Cash Converters Purposly Selling Fake Retro Games?

LxXTheSteveXx on 17/01/2017 - 13:08

Hello, I am new here
As the title suggests, recently I have been in the retro games market, and cash converters is the only place I can find that sells retro games.
But recently I have been noticing fake games appearing at the cash converters I have been going to, the biggest offender being Pokemon games.
I usually know when they are fake considering the slight differences to the real cartridges, but it seems like Cash Converters also know that these are fake games. How do I know this you may ask, Well, usually the real games god for around the $50 mark whereas the "fake" games are usually going for $28 - $30.
I'm not saying what Locations are selling fake games, because there are probably more around, but as a collector, this hurts to see people buying these fake games expecting the real deal.
I'm sure this has been going on for years, considering the high popularity of retro games considering that they are no longer available.
In saying all of this, I still really like Cash Converters and buy things from there all the time, but I do not like the dishonesty of them selling fake games to unaware customers

So, What should you do?
If you are in the market for retro games, I'd suggest researching what the differences are between real and fake games / cartridges are (There are lots of videos out there on YouTube and google that should help you out)
If you don't care about weigher a game is real or fake, the by all means, completely disregard what I have said.
Just remember, if a games price seems too good to be real, it is worth checking beforehand just in case.
Worse comes to worse, you can always take it back within the time period they give you.
Has anyone noticed this as well, leave a comment if you have

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Comments

  • lupiter on 17/01/2017 - 14:07

    I've bought fakes from EB Games and CEX, haven't bought much from CC. I'm not surprised it's on the rise, getting old games in good nick can be hard. There were fakes even in the 90s.

    • xXTheSteveXx on 17/01/2017 - 14:10

      I don't doubt there were fakes in the 90's, but it's a shame.
      I was talking with one of the staff members a while ago who even confirmed without specifically saying that most of the Pokemon games on GBA there weren't real.

    • [Deactivated] on 18/01/2017 - 05:58

      There waa even bootlegs of arcade machines back in the 70s and 80s.

      The biggest hit was pacman which to tell if the arcade machine was an original you have to look at the serial numbers on the pcbs, thats how good the bootleg versions of arcade machines where back then.

  • mskeggs on 17/01/2017 - 14:11

    Look on ebay or aliexpress and you will see a bunch of knock off pokemon carts for GBC and GBA starting at about $3.
    I imagine this is the source.
    e.g.
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pokemon-Game-Card-Game-Boy-Color-for…

    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pokemon-Gold-Ruby-Red-GBA-NDS-NDSL-G…

    I guess cash converters is knowledgeable enough to tell they are not collectors versions, hence the cheaper price. If you are a 20yro wanting to play old pokemon games, they might not care if the cartridge is actually from 1997 or whatever.
    I have seen (and purchased) some "33 in 1" pirate carts like those on offer in Asia in the 1990s. Since they are genuinely aged/vintage, does that make them collectible ;-)

    So in summary, I think Cash Converters doesn't care about the IP issue, and they aren't in the business of selling authenticated collectibles, so I don't think they are trying to mislead or do something wrong. If you are seeking collectable edition cartridges, you need to take responsibility for ensuring you buy those.

    • xXTheSteveXx on 17/01/2017 - 14:47

      I understand what you are saying, this is just more of a warning to those people who didn't know about the fakes.

  • jerjergege on 17/01/2017 - 14:31

    I bought Pokemon Leaf green and Pokemon Sapphire from cash converters, i'm a collector and i had a set of screwdrivers in the car, so i brought them with me and checked out the chip and all easy to spot fakes, the clerks probably didn't know it was a fake at the time of receiving it.

    • xXTheSteveXx on 17/01/2017 - 14:50

      I understand that some of the stores won't understand that the games are fake, but I'm talking about the ones who can tell that the games are fake and sell it at a lower price, at least they aren't making us pay the same price for the fakes compared to the real copies

  • danb on 17/01/2017 - 14:57

    They probably just dont know. Some of those games are easy to spot if you know what they should look like. Otherwise turn it upside down and look past the pins and on the board you should see Nintendo printed on it, if not then its a fake

    • xXTheSteveXx on 17/01/2017 - 15:21

      I'm sure some of the games don't look fake, but I'm also sure that some staff members know how to spot fakes.
      The one main time that you could easily tell the fake was when they had two boxed copies of the same game, one of them was real and cost ~$150, while the other box looked fake and tried too hard, especially the Gameboy Advance logo on the box was completely different, and that game cost ~$60.
      Both of these boxes were right next to each other and you could tell at least one of them wasn't real, but sometimes human error can occur, and sometimes the person bringing in the game couldn't tell if the game was real or fake.
      It is mostly a game of trust.

  • CyberMurning on 17/01/2017 - 15:07

    so the fake game isnt working at all or what? im confuse

    • xXTheSteveXx on 17/01/2017 - 15:12

      The fake games still should work, it's just at least for Pokemon, some of the games can't save or transfer to later games in the series.
      But it is also the thing of not being genuine, and collectors like me usually like the games to be genuine.

  • godofpizza on 17/01/2017 - 16:03

    it's also an issue with fake DS games being sold by CC on the cheap.

    anyway CC have a good returns policy, but if it was a yard sale or flea market it best to do you research or get burnt.

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