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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: kmacdw on April 04, 2016, 04:31:53 am
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Ha maybe I'm alone in this but it always disappoints me to see people selling their collection or even downsizing. I can never bring myself to buy anything from them as I feel like I'm contributing to that disappointment. Just seems like a shame that someone who has put time and money into collecting these games, suddenly decides to sell them for whatever reason. I get that sometimes it's a necessity; babies for instance tend to be a common cause for people deciding to sell, as they're expensive; however that isn't the only reason I've seen people sell.
So I'm just curious as to other people's input on this. How do you feel when you see someone selling their collection? Have you sold a large chunk of your collection before? Why did you do it? Do you regret it?
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I agree that it's a bit sad when you see other peoples complete collections go on ebay or other places. But as for downsizing, I regulary do that when I find parts of my collection boring, so I see no problem with that. For me it's more a natural evolution of my collection :)
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Were not talking about people who owned a console with some games but people with entire nice quality collections, Not people who sell their entire collection of for example megadrive. 30 40 games with mediocre titles. High quality collections. ive seen many people who collected and they had pretty much no good titles, I don't feel sad when people get rid of those collections.
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Some people decide to sell their filler titles wich are a large portion of their collection
If i see someone sell all their sports games and other bad (platformers shooters racers etc etc) titles huge amounts I don't think they will have any regrets. In fact they make the world a better place, sspecially for ps1, ps2 xbox and wii consoles Also for mediocre nes snes sega titles I doubt many would think it is a shame. The games are trash anyways, filler titles are not worth owning in my opinion unless you go for a full set. If you don't It's worthless It's all or nothing if you include fillers.
If you have an excellent cib collection of nintendo or sega games with good games and you put that for sale than I agree it is a bit sad to those collections go Someone selling for example their old school castlevania or mega man game collection It's pretty sad since in most of the times they are forced to sell those for money needs. Same goes for entire collections of sought after ps1 ps2 and wii titles and ofcourse many more.
I'm a bastard but thanks to those deals I've managed to ad many high priced older cib sega and nintendo sony titles for bargains or nothing.The stuff is usually in excellent shape and you can sometimes get it for excellent prices in big lots not to mention more uncommon titles wich are not always on the open market. Also people who sell their entire collections miss out on some valuable things or are years behind what it was worth than. There was this sega collector who sold his sega megadrive games for 5 euro's a piece. I did pay more for the 2 starting 20 a piece titles but the ones that were not online yet wich he gave me a list for he accepted it for 5 euro's a piece wich i offered as joke to see his counter offer these were nice quality sega titles. It's insane also accepted 7,50 for factory sealed dreamcast games wich apperently no one saw in his adds good ones btw phantasy star etc, for his pc big box games it was another story 40 etc.
I won't say no to a free cib pal megaman x3 and panzer dragoon with sleeves etc both for the sega saturn. I did pay a nice chunk for the lot these came in but these are the deals you want to make as a collector. I do always pay a solid chunk If I have these opportunities but far less than It's worth and I usually end up getting the stuff I want for free or in the very least for bargains flee market prices.
Also If you feel dissapointed when buying stuff from them you will pay way higher prices than on flee markets were people actually get ripped off or you will pay full retail prices from resellers who bought these games from those collectors for the more uncommon stuff. If you don't buy it someone else will and you will pay retail prices. I personally don't see the point in people being sad. Especially since everyone complains that retrogames are way to expensive and want to pay way less than the value. make your choice people. If your sad than buy your games of ebay for full retail price and don't complain for retro games being to expensive. Plenty of collectors who sell on ebay for retail prices.
I'm not the kinda guy that likes to spend 50 to 350 a piece on games. I can quit collecting after a short time after buying games for those prices before going home broke for the year. I'm the kinda guy that lives for the deal.
Collections aside I recenlty bought a ps1 lot from a non collector and the person apologised for taking to long for shipping Didn't mail the guy but he send me a message. Apperently he Was in the hospital for research and they confirmed the person had cancer. I felt pretty sad for that guy. Also from this one sega lots apperently being from a person who died and they wanted to get rid of it. Didn't need to know that. Sometimes some sad stories behind 2nd hand goods it's just how the cookie crumbles.
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One thing that a lot of people in this hobby seem to forget is that there are many things in life way more important than having an awesome game collection. Games can be sold and repurchased; medical bills, vacations, life changing experiencing, college, buying a house or car, and many other things do not work this way.
Yes, it is a bit sad and depending when you started collecting you will probably never find the sort of deals you may have on some of your games, but again they can always be repurchased if you end up missing them that much.
In the 8-years I've been collecting I've only downsized once and to be honest I really don't miss the games that I ended up selling (about 100 in total, mostly NES, SNES and Genesis games). I had some major expenses to pay for and it was worth it to me to get those taken care of versus holding onto my games, but being in debt right now.
In terms of the rest of my collection I certainly have no intention of selling it, but if something very important ever came up I may consider it.
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I've recently been selling off a big part of my collection. There are four main reasons behind this.
1. I have Too. Much. Stuff. I don't have a place to keep it all. A huge part of my collection I have had to move to my nephew's place to store because I simply don't have the room. My bedroom walk-in closet has become a storage shed. My daughters both suffer with less closet space because I have tubs tucked away in their rooms. The corner table in my living room sectional hides two tubs of games and consoles. I have storage tubs sealed up out in the garage with game-related but non-game items because I have no place to keep it all. It's just too much. It's unwieldy, I cannot even enjoy looking at the items let alone get to them easily. Hell, I have this giant flat box full of promotional posters. I have them stored under the living room couch because that is the only place I could find to keep them. I can't even pull them out and look at them occasionally because I have to move the damn ottoman five feet across the room just to get to them! :o I have dozens of really bad-ass looking gaming posters. Guess what? They are all rolled, hiding in the top of my closet. Unseen and unloved.
