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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: bikingjahuty on October 31, 2014, 12:23:01 am
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how would you prioritize what you'd sell?
Thank goodness I haven't been in a financial position since 2009 where I've had to do this, but it is still something I consider if some emergency came up. Here is a list of what I'd let go in order, starting with stuff in my collection that I'm least attached to, to stuff that I'm really attached to and would only sell if everything else before it went first and I really, really needed to.
1. Extra controllers and console accessories
2. Multiplat duplicates ( example: have 4 ports of Resident Evil 2, and both the Genesis and SNES versions of Shadowrun, would keep best/favorite version and sell the rest). Also console duplicates.
3. Many of my guides and art books
4. My Sega CD and Neo Geo Pocket collections, including consoles
5. 98% of my NES collection (would keep Castlevania titles only)
6. My XBOX 360 and most of the games
. . .this is where it starts getting really tough. . .
7. Many of my handheld collections (PSP, Gameboy, GBA, DS, 3DS)
8. All my vintage gaming magazines
9. My Wii U and games
10. Video game statues and action figures
11. Most of my SNES collection
12. Most of my PS3 and Wii collection
13. Most of my original XBOX and Genesis collections
14. Most of my N64 collection
15. Most of my PS1 collection
16. Most of my PS2 collection
17. Most of my Dreamcast Collection
18. Everything else :(
Kinda depressing thinking about this, but I thought it's make for an interesting topic. Thought it'd be interested to see what other people's selling priorities looked like as well.
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I'd sell my stuff off in this order:
1. Extras (duplicates/controllers.acessories,)
2. Strategy guides
3. Art books
4. Game music cds
5. Original Xbox stuff and most of Xbox 360 stuff
6. most of myGame Boy/ GBC/GBA games
7. some of N64 games
8. most of my dreamcast stuff
9. most of my Playstation 2/3 games
10. most of my ps1 games
11. Most of my wii u stuff
12. most of nes/snes games
13. Sega saturn stuff
14. my wii collection
15. gamecube collection
16. the rest of the stuff
I hope I won't need to do this ever in my life. I feel like this list will change over time depending on the circumstances,value, and well as personal memories changing around certain spots on the list.
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I'll just point out that no financial emergency would make me sell. It's bankruptcy before selling games. No, seriously. ???
But if someone had a gun pulled and said I must do it or else.
I'd have the hardest time selling my DS, PS2, and XBOX collections as a whole, I should say NES too because I've been working really hard on that one this year. Also quite a few of the individual games I had as a kid on various platforms. Would also suck to have to part with my Vectrex, just because I think it's one of the cooler things I've found since I've been on the hunt, and a bit sentimental in that regard.
It would pain me to get rid of anything, well mostly - I could probably part with my Jaguar and it's handful of games and only be slightly annoyed, but the above mentioned would hurt a lot. If it ever actually happened, I'd be done for good. :-\
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I've thought of this before, it's tough but for me the first stuff to go would be the Neo Geo stuff and on the other side I would never ever get rid of my snes stuff
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I dont think I'll be able to do it. I'll pan handle or something. Anything but my collection. Did you know their is such thing as a pan handling license
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My wife and I were talking about something like this last night. We were in local game store and they were telling about the box of NES stuff someone brought in. It was the box my Godzilla 2 came out of 8)
Anyway, the dude only wanted $50 for something like 30 games and an NES. They gave him his full asking price. Mega Man 1-3 were in there, Godzilla 2, and Contra were all in this $50 box.
We've seen people sell stuff for $5 in a pawn shop just to go by a pack of cigarettes. How broke would I have to be to sell games? I would do without food before I sold anything. If we both lost our jobs, selling off my collection might float us for a few months; but it's taken years to amass it. It wouldn't be worth it. We can sell jewelry and antiques that we've picked up along the way. It's not a real collection. They're worth more than this stuff anyway. It's just pretty stuff on a shelf. ;)
Edit: I guess I need to answer the question.
1) Pre-NES stuff
2) PS2
3) PS1
4) Xbox
5) PS3
6) Xbox 360
Then I starve. Realistically, I'm picking up cans and looking for manual labor way before we get to this point.
