Bro you could have messaged me, and got info from the source lol. Lots of misconceptions here, but we could definitely market the new game stuff better. Not sure it would change much, but maybe a trade bonus towards new games would help. I’d be happy to talk about pricing / pricecharting, etc if you want.
I appreciate your willingness to speak but I will decline. This channel is for entertainment purposes only and last time I tried to separate the TH-cam character from myself in an interview with Phoenix Resale, my audience did not receive it well. Best of luck to you and your store.
@@steviefreakincmaybe we can speak in person at south east game exchange if i have the chance to go again. That kind of sucks though that your audience didn’t like it. I watched that video and found it very interesting.
@ some of my audience liked the Phoenix resale video and the other half didn’t. I’m just not ready for another tirade of backlash just yet. Maybe after the holidays we can speak. I don’t really want to make you wait until July 😂
also dude cashed out 7700 in bitcoin for a friggin n64 sign. keep the bitcoin or buy mutual funds but that n64 sign aint gonna buy you shit in 20 years
@@GamerAhmer I downloaded WhatNot when I first heard of it, looked around and felt overwhelmed and deleted it and never went back to it. 😅 Not my thing at all.
Generally, my local game store experience always goes like: I walk in, I see the insane prices they’re asking for retro consoles with a controller sold separately for like 70 dollars. Might look at the comic rack if there is one, mostly going to be hot garbage and random mismatched chapters of Naruto and Soul Eater. They don’t have any of the games you want on the shelf, maybe 1-2 in the display case that is going for 70-80 dollars, and they get irritated or talk down to you as a plebeian when you ask simple questions. Then I leave, they never say goodbye, no nothing, and never come back again.
My local game store has a similar issue with re-pricing stuff, often they'll have 3 to 4 copies of a game on the shelf all with different prices. The way they handle it is when you get to the counter they'll tell you the actual price only if it's cheaper, and you save some money that way. I think it is too harsh though to expect these stores to constantly switch out pricing for thousands of games every week just based on what price charting says. It's completely ridiculous honestly. Frankly, the way to handle it is if you have some inventory that sits for too long, that's when you review and update prices.
It is possible, I used to do it for a store I worked in. That was my entire role there. The key is to prioritize the popular games and work your way down. That way at the very least if something is overpriced, it’s probably something no one will bat an eye at to begin with like Madden 2007
Just a funny thing on your McDonalds comment. When I worked at McDonalds many years ago, we ran out of fries. We had to go to the local Burger King and they gave us fries to cook and sell until our delivery arrived. Only reason why we could do that though is the manager at BK was previously a manager at our McDonalds, so he was a friend.
@@Triple_A_GaymerI’m Rob’s best friend of $20 years, he messaged me and told me about your comment, and I want to say don’t you ever doubt him again. I was there and I ate Burger King fries at his McDonalds location. They were tasty and fresh! How dare you call that a fake story
Long post: thank you for saying what needed to be said, these guys suck at business, don’t understand the gaming business and try to get sympathy. Retro Rick had a video about new games and basically it was cry for me, sad to see Sic buy up a bunch of games and try to flip them online, won’t be buying from his shop anymore. This is a douchebag move in my eyes. Also, Mr Wright Way from your previous video does the same thing as well….these TH-camrs legit mess up collecting games and cosplay as good dudes…tired of the corny thumbnails of them with a goofy face, tired of them creating FOMO, tired of them going to game stores, buying up games in bulk and screw regular dudes like me who just want a game but their whatnot streams will be just fine. Screw these guys
I been following them for so long, i have bought games a couple times, and this shit pissed me off so bad that i even considered unfollowing and not buying anymore. Thanks for bringing this up. It was really sad to see that shit…
@ I was disappointed to see it too. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the guy. But after today I’ve learned a lot through comments and private messages
I use to like Mr. Weight way, but now not so much. It seems like most youtubers care about is selling "fomo panic buy now before it goes out of print and cost you lots of money videos". Especially from heavy collectors. I guess it pays the bills.
I think most of these guys reselling bought high and now are stuck. The market is slowing down and they are trying to keep it inflated. Unfortunately they will be stuck with inventory and end up selling it at a loss..
@@adamantium1983 yes! Can only fool people for so long. I was there watching boom of whatnot when the TH-camrs were selling stuff for 10x what was worth and honestly I felt bad for people pulled into hype. I know most them probably 18-25 with no real financial skill sets and believed everything they heard from their favorite TH-camr.
I have no sympathy because Reserved Investments tried to warn everybody that this was going to happen. He even told people what it would look like. Whatever crash that happens, it will separate the wheat from the chaff.
I like a lot of the DJ videos, the one video recently that felt like an advert for WhatNot was tedious as hell though. They aren't struggling though, they're moving to a much bigger location as they are doing well. The whole "i'm broke" was a bit tongue in cheek after he'd done a roadtrip with a chap from Pink Gorilla and had spent a fair chunk on stuff for both for his collection and the store. Circa $10-15k on that trip I reckon.
He got mad at me cause i shared my opinion about his massive switch collection. Said I was a bad person for judging him which I never did. I just said it didn’t count cause he gets shit traded in his store and given to him. Unlike a lot of other who struggle to add stuff and really go hunting…but pshhhh
Seriously all these popular TH-cam’s get so many gifts i don’t understand why they have more money than us to pay for them and then they brag about their collection it really doesn’t count
@@E-Z_Gamerz I didn’t say he doesn’t deserve it he’s not my son lol I just don’t under stand the whole give TH-camrs free shit all the time mentally they have enough money to pay for shit just like everyone else.
@@ceffbrah its because they are giant cucks dude thats all it is. they know which companies to kiss ass to in order to get free shit. Perfect example- Happy Console Gamer. This guy never once has anything bad to say about Nintendo and we all know why that is.
Btws, Double Jump is at or above Price Charting on almost everything. They act like they are selling out of NYC instead of fucking Vancouver Washington.
If they don’t know how to sell new games, then what are they doing at the stores aside from messing around. Anytime I go in the store, it’s 3-4 people talking until someone trades in or makes a purchase. I don’t like fake reality show vlogs. They aren’t doing trade videos or staff pics or question of the day. It’s just soulless humor and bullying employees
You should know by now that Double Jump is a financial investment company that hands out video games sometimes. Which explains everything with the WhatNot, Costco buyouts, and using crypto for a N64 sign. /s
If i sell anything from my collection to anyone, its only either for profit or i will actually lose money otherwise if i sell to an actual collector, not a reseller I dont care either way I will NEVER sell to some guy like this Its a shame too, because cooper years ago had a CIB n64 collection he bought by himself It seems once his youtube channel started getting views, dude went the way of mr beast with the BS uploads and clickbait He was an OG in early retro games pickup videos much like retro davenintendo or Mr Tight White, aka Jeff It seems cooper has gone AWOL based off his popularity, instead of sticking true to himself like he used to. No metalhead vocalist unless youre the as i lay dying vocalist acts this way, differently, in such short amounts of time. Im thinking cooper needs a padded room, and thats coming from me, a 11 year sub of his channel If anyone lives in cook county IL check out disc replay in orland park or their other locations. I dont care if i give up my "honeypot" because EVERYONE deserves decent deals for retro game purchases. ❤
Until recently, I had heard a lot of positive things about SicCooper so I was surprised to see him doing this type of stuff. I guess we all become the villain eventually in the YT game.
That's how distributors work. Costo, Walmart, etc. get first dibs at supply and can barter a price for bulk purchases. Smaller stores are left with a smaller amount or no supply until the next print. I think this sentiment comes from a lack of understanding. Basically if Costco buys all the games, your mom and pop can get ten and you will only qualify for ten, since you are a small store. Talk with small comic or game store owners. I only stumbled across this video and it sounds like it comes from a place of not knowing how these businesses run or the environment in which these business run.
0:47 I can't believe there are reseller defenders at all. Consider they do material harm to the physical gaming industry, scamming, scalping and inflating things.
They most certainly exist and constantly comment on my videos. It’s just sometimes hard to find them because there’s so much positive coming in that drowns them out.