2. I rather have Star Wars stuff. As far back as I can remember and indeed - I wasn't even 3 years old at the time - Star Wars has been a big part of my life. It inspired my love of sci-fi and influenced my further love of anime, comics, toys, models, etc. The only sci-fi that could come close to being as cool for me was when Star Blazers aired back in the late 70's.
3. My OCD drives me insane. If I have Virtua Fighter 5, I have to methodically and systematically hunt down every other single Virtua Fighter game whether I have a system to play it on or not. It's insane and I cannot control myself. Collecting Star Wars on the other hand, I don't try to get "everything" and instead can pick & choose because there are so many different things to choose from. It may not make sense to you, but it does to me. For example, I love the Bandai Movie Realization figures. They basically take classic Star Wars characters and reimagine them as Samurai. They are pricey, but there are only three with a fourth on the way. So it was easy to get them and be content. Like I said...it makes sense in my OCD mind. LOL. :P
4. My family means more to me than video games ever could. My priority is to make sure my wife and girls know I love them, and to make sure the girls grow up to be good, smart, compassionate people. Spending hundreds of hours playing games - especially games that nobody in the house but me likes - isn't a good way to be a part of my family. Sure I've sold off hundreds of games. But I've also picked up a few here & there like Disney Infinity with a dozen or so figures (so far) that my kids & I can play together.
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It also makes me sad to see people sell off their collections, but I would understand if it's for an important necessity.
I hope I'll never end up in a situation where I have to sell off a large amount of games...
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Yes and no. Depends on how much pride they seemed to have in their collection before they decided to shed it off. If they're the type who jumped in and bought 1000 games in one year's time, then decided to get out of it, that doesn't bother me. But if they spent years picking up games on the cheap, slowing building their collection and you can tell they take a lot of pride in it, then something comes along and they axe a bunch of it. That kinda hurts to see, even if it doesn't bother them to do it.
For me this is a one trip journey, and I'm never going back. If something ever happened, I'd just emulate games when I felt like playing, and find another physical hobby to pursue. The prices, scarcity, and popularity of this stuff nauseates me to even think of doing-over. Plus so much of it was about the discovery, and the game hunts and special finds that cannot be recreated.
It doesn't pain me to buy from a collector. I'd much rather see their games go to someone else who is ecstatic about them than into the hands of a re-seller or something like that. What gets me more, is buying or taking games from someone who was not a collector, but just had a few old games lying around from their childhood. Here I am with a million games, and I'm taking their childhood stuff away most likely to throw on a pile. That doesn't sit well with me.
I've considered downsizing because I have a number of things that I bought for the wrong reasons, but don't know if I could actually do it. Still have a stack of FMV games for the Sega CD I've disowned, but never gotten rid of. :o Have about 100 games that I have no desire to ever even try, would like to shed those, but probably won't. Maybe one day, after I've tried everything I own, I'd feel better about getting rid of some.
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It's a shame when you see someone selling a collection, but if they've lost interest or need to sell it due to personal reasons then it's understandable.
Something that I do find weird though, and I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced it, is that some people I subscribe to on Youtube sell and restart collections all the time. Like, they'll have one collection, sell it, start another one, then sell that one and restart a collection of the console they first sold, then sell that one and restart buying the other one again. Some of the people do the process over and over, and I don't get it. Fair enough, they've got their reasons and it's nothing to do with me, but some times I feel like people are forcing themselves to enjoy collecting, when perhaps they just need a break from it all for a while.
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I've recently been selling off a big part of my collection. There are four main reasons behind this.
1. I have Too. Much. Stuff. I don't have a place to keep it all. A huge part of my collection I have had to move to my nephew's place to store because I simply don't have the room. My bedroom walk-in closet has become a storage shed. My daughters both suffer with less closet space because I have tubs tucked away in their rooms. The corner table in my living room sectional hides two tubs of games and consoles. I have storage tubs sealed up out in the garage with game-related but non-game items because I have no place to keep it all. It's just too much. It's unwieldy, I cannot even enjoy looking at the items let alone get to them easily. Hell, I have this giant flat box full of promotional posters. I have them stored under the living room couch because that is the only place I could find to keep them. I can't even pull them out and look at them occasionally because I have to move the damn ottoman five feet across the room just to get to them! :o I have dozens of really bad-ass looking gaming posters. Guess what? They are all rolled, hiding in the top of my closet. Unseen and unloved.
2. I rather have Star Wars stuff. As far back as I can remember and indeed - I wasn't even 3 years old at the time - Star Wars has been a big part of my life. It inspired my love of sci-fi and influenced my further love of anime, comics, toys, models, etc. The only sci-fi that could come close to being as cool for me was when Star Blazers aired back in the late 70's.
3. My OCD drives me insane. If I have Virtua Fighter 5, I have to methodically and systematically hunt down every other single Virtua Fighter game whether I have a system to play it on or not. It's insane and I cannot control myself. Collecting Star Wars on the other hand, I don't try to get "everything" and instead can pick & choose because there are so many different things to choose from. It may not make sense to you, but it does to me. For example, I love the Bandai Movie Realization figures. They basically take classic Star Wars characters and reimagine them as Samurai. They are pricey, but there are only three with a fourth on the way. So it was easy to get them and be content. Like I said...it makes sense in my OCD mind. LOL. :P
4. My family means more to me than video games ever could. My priority is to make sure my wife and girls know I love them, and to make sure the girls grow up to be good, smart, compassionate people. Spending hundreds of hours playing games - especially games that nobody in the house but me likes - isn't a good way to be a part of my family. Sure I've sold off hundreds of games. But I've also picked up a few here & there like Disney Infinity with a dozen or so figures (so far) that my kids & I can play together.
