Come on, man, persevere!

Sure, you will get ripped off a couple of times
(believe me, you're not the only one; $85 for a USED Pokemon Emerald I will not pay), but you can't let that drag you down.
If you ARE, however, just completely and totally sick of it all, then I, like Tynstar, would also like to take a stab at that CIB NES stuff. ;P