“I’m gonna sell my stuff for half of its value just so I can buy the same things for much high prices” - smart guy

I’m 1 minute in and I can tell you he’s going to regret it. Let’s sell now at 50% value to get it back later when it’s harder to get for more than market is now. Yeah ok

$5400?! Man that is a HUGE come up for Rick… I really hope after the camera turned off he said “nvm, I’ll keep it all.”

Dude you will regret this so much! I sold my entire full collection of Nintendo power magazines a few years back and totally regret it now. Yes I am rebuying them back now for a way higher price, but there is something missing, they were not mine. My labels are not there, the condition is nowhere’s near the condition I had mine in. I feel the nostalgic feeling is missing.

Wow this guy seems just as awesome as his collection!

Love your channel! You can feel the excitement and enthusiasm that games and collecting brings.

I've been watching Retro Rick for a while, and I really enjoy his videos hunting for deals at flea markets and such, but these new videos just break my heart. I recently sold my childhood mint CIB copies of Pokémon red, blue, yellow, silver, gold and, crystal for around $500 each to a serious collector. I know they will be treasured. I used the money to pay some bills and buy other retro games and collectables that will give me more joy since I know that I'll never be picking up a Gameboy again to play Pokemon. With that being said, I find it incredibly hard to believe that all of these items added up are only worth around $10,000. Complete in box retro systems go for hundreds especially in such good condition. The same can be said for CIB games. It seems like Retro Rick has now become a part of the dark side of retro collecting, the mark-up reseller. I can understand that he's running a business, and in order to make money you need to lowball the people coming in who are selling items. There's just no other way to do it as your profit is entirely dependent on how much you pay for the stock that you sell. The thing that gets me is that Rick would never pay these prices himself for those games if he went into another shop that was selling them for the same price. Sad.

Rick just throwing the boxes around makes me nauseous haha 😂

Great collection! Your store is Incredibly fortunate to receive such an awesome collection at that price point. However, i think all of us watching this video knows, to rebuild that collection again, its going to cost him triple than what he originally paid for it.

Amazing. It’s always good to give it to someone who appreciates the value. And retro Rick is the one. Blessings

Hell of a collection!!!!! Great buy Retro!!! Great video as always!!!

Just wanted to say that giving 50-60% of market value is pretty good for a game store. Both retro game stores here give you around 30%.

If you ever have to shut the doors for good, you can just turn the place into a museum.

So the whole collection was a bit under 10K, ya know i would actually of thought it would of been more then that, but i forget sometimes a valuable retro game is like 60 - 80 bucks and then super rare is like 150ish, retro games have gone up in price but compared to some other hobbies its still relatively cheap. There is much more then 10,000 dollars worth of entertainment there.

He's going to regret trading all these games in. He's going to want to start over with his daughter but by then the games he traded in especially the Pokemon ones will be 3 to 4 times what he originally paid for them.

5400 seemed like less that 50% of just the items I seen lol

That was a 15-20k collection easily, dude got ripped off

Gonna be a sad day when his kid is like " I don't like game collecting dad" lol I'm kidding

I don't think I could ever get rid of everything I would have to keep something in my collection lol

At triple the price he can do it again. Good luck. On the other hand, being a Dad and commiting to collect with your kids is an honorable thing. Its just way more expensive.

Selling this all off one by one is a huge grind, not to mention a decent chunk goes to Ebay anyway, so it's not a bad deal.

Insane collection, can't believe he just traded all that in! He might end up regretting it later.

So love your store videos, Rick, I hope it is doing very well for you. Great video.

Video game collecting is addicting, man. He’ll want it all back in a year. That’s what happened to me when I traded all my stuff in. Regretted it not soon after because it just felt like a part of me was missing.

I’m glad you said the price. That was an awesome collection. Cool that both parties got a great deal.

Man thats insane! That collection is worth wayyyyyy more than 10k

If you aren’t hurting for money…keep the collection!