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My wife and I were talking about something like this last night. We were in local game store and they were telling about the box of NES stuff someone brought in. It was the box my Godzilla 2 came out of 8)
Anyway, the dude only wanted $50 for something like 30 games and an NES. They gave him his full asking price. Mega Man 1-3 were in there, Godzilla 2, and Contra were all in this $50 box.
Sounds like a pretty crappy thing for a game store to do, with the whole giving the guy a fraction of the value of his stuff and not even telling him he's got a couple of games in it worth what he's asking alone. I bet they then priced each of the games according to eBay value? Maybe plus some on top?
I'm sure a lot of "game stores" do this, but I think it's really crappy for them to do. I know our local retro store will do this to anyone, even regular customers who they know can't be taken.
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My wife and I were talking about something like this last night. We were in local game store and they were telling about the box of NES stuff someone brought in. It was the box my Godzilla 2 came out of 8)
Anyway, the dude only wanted $50 for something like 30 games and an NES. They gave him his full asking price. Mega Man 1-3 were in there, Godzilla 2, and Contra were all in this $50 box.
Sounds like a pretty crappy thing for a game store to do, with the whole giving the guy a fraction of the value of his stuff and not even telling him he's got a couple of games in it worth what he's asking alone. I bet they then priced each of the games according to eBay value? Maybe plus some on top?
I'm sure a lot of "game stores" do this, but I think it's really crappy for them to do. I know our local retro store will do this to anyone, even regular customers who they know can't be taken.
If the dude wanted $50, I have no problem with them only giving him $50 for it. I bought Panic Restaurant for $5. There was no way in hell I was going to go up to the counter and demand that they take $250 for it.
They didn't rip the dude off. He got 100% of what he was asking. It's the same as people I buy games from. I have no problem giving people a fraction of what things are worth.
It's up to both parties to be educated about the product. I'm not going to hold a seller's hand to help them make money. I'm not going to steal from them, but giving someone way more than what they're asking is just dumb.
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My wife and I were talking about something like this last night. We were in local game store and they were telling about the box of NES stuff someone brought in. It was the box my Godzilla 2 came out of 8)
Anyway, the dude only wanted $50 for something like 30 games and an NES. They gave him his full asking price. Mega Man 1-3 were in there, Godzilla 2, and Contra were all in this $50 box.
Sounds like a pretty crappy thing for a game store to do, with the whole giving the guy a fraction of the value of his stuff and not even telling him he's got a couple of games in it worth what he's asking alone. I bet they then priced each of the games according to eBay value? Maybe plus some on top?
I'm sure a lot of "game stores" do this, but I think it's really crappy for them to do. I know our local retro store will do this to anyone, even regular customers who they know can't be taken.
If the dude wanted $50, I have no problem with them only giving him $50 for it. I bought Panic Restaurant for $5. There was no way in hell I was going to go up to the counter and demand that they take $250 for it.
They didn't rip the dude off. He got 100% of what he was asking. It's the same as people I buy games from. I have no problem giving people a fraction of what things are worth.
It's up to both parties to be educated about the product. I'm not going to hold a seller's hand to help them make money. I'm not going to steal from them, but giving someone way more than what they're asking is just dumb.
I just think it's different if you run a legit business. Ever seen Pawn Stars? Even those guys tell people when their items are worth way more than what they are wanting, and of course they're in the business of making money too.
In the case you describe above the buyer is a game store, so supposedly they are educated in the value of what they deal in or at least know to look into what the value is and make offers accordingly. It's not like Good Will where the manager isn't interested or doesn't care about the market value of donated items, or a yard sale where a bunch of random stuff just needs to be sold and done with. But it sounds like the guy just glanced in the box, saw valuable stuff, and said "sure buddy!". That's kind of crappy. Again, wouldn't be crappy in any other instance of buying or selling, other than a legitimate games store, IMO. I just think in that case, it's a bit more unethical. ???
