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What an emotional rollercoaster this has been. It's also a lesson in not putting all your eggs in one basket. Shipping these out incrementally, and via a syste

What an emotional rollercoaster this has been. It's also a lesson in not putting all your eggs in one basket. Shipping these out incrementally, and via a system that has the proper insurance in place, would have been a better move. Hindsight and all that.

byuu 10y ago
We actually did. His collection was 400 games. I asked to split it into four smaller shipments. But what I failed to take into account was that I really could not afford to replace even 100 PAL SNES games. They're just too expensive anymore. I hate that blame is being placed on him for the shipping. He was doing me the favor. It was my fault for requesting so many games to be sent at once.
- voltagex_ 10y ago
  Prices of SNES games have gone crazy recently. I'm seeing the same with Gameboy/Gameboy Colour, but not with Gameboy Advance. Anyway, I'm very happy that the games got to you eventually.
  - khedoros1 10y ago
    I wonder if it has to do with the people that were kids when those were new being 30-40 now. Maybe it's a good time to stock up on GBA games before they skyrocket in a couple of years.
  - byuu 10y ago
    The scary part is I keep saying that each and every year. They just keep getting more and more insane. Even two years ago when I bought Iron Commando for the Super Famicom, the $240 asking price was insane. It's at $1500 now for a complete copy. I passed on Pokonyan for $100, thinking that was too high, and a year and a half later ended up paying $800 for it. How many years can the prices keep doubling like this? How can anyone afford to collect these games at these prices? The whole thing feels like a giant hyper-inflated bubble.
- astrodust 10y ago
  "Blame" is one of those double-edged words. Unless you do this for a living or have seen many horror stories before it's easy to make mistakes. Maybe it's just me but I don't really trust the regular postal service with anything, and if there's no other option, super-duper insurance is the order of the day. Anyway, what a project this will be. Hopefully you can get it completed without any more unnecessary drama.
  - byuu 10y ago
    In all, it's been going for over six years now. I've collected around 2,200 of 2,800 games without incident. This lot puts me up to 2,300. So ... yeah, fingers crossed at there being no more drama.
digler999 10y ago
> a system that has the proper insurance in place insurance is a scam, especially with USPS. You can't just say "this package is worth $10k to me". They will let you buy $10k worth of insurance, but if you go make the claim, only then do they say "ok, you said it was worth $10k, now prove it". If you can't show a catalog, or a preponderance of evidence that the item was worth what you said, they simply won't pay.

byuu 10y ago

We actually did. His collection was 400 games. I asked to split it into four smaller shipments. But what I failed to take into account was that I really could not afford to replace even 100 PAL SNES games. They're just too expensive anymore. I hate that blame is being placed on him for the shipping. He was doing me the favor. It was my fault for requesting so many games to be sent at once.

voltagex_ 10y ago
Prices of SNES games have gone crazy recently. I'm seeing the same with Gameboy/Gameboy Colour, but not with Gameboy Advance. Anyway, I'm very happy that the games got to you eventually.
- khedoros1 10y ago
  I wonder if it has to do with the people that were kids when those were new being 30-40 now. Maybe it's a good time to stock up on GBA games before they skyrocket in a couple of years.
- byuu 10y ago
  The scary part is I keep saying that each and every year. They just keep getting more and more insane. Even two years ago when I bought Iron Commando for the Super Famicom, the $240 asking price was insane. It's at $1500 now for a complete copy. I passed on Pokonyan for $100, thinking that was too high, and a year and a half later ended up paying $800 for it. How many years can the prices keep doubling like this? How can anyone afford to collect these games at these prices? The whole thing feels like a giant hyper-inflated bubble.
astrodust 10y ago
"Blame" is one of those double-edged words. Unless you do this for a living or have seen many horror stories before it's easy to make mistakes. Maybe it's just me but I don't really trust the regular postal service with anything, and if there's no other option, super-duper insurance is the order of the day. Anyway, what a project this will be. Hopefully you can get it completed without any more unnecessary drama.
- byuu 10y ago
  In all, it's been going for over six years now. I've collected around 2,200 of 2,800 games without incident. This lot puts me up to 2,300. So ... yeah, fingers crossed at there being no more drama.

digler999 10y ago

> a system that has the proper insurance in place insurance is a scam, especially with USPS. You can't just say "this package is worth $10k to me". They will let you buy $10k worth of insurance, but if you go make the claim, only then do they say "ok, you said it was worth $10k, now prove it". If you can't show a catalog, or a preponderance of evidence that the item was worth what you said, they simply won't pay.