Game Collectors & Resellers Trolled by Craigslist Ad -

[@PatTheNESpunk]

What do you think about game sellers and collectors being trolled? Have you seen it happen before? ✅Support the podcast @ patreon.com/cupodcast ✅More #CUPodcast vids: bit.ly/1pOBDVH ✅Follow on twitter @ twitter.com/patthenespunk & twitter.com/pxlsicle

[@hopposai787]

i love it. dirty stinking resellers. not to mention the people who will show up to your house at 5 am for a 10 am sell then be pushy and angry when you won't sell them everything. when they should be happy you didn't shoot them at the door for coming that damn early.

[@PsychoIncarnate666]

Do you have any opinions on one of the holy grails of game betas finally being dumped after all these years? The 1997 Spaceworld Pokemon Silver Demo?

[@DownSouthPC]

flea market tomorrow Pat? I sure hope so.

[@jamespayne8252]

Dick move but fuckin funny

[@lady1kaka]

I think that it was primarily targeting to all those greedy asshole resellers. For these people I will never feel sorry.

[@MrDrokkul]

There is an ad on Craigslist in my area for a game collection. It says to enter the side entrance to the basement upon arrival. It says not to be alarmed that there are no lights and to ignore any sounds of chains or screaming. I think I'll check it out this weekend.

[@IgorKolosha]

Sounds legit.

[@popfuntoplay]

Maybe the guy posted that listing so he could hit up other sales while everyone else was distracted.

[@JV12382]

Then he hosted a podcast talking about it and ate a burrito like a hog while talking.

[@zachh63]

of course he did, that's literally the entire point...how do Pat and Ian not realize this? It's been going on for at least 10 years now

[@FabioGnecco]

he was 3 steps ahead the whole time !

[@chedruid]

Someone wanted some bloody revenge against those pesky resellers xD

[@DragonHunterG]

I find this hilarious and the fact people showed up and stood around lol

[@323GONZALEZ]

DragonHunterG The bidding wars 😂🤣

[@UncleSilverGaming]

I bet there was an amazing sale somewhere else, so someone posted a fake yard sale in order to lure all the other hardcore collectors away. While they were all out standing around in a field, the original poster was at the real yard sale cleaning house, LOL.

[@RetroFrito]

BTW, found that image in a Google search for "Turbo Graphics collection"

[@shinhawk]

LMAO

[@randygelion]

Just proved that troll didn't even own those games. How lame!

[@ItIsNot1984]

I used to hit the sales every saturday am and I had many great finds. Then there was a reseller that came along. My finds slowed to a trickle. I did this once to troll him and get an edge for the day. I had that guy 45 minutes out in the country. I didn't see him most of the morning, so I know he took the bait. It works.

[@BryanX64]

7:45 Something about the way Pat said "oh, Ian..." was adorable lol

[@kingkold]

Something about Pat saying " just get a dime bag " Is awesome lol.

[@AGoNYC]

This is very common, a few years back (4-5 years now) when i was garage sale-ing every weekend id run into these fake sales all the time! I have a great story though, first time i ran into one of these fake sales i literally drove to the end of the street and made a right hand turn and found an unlisted garage sale, with guess what? A tote bin FULL of N64 games, console, controllers accessories, etc. All the good ones too mario 64, kart, zeldas, 2 copies of smash etc etc. Paid her asking price of $15 for the whole bin, still one of my favorite garage sale-ing stories!!!!!

[@Sketch3ric]

Trolling could never be bad. Especially if it's funny

[@reshanner]

Pat, please do a segment on the person who screwed you on the games. I'm part of a group on Facebook that finds scammers and blacklists them from collecting groups for toys, games, comics, etc. and we keep an active database of scammers to protect people making purchases through Facebook and other means online.

[@GermanGarageGames]

Sounds like my kind of seller XD

[@skaluv]

Going on a decade ago there was an ad on Craigslist stating that a horse farm closing down and they were giving away everything in their barn/office on a certain day. It was fake and come the advertised day people started showing up. The owners tried to stop people from taking stuff but said that some of the respondents wouldn't take no for an answer and were angry that the owner would rescind this deal so they took stuff. By the end of the ordeal it was figured out that what had happened was the person behind the ad knew the owners had a collection of antique saddles and used the melee as a cover for taking them. It's really scary what some people use Craigslist for.

