80% of the games I own I've found at second-hand shops. Whether it's little mom-and-pop game stores, or larger chains like Mega Media Exchange, that's where I would purchase most of my games. I'm not a big fan of paying full price; I can wait a few months for that 'hot new game' to be traded in by someone who gets bored rather easily.
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Ebay has made up a huge part of my collection. Best Buy, Circuit City, Target and Toys R US also help, but lately Goodwill has afforded me some other gems I needed.
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Originally Posted by THE 1 2 P
its not on the poll sp have to put it here...my vote goes to all of the above
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Lately Target is where I'm getting teh majority og my stuff. This is mainly because they have been clearancing their video games for the last 4 plus months.
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I've been getting my stuff from Next Level Videogames in NJ, or I'll go to GameStop if I need something new Nick doesn't have. I go to flea markets, yard sales, and Goodwill but I have the worst luck, but DKTheArcadeRat has all the luck and beats me to all the good deals.
I've never bought anything, ever, from eBay. I hit the thrifts. I developed a nice little pattern for a couple of years. Hit the stores north of me on one day off, and the stores west of me on the other day off. It would take just an hour or so to do that way. Nowadays, I tend to hit all the stores at once. I rarely find anything anymore, since there's so many damn eBay resellers out there buying up anything they can get their hands on. I only buy things that I'm interested in. I'm constantly passing up NES games since I don't care about collecting or playing them. I just wish I could find more Colecovision games, since I've gotten into it in the past year or two.
There's a few classic game stores popping up around the Dallas area for me to shop at, but most of those don't cater to the golden age of games. They rarely stock anything older than NES era.
I love to hit flea markets, especially when I'm on a trip out of state. There's a few I always look forward to stopping at, and a couple that are always duds. Still, when I've been driving for six hours, it's nice to stretch the legs and walk around a good flea market. I usually leave empty-handed, unfortunately. But that's okay, it's still fun.
I buy most of my stuff anymore from private sales (mostly online but from individuals not stores) although I buy some stuff locally at shops. I do virtually no shopping on ebay anymore (used to do a bunch but I find I can get better prices where I don't have to compete with global competition on games.
Now all my stuff is coming by way of clearance from Target, Sears and Best Buy.
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Me I would say that 60% of my stuff come from ebay, a 25% from boards just like here and 15% from retail stores
The Play n Trade near me is my local hub, but I have found that good trades and sales can be made right here. I also eBay and chase around the fleamarts.
I voted second-hand store, though it's a close thing between that and eBay.
...Though not as close as the poll is right now.
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Ebay for the most part, those rare or obscure games are hard to find in the wild for me. I do frequent Game Over Videogames, which is a retro gaming store, and the occasional trip to a retail chain.
I broke the tie! I used to go to pawn shops a lot, but haven't had the chance in a few years. The Play N Trade around here is pretty decent though!
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A bulk of my collection has come from garage sale finds, Game-X-Change, and Gamestop. Occassionally, I find something worthwhile at one of the 2 pawn shops in town, but that doesn't happen very often anymore.
I mostly do swap meets, and a little bit a thrift stores, and only for hard to get titles do i resort to ebay
Usually from pawn shops, the swap meet, or thrift stores.
Lately, I've been getting my games either off of here, or from ebay. I haven't found anything great at a secondhand store in awhile and when I do, it's usually way overpriced. Nothing beats winning a CIB game off of ebay for only .99 cents because nobody else bid on it!
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I use to get most of my stuff from ebay but for this generation in particular I've been getting the majority of my stuff on clearance from retailers such as Sears, Target, Toys R Us and Best Buy. I get a few things from Goodwill but nothing on a consistent basis because they are really hit or miss.
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Play N Treade, the internet, Flea Markets, and other one time places.
I am no longer collecting games and am winding down my internet activity significantly.
For me, since Im currently trying to build up the more classic collections for systems, Im going to Trade in stores a lot (I do anyway), one of them, called Home video I visit almost every week, I dont buy things every week, I build up my money and then spend a bunch in one go to enhance the ammount of stuff I buy to make less trips :P I do use Retailers as well but not nearly as much right now.
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For it depends on the age of the game. I buy almost all of my new games on Amazon. However, sometimes I get them on eBay or GameGavel. All of my old games come off eBay, GameGavel, or here simply because there are no stores I know of selling old games.
For used games I go to a game shops, second hand stores, thrift shops, and pawn shops.
For new, I go to Wal-Mart, Zellers, Future Shop, Bestbuy, or Gamestop/EB Games.
I get what I can from yard sales but I find myself coming home empty handed time and time again (game wise at least). It's tough down here, I can't wait to move back north...
Don't discount the deals that can be made on gaming forums like this one. While I haven't been around here long enough, it appears, to get access to the market place, I have done a bunch of deals with other collectors on sites like Atariage, Sega-16 and KLOV (not only for arcade stuff btw). People typically know what things are worth, and are usually selling to fund their continued involvement in the hobby. Furthermore, buying from other collectors usually means that you're getting stuff from people who care about their games and consoles. While it can be luck of the draw sometimes, in terms of whats available, I have been able to snag a Master System, a bunch of Vectrex stuff, and a ton of Colecovision, Genesis, SMS, and a mess of r4/r5 2600 carts in the last few months. Ebay can still get the job done (recently picked up a StarWars Arcade cart for 2600 for 10 cents) but the shipping alone can be a killer (I think I paid 50 times more the purchase price to ship the aforementioned cart).
Wherever you score your games just have fun doing it. The hunt can be the most exciting part. Its just that the hunt may mean not just finding a game, but finding it for a reasonable price...and that, unfortunately, has meant avoiding ebay sometimes.
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