Your worst game trade / unbelievable lost deal stories here!

1 thing the comes to mind is trading in my sega saturn and about 50 games for a ps2

another one would be just a few weeks ago i went down to my local gamestation to buy a dc game to dd to my collection and i oversaw a SEALED copy of evolution 2 for sale only £5 stupid me....

 

I think that I have the worst

The worst one ever:

10 years ago or so I traded my Supergrafx with about 20 games including 1941 Counter Attack for a Super Nintendo. How sad is that ???
At that time I was bored with it and CD rom attachment were so expensive :smt022

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four years ago.... premium package metal gear solid psone boxed and sealed..for 20 euros.... I hadn't my credit card with me.. I ran to my house, take the credit card..then went back to the shop and...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ...sold...........

 

Seems like most of my "bad deals" are things that I didn't get because I didn't have the disposable cash at the time as well. The one that upsets me most is that I once could have bought a complete in box Turbo Duo for $85, but I was flat-ass broke at the time, and of course, by the time I had the cash it was gone . :smt022

 

I got hold of a brand new sealed JVC X-eye for about $30 a year or three ago.

I sent it to my parents on a long vacation in the US to avoid high p+p charges and poss customs fees.

Bless my MOM she took it all out of the box,manuals etc etc and just brought back the Machine,cables + PSU :smt022 :smt022

 

Re: Your worst game trade / unbelievable lost deal stories h

Heh, the Kaybee Toys bin story is all-too familiar for me! I too saw tons of copies of Rise of the Dragon and Snatcher for sale for the ridiculous sum of $4.99. Of course, I was only in high school back then and funds were lacking, so I passed.

I still remember having the option to buy Panzer Saga at Toys R Us when it was released, but I couldn't justify paying $49.99 for it since the Saturn was all but dead. "I'll just get it in 3 weeks" I thought, figuring that it would be clearance priced in no time at all. Sadly, all copies of it and HOTD and Burning Rangers were never seen in that store again.

And then there was the time in 1999 when EB Games actually sold IMPORT Saturn titles in their stores here in the USA a few months before the DC was due out. Among the games they offered were Radiant Silvergun for $59.99 and Metal Slug 1 (complete) for the same price. Brand new and in multiple stores too! Perhaps it was due to the lack of new Saturn (or Sega product in general) from late 1998 to 1999 before the DC launched. Again, I passed and am now kicking myself for doing so.

 

Re: Your worst game trade / unbelievable lost deal stories h

I remember when Babbages/EB Games had the import Saturn games. All they had that I remember was Xmen vs Street Fighter. If they had Radiant Silvergun then that's another thing I need to kick myself for not getting. They also imported Pal copies of Shenmue II for the Dreamcast. I wonder if they were given permission by Sega to do imports for a while since they're not your normal small chain?

 

sold once a modded ps2

i've just bought for someone else that ps2.

Next day, he sold it 100 € more than the original price...

 

one time i was gonna buy a box of nes and snes games for a fiver at the market but i had spent the last of the change i had on me so i had to get change from a different stall, when i went back apparently some nob had gone over and said he was with me and got them, GRRRRRRR, that still pisses me off to this day. was looking around for the t**t but he had obviously made a quick exit. worst/best thing is I didn't have a proper look what was in the box so at least I don't know what was there or i may of been kicking myself even harder than i did

 

talk about bringing a thread back from the grave

 

It's not the worst. We recently had one brought back from 2005.

As for me, I gave away 2 dozen Sega Genesis games, 5 Sega CD games, a PSOne, and several other things because no one wanted to buy them. Gave them to my cousin.

 

i feel that with the "best buy" thread their should be a "worst loss" thread, if only to vent XD, maybe people dont like sharing their bad experiences though, sorry if you find old threads so horrifying.