I really like this channel's videos of video interviews of people who own a business, whether it be a full physical store or display cases/booths in an Antique Store. I, myself, have a Display Case in an Antique Store with $5k worth of Pokemon Memorabilia, but I also flip on eBay and I'm a Spark Delivery Driver Full-Time. The hustle is real. The sales are slow. I don't have a family, but I do have goals to reach and debt to pay off. Hope everything works out for him!
Wish you best of luck with the hustle m8 me and my wife do sparkdriver/instacart/doordash but I'm trying to go to the flea market to sell once a month or so, mostly selling my stuff and haven't had the $ to buy thingsresell but thats the dream! My grandpa did flea market 2 days a weekend as his full time job so I hope I can be half as good as him haha, anyways hope the grind pays off for yah soon hit me up if you wanna talk spark driver we can swap tips or ideas would like to make a friend in a similar situation :)
honestly Reselllers on youtube ruined the thrift store, the managers and ceo caught on so now they get employees to do ebay searches for prices and charge a few bucks under the average price.
@@superluckytoys True but it's had a large resurgance after 2020 when people started going to thrift stores again and more and more people posted about the deals they made and profit from reselling
@@Scooterios It's still bad but it's good if you're quick enough I don't even resell I just get games for my collection and try to before resellers message the seller first. most time i lose because i have a full time job
This hobby has become MAJORLY TOXIC in 10 years. TH-cam/tiktokkers have ruined it to the point little old ladies are fighting over games. I rarely hunt games at yard sales and thrifts anymore. I have the games I want. (Had them since the early 80s on)
It's always been like that, anytime people see apparent value with easy liquidity it's an easy buy. It's not youtube and tiktokers, it's Ebay that's been driving the aggressive value mining, Ebay = world wide liquidity for anything. Whereas pre ebay the only places people could flip would be mostly within their community or maybe conventions or a network they create at flea markets etc. There is less stock because there is more liquidity it's simple as that.
Same here in both the UK and Netherlands, old people go in to the local CEX "kind of like game stop but also second hand stuff" And try to resell their sh*t via Gumtree / Marktplaats / Ebay / e.t.c for 50x the price.
@@DetroitTylerTo some extent I’d blame eBay (and really the internet in general) but at the same time, having been in the vintage computer and game world for two decades now, the explosive growth in prices only happened after the massive increase in these categories on TH-cam starting around 2012-14 (first general interest channels then the flippers). Once they hit critical mass in 2018 everything just exploded. eBay on its own certainly has contributed but TH-cam has been the proverbial gasoline on the fire. If you look at the growth of an event like VCF over the past decade (to where there are now 5 of them), it almost perfectly mirrors the growth of TH-cam.
This video perfectly outlines how the market has been destroyed by resellers. They all want to buy low and sell high, and a game only has to change hands three or four times before it reaches and ungodly price where both the buyer and seller are likely screwed. The buyer, because they're getting ripped off if they actually pay that high price, and the seller because there is a high probability that it won't sell at that price, and they will wind up having to take a loss to get rid of it. Resellers have completely taken this away from your average video game enthusiast and transformed it into a market of nothing but resellers just shifting product around in circles.
@@GoLakers3900 Then how does a company like DKOldies do so well, even though you can get everything they sell significantly cheaper literally anywhere else??? Or is it possible that companies like DKOldies are driving the price increases we see everywhere? Not supply any demand, but more like "lets see what the maximum amount I can sell this for because people will pay it no matter what..."
@@GoLakers3900 Everytime I look at games and consoles online, and even in my local stores, the prices are just a little higher, despite the supply being relatively the same.
Yeah people are getting more and more aware of what was stored in the basement or attic. Yes many over priced stuff but they eventually go down because their inventory builds up so much they just get rid of it.
@@minidonut827usually they’re trying to sell in a game shop (like these videos) and rent is very high in many of these major metropolitan areas where there’s enough people to sustain a store like this. It’s a cost of going business to an extent, if rent is high then they have to price accordingly to compensate
Yeah i’ve fully converted my ps2 to hdd connected to a pc to drop roms in and out. Going to convert my Ps3 soon because F all this nonsense of trying to acquire anything thats worth it.
I live in Louisville I have done business with Tim he bought my nes collection and PS2 collection and Xbox when I got out of collecting. He's a good dude
You can't find a deal because everyone wants to get top dollar for 15-20 year old titles. Some games cost more now than they did when new. Additionally, folks can't simply get rid of anything anymore without first seeing the latest sale price on ebay. The market is going to implode on itself...
I wish I could like this comment a hundred more times. There is too much inventory in the hands of sellers at prices that are too high for demand. The bubble burst is coming. I have travelled to several cons over the past couple of years and I can't recall a single person walking up to a booth and asking if they have Jaguar games or accessories. Yet I have seen half a dozen Jaguar consoles at every show including the same unsold CD combo at the same show for the past three years.
@@only_one_chrisfantazzi Did you even watch the video? The guys has multiple locations open and sources by supporting local shops and stores and buying people’s personal collections keeping them and himself afloat.
@@only_one_chrisfantazzi And to ask for special deals from other resellers as they shift around stock. These items aren't selling because people aren't willing to pay retail prices of $5-15 a game when the titles should be $1-3 each. So they will just sit on shelves.
i think a large problem withthe secondary market is, its kind of an inflated market and not enough customers that are willing to pay a premium to sustain a storefront.
@@JxtArod If prices went back to what they were 10-15 years ago for retro games the market would be healthy and stores would be fine..Resellers and people willing to buy at those high prices killed it.
Given how the AAA and just current market is I do think the retro and physical market will come back because there are a number of current games that come out and within a week are just dead, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League was a big tell tale sign that the major developers are doing what Hollywood is doing and getting the same results.
Silent Hill on PS1 sold 2 million copies, it is in no fashion rare whatsoever. The game store front closest to me has 3 copies of the first game alone in their inventory. But since a decent chunk of people are trying to play that game again, the price keeps getting raised because it's an item that gets asked about a lot. They take advantage and artificially inflate the price. A few years ago the game was half the price is is today to sometimes less than that too. The price for this game will never go down because now everyone has the mindset that Silent Hill is a "rare" title that costs $200. The market is nothing but greed now, and you can thank channels like this for ruining it.
good stores keep their prices in the fair ball park and offer solid store credit, as you want your customers returning and potentially liquidating at discounts. The best shops don't gouge they make you want to buy and feel good about it.
Can't stand Ebay flippers , someone would really appreciate getting a deal been to estates sales for old tube electronic equipment , every one is on their phone looking at eBay seeing what they can sell it for ....some lady had all the 3" Oscilloscope CRT in her little cart looking on eBay, I specifically went their for them , I was thinking WTF is she going to use them for she prolly don't even know what they are , Just disgust me , I didn't buy Chit just left
@@cardboardboxification that sentiment you’re expressing I agree with I think greed and a lack of experience has lots of people trying to flip things they think are “niche” When really they only have value to a small group of people who appreciate them
100%. That's why I don't collect anymore. I also love vinyl records but the past 4+ years I probably go to the record store once a year. You pay $30-40 for a single album then it sits on the shelf 99.99% of the time.
