This Video Game Store Scammed Me.
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That no stupid people sign as you mentioned refunds was gold
No stupid people then how are they gonna sell anything?
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I absolutely hate video game stores that don't put prices on their items. They're just doing that so they can mark the games up at the register. When I find a store like that I won't go back there.
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or you dont have sticker residue on the case and they go for around market price for the game. I know stores who do that and prefer it.
@justjake2849 I'd rather have to clean sticker residue off and maybe get a tiny bit of a deal on a game. Like I said, it's so they can get the highest price possible at all times. Impossible to find good deals in a store like that.
It’s a third party seller. They look up market prices on the spot
@@kzxjone Yeah. I get that. But they don't all do that. So you can occasionally find a deal at places that don't wait to price their items. At places that wait so they can squeeze every penny out of you, you never find good deals.
I'll admit, I thought you said "Heath's Porn".
That store selling repros for that price is insane, borderline criminal.
i watch his videos with captions and no sound and thats what they thought he said so i was like 👁👁
It's also insane that they get away with selling thing that are "reproductions". Back in my day we called "reproductions" what they are, "counterfeits", and they are illegal to sell.
@@superscatman4236 hard agree
Also what on god's green earth is that green ooze inside mario kart advanced? It looks like maybe some sort of flux or perhaps liquid duct tape?
@@Thatonefuckinguy lots of solder mask
If a seller represents something as real, it turns out to be fake, and they still won't do a refund or exchange, then its completely reasonable to despite that charge.
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Good rule of thumb, if a game store has amazing selections the price is sky high. If they have good prices they won't have great selection.
A local game shop where i had i went for years cuz the rare stuff was sky high, but the common stuff weren't cheap but were reasonable. So i'd buy both there... The common stuff if I didn't want to bother with online shipping and i was in the store anyway, and the rare stuff if i couldn't find it elsewhere... Once it become more big and popular, the common stuff started becoming more expensive, and I stopped buying the rare stuff too.... fuck that shit. i'll keep looking
That's bs
@@charliekelly735 Yea get outta here supply and demand! That's never part of any market ever.
Not really true tbh. It just depends on the motives and how the shop wants to run their business. Some are in it to milk the retro game market dry because they know there's tons of late 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s people that grew up on these games and want to relive them. Other want to make a profit obviously but also are willing to haggle a 5-10$ on a price especially if you are buying a couple games and in general fairly price their games.
The Galaxy N3DS XL is actually one of the more expensive variants and can go upwards of $250 online. The fact that someone was selling it for $90 on FB Marketplace is an absolute steal. The store actually had a pretty reasonable price for though at $225.
It's being sold for $80 new on ebay...
@@ModularKnight Then it's a scam. XD
I just came on here to say this exact same thing I have that 3ds and personally been offered $200 and turned it down $225 is a decent price for that
yeah i was like where did you find that WITH THE BOX. i had to get one for like $300 off amazon cause i couldn't find one cheaper. (and it didnt even come with the box, but it was very good condition except for the screws which were messed up and now they're broke because of it. still upset about that.)
Yeah I'm seeing parts and repair sell for $130 lol. $200 and up for actual working consoles.@@PerplexedAnimation
As soon as you see a store with no prices on things.... that is a red Flag.
The bargain shop slapping a sticker right on a cartridge label instead of bulk buying cheap plastic cases for them (or even just slipping them in a 2 cent playing card protector and stapling it shut) just shows how they see it as a commodity to make money with, they don't give a damn about the hobby. Which unfortunately is more common than not nowadays.
That shit drives me nuts.
As if all that stupid extra plastic is good for the environment. Good stickers are easy to remove without any residu.
@@MrDavince72 Them investing more in something they're already making so little off of defly doesn't make sense. A good compromise would just be putting the stickers anywhere on the cart other than the label or near the bottom.
@@MrDavince72 You're so brianwashed if "the environment" is the first thing you think about from this. 85% of the worlds plastic pollution comes from southern and eastern asia. Not North America.
@@bullythebooksWhether it's the first thing they think about, or just *one of* the things they think about...
It's beyond confounding that you would criticize them for it.
"Oh my goodness! They thought a completely unselfish thing and provided a very reasonable solution! What a sheep!"
10:26 The most egregious thing is that someone (probably the store) went and "replaced" the battery on the fake board. In a place where pads dont even exist on the board.