Anyone can just buy a game and sell it to someone else on eBay for a higher price. Not everyone can run an actual retail store and maintain a profit. They probably should have just stuck to selling out of the basement.
these scalpers are honestly no better than the people who bought up all the ps5's and sold em for 1000 dollars. Absolutely disgusting business practice 😤 thank you for calling them out Steve! I believe these vids really do make a huge difference keep at it bud
That pokemon blue price irritates my soul. In this case, I feel like resellers/game stores can't even claim "market volatility". According to pricecharting, pokemon blue has never been 70 dollars. It's also a high selling popular title that has been on average 45ish dollars for 2 years. Id understand if it was something that was more rare or something that recently jumped in price but this is a super common GB game.
so I wanted to share a random anecdote about cooper/djvg: I'm a big collector of japanese retro games. I found their channel some years ago because they sell a lot of them, so I became interested in watching their videos because of that. cooper would get in huge boxes of japanese imports to resell from a "secret source" and "supplier" that he didn't want to tell his subscribers about, literally because he didn't want them to go in and buy things before he did. having recognized the boxes/labels on the stuff he'd get in the unboxing videos, his "secret source" is a place called suruga-ya, which is a chain of retail stores in japan that sell used books, anime merch, video games and more. he acted like this was some sort of super secret honey hole that he wanted to keep to himself when, in reality, suruga-ya consists of hundreds of stores across japan. it is not some sort of small mom-and-pop store with limited supply. they are a nationwide chain. another thing I think is strange is how he referred to the place he was getting these games from as a supplier. it sounded like he was referring to it as the type of wholesale supplier only business owners have access to. it's highly likely he was using a proxy/mail forwarding service like buyee or fromjapan to order everything. I should clarify that *anyone* can use these sites. they aren't some super secret thing, and anyone who wants to buy items from japan can use them. almost all of the time you can find amazing deals on items you can only get in japan compared to buying them on ebay or elsewhere. maybe this is a stupid rant, especially since the videos I'm referring to are a couple years old at this point. who knows. but as someone who's passionate about video game collecting and wishes for collecting to be affordable and fun for everyone, gatekeeping out of greed is a scummy thing to do. buying up loads of cheap games to resell at a huge markup is already unfair, but gatekeeping the place you buy from because you think it's a metropolis of resell value is even more unfair and also scummier.
I am not surprised to hear this at all. Gatekeeping is the resellers main move and strategy to keep themselves relevant. Practically standing between consumer and source. Apparently SicCooper is worse than I originally thought. I regret talking to him at Sege now.
When buying it yourself it's smart to batch orders to amortize the shipping and handling fees or waiting for when surugaya does their occasional free shipping deal. It's convenient to be able to buy things one off that have already been imported, but it's surprising for it to have been kept a secret considering it's one of the best overseas friendly sites for buying used goods.
Japanese games at least for ps1 and ps2 are DIRT CHEAP, even imported directly from Japan I have a few ive bought on my channel Buying Japanese games is as easy as using ebay and searching 😅
I don't know about Costco in America but here in Australia you can have a business account it used to be a little bit cheaper than the normal one. The advantage of the business account is you can do two transactions on one card at one time. So potentially you could have got 20 games. One time I was in there and there was like three Hillbilly looking guys with two trolleys stacked so high, mountains of 20 kilos which is about 40 pounds of sugar bags. I said time you like sugar in your coffee and they just laughed with the teethless grim. Of course they were making spirit to sell. You see some weird things in Costco Australia I saw a whole family dressed like those American people who look like they live in the past. You'd be surprised how many of the staff are actually American or Mexican.
I worked at a comic book store many years ago while I was in college. It was owned by a guy who had no business running a store. He couldn’t pay his bills with Diamond that they wouldn’t sell to him anymore. So he had to go to other comic book stores every week and buy what they had and then charge people above cover price. It was a total crap show.
A lot of these store owners buy from each other and do Walmart/Target sales. If you spend enough time around these guys, you'll see it's pretty common behavior. I can't hate on them for taking advantage of these things but it seems tasteless to brag about it on social media.
“We have to pay employees. The “Only allowed 10 purchases”meant that Bobby was sent to CostCo to buy out as many copies as he can. Cooper says “We got to pay our employees” That’s not the Costco customers’ problem, that’s a you problem. You bought another location that you can’t move into but can’t pay your employees? That’s not good. You are buying SNES games but can’t pay the employees? You are buying a rare N64 light sign but can’t pay your employees?
That’s just pure horse 💩 on a stick. First off, I can’t stand when resellers like that go to stores like Walmart, Target, Costco etc and buy up all the games that are on sale and flip them for double. Leave brick and mortar stores alone for us collectors man. We like deals too and not having to pay more. I agree with you Steve on the consistency of pricing. Stores should have a system to make prices fair across the board since they do fluctuate. I mean, they look up prices when we trade in games, why can’t they do that for games in stock they are selling? Profit in the end seems to be all that they are after in the long run, nothing more. 😞
I wouldn't fault stores for how they source product 8:40 How do you think corporate stores source product? They buy direct or through a distributor where they can arrange a deal for bulk purchases. Buy low, sell high is the name of the game.
Yes, but they provide them at reasonable prices that are affordable to the general public. Like Costco did with that Mario game, they offered it for 20 bucks and your buddy came in and tried to clean them out. Literally tried to buy 100 but was limited to 10. He’s a scalper.
I watch this guy show before in pass I don't agree with some of that guy takes. He buys games for collection and don't play games. When he had sega dreamcast he had all games for it north american and didn't play it and said was going to sell them to buy another collection and not play the games is crazy to me
in TerroriserXtra new video he visits there shop and the lady gives (him/the customer ) the key to unlock the video game case display. it is probably not smart to give the customer the key lol
With them some of their prices is based on condition and completeness. Some just were not repriced yet, on the opposite end you can get a game for a steal if the price skyrocketed since
These sellers have it backwards! eBay (which price charting sources) usually sell higher because the seller loses money to fees and often include shipping. So buying in store should be a better deal since they don’t have to lose any of that $$$
@ then they’re doomed from the start. I know owners that have overhead costs and still manage to sell items at reasonable prices below price charting. The problem is that people are inflating the market by taking PC prices and bumping them up. If they sell, they set the market…… just need to let it crash
7 employees for such a small store is way too much. Him and three others is more than enough. Other than that, he just sold his dreamcast collection for around 14k and spent it all on a roadtrip to buy snes games and whatever else. Check his pickup video's, they're absolutely insane.. Also, Retrorick is a mod on his Whatnot and bids on items aswell... feels scummy.
I've always wondered this too. He seems like a pretty good guy, but the amount of employees doesn't seem like a great business decision from an outsider looking in. Seems like they have 4+ people working at all times, at least from the videos I've watched. All of my local stores usually have 1-2 at most. That's a huge amount of overhead!
I'm a past Double Jump customer and find their videos entertaining as well. Lots of retro game stores price a bit higher than pricecharting to account for the overhead of running a physical store and so forth. I don't really have any big issues with DJ. 🤷♂
70 bucks for a pokemon blue that has a shitty label? Fuck that, also it seems like he keeps all the good stuff that comes in to his store and he probably spends a lot getting more games. Seriously, look at his game room. Remember that old saying, don’t get high off your own supply? Obviously he doesn’t.
I honestly don’t understand why anyone would bother opening a store in this day and age, when it’s incredibly easy to sell online and the customer base is so big, I feel like a lot of these guys open stores purely for their egos
@@step9624 He's not struggling that much. He has a huge stock of amazing games hes "waiting for the new store to open to sell" if they're struggling that much he can always just pull the gems hes saving and would sell instantly
16:15 I don't believe that you want stores to succeed. It sounds like 'It sucks that games are so expensive. Why do new flagship titles gotta be 60 or 70 bucks?' Gamers pay prices they believe are worthwhile. It's why Samson goes for $2-3K and Mary Kate and Ashley goes for $0. Respectfully, I think you should try running a game store and see what challenges you face. It sounds like this store owner is a good dude, prioritizing paying his employees over strictly profiting. Think of how many corporate bosses are earning 400 times what the base employee earns and their business doesn't profit for years and years, like TH-cam.
I disagree with you, man you’re wrong. I’m friends with a store owner in real life and he’s very successful and he doesn’t have to overcharge for things. Don’t get lost in the sauce and wrapped up in this TH-cam reseller collecting culture.
Whats funny i was watching a whatnot. I always notice when these sellers advertise you to come to their whatnot, they always sell it like you always get these products for a steal. I was watching this guy and someone did get a 120 dollar game for 51 and he is obviously upset. I make the comment about it being funny you advertise like you will get these great deals, but when someone actually does I notice you are visibly upset. He blocked me from his channel.
Whatnot wouldnt even let us go live because we don't have a social media following 😂 even though we have evidence of tons of sales and a large following on mercari. It's definitely a hype, otherwise they'd be making money with us.
@@ihavenoclue9756 that's weird cuz I have been approved to sell on there and I don't even sell online At all. not to mention j know like 5 others who also in the same boat as me that are on whatnot.
Yup I have got some expensive games on WhatNot for around half price and the seller gets pissed and stops selling expensive games and starts putting out the cheap stuff no one wants. Then throws a tantrum saying “you guys are not bidding high on the good stuff”. One time I got a $50 game for like $10 and he made a comment to me, “you’re taking food out of my families mouth”. He targeted that comment at me for getting a deal. 🙄🙄🙄
I think this is the same guy who wouldn't let people get discounts at cons but, whenever he was going shopping he was asking them for discounts at con. 😂 btw whatnot is the way of living when you're a reseller 😂😂😂😂
Yeah collectors shouldn’t own video stores. They are only looking out for themselves and their personal collections. Not only are the games marked up, but the condition is trash. You could make so many videos on this guy. He sold his Dreamcast collection to a TH-camr instead of in his store, and he wanted 100 percent PriceCharting hahaha. Watch his mystery box picks. They are such trash, I would be so pissed if I paid $250 and received a bunch of worn out incomplete TRASH. Also whatnot and the sellers on there are also trash. I can’t even imagine my local game store going to Costco and steal all the deals. Absolute crap wanting to grab 100 copies. Frickin shameful. These are just my opinions.
