I started selling off my video game collection and I've already made over $1,000 dollars. This was shit that was literally sitting around that I never touched and never played.
Anyone else have any video game collection stories? I think I'm just going to stick with the games I really like in the future and not just buy things I tell myself I'll play later.
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Kek wait a month after you blow the 1k on beer and moronic shit you'll be kicking yourself for selling it.
NTA but I've started doing the same except I'm doing to it pay off a new piano. Rescuing my savings from obliteration or holding on to games I haven't played in years (in some cases). Tough choice but I think I'm making the right one.
I already know I'll regret some of these sales (Goodbye Bulk Slash...) but there will always be emulators. And in the case of Saturn, mediocre emulators!
I think the only downer is that I would have preferred to sell some of these at a lower price for old buds on forums and dickscords, but after a lack of responses I just decided to fleece people on ebay (until the tax form comes in and I'm the one getting fricked).
I did the same a decade ago. Helped cover the costs related to growing my family. Emulation does fill the gaps just fine. Frankly, I can't find Konami arcade cabs IRL and those are the only thing I really want to play. My kids enjoy popping an emu up on the TV. Their memories will be of blurred pixils on a HD TV, with dad and mom. Nostalgia is different for each person. I am happier without the cruft.
Lmao imagine selling off your copy of bulk slash. Fricking yikes.
I'll just play the fan translation on SSF ;^*~~*~~))
Kek wait until the end of your life after you blow 0 dollar on nothing because you hadn't sold the games and *still* haven't played them. You'll be kicking yourself for sitting on that trash for so long.
srsly wait until your grandkids just throw that shit out in the estate sale and then some butthole comes and flips them on Ebay 3. And then the circle of life continues to the other shmuck that sits on plastic
I've got stuff that I won't play for 5 years then suddenly have the urge to really get back into it.
Well I still get to enjoy them for another 45 years until then. This stuff was considered old junk when I picked it up. I have seen an estate like you describe and it is sad seeing formerly beloved possessions treated badly.
I pretty much stopped buy stuff when flashcarts first came out, still have a few thousand in games. I would just end up wasting the money but if you have something like a big loan then selling the games can save money in the long run.
I probably have a few hundred games I've never played, just picked up mostly during clearance sales. Its a fun just thinking about one day having a lot of free time or retiring and just being able to randomly pick a game from the pile and they could be anything.
>estate
this goober things video games are estate kek you're probably one of those inbreds that thinks a first edition shiny charizard is worth 200K
Unironically this
>grow up during the days of 50 cent nes bin flea market
>get a job at goodwill in highschool
>hit every rummage sale between 2 counties for a couple summers, grab everything I can
>hit up every Craigslist post in my area 2009-2010
>amass massive collection of video games, a basement full
>move out of my parents house, get into partying
>collection sits in basement for a few years
>parents move
>one day my mom shows up at my apartment with a uhaul full of video games, 2016
>start going through it, every Nintendo system (including virtual boy) and sega system (including nomad) cib good condition, some multiples
>neo geo pocket color, turbografx shit, 3do, a laserdisc player and some rare 80s board games and first press thrash metal records are in their
>realize I’m sitting on a literal fortune
>sell everything except for maybe 100 games
>lots of good stuff in their, chrono trigger Dracula x etc
>eventually get way too into edm/drugs and sell everything to travel to a couple fests
>Covid hits, dreams are ruined, regret selling my games immediately
Around this time I got really heavily involved with drugs and crime but I’m good now, trying to slowly nickel and dime the best parts of my collection back, will end up emulating a lot of stuff but I want the snes goodies back
I hated not having a car in highscool. My mom hated how i constantly would tell her to stop at yard sales and thrift stores and flea markets in the early 2000s, but i knew even then i had to get the shit i wanted when i could. In hindsight, she even admits now i was right getting that stuff when i did.
These were the days
Yea, I went to red rocks and a few dubstep festivals around the country too. And I was a major drunk, blew like $200 at the bar every weekend
so what you were just like fricked up on E every weekend or something?
>trying to slowly nickel and dime the best parts of my collection back
Lol I see this all the time. There's one particularly sad case on youtube who keeps selling off all of his games, only to buy them back later on at a higher price.
I want to sell my stuff but I know it would be for good if I did. Some stuff took me years to acquire and I know i'd never be able to get it back.
I sold my thousand arms and Vanguard bandits copies for approximately 400 dollars. Which for two games that I spent like 100 bucks on, is pretty good. Especially since I never got around to playing them, I'll just emulate if I ever really want to play.
Got a handful of other higher value games I'm considering offloading down the road too. Don't make enough money to justify hoarding things like that especially in consideration for how much I paid vs their worth now.