Never buy a over market value, most of these resellers sell way over market value. There was a boom in the retro game market during COVID, prices have mostly adjusted back down, and a lot of these resellers are out of business or going out of business.
HAHA. Sourcing is hard bc of all the TH-cam game flippers. Caleb uses his TH-cam persona to get good deals from fans. Meanwhile charges more than 95% of the resellers bc he sells on Amazon. Amazon is a harder market to crack for video games. Almost everything on there is higher than ebay. His app is not going to help anyone. Stop buying it, and stop giving him good deals on bulk collections. Then watch how far his hunting gets him having to source like everyone else.
This is why you A: Can no longer find any games worth anything at thrift stores, and B: Why stores like Goodwill price things high now or put them online. Goodwill is wise to value of things now and they also want to make money.
@@inflation1139 Ultimately it’s still a for profit company and if they can get that much for gaming related things they will try. At the same time they don’t exist so resellers can acquire stock for nothing
Not worth it to hunt for retro games anymore because these folks are hoarding the places the true charm of collecting would be. Finding games at reasonable prices to score a nice gem. Now it’s barren flea markets & Goodwills with unwanted sports titles & folks like these selling them at eBay purchased prices, thinking everyone coming through is going to pay that same price. Only the desperate do. The peak of Retro collecting was 2004-2010. Just not the same anymore with that market cornered with speculators. Just like the Video Game Market will crash again, so will the resellers. It’s inevitable as you can see here.
Awww I’m sorry are you hating the market you created? I have no sympathy for resellers that goto thrift stores and flea markets and fasly inflate prices
Have to agree with this. This is why you A: Can no longer find any games worth anything at thrift stores, and B: Why stores like Goodwill price things high now or put them online. Goodwill is wise to value of things now and they also want to make money.
Flippers help preserve high value titles by ensuring people interested the game buy it. People hate on flippers too much, that’s the used car industry. And you can still get the prices they pay, you just have to work a little harder. People don’t hate flipping, they hate entrepreneurship
It comes down to one thing - Price. I stopped collecting games because it's so pricey, now I literally can't afford it. I'm not paying $30 for a N64 game that would have cost $6 ten years ago.
Flips Thrift and yard sales finds video tapes it, laughs to thr bank. People find out, copies this method and increases prices 10 fold. Cries when it back fires
While I respect what both of these guys do, I'll never understand why you would want to give your reselling secrets to thousands of people on the internet.
I thought the same thing but thought about it. Your area may or may not know how the market works when reselling. For example. My area (Deep South border town in Texas) everyone here are super cheapskates. They want that discount cause it’s small community. They refuse to pay market value when you sell to them. But they will turn around and sell it above market value at the flea market. Like I sold this guy my Funko pop collection when i stopped collecting. I sold the lot at a loss of 20% of what I should’ve profited by selling $5-10 depending on the type of Funko it was and what series it was. Next day saw the person post a FB add on the lot selling them above market value lol. Any tactics you learn are hit or miss just depends on your area. Yes I sold video games too. I sold had some grails and nobody wanted to buy them at market price so ended up selling on EBay.
Pokemon's problem is its popularity, not so much any kind of scarcity. It's such a huge IP that just about anyone trying to be a vendor can price gouge and most people won't bat an eye. If we could even just get a handful of popular youtube streamers to down-price pokemon games when reselling, the market would slowly drop as a result. It'd be a trickle down effect, sure, but it'd get there.
@@WholeSomeHomie hey pal, there's this brand new concept that just hit the market. Not sure if you've heard of it, but it's called a "joke". Difficult concept to wrap your head around, I know.
There is so much competition out there. Everyone is flipping and reselling video games, the weird thing is why people who do this for a living make videos telling everyone else to do the same thing. Just raises the prices when everyone is fighting for the same items to sell
I think the main lesson to be learned from this video is to diversify your portfolio in reselling. Figure out how to sell multiple types of items and that will let you typically make more money than sticking to just something like Videogames.
This video reminds me of myself, except I was a collector and hunted video games to keep. Not to flip or resale. I remember my rarest finds were Shadow tower (Ps1) and God Hand (Ps2) got both complete mint condition for $2 at a thrift store. I remember back in 2015, I saw Kuon (Ps2) complete mint condition at a pawn shop selling for $1 ( at the time, had no idea it was rare). It sat on the shelves for 4 months straight and was always there when I would come into that specific pawn shop 3x a week. Nobody wanted it and I myself was not too interested in it. Then finally after 4 months; it ends up selling and I felt like I should have got it. Anyways one year later, someone decides to sale me Kuon ps2 complete mint condition for $50 and I can’t complain after it was going for $300 at the time. Then another situation, I ended up getting Rule of Rose (Ps2) complete for Free. I will tell you how it happened. The game was selling for $750 on Ebay, I ended up making an offer to the seller for $500. I paid $550 after taxes and everything for the game ( I paid for it). Then all of a sudden 2 weeks later, I receive a notification from Ebay that my $550 has been refunded to my account ( I am assuming the seller made a mistake, or forgot; I didn’t say anything…. I just kept quiet). So I ended up getting to keep the game ROR ps2 and got full money back for what I paid for it. And NO, I didn;t complain nor demanded a refund… I was completely unaware about it until Ebay refunded my bank account, but I never said nothing to seller and just played along with it. So therefore, I got Rule of Rose (PS2) for free and Kuon for $50 complete mint. The video game Gods really blessed me. I don’t collect ps1, ps2 games anymore… I already own 4000 video games and that is enough for me. I buy and play Ps4/Ps5 games now. I appreciate this seller in the video hustle, but I will be honest with you video game hunting and flipping is basically a dead business… If you want to hunt and collect for fun then great! But you will not find nothing rare anymore in flea markets, garage sales, pawn shops, estate sales, church sales, or thrift stores because everyone looks up the prices online and if it is rare or worth a lot of money, then people will pocket it and flip it, sale it themselves. The only thing you really find in thrift stores now is just sports games. Plus piracy is killing the video game industry because of all them plug in plays such as pandora boxes or hyperspins where they can load up 100K games on the system and it has everything such as NES,SNES, dreamcast, Saturn, SEGA CD, master system, genesis, arcade, ps1, ps2, PC, Amiga, Atari, PS3 (PC version of the ps3 games) and PS4 (PC versions of the PS4 games) since Ps3 and ps4 emulators do not exist. So Yeah video game hunting and flipping is basically dead.
I also noticed the piracy, I think this will make brand new sealed worth more since the market would be more driven by pure aesthetic since the piracy bypasses the experience of using the physical game to play
These guys and resellers like them are the reason people who actually collect to ise this stuff can't get a decent price on retro gaming. Thank you, gentlemen, for making our hobby unattainable. Greed drives this industry.
Is a very tough competition. You have videogame stores like Game Planet, but they don't offer you a plus: same price as department stores here in Mexico, like Liverpool and El Palacio de Hierro. And the last ones at least offer you some credits. But if you look on the internet, all you find is overpriced products when it comes to videogames and collection figures.