[@DownSouthPC]

" This is where we've gotten." eBay prices at the flea market sucks when half the games are fakes and they can't even tell. why is this a thing?

[@joelkaplan2157]

This is very common in my area fake posts by resellers

[@jacobyne]

Fighting fire with fire.

[@skabcat242]

I am surprised no one googled the address. One time while browsing craigslist I saw an ad for a yard sale and it happen to be a burger king.

[@Morgil27]

I still remember when I was about 13 or 14, i stumbled upon a garage sale with a bunch on SNES games for like $2 each. The lady running the sale said she got the cartridges from her mother who ran a rental store that went out of business. When she realized how interested I was, she called her mother to arrange something and gave me the address, and my parents took me there later in the day. The lady had literally hundreds of SNES games, and I ended up buying about a dozen of them. They were all good titles, too; ones that I had previously rented a lot.

[@WillyTung]

Too bad you didn't have your own cash to buy her entire stock! :(

[@coorhagon7236]

I have been dealing with this for years. People post fake Craigslist sales to draw people away from the area they intend to go. Way to be like 5 years late to whats going on Chris Kohler.

[@Drawkcabi]

Kind of the opposite here, but reminds me of a really good deal I got after winning a prize. One time I won a Sony camcorder from the bottle cap off a 7Up (This was the 90's). I all ready had a camcorder so when I got my prize I took it to Best Buy and traded it in. For the value of the camera I was able to get a Nintendo 64 along with the games for it, Mario 64, Shadows of the Empire, and South Park. So that's how I got my N64.

[@Malicos]

lol that story had absolutely nothing to do with anything mentioned here, opposite or not. but still good.

[@NightOfTheLiving8bit]

The thing with this too...is that when they made this ad, they literally were standing in this field with their phone (most likely) and made this ad. Because Craigslist pings your location and includes it in the ad, unless you hit the prompt not to.

[@ZefTillDeath8878]

I don' t know about the mobile version of CL, but on the desktop version you can set the address to wherever you want.

[@randygelion]

3 years ago I fell victim to one of these fake yard sale posts. It was advertised on CL as a massive video game yard sale! In the pictures there was stacks of NES and SNES cartridges, possibly 100+ games, a top loader nes, snes system, lots of awesome shit. I couldn't make out all of the games but I'm sure there's some expensive titles in there. So like an idiot, I drove down there and this was really far out of the way. It took an hour to get to the house, the address was real. There were people inside as there were two cars parked in the drive way. It was about 8:30, yes im sure I was late. Nothing was out there. I knocked at the door for a good 30 minutes. Nobody answered. I kept knocking until my knuckles were bloody. Seriously. I didn't drive for an entire hour for nothing, it was also easy to get lost in this area as I'm unfamiliar and it was like driving in a maze. I'm pretty sure it was a troll post. If it were legit, you'd think they would at the very least answer the door and tell me they sold everything. I'm sure those people heard my excessive knocking. Even if it were the wrong address, they still should answer me and say there is no sale here. It makes me wonder if those jokers were actually living inside the house and were laughing their asses off. Another car pulled up and started asking me questions too. He was here for this massive video game yard sale. We talked and this guy actually came from another city and drove 3 hours for this sale. He wasn't happy either. Next time I see an exciting ad full of Nintendo games, I'm going be very cautious. It sucked waking up early and driving for hours in 100 degrees, sweating my ass off for nothing.

[@salvagemonster3612]

There is a reseller on KZbin that has gotten trolled dozens of times by these fakes ads. He even got taken a few.

[@tedlogan5628]

This is actually a common diversion tactic used by other resellers and collectors. Post a fake too good to be true sale on Craigslist to send most of the competition miles out of the way while the poster hits the real sales near by and gets about 1-2 hour head start on everyone else. It sucks but that’s how things go these days.

[@xAngoryx]

Acid was insanely easier to buy than weed in the 90s

[@THAT_SKIBDIKK-TT]

So true.