Fakes normally dont use SRAM which usually needs a battery to be powered. They use flash/eeproms because its cheaper. But the fact that someone took the time out of their day to solder on a battery randomly on the board just makes me laugh. I respect the osmosis RAM attempt.
This.
It really does boggle the mind how some of these stores survive which such insane prices. I did a lot of shopping when I was in Arizona and most of the places I went to were very reasonable so they're not all trying to rip you off.
most of these stores don't last 6 months... there was one in my town and they had ebay + 100% prices and the one and only thing I found worth buying, the dumbass couldn't take my payment cause their internet was shut off (threw my hands up said whatever and walked out). I think they lasted till the end of the lease
there's definitely stores not trying to rip you off. but if you checked the long beach and cerritos areas in california, the stores there are definitely trying to rip you off. i still remember going to a retro based store in long beach where they tried to sell me an obvious fake for 50$. and then tried to haggle me with a price cut to 40$.
honestly, if it wasn't for my trip to las vegas and checking the local retro shop i live nearby, i would think that all brick and mortar retro shops are doing nothing but ripping people off. and yeah, they have to make a living and all that usual excuses. but when some of the shops shown on this channel as well as ones i've visited myself are selling retro stuff for around the standard ebay price or lower, then i question why do they even try to sell these games.
It's because they do a large portion of their sales online, and there is always an idiot that has more money than brains shopping online.
Unfortunately in Spokane, the only used video game store there is has insane prices and sells a ton of bootleg stuff to boot. They've been in business for years now. They did once upon a time used to have good deals, but that was years ago.
So many of these pop up and shut down within a year in my area. I can't even keep up with which stores are around anymore.
Yeah unfortunately this is pretty common in the US. Either places have a good selection of games but are very expensive or they are cheap but have a bunch of shovelware. Sometimes you get lucky with a good deal for like a console but it’s pretty rare.
yep... all shovelware... nevermind me digging thru the $5 bin for the 50th time 😂
The fact that store was trying to charge $40 for a Zero Mission repro is insane.
I got a repo of both Zero Mission and Fusion for like $20 total on eBay.
just get a flash cartridge at that point. most of those repros are so poorly made. @@sparkiestshoe7821
It hurts my soul seeing the price of Pokemon games these days. I picked up a boxed copy of Sapphire that was in great condition for £28 back in 2017. Really hope Nintendo and the Pokemon Company come up with something so they can add the older games onto the NSO. Giving them Pokemon Home functionality would be amazing too, if they could manage it.
They won't. They're not even working with Nintendo to at least let Pokemon Bank continue to run after April which is cutting off the ability to get Pokemon from 22/27 main line series games into Home. All those ribbons from pulling Pokemon from older generations into newer games will be impossible to obtain.
They won’t because Nintendo doesn’t want to compete with themselves theyre only trying to push the latest stuff.
@OmegaVideoGameGod this comment makes zero sense. How is re re-releasing games they own competing with themselves.
New video game store opened somewhere in Ohio recently, originally they had a place in Cali.. nearly half the store is repro carts but they’re charging full price. They got called out hard and feigned ignorance
Yeah if they say selling fake people will buy if the price is cheap.
I used to go to a pawn shop where they looked up the lowest "asking" price, but as we know, asking prices can be ridiculous.
Worst thing is when they find the price for a rare version, while their version is common, and they try to ask the price of the rare version.
In a shop here in my city, they wanted me to pay CIB price for a cartridge only. Completely insane xDD I obviously went the f out of there.
As a gamer in the states, I just shop around my local area and you'll see that there are some stores that actually care about having fans and regulars. The ones that do are the stores I'll spend hours in chatting with the owners. The other ones I don't even bother showing to my friends out of secondhand embarassment.
Just one place left where I live and they are the scummy type of retro store.
There's a handful in my area and sadly one of them is run by a total scumbag, and the Facebook reviews are extremely telling, and he doesn't pay anyone...not to mention the prices on his games are what you'd expect from overinflated retro sellers.
The competition around the corner might not have an arcade but they do have fairer prices on their games and seem a lot friendlier.
yeah, I used to go to Jacksonville a lot. Bargain Shop was always weird with their pricing. i had a list i wanted to ask about, and apparently, you arent allowed to write down their prices because of like, they don't want other places to know their prices. they usually prey on Marines who just want old games and dont care about prices.
Please continue writing down those prices and call them out on it. That's really scummy behavior of them.