I can relate to some of your points.
In terms of your first point; despite only have 500 or so physical games I can't have the pleasure of viewing them on display; I am currently living back at home while I finish college/university; my room doesn't have the room for shelving and even if it did, it'd be impractical to get in shelving as then I couldn't move it when I leave. I think that was one of the reasons I scaled back my ambitions when I first transitioned from simply playing games to collecting them; initially I planned to get every RPG available for every mainstream system available in the PAL region; as well as other series in other genres that I like. However I soon decided this would be more games than I could ever hope to play and they'd just be taking up space for no reason. So I scaled back my ambitions twice; firstly to just the 'good' RPGs that I'd hope to play on those systems, as well as other games. And eventually back to just the more modern consoles (though I haven't yet ruled out entirely eventually getting a Genesis and a SNES). So yeah I can understand that you have to consider space and the potential to actually play them.
I can also relate to your 3rd point as I also have OCD. It's the biggest drawback to collecting anything; I also tend to have to have the entire series; which means generally I don't buy a single game, I buy the entire series; like when I got my PS3 I bought Agarest 1, 2 & Zero instantly. Yet even worse than wanting entire series; is striving for perfect condition. I realise in terms of finances I generally can't buy sealed, yet my OCD drives me to find copies that are as good as new, and any imperfection makes them unworthy of being long term parts of my collection, so I constantly have a replacements list which i can never clear as I always buy more games and 1 or 2 will always have an imperfection. There's some games I've bought multiple times, and expensive ones at that; I had to buy two copies of Skies of Arcadia Legends which goes for about €70-€80 in this region. Yet worst of all is Suikoden 5, I got that game for my 15th birthday when it originally came out, I finished it and I kept it for a year or so in great condition, I then traded it in with another game so that I could buy a ticket to a LAN I wanted to attend. However when I started collecting I wanted it back so I bought it for about €30, condition wasn't good enough for me, so I traded it into a retro store for a fraction of what I paid and I went on ebay and got another copy for about €25; it was perfect but when testing the disk my PS2 decided to go to town and eat it, it still played but the condition bothered me, so it was back to the market and I purchased a 4th copy for €40. I couldn't even trade in the other copy due to the torrid condition so I just gave it to a friend as he wasn't bothered by condition and just wanted to play it. So yeah I'm on my 4th copy of Suikoden 5. I've replaced so many games due to condition that my collection could probably be 100 games or so better off if I was more accepting of condition. It drives me mad :(
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It's a shame when you see someone selling a collection, but if they've lost interest or need to sell it due to personal reasons then it's understandable.
Something that I do find weird though, and I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced it, is that some people I subscribe to on Youtube sell and restart collections all the time. Like, they'll have one collection, sell it, start another one, then sell that one and restart a collection of the console they first sold, then sell that one and restart buying the other one again. Some of the people do the process over and over, and I don't get it. Fair enough, they've got their reasons and it's nothing to do with me, but some times I feel like people are forcing themselves to enjoy collecting, when perhaps they just need a break from it all for a while.
I've never noticed that tbh. Surely their channels can't be making enough money to justify them spending that much on rebuilding :D
Only YouTube collector I've noticed selling off his console was Aerodynamicsh; a guy from the Netherlands. He decided after he met a girl while travelling the U.S that his games were tying him down and if he ever decided to move to the U.S fulltime, he wouldn't be able to bring them with him anyways; so he stopped collecting and sold like 70% of his games. In my mind I was like "noooooo just tell the girl she should move to Europe, then you can keep your games :D"lol But in all seriousness in my mind his collection was a bit OTT; I've never understood the attraction of having regional variants or in having various special editions. So in my mind he could have sold all his regional variants, collectors editions and merch; while still retaining all his standard release games, but clear a hell of a lot of space and make a lot of money. I thought he went too far really.
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Fair enough, they've got their reasons and it's nothing to do with me, but some times I feel like people are forcing themselves to enjoy collecting, when perhaps they just need a break from it all for a while.
I think that's a big part of it. For me, collecting has become a chore and a source of anxiety. I've stopped enjoying not only collecting, but also playing the games partially. You (as in anyone collecting and specifically my case) get to a point where you are like "I have to get Dark Souls III. Ooh...can't forget Odin Sphere. Buying those, I better get Ratchet & Clank too!" And it just goes on and on and never ends. And you end up spending a ton of money on a bunch of games that are in your "backlog" and you feel pressure to get to. So you either don't play the games until the time comes when you could have just gone to the store and bought them for $20 because they have been out so long, or you shortchange a game you are currently playing (and hopefully enjoying) to move on to the next title.
If the game collection (at least in my case) is there for aesthetic reasons (to look at and marvel), I would much rather look at a statue or cool figure or other item that I find visually pleasing and cool rather than an endless row of box spines with a title on them that I have to cock my head to the right to read. But again, that's just me.
I'm not abandoning gaming at all. It's in my blood. I've been a gamer for almost my entire life. But I have to take a break, clear out a lot of it and get back to actually enjoying the systems and games I own. For me, there is definitely such a thing as "too much of a good thing."