Most people who bring games to these places go in with a bunch and ask "what will you give me for these?", in which case the store owner must respond with a straight face and try not to insult the person with a lowball. If someone brings in a NWC official cart and says "can I please get $10 for this?", and store owner gives them $10, that's pretty lousy of them.
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That would be a tough choice to make. If I had to, the shooters would probably be the first to go. The JRPGs, limited editions, and imports would be left untouched I had to sell a bunch of games.
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I'd be doing other things before it got to this point, but here goes:
(First actions at the top, last actions at the bottom)
Non collection items (Nintendo, Sony)
Macintosh Computer Collection (not really a collection. Just my old computers.)
Atari Collection
Xbox
XBox 360
Saturn
SEGA CD/32x
SG-1000
Master System
Game Gear
Dreamcast
Genesis
This definitely states that the Genesis is my favorite. 8)
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Lets just say I hope it never comes to this... I think I would struggle before I sold anything.. It took me for a long time to get what I got with the little money that I have to spend on this hobby... I just hope it never comes to it.. :)
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I would probably sell some of my more expensive games like Wayne's World on NES, but I would package it with all of my Genesis sports games so I could open up some shelf space :P
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My wife and I were talking about something like this last night. We were in local game store and they were telling about the box of NES stuff someone brought in. It was the box my Godzilla 2 came out of 8)
Anyway, the dude only wanted $50 for something like 30 games and an NES. They gave him his full asking price. Mega Man 1-3 were in there, Godzilla 2, and Contra were all in this $50 box.
Sounds like a pretty crappy thing for a game store to do, with the whole giving the guy a fraction of the value of his stuff and not even telling him he's got a couple of games in it worth what he's asking alone. I bet they then priced each of the games according to eBay value? Maybe plus some on top?
I'm sure a lot of "game stores" do this, but I think it's really crappy for them to do. I know our local retro store will do this to anyone, even regular customers who they know can't be taken.
If the dude wanted $50, I have no problem with them only giving him $50 for it. I bought Panic Restaurant for $5. There was no way in hell I was going to go up to the counter and demand that they take $250 for it.
They didn't rip the dude off. He got 100% of what he was asking. It's the same as people I buy games from. I have no problem giving people a fraction of what things are worth.
It's up to both parties to be educated about the product. I'm not going to hold a seller's hand to help them make money. I'm not going to steal from them, but giving someone way more than what they're asking is just dumb.
Amen to that, preach on brother Turf ;D
There is absolutely *nothing* wrong w/ paying someone who's asking $50 for something...well, $50 :o
I don't know what's caused such an influx & veritable flood of the lack of common sense, these days :-\
Hell, he's lucky the store didn't do (what most stores would do) & counter-offer him $20 or $30 instead.
He, obviously, got the $50 number from somewhere...he wasn't an old lady hoping to get $5 to $10 for a box of worthless, old plastic she'd found in her basement :P
I mean - I'm not unethical and/or the type to take advantage of or prey on others --but-- I'm also not stupid, saintly, nor mathematically-challenged enough to *insist* that someone take more money than they're asking me for, either ;)
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Pretty hard question, hmm... I guess that, like already mentioned, it's not really worth selling years of hard work for only a few weeks of food. But if I reaaaally had to...
1. Game Gear + games
2. Some games that are worth a lot by themselves and that I own just because I got them for cheap
3. Common games that have a value of at least $20 (to make it worth selling while being able to buy it back eventually)
And probably nothing more. I'd part ways with some specific games, but I don't think I own any system (apart from the Game Gear) that I'd be okay with getting rid of my whole library for (does that sentence even make sense ??? ).
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Geez, some of you guys are pretty hardcore about refusing to sell your games under almost any circumstance. Too me, while I love my collection and would definitely start selling off other things first (like much of my Manga or Anime collection), video games are replaceable objects when it comes down to it. Sure, it would be a pain in the ass to find some of these games again, but at least for me, I've enjoyed hunting down and finding most of the games in my collection. In all though, if it came down to eating or having a roof over my head, the collection would have to go.
