Trying to see if anyone bought from this website... http://www.ntscco.com.hk/ps.htm Place looks legit for a chinese company, but I just wanted to be sure if anyone was brave enough to buy from a place like this. The reason I'm asking is because I'm looking for PlayStation cases - the clear blue one to be more precise. This is the only place I can find one that has them. They even have a TEST PS2....
I wouldn't hold your breath. The last time I checked up on these guys, they didn't have anything in stock. Most of the "rare" stuff you see on the website isn't even sold by them anymore. It just looks like they keep them on-line just to attract people to the site. And on top of this, when I asked at the time, they only accept direct bank wire transfers. Nothing preventing them from taking your money and sending you jack.
Right, they only update their site to add new items in, they never remove sold items so nothing is ever in stock. Despite them selling used products, the pictured items are never what you get either so I suspect that they hunt down many items *after* you order them. I've continuously tried to order from them every few years but it's always such a hassle between the lack of stock/poor communication/their reluctance to haggle on substantially overpriced items that I've only gone through with it twice and got mediocre results for all the effort with the bank transfers. I think the reason they are the way they are is because they're one of, if not the most, prominent piracy hubs in HK. This was and likely is still where all their profit and thus priority lies hence their questionable support and abundant shadiness.
I've been to the shop and they have a small window with some retro stuff in but most of the shop is basically PS3, Wii, GBA, PS2, etc.... They also didn't seem to interested in selling any of the retro stuff when I asked them...
In the late 80s they sold consoles converted for HK use, early Famiclones, primitive copiers, tons of bootleg Famicom disks (disks labeled "NTSC"). In the early 90s they sold copiers and tons of ROMs on disk. From the late 90s until I suspect today, they sell modded consoles, tons of CD/DVD-R/silvers, ROMs on disc and flash carts. Shops like them used to survive on sales of ROMs/copied discs and still may, I'm sure they're not surviving off the overpriced rarities they dabble in or the scarce online order they get.
you missed out "when you can download all the romz you want, yoo hoo hoo and a bottle of rum" at the end of the sentence. People still buy cartridges.
There’s nothing special about the shop. Most of the businesses they got previously were from rich collectors who thought most of the rare stuff was worth paying for, when in fact, they were overpriced and easy to find in Asia. There are loads of stores that have better items and stock than they do. Its just most don’t have websites because they don’t want to attract the wrong kind of people. If you’re really looking for retro items, you need to go to local area stores in the poor areas. Most of those places cater to the lower class who can’t afford PS2s, Wii’s, etc (At least in China). Usually you’ll find lots of older stuff.
you missed my point. I have a fairly large retro collection. My point was, people go into this store, and pay REAL money for a CD-R with ROMS. Not "Why buy games when you can download roms". It was "Why buy roms when...roms are free anyway"
I don't think many people buy ROMs today as much as they're given them when they purchase a flash cart. I also don't think the people who'd buy ROM discs are very savvy or care enough to find games on the web, they're just your casual gamer where piracy is the norm.