You ever wonder why he stopped hunting? He's scanning his competition and finding out weaknesses to where he's only buying from vendors. Vendors find the games out in the wild and sell to Caleb. Doesn't even need to hunt anymore. But yall love supporting him, make it make sense
Ever since resellers have beefed up the prices on these videogames I haven't bought anything. Actually, about a year or two before COVID-19, I had a small collection of videogames that I was building, not for resale but because I genuinely enjoyed playing the games. I had a PS1, N64, Super Nintendo, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Gameboy SP, Gameboy Color. I had a handful of games for all of these consoles. I bought the Xbox One S 2TB for $150 about 6 months after it released from some guy on Offerup who was desperate for cash, so it was a really good deal. I bought the original Xbox for $35, which included 4 games, and two controllers. The Gameboy SP was $30, Pokemon Red Version was $14. I bought the PS1 as a bundle with 3 games for a little over $50. I had sold all my videogames just a few months before COVID-19 because I had to pay off some fines. Then COVID-19 happened and suddenly game prices skyrocketed. It was also around the time that younger dudes started calling the Xbox 360 console "retro" or a "collectors item"....at least in my part of town, which I found baffling. I remember even as a teenager, the Nintendo 64 wasn't considered a collectors item, it was just thought of as that old, lame console. Me and my 5 siblings, and cousins thought of old consoles like that as boring. We had a Nintendo 64 sitting in our closet collecting dust. But yeah, I never thought it was worth re-purchasing my collection of videogames, especially not now in our current economy. The next time I'm buying videogames, will be when I'm rich. Until that day comes, I will instead be working on upgrading my net worth instead of my digital characters in some fantasy world. A part of me is glad, that videogames got so expensive. It helped me stop wasting so much time.
This is calling the kettle black! There is so much resale competition! That you all are canablizing each other! If common sense was so common every one would have it!😊
Dude seems down to eartg humble and he seems real honest phoenix resale finds some really cool guys in the biz as a collectibles seller myself you meet so many sellers who are just out to take advantage of you its refreshing to see honest sellers be succesful
Maybe I missed it but what I wanted to know was how do the payments work, like who is selling the stuff for him like an employee of his or someone who works in that building and does he trust them and how does he know what sold cause it seems like he stuffs them but I don’t see any type of sale system or inventory system.
The building has their own staff - they have keys to all the showcases. It’s up to the vendor (like Tim) to price things and include his unique vendor code and those things are typed in at the register. Sometimes that employee will also type what the item (game, plush, movie, etc.) are. You can also create unique inventory numbers for items, but logging that is pretty time consuming. Source: I’m the friend he mentioned who started and stopped 😂 what he didn’t mention was that I stopped because I too had twins on the way and no time lol
every spot is different, i sell records in this way at a record store, I pay a set amount of rent per month plus 12%, I hand them a printed excel spreadsheet and each item has a number on that list, they check it off when sold. It seems like with these antique malls most sellers don"t have a system like this, I can check my inventory and see if something sold that wasn't crossed off. And its not that time consuming creating a list, takes me an hour and half to log 200 records into my spreadsheet, way better to have a detailed list, with a number for each item.
@@tryingtolearnthisthe thing is, it’s these items are getting more scarce by the day - especially retro games. They’re either in collections no one wants to sell or they’re getting snatched up by guys like these.
Markets move in response to many different factors and thats what is happening in game sales. I casually flipped retro games and consoles for about 15 years - the sweet spot as a seller was from 2005 to 2015. Sellers tended to be people not as familiar with the internet who were just happy to get, for example, $20 for a decent condition NES which you could flip online for upwards of $50. By about 2015 in my view, games and equipment worth owning had mostly found their way into the hands of people who knew they could get higher prices and the margins became razor thin. Its rare to see decent video game stuff at a yard sale or Craigslist, etc - and if it you do find it, its probably priced to match what they see online. Bottom line, sellers have more information now. There's nothing wrong with that, it was bound to happen - but it does mean that the days of casually buying and selling games is over. You have to engage in serious, focused hustle now.
Pro tip to getting good prices, just haggle your way in no matter what and if you piss them off then whatever. Pawnshop asking 20$ for a beat up game that they can’t even buff is exactly why collecting blows.
I wish we had these in the uk, most of the retro stores have closed down now, and we don't really have flea markets here in the uk, but you can sometimes get lucky at car boots, they're just not as accessible as shopping centres in america.
Same thing will happen to the video game industry as the sneaker industry: it will crash and these guys will be stuck with thousands of dollars of inventory which they’ll have to liquidate for pennies on the dollar
bro really offered 45% even though tim shilled the oneup app so hard bruh i cant even my local store (video game connection in cleveland) does like 60% atleast in trade credit like smfh how cheap will caleb stoop too bro
Sleazy. Had a local game store offer me 40 percent on a NES lot that included some heavy hitters and solid commons. Turned him down, went to another store nearby that offered me 55 percent, got a call almost at the same time from the other guy offering me 60 to come back, I politely declined. Should be pretty obvious who gets my business going forward
Don't shop where they go look up the price, any reputable thrift store doesn't care if the customer gets a good deal. Changing the price means you should walk out and shop somewhere else.
I’ve had over 30 locations and been doing this for over 25 yrs. Still going but I spent many years sleeping in my stores and working side gigs. It isn’t easy
I’ve been running a vendor market game and anime stuff shop for several months now and it’s definitely a lot less overhead and required just time to source, price and package and sort/reorganize the store shelves.
Market saturation could be a problem I would consider. So many resellers and either exact market pricing means buyers either buy from sources like eBay with protection or shops. And many resellers need to consider gamers might not think of certain places for buying video gamer. Especially those not into TH-cam and social media and just buy from common places like eBay, Amazon or their local game shop. Especially those that wish to just relive the childhood games.
Ebay has destroyed the finding of games in thrift stores and garage sales unfortunately making it harder to find them at flipperbul prices and not just games but pretty much everything 🇬🇧😎✌️
There's hardly any market that can be endlessly exploited, like you've been doing. Guys like this are realizing quickly that this isn't what they thought it was. When you jump on a bandwagon be prepared to fall off.
Im glad to see people make a business for themselves but reselling is just going to keep slimming. Im sure the big players will stick around, even if sales dip but alot of the small "hustlers" are eventually going to give up or get priced out.
I stockpiled massive amounts of games and also bought “liquidation pallets” and here and there I would do garage sales and everytime some jerkoff reseller would offer me an insulting low amount for everything to the point where I would say in my ads for the sale “please no reseller offers for everything not interested”
33:45 100% you have to do what you have to do (if you really love reselling and being your own boss having your own business) if it means getting a part time job and doing the business stuff after the part time job so be it PROPS to you for doing that! id do that in a heart beat if push came to shove resellers need to look at that part time job as there SIDE HUSLTE! lol
4:05 there is my favorite word Diversify! i started full time reselling in 98' just started college prior to that i was setting up at flea markets and shows and i learned the best piece of knowledge i ever got from a very wise reseller he told me to get a white board draw diversification in big letters on it and then a circle around that word he said make diversification the center of your reselling biasness i drew branches out from that circle and wrote different aspects of the reselling biasness so Sourcing, Inventory, Platforms/venues, price points all of these things within a reselling business should be diversified! if you can diversify all those things in your reselling business it will never let you down and i'm 100% serious it will always keep your business afloat so diversify where you sell (on and off line) diversify WHAT you sell (inventory don't niche down niche up) diversify were you source (source both online and offline) Diversify your price points (sell low medium and high dollar items so you cater to all buyers) also diversify STR (have long tail and short tail items or Low and HIGH STR items)
Like always, entertaining video especially when you interview other resellers and show us how they run their business. On another note, I think it's true that it's getter harder to find games cause their are more collectors, more than ever, and companies are making less and less physical media.