[@Cacti88]

xAngoryx thats because it was drain-o

[@xAngoryx]

It wasn't me buying it, it was my cousin but I recall sheets of that shit

[@meuchbueno4135]

still is in sf lol $1 hits

[@xAngoryx]

Idk about that mate, I can walk to a vending machine and buy weed

[@JUSXTREME96]

I've done April Fools OfferUp listings, just putting "Old video games, My son had these here and moved out but doesn't want them." (I'm actually too young for kids & dont have any) You wouldn't be surprised how many pawn shop/flea market resellers responded. I know they are resellers. Others caught on, noticing the day, and took the joke well. Mostly a bunch of higher value SNES games I posted for a cheap price. Super Metroid, Pocky & Rocky, etc.

[@juankenon]

unless someone is like a particularly oblivious senior citizen, anyone can check on ebay or amazon and get the FMV of virtually anything within seconds, the golden age has long since past.

[@theindustryexposed]

This happens around my area all the time.

[@TheCheat420]

I'd be willing to bet that the corner pharmacist Ian met was somewhere between Broadway and Genesee on Buffalo's east side.

[@WillyTung]

This is why I always look up the address in Google Maps when a deal sounds too good to be true.

[@InazumaDash]

Wouldn't you call before showing up? I wouldn't want 20 nerds outside my house even if I was selling something.

[@jasonmatteson9909]

Rin why?

[@Malicos]

No one does. But that's where we're heading when people start doing this dumbass stuff.

[@realtime4559]

Time doesn’t heal all wounds!!! So true Pat

[@Color-Theory]

Haven't we all been 16 year-old Ian at some time or another?

[@reefchiefer]

Subcogitate aren't most of us still?

[@575forza]

I go to them all the time. the ones with pictures you really almost cant go to. If they advertise the stuff, its either gone, or over priced. You gotta comb those tags to get the goodies.

[@TheFleaX]

this happens more then you think. A couple years ago there was adds appearing on craigslist in my area for garage sales and one of the items listed with something video game collector's and resellers would look for. say Nintendo with 20 games and people would show up early to the sale and when they opened they had no idea what we where talking about. It turned out a local reseller would copy a real garage sale add and repost it but add video games items to it so his competition would waste their time while he hit as many as he could to get the real stuff. Another time some jerk posted a Video Game trade convention and many people showed up and it was fake. We found out there was a flea market that weekend and we think it was posted to distract us so he could get 1st dibs. Funny thing I found a rare gaming console from a random game store in that area I would have never have found if not for that fake ad. So a bad thing became a good thing for me.

[@dosm4805]

This has happened here too, trying to direct people to a house that was sale up to an hour away. Its a dick move for sure.

[@TravisSelassieSimbawafedha]

Truth Ian ... the late 90's was a strange time.

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

Well, I feel bad for any legit collectors who showed up, but I do applaud the prankster for doing the best he could to target and stick it to the scalpers. I really think the average collector would just be naturally keen enough to check the sat map the moment after reading the ad. Hell, I would check the sat map out of curiosity (to see what kind of house it was), even if I weren't going, but I'm admittedly a weirdo who does weird things. The greedy types, on the other hand, would get all hyped and not even bother. They'd just go straight to plugging the address into a GPS and setting an alarm clock. Then they'd forget about it until the alarm went off, grab the GPS and race over there to try to get there before a line forms or something. Then they'd be so eager and hopeful over the potential scalping that they would wander around and assume the place is just further out from the GPS marker. Then the crowd forms, some people start thinking "the seller will meet us here or something". Then, like you said, the prankster shows up and secretly relishes in the glorious success. I bet he was going around asking "so, you planning to resell, or what?" and sneaking a hash mark onto a little note for every "yes" he got. XD

[@baldridgeroy]

Anything that seems too good to be true is. Nobody is just giving away games for nothing anymore.

[@SmokeBreakWithHuck]

The only troll post I ever did was an "XBox One Prototype" around it's launch and just posted an image of an original Xbox in the Seattle area. Got some hilarious hate mail from that post!