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I can also relate to your 3rd point as I also have OCD. It's the biggest drawback to collecting anything; I also tend to have to have the entire series; which means generally I don't buy a single game, I buy the entire series; like when I got my PS3 I bought Agarest 1, 2 & Zero instantly. Yet even worse than wanting entire series; is striving for perfect condition. I realise in terms of finances I generally can't buy sealed, yet my OCD drives me to find copies that are as good as new, and any imperfection makes them unworthy of being long term parts of my collection, so I constantly have a replacements list which i can never clear as I always buy more games and 1 or 2 will always have an imperfection. There's some games I've bought multiple times, and expensive ones at that; I had to buy two copies of Skies of Arcadia Legends which goes for about €70-€80 in this region. Yet worst of all is Suikoden 5, I got that game for my 15th birthday when it originally came out, I finished it and I kept it for a year or so in great condition, I then traded it in with another game so that I could buy a ticket to a LAN I wanted to attend. However when I started collecting I wanted it back so I bought it for about €30, condition wasn't good enough for me, so I traded it into a retro store for a fraction of what I paid and I went on ebay and got another copy for about €25; it was perfect but when testing the disk my PS2 decided to go to town and eat it, it still played but the condition bothered me, so it was back to the market and I purchased a 4th copy for €40. I couldn't even trade in the other copy due to the torrid condition so I just gave it to a friend as he wasn't bothered by condition and just wanted to play it. So yeah I'm on my 4th copy of Suikoden 5. I've replaced so many games due to condition that my collection could probably be 100 games or so better off if I was more accepting of condition. It drives me mad :(
Agh....I know! I've passed over so many games and re-bought so many others because the condition wasn't up to snuff for me. Final Fantasy VII? Has to be black label, mint condition, first print with the error on the back or nothing! If normal folks could only understand the pain of OCD freaks like me... :'(
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One thing that a lot of people in this hobby seem to forget is that there are many things in life way more important than having an awesome game collection. Games can be sold and repurchased; medical bills, vacations, life changing experiencing, college, buying a house or car, and many other things do not work this way.
Yes, it is a bit sad and depending when you started collecting you will probably never find the sort of deals you may have on some of your games, but again they can always be repurchased if you end up missing them that much.
In the 8-years I've been collecting I've only downsized once and to be honest I really don't miss the games that I ended up selling (about 100 in total, mostly NES, SNES and Genesis games). I had some major expenses to pay for and it was worth it to me to get those taken care of versus holding onto my games, but being in debt right now.
In terms of the rest of my collection I certainly have no intention of selling it, but if something very important ever came up I may consider it.
I'm not saying I'm ignorant of there being important reasons for one having to sell their collection; obviously family, health and education should all come first. However I still feel it's a shame; in an ideal world they should be able to finance those things and their games. Hell at times I feel like if I was a millionaire I'd love to just turn around to those people and say "keep your collection mate, I'll pay for your daughter's operation"; as well these people share my passion for video games and I hate to see their efforts undone by them falling into financial hardship.
At times I've considered downsizing (despite not having a big collection); there's certain series I've lost interest in, so I consider selling most of the games from that series off but my OCD prevents it. For example I no longer bother with Call of Duty; so the logical thing would be to sell off most of my Call of Duty titles and just keep CoD 2 & 4 as they are the only two I could ever see myself replaying but then OCD kicks in and I feel I can only ever have complete collections so instead I will inevitably buy Ghosts, Blacks Ops 3 and Advanced Warfare before long so as to complete the collection, even though I may never play them as I don't really like the games anymore. I know it sounds ridiculous but it is how it is. So my only approach to downsizing is never buying certain games in the first place, so as to avoid jumping down that rabbit hole.
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Agh....I know! I've passed over so many games and re-bought so many others because the condition wasn't up to snuff for me. Final Fantasy VII? Has to be black label, mint condition, first print with the error on the back or nothing! If normal folks could only understand the pain of OCD freaks like me... :'(
Exactly I can't stand 'greatest hits', 'platinum' and the like. Has to be original release. Games like Final Fantasy VII are so annoying; those multi disk cases are so fragile and so difficult to find replacement parts for. I'm on my third attempt to get a copy of Koudelka as the copies always seem to have broken disk holders. The last copy I got was perfect but it got damaged on route as the seller never put bubble wrap in between the holders; I just bought another copy and the seller has agreed to put bubble wrap in so I'm praying it survives the journey.
Ebay drives me mad. I love a seller who takes good pics of both sides of a case, the inside of the case, both sides of the manual and the disk. That's my kind of seller as I can study condition. However most people use stock photos or just take pictures of the case or the disk. So frustrating >:(
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Agh....I know! I've passed over so many games and re-bought so many others because the condition wasn't up to snuff for me. Final Fantasy VII? Has to be black label, mint condition, first print with the error on the back or nothing! If normal folks could only understand the pain of OCD freaks like me... :'(
Exactly I can't stand 'greatest hits', 'platinum' and the like. Has to be original release. Games like Final Fantasy VII are so annoying; those multi disk cases are so fragile and so difficult to find replacement parts for. I'm on my third attempt to get a copy of Koudelka as the copies always seem to have broken disk holders. The last copy I got was perfect but it got damaged on route as the seller never put bubble wrap in between the holders; I just bought another copy and the seller has agreed to put bubble wrap in so I'm praying it survives the journey.
With those multipacks, I've compromised by just replacing with a CD multipack case (or parts of, as you can remove sections of the case), as long as it looks as close to the original as possible. I know in my heart that it sucks that it's not the original case, but most folks won't know, and the game was usually purchased cheaply enough that it didn't matter to me in the end.