It's the same with Video Tapes on the past.. these days Games are often streamed or bought direct from Play Storess downloaded ...not many ppl walk into a physical store and buy a physical media game anymore.. even consoles, PC, mobile games..
Wait Wait Wait at 2:25 he showed the game was 10 buck hes selling it for 25 and Phoenix says your prices are so good do you keep thme at market value. He just showed the value was 10 how is 25 a good price and at market value? So doubling your prices is market value and good? Wtf am i missing something? Why didnt he get the disney game its worth 5 bucks but the market value by his math is 20 bucks
When you are selling retail the price is always going to be a bit more expensive than market value. If you look at GameStop for example a lot of their used games are usually 10 dollars over the market value. I think they consider other factors like employees and rent. That's just my guess though
@projectf20 That was his booth it had the green price tag. They even show him talking about the green tag on the wwe game and it shows him stocking the games in the space
I remember growing up I went to flea markets and thrift stores with my dad and it was great because there weren’t any scalpers or people trying to flip things. Now, everyone cleans everything interesting the second it lands on the self
Today's dealers often overcharge for collector video games. For example, if Pricecharting says Shadow Hearts 3, CIB, is currently valued at 65$, I've seen some collector stores recently tried to sell that same item for up to 100$, which is ridiculous. I bought mine years ago for about 25$. While collectors were getting stimulus checks, the video game prices went up a LOT, but after that, the prices went back down to normal levels, making it difficult for any dealer to figure out what the best buy/sell prices for the affected items are. I buy a collector game that I would want only if I can actually afford it, discount or no discount. In today's economy, we all have to balance our spending, more than in a very long time. Good lucky, guys, with your businesses.
25 yers ago I successfully restored a THSP2 disc for PS1 ater my friends baby sister teethed into it. I took it home, pure white colgate toothpaste didn't remove the dents but all the scratches were gone. It didn't load from the damage until I came back with it restored as close to new as I could. It ran without a hitch. That box of empty discs, I'd gladly take the box and hunt down the cases.
I really like this channel's videos of video interviews of people who own a business, whether it be a full physical store or display cases/booths in an Antique Store. I, myself, have a Display Case in an Antique Store with $5k worth of Pokemon Memorabilia, but I also flip on eBay and I'm a Spark Delivery Driver Full-Time. The hustle is real. The sales are slow. I don't have a family, but I do have goals to reach and debt to pay off. Hope everything works out for him!
Wish you best of luck with the hustle m8 me and my wife do sparkdriver/instacart/doordash but I'm trying to go to the flea market to sell once a month or so, mostly selling my stuff and haven't had the $ to buy thingsresell but thats the dream! My grandpa did flea market 2 days a weekend as his full time job so I hope I can be half as good as him haha, anyways hope the grind pays off for yah soon hit me up if you wanna talk spark driver we can swap tips or ideas would like to make a friend in a similar situation :)
This is a joke. Get a real job
@@Ephesians-yn8uxlol and what do you do for a living
@@Ephesians-yn8uxit is a job to some
@@Ephesians-yn8uxshut up he’s hustling
honestly Reselllers on youtube ruined the thrift store, the managers and ceo caught on so now they get employees to do ebay searches for prices and charge a few bucks under the average price.
goodwill started listing stuff online since the early 2000s these corporations aren’t dumb it’s not really fair to blame a reseller
@@superluckytoys True but it's had a large resurgance after 2020 when people started going to thrift stores again and more and more people posted about the deals they made and profit from reselling
TH-cam resellers...as well as goodwill catching on to the game.
Facebook marketplace is unusable now thx to resellers
@@Scooterios It's still bad but it's good if you're quick enough I don't even resell I just get games for my collection and try to before resellers message the seller first. most time i lose because i have a full time job
This hobby has become MAJORLY TOXIC in 10 years. TH-cam/tiktokkers have ruined it to the point little old ladies are fighting over games. I rarely hunt games at yard sales and thrifts anymore. I have the games I want. (Had them since the early 80s on)
It's always been like that, anytime people see apparent value with easy liquidity it's an easy buy. It's not youtube and tiktokers, it's Ebay that's been driving the aggressive value mining, Ebay = world wide liquidity for anything. Whereas pre ebay the only places people could flip would be mostly within their community or maybe conventions or a network they create at flea markets etc. There is less stock because there is more liquidity it's simple as that.
Same here in both the UK and Netherlands, old people go in to the local CEX "kind of like game stop but also second hand stuff" And try to resell their sh*t via Gumtree / Marktplaats / Ebay / e.t.c for 50x the price.
80s games? So basically you're playing with dots on a "TV". Dude...
@@DetroitTylerTo some extent I’d blame eBay (and really the internet in general) but at the same time, having been in the vintage computer and game world for two decades now, the explosive growth in prices only happened after the massive increase in these categories on TH-cam starting around 2012-14 (first general interest channels then the flippers). Once they hit critical mass in 2018 everything just exploded. eBay on its own certainly has contributed but TH-cam has been the proverbial gasoline on the fire. If you look at the growth of an event like VCF over the past decade (to where there are now 5 of them), it almost perfectly mirrors the growth of TH-cam.
This video perfectly outlines how the market has been destroyed by resellers. They all want to buy low and sell high, and a game only has to change hands three or four times before it reaches and ungodly price where both the buyer and seller are likely screwed. The buyer, because they're getting ripped off if they actually pay that high price, and the seller because there is a high probability that it won't sell at that price, and they will wind up having to take a loss to get rid of it. Resellers have completely taken this away from your average video game enthusiast and transformed it into a market of nothing but resellers just shifting product around in circles.
Think dude. It's all about supply and demand that sets the price, not how many times a game changed resellers' hands.
@@GoLakers3900 Then how does a company like DKOldies do so well, even though you can get everything they sell significantly cheaper literally anywhere else??? Or is it possible that companies like DKOldies are driving the price increases we see everywhere? Not supply any demand, but more like "lets see what the maximum amount I can sell this for because people will pay it no matter what..."
@@GoLakers3900 Everytime I look at games and consoles online, and even in my local stores, the prices are just a little higher, despite the supply being relatively the same.
I go to garage sales every week and I almost never find video games anymore. If I do, it’s usually overpriced
do you ask if they have any? the ask is key
Its because of his videos like these and other people running their mouths telling the whole world
Yeah people are getting more and more aware of what was stored in the basement or attic. Yes many over priced stuff but they eventually go down because their inventory builds up so much they just get rid of it.
Eventually it will basically all dry up. Its not a life long business model.
Yeah this retro game ship has sailed. Just like with everything, if regular people have heard about it, it's too late to get in
These over priced games is why people rather emulate their own games
very true, most retro game shops and video game collecting is very over priced.
It's why the modding scene for various consoles has exploded in recent years too.
