Folks the Whatnot stream has been moved to Wednesday the 9th at 3:00 EST! Here’s the link! www.whatnot.com/live/63c65a1d-8426-4076-91fa-721d26eefe3b?app=ios&invitedBy=phoenixresale

@owenreinartz9352

Жыл бұрын

I was about to say, this video came out an hour ago and it’s the 8th…

@thedadvocate6724

Жыл бұрын

Who won the Pokemon Arceus from the last episode?

@tritter82

Жыл бұрын

I feel in business as long as both parties are pleased with the amount they both win.

@rogermendez7266

Жыл бұрын

Jerk friend 🤣

@zaksgaming7435

Жыл бұрын

We are going Skylanders hunting if u don’t no about that you probably never played Skylanders

Watch me “support my friend’s business” by not paying asking price on a single of his items! What a guy!

@Althazarcrts

Жыл бұрын

Right?

@rafaelgarcia3932

Жыл бұрын

But spending $2,600 on a single purchase which is really good if you have a lot of inventory

@WilliamKliskey

Жыл бұрын

Weird concept, his friend can say no

@Beachsphinx

Жыл бұрын

@@rafaelgarcia3932 that’s true.

@Beachsphinx

Жыл бұрын

@@WilliamKliskey he probably would have if the guy wasn’t recording him lol weird concept

“Hm let me just lowball everything I want to resell even though this guy just opened up a store, then proceed to trade in what I think are unsellable games.” Great friend.

@milloexplorationvlogs3658

5 ай бұрын

its the way life is man, just smile and hustle. Cant knock it tho.

@jgtheman84

3 ай бұрын

@@milloexplorationvlogs3658that doesn’t mean that it’s good

Me: “I can give you 20 bucks for this” Store: “the sticker price is 21. You pay 21.” Me: “but but but Renix Pesale said opportunity is everywhere” Store: “Get out!”

@abovee7103

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣💀

@TechMatticz

Жыл бұрын

A store willing to lose a $20 sale over $1 won't be in business long that's for sure.

@coldgrumpytree5441

Жыл бұрын

They wouldn't tell you to get out

@Cinderdragmire666

6 ай бұрын

XD

The irony of the one dollar bins is it's probably all the cheap stuff he's traded to him before 💀💀

@goodnightmoon

Жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

@sdot5389

Жыл бұрын

That not irony.

@namnambulu

Жыл бұрын

@@sdot5389 most definitely is because of circumstances. He didn't wanna go through the dollar bin because it's lower dollar stuff that more than likely was his at one point due to him trading in that stuff to the store.

"Let me help my friend out with seed money to help his new business ... by haggling away all of his profits so I can profit myself... im such a great friend."

@bossmustang6able

Жыл бұрын

True that

@bossmustang6able

Жыл бұрын

He should of waited til after the grand opening so his friend could of got full sale price first.

@TheViolator91

Жыл бұрын

@@bossmustang6able pretty sure these videos are sometimes fake.

@dvol9325

Жыл бұрын

@@TheViolator91 this one i doubt it. this is this owners 3rd store i think. He offered me pretty good price when i sold him a bunch of games when i went.

@sanlex_97

Жыл бұрын

Don't see what's wrong about both of them having a profit

"Opportunity is everywhere..." When you can get 40% off

@iwouldntgo

Жыл бұрын

Opportunity is everywhere for him yeah 🤦🏽

@9BallBory

Жыл бұрын

I’ve had very similar transactions, it’s called being a reseller and getting known, as he’s said multiple times the start of reselling is slow because you haven’t built up the relationships and you also don’t know prices on everything yet that you can move quick. Quit hating just to hate. Stop watching his videos.

@style3804

Жыл бұрын

When you can use your platform to pressure discounts sure lots of opportunities

@kanggoo57

9 ай бұрын

Thats called getting connections. ive got roughly 30% off permanently on my local store.

@clarenceoveur9497

5 ай бұрын

You suck at math. It's around 20% off in most cases. Store got a $2600 deal cash, instead of slowly trying to sell all items for $3100-ish. That's how bulk sales work. And I'm sure the store got those items for peanuts in the first place.

Bro is fully invested in the gaming bubble creates by WETA and Heritage Auctions. Literally spending thousands on games that are worth not even $100 realistically. Can't wait for this bubble to pop soon.

The seller literally agreed to every stupid price fired his way

@jamnotjelly5938

Жыл бұрын

He said it was his friend's store

@gamingcrusade3842

Жыл бұрын

He did not on one of the games lol he Caleb said $25 on that ps3 basketball game and the owner said $30

@CKJJ88

Жыл бұрын

Given he's a reseller and the store owners know this, his offers were never lower than like 60-70% of the stickered price which isn't stupid at all.