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Agh....I know! I've passed over so many games and re-bought so many others because the condition wasn't up to snuff for me. Final Fantasy VII? Has to be black label, mint condition, first print with the error on the back or nothing! If normal folks could only understand the pain of OCD freaks like me... :'(
Exactly I can't stand 'greatest hits', 'platinum' and the like. Has to be original release. Games like Final Fantasy VII are so annoying; those multi disk cases are so fragile and so difficult to find replacement parts for. I'm on my third attempt to get a copy of Koudelka as the copies always seem to have broken disk holders. The last copy I got was perfect but it got damaged on route as the seller never put bubble wrap in between the holders; I just bought another copy and the seller has agreed to put bubble wrap in so I'm praying it survives the journey.
Ebay drives me mad. I love a seller who takes good pics of both sides of a case, the inside of the case, both sides of the manual and the disk. That's my kind of seller as I can study condition. However most people use stock photos or just take pictures of the case or the disk. So frustrating >:(
I have a set of pics I always take. Front, back and inside. I have a lot of trouble trying to get the disc bottom to come out, trying to show any defects like scratches. I never can get a good pic of that. :-\
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I usually downsize about once a year. Since I buy a lot at flea markets, local FB groups, and other resale shops. I usually end up with a lot of filler that needs to be pruned through. Since the only system I want a complete set for is Dreamcast, there is a lot of stuff I get in lots that is just jank. I get good trade bait too but I still end up with a lot of crappy licensed games and sports games. Since I don't want all that filler for other systems I just sell it off about once or twice a year.
Also a lot of PS1 filler is bought purely to rehab game cases for PS1/Dreamcast games I like more. It's not orginal but it is as close as Im gonna get with some games.
As for reprints like Players's Choice, Greatest Hits, Platinum, etc. I don't personally mind as long as it is CIB. I just want a good play copy that looks nice on the shelf. Like my FFVII is a greatest hits copy. I don't personally mind. It works and plays and is CIB. I won't even replace it with a black label on the cheap because a black label FFVII is so sought after I can just trade out the black Label version for another game I am looking for and I'll get a better trade with the black label version.
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So I'm just curious as to other people's input on this. How do you feel when you see someone selling their collection? Have you sold a large chunk of your collection before? Why did you do it? Do you regret it?
When I see someone selling their collection, I'm interested in their reasoning. If the reason is because "life happens" then, my feelings range from sympathetic to hopeful. It shows a level of responsibility that other people don't have. Of course, I feel for them because they have to stop or put on hold something that they enjoy doing so much. Of course, if their reason is because they want to get rich quick or something lame, I get slightly annoyed.
I've never sold a large chunk of my collection before, but I have sold anywhere from 1 to 15 games at a time by foolishly taking them to Game Stop or a mom n' pop game store. The only thing I regret about doing that is not taking the time to see if another collector or a friend would have enjoyed them. The game could have gone to a better home. Instead, it ended up being traded for "credit" at some store, most of which were ran by a bunch of wage slaves that lacked any sort of passion for gaming.
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Agh....I know! I've passed over so many games and re-bought so many others because the condition wasn't up to snuff for me. Final Fantasy VII? Has to be black label, mint condition, first print with the error on the back or nothing! If normal folks could only understand the pain of OCD freaks like me... :'(
Exactly I can't stand 'greatest hits', 'platinum' and the like. Has to be original release. Games like Final Fantasy VII are so annoying; those multi disk cases are so fragile and so difficult to find replacement parts for. I'm on my third attempt to get a copy of Koudelka as the copies always seem to have broken disk holders. The last copy I got was perfect but it got damaged on route as the seller never put bubble wrap in between the holders; I just bought another copy and the seller has agreed to put bubble wrap in so I'm praying it survives the journey.
Aren't ps1 cases pretty easily replaced? I mean seriously I'm also from pal regions and I can just remove the inserts and place them in a perfect box of a bad game. Even the multidiscs ones are easily replaced.
Also as condition goes for non cardboard released games I usually satisfy for excellent upwards condition with minimal light scratches on the discs.
Mint condition especially for ps1 is nearly impossible and it basicly means that you can pretty much never play the games since some small scratches will come eventually if you play the game allot or by accident. If you want something to be close to 100% mint only factory sealed will do. Personally nothing is mint in my book learn to accept it. I find that people use the word mint way to easy on thing that are clearly not mint at all.
One annoying thing I find for ps1 games is that the sides sometimes for some reason are not perfectly straight when holding it in the light. Like people touched the back inlay and creased it a little those are annoying things.
White scuffs on ps2 artwork along with it being way to dented is also a true pain.
The box is one thing that has to be near perfect for me in the very least no white scuffs and pretty much not dented.
Discs can be excellent upwards, mint is not possible when you use them. ps3 upwards discs are way stronger than the older discs and pretty much not scratch.
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Agh....I know! I've passed over so many games and re-bought so many others because the condition wasn't up to snuff for me. Final Fantasy VII? Has to be black label, mint condition, first print with the error on the back or nothing! If normal folks could only understand the pain of OCD freaks like me... :'(
Exactly I can't stand 'greatest hits', 'platinum' and the like. Has to be original release. Games like Final Fantasy VII are so annoying; those multi disk cases are so fragile and so difficult to find replacement parts for. I'm on my third attempt to get a copy of Koudelka as the copies always seem to have broken disk holders. The last copy I got was perfect but it got damaged on route as the seller never put bubble wrap in between the holders; I just bought another copy and the seller has agreed to put bubble wrap in so I'm praying it survives the journey.
Aren't ps1 cases pretty easily replaced? I mean seriously I'm also from pal regions and I can just remove the inserts and place them in a perfect box of a bad game. Even the multidiscs ones are easily replaced.
