A retro video game collector recently made a console trade for the new special editionThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the KingdomNintendo Switch system that seems appalling to other collectors.Nintendo is selling the limited edition OLED model of its consolefor $359 right now.Retro video game collecting has been in a strange, if not desperate place in recent years. The market has been booming, which has been great for people wanting to sell off their collections as they offload games and consoles for double or more what they paid originally, but it’s simultaneously a nightmare for anyone trying to buy anything retro right now. Amidst all of this retro hype, one collector has been going viral for a trade that many on the internet aren’t finding particularly fair.RELATED:Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 1.1.2 Update Fixes Fan-Favorite ExploitThe viral post comes via a store called Hey Bro Video Games in Houston, Texas. The store recently posted a video to its own social media page to talk about a customer, Quincy, who traded in a number of vintage video game items for $700 and the Nintendo SwitchTears of the Kingdomspecial edition console. The video was then reposted on Twitter with users criticizing the trade as being ludicrously unfair given the current resale value of the items traded in by Quincy.
The main item social media onlookers obsessed over was the limited Pikachu edition Nintendo 64, which is currently reselling for upwards of $800-900 if it’s complete in the box. Combine that with the original Nintendo Entertainment System,Super Mario Kart,Super Mario 64,Goldeneye 007,Super Mario All-Stars, andMario Kart 64all complete in the box, and it’s clear that this guy brought a lot of value into the store that day. A lot of the games he traded in are also some ofthe best games currently available with Nintendo Switch Online.
It may seem at first glance that Quincy got absolutely ripped off by the store in Houston, then, but actually looking into the value of all the items combined makes it seem like a pretty fair trade. He got a console worth $360 plus $700 cash, so in pure value, he got close to $1100 total. Combining the resale value of all of Quincy’s items using various retro price charting websites shows that, at most, he could have gotten $1300-1400 for all of those items. So maybe Quincy could have gotten more if he had gone the route of selling on eBay, but those calling it a total rip-off are perhaps overexaggerating quite a bit.
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