@babybabu1213

Жыл бұрын

Im sure they've done business before and he knew it was going to be a large bulk purchase. Giving ~30% off to move a large quantity and secure a big sale, especially when its dealing with a friend and returning customer is usually worth it

@kulmor69

Жыл бұрын

What you're forgetting is that game stores offer far less than Caleb is offering so he's not losing money either

Thanks for opening your store. Now a majority of good items are gone where I spent 2600 dollars on 4k in price tags! Sweet deal!

His idea of support is by lowballing his friend and to ensure he profited frm reselling it at e-bay….woww…such a great friend!!

@rain4242

6 ай бұрын

this store permanently closed hahaha he literally took all his good stuff and then resold it for more and he got traded in worthless junk that no one wanted. I have never cared about resellers but holy this guy is literally one of the greediest resellers i have seen. He tries to make it look like he is doing this guy a favor by taking his actually good stuff and reselling it for more.

@HermannTheGreat

3 ай бұрын

@@rain4242 Closed within a year, they didn't realize there's very little money to make in reselling most of the trash titles.

Miss the old school reselling videos bc it gave us motivation. These videos are just pre planned to help the game store get exposure

@LAC32Griffin

Жыл бұрын

Facts!!!!

@PickNShip

Жыл бұрын

Agreed starting to get very repetitive with the game store visits I miss the going to garage sales and pawn shops hustle

@evanmcandrew9166

Жыл бұрын

There are many other great resellers on KZread that have the feel you are looking for! I enjoy the Hairy Tornado channel myself

@josheeyzgaming3662

Жыл бұрын

Fame changes people

@Koomacha

Жыл бұрын

He just had a video last week of him cashing out at a swap meet lmao

When guys like this came into the game glorifying reselling, that’s when the scene died. It hasn’t been fun to be a collector in a long time

@retrodungeonYT

Жыл бұрын

Reading this 3 months in the future and couldn't agree more.

@keithkelso9872

Жыл бұрын

The fad will die fairly soon

@max_91

Жыл бұрын

you can come to live on south america then, here is hard to even pay for a game 🤣, here you will have a challenge for sure haha

@gm08351

Жыл бұрын

@@keithkelso9872 idk man, there seems to be an endless supply of these scumbags

@itsmorgue.2227

6 ай бұрын

literally everything you buy is being resold.

its cringe as hell watching you claim you went there to help and then asking for 35% off popular fast selling games

Ryan very enthusiastically: “we can definitely do that” KZread comments: he was forced to sell those for less

@ajiyth22

6 ай бұрын

And thats why its no longer in business

“Watch me lowball my friend to make 2 dollars profit per game”

I have an increasingly high appreciation for editor Riff's drumroll. They are majestic AF.

“Hey can you do $20 for thousand year door CIB?” Ryan: “I can do that”

how is him losing 5 bucks on a game and you make 8 bucks off the game a win win?

must be nice to get all that discount to support your friend 🤣

@Avila0930

Жыл бұрын

Lmao well said

This guy is the reason retro games are so expensive now! Retro games should be affordable! We shouldn’t be paying $60 for a ps2 game!

@Heremy

Жыл бұрын

ive never seen a ps2 game for 60$

Would this guy work these deals with a regular customer that came in? My guess would be no.

Lol not gonna lie you low balled him on everything I’m sure the average customer won’t get these “deals”

@ricemonster7858

Жыл бұрын

Can confirm that Ive gotten bulk deals at game hub

@trollzone1

Жыл бұрын

Who is to say he even actually buys this stuff

@installed

Жыл бұрын

they give him a better deal for exposure 100%

@cheese6225

Жыл бұрын

The average customer also wouldn't spend over $2,000 in one visit but nice try wanting to put a negative spin on an act of kindness

@jordanweber5220

Жыл бұрын

Getting exposure and spending that much money while still probably making a profit is definitely worth it

10:33 "For you i will do $30". Wow what a nice guy, its not like he just ripped his friend off $1,000 worth of games.

Hahaha I lost it on the "My Pe Pe" cut away!! Amazing job RIF!!!!!

Wait this is your friends store...and you're lowballing him so you can run your "business". Ok yeah seem like a great friendship you guys got goin on.