I'll always keep a good portion of them though, just the outliers of ridiculous price gouging I'll send off.
>Got a handful of other higher value games I'm considering offloading down the road too. Don't make enough money to justify hoarding things like that especially in consideration for how much I paid vs their worth now.
Yeah it's the same for me. I ended up realizing I moved, packed up the boxes, unpacked here, and the shit just kept sitting. Some of it's pretty high value and not doing anything but sitting there. I told myself I'd never become a shelf collector and here I am.
I was going to sell mine a few months ago but decided to keep it.
forgot to add: If emulation can get a perfect in the future id still probably keep stuff for memories sake
Money comes and goes: I say unless your collection is full of FOMO shit that you’ll never play, you should keep your games
>stories
grew up 7 years ago and sold all my shit to buy a car. dont regret it. working just so you can collect cardboards, old electronic and cheap plastic is not really worth it. most "collectors" are to scared to play their games anyway so they use flashcards so whats the point.
an appreciating asset to buy a depreciating one
at what point does a game collection become too big? I got about 250 physical games across 10 consoles. it sounds like a lot but i don't think they'd fill up a full sized bookshelf when put together
I think once the collection gets large enough that you can look at it and say 95% of it are games you haven't played or don't feel like playing then it's time tosell off and actually question why you're doing it.
For me, I was doing it for fun but realized that its thousands of dollars for "fun" that could be spent elsewhere.
Whenever you're happy with all the games you want.
>at what point does a game collection become too big?
The point where you accidentally buy a double of a game you already have. That's the point where you need to stop and re-evaluate your purpose.
I slowed my game buying 90% after this happened to me.
On the new 1099-k, used games im selling at a loss dont count as profit right
but how do i prove its not profit, just say its not?
I'm sitting at around 60K USD for my collection. I've got quite a few big names and a very, very small percentage of filler titles.
I'm keeping it unless things go south with my GF, and then I'll cash out for a down payment on a house.
Sub ebay scalper
Unironically have a nice day
imagine seething this hard
its called owning property dumbass
you should have been investing instead of wasting your funds on cornchips homosexual
Sold all my games this year to a reseller for a five figure sum. Kept modded consoles and flash carts. Haven’t regretted it at all.
Wow ONE THOUSAND WHOLE DOLLARS!?
Yes, over a thousand on like 25 games and most were literal trash.
Im selling off some store display shit (to buy more games i want), but il probably never sell unless im literally dieing. Didn't get into this to be a collector, but i also prefer to still use the original stuff to play. I could've blown this cash on drugs and booze, so its not wasted purchases. If its my one vice to be into this shit, i can live with it. Started as a kid and i am at the point where i have pretty much every game for a few systems that id ever want to play, but il never sell.
i just use cdr and flashcarts
although i do find myself autistically collecting certain series
pokemon, tomb raider, resident evil, silent hill, dead or alive, soul calibur, etc
I have a nice paying job. No need to sell my games
I'll get to that point I'm sure, for now I'm still working on a couple collections
I'm at the same place with my collection. I like having it around, but at the end of the day, it's just cardstock and plastic gathering dust on a shelf. I defer to emulators if I want to play any of them, so having them is even more pointless.
Do you have any tips or pointers for someone looking to sell off their collections? I'd like to maximize my profit if I can.
>Do you have any tips or pointers for someone looking to sell off their collections? I'd like to maximize my profit if I can.
1 by 1 on ebay/craigslist/fb market will give you the most profit
I have plenty of money, so there is no reason for me to sell off my collection.
I'll probably end up at that place soon. Way too many games I have sitting around that I have absolutely no emotional attachment to, meanwhile I have flashcards and ODEs for everything anyways. Just taking up space at this point.
Of course I'll keep everything I do actually care about (for example, I'm not getting rid of my copy of Earthbound, or most of my childhood N64/GameCube games, or my Ys and Sakura Wars collections).
Also I'm probably going to wait a few more years to sell GameCube games just because I think they haven't reached their peak yet.
>$1,000
A couple weeks at McDonalds would make more than that, and you'd still have your collection.
Which state?
I gave some of the most desireable physical items as christmas gifts to users on infinitychan, and the rest i mailed to a friend i made in an online jsrf fan community.
I've been thinning my hoard this year and have made about $10k so far. Mostly selling doubles. While the temptation to just cash out on everything and use the mister for everything is definitely there, probably just going to cash out on certain systems I don't really care about that much like NES, PCE, CPS2, and anything with discs except for gamecube
I'm sitting on my copies of cubivore and Skies of Arcadia till I'm destitute.
Started selling my shit and turned it into a business. Now I'm buying up more to keep selling.
physical medium degrades over time, magnets lose power etc., most of your shit in that collection doesn't even work probably.
it was bought by another person who will not play it