spmbx wrote:Personally i'm hoping for prices to increase by 3x or so, it's honestly getting amusing to see some people blow so much cash on their pcb e-penis
What's the fun there for the hobby guys who actually buy it play the games?
The amount of CAVE's shifting hands the last months has become less and the [WTB] posts increased.
rancor wrote:Every time I got to MAK / TRY / G-Front / Beep!, etc.. I see 2-man teams of French and Italians (and yes - STV, many times) leaving with huge shopping bags completely stuffed full of PCBs and Saturn games. I really do think that mainland Europe is driving this madness.
I was just there this afternoon, and Akihabara is more foreigners than Japanese.
That's sad to know but we can all see it on eBay and I'm lead to believe there is a lot of resellers onfacebook as well but I'm never gonna join to find out.
I do thinks stv absolute greed did a lot of this damage to prices, as for a very long time ,if it was "any buzzword game/company he bought /bidn on it" I've limited money to spend on this hobby and this stuff just drove me out.with the above stuff and retro being cool now and numerous bulk buying resellers it's just not fun anymore
Greed is /has always been in this hobby but it has ruined it now for me.
I don't mind small time resellers that are involved in the hobby as they are helping us get some games which is great....
Even faulty stuff is starting to get stupidly expensive - there was a Rainbow Islands that finished today with no sound - and it still went for about £200 before fees & shipping.
There are still some bargains to be had though - I just scored an X2 & Lindbergh Yellow for less than £180 for the pair.
I'd forgotten about that.
but we can all see it on eBay and I'm lead to believe there is a lot of resellers onfacebook as well but I'm never gonna join to find out.
