I'm Banned From a Local Thrift Store

[Figuremod73]

I knew a guy at the flea market who had a booth and would sell SMB3 and other NES games for $15 and up. I never understood that.

[Bill]

Would he actually get those prices????

[Figuremod73]

He had that booth for at least a few years so I suspect so. I havent seen him recently though.

One neat thing that he did sell was a combo system that could play NES, SNES, and Genesis. I wouldnt mind having one of those.

[megoat]

When somebody buys something from me for resell I DO NOT CARE. All I care is that I get the price that I want. What does it frickin' matter? What you quickly realize in this business if you've been at it awhile is that these things have RELATIVE value. There is no EXACT value on an item. The same item in two different dealers hands can be WORTH different amounts. Certain dealers can get more for the same item than you can. When I'm selling, all I want is the money I think I can get out of an item. If somebody thinks they can get more GOOD FOR THEM.

People need to relax and just sell their stupid stuff and move on to the next.......

[Bill]

"How am I supposed to make any money reselling this if I have to pay you xxx for it?"
A constant complaint at the shop.

[toys2cool]

Those are nice. I am hunting NES like crazy. The amount of wanted ads for old video game stuff is by far bigger than wanted ads for toys though and a few summers ago, I would find an NES almost every weekend. It's getting tougher now and since I have a store, I can now buy common carts and sell them at $6 each. Unlike on eBay where it's not worth the time.

I see games there every single day...NES,SNES, genesis, N64 , PS1-PS3...everything comes from New Jersey

[megoat]

"How am I supposed to make any money reselling this if I have to pay you xxx for it?"
A constant complaint at the shop.

I can't stand it when dealers moan like this. If what you are looking at is priced too high for resale, then MOVE ON. I pass on stuff EVERY DAY that is priced too high. Guess what? I buy the stuff that isn't.

Nobody owes you anything.

[Bionicfanboy66]

Sort of reminds me of the story of Walt Flannigan, manager of Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash. In the early days of the stash, Walt would skip odering from Diamond Distrubators and would buy stuff from the local Suncoast to resell at the stash. He would keep the sales slips and return any unsold stuff back to Suncoast, Walmart, TRU, etc. The employees and store managers eventually figured out what he was doing and a few of them attempted to ban him from their stores, so he started sending his buddies out to do his "dirty work" for him.

[ODBJBG]

Sort of reminds me of the story of Walt Flannigan, manager of Jay & Silent Bob's Secret Stash. In the early days of the stash, Walt would skip odering from Diamond Distrubators and would buy stuff from the local Suncoast to resell at the stash. He would keep the sales slips and return any unsold stuff back to Suncoast, Walmart, TRU, etc. The employees and store managers eventually figured out what he was doing and a few of them attempted to ban him from their stores, so he started sending his buddies out to do his "dirty work" for him.

You never see that on Comic Book Men!

[MIB41]

When somebody buys something from me for resell I DO NOT CARE. All I care is that I get the price that I want. What does it frickin' matter? What you quickly realize in this business if you've been at it awhile is that these things have RELATIVE value. There is no EXACT value on an item. The same item in two different dealers hands can be WORTH different amounts. Certain dealers can get more for the same item than you can. When I'm selling, all I want is the money I think I can get out of an item. If somebody thinks they can get more GOOD FOR THEM.

People need to relax and just sell their stupid stuff and move on to the next.......

Exactly. If I owned a thrift store and knew someone was buying my stuff and selling it for a better price, then I would do the research and find out what these things are going for and price up accordingly. I don't understand the logic in banning someone who is consistently coming into my store to buy things at the prices I ask. When a transaction is done, the objective has been reached between buyer and seller. If the seller is not happy, then he/she only has themselves to blame. Plus aren't most goods obtained at a thrift store given to them? It seems to me the profit margin would still be much better for the thrift store than the guy re-selling it who had to pay something upfront. Not sure where the angst comes from.

[Den82]

It's not really a matter of me giving him his asking price and then telling me not to come back because I sell them. They were not for sale yet, as he didn't know his asking price yet. He's mad because we bought them from his niece before he was able to research a price.

But it's true he lost a good customer. Some people know how to deal with others and some do not. His old business partners had the "you make some money, I make some money" attitude and there was no bull with them. No call me next week, let me research them, let me ask my wife stuff.

I could of loaded him up with donations to sell too, as I am always getting stuff in lots that are good and useable things, but not vintage, so no good for my store.

[MIB41]

^^^ Your right. He threw away a good resource over what amounts to a few bucks in the grand scheme of things. Sad. Not much of a savvy business man.

[Splitty]

That's just absolutely ridiculous. He should have managed his stuff better and not had pre-sale stuff available to sell. He's acting like such a sore loser.
As far as Den's concerened, it totally wasn't worth throwing away future business over such small priced items. Now that dude has lost all of Den's future business, on stuff nobody else may ever buy from him. Sucks to be him.

On a side note, as a seller, it's your responsibility to research the price of an item, and put it out for what you feel comfortable with. Who cares what whoever buys it is going to do with it. You already decided the price you want for it. If it wasn't for re-salers, used stores wouldn't get half the business...or some such percentage.
Money's money, no matter who it comes from.

[megocrazy]

Would he actually get those prices????

I get 12 - 15 with no problem for SM2 and SM3 in my booth.

First of all the guy stating "I need to look them up" means you should have never even seen those items. See it all the time. If those games were on the sales floor for the girl to sell to you, it was his fault not yours.

[Den82]

That's what I mean. He TOOK me to his car, opened the truck and showed me the games. Then after I get excited (he had good sellers like Metroid which I now get $20 for in my shop), he tells me most are "Amazon", but if I were interested in anyone, he'd "look them up" and "might" sell them.

That is BULL. When I had my yard sales to blow stuff out, people would ask if I had any of ___ or more of ___ and I told them no, even though I did.

My gut feeling is he has a problem with me being a reseller, thus just wanted to come off like a hot shot and dangle them in my face. But that's OK. Keep your good stuff in your trunk and just show it to people who want to buy it. In the meantime, keep trying to sell old cable boxes from the 1980's with wood panel on them and bins of dirty Christmas decorations to try and pay your rent. Don't cry and blame me and other dealers when 6 months from now you are at yet another new location because you got kicked out of the last.