Thoughts on GameStop Selling Retro Games?

[DivinePaladin]

mountaindewslave said:

DivinePaladin said:
Those prices are actually really fair. Mostly. The first party Nintendo stuff is mostly marked up but even then I'm seeing a LOT of those going for less than the average price (Yoshi Story is like $10 cheaper than anywhere else for example).

I'm actually quite impressed. They know they're selling to the kind of crowd that knows its stuff, so they're not trying to gip people outside of like the Mario Parties and the like (AKA the games that casual fans would buy and thus are gippable).

Kudos, GameStop. As a collector I approve.

those prices are fairly aggressive without actually giving any details regarding condiiton of said cartridges/disks

also do note that the reasonable priced items (like I see some for the Dreamcast) are all items that are NOT available online; i.e. there is really no confirmation of if that will be the real price since clearly they do not have inventory of many of these games currently 

It's no different than going on ebay or Amazon. We have little promise of quality from any third party seller online; our only guarantee is that we can return it if we're not satisfied (after paying return shipping) because of buyer protection. That's exactly the same as GameStop right now, for mostly the same prices if not cheaper. 

 

Once this rolls out more I'm sure we'll have options to see specific images before we buy and such, just like Amazon does. Also, I'm fairly positive that for the cartridge games at least they likely won't buy any carts that are in poor condition label-wise; we have no promises on the discs, which is where I'd be weary. But again, their return policy is much more convenient than amazon or ebay because you can apparently return the item to a store right away if you buy online.