
Sega Wanted Phantasy Star IV To Flop In The West, Hence The Sky-High $100 Price
You might take anything Victor Ireland says with a grain of salt, but it sounds like the kind of silly thing that could happen.
So I'm looking to sell off a fair bit of my older collection of games (gamecube, dreamcast, GBA, DS etc.). Basically, had them all boxed up and doing nothing but collecting dust for years. So started dragging those boxes out and cataloging with CLZ Games app.
Pretty stunning what some of these games have sold for (mostly have CIB).
Was basically looking to go into a retro store and just offloading my collections I'm comfortable selling at this point. I've seen a few YouTube videos where people will sell their collections to some of the known retro YouTubers and always see comments like "he got lowballed" and the like. But I have no idea if I'd get taken or not.
Any tips? I understand the stores won't buy at full price of course, they're in to make money. But also don't know what to expect. Like half the value? More? I know condition plays in to it - nothing is graded and don't want to mess with that. Do I shop around? Get a quote from one store and then go to another?
Just looking how to maximize getting a fair price.
My experience in this realm is now 20 years old.
Stores will give you ~30% of what you could get doing the legwork yourself. Post on eBay, wait, collect funds, package, take to post, send, confirm receipt, deal with customer service.
When I have big ticket items +$100 on a collectible type thing, I usually weigh the work of me posting vs the ease of just getting it gone. I also give a small bump to knowing that if I sell my $300 fight stick to the local retro store for $85 in store credit I'm helping a small business owner keep on keeping on. That is worth a small bit, to me personally. And finally I get a small bump with the belief that the local store will make sure the item gets used (play more Dreamcast games!). For whatever that is worth in the universe.
I am also NOT in a position financially where I need to get $300 for a fight stick to put food in the table or gas in my car (was absolutely there 20 years ago though!).
I am a big fan of a store named eStarland, which is near me (kind of - it’s maybe 45 minutes away in good traffic). They do a great trade in used games and since I sold off a lot of my old games there, I’ve used store credit to buy many of my new games. Their prices have always seemed fair, too. If you’re comfortable with shipping your games away and having someone at the store appraise them, I’d check it out.
I sold some PSP games to BOOK OFF for ¥10 a piece :o.
Thanks for the feeback. There's a few retro stores around here I can take it to so will probably see what that is like first. I'll probably shoot for 30% of the value of the collection.
Would also kinda assume they might not be interested in some of the games that are in the $10-$15 price range.
Still going through boxes. Thankfully I kept most stuff together but have had some fun adventures. For Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii I had the game box was with the rest of my Wii games, which was good. But found the manual in one of my PC game boxes. And then the actual disc turned out to be inside the Wii.
I got my 2 PS Vitas up and running. I'm amazed that you can still access the store and everything. Got my PS3 running too. Super cool how that still has store access. I got MGS4 and DMC recently at the local used video game store. I want to make sure I have access to good PS3 games since it is a weird console. Will need to see if there is anything I want on the store.
Also getting my Wii U and Super Analogue NT going too. Got an HDMI switcher for all the old consoles and will have them on a rolly cart that I can hide under my desk or even roll into the living room.
Will take pictures when finished.
I got my 3DS up and running recently. Wondered why it wouldn’t charge, took off the flap and found the battery bulging. Very glad that I got to it before any leakage. A good reminder for me to check in on any devices I care about at least once every 1-2 years. I was able to get a 3rd party battery on Amazon for about ¥1200. Compared to the Vita, which I also got up and running recently, it seems like there hasn’t been much movement on the hacking/homebrew scene. So, I updated a few of the plugins to the latest versions, dabbled in a few games, then put it back on the shelf.
Got my PS3 running too. Super cool how that still has store access.
They wanted to close the store a few years ago, but backpedaled following an online uproar.
I got my 2 PS Vitas up and running. I'm amazed that you can still access the store and everything. Got my PS3 running too. Super cool how that still has store access. I got MGS4 and DMC recently at the local used video game store. I want to make sure I have access to good PS3 games since it is a weird console. Will need to see if there is anything I want on the store.
Also getting my Wii U and Super Analogue NT going too. Got an HDMI switcher for all the old consoles and will have them on a rolly cart that I can hide under my desk or even roll into the living room.
Will take pictures when finished.
By the way, have you put CFW on your Vitas? I love the way the RetroFlow Launcher plug-in works compared to the usual bubbles.
You are living the dream!
(somehow just looking at that screenshot sent warm fuzzy feelings through me...)
I still massively regret getting rid of almost all boxes and manuals of my 8 to 64-bit cartridge and PC games because of a move...
Also most of my magazines dating back to 1988.
Not a clue where I'd actually put them now if I still had them. Just the games themselves take up so much space already.
Mr GT Chris wrote:You are living the dream!
If only I had more space/money
Over Christmas i finally got to check out my brother-in-laws collection and it is redonkulous. He has like a 1000 square foot basement overflowing with games including a complete-in-box set of the North American SNES releases (I am a bit jelly of this). His AV setup sucks though lol.
Wild! I have a computer desk in a room that my daughter and I share. I have a 22 inch screen with HDMI/DVI/VGA inputs that I would love to replace someday. Connected is just the Mac and Xbox Series S, but I’ve also had the SNES mini and PS3 connected in recent times. Just having everything out at once makes too much clutter on my desk. Then all my handhelds which are probably my first love these days.
Rad!!!!
Totally!! Sorry, I’m not familiar with many of the terms you used but I’m wondering… Which of the consoles can you automate the on/off switch etc. and which ones still require physical interaction like pushing a button on the device? Also, do you usually use flash carts or original cartridges? The negative of using originals would be needing to swap carts for each game, but you’d still get that nostalgic feeling.
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