Cobretti2 said:
ganoncrotch said:
If you are being absolutely ripped off being asked prices like 100+ for used wii games from 3rd parties you might consider modding your wii, I'm sure the thought of stealing money from Nintendo is of course bad... but you aren't talking about giving cash to Nintendo for these rare games, they simply didn't print enough of them and scalpers are cashing in on that fact on ebay or even shops like gamestop have pushed up the price of rarer Wii games, none of this money you pay would go back to the big N in the sky anyway.
I have my launch day wii modded simply for convience sake, the online service to the console was shut down so there was no risk of running into issues online and Wii games just aren't available new anymore here with my local 2nd hand market filled with 100s of copies of the same few popular games.
Might not be a popular opinion but for me Legit games > Piracy > Scalpers.
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It isn't scalping though. Scalping is more about buying someting to flip quickly for a huge gain, generally concert tickets, stock market or preorder items.
The games you are talking about are several years old and are rare so the value just goes up over time and there is nothing wrong with it. can't blame somone for having better insite than you and getting it at a reasonable cost at launch.
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There is an entire business based around going through auctions of consoles on Ebay which include certain rarer games or going through charity shops just to buy games which have a high resell value. It's not really having better "insite" doing that nor even if it was is that money going back to Nintendo or the software developer like I said.
You wont find too many sellers who happen to have multiple copies of rare wii games for sale on Ebay just happen to have been buyers of them new.
