Geeks and Gamers
February 8, 2006 | 3 Comments
To my great happiness, Geeks and Gamers opened in Meredith, NH this January. This is a store devoted to comics and gaming. I’m not huge into the gaming culture, but finally having a well stocked comic store near me is just fantastic!
The owner is friendly and happy to see new customers. He was quick to offer setting up a pull list for me, which I initially denied, but now have every intention of going back and setting up.
My only criticism would be the prices on back issues, but that is pretty much a universal complaint. Ebay can always outperform what comic stores hold as stock.
While there I bought Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk #1, Ultimate Extinction #1, Astonishing X-Men Saga #1, and a new box for my rapidly expanding collection. Reviews on what I bought will be here pending my completion of the series.
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Video Game Auctions
October 4, 2005 | 2 Comments
As most gamers know, you end up buying a lot of games for consoles that in the long term you stop playing. This is natural and common. In general, your choices were to either hold on to these older games or sell them back for real cheap to someone like EB Games or GameStop. Of course EBGames and GameStop would then just mark the game way up and throw it back on the shelf. This always bothered me because the next gamer would come along and pay an unreasonable price. So, my solution has always been to just hold on to games, sharing them with friends who wanted to try them out and eventually handing them down to my classic game collector friend, Tom.
Now there is a better solution: Game Swap Zone.
Game Swap Zone is basically an EBay for gamers. Prices there are set by gamers with minimal markup. Finally a solution I can support, a solution that keeps game costs down for all gamers.
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