I'm wondering how effective these things are. Seems to me the only way to shake loose a game from someone's collection is to put up significantly more than market. I mean do sellers even care about want ads? They want the game gone for top dollar at that point anyway.
I have been looking for a decent Judge Dredd for almost two years now, I always miss a nice local example by a day, or an hour, or a dollar, whatever. I finally secure a deal on one and the machine gets destroyed two days before pickup in an electrical storm.
So I get pissed and try a want ad, expecting some miracle. All the ad does is generate inquiries about the destroyed game, so I delete all references (for price and condition) to the destroyed game and the response goes to nothing. So I bump it three, four, five times a day, and keep lessening the quality requirements, increasing the bounty, increasing the driving distance, so I wonder now if these things actually work.
There were two nice local machines that I lost out on last week for $2500-$2700. Now only two are left for high prices and would also require shipping, that's just too much for a Dredd. Those high priced ones have been sitting for a while now. A local retailer claims to have one and I'm considering taking a look at it. Is Dredd really a $5k game now? I had an easier and cheaper time sourcing my Scared Stiff last year.
Thanks for letting me rant...