The time to buy 'retro' in the USA was 10-15 years ago. 2005 to 2008 parents were getting rid of their kids stuff who went to college most of which would have been SNES to PS1 some times PS2, so a lot of this stuff was dirt cheap. However even by 2009 you already had rare older games that were asking for a larger price. I remember being shocked seeing a BOXED copy of Earthbound sitting on the very top of a cabinet near the ceiling at GameCrazy, and it was 120 dollars. Ever since the retro boom in 2012 you have all of these little independent stores selling the chinese stuff for a huge mark up including reproductions. I understand that you need a mark up if you want to actually make money/have a profit margin but it's when they cut corners and straight up scam people that makes it no good.
heh. cut corners. that's funny, cuz some of those fake carts literally have labels which looks like the corners have been cut off.
That all businesses though, you see the issue is now everybody knows what they’re worth and a lot of these companies are trying to bank on those prices.
The reason why the pawn shop had nothing is because it was picked over. The vast majority of shops in the USA are in one of two conditions.
Cheap, and picked over. Has nothing good unless you get lucky.
Expensive, has everything. No one wants to buy unless they're just desperate.
Exactly, in The States you are paying the tax of store even being able to stocking the stuff you actually want and have it in front of you. So many of our meager regular pawn or hobby stores just don’t have the stock of golden physical games anymore. But I also know how expensive overhead is in 2023 and I’ve seen stores in major cities move standard N64s at $300*. They were amazing condition complete in box. But the crowd who actually buys there does so because it’s in front of them, and they just want assurance their shit will work. The rest of us just go to look to browse and occasionally grab stuff to stay in the owner’s good graces.
Is just a shame this store sells games (fake or real) at these prices (because they know the worth) and still let a bootleg slip without being labeled though.
@@otterdonnelly9959 I don't care how cool the owner is. If the store starts to become shit (which all the good ones near my area seem to become shit once they become popular) I aint buying from them, and am looking for the next up and coming store.
This, this is exactly the problem, I used to go to the pawn shop and find decent games, but I found this game store not too far away, and the dude was way overcharging for things.
Oh. You've been to that specific store? Saw what it looked like days before? Ah. I see.
From 2012 to 2024 the entire hobby of retro gaming has been turned into one big money-making scheme. We are now paying hundreds for things we could've easily bought for around $5 in the early 2000’s, and getting tricked into buying counterfeit repros as originals. The only way to deal with this bullshit is to either have everyone in the entire retro gaming community to work together and change it all for the better, or make FPGA/emulation as widespread as possible to drive down prices.
How dare they charge collectors' prices on forty year old, never to be made again items that people want to display in a cabinet for the sake of their -what's the word? ' collection!
@@MJFallout Seems like that store is just a free uncurated video game museum.
I hate when some "elite gamer" who said emulation doesnt have authentic feel than in real hardware and im glad they getting fked by gaming collector
@@tehonlynoobs5556 fuck that shit. even for those people, flashcarts exist and that's multitudes cheaper than getting fucked by gaming collectors.
Don't dismiss the "elite gamer"'s concerns. there are valid ones.
I'm fine with emulation for most things, but actually, depending on the genre, and how competitive they are, software emulation often does have timing imperfections that don't happen on real hardware that can throw a game off.
I refuse to play fighting games on a software emulator unless the community is so dead that competitions aren't run.
FPGA Emulation reduces the risk of those imperfections, but it's still there, so FPGA emulation is acceptable in certain cases. Mostly dependent on how much testing has been done and the programmer's reputation and lengths they go to for accuracy.
Better quality cartridge reproductions would be nice. Change the Nintendo logo on anything to Nentendo.
There is a foolproof way of knowing which gba games are real or fake without even opening the game up. Where it says GAME BOY ADVANCE on the front, on the real ones the writing is quite flat, and more difficult to see, whereas on the fake ones the writing is more pronounced and easier to see. Once you compare a real and a fake in this area you can spot them straight away.
That'll probably work on most older repros, but modern shell reproductions are pretty solid and some don't have any obvious indicators like this. In those cases, it's better to look for any inconsistencies with the label (miscut, wrong dimensions, poor print quality, etc.) or for the silkscreen Nintendo on the PCB. Obviously nothing beats just opening up the cart and having a look inside, though. A repro I have has no obvious indicators besides the slightly wrong dimensions of the label without opening it, and the differently colored shell that I got deliberately so it would never be presumed legit.