I personally would never buy a mystery box because I know for sure that that shit is a rip off. The only time my mystery box ever looks awesome is when it’s a staged box for a promotional video.
Ive bought a couple things from Double Jump online, a couple pretty rare DVDs and Blurays for way lower than they go for on eBay. I do know he has been pricing VHS tapes incredibly high tho
I don’t want to be a defender of resellers, but he does own his own shop. He sells many different items. He’s not just price gouging a particular item. I personally have bought things from DJ and find their prices perfectly reasonable. He’s talked about things like Pokémon pricing and that it’s hard for him to keep those items in stock. So that’s just basic supply and demand. This last year I’ve been into amiibo collecting and have purchased some from them. I found their prices to be almost always under eBay. I also feel like when you say “just buy it in person or on eBay” that you’ve not actually bought anything on eBay recently. If you find anything on eBay that matches price charting, that is an absolute deal. I don’t know all of your background but you sound like an armchair business owner. Saying things like “just do what GameStop does” is one of the most outrageous statements I’ve heard. At the end of the day it’s quite simple, if you don’t like them or their prices, move on. In the same way that you don’t have to comment on every eBay posting that you think is overpriced.
The whole I’m going to charge more for a Pokémon game so I can keep it in stock More often is kind of weird. And the end result is you stiff arm your customers into paying up
Siccooper notoriously over charges for popular series and first party titles and then he says he makes up for it by pricing down all cheaper games to around 5 dollars that could go for $7 lol wow!!! Also he spends WAY TOO MUCH on collecting for someone who owns a video game store. He just spent $3,000 on a f’n sign right after he spent over $15k on his little road trip spree with the guy he worships who owns pink gorilla
He makes up for nothing. Why even have a strategy like that. If he wanted to do right by people, he could charge fair prices on popular series from the jump…….no pun intended
The 15k was from selling his complete Dreamcast collection to fund his trip, and the 3k for the sign was from reselling music finds at goodwill and cashing in crypto currency.
Spot on. These guys are so bad at business their best idea is pickups from.. Costco and upcharge? Trying to buy 100?!! Around Xmas season? Definite marks.
Sic Cooper wouldn’t be broke or poor if he was t a hoarder and spent almost $20k on some stupid Nintendo statues. All for these TH-camrs suck and I don’t understand people donating and giving rare and valuable games to these numb nuts.
My parents own a game store and price things mostly according to price charting but the thing with us is you can haggle. We have our pokemon stuff a little higher but we accept trade or sometimes flat out do straight out case swaps or buying the cases/manuals. Everything nearby store is pretty much sticker price.
@@steviefreakinc We physically can't keep those things in stock like ever the second they get posted up they are gone within the week. We price our things according to condition and demand it never hurts to ask. Ps we don't actively source our stuff it walks in the doors.
@@steviefreakinc That's me. I didn't grow up haggling for prices. It doesn't make me feel good as a person. I also have too much anxiety to do it. If people were willing to sell lower than the sticker price, I would rather that be the price
I reckon that’s true. But it’s more consumer sided than something like Sam’s club as far as I know. Or maybe it’s exactly the same but either way, it was really shitty
He ain't broke his collection is worth over a million. And the content he makes is to make money his shop is to make money. He was saying he is going broke because he wanted too much at once, but he isn't literally going broke. I bet his worth 1.5 million minimum.
@Triple_A_Gaymer I have 800 items at 60k. Since I only have 115 snes titles and he has nearly all of them I would hazard a guess at 721 titles that's coming close to 250k just for snes. Not to mention he owns a shop full of stock, employs 8 people, own a big house. He is easily worth 1.5 million of you take all his assets. Put it this way, he ain't broke.
I think you were a bit harsh, but understand your viewpoints. I agree with some of your points, but not all. It's all good. Feel free to have your own opinion and I'm not here to sway you any other direction. Some customers express their thoughts with their wallets. If i dont like a price, I just don't buy it. My family avoids going to Walmart because of their business practices. My wife avoids Amazon for similar reasons. Metal Jesus did a video on stores that have bad business practices, which are much worse than what you mentioned here. It's a good watch if you have time to see it.
In the UK, the independent video game store is pretty much dead, so I don't see much of these terrible tactics. But what i will say is that the UK facebook marketplace is a cespool of scum. Unfortunately for the second gand market, a store chain called CEX has monopolised the used games market. We had a gamestop equivalent called GAME but they no longer sell retro or used games. I usually just shop on eBay when there's a specific game I'm looking for. Great video as always mate. 👍
I’m actually familiar with CEX because of Retro Ghetto and a few other UK TH-camrs I’ve seen. It seems like a decent spot but it would be nice to have alternatives.
@steviefreakinc Yeah. It's the only real place to buy video games here. I'm grateful that it exists because there's nothing else. Thankfully, their trade-in credit is decent enough, where most of my collection is funded that way.
I don't want to defend these guys but pricecharting as the be all market dictator isn't always accurate imo. Again not defending guys like these, arbitrage abusers really urk me, but price charting to me is a general guide. Market pricing can differ, price charting can skew game prices too high with variants, especially in graded games, and these resellers are exploiting pricecharting prices when they sell on Amazon, that's the real reseller scheme imo. 😤 Keep fighting bro
Honestly the old school way of knowing what something was worth was averaging eBay recent solds. Then Pricecharting came around and declared that that’s what they do but hell idk man. Any time I sold something of mine in the past, I was always looking to make a deal and sell it under price. No one else seems to like that idea anymore and trend upward 😂
I guess some tubers that also have physical stores have YT pricing similar to how conventions seem to have con pricing. New games can bring people in just like retro games. Like you mentioned people bring in old stuff to get new or used. New games may not be the bread and butter but I would think it could help a store. In time you should learn what the people in you area like and order accordingly. That not making fun of people with red beards was a great closer. lol
Yea I stopped by the whatnot show and you had pay $5 for shipping on top of $45 cost game, then taxes so not saving money. Thats why I didn’t buy one lol
At one point they ran a “flash sale” knocked off $5 so still cost $50 lmao. And people just ate it up bought them all. I left after that. Was curious see what he was going get out things more then buying anything myself. Also you could tell he wasn’t too thrilled when stuff sold for couple dollars under price charting lol.
@steviefreakinc its a great thing lol. I thought it would be funny to hear you rag on scalpers trying to sell these games for absurd prices. Maybe your insight on games unexpectedly getting reprints and such.
"You can do both." is the understatement of the reseller world! You can make profit and survive and support your family or whatever the frick without needing to price everything at top dollar and screw everyone in the process! One of the most disgusting comments I saw on a certain bird's comment section was a guy talking about how he found a prostatic leg at a thrift store for a few bucks and profited thousands off it. That hurt me to my core. Especially now with the state of thrift store, companies that get their inventory for free selling shit out pricing those who used to afford it. I didn't grow up needing to buy my clothes at thrift stores but my mother did. I went to school with people who did.
Too harsh? Nah! This kind of behavior needs to be called out and whomever you are directing your criticism to needs to take accountability for their actions and improve their reselling business. I mean my eyes have been opened and I’m really not a reseller even though I have considered it.
i never go whyknot.i heard a scam with pokemon cards.the guy show it sealed but he open it take out good card.i stopped buying trading cards.i just bought games
I like sic cooper as a person and a gamer guy, but his prices are very high for a lot of things. Doesn’t offer a lot for trade in credit and charges a lot for everything in the store. Steve I 100 percent agree with your takes thank you so much for doing what your doing, these guys have big game collections by squeezing the profit out of everything
@@steviefreakinc Bear in mind this is the same guy who has full sets for N64, SNES (almost), Gamecube, Wii U and Pico and has over 1500 switch games. I’d love for someone to explain the point of owning that many switch games, makes absolutely 0 sense lol. His reasoning is “thats what the rest of my life is for” but i’m pretty sure it’s physically impossible to play all those, and the reality is you aren’t going to… I mean he can collect whatever he wants but sure does seem like a massive waste of time, money and effort lol
He isn't broke, his video was just tongue and cheek humor because he spent so much on his road trip. All of which was funded by selling his complete dreamcast collection.
too harsh when it comes to the game prices but not on brotherhood. game prices are constantly changing and you kind of showed they were high on some and low on others. I kind of like double jump's videos but when they said they bought those I thought they shouldn't have mentioned it. also, whatnot is trash and its only a matter of time before all these resellers just do buy it now. every time catrp talks about selling games for cheap on whatnot it looks like chase is gonna have a heart attack
What's up with the white residue crumbs powder all over the counter around that overpriced pokemon blue faded label game? Maybe clean the counter before you take pictures because I wouldn't want to buy that game if it was half price charting price laying in whatever that shit is.. looks like contraband residue possibly.. great job letting double jump know they need to do better Steve 👏
you’re thinking of encore, i haven’t used it yet. whatnot is getting to be shitty. i’m a video game store on there, i hear your issues 100%. but it’s a way out for us to move inventory fast.