Dang what a cool dude with a great collection. Hope he was happy with the deal

“ I couldn’t pay him fast enough” yeah before he comes to his senses

I would never get rid of my collection at all lol, I'd love to have as much stuff as he had! haha

Retro friends and business partners! Great Dads and memory makers! So awesome! Pokemon stuuuff!

Should've 100% kept the rarer retro items & re-bought the more common items. The Gameboy & DS Pokemon Boxed Collection was probably worth around $2,500-$3,000+ in itself especially for the condition it was all in. Kind of tough to see a collection to this degree sell for $5,400 with the condition everything was in & nostalgia being one of the stronger driving forces for investments.

Wow, great episode! Thanks for sharing 💯

Most insane one yet. Dang. You getting this store has got to be a blessing and a curse. Haha

Dude looks like Steve-O if he had never done drugs. lmao Awesome collection!

he's gonna be paying so much more for that collection thats for sure lol

what an awesome haul. these videos are so rad

Great collection. Makes me want a game store to get these amazing trade-ins at great prices.

Damn this guy had a ridiculous collection. On top of that the condition of these items is immaculate. I don’t understand why would you sell it for a fraction of a price and say you are gonna try to buy it down the road. The items are already scarce and only going up in value. Unless the market tanks you will be a genius for letting this go now. Great content as always Retro. Love seeing content like this. People have some crazy collections

The very end the look he had was like, you ain’t ever gettin this shit back again it’s mine lol

This reminds me of Tyler Esposito collecting games with his Dad back in the day. His Dad passed away in 2007. He sold his collection in 2018 (a decade after that). Tyler now collects games with his daughter Hallie (she’s about 10 years old).

Dude… it actually hurt to watch you sell that collection 😅 man, there is some nice stuff in there.

I couldn't sell off collectables thinking "oh I'll just buy this stuff again later".

All of the people saying he’ll regret it doesn’t realize this dude already gets it. Memories spent with his child is better than fawning over his collection.

when this costumer showing his retro and Modern things to Rick and Rick act like a little kid in a candy store

I have a 3 year old son. I would def not sell my entire collection, just to build it back. What my son and I do is add to the collection together now. Selling it just to track it all down again seems a bit crazy and very costly. I bet it will be an instant regret.

I sold my huge retro collection to a local shop a couple years back. It hurt my soul for awhile 😂 then I got into pc gaming partnered with my steam deck & I just emulate everything. Literally everything in the palm of my hand now.

This is legit the best content on KZfaq lol

I would cry having to sell those... but they end up in very good hands

Uffff!!! That's tough , dope collection forsure

Dang speechless great collectable stuff in package still in great condition

"If he did it once he can do it again".(haha lol 😆)

What an awesome collection. Good price too!

Damn! That’s a steal, he’s definitely going to regret this decision

Love these type of videos Rick 👍🏻 so cool to watch them old jews just come knocking on your doors. Please keep them vids with retro sellers going. Love your content so much love❤

007 music playing in the background during negotiations! 👍🏽

dude is gonna have a remorseful ride home

That guy is going to watch this back with his daughter and be like “damn daughter, I wish I never sold any of that. I sold so cheap too!”

This makes me incredibly happy to see.

That boy done lost his mind :0

When you can tell the thrill of the hunt is the biggest reason you collect. I totally get wanting to do that with your kids. I would have saved a few of those rare pieces though

Always sad to see to a passionate collector having to sell off their collection I've had to sell my collection many times it sucks. Good luck trying to buy it back it can be done but will takes a lot of time of reselling to not break the bank.

A shop where everything is mint or sealed that is traded in. No scrunched up boxes, or ripped labels. Everything glitters like gold lol.

My goodness! All the good Nintendo stuffs. I can dig in some Pokemon games that I don’t have..

Being a game collector as well.. watching this just made me want to cry.. I have way more stuff then what that dude has and I can't imagine me ever selling all my stuff.

57 percent is a insanely good trade rate most stores only do at Max 30 percent wish my locals did that.