[@topchief1]

If I saw that, I'd never waste my time anyways because that person would've been harassed to oblivion and the stuff would've been long sold before the sale even started

[@WillyTung]

I wish there was video footage of them showing up lol. Like, if I was one of the early people to show up I would have stayed behind to film the people showing up XD

[@DavidRomigJr]

I have seen yards sales like the listing before, and have seen multiple systems with multiple games at yard sales before. My wife once scooped up all a seller had. Plus, I am the type of person who neatly lays out stuff I’m selling any takes meticulous pictures. We are out there, Ian. That said, when it comes to games, I rarely part with my stuff. And I don’t really use Craig’s List. I used it once when looking for a house to rent in the Bay Area. Out of one or two dozen ads, only one seems to have been faked- at least it was a fun two hour bike ride out to the middle of nowhere.

[@chestercopperpot9459]

I got sooo many good finds at yard sales that morning while all my competition was in the field

[@mrwiizard9647]

The listter may have been trying to lure people in to rob them. Anyone showing up would have had some decent cash on them, seeing as most of the stuff are higher priced items. It may have backfired when a group of resellers showed up instead of one easy target?

[@calvinthedestroyer]

One dead giveaway: Now one every sells LEGOs at a garage sale :)

[@TerrorTales4271998]

good aha i thought of doing the same shit cause people in my area think gamecube games are worth 100$ each lmao

[@phelpsboltusa87]

Trolls need to take a long walk off a short pier.

[@wadeadams]

So do resellers

[@fennecfoxfanatic]

I hope you guys will never go bald

[@Lovuschka]

Well, on the bright side there ARE some legit sellers of rares. I remember that one time some guy put the box with video games of his deceased son on sale, Casualty in the Iraq War. So he tried to sell that box of NES games for 24 dollars. After all, what could those old games be worth? It sold for 21,400 dollars. Which was thanks to a small cartridge called Nintendo World Championships 1990. It might at least have been a small consolation for the grieving family.

[@RetroFrito]

What if this was posted by another collector in that area who wanted to keep other collectors busy with a wild goose chase while he/she went around and hit all the Goodwills and Second and Charles?

[@jonnybegood8181]

My town in Canada has a very well known collector in it and his collection is an entire basement full. But he's still out buying up everything just to resell and it really discourages a small collector like me.

[@ShopkeepMike]

Where you from dude? Guelph here

[@jonnybegood8181]

Declaritive I'm in Kitchener/waterloo

[@ShopkeepMike]

Huh he sounds really familiar

[@NeoDragonKnight]

pretty sure you are talking about SeeJayAre. All areas have collectors like that now. You have to learn how they operate and do the same, ie. carefully map your route, and go to the sales early. If he has already hit those sale you have to move to a new area quickly.

[@liamboyle6345]

Grew up in philly, in late 90s. Acid was everywhere, but not easier to get then weed,

[@a1.70]

My advert wasn't actually a troll joke or post. I was abducted by aliens and they took my entire home hence which is why it was a empty field

[@steamedauroraborealis8208]

I feel bad for any old lady going out looking to go to a yardsale that fell for this. That's like 90% of the yardsale market.

[@mshelton222]

The way Pat starts sounds like a horror flick 💀

[@moorhouse760]

Chris Kolher found out about this bc a buddy in my group posted that he went to the sale...he was pretty pissed to say the least.

[@calvinthedestroyer]

Did anyone reverse image the pictures?

[@JohnSmith-zl8rz]

A guy found yesterday stadium events for $5, it seems it's true, not trolling.

[@jeffperteet2327]

That ninja turtle is legit!

[@323GONZALEZ]

I got trolled twice on offer up 😡 over here in los angeles.

[@BawesomeBurf]

Oh those poor resellers that drove out to the middle of nowhere for nothing.

[@linkmaster6486]

This is a trick collectors/gamers use to deal with resellers get to the sales before they do, the only reason this is talked about here is because someone showed up to it, either pat, Ian or this other guy, my money is on Ian since he seems pissed off. Resellers can deal with it, collectors/gamers have to do this because of you!