@@minidonut827usually they’re trying to sell in a game shop (like these videos) and rent is very high in many of these major metropolitan areas where there’s enough people to sustain a store like this. It’s a cost of going business to an extent, if rent is high then they have to price accordingly to compensate
@Dan-t8yyeah if major corpos are closing down stores then little mom and pop stores stand no chance of surviving honestly.
Yeah i’ve fully converted my ps2 to hdd connected to a pc to drop roms in and out. Going to convert my Ps3 soon because F all this nonsense of trying to acquire anything thats worth it.
I live in Louisville I have done business with Tim he bought my nes collection and PS2 collection and Xbox when I got out of collecting. He's a good dude
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Same, I also hit up his booths often
Does he have a website Tim
You can't find a deal because everyone wants to get top dollar for 15-20 year old titles. Some games cost more now than they did when new. Additionally, folks can't simply get rid of anything anymore without first seeing the latest sale price on ebay.
The market is going to implode on itself...
I wish I could like this comment a hundred more times. There is too much inventory in the hands of sellers at prices that are too high for demand. The bubble burst is coming.
I have travelled to several cons over the past couple of years and I can't recall a single person walking up to a booth and asking if they have Jaguar games or accessories. Yet I have seen half a dozen Jaguar consoles at every show including the same unsold CD combo at the same show for the past three years.
@@pigs18Both comments are spot on. I hate these resellers they ruined our hobby.
@@1sinister80 You hate Tim? He seems like such a good guy.
@GoLakers3900 No, i don't hate any individual I don't know. I hate people reselling it ruins the hobby
Props to that guy he’s really putting in the leg work and getting to see the behind the scenes of everything was nice.
Leg work he buys off stores to resell on overpriced Amazon
He buys off people like Tim , who hustle, to sell overpriced on Amazon
@@only_one_chrisfantazzi Did you even watch the video? The guys has multiple locations open and sources by supporting local shops and stores and buying people’s personal collections keeping them and himself afloat.
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@@only_one_chrisfantazzi And to ask for special deals from other resellers as they shift around stock. These items aren't selling because people aren't willing to pay retail prices of $5-15 a game when the titles should be $1-3 each. So they will just sit on shelves.
i think a large problem withthe secondary market is, its kind of an inflated market and not enough customers that are willing to pay a premium to sustain a storefront.
*Saturated
You're right - not enough buyers anymore.
@@JxtArod If prices went back to what they were 10-15 years ago for retro games the market would be healthy and stores would be fine..Resellers and people willing to buy at those high prices killed it.
Given how the AAA and just current market is I do think the retro and physical market will come back because there are a number of current games that come out and within a week are just dead, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League was a big tell tale sign that the major developers are doing what Hollywood is doing and getting the same results.
Silent Hill on PS1 sold 2 million copies, it is in no fashion rare whatsoever. The game store front closest to me has 3 copies of the first game alone in their inventory. But since a decent chunk of people are trying to play that game again, the price keeps getting raised because it's an item that gets asked about a lot. They take advantage and artificially inflate the price. A few years ago the game was half the price is is today to sometimes less than that too. The price for this game will never go down because now everyone has the mindset that Silent Hill is a "rare" title that costs $200. The market is nothing but greed now, and you can thank channels like this for ruining it.
Ive just bit the bullet and started emulating. If i find a copy of something for cheap then thats awesome. But if not then i can still play the game.
Tbh most game stores are just asking way too much money for video games. It’s almost temping to buy a modded console with 150 plus games on it.
We call them computers! They come with save states, turbo, hax, but controller sold seperately.
@@zandiskoul lol nah
good stores keep their prices in the fair ball park and offer solid store credit, as you want your customers returning and potentially liquidating at discounts. The best shops don't gouge they make you want to buy and feel good about it.
Moral of the story is own the display cases, not the seller in the displays.
I hate the, "I will look it up" because they will look at asking prices, not sold prices.
They're usually looking at price charting, not ebay asking price.
Can't stand Ebay flippers , someone would really appreciate getting a deal
been to estates sales for old tube electronic equipment , every one is on their phone looking at eBay seeing what they can sell it for ....some lady had all the 3" Oscilloscope CRT in her little cart looking on eBay, I specifically went their for them , I was thinking WTF is she going to use them for she prolly don't even know what they are , Just disgust me , I didn't buy Chit just left
@@cardboardboxification at least eBay flippers buy stuff. If it weren't for them, nothing would sell at the estate sale.
@@cardboardboxification that sentiment you’re expressing
I agree with
I think greed and a lack of experience has lots of people trying to flip things they think are “niche”
When really they only have value to a small group of people who appreciate them
@@cardboardboxificationyeah people suck
Collectors pay a lot for old games, but mostly to collect dust in a cabinet
100%. That's why I don't collect anymore. I also love vinyl records but the past 4+ years I probably go to the record store once a year. You pay $30-40 for a single album then it sits on the shelf 99.99% of the time.
Yep, bad time to be a seller And bad time to be a buyer.... time to just play games that we have!!
Lol Caleb's amazon store has prices higher than dkoldies
And he's dumping his crap on his supposed "friend" and shoving his app down our throats constantly
Hahahhahahha
Amazon is a joke overall. I stick with EBay.
Amazon gets 20% commission from sellers
@@Thoushaltplaymore geez, man. You have free will to not watch. Geez, man, come on.
Never buy a over market value, most of these resellers sell way over market value. There was a boom in the retro game market during COVID, prices have mostly adjusted back down, and a lot of these resellers are out of business or going out of business.
Tim is the man. Always great prices and willing to cut deals.
HAHA. Sourcing is hard bc of all the TH-cam game flippers. Caleb uses his TH-cam persona to get good deals from fans.
Meanwhile charges more than 95% of the resellers bc he sells on Amazon.
Amazon is a harder market to crack for video games. Almost everything on there is higher than ebay.
His app is not going to help anyone. Stop buying it, and stop giving him good deals on bulk collections. Then watch how far his hunting gets him having to source like everyone else.
"Hey these guys are all going out of business so just buy from me from now on!!!!"
The mental gymnastics is strong with this one
**in yoda's voice"**
I have ran into Tim a couple times at yard sales, very cool dude and friendly. He beat me by like seconds on a Wii U once lol
Let him have it mane you don’t need that junk
@@chocolatewheelchair What's all the hate on the Wiiu?
@@Cactus6004 I mean honestly what are you going to do with a Wii U? Clunky thing. Serious question
There are plenty on eBay
Mod it to play wii games upscaled with free wii u games@@chocolatewheelchair
This is why you A: Can no longer find any games worth anything at thrift stores, and B: Why stores like Goodwill price things high now or put them online. Goodwill is wise to value of things now and they also want to make money.
They are asking above market retail like Gamecube consoles. GREED!
They get their stuff for free tho😂
@@inflation1139 Ultimately it’s still a for profit company and if they can get that much for gaming related things they will try. At the same time they don’t exist so resellers can acquire stock for nothing
Not worth it to hunt for retro games anymore because these folks are hoarding the places the true charm of collecting would be. Finding games at reasonable prices to score a nice gem. Now it’s barren flea markets & Goodwills with unwanted sports titles & folks like these selling them at eBay purchased prices, thinking everyone coming through is going to pay that same price. Only the desperate do. The peak of Retro collecting was 2004-2010. Just not the same anymore with that market cornered with speculators. Just like the Video Game Market will crash again, so will the resellers. It’s inevitable as you can see here.