Good channel m8 enjoyed the video looks a amazing store amazing collection he was happy with the price thats the main thing I've got gell of a lot of Retro items like figures in boxes and the most things I collect is the 80s and 90s hand held games ive got about 109 hand helds now very hard to get now days a lot of them are one or 2 boxed mint as well took me about 3 years to collect them up ide neaver sell my retro games to hard to get most of them now days ive got 2 different tomy tromics games that you look though boxed I payed 1 pound for 1 of them and 1.60 pence for the other from a charity shop years a go ive got the saga game gear good condition paid 20 pound for that years a go to and the original game boy in the carry case with loads of games and magnifier glass only cost me 20 pound as well years a go it goes on and on matey ok 👍

dude needs to keep some of it lol, pls make him

So I saw his shop was shipping, is there an online store somewhere?

I think Rick should have all the items he deals with in store put back for sale in store. Otherwise his customers will never get the really cool rare stuff if he just keeps it in his collection.

that's a lot of cleeean stuff...good luck finding it again

The fact that he gave Leaf Green to a customer for free was really nice of him ❤️. Pretty sure the customer was a kid too.

Rick one year later.. "best i can do is one plush"

Amazing collection. I would pay 60-75% value on easy flips, but I understand he has a brick and mortar store.

love your channel makes me want my own store

Anyone else have the feeling he is going to start doing the whole "rust valley" thing and be the guy that buys alot more then he sells, then is hesitant to sell anything lol.

The shop has some crazy stuff that's for sure

Amazing collection but the idea of recollecting when his daughter is old enough while sounds cool I fear he’s going to be paying triple the price to get some of those gems back

He's gonna regret it soon. All that stuff is gonna be super expensive(already is).

I sold everything to get through Covid. Every Pokémon game with working original save batteries (files from when I was a kid), and I had the cleanest used GBA and SP that I've ever seen. Most of the stuff I let go of I don't regret in the least bit, but clean gameboys and the original R/B/Y games were a mistake. I hope he finds them again!

Always waiting for a video update regarding the game shop. Its addictive.

he got swindled. what a fool

Chase after right price wants Pokémon

I love to see God blessing you continuously for your generosity and hard work.

I always got into each console later in its life for price. I remember getting Pokémon yellow and upgrading to a game boy color then n64 Pokémon stadium

If you can get 50-60% of a return on a trade, that is a killer deal, when factoring in the hassle of selling on eBay, 15% eBay fees, and of course now getting taxed on anything past $600 in yearly sales. As others have said, I'm sure this was more of a friends deal - I doubt someone without connections is getting this kind of a value just walking into a game store.

Impressive collection trade in ...and video

Wow Thats a great Collection

I would of never sold that stuff.... What a SOLID collection!! He is probably gonna end up regretting some of those trades... What an awesome collection!!!!!

This man will regret the decision he made this day for the rest of his life!

Is there any way to order from the Store online.

Do you ever sell? How do you support everyone? Ebay?

5000 for all of that is insane, literally just robbery at that point

Awesome video man 😎!

He crazy, amazing collection tho.

N64 artwork is just amazing for the time

Can we get a full video on this collection.

WOWWWWWWWW!! 57 RACKS !!!!! By Far one of the best collections I've seen. Lots of time and dedication put into that one. - OM in California,

Typical purchasing shouldn't go above 30-35% of market value for used/thrift/pawnshop video game type purchases. It's really cool to see you paying 50% of market value. I'm not sure that's sustainable over a larger scale with more franchises but it's definitely honest business and keeps customers happy. With that said, it's a little inside baseball and I would never reveal my buy/sell margins as you do. A sale is a sale. If both parties agree on a price it's a deal. Really cool to see this KZfaq channel and you have a beautiful store. I'm quite surprised to see you have only 42.4k sub. With your personality, the look of the store and the overall good nature of the content I'm convinced your subs should be between 300-500k. You should get in touch with a social media specialist and have them cut and curate the videos so add a little more virility to them and real make them pop and get those subs where they should be :)

this game store looks better then my local retro game trader! i wish i lived near it