@ who else’s inventory would i be selling? i have to stay competitive in this market, paying up 65% BACK on things like gamecube, pokemon, zelda, mario, etc, just to HAVE them. i also don’t specifically stock new games, that market is awful, let gamestop keep stabbing that market, im cool😂 but if you want a NES game from you childhood for $10? sure i got that. one thing i hate though is, i hate knowing that i have to have a markup, because if i didn’t, these desired games will run off my shelves due to amazon sellers, or other resellers. My markup rate is usually 3-5$ difference than the price chart value. (condition variance) ( a clean label pokemon blue vs pokemon blue with a torn label will not be priced the same) ALSO, Pricechart is just a TOOL, NOT A RULE.
@@steviefreakinc Right?! LOL I use to comment this on those VGM boxes and people would get so offended. I was like why spend $60 for crappy games when you could pick the ones you want. lol
The idea of paying for mystery anything is dumb. It's like throwing money into the ether. People are just lazy. I've seen sellers on ebay do this where they flip over the games so you can't see the label and sell it specifically as a mystery or surprise box.
@@gofofoloz Its the same thing with those dumb Video Game Monthly and Retro Boxes. Yes, its fun to see what you get and according to pricecharting you get your value.. but I'm sorry I don't want a copy of Super Tennis and Wheel of Fortune because you got it for $1 somewhere.
Hey Steve, not defending, but one thing to keep in mind with old Pokémon GB/GBA titles. 99.9% of the original save batteries are dry. I do know that DJG does replace all those save batteries, which the overwhelming majority of people do not have the expertise to perform. Additional labor definitely plays a factor into the prices for these titles (not the only reason, but at least one of them)
@steviefreakinc I was at a retro convention back in November, there was a vendor that was offering battery replacements… he wanted $25 a pop. Remember Pokemon Red, Yellow, Blue, Crystal are unusable without a non-dry battery. No progress can be saved
@@steviefreakincI don’t think that’s too egregious 17$ to get it in person and a fresh battery isnt terrible. People like phoenix resale who sell shit on Amazon for 30-70$ up charge the real issue
There are way too many narcissists operating in videogame reselling. A lot of the time, they come in as loveable sweat talking fellow who gives away deals in their carefully curated video. However in reality they are just scumbags who prey on people's ignorance while gloating about the rare stuff they own for clicks. I don't know why people follow these big personalities. Perhaps their owning big SNES collection or complete gamecube set give them street creds when they are a real life piece of trash. Life is often not what it seems.
A lot of these big channels tend to lure the gaming audience in with the collections and then they switch it up on them after they’re invested in the channel mentally
Crazy he charges that pokemon game for more then what its worth when its clearly flawed. I loved watching his videos so i wanted to order from him but when i saw his crazy prices i passed. This guys literally the next dkoldies my local store charges a bit above market value but not as much as him.
Yeah, maybe those prices working in Washington where he lives but if he’s promoting his online website on TH-cam, he’s gonna have to adjust those prices
Lets go! Heckin’ steve🔥 Im hella shocked now siccooper & his store doublejump is getting exposed.. no way.. i actually watch the channels. i was a bit skeptical about buying from them..
Is your avatar Billy Mitchel? Oh, im a ~$100K physical media reseller (very few video games though). Just started my youtube explaining the grind for 6 figures.
i know from experience a fast nickel is better than a slow dime. you make more money in the long run and gain rapport with people and then they reccomend more people to you. then theres the fact that these game stores only pay 30-50% of value. like that pokemon blue you know he only paid at max 25 bucks for it. so just selling it for actual value is a double up. thats fuckin good bro. why you tryna triple up on everything? theyre clearly coasting off social media popularity. if people want a game so bad they should just get it off ebay, you could probably get it there and overnight it for cheaper than resellers charge.
Bro you could have messaged me, and got info from the source lol. Lots of misconceptions here, but we could definitely market the new game stuff better. Not sure it would change much, but maybe a trade bonus towards new games would help. I’d be happy to talk about pricing / pricecharting, etc if you want.
I appreciate your willingness to speak but I will decline. This channel is for entertainment purposes only and last time I tried to separate the TH-cam character from myself in an interview with Phoenix Resale, my audience did not receive it well. Best of luck to you and your store.
@@steviefreakincmaybe we can speak in person at south east game exchange if i have the chance to go again. That kind of sucks though that your audience didn’t like it. I watched that video and found it very interesting.
@ Sounds like a plan. I’ll probably be at Sege again.
@ some of my audience liked the Phoenix resale video and the other half didn’t. I’m just not ready for another tirade of backlash just yet. Maybe after the holidays we can speak. I don’t really want to make you wait until July 😂
What's there to talk about? Your prices are not very good. If he had watched more of your videos it would have been worse and had more ammo.
Merry Christmas to all the real ones who like to play their games and not pick them up to scalp on others.
I play all my games. I collect to play not put em on a shelf to look at
Merry Christmas!
also dude cashed out 7700 in bitcoin for a friggin n64 sign. keep the bitcoin or buy mutual funds but that n64 sign aint gonna buy you shit in 20 years
Man, he must be really addicted
With the label on that Pokémon blue, I wouldn't sell that for anymore than $45
That’s what I’m saying. I actually told a few people in private the same thing
I’ve never gotten into whatnot. I tried it one time and found I’d have way better luck feeling less pressured to buy games for better deals. 🤷🏻♀️
@@GamerAhmer it’s really designed to create an urgency in a questionable mind. I had to uninstall it a long time ago. It’s dangerous
@ oh I can imagine.
@ exactly
becarfule there
@@GamerAhmer I downloaded WhatNot when I first heard of it, looked around and felt overwhelmed and deleted it and never went back to it. 😅 Not my thing at all.
when you buy the game new, in bulk, that's strait up scalping. that goes beyond reselling imo. that's the worst
Indeed
Generally, my local game store experience always goes like: I walk in, I see the insane prices they’re asking for retro consoles with a controller sold separately for like 70 dollars. Might look at the comic rack if there is one, mostly going to be hot garbage and random mismatched chapters of Naruto and Soul Eater.
They don’t have any of the games you want on the shelf, maybe 1-2 in the display case that is going for 70-80 dollars, and they get irritated or talk down to you as a plebeian when you ask simple questions. Then I leave, they never say goodbye, no nothing, and never come back again.
That sucks man. We got some good ones in my area so I guess I’m blessed
My local game store has a similar issue with re-pricing stuff, often they'll have 3 to 4 copies of a game on the shelf all with different prices. The way they handle it is when you get to the counter they'll tell you the actual price only if it's cheaper, and you save some money that way.
I think it is too harsh though to expect these stores to constantly switch out pricing for thousands of games every week just based on what price charting says. It's completely ridiculous honestly. Frankly, the way to handle it is if you have some inventory that sits for too long, that's when you review and update prices.
It is possible, I used to do it for a store I worked in. That was my entire role there. The key is to prioritize the popular games and work your way down. That way at the very least if something is overpriced, it’s probably something no one will bat an eye at to begin with like Madden 2007
Just a funny thing on your McDonalds comment. When I worked at McDonalds many years ago, we ran out of fries. We had to go to the local Burger King and they gave us fries to cook and sell until our delivery arrived. Only reason why we could do that though is the manager at BK was previously a manager at our McDonalds, so he was a friend.
I’ll take things that never happened for $100 Alex!
@@Triple_A_Gaymer I really don't care if you believe it or not. It Happened. Sit down.
Must have been a disappointing week for McDonald’s customers. To not get those legendary fries
@@steviefreakinc The delivery was later that day, so it wasn't long. This was in Australia too, and BK fries were really good back then.
@@Triple_A_GaymerI’m Rob’s best friend of $20 years, he messaged me and told me about your comment, and I want to say don’t you ever doubt him again.
I was there and I ate Burger King fries at his McDonalds location. They were tasty and fresh! How dare you call that a fake story
Long post: thank you for saying what needed to be said, these guys suck at business, don’t understand the gaming business and try to get sympathy. Retro Rick had a video about new games and basically it was cry for me, sad to see Sic buy up a bunch of games and try to flip them online, won’t be buying from his shop anymore. This is a douchebag move in my eyes. Also, Mr Wright Way from your previous video does the same thing as well….these TH-camrs legit mess up collecting games and cosplay as good dudes…tired of the corny thumbnails of them with a goofy face, tired of them creating FOMO, tired of them going to game stores, buying up games in bulk and screw regular dudes like me who just want a game but their whatnot streams will be just fine. Screw these guys
Well put broski 💪
@@kingdza Preach
I been following them for so long, i have bought games a couple times, and this shit pissed me off so bad that i even considered unfollowing and not buying anymore. Thanks for bringing this up. It was really sad to see that shit…
@ I was disappointed to see it too. I’ve heard a lot of good things about the guy. But after today I’ve learned a lot through comments and private messages
I use to like Mr. Weight way, but now not so much. It seems like most youtubers care about is selling "fomo panic buy now before it goes out of print and cost you lots of money videos".
