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ah ebay.. always something interesting

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shardian:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 09, 2007, 02:02:39 pm ---That collection wouldn't need anything like 50 boxes.  You could do that in 20 good plastic bins, I'd think, unless those shelves are somehow part of the collection.

Dude, if someone offered me $9100 for my collection, I'd sell it, deliver it, hook it all up, and throw in a very inappropriate lapdance when I was done.

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You're in luck because apparently there are sucke...I mean people willing to pay that price. I double dog dare you to set it all up and list it on ebay.

missioncontrol:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 09, 2007, 02:02:39 pm ---I'm poking through the itemization now... he's selling old used stuff at high book price estimates... most of that stuff hasn't been worth anything like he says for quite a while now.  Console values aren't what they used to be.

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depends on what it is... Atari stuff, the prices are down right now, but NES stuff the prices are currently high

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: missioncontrol on November 09, 2007, 02:07:46 pm ---depends on what it is... Atari stuff, the prices are down right now, but NES stuff the prices are currently high

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It wasn't over the summer.  I was selling off $20 lockout modded new connector NES units and they weren't moving on ebay, locally, or in BST here.  I had to throw in 3 games each to get them moving and still people were hemming and hawing on it.  Considering the time it takes to do the mod and the $7 cost of each new connector, that sucked.

Wait... that $9100 is not including $1500 shipping?   :dizzy:

Maybe I should set it all up and put it on ebay.  My problem is that I'm super anal about selling flaky stuff.  I have to test the crap out of something before I sell it... that would take me forever.

SavannahLion:
I'm guessing his wife is making him get rid of that.

To get most of my collection away from the 7 year old, I built shelves and stored them all near the ceiling. I got those one cubic "foot" office boxes for free so I try to fit everything as efficiently as possible in them. Once I got them out of reach, a weird thing happened, they disappeared from my GF's radar... either that or she just holds her tongue now.

Storing the arcade cabinets are the real pain.

Chadtower, are you refining your existing collection or are you actually trying to reduce the volume of your collection?

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on November 09, 2007, 03:52:23 pm ---Chadtower, are you refining your existing collection or are you actually trying to reduce the volume of your collection?

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Mostly reducing the volume.  There isn't a ton of space around and I used to collect every system I could get except Sony... and for those I still collected hardware.  There was a lot of good stuff but I never used any of it.  Not too long ago I sold my LaserActive w/sega and 4 complete TG16 modules.  I still have the goggles, though, as those are heavy duty and do work on other platforms that use shutter glasses.  I was a very active console collector until I got into arcade stuff around 2004 and still come across cheap/free console stuff on a regular basis.  It takes willpower to turn it down, man... willpower.

A couple years ago I was at a Blockbuster and the manager was taking all of the N64 boxes off the shelf.  Told me he was taking them out back to shrinkwrap with the games for sale... for $5 each.  They had just about every good game for the system, some 2 copies, as well as all of the rare ones.  I ended up buying 70 complete N64 games that day and made the cash back selling the dups of the ones I already had.  Still have probably half of the N64 library complete... there are probably 3 or 4 systems I could say that about even now.

EDIT:  example... this was just in the last hour.  Once you get into the methods, the stuff just falls into your lap.

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