Fun 'Condition Mismatches'

I was looking at the trading info for FFTA, and saw quite a discrepency:

Game available as (supply):
		Active	Ready(*)	On Hold
	Full Package:	0	0	14
	Disc + Manual:	0	0	5
	Disc Only:	34	31	23
Total offers:		34	31	42
Game requested as (demand):
		Active	Ready(*)	On Hold
	Full Package:	15	8	22
	Disc + Manual:	1	0	1
	Disc Only:	5	0	16
Total requests:		21	8	39

Just wondering if anyone else has seen other games with tons of sellers and tons of requesters, but none inn matching condition?

I think this is the point as a gamer where you go...you know...I really don't feel like waiting for "full package" and I'll take the disc only so I can actually play the game that I want to play.

lessthanjizzle:

I think this is the point as a gamer where you go...you know...I really don't feel like waiting for "full package" and I'll take the disc only so I can actually play the game that I want to play.

I think of retrade value though. It would be harder to get rid of the disc only.

 

Fun fact: only 147 of the 486 GBA games now available have a full package copy up for trade, and among those it looks like there's about a 6:1 ratio of disc + manual / disc only to full package.

This makes sense due to the relative age of these games, and the fact that nobody ever saved the crappy cardboard boxes

I already have FFTA, but the game info page came up on the 'unread' list so I headed there out of curiousity.   It made me think that almost all of my GBA games are either cart-only or cart & manual ...

i dont understand why people need the gba box anyway.

just play the game without the box.

summer_star:

i dont understand why people need the gba box anyway.

just play the game without the box.

The same could be said for every game. People want boxes for collecting purposes.

I've taken advantage of those mismatches a couple of times. I've only had a hard time getting rid of one game and there is a vendor on Ebay that sells disc cases and manuals for games for $3-4. I used that person and traded my game. I also used them to replace the instruction manual for GRAW 2 that my daughter destroyed.

Sometimes requesting the full package is more about potecting the game than collecting. Granted, GBA games are in hard plastic cartridges. However, its been a long time since anyone but Nintendo used those.

Since most PC games come in some kind of DVD case I always request the full package. I'd like to keep the thing in good condition long enough to play it. I don't understand why anyone would want a $50 game CD without the case.

I have to wonder about the people who complain about putting the CD in the drive as part of the copy protection. Are there CD drives that cheap that it's damaging the disc or are they not storing the game in a safe place when they are not playing the game?

xtowelyx:

summer_star:

i dont understand why people need the gba box anyway.

just play the game without the box.

The same could be said for every game. People want boxes for collecting purposes.

Well not all people, but yes, there must be more collectors on this site than I thought.

And it's strange, I consider myself to fall under the category of a casual collector (yet still an active gamer) who prefers full package for everything but games that come in cardboard boxes.  To me it's almost natural to expect cartridge games as cartridge only.

I wish more people who aren't collectors would accept disc only though.  And with the goozex guarantee they shouldn't be worried about the game getting damaged in transit.

I think the biggest thing is that people feel they are getting ripped off paying the same amount of points for disc only as they would full package.  They'd just rather wait and for games they really want, they just buy in the store.  Since goozex is a patience game, most people on here are good at being patient and therefore just choose full package for all their games because they'd rather get it all for the same price they'd pay for just the game disc.

I think someone has suggested in the past to lower disc only games by 50 points or something like that, but there was a reason people shot that suggestion down which isn't coming to mind at the moment.

Anyway, as for the OP, I haven't noticed any matching discrepancies that I can think of lately.

dtp11:

And it's strange, I consider myself to fall under the category of a casual collector (yet still an active gamer) who prefers full package for everything but games that come in cardboard boxes.  To me it's almost natural to expect cartridge games as cartridge only.

Same here, those cardboard boxes are a little difficult to keep in good shape. I don't think I've ever bought a GBA game in a box unless it was brand new.