Especially from heavy collectors.
I guess it pays the bills.
I think most of these guys reselling bought high and now are stuck. The market is slowing down and they are trying to keep it inflated. Unfortunately they will be stuck with inventory and end up selling it at a loss..
They need to accept the loss and keep it moving lol
@@adamantium1983 yes! Can only fool people for so long. I was there watching boom of whatnot when the TH-camrs were selling stuff for 10x what was worth and honestly I felt bad for people pulled into hype. I know most them probably 18-25 with no real financial skill sets and believed everything they heard from their favorite TH-camr.
I have no sympathy because Reserved Investments tried to warn everybody that this was going to happen. He even told people what it would look like.
Whatever crash that happens, it will separate the wheat from the chaff.
I like a lot of the DJ videos, the one video recently that felt like an advert for WhatNot was tedious as hell though. They aren't struggling though, they're moving to a much bigger location as they are doing well. The whole "i'm broke" was a bit tongue in cheek after he'd done a roadtrip with a chap from Pink Gorilla and had spent a fair chunk on stuff for both for his collection and the store. Circa $10-15k on that trip I reckon.
Ahh ok
He got mad at me cause i shared my opinion about his massive switch collection. Said I was a bad person for judging him which I never did. I just said it didn’t count cause he gets shit traded in his store and given to him. Unlike a lot of other who struggle to add stuff and really go hunting…but pshhhh
Seriously all these popular TH-cam’s get so many gifts i don’t understand why they have more money than us to pay for them and then they brag about their collection it really doesn’t count
typical elitist douche. Sadly youtube is full of those kinds :/
@ I mean doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve it, it just doesn’t count.
@@E-Z_Gamerz I didn’t say he doesn’t deserve it he’s not my son lol I just don’t under stand the whole give TH-camrs free shit all the time mentally they have enough money to pay for shit just like everyone else.
@@ceffbrah its because they are giant cucks dude thats all it is. they know which companies to kiss ass to in order to get free shit. Perfect example- Happy Console Gamer. This guy never once has anything bad to say about Nintendo and we all know why that is.
Btws, Double Jump is at or above Price Charting on almost everything. They act like they are selling out of NYC instead of fucking Vancouver Washington.
Not surprised
If they don’t know how to sell new games, then what are they doing at the stores aside from messing around. Anytime I go in the store, it’s 3-4 people talking until someone trades in or makes a purchase. I don’t like fake reality show vlogs. They aren’t doing trade videos or staff pics or question of the day. It’s just soulless humor and bullying employees
They’re being bums. That’s what they do all day lol
You should know by now that Double Jump is a financial investment company that hands out video games sometimes. Which explains everything with the WhatNot, Costco buyouts, and using crypto for a N64 sign. /s
If i sell anything from my collection to anyone, its only either for profit or i will actually lose money otherwise if i sell to an actual collector, not a reseller
I dont care either way
I will NEVER sell to some guy like this
Its a shame too, because cooper years ago had a CIB n64 collection he bought by himself
It seems once his youtube channel started getting views, dude went the way of mr beast with the BS uploads and clickbait
He was an OG in early retro games pickup videos much like retro davenintendo or Mr Tight White, aka Jeff
It seems cooper has gone AWOL based off his popularity, instead of sticking true to himself like he used to. No metalhead vocalist unless youre the as i lay dying vocalist acts this way, differently, in such short amounts of time. Im thinking cooper needs a padded room, and thats coming from me, a 11 year sub of his channel
If anyone lives in cook county IL check out disc replay in orland park or their other locations.
I dont care if i give up my "honeypot" because EVERYONE deserves decent deals for retro game purchases. ❤
Until recently, I had heard a lot of positive things about SicCooper so I was surprised to see him doing this type of stuff. I guess we all become the villain eventually in the YT game.
Tried to buy a 100 copies with zero shame right before the holidays. SMH they are scalpers not resellers.
I know man that’s wrong
That's how distributors work. Costo, Walmart, etc. get first dibs at supply and can barter a price for bulk purchases. Smaller stores are left with a smaller amount or no supply until the next print. I think this sentiment comes from a lack of understanding. Basically if Costco buys all the games, your mom and pop can get ten and you will only qualify for ten, since you are a small store.
Talk with small comic or game store owners. I only stumbled across this video and it sounds like it comes from a place of not knowing how these businesses run or the environment in which these business run.
@@gofofolozbuying against consumers so they suffer isn’t justifiable
0:47 I can't believe there are reseller defenders at all. Consider they do material harm to the physical gaming industry, scamming, scalping and inflating things.
They most certainly exist and constantly comment on my videos. It’s just sometimes hard to find them because there’s so much positive coming in that drowns them out.
Anyone can just buy a game and sell it to someone else on eBay for a higher price. Not everyone can run an actual retail store and maintain a profit. They probably should have just stuck to selling out of the basement.
Facts bro
these scalpers are honestly no better than the people who bought up all the ps5's and sold em for 1000 dollars. Absolutely disgusting business practice 😤 thank you for calling them out Steve! I believe these vids really do make a huge difference keep at it bud
Glad to be of service to my fellow gamers always
Damn, back to the old school format. Hecklin’ Steve is here!!!
You know I had to
Never quit what you’re best at!
@@E-Z_Gamerz thanks bud
That pokemon blue price irritates my soul. In this case, I feel like resellers/game stores can't even claim "market volatility". According to pricecharting, pokemon blue has never been 70 dollars. It's also a high selling popular title that has been on average 45ish dollars for 2 years. Id understand if it was something that was more rare or something that recently jumped in price but this is a super common GB game.
Not to mention it’s faded, not even good condition.
They need to either order a certain amount or pull a limited run and do a preorder window for new games.
@@superj2644 This is advice that he should already know as a business owner. This is where the problem lies
so I wanted to share a random anecdote about cooper/djvg: I'm a big collector of japanese retro games. I found their channel some years ago because they sell a lot of them, so I became interested in watching their videos because of that. cooper would get in huge boxes of japanese imports to resell from a "secret source" and "supplier" that he didn't want to tell his subscribers about, literally because he didn't want them to go in and buy things before he did. having recognized the boxes/labels on the stuff he'd get in the unboxing videos, his "secret source" is a place called suruga-ya, which is a chain of retail stores in japan that sell used books, anime merch, video games and more. he acted like this was some sort of super secret honey hole that he wanted to keep to himself when, in reality, suruga-ya consists of hundreds of stores across japan. it is not some sort of small mom-and-pop store with limited supply. they are a nationwide chain.
another thing I think is strange is how he referred to the place he was getting these games from as a supplier. it sounded like he was referring to it as the type of wholesale supplier only business owners have access to. it's highly likely he was using a proxy/mail forwarding service like buyee or fromjapan to order everything. I should clarify that *anyone* can use these sites. they aren't some super secret thing, and anyone who wants to buy items from japan can use them. almost all of the time you can find amazing deals on items you can only get in japan compared to buying them on ebay or elsewhere.
maybe this is a stupid rant, especially since the videos I'm referring to are a couple years old at this point. who knows. but as someone who's passionate about video game collecting and wishes for collecting to be affordable and fun for everyone, gatekeeping out of greed is a scummy thing to do. buying up loads of cheap games to resell at a huge markup is already unfair, but gatekeeping the place you buy from because you think it's a metropolis of resell value is even more unfair and also scummier.
I am not surprised to hear this at all. Gatekeeping is the resellers main move and strategy to keep themselves relevant. Practically standing between consumer and source. Apparently SicCooper is worse than I originally thought. I regret talking to him at Sege now.
When buying it yourself it's smart to batch orders to amortize the shipping and handling fees or waiting for when surugaya does their occasional free shipping deal. It's convenient to be able to buy things one off that have already been imported, but it's surprising for it to have been kept a secret considering it's one of the best overseas friendly sites for buying used goods.
Japanese games at least for ps1 and ps2 are DIRT CHEAP, even imported directly from Japan
I have a few ive bought on my channel
Buying Japanese games is as easy as using ebay and searching 😅
2:46 the other app, Goodies? I see jrpg life swingin on that app 🥜‘s lately
Encore I believe
I don't know about Costco in America but here in Australia you can have a business account it used to be a little bit cheaper than the normal one. The advantage of the business account is you can do two transactions on one card at one time. So potentially you could have got 20 games. One time I was in there and there was like three Hillbilly looking guys with two trolleys stacked so high, mountains of 20 kilos which is about 40 pounds of sugar bags. I said time you like sugar in your coffee and they just laughed with the teethless grim. Of course they were making spirit to sell. You see some weird things in Costco Australia I saw a whole family dressed like those American people who look like they live in the past. You'd be surprised how many of the staff are actually American or Mexican.
lol them Billie’s need that sugar for the shine
I worked at a comic book store many years ago while I was in college. It was owned by a guy who had no business running a store. He couldn’t pay his bills with Diamond that they wouldn’t sell to him anymore. So he had to go to other comic book stores every week and buy what they had and then charge people above cover price. It was a total crap show.