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Geez, some of you guys are pretty hardcore about refusing to sell your games under almost any circumstance. Too me, while I love my collection and would definitely start selling off other things first (like much of my Manga or Anime collection), video games are replaceable objects when it comes down to it. Sure, it would be a pain in the ass to find some of these games again, but at least for me, I've enjoyed hunting down and finding most of the games in my collection. In all though, if it came down to eating or having a roof over my head, the collection would have to go.
Sure...if you take it to the extremes of being homeless & starving.
I dunno, the way I see it - I'd say that there's no question that *everybody* who's at starvation's door...or on the brink of being homeless would, of course, sell (any of) their material & replaceable items to feed and shelter themselves & their families.
I think that the reason that it hasn't been 'stated' (*exactly*) that way is because, well...it's kind of a 'given' and a stating of the obvious 8)
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I'd definitely starve first. Ramen noodles are what? 40 cents a pack? ;) To me, while game hunting is fun and all, it's not something I'd want to do again. I consider finding a home, a car, and food, much easier than building a large and diverse game collection. Worse comes to worse, apply at McDonald's and fall back on family for refuge until you can get your self straight again, and take your game collection with you. To me it's not worth a quick sell so that I can tie ends together and stay afloat long enough to get back on track and then have no games.
I'd say 90% of the games I have came from real world hunting, and not eBay. But if I was forced to start over, about 90% would need to come from eBay because of how much it's dried up in the small town area I live in. So that makes it much more difficult, what took me 6 years would probably take another 10, and probably thousands more in spending than the first time around. I just wouldn't do it again at this point.
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I'd definitely starve first. Ramen noodles are what? 40 cents a pack? ;) To me, while game hunting is fun and all, it's not something I'd want to do again. I consider finding a home, a car, and food, much easier than building a large and diverse game collection. Worse comes to worse, apply at McDonald's and fall back on family for refuge until you can get your self straight again, and take your game collection with you. To me it's not worth a quick sell so that I can tie ends together and stay afloat long enough to get back on track and then have no games.
I'd say 90% of the games I have came from real world hunting, and not eBay. But if I was forced to start over, about 90% would need to come from eBay because of how much it's dried up in the small town area I live in. So that makes it much more difficult, what took me 6 years would probably take another 10, and probably thousands more in spending than the first time around. I just wouldn't do it again at this point.
Sure.
It would/could certainly be different cases & decisions if you can rely on a family that's willing to support you/temporarily carry and/or tide you over until you get back on your feet.
I was more talking from the pov of those of us that *are* already the ones who are being depended & relied upon...
I still don't believe that anyone (w/ a conscience, at least) - when there were no other alternatives or family to rescue/save them - would themselves starve or live on the streets or...even worse, IMO, to have to watch their loved ones/those who depend on them, go hungry or lose their home...instead of putting food in everyone's bellies & keeping a roof over their heads; instead of selling (however rare & valuable) re-placeable pieces of plastic.
tl;dr
calling shenannigans! :P
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My collection is already divided into two parts:
The main part of my collection which is all the systems and games that I both have nostalgia for and are a lot of fun. This includes
Atari 2600
Atari 7800
Atari 800XL
Tandy Color Computer
NES/Famicom
SNES
Genesis/SMS
TG-16
The secondary part of my collection are games and system that I don't have any personal nostalgia for but are still fun. These I would sell first if need be
Colecovision
C64
GB/GBC/GBA
DS
Gamecube
N64
Wii
PS3
Problem is, even in dire financial straits, not a lot of what I have is worth a lot monetarily since I don't collect a lot of what other people consider popular or even rare so for the small amount I'd get from it, selling doesn't make much sense when I could just get a small loan or use my line of credit.
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Problem is, even in dire financial straits, not a lot of what I have is worth a lot monetarily since I don't collect a lot of what other people consider popular or even rare so for the small amount I'd get from it, selling doesn't make much sense when I could just get a small loan or use my line of credit.
This. SEGA and XBOX doesn't bring in the big bucks. That's actually why I collect for them.
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If I had zero cash flow and had to make ends meet. Or if me or someone in my family had a medical emergency and cash was the only fix. I would:
1) Sell my house
2) Borrow/withdraw from my retirement
Even if I sold my whole collection it would land me maybe $1000 if I was lucky.
