The Sad Future of Video Game Vendors

I really like this channel's videos of video interviews of people who own a business, whether it be a full physical store or display cases/booths in an Antique Store. I, myself, have a Display Case in an Antique Store with $5k worth of Pokemon Memorabilia, but I also flip on eBay and I'm a Spark Delivery Driver Full-Time. The hustle is real. The sales are slow. I don't have a family, but I do have goals to reach and debt to pay off. Hope everything works out for him!

I have ran into Tim a couple times at yard sales, very cool dude and friendly. He beat me by like seconds on a Wii U once lol

How nice of Caleb to unload his garbage on his “friend”. What a guy. 😂

Props to that guy he’s really putting in the leg work and getting to see the behind the scenes of everything was nice.

This is why you A: Can no longer find any games worth anything at thrift stores, and B: Why stores like Goodwill price things high now or put them online. Goodwill is wise to value of things now and they also want to make money.

I live in Louisville I have done business with Tim he bought my nes collection and PS2 collection and Xbox when I got out of collecting. He's a good dude

Lol Caleb's amazon store has prices higher than dkoldies

I go to garage sales every week and I almost never find video games anymore. If I do, it’s usually overpriced

i think your friend could do a good channel on his own.

i think a large problem withthe secondary market is, its kind of an inflated market and not enough customers that are willing to pay a premium to sustain a storefront.

While I respect what both of these guys do, I'll never understand why you would want to give your reselling secrets to thousands of people on the internet.

I hate the, "I will look it up" because they will look at asking prices, not sold prices.

bro really offered 45% even though tim shilled the oneup app so hard bruh i cant even my local store (video game connection in cleveland) does like 60% atleast in trade credit like smfh how cheap will caleb stoop too bro

Yep, bad time to be a seller And bad time to be a buyer.... time to just play games that we have!!

“Really hard to find at the low price I want so I can flip it for high”

Around here we have a street that is probably about 8 blocks long. The stores along this street were originally hardware stores, drug stores, appliances stores, apartment buildings, etc from the 1930's to 1940's. The interiors have been gutted and divided up to small connected rooms. Venders rent one of these rooms and stocks it with their merchandise. Each vendors merchandise has a tag with their code. There is a central register to pay for everything. The gaming merchandise in these places is usually Ebay plus pricing!

This video reminds me of myself, except I was a collector and hunted video games to keep. Not to flip or resale. I remember my rarest finds were Shadow tower (Ps1) and God Hand (Ps2) got both complete mint condition for $2 at a thrift store. I remember back in 2015, I saw Kuon (Ps2) complete mint condition at a pawn shop selling for $1 ( at the time, had no idea it was rare). It sat on the shelves for 4 months straight and was always there when I would come into that specific pawn shop 3x a week. Nobody wanted it and I myself was not too interested in it. Then finally after 4 months; it ends up selling and I felt like I should have got it. Anyways one year later, someone decides to sale me Kuon ps2 complete mint condition for $50 and I can’t complain after it was going for $300 at the time. Then another situation, I ended up getting Rule of Rose (Ps2) complete for Free. I will tell you how it happened. The game was selling for $750 on Ebay, I ended up making an offer to the seller for $500. I paid $550 after taxes and everything for the game ( I paid for it). Then all of a sudden 2 weeks later, I receive a notification from Ebay that my $550 has been refunded to my account ( I am assuming the seller made a mistake, or forgot; I didn’t say anything…. I just kept quiet). So I ended up getting to keep the game ROR ps2 and got full money back for what I paid for it. And NO, I didn;t complain nor demanded a refund… I was completely unaware about it until Ebay refunded my bank account, but I never said nothing to seller and just played along with it. So therefore, I got Rule of Rose (PS2) for free and Kuon for $50 complete mint. The video game Gods really blessed me. I don’t collect ps1, ps2 games anymore… I already own 4000 video games and that is enough for me. I buy and play Ps4/Ps5 games now. I appreciate this seller in the video hustle, but I will be honest with you video game hunting and flipping is basically a dead business… If you want to hunt and collect for fun then great! But you will not find nothing rare anymore in flea markets, garage sales, pawn shops, estate sales, church sales, or thrift stores because everyone looks up the prices online and if it is rare or worth a lot of money, then people will pocket it and flip it, sale it themselves. The only thing you really find in thrift stores now is just sports games. Plus piracy is killing the video game industry because of all them plug in plays such as pandora boxes or hyperspins where they can load up 100K games on the system and it has everything such as NES,SNES, dreamcast, Saturn, SEGA CD, master system, genesis, arcade, ps1, ps2, PC, Amiga, Atari, PS3 (PC version of the ps3 games) and PS4 (PC versions of the PS4 games) since Ps3 and ps4 emulators do not exist. So Yeah video game hunting and flipping is basically dead.

Tim is the man. Always great prices and willing to cut deals.

"Hey these guys are all going out of business so just buy from me from now on!!!!"

Sourcing at thrift/pawn shops really isn’t worth it when you take into account the amount of time it takes to find inventory there.