I imagine that didn’t last too long
A lot of these store owners buy from each other and do Walmart/Target sales. If you spend enough time around these guys, you'll see it's pretty common behavior. I can't hate on them for taking advantage of these things but it seems tasteless to brag about it on social media.
They brag because their audience are reseller amateurs that bring them views when they teach them scummy stuff
“We have to pay employees. The “Only allowed 10 purchases”meant that Bobby was sent to CostCo to buy out as many copies as he can. Cooper says “We got to pay our employees” That’s not the Costco customers’ problem, that’s a you problem. You bought another location that you can’t move into but can’t pay your employees? That’s not good. You are buying SNES games but can’t pay the employees? You are buying a rare N64 light sign but can’t pay your employees?
It’s a convenient excuse for him to use when he needs to justify something
That’s just pure horse 💩 on a stick. First off, I can’t stand when resellers like that go to stores like Walmart, Target, Costco etc and buy up all the games that are on sale and flip them for double. Leave brick and mortar stores alone for us collectors man. We like deals too and not having to pay more. I agree with you Steve on the consistency of pricing. Stores should have a system to make prices fair across the board since they do fluctuate. I mean, they look up prices when we trade in games, why can’t they do that for games in stock they are selling? Profit in the end seems to be all that they are after in the long run, nothing more. 😞
Needless to say I won’t be buying from double jump lol
@ I don’t blame you. I thought about doing the mystery box thing at one point, but decided against it. 😅
I was laughing in the video when they bought 10 copies of Mario Brotherhood from Costco to resell in the store. (Not scalpers though)
Price gouging, scalping, it’s all the same.
I wouldn't fault stores for how they source product 8:40 How do you think corporate stores source product? They buy direct or through a distributor where they can arrange a deal for bulk purchases. Buy low, sell high is the name of the game.
Yes, but they provide them at reasonable prices that are affordable to the general public. Like Costco did with that Mario game, they offered it for 20 bucks and your buddy came in and tried to clean them out. Literally tried to buy 100 but was limited to 10. He’s a scalper.
I watch this guy show before in pass I don't agree with some of that guy takes. He buys games for collection and don't play games. When he had sega dreamcast he had all games for it north american and didn't play it and said was going to sell them to buy another collection and not play the games is crazy to me
That’s ridiculous
in TerroriserXtra new video he visits there shop and the lady gives (him/the customer ) the key to unlock the video game case display. it is probably not smart to give the customer the key lol
Yeah that sounds like laziness and apathy lol
With them some of their prices is based on condition and completeness. Some just were not repriced yet, on the opposite end you can get a game for a steal if the price skyrocketed since
69.99 for a faded loose copy of Pokémon blue I don’t believe there is a deal to be had in that store
@steviefreakinc we found tron bonne for under market price because they never repriced it
@ wow
@ that’s good for you though
These sellers have it backwards! eBay (which price charting sources) usually sell higher because the seller loses money to fees and often include shipping. So buying in store should be a better deal since they don’t have to lose any of that $$$
They follow eBay because it’s easy and they’re lazy
The overheads of a brick and mortar store are significantly higher than selling online. It's you that has it backwards.
@ then they’re doomed from the start. I know owners that have overhead costs and still manage to sell items at reasonable prices below price charting. The problem is that people are inflating the market by taking PC prices and bumping them up. If they sell, they set the market…… just need to let it crash
@@MorrissaurusRex That you thought a b&m shop should be cheaper than ebay because of fees negates any knowledge you can claim on the retail industry.
@ I guess you got me there
I have zero respect for someone who “plays a character” but deletes any negative comment with credibility lmao
Talk to TH-cam about that, I only delete threats
7 employees for such a small store is way too much. Him and three others is more than enough.
Other than that, he just sold his dreamcast collection for around 14k and spent it all on a roadtrip to buy snes games and whatever else. Check his pickup video's, they're absolutely insane..
Also, Retrorick is a mod on his Whatnot and bids on items aswell... feels scummy.
Apparently, they’re moving to a larger store so I guess that’s why he’s keeping them
I've always wondered this too. He seems like a pretty good guy, but the amount of employees doesn't seem like a great business decision from an outsider looking in. Seems like they have 4+ people working at all times, at least from the videos I've watched. All of my local stores usually have 1-2 at most. That's a huge amount of overhead!
I'm a past Double Jump customer and find their videos entertaining as well. Lots of retro game stores price a bit higher than pricecharting to account for the overhead of running a physical store and so forth. I don't really have any big issues with DJ. 🤷♂
That’s cool. I’m sure he’s a nice guy, but the business side disappoints me.
To the people who are body shaming him, bet you wouldn’t say it to his face if you could
They sure would in South Korea. They worry about people’s health there. 😊
But I don’t think people should be mean about it.
@ Unless if you’re a dog.
If Gandolf the wise had an orange beard his name would be Heckin' Steve
I’ll take that compliment lol
I like him but I looked at him sideways when he started selling on whatnot
Whatnot is bad for consumers and good for resellers. It creates an urgency to buy. I hate it
70 bucks for a pokemon blue that has a shitty label? Fuck that, also it seems like he keeps all the good stuff that comes in to his store and he probably spends a lot getting more games. Seriously, look at his game room. Remember that old saying, don’t get high off your own supply? Obviously he doesn’t.
I’m sure that’s one of the main reasons he still has a store. To source for his pc
I cannot believe I used to watch this guy back in 2020.
Apparently he’s worse than I thought. I’ve been learning a lot about him today
I honestly don’t understand why anyone would bother opening a store in this day and age, when it’s incredibly easy to sell online and the customer base is so big, I feel like a lot of these guys open stores purely for their egos
He's had his store for 10 years or longer.
@ and he’s struggling by the sounds of it
@@step9624 He's not struggling that much. He has a huge stock of amazing games hes "waiting for the new store to open to sell" if they're struggling that much he can always just pull the gems hes saving and would sell instantly
Most distributors required to have a brick and mortar store to do business with you
16:15 I don't believe that you want stores to succeed. It sounds like 'It sucks that games are so expensive. Why do new flagship titles gotta be 60 or 70 bucks?' Gamers pay prices they believe are worthwhile. It's why Samson goes for $2-3K and Mary Kate and Ashley goes for $0. Respectfully, I think you should try running a game store and see what challenges you face. It sounds like this store owner is a good dude, prioritizing paying his employees over strictly profiting. Think of how many corporate bosses are earning 400 times what the base employee earns and their business doesn't profit for years and years, like TH-cam.
I disagree with you, man you’re wrong. I’m friends with a store owner in real life and he’s very successful and he doesn’t have to overcharge for things. Don’t get lost in the sauce and wrapped up in this TH-cam reseller collecting culture.
Whats funny i was watching a whatnot. I always notice when these sellers advertise you to come to their whatnot, they always sell it like you always get these products for a steal. I was watching this guy and someone did get a 120 dollar game for 51 and he is obviously upset. I make the comment about it being funny you advertise like you will get these great deals, but when someone actually does I notice you are visibly upset. He blocked me from his channel.
Sounds about right. These dudes are saying what people want to hear but they really don’t want people to get deals off of them
Whatnot wouldnt even let us go live because we don't have a social media following 😂 even though we have evidence of tons of sales and a large following on mercari. It's definitely a hype, otherwise they'd be making money with us.
@@ihavenoclue9756 that's weird cuz I have been approved to sell on there and I don't even sell online At all. not to mention j know like 5 others who also in the same boat as me that are on whatnot.
Yup I have got some expensive games on WhatNot for around half price and the seller gets pissed and stops selling expensive games and starts putting out the cheap stuff no one wants. Then throws a tantrum saying “you guys are not bidding high on the good stuff”. One time I got a $50 game for like $10 and he made a comment to me, “you’re taking food out of my families mouth”. He targeted that comment at me for getting a deal. 🙄🙄🙄
@@kevin3sevengeez that's low
I think this is the same guy who wouldn't let people get discounts at cons but, whenever he was going shopping he was asking them for discounts at con. 😂 btw whatnot is the way of living when you're a reseller 😂😂😂😂
Whatnot = Desperation
@@steviefreakinc It's the youtube life!! It's the way it goes!