[@shinhawk]

LinkMaster64 I don’t think Pat and Ian would make the effort to drive or fly from San Diego to San Francisco just for games.

[@linkmaster6486]

Well they do go to cons and stuff so you never know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@shinhawk]

No, I do know. Pat and Ian get paid to attend those conventions, its completely different. They don't even go to flea markets anymore, why would they travel 500 miles for a garage sale?

[@linkmaster6486]

You guys have to remember that owners of gaming stores have resellers on the leash over a 100 miles away for sales such as this. Go watch The Game Chasers episode "City of Scraps: Part 2" for proof of this, they go to sales and completely clean them out. If they wasted their time and gas then good, it's their fault and they deserve it.

[@TerrorTales4271998]

this is gold, id so do this

[@bevrosity]

ian's right about it being way easier in the mid to late 90's to get acid. and the weed was shit back then.

[@fearlessflyer03]

"Scumbag seller of the decade." 😂

[@timmer919hep]

That picture of the turbo stuff should have been a dead giveaway. It looks like the picture of an eBay listing.

[@Cacti88]

Ian the hindsight genius

[@no_one_from_nowhere]

Well I figured out how to get all the game resellers away from the flea market

[@sunnohh]

On phish tour out east the kids would call 10 strips columns and treat columns like hits

[@treismac]

I think we have all trusted some shady street pharmacists who never came back with either our money or product at some time in our more naive days, Ian.

[@JohnSmith-zl8rz]

Everybody!!!!!! is a reseller on this days, everybody hit garage sales looking for games and pay low prices... later they sell online with eBay prices! discounting!!!

[@shinhawk]

Reading the comments, I see its become so cutthroat that people have to make troll listings to divert attention from real deals. It sucks, but that's what happens when resellers and collectors converge in the same place.

[@Lynxan]

I think I'd try for this even if I had reason to not think it's real. I would love to get some of the old hardware I had back then again and play some of the games I wanted to but never could find (I had a TG16, but it was at the end of the system's life and finding games was hard as hell at that point). The prices many want to get now a days is out of what I'm willing to go for so I sit and hope that some day I'll run across a deal like that. They do still happen, I was at a yard sale a while back and got an NES, SNES and about a half dozen games on each for 20 bucks, all in rather bad condition but a great deal.

[@westcoastracingarchives]

Here's the thing, what did all these dupes expect what would happen if there were a group of them wanting to buy the T16? Who would get first dibs? Would they start an on-site auction? I can't imagine that. I assume there would have been a bloodbath over who could get what.

[@liamboyle6345]

If I had a different dime bag for every time a drug dealer beat me, I’d be high

[@TrollbotTB]

Haha got'em!

[@euphoria_7477]

That's hilarious. A bunch of "collectors" thinking they were gonna take advantage of some poor unsuspecting sap lol.

[@wadeadams]

I'd love to troll some of the resellers here in the Augusta,GA area. It's pretty bad around here.

[@cky2kdunn]

Lmfao I always do this shit! I always look up houses for sale in my area and know that people that don’t live their and post ads with crazy stuff with that address

[@ItsToXxy]

It's a dick move, but a hilarious dick move lol. It's a good way to lure scumbag resellers away from the real deal sales.

[@MusicDiscoveryNet]

7:30 - the #CUDrugdcast :D

[@DeRockMedia]

co worker and me lost about 300$ total on a bad drug deal...i was pissed

[@sega32xxx14]

DeRockMedia That's the worst...

[@DeRockMedia]

SeGa32xXx ya...especially finding out my coworker didnt really know the guy...ffs

[@mediaguy4037]

The market needs to crash or drop. Don't see it happening. Maybe if nintendo does a mass-produced re-release of all the systems or something. Prices are absurd now. Have been for years. People who just want the stuff for themselves are priced out. Seen someone selling an NES. They wanted $250 for it. If it was CIB maybe, but the thing was yellowed and sitting for decades.

[@heisensaul5538]

Pat if you talk about the guy who ripped you from that was on the digital press forums, it could be a Retro scumbag seller since this was all the way back in 2006. Honestly dude, I hope you do make that a topic one day, it sounds like it could be interesting :)

[@ChrisLau90]

I love Ian.

