fair price at auction vs BIN. But then you have to wait for titles to come to you instead of getting them in the order you want.

As a Kid Dracula owner, if you can get it Near Mint CIB under 700 I'd say you did a good job. As a seller I wouldn't sell a Like New one for under 1000, too rare and in demand. Castlevania has a large following. After a few months of educating myself on the issues, I have to say that I somewhat disagree with this statement. First, over the last 4 years, nothing in the Nintendo lexicon of games have went up FASTER than the Gameboy CIB have. According to gamevaluenow, Gameboy has tripled over the last 4 years, whereas the NES has only doubled. The demand is actually there.
What makes people think that the gameboy is cheap, or less in demand is that the loose carts are around $10 on average. However, over the last 4 years, even the loose carts are beginning to travel north. This (in relation to the SNES loose carts) which haven't moved in 4 years.
I personally feel as if the gameboy system is quitely becoming a bohemoth to collect for.
The point is that gameboy boxes are going up fast. It's probably going to be real hard to even collect loose pretty soon.

]]> Are gameboy games with box overpriced? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=184276 2018-10-19T16:33:32 -05.00 14u2ponder 53 Are gameboy games with box overpriced? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=184276 2018-10-18T16:45:01 -05.00 14u2ponder 53 Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

Originally posted by: alekx

Originally posted by: DaxWills

I haven't seen anyone mention it, but one of the reasons for lack of complete copies is GameStop/eb made a decision to throw out all their boxes to save room. That's was easily 100k+ boxes/manuals/inserts right into the trash.

What year was that? I didn’t think they even had gameboy cibs in the store any longer at that time.

Yeah, I thought that was a decision for them to throw out DS and GBA paper/cardboard.

Don't think they were still dealing in GB/GBC at that time.

This is why GameStop was always a pain. You had company policy, but then you had a lot of store/district/region policies. I started right at the time of the merger when the first set of rules came out to make the companies operate the same. My first store was so freaking small that I was immediately told to throw out every handheld box/manual and sell cart only. The previous manager was eb and he had piles of games in the back that weren’t in the front because the store was a shoebox sized thing. So the entire time I was there, we tossed all handhelds. But that’s becuse I just kept with that decision whenever I changed stores because I preferred the uniform look. But it wasn’t official policy to do this. But I also wasn’t like going rogue and the only person doing this. But some stores kept boxes long after that. While others did both. Ultimately if you had the regional or district managers backing you could do either.

Sorry don’t mean to ramble just throwing this out there for future reference if anyone needs it. You’d be amazed at the stuff we threw out over the years. ]]>