Yeah collectors shouldn’t own video stores. They are only looking out for themselves and their personal collections. Not only are the games marked up, but the condition is trash. You could make so many videos on this guy. He sold his Dreamcast collection to a TH-camr instead of in his store, and he wanted 100 percent PriceCharting hahaha. Watch his mystery box picks. They are such trash, I would be so pissed if I paid $250 and received a bunch of worn out incomplete TRASH. Also whatnot and the sellers on there are also trash. I can’t even imagine my local game store going to Costco and steal all the deals. Absolute crap wanting to grab 100 copies. Frickin shameful. These are just my opinions.
I personally would never buy a mystery box because I know for sure that that shit is a rip off. The only time my mystery box ever looks awesome is when it’s a staged box for a promotional video.
TH-cam wouldn’t let me edit my comment for some reason but not my mystery box but any mystery box is what I meant to say. Sorry using voice to text.
Ive bought a couple things from Double Jump online, a couple pretty rare DVDs and Blurays for way lower than they go for on eBay. I do know he has been pricing VHS tapes incredibly high tho
That’s good at least
Keep doing what you’re doing you are a real gamer and a real person brother! Don’t let the haters get you don’t.
Thanks Jeff! You the man!
I'm with you, I can't stand Resellers.
He did say he was holding back stock for the new store.. so I am assuming that was misfire on his part.
Meh.
I don’t want to be a defender of resellers, but he does own his own shop. He sells many different items. He’s not just price gouging a particular item. I personally have bought things from DJ and find their prices perfectly reasonable. He’s talked about things like Pokémon pricing and that it’s hard for him to keep those items in stock. So that’s just basic supply and demand.
This last year I’ve been into amiibo collecting and have purchased some from them. I found their prices to be almost always under eBay.
I also feel like when you say “just buy it in person or on eBay” that you’ve not actually bought anything on eBay recently. If you find anything on eBay that matches price charting, that is an absolute deal.
I don’t know all of your background but you sound like an armchair business owner. Saying things like “just do what GameStop does” is one of the most outrageous statements I’ve heard.
At the end of the day it’s quite simple, if you don’t like them or their prices, move on. In the same way that you don’t have to comment on every eBay posting that you think is overpriced.
The whole I’m going to charge more for a Pokémon game so I can keep it in stock More often is kind of weird. And the end result is you stiff arm your customers into paying up
Sic cooper is like john hancock who will stop at nothing to feed his video game addiction
They claim to be for the people until the people stand in their collecting way.
sick slayer pfp!
Siccooper notoriously over charges for popular series and first party titles and then he says he makes up for it by pricing down all cheaper games to around 5 dollars that could go for $7 lol wow!!!
Also he spends WAY TOO MUCH on collecting for someone who owns a video game store. He just spent $3,000 on a f’n sign right after he spent over $15k on his little road trip spree with the guy he worships who owns pink gorilla
He makes up for nothing. Why even have a strategy like that. If he wanted to do right by people, he could charge fair prices on popular series from the jump…….no pun intended
The 15k was from selling his complete Dreamcast collection to fund his trip, and the 3k for the sign was from reselling music finds at goodwill and cashing in crypto currency.
A reseller that doesn't know how to resell? That's new.
Frankly, it was he doesn’t know how to run a video game store.
Spot on. These guys are so bad at business their best idea is pickups from.. Costco and upcharge? Trying to buy 100?!! Around Xmas season? Definite marks.
Talk about a low blow to society lol
Sic Cooper wouldn’t be broke or poor if he was t a hoarder and spent almost $20k on some stupid Nintendo statues. All for these TH-camrs suck and I don’t understand people donating and giving rare and valuable games to these numb nuts.
I’m not sure why they donate to them either. I guess because they think they’re genuine collectors
I bet they weren't kidding about buying 100 of them too, scumbags.
Definitely not. They would have if they could have
I always hated whatnot it’s just full of sponsored TH-camrs
I think it’ll be a thing of the past in the next year or so. There’s a new one they’re all pushing. Still can’t think of the name but it sucks too lol
My parents own a game store and price things mostly according to price charting but the thing with us is you can haggle. We have our pokemon stuff a little higher but we accept trade or sometimes flat out do straight out case swaps or buying the cases/manuals. Everything nearby store is pretty much sticker price.
Most people won’t haggle in a store setting though. They’ll just silently leave lol
@@steviefreakinc We physically can't keep those things in stock like ever the second they get posted up they are gone within the week. We price our things according to condition and demand it never hurts to ask. Ps we don't actively source our stuff it walks in the doors.
@@steviefreakinc 😂👍
@@steviefreakinc That's me. I didn't grow up haggling for prices. It doesn't make me feel good as a person. I also have too much anxiety to do it. If people were willing to sell lower than the sticker price, I would rather that be the price
Costco is a wholesale store, businesses go there to buy in bulk to resell in their own store.
I reckon that’s true. But it’s more consumer sided than something like Sam’s club as far as I know. Or maybe it’s exactly the same but either way, it was really shitty
He ain't broke his collection is worth over a million. And the content he makes is to make money his shop is to make money. He was saying he is going broke because he wanted too much at once, but he isn't literally going broke. I bet his worth 1.5 million minimum.
Well serves him right for clickbaiting.
lol his collection is not worth over a million dollars what are you 11?
@Triple_A_Gaymer I have 800 items at 60k. Since I only have 115 snes titles and he has nearly all of them I would hazard a guess at 721 titles that's coming close to 250k just for snes. Not to mention he owns a shop full of stock, employs 8 people, own a big house. He is easily worth 1.5 million of you take all his assets. Put it this way, he ain't broke.
@ that’s interesting.
I really dislike double jump video games. Also sic cooper has a weird demanor like hes always right.
I have noticed that in his videos
I think you were a bit harsh, but understand your viewpoints. I agree with some of your points, but not all. It's all good. Feel free to have your own opinion and I'm not here to sway you any other direction. Some customers express their thoughts with their wallets. If i dont like a price, I just don't buy it. My family avoids going to Walmart because of their business practices. My wife avoids Amazon for similar reasons. Metal Jesus did a video on stores that have bad business practices, which are much worse than what you mentioned here. It's a good watch if you have time to see it.
I'll check it out man. Thanks for the info
In the UK, the independent video game store is pretty much dead, so I don't see much of these terrible tactics. But what i will say is that the UK facebook marketplace is a cespool of scum.
Unfortunately for the second gand market, a store chain called CEX has monopolised the used games market. We had a gamestop equivalent called GAME but they no longer sell retro or used games.
I usually just shop on eBay when there's a specific game I'm looking for.
Great video as always mate. 👍
I’m actually familiar with CEX because of Retro Ghetto and a few other UK TH-camrs I’ve seen. It seems like a decent spot but it would be nice to have alternatives.
@steviefreakinc Yeah. It's the only real place to buy video games here. I'm grateful that it exists because there's nothing else.
Thankfully, their trade-in credit is decent enough, where most of my collection is funded that way.
I'll post a pokemon red cart for 1 billion dollars. I don't have to sell many, I just need to sell that one 😂
Lol
Dude that opening take with the F bombs. Subscribed.
I don't want to defend these guys but pricecharting as the be all market dictator isn't always accurate imo. Again not defending guys like these, arbitrage abusers really urk me, but price charting to me is a general guide. Market pricing can differ, price charting can skew game prices too high with variants, especially in graded games, and these resellers are exploiting pricecharting prices when they sell on Amazon, that's the real reseller scheme imo. 😤 Keep fighting bro
Honestly the old school way of knowing what something was worth was averaging eBay recent solds. Then Pricecharting came around and declared that that’s what they do but hell idk man. Any time I sold something of mine in the past, I was always looking to make a deal and sell it under price. No one else seems to like that idea anymore and trend upward 😂
I guess some tubers that also have physical stores have YT pricing similar to how conventions seem to have con pricing.
New games can bring people in just like retro games. Like you mentioned people bring in old stuff to get new or used. New games may not be the bread and butter but I would think it could help a store. In time you should learn what the people in you area like and order accordingly.
That not making fun of people with red beards was a great closer. lol
I’m glad you enjoyed that joke lol
Yea I stopped by the whatnot show and you had pay $5 for shipping on top of $45 cost game, then taxes so not saving money. Thats why I didn’t buy one lol
Might as well buy it full price and skip the ship times at a store after that lol
At one point they ran a “flash sale” knocked off $5 so still cost $50 lmao. And people just ate it up bought them all. I left after that. Was curious see what he was going get out things more then buying anything myself.
Also you could tell he wasn’t too thrilled when stuff sold for couple dollars under price charting lol.
@ wow
Can you talk about the reprints of Okami and Onimusha for the ps4?
What about exactly? Is a good thing
@steviefreakinc its a great thing lol. I thought it would be funny to hear you rag on scalpers trying to sell these games for absurd prices. Maybe your insight on games unexpectedly getting reprints and such.
"You can do both." is the understatement of the reseller world! You can make profit and survive and support your family or whatever the frick without needing to price everything at top dollar and screw everyone in the process! One of the most disgusting comments I saw on a certain bird's comment section was a guy talking about how he found a prostatic leg at a thrift store for a few bucks and profited thousands off it. That hurt me to my core. Especially now with the state of thrift store, companies that get their inventory for free selling shit out pricing those who used to afford it. I didn't grow up needing to buy my clothes at thrift stores but my mother did. I went to school with people who did.