[@Rountree1985]

ChrisLau90 samesies

[@fernandgauthier7895]

reseller and game hunter try to contact the seller to get the game before everybody to screw regular people .

[@ShopkeepMike]

I don't care what you say this is fucking hilarious

[@brennanterry5530]

Technically they did take pictures of boxes.

[@zachh63]

lol I do this all the time and have been doing it for years...TG16 is always good for luring resellers away from the good "real" sales

[@wadeadams]

Now that's a hell of an idea. I hate the resellers here......a plan is brewing......

[@JUSXTREME96]

Sorry this is a long post, but I did a fake listing the other day with my childhood SNES games of Super Mario World, All Stars, SF2 Turbo, and Pocky & Rocky. At 7am the next day, I got a text message from a Reseller (that I previously blocked on OfferUp & thought I blocked his number too) who always lowballs me early in the morning and He's been lowballing since last year on any gaming item I post. I pissed him off so badly as we argued for an hour. I had previous on going arguments with him since 2017. He goes on and on saying "resellers are better" than the average person. They're always ten steps ahead of me, and that he could pay others to lowball for him at garage sales early in the morning. I told him I laugh at his prices because they are really high for common games. (I'm talking $45 for Yoshi's Island, $35 for Mario All Stars, $20 for non turbo Street Fighter 2, and so on) He had the nerve to call me unprofessional, saying my games are not clean, etc. On his listings, games have ripped labels, brown, stickers, marker, etc. Then says other resellers talk sh!t about me to him. My history with him is a long story sorry lol. The first time he lowballed me was when I had a lot of 10 extras of SNES games worth about $350, plus NES games worth $80 and he offers $150 for all of it on craigslist, saying he could take it off my hands for that, or I could sit on them for a year. Being an a$$hole to me as well, making a$$hole remarks. I sold them all within the month lol. I actually had no idea he was a reseller until he lowballed me on OfferUp a few months back on 2 SNES Systems, an NES, an N64, and 20 games for all those systems. He offered $200 for all that. Then he gave me his number asking to send more pics. Upon getting it and sending him some collection pictures to trade, I realize it was the same guy from craigslist in the previous lowball offer. Further investigation, I found out he was scammed when going to a ghetto area to sell a Nintendo Switch. Good for his a$$. He posted a listing warning others about the scammer, written in all caps, improper grammer & spelling. It was like reading a run on sentence written by a 5 year old.

[@The90sGamingGuy]

Wow shitty thing to do but hey if this guy did it to get the upper hand at a swap meet or convention kudos to him very great way to keep some bad ass games out of greedy asshole re-sellers.

[@pbailed8007]

I would buy games on craigslist but I don’t want to get Merc’d!

[@christopherbenjamin7820]

Where the bejesus was your PAT NES Epic Power Metal theme song. It gives me the O.

[@QGmonkey64]

It's funny that I know who that TG16 collection belongs to and the guy is all the way up in Canada. I'm pretty sure he has sold off some of the games already after finally willing to break them up and not sell as a fixed set.

[@NickelExpressCycling]

how is that so unbelivable? who says its not there late husbands/wifes? or the late son/daughter? i know its fake but who said its not a thing that Could happen. that they just dont want this "gaming crap"

[@xcllusion]

>chewing sounds in the mic

[@tcjoe7957]

Ian what state did you grow up in? Jw cause acid is still super prevelent up here lol

[@bsimpson2288]

Surprised he didn’t have “vintage RC cars” on there...

[@calvinthedestroyer]

Are those worth anything? I do have somr

[@theswapmeetflea]

When you cook up a bait troll sale, you're just as bad as a Scalper , your getting "real" buyers who are jumping for joy that they finally gonna get the drop on scalpers and getting the deal first . Only to be disappointed, congratulations, you're scumbag. Alot of you in the comments saying , "I've done that before 😂" with confidence, feeling real good about yourself . But why ? It's like those annoying social experiment pranks. Don't be that guy. Be honest with your prices and you will get people to buy from you , easy as that.