Thread 11945137

I swear to god eBay sellers are fking incompetent. Also if I buy one more “brand new” item that’s clearly been used, or “excellent, like new” item that looks like shit I’m gonna lose it.

And don’t even get me started on these idiots who sell “original” games that clearly aren’t even in a PS2 DVD case.

Also, eBay seethe thread

Don't you have a nice stack of Nintendo Powers you could be reading instead of occupying a perfectly good catty spot with a other one of your garbage threads?

>>11945141
Most recently collected a big stack of PC Gamer magazines actually. The Nintendo Power stack is nice, but I’m in a 1998 to 2005 kick right now

Ah—eBay, that great digital bazaar of the modern age, where treasures of yesteryear mingle freely with deceit, disappointment, and the faint smell of someone else’s attic. One enters with the bright-eyed hope of acquisition—of locating that rare, pristine relic long thought lost to time—and yet, more often than not, departs with only the bitter tang of betrayal.

For lo! The item described as “brand new” arrives with telltale fingerprints, hairline scratches, or the unmistakable scent of someone else's home—evidence, irrefutable and damning, that it has indeed been through things. And “excellent, like new”? A phrase so elastic as to be rendered meaningless—applied indiscriminately to items that appear to have been lovingly dragged behind a truck.

And the boxes—heavens above, the boxes! An “original” PlayStation 2 game housed in a brittle third-party DVD case, its cover art a pixelated inkjet travesty, its disc rattling loosely inside as though begging for dignity.

Thus is born the eBay seethe thread—a digital venting ground for the jaded and the wronged. Posts abound, each one a miniature tragedy: mislabeled, mistreated, misrepresented. “Incompetence” is the word tossed about—perhaps too generous, for it implies a lack of skill rather than a complete absence of care.

In short—buying on eBay is an experience teetering between archaeological dig and emotional roulette. One is not merely shopping. One is gambling on hope—and far too often, losing.

>>11945150
Related note: after being a ChatGPT purist for the past year, I recently gave Gemini 2.5 Pro a try and it blows it the fuck out of the water. Upload some source world files, character notes, tell the model to have its own ego and goals as the narrator and respect the ego and personalities of your characters - and watch sparks fly. Whether role playing for fun or nsfw, it absolutely fucks openai’s shit up. I was skeptical too until I finally gave it a chance.

>>11945141
This thread is fine. Ironically I suspect you're the derailer here
>replies to a thread on a slow board in 2 minutes
>unhelpful snide remark that immediately attempts to switch the topic to arguing (I see the irony)
>can't actually point out anything wrong with it
This is a pattern. Anyway
>>11945137 (OP)
A guy once sent me a picture of some GBA carts upon request, only he took them while they were on the corner of the table and his completely naked save socks body was visible in the background. Even better, I could see natural light so he must've been on a porch or near a window. He wiped his account and accidentally sexted a friend of mine by proxy when I sent her the image I hadn't realized the contents of for a second opinion

>>11945163
Fucking disgusting. I am so paranoid about my backgrounds when I sell something. I think it’s important to communicate - hey, I’m a real person not a mass reseller and also I have enough sense to put this on a clean looking background. I judge the fuck out of the item’s likely quality based on how clean the background of the picture is. Also be aware of items from the Deep South and East coast - tons of fucking humidity and general nasty hoarding types. Use extra skepticism

On a CD the laser-reading side lacquer is thicker than the layer between the label and the data, so if I had to pick one, I'd take scratches on the reading side since they're less likely to actually reach as deep as the data
That table surface doesn't look rough...though just like OP I associate putting discs anywhere but a drive or their case with carelessness
The fifth and sixth images appear to be showing the state of the other side of the disc, so the guy doesn't seem oblivious to the concept

>>11945137 (OP)
Most small eBay sellers are retards who only want to make a quick buck by selling you garbage at an inflated price. You'll see many wonderful things like cracked screen handhelds advertised as "Grade A" accompanied by pictures of the item sitting in their disgusting lap with their filthy living conditions shown in the background. Never buy from someone who lists their shit like this unless the deal is really good, and remember that you have the seller by the balls. Open an Item Not as Decribed case if they are trying to sell you garbage without being honest about the condition in the listing, and even if it says 'no returns accepted' they will be forced to take it back and give you a full refund at no cost to you

>>11945368
I don't know if 600 is the going rate these days, but a variant of this is rare because there was a bug in the original release that would delete your save sometimes and the only way to get the fixed one was to request one by mail. I forget if you had to send in just a receipt or send in your old bugged copy, but either way it was a cumbersome process that almost no one did so a vast majority of the ones floating around are the bugged version. This is also widely considered to be one of the best wrestling games ever made so that doesn't help the price go any lower

>>11945137 (OP)
Dude who cares just emulate it for free

>>11945368
It's 600 dollars because neet-mc-micro-dick wants his tendy money and thinks his games that are only 30 years old are now equivalent to 50 year old rookie baseball cards.

