Picture Puzzle UK - Value?

[snkneogeousaCTH]

I've recently came into possesion of a Picture Puzzle UK and was wondering what is the value on this game?? And how rare is it? It's mint and complete with box, manual, and game.

Thx.

 

[+++SLUG FLYER+++]

ill give u 30 for it..

 

[rudekid]

i seen one go on ebay for £21.00 it did not genarate much interest

 

[tchaoz]

this game is fantastic !

 

[snkneogeousaCTH]

any other thoughts?

 

[2D]

It depends really, you have to ask why people buy them. A Pocket Reversi went for £130 a few months ago, is it really worth that much. Well, to the person buying it, yes. But to me, no. Picture Puzzle is not a common game and therefore the future prices will reflect this.

Someone who just wants the game to play would not pay highly for it, but i collector may pay £100 plus, just because they need it to add to their collection! Game values are always fickle and their value is what someone is willing to pay at the time.

I would say a sealed copy of UK Puzzle Link is worth about £60, but then i am being a tad biased! <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[LOL]" /> ....... £20, a £100+, who really knows? <img src="graemlins/smirk.gif" border="0" alt="[Smirk]" />

 

[MarkieMark30]

Picture Puzzle is not that rare, you can pick them up all the time for around £25-£35.

I'm the guy who bought Pocket Reversi for £130 on ebay to complete my UK collection. ;-)

 

[cre$u$]

where can you get picture puzzle for this price???

 

[2D]

I suppose that may be true, but i see Picture Puzzle far less than most other games such as Faselei and Evolution, for sale or trade.

Prove me wrong and i will admit defeat. <img src="graemlins/smirk.gif" border="0" alt="[Smirk]" />
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[snkneogeousaCTH]

Yes, I'd very much have to agree w/echo - this game is much rarer than the so-called rare "faselei and evolution". Right now there are TWO evolution, and 3 faselei on ebay - I've never seen that many PP on at one time... I think PP is a game that alot of ppl just havent seen...

 

[2D]

Well, i have just put a sealed UK copy on EBay so we will have to see ......

Place your bets!

<a href="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=803309539&rd=1" target="_blank">PICTURE PUZZLE</a>

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[NeoGoaT]

Do you shrinkwrap these yourself? To the best of my knowledge UK NGPC aren't sealed when they leave the factory.

 

[2D]

That was to the best of my knowledge as well. However, I have had a few sealed ones before which were Sonic, a few months ago. In the main, the games were not sealed for the UK market but some obviously were. These may have neem sealed by particular shops or outlets, but not by me. I am honestly not sure.

 

[FeelGood]

who cares how rare picture puzzle is. Even though the game is one fo my top NGPC games, and top handheld games of all time, there's practically no demand. I bought it for 21 GBP a few months ago. That's about what it's probably still worth, if not less.

 

[2D]

Hmm, interesting point. But who really cares about the price of Pocket Reversi, Faselei, Evolution, or Metal Slug 1 for the AES.

Why pay $2000 for a Metal Slug 1 Cart when you can get it for $100 on CD or MVS?

As i keep saying, price is in the eye of the beholder. People will pay what they are prepared to.

And if demand was so low, why would a collector just paid £60 for one? <img src="graemlins/smirk.gif" border="0" alt="[Smirk]" />

 

[FeelGood]

Originally posted by 2D:
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And if demand was so low, why would a collector just paid £60 for one? <img src="graemlins/smirk.gif" border="0" alt="[Smirk]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>

£60 for what? Picture Puzzle? I can't account for every stupidity in the world. It sells for cheap on ebay usually.

Of course, the prices of some games like Metal Slug on home cart, or Pocket Reversi will sell high because they have been selling high, sohow that is the market rate.

Typically, in statistics, we ignore outliers, such as a one time big sale on a normally cheap cart. If you have a cart like UK Faselei that usually sells for £60, then right, it's a £60 cart. If it suddenly sells once for £120, that's not really the market price of the cart.... not until it sells for that much again and again.

 

[snkneogeousaCTH]

I personally think picture puzzle is greatly undervalued... After playing it, I think its a superb game. And much rarer than faselei and evolution.... I've seen SEVEN faselei on ebay in the last week.... 1 PP (echos). Nuff said.

 

[+++SLUG FLYER+++]

Neo Games are like house prices, especially pocket ones. Say, is it just me or is it the run up to christmas, but damn, the market is DEAD.

Paying £60 for that game? Pah! Waste of money.

I offered £30, thought it was fair on both of us. And for the records, neo pocket games in the UK WERENT shrink rapped, cuz i worked at game stores when they came out...and that includes the afforementioned. So, thats weird. Having said that though, my metal slug 1 aes came shrink wrapped....why did i wake up from that dream!?


Sigh.

 

[2D]

Good, a guy that has worked at every games store in the UK? <img src="graemlins/spock.gif" border="0" alt="[Spock]" />

That is not exactly what i said is it. I said that the games were probably wrapped by a game retailer, i was not being specific. It may have been an independant, i don't know. It is a bit strange, however, that i purchased the job lot from a retailer who was selling off excess stock.

So i have the evidence, you do not. You can say that they were not shrink wrapped in your particular outlet, but i am saying that some were in other outlets. It is the similar for Japanese released games, although the other way round, many were shrink wrapped when sold, but not all.

And it is also true that the UK Picture Puzzle does not come up for auction often at all. <img src="graemlins/eye.gif" border="0" alt="[Eye]" /> <img src="graemlins/eye.gif" border="0" alt="[Eye]" />

We will see anyway......

 

[snkneogeousaCTH]

Okay...

I've seen a "shrinkwrapped" UK game before and heres my take on it...

The shrinkwrapping is more of a hard plastic - not the soft plastic melted around the edges ALA US games. The wrapping is just like the plastic on a new cd - not stretchy, but just fitting the box. I think, that probably a store, probably a store that sold used music (lots of stores around here reshrink used CDs as a theft deterrent) and games probably just shrinkwrapped all the games as a theft deterrent. I personally wouldn't buy a shrinkwrapped game - I mean, for all you know the manuals missing since it wasn't an official job. But anyway, that's just my 2 cents.

 

[2D]

Thats very true, i have no idea what is inside.

Afraid not on the shrink wrapped theory. Soft plastic has been melted (sealed on the three opening edges of the game, and folds around the spine) around the box, with a very fine seal, not an easy job without proper equipment.

And i will state my reputation on the fact that these game are brand spanking new and never opened. The cases really are untouched, with not a single mark on them at all, not a bleamish, perfect in fact!

 

[snkneogeousaCTH]

Okay man...

But wouldn't it be a disaster if you sold them, and when people got them they found out they had just weight in them? . But anyway, I personally think it was idiotic for SNK UK not to shrinkwrap games... I meant, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING??? It would have been sooooooo easy for a shoplifter to steal a cart.

 

[2D]

I think these days, most retailers keep all the insides of the games behind the counter, i can't remember how long this has been going on for so maybe that is what they used to do.

My possible guess is that outlet who could not do this for whatever reason, shrink wrapped the games, as you suggested.

Makes sense i guess.....

 

[snkneogeousaCTH]

Yep... Makes sense to me .