Single PS1 boxes aren't hard to replace but I find multi-disk boxes are. We only have one retro store here and it's not great for condition; and anyways the only multidisc games they tend to stock are FF titles which are never cheap. And in terms of shopping online, I never find many multidisc cases that are in good condition and the ones I do come across are attached to expensive titles. Ha enlighten me if you can on any PAL 4 disk game that's common and cheap; I'll be indebted to you as it'll save me heartache in the future.
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Agh....I know! I've passed over so many games and re-bought so many others because the condition wasn't up to snuff for me. Final Fantasy VII? Has to be black label, mint condition, first print with the error on the back or nothing! If normal folks could only understand the pain of OCD freaks like me... :'(
Exactly I can't stand 'greatest hits', 'platinum' and the like. Has to be original release. Games like Final Fantasy VII are so annoying; those multi disk cases are so fragile and so difficult to find replacement parts for. I'm on my third attempt to get a copy of Koudelka as the copies always seem to have broken disk holders. The last copy I got was perfect but it got damaged on route as the seller never put bubble wrap in between the holders; I just bought another copy and the seller has agreed to put bubble wrap in so I'm praying it survives the journey.
Aren't ps1 cases pretty easily replaced? I mean seriously I'm also from pal regions and I can just remove the inserts and place them in a perfect box of a bad game. Even the multidiscs ones are easily replaced.
Single PS1 boxes aren't hard to replace but I find multi-disk boxes are. We only have one retro store here and it's not great for condition; and anyways the only multidisc games they tend to stock are FF titles which are never cheap. And in terms of shopping online, I never find many multidisc cases that are in good condition and the ones I do come across are attached to expensive titles. Ha enlighten me if you can on any PAL 4 disk game that's common and cheap; I'll be indebted to you as it'll save me heartache in the future.
that's true I usually buy my games in lots so spare cases cost me nothing at all. I see your point when buying a single game just for the purpose of replacing can be expensive. Wanted to do that as well in my beginning collecting years but realised It's to expensive and tried to get perfect boxes along the way when buying lots. Never started doing it just picking spare part in excellent shape from the bad titles since people will not pay more for bad games even if in better boxes.
Some versions of Destruction derby, tomb raider and riven are example games with multi disc cases wich aren't to expensive in my country. Also sometimes
Also when you come across metal gear solid in a set also a chance to get a nice condition multi box, You can just sell the game in the slightly worse condition box since valuewise it will barely make a difference.. You could do the same thing with koudelka.
Also keep in mind that you can remove and replace the back and front inlay so only the middle inlay needs to fit 2 discs.
Also if you don't mind a ps1 box without a original ps1 sticker you could go to a thrift store and grab yourselves a 4 disc cd music set for around 50 cents. Not to rare and It's the exact same box that ps1 games use aside for the sticker
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Ha enlighten me if you can on any PAL 4 disk game that's common and cheap; I'll be indebted to you as it'll save me heartache in the future.
Hm, not sure how PAL cases are. But for NA cases, for the most part it's a multi-disk jewel case, and I go to a thrift store to find good condition CD cases that help replace broken parts. I've been able to find CD cases of operas and other things that are cheap and probably not anything anyone would miss.
If only the part with the disc holder is cracked, those are easy to remove and replace without replacing the whole case.
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Ha enlighten me if you can on any PAL 4 disk game that's common and cheap; I'll be indebted to you as it'll save me heartache in the future.
Hm, not sure how PAL cases are. But for NA cases, for the most part it's a multi-disk jewel case, and I go to a thrift store to find good condition CD cases that help replace broken parts. I've been able to find CD cases of operas and other things that are cheap and probably not anything anyone would miss.
If only the part with the disc holder is cracked, those are easy to remove and replace without replacing the whole case.
Same goes for us with one small difference.
We have a sony ps1 sticker in one corner. Allot of early pal ps1 games including multicase versions did not have this sticker. Pretty much every ps1 game has this sticker. It looks nice but finding a genuine replacement isn't that easy by just buying one game or cd case.
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It's a shame when you see someone selling a collection, but if they've lost interest or need to sell it due to personal reasons then it's understandable.
Something that I do find weird though, and I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced it, is that some people I subscribe to on Youtube sell and restart collections all the time. Like, they'll have one collection, sell it, start another one, then sell that one and restart a collection of the console they first sold, then sell that one and restart buying the other one again. Some of the people do the process over and over, and I don't get it. Fair enough, they've got their reasons and it's nothing to do with me, but some times I feel like people are forcing themselves to enjoy collecting, when perhaps they just need a break from it all for a while.
Yes, I've seen that before, and particularly with one channel I've followed for years. The guy will sell off a bulk of his games - a year later he's like "why did I do that?" and re-buys them at a higher price, then sells off some other games - a year later he's like... "why did I do that?" and re-buys those ones again. Then those games he re-bought the year before he sells off again and... you get the idea. Drives me nuts. If you like the game just keep it!
There is one YTer that thinned his collection down with a three criteria guide that I liked a lot, and it was something like... 1 - Am I ever going to play this again? 2 - Did I enjoy this game at all? 3 - Does the game mean anything to me outside of just the gameplay (for example nostalgia, sentimentality, collection goal)?
If you can answer yes to any of those, keep it. If you can't, then chuck it.
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I've never had a huge collection of games, but a few times over the past 8 or so years, I've spent a lot of time trying to find whatever I could cheap and pick up some other old stuff for fun, but ended up getting rid of them. I've just pruned my collection a good bit recently outside of some stuff I really want as I'm trying to focus solely on my Zelda collection now. That's more than enough right for me now since a lot of it is done and I'm mostly just needing to get boxed versions of things. None of it was super rare, so if I ever get to the point that I can comfortably expand my collecting habits, I'll be able to do so.