@crimson232

Жыл бұрын

Bro most of these games will sit on shelf until they end up closing for good him spending 2k immideatly on games other customers usually wouldn't buy unless they are a reseller and yes the exposure does help aswell

@BiteSizePixel

Жыл бұрын

@@crimson232 A) seems like you missed the main point of my comment. B) Damn bro why you wasting your fortune telling here on youtube you should be playing the lotto if you can see the future. Big ups keep simpin.

@TheViolator91

Жыл бұрын

The store is getting an extreme amount of exposure from this video

@BiteSizePixel

Жыл бұрын

@@TheViolator91 ok and? Are you one of those people that thinks artists should be paid in exposure as well? Out of the total amount of views this video gets how many people do you think are now going to go out of their way and shop at this store because of the "exposure". "He's giving them exposure" so he is in his right to low ball his "friend" and then make a video on it to earn a profit and then flip the games he purchased to earn a profit. Unless he regularly goes back and purchases games from them he isn't giving them dick, he's just leveraging his friendship to make money.

@Nature-556

Жыл бұрын

@@BiteSizePixel what are you on about his offers weren’t even lier then like 60-70% of the stickered price 😂

Truth be told, Call of Duty 3 was a GREAT game. The campaign for that one was awesome Edit: I will NEVER get tired of the editing on these videos

“Don’t tell Ryan that I will be spending at least $1000 dollars to give them seed money” yeah don’t tell Ryan that I will be selling his Merch for 2x the profit and low ball him Infront of a go-pro so he’ll have to say yes

@OKayD3N

Жыл бұрын

? He can say no

@jaceykai162

Жыл бұрын

@@OKayD3N yes he could but you know Caleb’s status, he’d make a secret post on discord black listing this man to his mods only

If this price and discount continues, doesnt look like the guy is gonna be in business too long.

@wandereringshadow8658

Жыл бұрын

The discounts likely were just theater for the camera. The exposure and public perception of a 'good deal' will pay a lot more in the long term then the couple of bucks he'd lose out by not charging his friend base value.

@Maxshantz18

Жыл бұрын

The store closed in April

My word I would love a game store like that here where I am in the UK. We only really have a shop called CEX these days, but that's a chain with uniform prices in every shop and no haggling so it's hard to get bargains. This is like heaven.

@HC-ji7kb

Жыл бұрын

They just opened one in Malaysia. I hate CEX they don’t have retro stuffs and their inventory sucks

Dude maximo is such a throwback for me! Me and my brother used to play that game all the time as kids.

@MrXmoda

Жыл бұрын

Pretty tough game too!

@OmieezzyyTV

Жыл бұрын

@@MrXmoda yeah i dont think we ever beat it 😭. We also didnt have a memory card back then 😂.

Nothing like going through a friends store and under cutting him on his inventory to make a profit

Caleb: (Says anything in relation to money) Ryan: We could do that

that's not supporting a friend, I would be so mad if before I opened someone came in to haggle all my prices. a friend you would go in and support and pay normal prices.

Grand Opening!! Hey man, can I get some deals?

Plugging a stream for the 7th that took place the day before this video went up 🤔

@MizoryOfficial

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the samething 😓

I'd say that store looks way to big for the amount of games he has for sale, I give him a year b4 he goes bankrupt if he keeps selling his stock to phoenix for cheap, the owner of this store has basically just fucked over all his customers by letting phoenix buy all the good stuff before he even opens the store to the public

@dvol9325

Жыл бұрын

he owns multiple stores for a few years now

@jackthecommenter2768

Жыл бұрын

@@dvol9325 damn

you dont need to offer lower in every game of his. Dude lost tons of money saying yes to all your deals. if it was like 5 maybe but you had to go lower on every game lol

@HighFidelityFox

Жыл бұрын

No one forced him to say yes 🤷‍♀️

@logandedmon9334

Жыл бұрын

@@HighFidelityFox when that camera is present i’m sure it causes him to be more reasonable.

@masterbspace

Жыл бұрын

He wouldn’t have sold all those otherwise

@venum98

Жыл бұрын

He spent $2000 dollars in a single visit. You must not know reselling or running a store but a lot of things will sit for a while. It’s called negotiating. Both of them can agree or not on pricing

@cesteram2199

Жыл бұрын

@@venum98 Idk bro I don't think I would haggle prices to my friend's business so I can profit more off it, that's just me though.

