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A few months before Sony announced that they would no longer be making any more PS1 discs, I waked into my local GameStop, and found a box. Inside of the box were between 10 to 15 copies each of FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, Chrono Cross, and Legend of Mana. Every single one was marked $5. I went ahead and picked them all up figuring that having extras would be useful one day. My GF at the time thought I was crazy, but just shook her head.

Fast forward about 3-4 months, and Sony announces no more PS1 discs, and the price of every single one of those games shot up to $200 - $300 a piece on E-Bay. I left the $5 stickers on the ones I sold, but took pics of the ones I kept that I had meticulously removed the price stickers from. I got back some unique feedback for that.