How nice of Caleb to unload his garbage on his “friend”. What a guy. 😂
And promote his app at the same time......what a doosh
Hahahaha
The worst type of dudes. Then pretend to be solid ppl 😂
Lol😂 truly amazing
@@Triple_A_Gaymer Sound a little bit salty...
“Really hard to find at the low price I want so I can flip it for high”
Exactly they are scammers and it is them that are destroying thr retro game market
Awww I’m sorry are you hating the market you created? I have no sympathy for resellers that goto thrift stores and flea markets and fasly inflate prices
Have to agree with this. This is why you A: Can no longer find any games worth anything at thrift stores, and B: Why stores like Goodwill price things high now or put them online. Goodwill is wise to value of things now and they also want to make money.
Flippers help preserve high value titles by ensuring people interested the game buy it.
People hate on flippers too much, that’s the used car industry.
And you can still get the prices they pay, you just have to work a little harder.
People don’t hate flipping, they hate entrepreneurship
@@jaredbryant8297 Are you serious?
It comes down to one thing - Price. I stopped collecting games because it's so pricey, now I literally can't afford it. I'm not paying $30 for a N64 game that would have cost $6 ten years ago.
Flips Thrift and yard sales finds video tapes it, laughs to thr bank.
People find out, copies this method and increases prices 10 fold.
Cries when it back fires
lol fr why shouldn’t they make money. Customer still ends up paying the same.
While I respect what both of these guys do, I'll never understand why you would want to give your reselling secrets to thousands of people on the internet.
I thought the same thing but thought about it. Your area may or may not know how the market works when reselling. For example. My area (Deep South border town in Texas) everyone here are super cheapskates. They want that discount cause it’s small community. They refuse to pay market value when you sell to them. But they will turn around and sell it above market value at the flea market. Like I sold this guy my Funko pop collection when i stopped collecting. I sold the lot at a loss of 20% of what I should’ve profited by selling $5-10 depending on the type of Funko it was and what series it was. Next day saw the person post a FB add on the lot selling them above market value lol. Any tactics you learn are hit or miss just depends on your area. Yes I sold video games too. I sold had some grails and nobody wanted to buy them at market price so ended up selling on EBay.
Yes but 99 percent of us won't go out and look for stuff people these days are to lazy and would rather buy it from someone that already did the work
Lots of areas don't have stores with stock like these. It's very region dependent. At the end of the day you'll be working for $10/hr or less.
its because they make their money on youtube not onvideo games
It’s not secrets
Goodwill stores in my city suck, you cannot find a single video game.
Because they put it all online.
Good thing he’s having bad business
People keep overpricing shit. Look at Pokémon games just as an example
Supply and demand
It's mostly kids that keep buying everything Pokémon got a few in my family.
Well i do agree pokemon is ridiculous it’s also because the pokemon bank is closing
Phoenix resale doesn't help either, resellers in general are spiking the market and overpricing things.
Pokemon's problem is its popularity, not so much any kind of scarcity. It's such a huge IP that just about anyone trying to be a vendor can price gouge and most people won't bat an eye.
If we could even just get a handful of popular youtube streamers to down-price pokemon games when reselling, the market would slowly drop as a result. It'd be a trickle down effect, sure, but it'd get there.
So Tim is the reason I never find anything good at that Goodwill 😂
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Shop goodwill is what destroyed me
@@NinjakX correct
Nothing is stopping you from going before him you literally have the same access as him, but cry more 😢
@@WholeSomeHomie hey pal, there's this brand new concept that just hit the market. Not sure if you've heard of it, but it's called a "joke". Difficult concept to wrap your head around, I know.
There is so much competition out there. Everyone is flipping and reselling video games, the weird thing is why people who do this for a living make videos telling everyone else to do the same thing. Just raises the prices when everyone is fighting for the same items to sell
I think the main lesson to be learned from this video is to diversify your portfolio in reselling. Figure out how to sell multiple types of items and that will let you typically make more money than sticking to just something like Videogames.
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Spot on!!
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Wtf are theses notes, rules and demands. No wonder they losing money because you can tell how shitty customers are treated there.
Sega GT 2002 is an under 5 dollar game. I got mine under 5 bucks with Jet Set Radio included.
This video reminds me of myself, except I was a collector and hunted video games to keep. Not to flip or resale. I remember my rarest finds were Shadow tower (Ps1) and God Hand (Ps2) got both complete mint condition for $2 at a thrift store. I remember back in 2015, I saw Kuon (Ps2) complete mint condition at a pawn shop selling for $1 ( at the time, had no idea it was rare). It sat on the shelves for 4 months straight and was always there when I would come into that specific pawn shop 3x a week. Nobody wanted it and I myself was not too interested in it. Then finally after 4 months; it ends up selling and I felt like I should have got it. Anyways one year later, someone decides to sale me Kuon ps2 complete mint condition for $50 and I can’t complain after it was going for $300 at the time. Then another situation, I ended up getting Rule of Rose (Ps2) complete for Free. I will tell you how it happened. The game was selling for $750 on Ebay, I ended up making an offer to the seller for $500. I paid $550 after taxes and everything for the game ( I paid for it). Then all of a sudden 2 weeks later, I receive a notification from Ebay that my $550 has been refunded to my account ( I am assuming the seller made a mistake, or forgot; I didn’t say anything…. I just kept quiet). So I ended up getting to keep the game ROR ps2 and got full money back for what I paid for it. And NO, I didn;t complain nor demanded a refund… I was completely unaware about it until Ebay refunded my bank account, but I never said nothing to seller and just played along with it. So therefore, I got Rule of Rose (PS2) for free and Kuon for $50 complete mint. The video game Gods really blessed me. I don’t collect ps1, ps2 games anymore… I already own 4000 video games and that is enough for me. I buy and play Ps4/Ps5 games now. I appreciate this seller in the video hustle, but I will be honest with you video game hunting and flipping is basically a dead business… If you want to hunt and collect for fun then great! But you will not find nothing rare anymore in flea markets, garage sales, pawn shops, estate sales, church sales, or thrift stores because everyone looks up the prices online and if it is rare or worth a lot of money, then people will pocket it and flip it, sale it themselves. The only thing you really find in thrift stores now is just sports games. Plus piracy is killing the video game industry because of all them plug in plays such as pandora boxes or hyperspins where they can load up 100K games on the system and it has everything such as NES,SNES, dreamcast, Saturn, SEGA CD, master system, genesis, arcade, ps1, ps2, PC, Amiga, Atari, PS3 (PC version of the ps3 games) and PS4 (PC versions of the PS4 games) since Ps3 and ps4 emulators do not exist. So Yeah video game hunting and flipping is basically dead.
I hate flippers , someone would appreciate getting a good deal at a yard sale
I also noticed the piracy, I think this will make brand new sealed worth more since the market would be more driven by pure aesthetic since the piracy bypasses the experience of using the physical game to play
These guys and resellers like them are the reason people who actually collect to ise this stuff can't get a decent price on retro gaming. Thank you, gentlemen, for making our hobby unattainable. Greed drives this industry.