@@LunarShift I have a copy of Pokemon Sapphire that's not real, but it might be older. There are a few things that tell me it's fake:
1. The ESRB logo is too thin.
2. The Nintendo logo on the board is wrong.
3. My legit DS games won't recognize it to transfer Pokemon off of.
Helping in this regard is the legit copy of FireRed that I have. Does all three of those things just fine. Also have a legit Emerald, but the label is scratched up so I can't compare it to that one.
@@LunarShift I don't know. I have yet to see a good repro cartridge, and as a collector, I see a lot of them.
The text on real ones are flatter and textured while the text on fake cartridges are deeper, narrower, and has no texture, and I am pretty sure this is still true today. I've just checked like 30 listings on Ali Express and every GBA game (100%) can still easily be identified as fake by this method.
Truth is: it would take little to know effort for the bootleggers to produce fake cartridges indistinguishable from the original ones, but they do not put the effort (thankfully). They still use the same crappy repro cases in 2024 as they did 5-10 years ago. So, combined with the imprinted number on the sticker, I don't see how can any knowledgeable person mistake a fake game for an original.
Hundreds of games had went through my hands and not one time I was fooled. It is actually not that difficult.
There isn't a foolproof way. You have to really pay attention to everything. You can't rely on a single measure. You'll just be buying fake games with this kind of thinking.
Seeing these prices makes me sick. About 5 years ago I sold a lot of Gameboy stuff for $80. Yellow gameboy color in perfect shape, 2 full size gameboys, handyboy, mad cats lens light and battery pack for the color, tons of games including pokemon gold and blue, a gameboy shaped case, transfer cables, plastic cases for the games, mad cats soft case for the gameboy color, many of the manuals and a couple of the boxes. All for $80 :/
Honestly I run into retro game stores with no price tags all the time. Its a huge scam.
If there's no price on the item I ignore it and move on. You know the price is going to be mysteriously invented once you get to the counter.
Then it would just be a repro game unlike authentic!
I cannot wait until this speculative bubble that gaming is in right now busts.
It's already going down.
@@TheMysteryDriver But it'll never be as low as it used to. People still want to recover some as much of their losses as possible.
@@f937r they don't get to decide. Buyers do. Stop buying stuff and the price will come down
@@f937rit'll always go down eventually some people's kids will inherit it and think it's trash
@@TheMysteryDriver The whole point of a speculative bubble busting is the crash. I don't mean going down a bit. I mean crashing into worthlessness. That's where a lot of this stuff needs to be. Value for value's sake, and not financial.
dude i actually bought that galaxy 3ds xl from the bargain shop in jacksonville, my fiancés parents live there so i go there whenever im in town. $225 for that made me cry a little. the repro games made me a little sketched to buy any gameboy games as i didn’t have my analogue pocket to check if they were real 😭
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They're charging DKOldies prices
For a place called "The Bargain Place", there wasn't much in there that was a 'bargain'.
40 Dollars for a reproduction game!? You should have called the police for that.
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Oh wow, smart asses. It's a joke.
Idk if they coulda done much or not
Lol you can get robbed and cops won't do anything.
Real misunderstanding of what the police do
More like a real misunderstanding of you what a sarcastic joke is.
He was asking to be robbed
Yep, most of this is extremely common in the US. Buying retro stuff in person here sucks for the most part (as I'm sure you found).
The only way to do it in person here is facebook market or offerup but that only yields good results in more populated areas. For me, i'm in Los Angeles and I recently found a $60 Wii console with all the cables and wiimote + wii motion plus and nunchuck. And I found an excellent condition GameCube controller for $30. If I went to a store I would have gotten fleeced
Ya same in australia.
Man that store with the sonic and Mario outside is so expensive 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️ that fake Mario game is no more than 8 to 10$ but man that sp is amazing 🔥
The retro store that i've been going to since i was young is horrible now because almost every game is a repro game and there's only 10 to 15 percent of the games that are actually genuine cartridges and i no longer go there for that reason and that's just really sad
same
I dont like how people say "repro" games. ikd why, just something about it just feels wrong. They should just say they're fake, because that's what they are. I hope that sometime soon these fakes start to be taken down from sites and stuff like that because sometimes its really hard to find real games, especially for N64 and the rarer gameboy stuff. Great video as always :)
It's not fake. It's uh, reproduction... For uh...archival purposes. You know "game preservation" and all that. So they're really doing a good thing by making more copies to prevent these games from disappearing forever. Imagine if they didn't make copies of Mario kart advance, and then somehow all the millions of legit copies just randomly stopped working for some reason, then we'd have these "reproduction" carts.
reproductions are fine if they're marked as such. trying to scam is wrong.
