ORIGINALY POSTED BY BALLER99:
"shawn is just as responsible for neo cart prices going up as Dion is.
Peter"
Could not have said it better my self!
all of the people on this thread who posted against shawns prices have totaly valid points!(however, DSD, Shawn charges $825 now for A mint MOTW instead of $800 because <WINK, WINK> "his service, reliability, honesty, and speed are worth that price"
well if that isn't the biggest bunch of bullshit I have ever heard! I think that Shawn is one of the best neo sellers around.but there are A few big down sides to this whole issue.
1)we are paying these prices because MR. Shawn Mc Cleskey(I think thats how you spell it) does not have A job!
thats right, since shawn wants to be An entrepeneur so badly and not have to suffer the consequences of being A 9 to 5 average joe is absolutely fine, and I wish him luck. but that does not mean we have to tolerate being ripped off on neo games.
2) now that shawns store is official his prices hold more water.
AAHHH yes my neo friends, watch as all the cheap under handed fuckers raise their prices (BUYRITE comes to mind)as shawn raises his. dont be surprised if buyrite will raise the price of another game and instead of listing the new price just put "call" so that you dont even think the price went up.
you see, if you called biy rite about two months ago you could ask for MOTW for $600
instead of thier ludicris $1000, and why you might ask, well because NGF actualy had them and was selling them without the NGF stickers on them(they did not have the stickers made at that time)hell, I had the chance to pick up A copy and i didnt. now you see, that penis over at buy rite(the owner that has the voice of one of those annoying guys on the home shopping network)would tell you "OH,well NGF and neo-geo.com are not official and established businesses like me, so I cant honor that price" then you might here him say"to be truly established and official you must take it up the ass the way I do" HAH, just kidding on that last part, couldnt resist.
however, now that shawn is an astablished business who pays taxes,watch that mook over at buy rite justify his outlandish price by giving you the line" oh, well other BUSINESSES like neostore.com charge just as much for this game and it sells" ,"I mean thats why I must charge $1300 for it and shipp it without any packaging, what the hell I will just slap A shipping sticker on the cart and send it out like that" (again I could not help dissing this guy one more time)
to put it simply, dont be surprised when you see this hapening alot in the neo scene. these people do not care about ebay prices, other neo retailers, or sellers until it benefits THEM, not you, THEM! if 20 brand new U.S. copies of MOTW went on Ebay for only $600 and lets say 5 copies were not even bid on at all. all the neo sellers(Shawn included) would try and put it off and give that famous line" Ebay prices do not truly reflect the price of A home cart" which is PARTLY true, but hell, if A new copy of nam 75 went for $175 on Ebay you better be ready to empty your wallet when you find A copy at the neo store because now that auction makes this "A much mare rare and desired cart by collectors and gamers alike" yeah well I smell some thing, does any body else know what it is. OH YEAH, its BULLSHIT!
when some thing does benniffit the customer sellers will try to avoid it like the plague and get around it no matter what.
lastly. the sooner these people can make the home cart market A "COLECTORS" market more than one for gamers, the better(in thier eyes at least) because it means more money for them!
and this will not end with the home cart side of it either. they will try to make it this way by jacking up the prices of all neo cd's and pocket games as well as the mvs because they want it to be collectors only,so they can fill thier greedy little pockets, while the gamers sit and watch.
[This message has been edited by ORPHEUS (edited April 22, 2001).]