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A few months back, I realized that I had some bad Wii/ps2 shovelware ( stuff i found for $1 mostly) that I wanted to get rid of. So I donated most of it to Goodwill, used the spare Wii cases for housing my rarer disk only Wii games, and got a bit more space from offloading about 100 items or so.
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I may be one of the old timers who has been collecting, on and off, for about 24 years, starting in 1992. In that time span I've bought and sold two MASSIVE collections consisting mostly of pre-crash systems. I sold my first entire collection in 1996. I started collecting again in 2000 and sold that entire collection in 2005. I regretted getting rid of everything shortly after both sell-offs.
I started in 2008 on my third collection, this time vowing to just buy games and systems I enjoyed but also to not sell it all again. That first part, about only buying games and systems I enjoyed, lasted about a year. In 2009 I started making youtube videos (which I haven't done for several months now) and getting reactions to people watching my pickup videos encouraged to buy anything and everything just to make some damn pickup videos. Around late 2011 and early 2012 I took stock of my collection and how it was getting so out of control, how I had so much fluff and shelf filler, most of which I NEVER played, and I started a big purge of all those systems and games I didn't play. I did a similar but smaller purge in the summer of 2014.
As of yet, I really don't regret anything I've gotten rid of and I think THAT is a testament to how much of my collection was really unneeded and unwanted. I am glad I've made videos over the years as I still have a record of my collection at various points over the years, at least of this third collection. I wish I would have taken more pictures and videos in the 90's and early 2000's when I was hunting regularly, during those first two collections when it practically rained classic video games, before ebay and resellers. I had some finds, the quality and quantity of which would make your head spin. Think of what Flea gets x 10. I'd regularly come home from yard saling with several boxes and garbage bags full of pre-crash games and systems and most of the time I never spent more than 30 or 40 bucks. Not joking.
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Never mind, this post was going off subject.
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Yes, I've seen that before, and particularly with one channel I've followed for years. The guy will sell off a bulk of his games - a year later he's like "why did I do that?" and re-buys them at a higher price, then sells off some other games - a year later he's like... "why did I do that?" and re-buys those ones again. Then those games he re-bought the year before he sells off again and... you get the idea. Drives me nuts. If you like the game just keep it!
That describes almost exactly one person who I'm subscribed to.
I've thought that maybe some people prefer the process of finding/buying games over anything else (which is really fun to be fair), and in the back of their minds it makes them want to do all this.
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It would hurt me to see someone have some sort of tragedy come up, and that cause them to have to sell out. Giving up something you love sucks.
On the other hand, if you someone just lost interest or had a moment of clarity; I'll happily buy them out. I'm a little bit of a piece of shit though. I'll take a deal from anyone.
I've considered selling out in the last year or so. Life came up, and other things were more important. It wasn't the money. It was more of the lack of room, lack of desire, and the high prices. I could make a small fortune if I sold out while prices are high.
I've also considered downsizing my collection. In fact, someone that I may or may not have been married to helped me pair it down quite a bit. I was relieved of my Atari, Coleco, Intellivision, Genesis, and Virtual Boy collections. It works out though. I didn't care about the pre-crash stuff. I only want some of the Genesis stuff back. The Virtual Boy missing pisses me off. I nearly had a full set and my virtual boy was in a Blockbuster rental box. That's not something you see every day.
TL;DR It depends on why the person is selling out.
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I really hope that I wil not come in some situation were I have to sell parts or the entire collection.
I collect by finding deals for bargains etc. Furthermore everything in excellent shape straight cardboard boxes etc are really hard to find for a nice price in deals Also megadrive games are a pain to find without white scuffs on the art work
I would be really sad to see my megadrive and cib GBA collection go to much nostalgia for those systems.
I barely have any filler titles so It's pretty sad to see anything of the collection go.
If my collection would be sold I would probably never have a copy of. (unless I'm pretty rich and don't care and buy everything factory sealed 8))
In pal expensive games
Castlevania symphony of the night, panzer dragoon saga any more. Pretty lucky with those and not willing to spend 200 - 350 euro's a piece on those and probably higher when time goes by.
Same goes for some cib gameboy (color) games wich are pretty hard to find and pretty expensive.
I remember a gameboy deal console with games such as megaman 2. Guess what the seller had boxes for megaman 2 pal in excellent shape wich were not in the ad.
That's a 10 euro game to 120 - 150 these days the difference is huge. During that day the difference was already 90.
Or some guy who threw a free spare manual and box in excellent shape of a pal BC kid in excellent shape a worthless value but nice game wich is 100+ with box and manual in Pal.
Overall many games are expensive games but also consoles in the collection in this cib excellent shape many more examples.
Also my ps1 collection would definitely not be the same. definitly build up over the years same goes for allot more like ps2 ds etc.
I think if I ever were to sell my collection it would take me years to get a same quality collection if I want to + that I will never come across some games again for that price. However my guess is that I would quit collecting and maybe only keep some games since I will likely not get the same quality for the prices I paid.
It really depends on your collection, but I definitly took some time to build my collection by coming across stuff in lots for cheap etc. It's a fun adventure and with not to many filler titles It's a shame to sell since even if you have the money not everything will turn up in an eye blink the right condition. It's a waste to sell it on a one time event even if you are forced to. If that time comes I will sell because we all know that there are things more important in live.
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While not everyone can be a mass game collector and to be honest they shouldn't be. Collector's should stay when in their limits.