I call them fakes if they are trying to be passed off as real, and reproduction if they are being sold cheaper and is clearly stated it's not official. And the cheaper honest reproduction will often even have better quality and closer matching labels and shells, minus any reference to nintendo.
if they are actually good quality and sold at a reasonable price reproduction is a fine label, cause fake just sounds bad, in addition reproductions are likely to be in better shape than some actual games. The issue with their reproprices are they are expensive for the fact that they aren't originals
how TF is nobody mentioning you hung out with Karl from Mr. Beast. Literally the highlight of the episode. lol
Collecting games used to be so fun & cheap!! But now there are so many people & the market is so inflated that I'm in the process of selling my games off on ebay. In 2006, I picked up 18 NES games, complete in box for $180 from a mom & pop rental store that was still renting them out. Last week I sold 6 of them for $1500. It's sad to see them go, but 4 years ago I moved & they have just been sitting in boxes for this whole time. I figured it was time to get them to someone else who appreciated them as much as I used to... before the market popped entirely! I can always play the games on my SD NES cart on my OG hardware 😁
Yeah dude I’ve been getting more involved with the local shop community and it’s super heartbreaking to see how scummy it is.
I've been watching you videos and I was surprised to see you go to Greenville and now I'm really surprised you were in Jacksonville and I haven't checked out the Foundry. I know where I'll be going on my next day off. I've known about The Bargain Shop and I've seen them sell Repro carts of hacked Zelda games and over priced. Glad to see you stopped by Jacksonville hopefully you enjoyed it. This vid makes me want to go shopping around town and get my collection going again.
Man, I live here and as soon as I saw the bargain shop on your video preview I knew they’d got you. This place came into Jacksonville about 15 years ago and put almost all the other pawn shops out of business. Once they put them all out they raised the price on everything. The family that owns the shops are notorious for being rude to their customers and when they first started I found them trying to sell used lotion. These guys know what they’re doing but they cornered the market up until recently. Oh and you’re correct about how they do their pricing, not only that they will pull up items you try to sell them on eBay and look for the lowest every priced item that sold and then claim they can get it for that price so they’ll pay you far less.
The worst thing these guys do by far is they’ll drive an out to Wilmington to talk shit to the video game store down there for no other reason than to do it.
OMG I live just an hour from Jville been to all the shops you went to, and have to agree with all you said. Really cool to see my local town.
Knows it's fake, and continues to drop $45 USD on it....
CZcamsrs often do irrational stuff because they know it might create more views thus more money.
It's for science!
Mr. Beast Kurt Jacobs is in this episode and everyone is just casually ignoring it.
That store are the truly stupid people, I mean they had the audacity to sell something without they confirming its real, its happened once to me but I went back and told them to change that fake game immediately.
I'm from Australia, and whenever I see the ESRB label on any Pokemon or other high-demand game, my first thought is "oh that's a bootleg", so seeing all those labels on Pokemon Gold, Crystal and others made me feel a bit weird.
Well, that's what they're supposed to look like in the US. Good thing I know what real hardware looks like. And I don't go to sketchy shops, anyway.
Couldn't it just be a US import? Maybe those aren't common in Australia
Pawn shops here in America don't seem so interested in dealing with old video games anymore, as far as I've seen (guns, yes, but their prices tend to be high). At one pawn shop, I was told that their boss didn't want old games dealt with at all. In another, they only had newer games, at unreasonable prices (which I even pointed out to them, when I saw a used Switch Lite with the price of a brand new one). But that limited edition SP you got... I am surprised by that price, it's lower than I thought it would be! I think maybe, _maybe_ the market for retro games here is finally starting to come down a bit, I've been noticing falling prices, lately, on certain things. Except Pokemon GameBoy games. Those just keep going up.
That Galaxy 3DS wouldn't last more than 10 minutes here in the US at 90 dollars on Facebook Marketplace. It routinely sells for over 200 on ebay daily.
Whenever I see a ridiculous price on FB marketplace, I’m always disappointed because the seller lists the real price in the description.
