Is it possible to find rare games at Gamestop?

[PapaStu]

Are you sure GQD got a reprint produced? Because some of the copies I've seen had trashy manuals(an obvious mark of a "real" used game and not a "gutted" used game). Also, if someone really reprinted this game I'm sure they would have made enough supply to satiate demand and kill the ebay overcharge price in the same way that the Gamecube Resident Evil reprints and PS2 Rez reprints killed all their ebay over pricing.

I'm not sure that they have, but considering the number of stores i've got around me, and the number of copies i've seen in these stores, coupled with what you said I just took it a step farther and assumed GQD was at it again.
Only other thing I can think of is that I know back in 04 Capcom moved (ie sold off) a big bunch of old stuff to my local Indy game shop (like 2 pallets worth of stuff, with many copies of games like BoF3 and BoF4, Buster Bros Collection for the PS, and all kinds of Saturn,Sega CD and SNES/NES/GB stuff as well) and that was a warehouse cleaning kinda thing. Maybe they did it again with their PS2/XB/GNC stock but sold to GS. They don't normally hoarde stuff out like that, even when it is coming from the DC's, but who knows anymore.

[TonyTheTiger]

Ar Tonelico got a reprint recently.

Yeah, I know. That's what I was shooting at. In the long run, with GQD running around and with online pricing now effectively becoming the benchmark for sellers, buyers, and even publishers, price is not so cut and dry where you can safely assume it'll go up (or at least not drop) if you just sit on it for a while.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who had Dragonball GT: Final Bout and sold it for pennies before DBZ really took off and kicked themselves later. But I'm sure there are also those people who were sitting on a copy for a while, waiting to sell at "just the right time" when all of a sudden Atari re-released it destroying the game's value. They, too, are probably kicking themselves.

[calthaer]

Every time I have found a somewhat rare game at Gamestop or other brick-and-mortar stores, I used their online search to check the store's inventory. Perhaps the low-level drones who man said stores have since gotten wise to this and now nab every Ogre Battle PS1 (or whatever) that comes in - this was a few years ago that I did this to obtain Ogre Battle and some other semi-rare PSX game.

[DJ Daishi]

still waiting for a twin snakes reprint GQ!!!

[Deadman]

Well, I went in today and took advantage of the Xbox B2G1 sale and found a few more obscure titles:

Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure
Final Fight "Streetwise" by Capcom
Pro Cast Sports Fishing Game by Capcom

Also found but didn't buy:
Guy Game
Obscure (trashed box/insert and no manual)
Jurassic Park Operation Genesis (Same as above)
Psychonauts
Dai Senryaku (bad, bad condition)

[DigitalSpace]

Unless it was really beat up or something, you should have bought Psychonauts. Excellent game.

[Deadman]

Unless it was really beat up or something, you should have bought Psychonauts. Excellent game.

I already own one in really nice shape. This one was also complete and in good shape, but I just didn't need it. If someone else does, I can always go back and get it.

[DigitalSpace]

I already own one in really nice shape.

Well then, disregard my previous post.