i sold my greatest hits on ebay for like $80 a year ago.

Thanks guys, not like you've ever written the wrong year for a birthday on a form or anything. You know what I meant. The argument stands.

I've had a bad e-bay experience or two and now it just annoys me.  I'm either gonna find a place to sell or trade it locally, or I'm gonna trade it to a buddy of mine who is getting rid of a bunch of Wii stuff.  He'll give me a few Wii games and he'll e-bay FF7.  I know trading it in locally won't get me as much, but it's still gonna be a profit over the $5 I paid.  Heck, I might even play through it first before selling it.  I haven't played that game in a decade.

Ebay was a super popular site that everyone knew about when it started at first? 

Hell in 98 most people were too paranoid to put their Credit Cards online and the only think I used the Internet for was MUDs.

I don't think either copy was worth 200 dollars back when you could find em in the stores.  By the time they were worth a lot the versions i had were the Greatest hits, and yeah i'd give up 100-200 dollars to make a friend happy.

My bro has a copy of Ocarina of Time V1.0 (gray cartridge).

Those are pretty rare from what I have heard.

Ocarina of Time was one of those moments where the guys at Electronics Boutique were super awesome to me.  I had preordered a copy, so I was entitled to a gold cartridge.  They had only received a partial shipment of their gold copies and filled a few preorders and due to a delay, the rest would be in the next day.  I said, "Forget it.  Just give me a grey one, I want to play it now."  They said they couldn't.  I calmly complained that the reason I had put my money down over 6 months prior was to guarantee I got the game day 1.  The manager whispered something to the sales associate who then went into the back and gave me HIS gold cartridge copy.  He said he was working until closing anyway and was opening up tomorrow.  He wouldn't get much of a chance to play anyway.

I never really understood when people said about ways Electronics Boutique/EB Games/Gamestop screwed them.  They've always been very good to me.  I have a bunch of other stories about managers rewarding me for being a repeat customer.