Not at all worth the time I've put into it and I don't intend to ever waste time tracking down stuff I already have but got rid of.
Now if my house was on fire!?
I'd save:
1) My son
2) My wife (I am second on her list too. We've already discussed worst case scenarios before)
3) 1 of my backup drives
4) My soft modded original xbox because I can emulate almost everything else on it.
5) My cat
6) My wife's cats (we didn't discuss this one but I'm willing to pay for this choice)
Everything else can burn because in the end it really is just stuff.
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If I had zero cash flow and had to make ends meet. Or if me or someone in my family had a medical emergency and cash was the only fix. I would:
1) Sell my house
2) Borrow/withdraw from my retirement
Even if I sold my whole collection it would land me maybe $1000 if I was lucky.
Not at all worth the time I've put into it and I don't intend to ever waste time tracking down stuff I already have but got rid of.
Now if my house was on fire!?
I'd save:
1) My son
2) My wife (I am second on her list too. We've already discussed worst case scenarios before)
3) 1 of my backup drives
4) My soft modded original xbox because I can emulate almost everything else on it.
5) My cat
6) My wife's cats (we didn't discuss this one but I'm willing to pay for this choice)
Everything else can burn because in the end it really is just stuff.
I'm sorry but I kind of laughed when I saw the Xbox was higher than your cats.
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If I had zero cash flow and had to make ends meet. Or if me or someone in my family had a medical emergency and cash was the only fix. I would:
1) Sell my house
2) Borrow/withdraw from my retirement
Even if I sold my whole collection it would land me maybe $1000 if I was lucky.
Not at all worth the time I've put into it and I don't intend to ever waste time tracking down stuff I already have but got rid of.
Now if my house was on fire!?
I'd save:
1) My son
2) My wife (I am second on her list too. We've already discussed worst case scenarios before)
3) 1 of my backup drives
4) My soft modded original xbox because I can emulate almost everything else on it.
5) My cat
6) My wife's cats (we didn't discuss this one but I'm willing to pay for this choice)
Everything else can burn because in the end it really is just stuff.
I'm sorry but I kind of laughed when I saw the Xbox was higher than your cats.
Save the cats!!
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If I had zero cash flow and had to make ends meet. Or if me or someone in my family had a medical emergency and cash was the only fix. I would:
1) Sell my house
2) Borrow/withdraw from my retirement
Even if I sold my whole collection it would land me maybe $1000 if I was lucky.
Not at all worth the time I've put into it and I don't intend to ever waste time tracking down stuff I already have but got rid of.
Now if my house was on fire!?
I'd save:
1) My son
2) My wife (I am second on her list too. We've already discussed worst case scenarios before)
3) 1 of my backup drives
4) My soft modded original xbox because I can emulate almost everything else on it.
5) My cat
6) My wife's cats (we didn't discuss this one but I'm willing to pay for this choice)
Everything else can burn because in the end it really is just stuff.
I'm sorry but I kind of laughed when I saw the Xbox was higher than your cats.
Save the cats!!
After my wife and son everything else is organized by how quick/easy they are to locate and get out the door. My cats are all stupid and will hide in the most obscure places. I would most likely die of asphyxiation before I found them and got them out.
They are also indoor only cats so if I shoed them outside they would likely be lost forever or run over.
Besides I'll always have my pictures and video of the cats on the harddrive I saved. :)
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Of course I am kidding. There is no way my son/wife would let me save "stuff" before our cats.
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If I had zero cash flow and had to make ends meet. Or if me or someone in my family had a medical emergency and cash was the only fix. I would:
1) Sell my house
2) Borrow/withdraw from my retirement
Even if I sold my whole collection it would land me maybe $1000 if I was lucky.
Not at all worth the time I've put into it and I don't intend to ever waste time tracking down stuff I already have but got rid of.
Now if my house was on fire!?
I'd save:
1) My son
2) My wife (I am second on her list too. We've already discussed worst case scenarios before)
3) 1 of my backup drives
4) My soft modded original xbox because I can emulate almost everything else on it.
