my collection of cool....

working fine, with it's manual. (and yeah, the manual is in great shape.)
what's so unbelievable about it?
maybe it's because i'm not in the us.

 

lol, probably. Where did you get it?

 

in a video club, they were selling their psone tittles, like 2 or 3 years ago. i don't know if the game was rented alot of times, but the cds are looking good. sure, there's some little scratches there and there, but it runs without any problems.

i didn't even know you could sell it over ebay for that price. i took it because i wanted a rpg, and because it would add to my psone rpg collection at the same time.

why this ridiculous price (55$) for that game anyway? is it that rare?

and you're not obligated to believe me, AWS. But why would i lie anyway?

 

It got rare when Enix merged with Square and said they were going to stop distributing Enix games. So, If you got it before the merger, but a while after it was new (Maybe a period of 6 months or so), you could have gotten a decent price for it. Its worth a helluva lot o money, now. $100 Buy it now on Ebay, but it will go higher than that in bids to perhaps as high as $250. It is a very desirable game in these times.

BTW, PhreQuencYViii , Sorry havent played Riviera yet, but I love the boxart! I think I will like it, though.

 

ahh. don't remember if it was before or after the square and enix merge though. But i doubt my video club would have cared anyway, every psone tittles were 10 bucks.

but anyway, like i said in another thread, ebay is the worst place to buy games with even a bit of value, because that's were every collectors would search first, and it doesn't care if the seller don't know what he's selling, since it's an auction. there's not alot of people selling on ebay that doesn't know what they're selling by these days anyway.

 

I heard Valkrie wasn't even that good, but I dunno since I've never played it.

Ebay sucks for the games that are supposedly "rare" and stuff since they price stuff so much, but I've gotten plenty of stuff of ebay for great prices, such as a ton of good CD's for 0.99-5.00$ and a lot of games (the most I've payed so far is 15$ for a boxed NES game, usually I pay 5-10$ and there not bad games or anything). It just depends on luck, I guess, but to some people like me, there's not many other places to look but the internet and Ebay for older games (EVERYWHERE is cleared out of anything older than PSX here, I swear...I've looked everywhere )

 

Well, you have the priveldge of being in a "Video club" that sells stuff for cheap. For most people that arent in "clubs" like this, it is expensive in the wild, retail, and definitely Ebay if the person knows what it is. 2 or 3 years ago, MIGHT have gotten you Valkyrie Profile for $10, but you still wouldnt have known how valuable it would have been in the future. Its so rare, the infamous GH version is a worth a ton, too!!!

BTW, Phre, you have a game exchange nearby? They sell stuff for..pretty good deals sometimes. The older and rarer it is, though, its worth shitloads.

 

I think by video club he means somewhere like Blockbuster....but almost everywhere like this around here has been cleared out....mostly by me hehehe.

 

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He bought a rented several times copy of VP 2 or 3 years ago for $10. No wonder. Thats not that hard to believe. Every game there, no matter the condition, was probably $10 just cause it was a rental. As far as I know, one dumb guy that didnt know what he had when he sold it to EB, had it and took pretty good care of it before me.

BTW, I take back the remark of the video club being a priveldge, since its not. It is just clearing out games to make room for others.

 

yep.
that's still 10 bucks right?

that's like when i buyed kof 00/01 at blockbuster for 10 bucks when it was released for about 5 months.i asked the guy why did they sold it after at that price only after 5 months on the shelf, he said that was because no one ever rented it.

and the video club i was talking about wasn't a blockbuster or anything, but an old one from a village next to my town, the same one i've buyed sealed nes games for 10 bucks (that's alot of 10 bucks in one thread... 0_o) and all remember? not alot of people goes there,
i assume the game was rented 4 or 5 times at max, since the game is in perfect condition, with 2 or 3 visible lines on it, like i said earlier, why would i complain?

and who said it was a privilege anyway?

 

Yeah dude, buying from rental places is great because there (usually) in great condition and you can get rare expensive games for cheap, especially from small places. Although once I saw Suikoden 2 for 20$ at Hastings....shoulda picked it up.....but I had no idea it'd become so rare. There's one here, and this is a small town, but it's run by a bigger chain (movie gallery) and because of that they've already cleared out any older games they might have had. I didn't have good luck buying from there though...I got FF9 from there for 9 bucks, and the CD's weren't the best condition (still worked though, so no complaigns) and there was no manual.....but hey, I got the game at least.

Just 'cus it's cheap doesn't mean it's crap or anything. Everything can be had for cheap, just gotta look around. :smt023

 

I dont like the idea of a bunch of people having a game before me, cause you know how people are. They rarely take care of the stuff, or some kid rents it and loses everything with it. I dont buy my games at our movie gallery, since its all crap titles, anyway.

Yes, BUT you bought it 2 or 3 years ago, before it was rare, AND you got it at a rental place. Good condition or not, we had to pay for ours out the wazoo because it was rare, and we have no choice, but to buy it for "ridiculous" amounts, because if this was on sale at this time at a rental store, it would be gone in a heartbeat. It is still $10, but I would be more impressed if you could say that during the last year or so. I was LUCKY to get my copy of VP, because the cashier said it came one hour earlier that day. Trust me when I say this game is RARE and it also is an investment as well.

 

Now that I know the time frame and the type of store you bought it in, it is more believable. However, don't criticize us for the price we pay for our games. We CHOOSE to pay that much because it is worth it to us. Or maybe I should put it like this, buy it for $40 at GameStop or $80+ on eBay? Tell me, which would you do if you had no other choice and you wanted to play this game?

 

Yeah, you got it before it was a gem, Cahaz. (Before people realized that it was Enix's last game, and that it had a limited run, BTW). Also, coming from a rental store, of course it's going to be cheap. Not only has it passed hands several times, but rental stores don't know much about rare/uncomon/regular titles. They say "its a PSX games and all PSX games are $10" so it's $10 no matter what.

 

i didn't know the story behind the game, sorry. but i didn't criticize you because you paid that much for a game, i just say that ebay's the worst place to look if you want those kind of games.
you can't find any great deal on ebay anymore, and yes, the game was rented, but it's still 10 bucks, and if the video club sold it one week ago, it would still have been 10 bucks. i'm not trying to defend my buys to convince you it was a great deal, i'm just trying to convince you it's better to search in video clubs (i'm not saying to look at blockbuster, were maybe more than 200 persons can rent your game, and most of them are 10 year old kids that leave the cd on the floor and take it by it surface.), garage sales and flea markets, were you can find people that doesn't know what they are selling. You can find people like those all over ebay too, but since it's an auction, and that you compete with alot of other collectors that know the value of the game you're bidding on, it doesn't mather if the buyer doesn't know how wich system you can play this game. if the cd looks great (and always check the cd before buying..) but it as been rented, it's still ''10 bucks no matter what''.

this to say, look around your house before searching on ebay kids. there's so many innocent kids selling their stuff fro peanuts in a garage sale because they want the next gaming machine outside. And i'm not saying to look in the video games shops nearby, 'cause they know what they're selling.


ebay isn't a synonym for deal.

 

We didnt say Ebay was a synonym for deal. We were giving an example of how expensive and rare it was. I got my copy at Ebgames, used once, for $55, and I think it was worth it.

 

Cinnamin is sort of like a homophone of synonym.

 

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This is quite possibly the most useless post I have ever seen on this forum... ever.

 

We dont need no Cliff Clavin on these boards, Phre.