Downsizing Video Game Collection - Advice on how to price and where to sell?

[shateredsoul1979]

Hi Everyone,

I went a little overboard with retrogaming in the past few months, and realized I want to scale down. I've decided to keep the nes, snes, ps1, and genesis for nostalgia and current gen systems (wii, xbox 360 and ps3). Any advice on what to price these lots at? Maybe give an opinion on what you think I could get if I was patient, but what I should price them for if I want to sell sooner.

Here we have a bunch of USA and Japanese Dreamcast stuff. I'll just do lists

1. Japanese Dreamcast, I have the power and av chord, has been modded to be region free (4-wire chip, LIR2032 battery holder mod, LIR2032 rechargeable battery)
1  USA Dreamcast no cables but the Japanese cables work fine with it. It also has been modded to be region free (yay no boot disc!) (also has 4-wire chip, LIR2032 battery holder mod, LIR2032 rechargeable battery)
2 Dreamcast Controllers - one clear blue and one clear green
4 VMUS (with new batteries) - 2 Clear Red and 2 Clear Blue
1 Blaze DC vga box

Puzzle Bubble 4 (J)
Napple Tale(J)
Grandia II (includes sountrack cd)
Gundam Battle Online (J)[/list]
Under Cover (J)
Some Puzzle game (J)
Psychich Force 2012 (J)
Dreamcast Passport (J)
Street Fighter 3rd Strike (J)
Don't know name have to look up (J)
Sega Rally (J)
Capcom vs SNK 2 (J)
Virtual On (J)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (J)
Sonic Adventure (J) - broken case hinge, everything else fine
Skies of Arcadie (USA) - 1st disc doesn't seem to read, resurfacing may fix
Biohazard Code Veronica (J)
Soul Calibur (J)
Virtua Fighter 3tb (J)
Crazy Taxi (USA)
Tony Hawk Pro Skater (USA)
Sealed USA version of Web Browser (believe it's the 2.0 version) (USA)







Sega saturn lot of systems and games. The games are complete with manual, and jewel case. Games that come with Ram cart include the original boxes that show regular wear. The disc themselves are in really good condition.


Imported White Sega Saturn (with new battery)+ 2 white controllers + sega s-video cable and vga cable

xmen vs street fighter + Ram
Panzer Dragoon
Fire Prowresstling 6 Men Scramble
Street Fighter Collection
Puzzle Bobble 3
Fightes Megamix
Fighting Vipers
King of Fighters 95 + Ram
Samurai Shodwon 3+ Ram
Panzer Dragoon Zweii
Die Hard Trilogy
Puyo Puyo 2
Clockwork Kinight
Vampire Savior + Ram
Capcom Generation
Christmas Nights
Super Puzzler Fighter II Turbo (USA version)
Samurai Spirits Amakusa Kourin + Ram









Nintendo 64 with 2 controllers (original gray and ice blue), vga chord not picture but included. All Games are cart only

Golden Eye 007
Wave Race 64
Diddy Kong Racing
F-Zero X
Star Fox 64
Pokemon Snap
Beetle Adventure Racing
Start Wars Episode 1 Racer
Killer Instinct Gold







Sony Ps2 Fat Model, Missing back cover, but works great (includes no controllers, but I do have the power, and vga cable)

[Dervacumen]

Don't know about the stuff you have, but I carried my Atari 800 stuff around for 20 years before I decided to part with it because the going price was never what I thought it should be.  I hooked up with a guy at the atariage forums and let it go for what I would consider a seriously low ball offer, and only because I happened to be traveling to Reno and he met me there... But I got what the market would give me, and that's all I have to say about that.  Collections are almost never worth what you think they might be.  I've sold a ton of stuff at way below "market value" because I was ready to get rid of it.  And you know what?  I'm happy I don't have that crap to worry about any more.
Not trying to be a downer, just relaying my experience.

[shateredsoul1979]

I know what you mean, there's something liberating about getting rid of stuff you don't use anymore. I'm just hoping to do that and have some cash left over.

[Blanka]

You are really limiting your options.
What about a decent classified site, not location-bound crap like craigslist?
What about a webshop
What about a webshop that does not need much maintenance cause you are one of many: read Etsy. It may be chicks domain mainly, but it needs more guys stuff, and there is already a bunch of vintage game sellers and searchers there.

I would say: make fixed prices at a fun level: the buyer is happy that he can buy reasonable priced stuff, you happy as it goes fast, no big ebay fees, no ugly ebay listings.

[shateredsoul1979]

Thanks for the recommendation!  I Hadn't even thought about etsy, my wife's friend sells stuff on that website. I'll check that out, for now I setup a sales list on here and racketboy. I'll see if I can do etsy over the weekend, it seems like I'd have to do a page for each item right?

[Blanka]

Yes, you should make pages, but you can also sell lots.
Forget about the PS2 on Etsy. 1 it is not vintage, 2 it is worth nothing. If you want a PS2, you get the Slim for 40$. Give that one away to a poor kid or so.

[RayB]

Post on game collector sites:
www.digitpress.com
www.cgcc.ca

Local ads like Craigslist (though dealing with skeevy locals is ... ehhh)

or game collector auction site: http://gamegavel.com/
(Less fees than Ebay, but also less people viewing/bidding.)

[ark_ader]

Jeepers, your collection is almost as bad as mine.

Last time I let it get so bad, I just rented a skip and black bagged it all, monitors PC and consoles all went.

Getting rid of all that crap was expensive (as I managed to buy most of that crap again  ) but it was nice to do a reset.

Forget about getting money for it, find an orphanage or a charity and give it to them.  I would have done the same but I was under serious time constraints (flying the next day).

You will not get what your paid for it, but you might get something back from your taxes and knowing it went to a good home.

[Malenko]

well your gamegear is sold to me, I'll pay once we hammer out the saturn price =)

Its just hard, cause I already have 3 saturns, all US =)

[Cakemeister]

I agree with ark_ader, just give it away. More goodwill that way. Take a tax deduction for "market value" and you may do as well giving the stuff away as you would by selling it.

[Well Fed Games]

That stuff has value- don't just throw it away (what a waste!- if you just want to unload it I will pay the shipping!)  and honestly charities want money more than some old game system they can't buy games for at retail, so if you are feeling charitable it still makes sense to sell them and donate the money.

Take a few hours and list all the items up on Amazon marketplace, at slightly less than what others have listed the same item at a similar condition. Every once in a while someone will buy one, you can ship it out, and you get to pocket some $$$. It is how I sell my vintage games, and have been very successful at it. Way less hassle than Ebay (which is a mess) or Craigslist (waiting for a buyer to come by that never shows).

[ark_ader]

How much do you want for the DC VGA box?

[Jammin0]

Check out the BenHeck Forums.  Some of the vintage stuff is getting harder and harder to come by and I know that the guys who are making portables out of some of the old systems would pay decent money.

[Malenko]

Id say "give buyers your paypal address so they can buy the game gear off of you" would be a good start 

[shateredsoul1979]

Id say "give buyers your paypal address so they can buy the game gear off of you" would be a good start 

Hey Malenko, sorry about that. I sent you a pm and responded in my sales thread.