It's funny: When I was shopping the Toys R Us closing sales they had tons of those Skylanders games and no one wanted them. They were worthless, you couldn't give them away. Now they're going for $50 😂

@JimBob-vg2og

Жыл бұрын

No idea who is buying that garbage for $50

@alany2669

Жыл бұрын

probably cuz Toys R Us threw away all those copies so now they are limited

I lost it at 4:15 lol. damn you Riff 😂

3:57 had me in the first half not gonna lie. LMFAO

*Picks through everything thats good* hey guys, go shop here. 😏

I don’t even play games or resell anything but I’m glued to these videos 😂

At first I thought everyone was tripping about disliking the video until he got the Gameboy colors for half off. That's crazy.

Me: I dont know you got away Store owner:I can do that

That "My peepeee" edit had me dying. Im easily amused :) But, honestly I feel like I just watched a legal crime.

Beetle Racing on N64 was such a fun game as a kid, I kinda want to find a copy now ahaha.

@FossilForwardFinds

Жыл бұрын

Was one of my favorites or sure!

You would have helped your so called friend way more by just setting him up with his own eBay store instead of haggling on everything….

"This game sells for $22 on Amazon. He has it for $20. I'll get it for $15." Cool but I simply don't understand why a store owner would be like "oh you're going to sell it for more than I am? dope!" Like why would they not sell it for $22 then?

@MotleyDeth

Жыл бұрын

furthermore, you're using an app to look up prices and then walking up to the sellers, who have literally thousands of different games, and being like "what about this price?" They can't know what everything is worth just off the top of their head.

@PrisonMike117

Жыл бұрын

I’m guessing the video was already planned and they know each other

@killafrog124

Жыл бұрын

I'd rather get large payday then wait n wait to get full retail u don't understand how many games these stores sometimes get offered to buy. Especially when you are not on youtube as a store owner and don't have the fans to buy less demand games and even some popular titles.

@thriftsensei3713

Жыл бұрын

Most people can't sell video games on Amazon because they are gated. Amazon usually has the highest prices. Dude in the shop can't sell that game quickly for 22 dollars but 15 on a game he prob has less then 5 in is still a big profit. I sell on eBay and I'm always willing to take 5 less then what I list for because I know it's still a good profit

@ramcade31

Жыл бұрын

Because people can’t get those Amazon prices in store… the local marketplace is usually lower than normal. Plus it takes a lot of effort to get unharmed and generate an Amazon rep.

how does this guy have so many good game stores around him there are barely any when im at with older consoles/games

Those gamestop stickers on box art are the bane of my existence

Ur talking to Ryan like he’s an Amazon Alexa 😂

I'm sure if he didn't know you there wouldn't be any haggling you would have to pay listed prices.

I find it crazy that someone will spend a long time in a store, scanning almost everything, to buy and then just sell again. What a soul destroying way to earn a living.

@HermannTheGreat

3 ай бұрын

Can you imagine lol? His entrepreneurship is commendable, but if I was the business owner I'd kick anyone like this out, and would have other stores notified of this behavior or attempting arbitrage at every store, unless the reseller brought other items I could sell or trade for to make it worthwhile. It's nobody's right to come to a store and attempt arbitrage by scanning every item and looking to find hidden value so they can use it for their own business. Selling through hundreds of items to a reseller for 500-1000s in lost potential profit to the public is not worth a quick sale. And If I'm a local customer I'm mad, because guys like this are taking any unique, rare, popular, or difficult to find title out of circulation just so they can make more money for their business.

I hope my friends won't "support" my business like this guy did for his friend..

@Nature-556

Жыл бұрын

Boo boo he went 2 dollars short on the games you don’t understand most store like this don’t last long so him going their spending 2k in one visit which is probably the double they would make in a day and also making a video giving the store exposure to hundreds of other people idk about you but I would be happy to have him as my friend and also what friend wouldn’t give their homie a discount lol?

@alia1824

Жыл бұрын

@@Nature-556 it wasn’t just 2$ each and it adds up. Regardless pretty lame to take advantage of a friend

what an amazing haul 🔥🔥🔥🔥 also thx for the nostalgia ima pickup a retro console soon 😊

"Video Game Store Grand Opening (I Spent THOUSANDS)" Game Hub Knoxville: It's our grand opening and we're already making thousands of dollars thanks to one kind man alone : ).

Bro flipped us of😂😂

“I’m buying a bunch of stuff at my friends new game store” not retro Rick lol 😂

Store just opened and you already hit’em with a “Dhhhanggg”

Ryan is to nice to put up with this as hole

Amazing looking store!

The week before this business opens it goes bankrupt

i live about 45 mins from knox! Go VOLS!

