Gaming Price Drops and Scams

[Genkai]

Well, with the arrival of The GBASP, also comes scams, and prce drops on the normal GBAs.


I was hoping the GBA price drop would be more dramatic, though $20 is a lot. I've been looking around for the best price and in about 20 minutes I should be the proud owner of a GBA for 39.00 plus 5 bucks shipping and handling, next day delivery.

Of course, in my searchings, I found dsome SP sales that were obviously [url=http://www.usfreeads.com/67055-cls.html]scams[/url].


There's almost no way this is a scam. I found a few sales selling CDs with info on how to get an SP for $15, but sometimes sellers were selling the product itself.

I'm hoping on testing these most likely faulty things (the one I linked to in particular), since they're not that expensive and I'll probably be able to get my money back if I get angry enough.

Anyway, has anyone actually checked into these things? Tell me if you have.

[Semjaza]

Well the link you profided is for a classifeds page... which means it [i]could[/i] be legit, but more than likely is not something this guy obtained legally. Even then, I wouldn't believe it either heh.

You just have to watch out. It depends on where you are getting this SP from, as you didn't provide a link to where you are buying from. There are many pyramid scheme sites on the internet where they are like "Buy a PS2 for $20!," when in reality you put up $20 and hope that eventually 15 other people sign up and pay as well. If they don't? No PS2 for you.

You also have to watch the fine print sometimes. A lot of places seem to have these great prices, but then you find out they were refurbished and don't include controllers or something like that. Or that they are almost never in stock.

So yeah, I can't really help with your situation as I don't really know what you're doing heh. Honestly, I'd rather go the more expensive route and buy from a place I trust. Less headaches.

[Genkai]

Heh, once a local stadium fleamarket-ish thing had a huge overstock of PS2s and were selling them for $20. my friend got one and almost gave one to me for my birthday, but his mopm wouldn't let him give illegal goods to friends, lol.. I never got to that stadium till they were alll gone... *sigh*

Well, I lost that eBay thang, I'm just gonna go get a used one at my local game shop.. I just want to play Pokémon sapphire really bad, so....


But I expected a big price drop in used GBAs, since there will be so many for peopel who sold them to get money for an SP...*sigh*

[Semjaza]

I've only seen cheap GBAs at Flea Markets honestly. My friend got a Japanese Spice one for like $50 almost 6 months ago. Brand new too.

You might want to try going after friend's used ones. They tend to let them go for less, because most game stores won't give them much of anything for it.

Don't worry about scratches on the screen, because you can replace that for only $4 or so at Nintendo.com's store.

Otherwise, I'd really save up for an SP. The light is a lot more useful than you'd ever imagine heh.

[Genkai]

Ahh, the link site wasn't, in theory a scam... You see, it was a "cycle, matrix" sort of thing.. Meaning you had to join a membership thang ( I think this one was about $100) and then you could buy things for a very cheap price.. Of course, it'd be about 4 months from your initial order to the point that you get it... According to eBanana.net, which is where that ad was placed from.

[Semjaza]

That still sounds a lot like something I said above:

"You just have to watch out. It depends on where you are getting this SP from, as you didn't provide a link to where you are buying from. There are many pyramid scheme sites on the internet where they are like "Buy a PS2 for $20!," when in reality you put up $20 and hope that eventually 15 other people sign up and pay as well. If they don't? No PS2 for you."

I have a feeling it works that way. And really, I personally do consider those types of things a scam. There's really no guarantee lol. You're better off buying it for twice as much and bringing it home the next day heh.