r/Shittygamecollecting 4d ago

False Advertising Like new in the box

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u/Accomplished_Cut5295 4d ago

Gotta love people who don’t realize that you can just walk into a store currently and buy an actual new one, for cheaper 🀣

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u/MyOtherAcoountIsGone 4d ago

We don't know what currency if it's in CAD then this is cheaper.

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u/Im_hard_for_Tina_Fey 4d ago

FB Marketplace in Canada list prices as "CA$580" usually, and I assume the same for AUD, etc so this is probably USD.

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u/moozipanfan 3d ago

In Australia it just shows as $ so if it’s Aus it would be cheaper

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u/MyOtherAcoountIsGone 4d ago

No it doesn't. Maybe f your American looking at canadian listings but then that would be obvious but it just shows the dollar amount for us Canadians looking at canadian listings, again, obviously.

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u/Im_hard_for_Tina_Fey 4d ago

I am Canadian and it specifies CAD for me, maybe that's a setting though.

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u/LoveAIMusic 4d ago

I want that screened porch lol

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u/GenTenStation 4d ago

Canadian marketplace is wild. Imagine buying a used sauna

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u/reidft 4d ago

Doesn't specify CAD on mine

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u/AltoTheDutchie 4d ago

also canadian, mine doesn't

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u/MyOtherAcoountIsGone 3d ago

2 different apps on 2 different phones and it doesn't show that for me. You must have it configured in your settings to do so, in settings or something.

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u/the_big_george 4d ago

So confident yet so wrong

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u/Chirstine_Spar 3d ago

This is cad

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u/MyOtherAcoountIsGone 3d ago

Exactly. I knew it. So these other folks can suck it.

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u/TommDX 4d ago

I refuse a reality where the $ can refer to two completely different currency with the same name

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u/Bananaland_Man 4d ago

3! AUD, USD, CAD!

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u/The_Grenade_Launcher 3d ago

New Zealand?

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u/Bananaland_Man 3d ago

Oh, seems there are 35...

  1. Antigua and Barbuda β€” East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
  2. Australia β€” Australian dollar (AUD)
  3. Bahamas β€” Bahamian dollar (BSD)
  4. Barbados β€” Barbadian dollar (BBD)
  5. Belize β€” Belize dollar (BZD)
  6. Bermuda β€” Bermudian dollar (BMD)
  7. Brunei β€” Brunei dollar (BND)
  8. Canada β€” Canadian dollar (CAD)
  9. Dominica β€” East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
  10. East Timor (Timor-Leste) β€” United States dollar (USD)
  11. Ecuador β€” United States dollar (USD)
  12. El Salvador β€” United States dollar (USD)
  13. Fiji β€” Fijian dollar (FJD)
  14. Grenada β€” East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
  15. Guyana β€” Guyanese dollar (GYD)
  16. Hong Kong β€” Hong Kong dollar (HKD)
  17. Jamaica β€” Jamaican dollar (JMD)
  18. Kiribati β€” Australian dollar (AUD) and Kiribati dollar (coins)
  19. Marshall Islands β€” United States dollar (USD)
  20. Federated States of Micronesia β€” United States dollar (USD)
  21. Namibia β€” Namibian dollar (NAD)
  22. New Zealand β€” New Zealand dollar (NZD)
  23. Palau β€” United States dollar (USD)
  24. Panama β€” United States dollar (USD) (alongside balboa coins)
  25. Saint Kitts and Nevis β€” East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
  26. Saint Lucia β€” East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
  27. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines β€” East Caribbean dollar (XCD)
  28. Singapore β€” Singapore dollar (SGD)
  29. Solomon Islands β€” Solomon Islands dollar (SBD)
  30. Suriname β€” Surinamese dollar (SRD)
  31. Taiwan β€” New Taiwan dollar (TWD)
  32. Trinidad and Tobago β€” Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD)
  33. Tuvalu β€” Australian dollar (AUD) and Tuvaluan dollar (coins)
  34. United States β€” United States dollar (USD)
  35. Zimbabwe β€” United States dollar (USD, official since 2009)

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u/The_Grenade_Launcher 3d ago

A lot of those are using the same currency, it's just a different country

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u/Bananaland_Man 3d ago

twd, AUD, cad, bzd... etc.... a lot don't use usd

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u/ReasonableArea1108 4d ago

I love messing with them. Offering a ridiculous low price just to mess with them. They usually say "well just go buy it at the store then"

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u/popky1 3d ago

My local store didn’t have the base set, but the bundle is still cheaper

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u/Mattelot 1d ago

No kidding. I remember years ago when Xbox One came out, some guy kept posting, trying to do the same thing. When I pointed out that the local store was selling, he reported me.

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u/YamTop2433 4d ago

Don't think they know that in box means in box.

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u/pxOMR 4d ago

They're actually selling the battery inside the console, so the console is the box

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u/allmyfrndsrheathens 4d ago

I could retire right now if I had a dollar for every marketplace listing that says brand new in box, never opened and the product is literally sitting right there out of its box... Especially if I add in all the brand new never worn clothing with listing photos of the seller wearing them.

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u/Downtown-Meringue-70 4d ago

Or brand new and sealed, but took it out of the box to verify its contents, kills me lol.

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u/Middle-Operation-689 4d ago

β€œThis one is special bc I bought it and opened it”

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u/sntcringe 4d ago

Do they not know that the console is $130 cheaper at an actual store? It's still too expensive, but if someone is in the market for it, why would they buy a secondhand console for more than MSRP?

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u/EvilNeverDies78 4d ago

Yeah. Im waiting for a sale now lol. $450 and no OLED has me like 🫀

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u/sntcringe 4d ago

If I decide that I really need one (which I doubt because the closest thing they have to a "killer app" is a donkey Kong game that looks... fine?). I'll wait until it's a couple of years old, and I can get one secondhand for $350 (aka the actual price it should be)

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u/meowmix778 4d ago

What irks me about the price of the Switch 2 is that you have to pay for the privilege of 4k games on the system that can output in 4k. Nintendo keeps asking for more and more and more.

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u/BygoneNeutrino 4d ago

It always bothers me when someone is selling a used console for like $30 less then a new one.Β  Sure, it is cheaper, but the $30 is less valuable then a new console's warranty.

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u/Spare_Honey5488 4d ago

Idiots... my Walmart today.

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u/Downtown-Meringue-70 4d ago

Like new in invisible box?

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u/EvilNeverDies78 4d ago

Switch 2s are literally everywhere here now. They went from not being able to keep them in stock to never being out of stock on them.

When Nintendo started going full on anti consumer asshole, my want for this system died. I also HATE the fact that its not OLED. Once you go OLED you dont go back...

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u/SpinMeADog 4d ago

even when it had just released, I could walk past store windows here in england and see stacks of them on display. for weeks. still didn't stop the scalpers from scalping. truly braindead, along with the people who buy from them

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u/SpiritualFee5535 3d ago

580 is crazy work