Is a very tough competition. You have videogame stores like Game Planet, but they don't offer you a plus: same price as department stores here in Mexico, like Liverpool and El Palacio de Hierro. And the last ones at least offer you some credits. But if you look on the internet, all you find is overpriced products when it comes to videogames and collection figures.
23:45 this is really interesting, I wish we had places/display booths like that here in the UK, we literally have nothing like this here at all.
You ever wonder why he stopped hunting? He's scanning his competition and finding out weaknesses to where he's only buying from vendors. Vendors find the games out in the wild and sell to Caleb. Doesn't even need to hunt anymore. But yall love supporting him, make it make sense
Ever since resellers have beefed up the prices on these videogames I haven't bought anything.
Actually, about a year or two before COVID-19, I had a small collection of videogames that I was building, not for resale but because I genuinely enjoyed playing the games. I had a PS1, N64, Super Nintendo, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox One S, Gameboy SP, Gameboy Color. I had a handful of games for all of these consoles.
I bought the Xbox One S 2TB for $150 about 6 months after it released from some guy on Offerup who was desperate for cash, so it was a really good deal. I bought the original Xbox for $35, which included 4 games, and two controllers. The Gameboy SP was $30, Pokemon Red Version was $14. I bought the PS1 as a bundle with 3 games for a little over $50.
I had sold all my videogames just a few months before COVID-19 because I had to pay off some fines. Then COVID-19 happened and suddenly game prices skyrocketed. It was also around the time that younger dudes started calling the Xbox 360 console "retro" or a "collectors item"....at least in my part of town, which I found baffling. I remember even as a teenager, the Nintendo 64 wasn't considered a collectors item, it was just thought of as that old, lame console. Me and my 5 siblings, and cousins thought of old consoles like that as boring. We had a Nintendo 64 sitting in our closet collecting dust.
But yeah, I never thought it was worth re-purchasing my collection of videogames, especially not now in our current economy. The next time I'm buying videogames, will be when I'm rich. Until that day comes, I will instead be working on upgrading my net worth instead of my digital characters in some fantasy world. A part of me is glad, that videogames got so expensive. It helped me stop wasting so much time.
enjoyed the video.. enjoyed Tim opening up to the audience on his struggles and success!
This is calling the kettle black! There is so much resale competition! That you all are canablizing each other! If common sense was so common every one would have it!😊
Hey man, thanks for making these. This was really helpful and an honest look at what it actually takes.
This is one of the best videos yet. Great job!
You can tell Tim has been waiting to do that videogame flip at the end for years 😂 (Legend)
This snake is just looking for some ideas he may have missed
hahahahahaha right and unloading his trash games on this nice guy. sad yet I bet he swears he's a solid dude
Dude seems down to eartg humble and he seems real honest phoenix resale finds some really cool guys in the biz as a collectibles seller myself you meet so many sellers who are just out to take advantage of you its refreshing to see honest sellers be succesful
I like these videos more than your old hunting ones I stopped watching this channel but this new format got me back in !
Sourcing at thrift/pawn shops really isn’t worth it when you take into account the amount of time it takes to find inventory there.
Up until the last year or two thrift stores were great. Not so much now.
@@sevartt9046 everyone and their grandma is scouring the thrift store to flip
working a job isn't worth it when you take into account the amount of time it takes to get there and how much they pay you
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This vid is jam packed with knowledge. Thank you guys
That vendor's village place is cool. They have old retro arcade games set up in the front to play for free.
Maybe I missed it but what I wanted to know was how do the payments work, like who is selling the stuff for him like an employee of his or someone who works in that building and does he trust them and how does he know what sold cause it seems like he stuffs them but I don’t see any type of sale system or inventory system.
The building has their own staff - they have keys to all the showcases. It’s up to the vendor (like Tim) to price things and include his unique vendor code and those things are typed in at the register. Sometimes that employee will also type what the item (game, plush, movie, etc.) are. You can also create unique inventory numbers for items, but logging that is pretty time consuming. Source: I’m the friend he mentioned who started and stopped 😂 what he didn’t mention was that I stopped because I too had twins on the way and no time lol
every spot is different, i sell records in this way at a record store, I pay a set amount of rent per month plus 12%, I hand them a printed excel spreadsheet and each item has a number on that list, they check it off when sold. It seems like with these antique malls most sellers don"t have a system like this, I can check my inventory and see if something sold that wasn't crossed off. And its not that time consuming creating a list, takes me an hour and half to log 200 records into my spreadsheet, way better to have a detailed list, with a number for each item.
@@javaflipsdude what they putting in the water there? Why is everyone having twins?
@@kevinclear4007 idk my wife and I are transplants and after we had ours, two of our friends did as well within a year and a half lol
It’s all a rat race to the bottom
Please elaborate on this
@@theretrosaberguy markets with saturated products begat a negative moving price trend. Other wise known as the rat race to the bottom.
@@tryingtolearnthisthe thing is, it’s these items are getting more scarce by the day - especially retro games. They’re either in collections no one wants to sell or they’re getting snatched up by guys like these.
@@jonathannoble9465 correct
@@jonathannoble9465 Emulation makes gamers hard to rationalize spending money on a physical copy and hardware.
Markets move in response to many different factors and thats what is happening in game sales. I casually flipped retro games and consoles for about 15 years - the sweet spot as a seller was from 2005 to 2015. Sellers tended to be people not as familiar with the internet who were just happy to get, for example, $20 for a decent condition NES which you could flip online for upwards of $50. By about 2015 in my view, games and equipment worth owning had mostly found their way into the hands of people who knew they could get higher prices and the margins became razor thin. Its rare to see decent video game stuff at a yard sale or Craigslist, etc - and if it you do find it, its probably priced to match what they see online. Bottom line, sellers have more information now. There's nothing wrong with that, it was bound to happen - but it does mean that the days of casually buying and selling games is over. You have to engage in serious, focused hustle now.
Pro tip to getting good prices, just haggle your way in no matter what and if you piss them off then whatever. Pawnshop asking 20$ for a beat up game that they can’t even buff is exactly why collecting blows.
there to swoop in and reap the benefits like jimmie moore from 'the wedding singer' when robbie loses his mind.
I go to peddlers mall looking for a deal, not same price as reseller stores
I wish we had these in the uk, most of the retro stores have closed down now, and we don't really have flea markets here in the uk, but you can sometimes get lucky at car boots, they're just not as accessible as shopping centres in america.
This was a good one! Appreciate the honesty and different take.
Same thing will happen to the video game industry as the sneaker industry: it will crash and these guys will be stuck with thousands of dollars of inventory which they’ll have to liquidate for pennies on the dollar
I wonder if he pays these guys or if the promotion on the channel is payment of itself
maybe it is a give and take relationship. He promote the stores. He gets content. Maybe mutual agreement and respect among resellers.
The latter
worked with him before and no hes does not pay the stores its free promotion basically
@@brookechandler6265 thanks! did you like working with him?
Knowing this guy I could see him asking the store owners to pay him.
