{"id":282699,"date":"2021-09-03T17:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/?p=282699"},"modified":"2021-09-03T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:11:54","slug":"retro-games-expensive-enough-without-price-fixing-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jbsgame.com\/retro-games-expensive-enough-without-price-fixing-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro game prices are high enough as is, thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘If we can collaborate together, we can drive up the price to a more reasonable value that is more representative of this title’s rarity’<\/h2>

There’s this impossible-to-ignore threshold when something \u2014 usually a really good or really bad<\/em> tweet \u2014 rolls into our general staff Slack channel and gets so many of us riled up, I feel compelled to post it on the site. Today, it’s this tweet, in which we’re all reminded of precisely how miserable the retro game market can become during a pandemic.<\/p>

This story shared by Matt Paprocki<\/a> reads like fiction, but I’m entirely willing to believe it.<\/p>

Friend got this dead serious message on eBay. The game collecting is market is a catastrophe now. pic.twitter.com\/GvKkBKBmAL<\/a><\/p>

— Matt Paprocki (@Matt_Paprocki) September 2, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>