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| blipcs76:
I recently priced (almost) everything in my collection for two reasons: 1. Curiosity 2. Insurance value My method for pricing my collection was using the prices I found at videogames.pricecharting.com to get the value estimates of loose carts and modern games. For complete games I used a rough average of recently sold auctions on eBay. I entered everything into a spreadsheed, which keeps everything nice and tidy as well as letting me update values easily. Anyone else compiled a list of the values of games/consoles/merch in their collection? I'm curious of other methods we might use to come to accurate valuations of our collections. What about swag and collectibles? Those items seem like they could be much more difficult to pin accurate values on. |
| desocietas:
I'm really glad you asked about this because that's one of my summer projects. I have to renew my renters insurance policy and would like to keep better records of the worth of my possessions, take pictures of them, and organize them better. I hadn't figured out a good way to determine "replacement value" easily, but what you suggested sounds a lot like what I might've done. I guess the best way for me would be to go by the venues I'd go through to repurchase these items should they *knock on wood* be destroyed/stolen. |
| blipcs76:
I put the spreadsheet on Google Drive, which makes it easy to edit regardless if I'm at home or at work, and since its online, if there was a fire/tornado/alien invasion, I'd have records online to verify my collection. I do need to take more extensive photos of my collection though. It's hard to verify a lot of titles based on wide shots of my 'game room.' |
| scott:
I've thought about doing just this. But at the same time, I put it off because it's a lot of work. ha I might get around to doing it eventually though.... |
| darko:
I just blanketed mine with a rider on my home insurance policy. It was cheaper that way and covers more than I currently need to replace everything (considering it's an ever-growing collection). |
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