Retro Rick $10 Game Collection Challenge

[neo-geo-mvs]

I came across this on YouTube yesterday. Really fun!! Watched 8 episodes back to back!! I cheated and watched the most current episode to see how much is in the collection 1 year on and what its worth. Really impressive.

Lots of hints and tips on how to start a collection, buying things to sell on etc.

Getting most of your collection for free.

I pretty much did the same when I started collecting back in 2000.

Retro Rick is more inventive, picking up rare dvds, calculators controllers etc to 'flip' to increase the game collection fund.

Making sacrifices by selling off rare games to fund more purchases.

I'm sure most of us can relate to this.

Definitely worth a watch imo

neo-geo-mvs2021-04-18 12:31:01

 

[neo-geo-mvs]

Link to his YouTube channel

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1tyWJZ-mPWch81I2UW7cQg

 

[Coops]

Me and my family love his shows. We discovered it just as he started the $10 dollar challenge and have been hooked since, it's family friendly viewing. It really highlights the difference in values of US games Vs UK games.

Another good channel is NesComplex, again it's family friendly and has some really good information about retro games.

I used to watch NES Pursuit but some of the things they say on some of their videos are not ethically right and can not be suitable for kids.

 

[neo-geo-mvs]

Cheers will take a look

 

[El Capitan]

I've watched a few of these now and they are pretty good.

He's a likeable guy.

I'm a little awkward about him making money flipping stuff from charity shops... like I'd rather the profits go to the charities, but fair enough.

 

[Bensonrad]

Sounds very interesting, sounds very much like the concept on how I funded my most of my collections, it was pretty good and easy to do back with car boots/charity shops 10 years back, but these days its pretty rare to find anything worth re-selling at them, not that you'd be able to buy much these days with any proceeds, what with the insanely high prices. I'll give them a watch.

 

[funk]

Will definitely have a look at this, love this sort of content. I thought I'd done well picking up a couple of MD carts and pads yesterday for a fiver

 

[neo-geo-mvs]

I've watched a few of these now and they are pretty good.

He's a likeable guy.

I'm a little awkward about him making money flipping stuff from charity shops... like I'd rather the profits go to the charities, but fair enough.

I get that but charities set the prices they want. A bit more research by the workers and they could sell for the "right" price themselves.

Many charities in the UK sell their things on eBay themselves and get the items sold for their true worth

I'm sure Rick will donate a lot of the money to charity after he sells most of the collection in Oct. Seems a good guy

 

[Coops]

I think 'Goodwill' stores in the US have a model of selling higher volume of stock at a lower price to ensure new stock is constantly on the shop floor therefore reducing the need for storage space, Retro Rick mentions in a few of his videos that he usually visits the same store twice in one day as they are always filling their shelves with new stock. I understand the ethical battle with buying something cheap and then selling it on for a profit however due to the size and quantity of stock it would be time consuming for them to check and individually price each item.

It's also nice to see things reasonably priced at these stores (don't forget the idea is for these items to be affordable to those who are less fortunate than others) unlike UK charity shops where they want more than what the item originally cost. I'm sure if they took the option of charging less and selling more they would actually raise more money for their charitable causes and not turn away/throw away suitable donations as they have no space for them.

Now, the one thing I don't like with these videos is where they go to 'Garage Sales' and haggle for someone's game collection. I used to watch videos from a youtuber called 'Chase After The Right Price' and they were awful. They really take advantage of people and it's quite disgusting, especially as I usually watch these types of shows with my young kids. There are quite a few comments on his YouTube videos about this but he doesn't seem bothered by it.

 

[Bensonrad]

..unlike UK charity shops where they want more than what the item originally cost. I'm sure if they took the option of charging less and selling more they would actually raise more money for their charitable causes and not turn away/throw away suitable donations as they have no space for them.

Now, the one thing I don't like with these videos is where they go to 'Garage Sales' and haggle for someone's game collection. I used to watch videos from a youtuber called 'Chase After The Right Price' and they were awful. They really take advantage of people and it's quite disgusting...

Very true, I've seen charity shops here pour bin liners full of CDs/DVD/Video games into the bin, so much stuff gets chucked as not deemed good enough for the public to buy, I have heard the situation in the USA with the thrift places quite literally anything no matter its condition/quality/cleanliness will get put out for sale even if they get 5cents for it, they consider that good and someone who needs it got it at a price they can afford.

Ripping people off buying stuff is bad practice. I used to see that at car boots here years back when I more actively got up early and went to them to try and buy stuff. There were always a couple of really aggressive guys who had their own stalls, they'd set up an empty table then stand by cars as they opened up, they were really aggressive and in your face, demanding the person sell them all of their DVDs/Games etc "you what, you want £1 a DVD, don't be stupid here is a fiver I am going to take all 100 you have, they are all load of rubbish no-one will buy them, you what £2 for a box set, I am giving you 20p" the old people would be scared and just do it, he then would brazenly take the lot right in front of them to his stall pour it on the table and put on his sign DVDs £2 each or 3 for £5. One year just to piss the guy off I on purposely made sure I got in front of him and blocked him getting to any boxes and talked to the seller about wow this is a rare one, this is great value. He was furious.

 

[Venom]

Not really one to buy games from car boots, but used to go round to collect video nasties !

Never really haggled as was only about 14/15 at the time. It just became harder and harder to find rare stuff, as the years went by.

I bet it is impossible now !

Bit like star wars figures !!

The really rare stuff, like exorcist or beast in heat, never really found them. But managed to get a fair few rare ones. Most of my rarer ones came from this weird place in Leicester which was a massive warehouse of tapes. Got the lemon Popsicle, I was missing ! And youd get the odd video shop owner with a box of crap for sale which may have what you wanted in it.

I enjoyed collecting then !

Not much fun in video nasties anymore as can just buy them all on bluray.

I only have a few now even on bluray , as was more into the fun of collecting, most of the films were pretty sh*t. They have a new 4k dawn of the dead out I noticed on AV forum last week.