Dang, sorry that happened to you. Happens to the best of us!
can't help but chuckle because you genuinely seemed surprised at pawn shops having a good stock of guns ammo and knives in the US
He's from a doomed country.
@@indalecio539 Lmfao. I really hope you don't think America isn't a doomed country.
@@KaguyaH Oh for sure. We're not too far behind on the doom scale as our brothers are across the pond.
the way my jaw dropped when you showed the foundry-- i live in this area haha! i actually bought my gameboy advance from the shop there a few weeks prior to this video, and it works wonderfully! another place in the area i've come to like is playback games, the people there a super nice and i got the batteries replaced on my childhood copy of sapphire and they already clean the cartridge and replace the batteries on copies they're selling like the emerald i bought from them
Great to see you in my home state! Not sure where your headed, but Pensacola FL has a lot a great video game/comic stores.
Retro game prices have pretty much completely turned me away from the hobby. The days of me getting my $10 n64 from a crackhead and a few dollar ebay games are long gone.
I know the bubble is bursting but it's still not great.
I was so shocked to see my local stores in the intro, Hoped you enjoyed jacksonville, nc!
Yup this happened to me. They know they have kcock offs but they pass them off anyways and when you go back they blame you for switching it out for a fake and trying to scam them lolol 😂
40 dollars for a repro? dear lord, here in mexico they cost like 100-150 pesos, (around 5-10 dollars, and that maximum its already expensive)
I bought them.
The golden sun games were so good, id be so happy if they brought that series back lol
Man, I know what you mean! Good times playing those in the summer of 04-05. I recently bought the first 2 games off ebay to re-play them.
that last shop reminds me of a retro shop i went to once at a mall i used to frequent. they had a mixture of repros and legit games. but the big problem like the store you visited is regardless of being a repro or real, all the prices were jacked up. i remember trying to get a price for an obvious fake copy of super mario advance 2 and being told that the pricepoint was 50$. when i immediately shot it down, the clerk (who was a high school kid they hired) tried to offer it to me for 40$. i immediately shot that down again. i get they need to make a living, but the prices these shops put for obvious fakes is highway robbery.
I really enjoyed this video. That last shop selling the "repo" games is just disgusting.
Wow, you made it to my Game Hunting spots 😂 I don't know if ready for a rollercoaster of the judgemental slang of our town.😂
One of the only good game stores we have here is the game shack
@@HAHA-rd4zw Cool, to see another local viewer. GameShack is good to go, found any good recently?
The red play it loud GB (I bought the transparent green one on release) looks amazing.
i sure do love mario kurt
Nice to see you back!
Missed ya man. Thank you for your content! 🙏
You are not the only one who have gotten scammed this way.
I once bought a copy of Warioland 4 without the Box for GBA that I thought was real on GameStop in Sweden. A few years later when I was going to play it the save was gone. I then found out that it was fake when I compared it my other GBA games, whit it having a different printing on the case and the wrong label.
Still have to be careful on the board where it says Nintendo. I’ve had copies from China and the cheeky boys have it on there and looks like it says Nintendo but once you open it up fully they have spelt it Ninhendo but it looks legit at a glance up the cart lol
Here’s a tip I learnt recently. On game boy games, the Nintendo logo on REAL cartridges has 2 distinct details that you can apply in the future when buying. The i in Nintendo, is squared at the top and not rounded, and the O imitates a coin from Mario, while fakes use a regular o 👍🏼
Keep in mind also, the Bargain Shop is minutes away from Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and sadly soldiers will pay that for said items.
That's when you just decline the charge on your credit card so they get fined by the bank lol
My local game store is the same they price every console over $100. They wanted 250 for a Dreamcast
at this point I not even know if that "no refund" sign was real, fake, or a product
Oh my goodness! I know exactly where this is. Very excited to watch this video and see what's happened! Will edit to provide my own feedback having shopped at a few of these.
The first shop in the Foundry is run by an excellent person. Bought several NES games, one refused to boot more than it worked. Definitely tried several workarounds to get it fixed, but he honored the warranty.
The second shop, only went in the once, but I bet you're on the money about them not really wanting to sell certain items. Much of it was severely overpriced and that was 4 years ago.
Glad to have seen the last exchange, Trade It!, going to add it to my list of places to check out.
I love the foundry, its literally one of my go-to stores. They have so much!
I won’t even go in to the second shop anymore. Way too overpriced.
That thumbnail picture was insanely funny!! Your face is so crazy hahaha!
