A Reddit post in the GameBoy subreddit caught some eyes. It showed a fake yellow Game Boy Pokémon cartridge displayed at a GameStop. The post received many comments, pointing out the poor quality of this bootleg Pokémon game.

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m into retro audio, cassettes, records, etc. I’ve noticed that all the thrift stores get raided by the resellers often. Same with the good clothes. There’s a “vintage” store at my local mall that sells old thrift clothing, like the nice band t shirts, and they sell them for like $50

    The whole retro game market has become this as well, just resellers buying up all the games and reselling then for absurd prices

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      2 months ago

      This really does seem like the endgame for all collectibles–to eventually get capitalized to the point that outsiders come in and start speculating/buying out new releases/limited editions solely to flip for profit.

      In plenty of cases I’ve seen, they never even have the product in their hands–they’ll just transfer the order to the highest bidder. I guess it’s the nature of collectibles and limited-edition stuff, but it just takes away the fun for a lot of the people who enjoy the hobby/collectibles/etc… it’s kinda deflating when you can’t even get the item without paying a premium to some rando that has no interest in it first (instead of just paying the vendor/manufacturer directly at their list price).