Is Suikoden II worth THIS much?

TheAngelicSin · Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject:

As much as I love Suikoden II I probably wouldn't even shell out $75 for it (you know, if something happened to my copy...)

$300 is beyond ridiculous and too extreme a price to be asking for a video game. I seriously hope no one gets pulled into that one. What would they do with it? Place it on a pedastol never to be played?

Breeze · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I probably would only pay $50, since that is the "standard", so to speak, price of new games. And then I'd only pay $50 if it were to be in top condition, flawless, etc. I was lucky to get both Suikoden I and Suikoden II for free from my friend, and both CDs were in great shape (though the first Suikoden did freeze up RIGHT after I beat Teo one-on-one... Grrr...) And yeah, one who pays $300 for a video game has got to be out of their mind just a little bit... And they probably would never open it either, just have it be sacred. I never understand why people go and collect things such as video games and never actually use them for their specific purpose...
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Sophita · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:08 pm Post subject:

I've never paid 300 dollars for anything, and I'm not about to start now. The only things I'm willing to spend more than a hundred dollars on are shelter, food, a car, and school supplies. There is no way a game is worth that much.
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Tenko Star · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:11 pm Post subject:

That's frickin' nuts! I hope no one bids on that. But if someone does, all I can say is that a fool and his money are soon parted!

Skye Dragon · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:48 pm Post subject:

It is if you're really dumb and rich. :lol:

Elc · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:02 am Post subject:

I can happily report that the auction has ended without a single bid. It's reassuring to know that people aren't stupid or desperate enough to bid on such a bloated auction when several auctions perfectly good used copies go for much less.

If I were the seller of the auction, the price I would have set for it would have been the price I paid for it. Also, when asking a $300 starting price, would it have hurt the guy to offer free shipping to whatever poor soul he "took to the cleaners"? It's not like it would have been shipped packaged with a pineapple, is it?

I wonder if this guy has the True Rune of Wealth and Destitution.
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Marshmallow · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 12:52 am Post subject:

Yay! My faith in the common sense of humans has been restored. . . for a time.

Vextor · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 1:09 am Post subject:

Well, that seller has never sold a thing according to the user history, so s/he probably had no clue.

Elc · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:14 am Post subject:

Yeah, I suppose we should cut the seller a little bit of slack due to the circumstances. But I think a better way s/he could have gone about it was start at the original purchase price and then set a reserve price, though $300 is still an insane price to ask.

I've been considering selling some items on eBay, and have been checking out similar auctions to see what asking prices are fair and, more importantly, which items are in demand. At this point in time, the particular market seems to be nonexistent, unlike the market for video games.

Another auction for Suikoden II, which claims the condition could only be better if it were still sealed in the shrink rap, and the asking price is US#129.99 with free shipping. That's the highest recent auction I've seen for Suikoden II, but it's not really so much and "auction" as it is a sale, since the only option is Buy it Now.

Collecting rare items is great and all, but when it comes to games they were made to be played. I can't enjoy a game just by looking at its packaging, I went through that when I picked up a used copy Final Fantasy IX several months before I got my PS2, and I couldn't wait to be able to play it. Had it been a sealed copy, I would have taken it out of the shrink rap as soon as I got it home to look it over and read through the manual, with growing anticipation to play it.

But that could just be the gamer in me, and all of us, for that matter. Collectors are, apparently, a different breed altogether. What the seller of the $300 auction should do is go to a game store and see how much they could expect to get for a sealed copy, and then relist the item under a more realistic price.
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sybillious · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:20 am Post subject:

it's painful to look at, even if it didn't sell; i paid 45 *including s&h* and i thought that was ridiculous. it doesn't compare to what some games go for today when they first come out...*prices so painful, it hurts just to look!* o__O
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Tarik · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 3:29 am Post subject:

Njord · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:54 pm Post subject:

What 300 Dollar for a Suikoden sealed copy... that really sound somewhat ridicules because there is no way I'm going to pay 300 Dollars (88.5 Kuwaiti Dinars) for it even if I wanted to (1/2 of my allowance... no way). Therefore, there is also no reason for me to buy it at that price when I could easily get it in any normal shop.

Yesterday I went to the mall (named Rehab if you want to know, which mainly have videogame shops) and bought all of the Suikoden series (of course except the Gaidens) for only 2 Dinars (less than 7 United States Dollars). To be honest with you they all were in good shape (Suikoden 1 was in a semi good shape) and they aren't really that hard at all to find in Kuwait (if you know where to look for them), so I am really happy to be in a place where suikoden isn't rare. :)

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Ikano · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 10:52 am Post subject:

$100 dollars for the game is already insane let alone $300
and sealed? hmph, games are meant to be played not sealed up and put in some display case somewhere. It sounds lame if you say
"I have a sealed copy of Suikoden 2"
"have you every played it?"
"no...I said it's sealed"

btw...a bit off topic but what's the value of a Suikoden 1 game now?
my friend sold a copy of Suikoden 1 recently for $15
[[X O I can't believe her!! she promised me a copy and then she goes and sells it and then she says she FORGOT?!]]
though I recently bought a used copy for $29.99
not as high a value of Suikoden 2..eh?
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Skye Dragon · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 8:26 pm Post subject:

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