The store that scammed you - I know record stores like that. I don't visit them. They don't grade records but sell at top retail. They have bad policies. In this store's case, I wonder if you could have asked them to take the game apart to verify if it was real. If they said no, just leave.
I got burned on eBay myself. I ordered seemingly authentic copies of Metroid Fusion and Zero mission. I opened them up once they got here and they were epoxy blob fakes. I got a refund and rebought them with different sellers; one that showed the authentic bare pcb with a possible reproduction shell and/or label and the other that showed no pcb, but it did have a number on the label which was a good indicator.
Those insane prices match the big retro store here in Austin. They typically charge over CIB eBay prices for loose carts here yet stay in business.
You may be out the money, but putting the scummy store on blast at least has to help your soul somewhat haha
Honestly the fact that we have high quality repros is nice for those of us who just want to have a cartridge again. I have several everdrives and a ton of repros I’ve made myself from inside gadgets and funny playing midnight trace series boards. It’s also fun to find a quality aliexpress set of Pokémon carts and use those to make other games
this is some of my favorite content you have done so far.
thank you so much that means a lot
Sadly the only retro game store in my area is just like that, selling (shitty condition) SP 001’s for 150$ with nothing included
I mean that fake was super expensive when considering I bought the real copy of the game locally in America for 15 bucks
Also just a tip, a indicator to spot a fake game that I use all the time is the "gameboy advance" engraving on the front of the cartridge will look deeper and the letters will look thinner on fake cartridges.
I got the same gba sp for 22 dollars at McKays in Chattanooga. It needed a battery and a charger. I was definitely lucky that day.
Dude, the ending slayed me! 😂
Thanks for continuing the fight. Props to you from the host of Game Rescue
Lol, that overpriced store reminds me of PowerUp Gaming in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. The kind of prices that make you want to buy an Analogue Pocket and emulate the shit out of everything.
Elliot casually hanging out with Karl lol
Lmao, the ending was gold. "Oh"
Scamming yourself so we don’t have to. Great work
Hello and great video if you are ever in Lakeland, Florida there is a really great retro game store called Game Attic it is in a shopping mall. I have been going to the store for years
no price = no buy
Also if I can't see in public or online pictures of back of cartridges of the square on Nintendo i letter and bottom piece is brown!
Then don't order or buy then!
that first store seems REALLY good but that other one is an absolute ripoff, A local game store near me sold me a fake ruby and i didnt know it was fake and paid like $75 canadian dollars for it back in 2015.
You should come to NYC and check out the game stores here in Manhattan. Their prices for older consoles and games are outrageously high just like that second store you went to in this video. I am so irritated about the prices in these stores that I just use Chinese handhelds for retro gaming. It's still not enough though, because I seriously want the full nostalgic experience of retro gaming with the real devices but I can't afford those asshole high prices here.
At least you could try to give it back in our shop we also have no refund but when a customer comes and have a problem usually we give them a refund
The no price thing is also often because all they do now is check pricecharting. It's becoming a real problem. I even had a guy doing this at a Romanian fleamarket! Its becoming a joke. Why would anybody buy at pricecharting prices from a fleamarket or a pawn store?
You overlook the overhead for the store! Reflecting higher prices! eBay has no overhead expenses!
Welcome to game shopping in the US. The prices go off the chart (the charts being eBay sold and price charting) which are high AF anyways.
Lived in Jville for many many years and yea The Bargain Shop are the biggest scammers in town I never recommended them
That’s in Jacksonville, NC. I used to go to “the bargain shop” every weekend
100% sure you knew it was a fake but bought it only for this video. You have waaay to much experience with gameboy to not have fallen for this. It's extremely obvious this mario kart was a fake...
and you're incredibly naive if you actually had to stop and think about that (and write a comment about it). of course he bought it for the video - he was holding it in the shop pointing out how it was fake and still bought it. it's informative for folks that don't know how to spot them - but pointing out they still work (mostly) and how much you're willing to spend on a clearly fake game. the fact that this went entirely over your head makes me want to point to the "no stupid people beyond this point" sign that was in the shop and then point you to the exit.
@@MaxRide1 wow ok, you really are the human equivalent of a participation trophy aren't you...
@@MaxRide1 Mike Tyson has an opinion about you.
heyyyy a Retro Future video!!!
Honestly a shop should make an exception for a return for fake items sold as genuine
They probably would, he just never went back 😅 the sign is funny I guess.