5) My cat
6) My wife's cats (we didn't discuss this one but I'm willing to pay for this choice)
Everything else can burn because in the end it really is just stuff.
I'm sorry but I kind of laughed when I saw the Xbox was higher than your cats.
Save the cats!!
After my wife and son everything else is organized by how quick/easy they are to locate and get out the door. My cats are all stupid and will hide in the most obscure places. I would most likely die of asphyxiation before I found them and got them out.
They are also indoor only cats so if I shoed them outside they would likely be lost forever or run over.
Besides I'll always have my pictures and video of the cats on the harddrive I saved. :)
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Of course I am kidding. There is no way my son/wife would let me save "stuff" before our cats.
Haha cats are important members of the family to have and are pretty cool. Both of my cats are indoor, but my brother and I have been exposing them to the outdoors for controlled periods of time so that they get to enjoy the outdoors, and it also helps them become more relaxed in a outdoor area in case something does happen where they need to get out of the house. I only hope that they aren't sleeping too soundly underneath a bed when something bad happens since they're both pretty heavy cats. In a case like a fire, I'd save my pets and family, then go get the most valuable stuff in the house, since most of my collection is housed in a secure backroom that is separated from the main house and would be safe from the fire.
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how would you prioritize what you'd sell?
Thank goodness I haven't been in a financial position since 2009 where I've had to do this, but it is still something I consider if some emergency came up. Here is a list of what I'd let go in order, starting with stuff in my collection that I'm least attached to, to stuff that I'm really attached to and would only sell if everything else before it went first and I really, really needed to.
1. Extra controllers and console accessories
2. Multiplat duplicates ( example: have 4 ports of Resident Evil 2, and both the Genesis and SNES versions of Shadowrun, would keep best/favorite version and sell the rest). Also console duplicates.
3. Many of my guides and art books
4. My Sega CD and Neo Geo Pocket collections, including consoles
5. 98% of my NES collection (would keep Castlevania titles only)
6. My XBOX 360 and most of the games
. . .this is where it starts getting really tough. . .
7. Many of my handheld collections (PSP, Gameboy, GBA, DS, 3DS)
8. All my vintage gaming magazines
9. My Wii U and games
10. Video game statues and action figures
11. Most of my SNES collection
12. Most of my PS3 and Wii collection
13. Most of my original XBOX and Genesis collections
14. Most of my N64 collection
15. Most of my PS1 collection
16. Most of my PS2 collection
17. Most of my Dreamcast Collection
18. Everything else :(
Kinda depressing thinking about this, but I thought it's make for an interesting topic. Thought it'd be interested to see what other people's selling priorities looked like as well.
Was thinking a little more about this today, and I'd actually move the NES, SNES, N64, and Genesis games closer towards the first things I'd sell. Mostly because I'd use $150 or so from each collection and buy a flash cart for each of those respective consoles. In addition to this, I'd keep the games I grew up with until it became absolutely necessary to sell them off towards the end.
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I recently started entertaining the idea of selling off the bulk of my collection to help cover the down payment on a small rental property. However, my wife won't let me do it. She knows I'll regret it. But part of me knows NES, for example, has pretty much peaked in value. Some titles will continue to climb, but anything under $100 is pretty close to leveling off (IMO). I feel that gambling that NES values are going to start dropping soon makes sense, as I could sell off my collection and re-purchase it (and more) in a few years after prices have gone through the "2600 cycle".
Though if an emergency hit and I had to sell off my collection, here's where I'd start:
1.) Duplicate consoles and accessories
2.) Arcade games (bulky and can net a big chunk of change per unit)
3.) Non-Nintendo stuff (XBox -> PS -> Atari -> Sega)
4.) N64 -> SNES -> NES
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I wouldn't sell any of my games. It's simply out of the question. If I was caught in that much of a bind, I'd sell movies/music before that. After that, I simply refuse. I don't think I'll ever be in that situation, because I'm a bit of a spendthrift. And if I am in that situation, god help me.