People don’t realize that they’re hurting the economy more with this stuff too.
Too harsh? Nah! This kind of behavior needs to be called out and whomever you are directing your criticism to needs to take accountability for their actions and improve their reselling business. I mean my eyes have been opened and I’m really not a reseller even though I have considered it.
Good to see you in the comments, Rob!
Good to see you too my friend!
i never go whyknot.i heard a scam with pokemon cards.the guy show it sealed but he open it take out good card.i stopped buying trading cards.i just bought games
Whatnot is littered with bull crap
@steviefreakinc I heard about fees lol on those things
I like sic cooper as a person and a gamer guy, but his prices are very high for a lot of things. Doesn’t offer a lot for trade in credit and charges a lot for everything in the store. Steve I 100 percent agree with your takes thank you so much for doing what your doing, these guys have big game collections by squeezing the profit out of everything
I’m sure his collector videos are awesome but this business side of things sucks
I like cooper but I’m also sick of what not . Chase made me hate it buying up games & selling it for such inflated prices
Chase makes me hate a lot of things lol 😂
@@steviefreakinc he’s also ruined Hawaiian shirts for everybody .
@ lol
i think the other app your talking about is goodies. That is awful too.
It was Encore but I’ve heard of Goodies too and yeah they all suck
@@steviefreakinc Bear in mind this is the same guy who has full sets for N64, SNES (almost), Gamecube, Wii U and Pico and has over 1500 switch games. I’d love for someone to explain the point of owning that many switch games, makes absolutely 0 sense lol. His reasoning is “thats what the rest of my life is for” but i’m pretty sure it’s physically impossible to play all those, and the reality is you aren’t going to… I mean he can collect whatever he wants but sure does seem like a massive waste of time, money and effort lol
@ realistically no one will like every game on a system, therefore is it stupid to own every game
@@steviefreakinc exactly
He's still moving to a new store right? He's broke? I have not been keeping up with a lot of his latest video's. I am clearly out of the loop.
I’m unsure why he would think that was a good move for him but it’s his decision 😂
He isn't broke, his video was just tongue and cheek humor because he spent so much on his road trip. All of which was funded by selling his complete dreamcast collection.
too harsh when it comes to the game prices but not on brotherhood. game prices are constantly changing and you kind of showed they were high on some and low on others. I kind of like double jump's videos but when they said they bought those I thought they shouldn't have mentioned it. also, whatnot is trash and its only a matter of time before all these resellers just do buy it now. every time catrp talks about selling games for cheap on whatnot it looks like chase is gonna have a heart attack
There’s a lot of things they shouldn’t mention in videos but they do it because they need those sweet dreamchaser views from amateur resellers
What's up with the white residue crumbs powder all over the counter around that overpriced pokemon blue faded label game? Maybe clean the counter before you take pictures because I wouldn't want to buy that game if it was half price charting price laying in whatever that shit is.. looks like contraband residue possibly.. great job letting double jump know they need to do better Steve 👏
Lol I doubt it was booger sugar but you never know I suppose
whatnot gaming uk is much different steve much smaller good community most items go under retail most of us do it for fun for socialising
Sounds about right. Americans are the worst
you’re thinking of encore, i haven’t used it yet.
whatnot is getting to be shitty.
i’m a video game store on there, i hear your issues 100%.
but it’s a way out for us to move inventory fast.
If you’re selling your own inventory then that’s cool.
@ who else’s inventory would i be selling? i have to stay competitive in this market, paying up 65% BACK on things like gamecube, pokemon, zelda, mario, etc, just to HAVE them.
i also don’t specifically stock new games, that market is awful, let gamestop keep stabbing that market, im cool😂 but if you want a NES game from you childhood for $10? sure i got that.
one thing i hate though is, i hate knowing that i have to have a markup, because if i didn’t, these desired games will run off my shelves due to amazon sellers, or other resellers. My markup rate is usually 3-5$ difference than the price chart value. (condition variance) ( a clean label pokemon blue vs pokemon blue with a torn label will not be priced the same)
ALSO, Pricechart is just a TOOL, NOT A RULE.
Makes me want to just move onto modern games and or use emulators. That Pokémon game has a faded label
I wouldn’t judge ya
I've watched a few of the mystery boxes they sold unboxing and it was a joke. Typical yes you kind of got your value back but it was crap games.
Not surprised. Mystery box is only good when it’s promoted in one video where they plant everything in the box lol
@@steviefreakinc Right?! LOL I use to comment this on those VGM boxes and people would get so offended. I was like why spend $60 for crappy games when you could pick the ones you want. lol
The idea of paying for mystery anything is dumb. It's like throwing money into the ether. People are just lazy. I've seen sellers on ebay do this where they flip over the games so you can't see the label and sell it specifically as a mystery or surprise box.
@@gofofoloz Its the same thing with those dumb Video Game Monthly and Retro Boxes. Yes, its fun to see what you get and according to pricecharting you get your value.. but I'm sorry I don't want a copy of Super Tennis and Wheel of Fortune because you got it for $1 somewhere.
Hey Steve, not defending, but one thing to keep in mind with old Pokémon GB/GBA titles. 99.9% of the original save batteries are dry. I do know that DJG does replace all those save batteries, which the overwhelming majority of people do not have the expertise to perform. Additional labor definitely plays a factor into the prices for these titles (not the only reason, but at least one of them)
Fair enough but $17 upcharge? Naah
@steviefreakinc I was at a retro convention back in November, there was a vendor that was offering battery replacements… he wanted $25 a pop. Remember Pokemon Red, Yellow, Blue, Crystal are unusable without a non-dry battery. No progress can be saved
@@steviefreakinc i’d pay 10 bucks for someone to change each battery. i don’t want to do it.
@ unless you have a Retron 5 like me :)
@@steviefreakincI don’t think that’s too egregious 17$ to get it in person and a fresh battery isnt terrible. People like phoenix resale who sell shit on Amazon for 30-70$ up charge the real issue
They went to Costco to make a profit lol.
😂
I always felt this guy was very wishy washy as well as being an elitist.
The only profit is the $1.50 hot dog
@ they sell those at a loss lol 😂
There are way too many narcissists operating in videogame reselling. A lot of the time, they come in as loveable sweat talking fellow who gives away deals in their carefully curated video. However in reality they are just scumbags who prey on people's ignorance while gloating about the rare stuff they own for clicks. I don't know why people follow these big personalities. Perhaps their owning big SNES collection or complete gamecube set give them street creds when they are a real life piece of trash. Life is often not what it seems.
A lot of these big channels tend to lure the gaming audience in with the collections and then they switch it up on them after they’re invested in the channel mentally
I think you need to pay another visit to ForestResells, he gets a little defensive when you criticize him.
He’s still around? Lol
Crazy he charges that pokemon game for more then what its worth when its clearly flawed. I loved watching his videos so i wanted to order from him but when i saw his crazy prices i passed. This guys literally the next dkoldies my local store charges a bit above market value but not as much as him.
Yeah, maybe those prices working in Washington where he lives but if he’s promoting his online website on TH-cam, he’s gonna have to adjust those prices
thanks for keepin it real steve
Yessir!
Lets go! Heckin’ steve🔥
Im hella shocked now siccooper & his store doublejump is getting exposed.. no way.. i actually watch the channels. i was a bit skeptical about buying from them..
They're not cheap lol I wouldn't buy from them
@ lmao.. appreciate it man! I just prefer ebay & if im free i would go to my local retrogamestore since they actually have decently priced games
Merry Christmas Steve.
Merry Christmas to you!
Is your avatar Billy Mitchel?
Oh, im a ~$100K physical media reseller (very few video games though). Just started my youtube explaining the grind for 6 figures.
? My avatar is me lol
@@steviefreakinc Ive neve been here. On a PC > TV your picture looks like a side profile of "The video gamer of the century" :D
@ 😂
I wish i had a homie like you
Thanks man
Yeah price charting is your best friend when buying video games remember that
I use sold comps on eBay, sometimes higher than price charting or other times it can be quite a bit lower.
@ for sure that’s a good idea
I reference price charting but I don’t use it as the be all end all
@ yeah it has its pros and cons
Whatnot should change the name of the app to "Scam-it"
😂
i know from experience a fast nickel is better than a slow dime. you make more money in the long run and gain rapport with people and then they reccomend more people to you. then theres the fact that these game stores only pay 30-50% of value. like that pokemon blue you know he only paid at max 25 bucks for it. so just selling it for actual value is a double up. thats fuckin good bro. why you tryna triple up on everything? theyre clearly coasting off social media popularity. if people want a game so bad they should just get it off ebay, you could probably get it there and overnight it for cheaper than resellers charge.
Big facts Antony!
I only go to gamestop to order xbox 360 video games once a month
Order online? But what if you get loose games. You don’t mind?