It was a fun hobby while it lasted but its to expensive cant keep up anymore. Have to emulate now
One of your best episodes… solid businessmen right here
bro really offered 45% even though tim shilled the oneup app so hard bruh i cant
even my local store (video game connection in cleveland) does like 60% atleast in trade credit like smfh how cheap will caleb stoop too bro
Wait he really only offered 45% after practically saying aww man I gotta give you a good deal because you shilled for me
Sleazy. Had a local game store offer me 40 percent on a NES lot that included some heavy hitters and solid commons. Turned him down, went to another store nearby that offered me 55 percent, got a call almost at the same time from the other guy offering me 60 to come back, I politely declined.
Should be pretty obvious who gets my business going forward
the bubble is about to burt, sales are slow because no one is buying for these prices.
The dog was telling the cashier to charge more! lol
Don't shop where they go look up the price, any reputable thrift store doesn't care if the customer gets a good deal. Changing the price means you should walk out and shop somewhere else.
Overprised is probably the reason such store goes down. Mann.... Like there a lot of competative marketplace online.
I used to be a collector an what’s seeing the prices of the current retro games is crazy to get back into ! Still love the vid !😊
I’ve had over 30 locations and been doing this for over 25 yrs. Still going but I spent many years sleeping in my stores and working side gigs. It isn’t easy
I’ve been running a vendor market game and anime stuff shop for several months now and it’s definitely a lot less overhead and required just time to source, price and package and sort/reorganize the store shelves.
Market saturation could be a problem I would consider. So many resellers and either exact market pricing means buyers either buy from sources like eBay with protection or shops. And many resellers need to consider gamers might not think of certain places for buying video gamer. Especially those not into TH-cam and social media and just buy from common places like eBay, Amazon or their local game shop. Especially those that wish to just relive the childhood games.
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Ebay has destroyed the finding of games in thrift stores and garage sales unfortunately making it harder to find them at flipperbul prices and not just games but pretty much everything 🇬🇧😎✌️
There's hardly any market that can be endlessly exploited, like you've been doing. Guys like this are realizing quickly that this isn't what they thought it was. When you jump on a bandwagon be prepared to fall off.
They won't have channels in another 3 years.
I hate that we're losing physical media. This hurts consumers and small brick and mortal stores
Im glad to see people make a business for themselves but reselling is just going to keep slimming. Im sure the big players will stick around, even if sales dip but alot of the small "hustlers" are eventually going to give up or get priced out.
I stockpiled massive amounts of games and also bought “liquidation pallets” and here and there I would do garage sales and everytime some jerkoff reseller would offer me an insulting low amount for everything to the point where I would say in my ads for the sale “please no reseller offers for everything not interested”
You’re the reason that these guys are going out of business
lol yeah
The irony huh?? lol
They approach different sectors of the video game market, not really competing with each other just because they both sell video games
Literally only making his competition worse 🤣And he showed one of the places that guy sources at ALL THE TIME!!! The Irony!!! 😂😂
It's like you didn't watch the video. Tim literally said he will liquidate his assets as he is planning to go into a different career.
Hi, where are there PlayStation 2 games in downtown New York?
I was looking for the motorcycle dealer on blue lick road, and found this store, it’s big, and a lot of vintage toys
When the guy making the videos is responsible for screwing physical locations to sell videogames
When the guy writing the comment doesn’t realize someone who’s paying these locations the prices they want isn’t screwing anyone.
Very ignorant to think that one guy is responsible.
Oh, you've never resold video games online? 😇 Doubt that.
Totally untrue
Negative Nancy detected
33:45 100% you have to do what you have to do (if you really love reselling and being your own boss having your own business) if it means getting a part time job and doing the business stuff after the part time job so be it PROPS to you for doing that! id do that in a heart beat if push came to shove resellers need to look at that part time job as there SIDE HUSLTE! lol
4:05 there is my favorite word Diversify! i started full time reselling in 98' just started college prior to that i was setting up at flea markets and shows and i learned the best piece of knowledge i ever got from a very wise reseller he told me to get a white board draw diversification in big letters on it and then a circle around that word he said make diversification the center of your reselling biasness i drew branches out from that circle and wrote different aspects of the reselling biasness so Sourcing, Inventory, Platforms/venues, price points all of these things within a reselling business should be diversified! if you can diversify all those things in your reselling business it will never let you down and i'm 100% serious it will always keep your business afloat so diversify where you sell (on and off line) diversify WHAT you sell (inventory don't niche down niche up) diversify were you source (source both online and offline) Diversify your price points (sell low medium and high dollar items so you cater to all buyers) also diversify STR (have long tail and short tail items or Low and HIGH STR items)
Collaborate and don’t compete sounds like a pyramid skeem quote….
33:29 Command & Conquer Red Alert, one of my favourite games of all time 😊
Like always, entertaining video especially when you interview other resellers and show us how they run their business. On another note, I think it's true that it's getter harder to find games cause their are more collectors, more than ever, and companies are making less and less physical media.
your friend Tim broke the 4th wall and scared me a few times XD
It's the same with Video Tapes on the past.. these days Games are often streamed or bought direct from Play Storess downloaded ...not many ppl walk into a physical store and buy a physical media game anymore.. even consoles, PC, mobile games..
Used games "business".. If you can call it that, is not viable long term.
The nezuko and tanjiro finds were crazy
So what you're saying is that you're bout to low ball him on some inventory
Wait Wait Wait at 2:25 he showed the game was 10 buck hes selling it for 25 and Phoenix says your prices are so good do you keep thme at market value. He just showed the value was 10 how is 25 a good price and at market value? So doubling your prices is market value and good? Wtf am i missing something? Why didnt he get the disney game its worth 5 bucks but the market value by his math is 20 bucks
When you are selling retail the price is always going to be a bit more expensive than market value. If you look at GameStop for example a lot of their used games are usually 10 dollars over the market value. I think they consider other factors like employees and rent. That's just my guess though
That wasn't Tim's booth, it was a competitor. They were showing how overpriced it was to highlight why Tim is doing well.
@projectf20 That was his booth it had the green price tag. They even show him talking about the green tag on the wwe game and it shows him stocking the games in the space
@@adammac3649 1:51 "Competitor's Booth". All the cases look the same and Tim doesn't own the market on green tags 🤣
@@GameFootageArchiveI see your right
Awesome video for sure, and yay congrats Tim on the twins!!!
I remember growing up I went to flea markets and thrift stores with my dad and it was great because there weren’t any scalpers or people trying to flip things. Now, everyone cleans everything interesting the second it lands on the self
Today's dealers often overcharge for collector video games. For example, if Pricecharting says Shadow Hearts 3, CIB, is currently valued at 65$, I've seen some collector stores recently tried to sell that same item for up to 100$, which is ridiculous. I bought mine years ago for about 25$. While collectors were getting stimulus checks, the video game prices went up a LOT, but after that, the prices went back down to normal levels, making it difficult for any dealer to figure out what the best buy/sell prices for the affected items are. I buy a collector game that I would want only if I can actually afford it, discount or no discount. In today's economy, we all have to balance our spending, more than in a very long time. Good lucky, guys, with your businesses.
This was a very informative and fun episode.
25 yers ago I successfully restored a THSP2 disc for PS1 ater my friends baby sister teethed into it. I took it home, pure white colgate toothpaste didn't remove the dents but all the scratches were gone. It didn't load from the damage until I came back with it restored as close to new as I could. It ran without a hitch.
That box of empty discs, I'd gladly take the box and hunt down the cases.