Gamer Girls

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkVDlluj4f4

Without even watching the video, here’s my response: don’t fucking buy the game.  It’s that easy.

This is a woman with no money, no class, who goes to “car boot sales” (flea markets) and haggles with the homeless people who are selling shit for already really low prices.  Old magazines were five for £5 and she said, “I’ll give you £3”.  Something like this.  I don’t remember the exact prices.  A pound a magazine was too much for you?  You really need that £2 savings?

She lives in the smallest house I’ve ever seen in my life with one of the largest American women I’ve ever seen in my life.  If you’re that impoverished, just don’t buy this shit.  You don’t need any of it.  It’s trash.  You’re not going to make money from any of this.  Just go get a job.  That’s how you make money.  Everything has to be a grift with these “Youtubers”.  

2:00 – God this accent.  Just get on with it.  She’s been droning on forever in her fucking car.

2:15 – Okay, let’s try to cut through the crap.  She’s showing the display cabinet of this CEX store.  CEX is a used…goods store.  I think it’s like a pawn shop.  I’ve never been to one.  

Most of the games have prices tags of like £20-25.  Conker’s Bad Fur Day is £250.

Let me check Ebay.

First one I found that matches what this store is selling is going for £280.  It’s a boxed copy of the PAL version of the game.  

Here’s one for £210.  Here’s another one for £280.  I think that that’s it.  So £250 seems about average.

Okay, so video over, right?  The store is selling it for £30 LESS than Ebay.  What the fuck is the problem?

3:00 – So now she’s going to compare the prices of these games to Ebay prices.  As I’ve just done above.  But haven’t we all learned by now that things tend to cost more in the shops?  There’s overhead with running a shop.  You have to pay the rent and the salaries of the employees and there’s profit to be had.  In spite of this, as I’ve shown, the prices on Ebay for this game were HIGHER than in the store.

If she knows about Ebay and she’s not happy with the prices at CEX, just go on Ebay.  It’s not difficult.  

3:45 – She’s showing the Ebay prices for this game and they’re higher than in this store.  One is £285 and another is £300.  So what the fuck is the point of this video?

4:15 – She says that the average Ebay price for Conker’s Bad Fur Day is £245.  As a reminder, it was £250 in this store.

What are we doing?  She says that the shops are basing their prices on Ebay.  She’s outraged by this.  Why?  These are the fucking prices.  These are the market prices.  These are listings for sold games.  

If the store priced the game at £200, some asshole is going to buy it and go straight to Ebay to sell it.  So why would the store do that?

And the store has access to Ebay.  Why wouldn’t they just sell it on Ebay for £245?  

This makes no fucking sense whatsoever.  This woman is a complete fucking moron.  She’s outraged that a store is selling games for the same price OR LESS than on Ebay.  She thinks that the prices should be even lower.  How does she possibly come to this conclusion?

4:30 – Now she’s talking about a Metroid game.  The average Ebay price is £72.  The copy in the store is being sold for £70.  She’s outraged by this.  It doesn’t make any fucking sense.

4:45 – A Pokemon game is averaging £147 on Ebay and the one in the store is £140.  She can’t understand the price gouging.  

I’m sorry.  I have to stop the video.  This woman’s entire premise MAKES NO SENSE.  She’s saying that somebody at the store is using Ebay to determine the prices.  Okay.  Fine.  Who cares?  That’s what they should be doing.  Her outrage doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.  Also, every fucking game in the store was LESS than the Ebay price.

– “From what I’ve spoken to CEX staff – many of their stores are Franchises – independently owned – but they get told what prices to set. They also change their prices every single day – so if they’re the same as ebay or they’re using ebay as a guide – I wouldn’t say that’s shady – they’re just using the average market value for that item. They’ll probably be different again next week.”

Yeah.  I mean…how can she be this stupid?

– “I don’t see the problem with them using eBay prices tbh? There’re are thousands of retro games and how else would they be able to come up with individual prices for them all? Specialist stores are usually run by enthusiasts who will have their finger on the pulse but you can’t expect a chain like CeX to have the same knowledge, especially when they also sell all kinds of tech and media. Sometimes it means their stuff is overpriced, if a game has had a recent peak but then dropped. But if a game is rising in value then it can often stay underpriced in CeX, so it goes both ways.Common titles are normally very fair. I saw quite a few things as you were panning through the Leeds display that I would have happily picked up. Also, if there was a big disparity between them and eBay then you’d just have loads of scalper types buying all their stock and reselling.”

Here’s another guy who’s completely baffled by this video.

Shockingly stupid video.  And I’ve seen the entire Erin Plays videography.