What retro things have you done today?

I’m conflicted about the whole “retro scalping” thing. £20 was clearly too cheap, and the fact that you didn’t offer postage on a rare(ish) item will have massively limited your audience. On the other hand £200 is too much, but clearly the fact that he’ll offer postage is a big plus to the fact that he’s got more chance of it selling for/near his asking price.

Would it be wrong of me to sell my recently acquired Gainward BLISS 7800GS+ AGP for £150+ (cheap, even for the going rate) when I bought it for £40? I bought it as “untested” (which it appears to genuinely be in this case), but as we all know, that’s a gamble stacked against the buyer! Would I be in the wrong to sell me £10 Voodoo 3 2000 for £75~? How’s about my G4 Cube for £400-500 when I bought it for <£100?
 
I guess that guy is clearly just flipping it for cash. My £15 V3 PCI I bought as part of a bundle 3 years ago sold for £110 I think, with no guilt on my part whatsoever as I had use of it over the years.

He didn't think "wow that's a bargain I'm going to pick it up and have some fun and I know I can make my money back in 3 months / years" he thought "wow that's a bargain I can immediately flip it for £180 profit!". I guess the only angle he could play is by offering postage he is letting people further afield buy it.
 
I buy a lot of stuff to purely move on for profit. It pays for the stuff I want to keep. Ultimately the market dictates an items worth. If its not worth it, it won't sell.

For me, I try to get my things for as cheap as possible, or its fair value in my eyes, but if someone buys something off me and i make a nice profit, and they are happy to pay what I'm asking then everyone is happy.
 
as with everything there is always a balance. one that is never going to please everyone

I have made some money on Retro stuff, i personally see that as more fair in the grand scheme, older rarer stuff has an appreciating value to it. The current GPU / console crazyness is purely greed in sadly nearly all cases, nothing more as a high percentage of these people have 0 interest in the items at all in the first place and rather than it being a collector marketplace. I think that is what gets me more than anything rightly or wrongly

BUT! if the numpties paying £1000+ for a £469 card didn't do it......wouldn't be an issue in the first place, so its all self fulfilling lol
 
I have never bought a computer item to flip it for profit a few days later. I did preorder a PS5 but decided to build a new computer instead so sold it to cover the cost + ebay fees only.

To me I see no problem buying an item and using it for a while, then selling it on for the same cost or profit after its had some use.

Anyway, back on topic. Its getting close on my Speed Bay best race times!

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This hobby has paid for itself many times over for me :)

I had offers of £130 for my boxed sb2.0 that I got for £20! But I want to hang onto you that.
 
phatboy said:
I haven't played that game in years. Used to love it

First one I take it?
Man that's expensive for a boxed copy now!
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Yep, Moto Racer 1. It’s available as Abandonware now. Apparently no license so fill your boots with with the cd image.
Works great with cd audio too.

I’ve got a Matrox oem Moto racer copy at my parents house but it was always rubbish on Matrox Mystique, much better on 3dfx
 
Guest2 said:
Yep, Moto Racer 1. It’s available as Abandonware now. Apparently no license so fill your boots with with the cd image.
Works great with cd audio too.

I’ve got a Matrox oem Moto racer copy at my parents house but it was always rubbish on Matrox Mystique, much better on 3dfx
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Oh fantastic! I will have to grab it that case, thank you :)

Be cool to run it in 3dfx mode on the voodoo 2
 
phatboy said:
Oh fantastic! I will have to grab it that case, thank you :)

Be cool to run it in 3dfx mode on the voodoo 2
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It's not a Glide game unfortunately (D3D) nor are there any Glide patches

Install the 3.22 patch and add the following to command line shortcut -3DFX -NoPal256 -Alpha
Also set D3D from 'on' to 'filtered' in the game menu

Works great on Voodoo 3
 
Guest2 said:
It's not a Glide game unfortunately (D3D) nor are there any Glide patches

Install the 3.22 patch and add the following to command line shortcut -3DFX -NoPal256 -Alpha
Also set D3D from 'on' to 'filtered' in the game menu

Works great on Voodoo 3
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Ahh ok, still worth grabbing though :)

I have no end of trouble getting McRae 1 to work in 3dfx mode. I think that is a D3D game too right?
 
phatboy said:
Ahh ok, still worth grabbing though :)

I have no end of trouble getting McRae 1 to work in 3dfx mode. I think that is a D3D game too right?
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McRae crashed at the start of my game on my Voodoo 3, but that was only because there was a bug with the game when using the last good supported 3dfx driver (1.07.00-WHQL) It worked fine with 1.05.00
 
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