Used Nintendo 64 games and Gamestop/EBGames?

tyromaniac · Post by **tyromaniac** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:58 pm

The days of the old cartridges being readily available in Gamestops and EBGames stores has come to an end. I asked a man working at a Gamestop and he told me that they mostly were sent to the "warehouse" or sold on "ebay".

Well, me being me, I couldn't understand how this "warehouse" could not be anywhere on google or on their website.

That having been said, I want to know the truth:
Besides these stores selling their used games on Ebay, is there some warehouse/website where these game are readily available for purchase that I don't know about? It doesn't make sense, they didn't sell all too well in stores, so why would this warehouse full of them suddenly disappear?
Those games were about 5 dollars each!
Anyone know of a good place to buy used Nintendo 64 consoles/games also?

and an interesting article....about the sudden growth in Nintendo 64 price:
http://blog.videogamepricecharts.com/20 ... nsive.html

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 2:57 pm

All N64 (and PS1) games were liquidated at 75% off their sticker price to get rid of them all. Those that would have been left over were most likely horribly beaten with either torn labels, with cracked or discolored carts. Not exactly prime with resale quality, so they were prolly tossed out.

As for the "boom," while it will happen eventually I think it's a little too early for that. Once everyone from the N64 era hits about 19-23 with jobs where they can toss a few bucks a week at some "retro" gaming will you see an increase.

tyromaniac · Post by **tyromaniac** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:27 pm

wallydawg wrote:All N64 (and PS1) games were liquidated at 75% off their sticker price to get rid of them all. Those that would have been left over were most likely horribly beaten with either torn labels, with cracked or discolored carts. Not exactly prime with resale quality, so they were prolly tossed out.

As for the "boom," while it will happen eventually I think it's a little too early for that. Once everyone from the N64 era hits about 19-23 with jobs where they can toss a few bucks a week at some "retro" gaming will you see an increase.

But I'm still trying to figure out where the majority of them went. It's not usual that someone walks into a store and wants to buy all of the used games that no one plays anymore.....unless they are a collector. So I'm sure that some of the stores could not sell all of their games. So where did those games go???? If only it was as simple as gamestopwarehouse.com or something.

Post by **CronoTriggerfan** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:03 pm

Thus is interesting. I mean, what DID they do with all the extras? Fiscally, it makes more sense to sell them all for even one cent than to just simply dump them, and I can hardly see them selling, literally, millions of old games "on ebay."

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:23 pm

Having worked at a Gamestop for several months now, I can tell you that "sent to the warehouse" is just a catch-all phrase used to describe any number of things. Most defective items are marked "return to warehouse," for instance. Items sent to "the warehouse" are either repaired and redistributed to stores or destroyed. Gamestop stores will even 'field-destroy' items of little or no value.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:11 am

tyromaniac wrote:
wallydawg wrote:All N64 (and PS1) games were liquidated at 75% off their sticker price to get rid of them all. Those that would have been left over were most likely horribly beaten with either torn labels, with cracked or discolored carts. Not exactly prime with resale quality, so they were prolly tossed out.

As for the "boom," while it will happen eventually I think it's a little too early for that. Once everyone from the N64 era hits about 19-23 with jobs where they can toss a few bucks a week at some "retro" gaming will you see an increase.
But I'm still trying to figure out where the majority of them went. It's not usual that someone walks into a store and wants to buy all of the used games that no one plays anymore.....unless they are a collector. So I'm sure that some of the stores could not sell all of their games. So where did those games go???? If only it was as simple as gamestopwarehouse.com or something.

Well the clearance was at least 6-7 months ago, and the sale lasted until they were all gone.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:27 am

It isn't surprising really, it isn't viable for a shop to reserve shelf space for items which sell so cheaply and give little profit, it can be more sense to destroy them.

E-bay is a cheap source. I have all the PAL N64 games I want (about 80), and got them mostly from e-bay (about 65 of them), from Â£2 - Â£4 each ($4-$8) but more for some rare ones.

Some of the titles I bought off e-bay were from shops as it transpired.