>>11945137 (OP)
the transparent side is thicker and more durable than the label side, which the data is pressed onto the reverse side of.

none of it matters for (You), because you'd mod your console if you wanted to play the games instead of put them on a shelf and jerk off

>>11945428
Nah that copy I your picrel isn't a -1 which is the glitch less and rare version of the game. But overall your correct

>>11945383
Yeah I'm aware it's still 600$. Problem is I don't know why you wouldn't just get an overdrive at that point.

>>11945457
Rarity doesn't determine price, demand does.

>>11945137 (OP)
If you actually gave a shit about video games rather than wanting them after youtube made it trendy you would've got all these while they're cheap. Now, if you want me copy of SH4 I got for $10 in 07 that'll be $150+tip.

>>11945137 (OP)
"It's the top that has the data on it bro." - people who do that

>>11945467
Yeah it does. If you have a rare game, one guy can corner the market and set his own price.

>>11945608
Someone has to want to buy it too dipshit

>>11945608
Not if there's no demand. How are you people so dumb when it comes to markets? No wonder you complain about capitalism all the time. You don't even begin to understand it.

>>11945617
Show me a rare game that nobody wants to buy

>>11945368
He doesn't know and so it confuses the retard.

>>11945636
Nagano Winter Olympics '98 for Nintendo 64

>>11945636
>>11945648
Whoops wrong game I meant
Olympic Hockey '98 for Nintendo 64

>>11945635
How are you so dumb? The person who corners the market creates the demand by buying up every listed copy. I've literally done this myself with an under the radar game which has increased 300% in price in a year. Every console game ever released has at least SOME demand and some retard will come along eventually and pay the new price.

>>11945656
Thanks just bought up all the copies

>>11945467
Well pseud anon, the intersection of supply and demand is really where the price point comes from. But thanks for your econ 101 low iq interjection

>>11945558
Sorry, I was busy being not quite 3 years old when YT was created

>>11945675
You fucked up anon

>>11945679
He fucked up by saying he is 22-23 years old?

>>11945704
No but you fucked up by not recognizing a joke

>>11945669
That's cool. I have a sealed one upstairs in my case that I paid $3 for.

>>11945660
I think you watched one too many crypto scam videos. That's how people like you get dupped so easily.

>>11945679
I know. I'll go kill myself now

>>11945714
I'm already a few hundred dollars in profit. How about you, still seething on /vr/?

>>11945730
You made a bad decision anon, don't kill yourself over it, just try not to make the same mistake again

>>11945731
>a few hundred dollars in profit
I owned and operated a store for fifteen years.

>>11945137 (OP)
as someone with a copy of this who has finished it, this would not be any great loss.

>>11945137 (OP)
reminds me of the marble table fag that posts here

>>11945137 (OP)
I see youtuber put cd's on table and slide it a bit when they pick it up, a lot of zoomers do that. I see people like this the same way I see people who don' t have an inner voice since they are doing an action without thinking.

>>11945301
Yes technically, just put in on something soft like some paper or the game case. Probably their flipper course told them to display games like this. I guess if you grew up spoiled and got a new game each week you wouldn't care.

And why do I do see some many collection videos showing an absolute mint boxed console or whatever and they are just sliding all over the table scuffing up the corners.

>>11945318
A lot of the time its people no knowing what they are selling but it can be good because it saves me having to go to all the garage sales.

>>11945428
If that's your screencap then deleted it you fucking retard.

>>11945656
>>11945648
>tfw i have both of these for psx

>>11945137 (OP)
Oh and since we are having a cautionary tale thread, look out for this seller “suzycarolyn”. A shady as absolute fuck reseller who buys used games and polishes them up and tries to pass them off as new. All “unused” from “their private collection” of course. Once I ordered like ten games from them at once and they asked me to just order a few at a time so they could get them in. It’s a damn scam, and these people should be given zero business whatsoever. And if they contact you to buy, simply refuse to sell to them because they have a history of scamming sellers for partial refunds too. You can Google the account name and find endless complaints about them across the internet.

>but anon it’s just one seller I’ll probably never see them.

But that’s the thing - you WILL. They have listings for every. single. used. game, regardless of whether they are actually selling the game. It’s a fucking scam and eBay should have shut them down long ago

complaining about the prices will never not be funny, you desire the damn thing they're selling, try not wanting the damn thing

>>11945707
my mistake. normally jokes are funny.

>>11946360
A lot of Japanese sellers do that kind of dropshipping. They relist the inventory of Japanese stores for twice the price, then buy it if some idiot orders from them.

>>11946450
I like this.

>>11945192
Based noticer.

If a listing looks slightly unhygienic, has bad lighting, bad info, etc, I ain't buying none of your shit.
If I contact you with some questions and you have broken english or take longer than 12-24 hours to respond, I ain't buying none of your shit.

These people think they have you by the balls, because they have a piece of consoomer plastic from 20+ years ago you really want, but you gotta have some self respect and tell these niggas to fuck off and learn how to sell and communicate like humans.

>>11945137 (OP)
kek
when you buy it it will get knocked loose in transit and the disc will just be flopping around getting scratched as fuck loose in the dvd case (ruined)

they are fucking retards who no longer care about the item as its no longer theirs anymore.
a piece of paper folded is 1cent. a cd envelope is 25cents

they are faggots