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Not that it ever was cheap. I'm just asking for various reasons.
I was bored today at work, and decided to check some AES prices, for the first time in many years. The good games are ridiculous in price. I mean they always were before, but now. Wow! Almost everything good is a grand drop easy.
Not only that, I noticed a lot of the rare games, like Magical Drop III, Pulstar, Waku Waku 7, TWS, Slugs, etc... are either not even on eBay, or are outrageously priced compared to last sales, and priced jacked big time.
So I'm curious, to someone with a ton of expendable income, who could afford all the great games, are they even obtainable for fair prices these days? And by fair, I mean obtainable without just paying whatever the one copy that is price jacked on ebay is going for. Or are you at the mercy of the French, and Japanese sellers who are trying to sell the games for double what they are worth?
It looks to me, that even if you had an extra 20-30 grand lying around, the rare games are so scarce, it would take a lifetime to obtain them all for fair prices, if you ever found them.
I see people here, and on other forums and such getting onto AES all the time, and I'm like "no, don't do it, just spend more on a MVS setup, one slug purchase will pay for the cost of that extra cost you pay for that MVS setup, and you can play arcade games". But people seem to refuse to listen to an old Neo collector, and are adamant on having collections full of stuff like 3 count bout, fatal fury, art of fighting 1,2 etc.. when they could sell all that stuff and likely buy almost every good MVS game they want.
I also noticed AES sales in the forums are scarce, at least for uncommon and up titles. Have the collectors pretty much collected up all the good titles at this point? Is that why they are gone? People are just holding on to them until they die?
I was bored today at work, and decided to check some AES prices, for the first time in many years. The good games are ridiculous in price. I mean they always were before, but now. Wow! Almost everything good is a grand drop easy.
Not only that, I noticed a lot of the rare games, like Magical Drop III, Pulstar, Waku Waku 7, TWS, Slugs, etc... are either not even on eBay, or are outrageously priced compared to last sales, and priced jacked big time.
So I'm curious, to someone with a ton of expendable income, who could afford all the great games, are they even obtainable for fair prices these days? And by fair, I mean obtainable without just paying whatever the one copy that is price jacked on ebay is going for. Or are you at the mercy of the French, and Japanese sellers who are trying to sell the games for double what they are worth?
It looks to me, that even if you had an extra 20-30 grand lying around, the rare games are so scarce, it would take a lifetime to obtain them all for fair prices, if you ever found them.
I see people here, and on other forums and such getting onto AES all the time, and I'm like "no, don't do it, just spend more on a MVS setup, one slug purchase will pay for the cost of that extra cost you pay for that MVS setup, and you can play arcade games". But people seem to refuse to listen to an old Neo collector, and are adamant on having collections full of stuff like 3 count bout, fatal fury, art of fighting 1,2 etc.. when they could sell all that stuff and likely buy almost every good MVS game they want.
I also noticed AES sales in the forums are scarce, at least for uncommon and up titles. Have the collectors pretty much collected up all the good titles at this point? Is that why they are gone? People are just holding on to them until they die?
) start buying AES games. With any luck, they'll price each other right out of this fucking hobby.
