Wait, Zack & Wiki is worth HOW MUCH?

Ah Amazon.com, you never cease to amaze me. All it takes is one retailer to give you a little money, and you will let them get away with highway robbery.

Case and point, last year's phenominal failure Zack & Wiki Quest for Barbaros' Treasure. Many people expected good things from this title, and very few walked away dissappointed. That wasn't why it failed, the reason was because more people waited to buy the game at $40 than $20. Mostly from those that pre-ordered and purchased Mario Kart Wii for the full price tag and found the game at a price point they could now "afford" (including my sorry butt for buying it alongside Persona 3 FES). As others have stated in the past, now is the time to own a copy of this game, because if you don't purchase it soon, the price will be higher than you ever expected.

That time is now. A sealed copy is worth $75. All new copies are worth higher than anything you can find in stores. Stop laughing, because most copies left in stores are not sealed, and the other retailers are charging at least $5 more to sell the sealed game over a new copy.

The gauntlet has been thrown, the Wii has something the other consoles could never get away with. Failed games are now worth big money.

(there is irony in the P3 FES thing, free internet cookie if you figure it out)

I knew it!!!! I knew I should have gotten two copies... one to play and one to keep sealed...ag1052

You can still get one sealed. It might be a Kmart Bargain bin or a Toys'RUs clearance rack, but if you are serious about keeping a sealed copy, you can find one.

I'm just warning the people that actually want to play it, not stay ahead of the inflation curve.

Its a pretty easy formula to see this coming... a great game that sells few copies will generally be in high demand down the road as a collectors item. ag1052

There are just as many decent games that do not follow this trend, Final Fantasy VII is at $70 used, and that sold over 10 million copies, while Baten Kaitos can be found for $10 everywhere, even after selling roughly the same as Z&W.

The gauntlet has been thrown, the Wii has something the other consoles could never get away with. Failed games are now worth big money.SirSpudly

This kind of thing happens more often than it should.

For instance, check outthisebaypage for new copies of GBA Castlevania games (my favorite is the copy of C:AoS for $175).

EDIT: okay, gs keeps screwing up my links. I give up.

Did the game flop that badly? I thought it's sales were decent in the US. Not amazing, just decent.

I'm glad I got it the day it came out, anyway.

you can buy a new and factory sealed zack and wiki on ebay for 24.99rag123

[QUOTE="rag123"]you can buy a new and factory sealed zack and wiki on ebay for 24.99Skie7

so often you can find huge differences in price between Amazon and eBay. sometimes $20, 30, or even $40 difference.

I couldn't find a copy of DDR: SuperNova on eBay for less than $60 (after exchange and S&H) and picked up one on Amazon for $30.

I bet there's money to be made simply by buying from one site, then selling it on the site with the highest average price.

I bet there's money to be made simply by buying from one site, then selling it on the site with the highest average price.

-starman-

It is called "flipping" or the act of buying something to sell it again for a higher price.

A lot of people find it immoral, because it takes a good that would have been used and it pockets an expensive finder's fee on top of it.

This is why I consider Gamestop one of the least horrible places to buy video games.

Ah Amazon.com, you never cease to amaze me. All it takes is one retailer to give you a little money, and you will let them get away with highway robbery.

Case and point, last year's phenominal failure Zack & Wiki Quest for Barbaros' Treasure. Many people expected good things from this title, and very few walked away dissappointed. That wasn't why it failed, the reason was because more people waited to buy the game at $40 than $20. Mostly from those that pre-ordered and purchased Mario Kart Wii for the full price tag and found the game at a price point they could now "afford" (including my sorry butt for buying it alongside Persona 3 FES). As others have stated in the past, now is the time to own a copy of this game, because if you don't purchase it soon, the price will be higher than you ever expected.

That time is now. A sealed copy is worth $75. All new copies are worth higher than anything you can find in stores. Stop laughing, because most copies left in stores are not sealed, and the other retailers are charging at least $5 more to sell the sealed game over a new copy.

The gauntlet has been thrown, the Wii has something the other consoles could never get away with. Failed games are now worth big money.

(there is irony in the P3 FES thing, free internet cookie if you figure it out)

Its a pretty easy formula to see this coming... a great game that sells few copies will generally be in high demand down the road as a collectors item.ag1052

Do you know what the PAL Soul Nomad: The World Eaters for the PS2 is selling for on Amazon.co.uk? £999.99. Any new copies that do surface on the website cost £40-50

There are just as many decent games that do not follow this trend, Final Fantasy VII is at $70 used, and that sold over 10 million copies, while Baten Kaitos can be found for $10 everywhere, even after selling roughly the same as Z&W.

SirSpudly