I love the Magical Quest music 😃 I grew up playing that game ❤️

at 12:20 I started dancing smoothly in the car 😅😅 I like that song great video man

Don't know if anyone could still benefit from this advice but.... I think I spotted two(?) copies of Transformers Devastation at around the 6 minute mark during the PS4 section, 3rd row (from top) on the right. If these are at a good price (I can't exactly see what's on the sticker), it might be worth looking at since at the time Activision didn't renew the license of several games including Deadpool and Transformers. Meaning they aren't available for purchase on PSN, Xbox and Steam anymore, and physical copies could be harder to find. So, if someone's around this store I'd suggest taking a look ;) Ps, Phoenix Resale, I do love your take on all this. Starting your collection from the ground up again. It makes me think back to the time I started my collection again. Thanks for sharing your adventures! :D

I like your "We can do that."videos. LOL

Goof Troops is hands down one of my favorite SNES games. Great memories playing with my cousins as a kid.

That raquazard is a necessity for my pokemon plushie stand ! I absolutely need this as much as I need oxygen and h2o. Oh the pain of existence without it is unbearable 🤣🤣😅

I absolutely love dbz boudakai tenchaichi 3 it’s super underrated and was a huge part of my young teen years

Tiny Tank was so AWESOME! I totally forgot about that game!!

Been watching for a year and a half now. Keep it up. Very entertaining!

Yesssss i live in Knoxville! So much great deals here in Tennessee!

It’s crazy to see you in Knoxville bro. I’ve grown up here and still live in Knox. I’ve had this placed saved for a few weeks and just got around to catching up on your videos and see you came to Knox. Small world lol

The Riff drumroll gets me every time lol

@jaxxonvideogameresale

Жыл бұрын

Same here lol

That's wild he passed on the Amazing Spider-man on PS3 I've always see it sold quite high.

Honestly Vigilante 8 is a Hidden gem series.

The flip is the best part 😃

Bought an N64 from here a couple days ago, awesome store!

@dvol9325

Жыл бұрын

bunch of the n64 games he has there i sold to him lol

Bruh you two go together like peanut butter and jelly. Keep up the amazing content. Stay blessed y'all

Ay!! I'm so happy you posted man! I love your videos I'm working on my retro collection I've so far collected a Nintendo 64 Playstation 2 slim Xbox 360 arcade and a Nintendo entertainment system with a bunch of accessories for all of them and a bunch of games for all of them you inspired me to start my collection and knowing that you live in the same state as me I hope one day we can cross paths and I could get you to sign something for me because I'm a huge fan thank you for being an inspiration Best wishes Ethan petty

@jaxxonvideogameresale

Жыл бұрын

Awesome I've collected for ps2 slim also

@crimson232

Жыл бұрын

Bro I have an old ps3 with everything I'm considering selling it to start a Nintendo collection

Beetle adventure racing was one of my favorites on the 64.

Friends don’t ask friends for discounts at their business. PAY FULL PRICE

@keithkelso9872

Жыл бұрын

He can’t afford full price and his friend understands. It’s the consumer that pays in the end not these two

I was actually just here on Wednesday! Lol 😂

This was so cool to watch because Ryan has another game hub here where I live in Clarksville TN. Tell Ryan Wayne said hi. 😁

14:15 gasping for air before saying the total😂

New drinking game take a shot everytime his friend says “we can do that”

I enjoy your vids! Keep it up!

The Folks drinking game has returned and I have alcohol poisoning at 5 minutes into this video....

Thanks for adding when you started! '19 yo! Your channel has given me the motivation, inspiration & direction to start down my own path! Cheers, 🍻 Phoenix Resale!

Well it’s within driving distance for a day trip but you’ve already picked everything good over so IDK if I will go. GGs 🎮✊

You’re the reason why people can’t go to a game store and find these good games, you buy them all up to flip it at a higher price instead of getting an actual job .

You ain’t finna hide em now. So proud of you

Your editor is definitely unique of all the KZreadrs

@stinkypinky5724

7 ай бұрын

Riff is funny as fuck but I genuinely feel like he's only Caleb's friend because he pays him 😂like he said in another video. And like some of the shit he says to Caleb I'm like whaaaat you said jokingly but why does it come off like he really means the shit 😂idk maybe I'm just cooked and reaching 😅

@HermannTheGreat

3 ай бұрын

@@stinkypinky5724 you're reaching

Uhhhh the video just uploaded, it's November 8th and that auction already passed lol

oof the stream ended a day before posting the video 😕

Me still screaming Repent in my head 20 minutes later 12:39

Thumbnail: I spent THOUSANDS. The dude: so i am not spending money at all

I challenge you to go to Retro Rick's game store and see if you can find games you can make profit off

@goodnightmoon

Жыл бұрын

lmao