Many collector's will buy games then as the collection gets bigger and take up more space they weed out the games they don't play or don't have any interest in owning any more, then look to buy new games they always wanted to play. There's nothing wrong with this kind of collector.
Buying from one should not make you feel guilty. I'd rather see a game change collector's hands who wants to play and enjoy the game then end up sold to a reseller who's going to jack the price. I love to find collector's selling pieces of their collection they don't want anymore just because most collector's want to see a game go to a good home, and when I show them my collection they many times work with me on a price we both can agree on.
I know a guy who used to have a ton of rare stuff in his collection and he was hit by hard times, he could have sold it on ebay for more then the price he offered to me. he wanted these pieces to go to someone he knew was going to love and take care of it as he did. (plus he knew he could always see it again in my game room) :P
Will that day ever come that I decide to sell my collection? Well unless I decide to pass it down to someone or donate\open a museum that will continue after I pass on. Yes it could happen, one day I'm over 65 and think I could sell my collection and do other things, I don't know what I'll be thinking of in that far in the future. Right now I love owning it and seeing peoples eyes light up when they enter my game room. I love it when I have someone in my game room for the 1st time and they run around trying to see everything. I love being able to pull any game out at any time and play it again with friends and family. I love teaching others about odd game consoles they never knew existed. Which is why it's hard to get me to part with anything but extras from my collection. ::)
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theflea, I love that much of your joy of your collection comes from sharing it with others! I also agree about being able to talk about a game and just pull it off the shelf to actually play ;D Such a great freedom about it.
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theflea, I love that much of your joy of your collection comes from sharing it with others! I also agree about being able to talk about a game and just pull it off the shelf to actually play ;D Such a great freedom about it.
The fact that I usually (or at least used to) just buy any cheap game I find whether I really want it or not, it's actually quite a pleasant experience for someone to tell you about a game and then I go look in my game room and see that I already own it.
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I sold a very small selection of games recently, the first time in years, mainly owing to space considerations. Portland is currently in the midst of a ridiculous flood of transplants from out of state, driving housing costs, traffic, and general costs of living into ridiculous territory. We're currently being ranked as the most quickly gentrified city in a century, and as a native of PDX, I'm really not a fan of seeing my rent climb from around $798-850 just a couple years ago to $1175 in June. There are larger spaces around for that same amount of money, so I want to move, but with a vacancy rate around 2-3%, openings get snatched up in a blink... and that's assuming they accept cats.
The end result is that people are paying more for less, and people are increasingly trapped wherever they are. I've had to get creative with the layout, find ways to fit more shelves, or squeeze more consoles into the living room, and I've managed to free up enough room to fit maybe another 100 games/movies, but after that...?
My sales so far were strictly games I already have on PC, or had multiple console versions, or just hated to the point I knew I wouldn't regret selling them, but I may dig more out as time goes on. I'll never stop collecting games, but it's harder and harder to justify owning multiple versions of the same game. If I can sell 10 games I have on Steam already, and bring in 10 more that I don't have on any platform, that seems like a much better way to go under the circumstances.
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I sold a very small selection of games recently, the first time in years, mainly owing to space considerations. Portland is currently in the midst of a ridiculous flood of transplants from out of state, driving housing costs, traffic, and general costs of living into ridiculous territory. We're currently being ranked as the most quickly gentrified city in a century, and as a native of PDX, I'm really not a fan of seeing my rent climb from around $798-850 just a couple years ago to $1175 in June. There are larger spaces around for that same amount of money, so I want to move, but with a vacancy rate around 2-3%, openings get snatched up in a blink... and that's assuming they accept cats.
The end result is that people are paying more for less, and people are increasingly trapped wherever they are. I've had to get creative with the layout, find ways to fit more shelves, or squeeze more consoles into the living room, and I've managed to free up enough room to fit maybe another 100 games/movies, but after that...?
My sales so far were strictly games I already have on PC, or had multiple console versions, or just hated to the point I knew I wouldn't regret selling them, but I may dig more out as time goes on. I'll never stop collecting games, but it's harder and harder to justify owning multiple versions of the same game. If I can sell 10 games I have on Steam already, and bring in 10 more that I don't have on any platform, that seems like a much better way to go under the circumstances.
Wow, that sounds just like Nashville. People from all over the damn country are moving here and it's driving the prices of everything up. Also, traffic is getting worse.
I feel your pain.
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Wow, that sounds just like Nashville. People from all over the damn country are moving here and it's driving the prices of everything up. Also, traffic is getting worse.
I feel your pain.
I hadn't seen the info on Nashville, but just a quick search tells me you're probably right. Lots of poor and middle class people being pushed out, especially in traditionally African-American neighborhoods. Dunno anything about the area, but it seems weird that anywhere in Tennessee has hipsters o.O
It's similar to what the SF/Oakland area went through back in the late 90s, and at least here, the same people are responsible. They're coming from all over, but primarily from expensive cities like Seattle, SF, and LA, and a lot of them are happy to pay $1700-2000 for a decent size apartment, or plonk down $70k over list price on homes, because prices are still cheaper than wherever they came from. Absolutely guts me to see what's happened to my hometown in just the last few years.
We're still a bastion for weirdos, outcasts, liberals, and atheists, as we've always been, and our local politics and culture still reflect that very strongly, but I worry about how much more conservative things might become over the next decade. Mostly I keep hoping that the transplants will get sick of the grey skies and constant drizzle and go back to where they came from :p
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I hadn't seen the info on Nashville, but just a quick search tells me you're probably right. Lots of poor and middle class people being pushed out, especially in traditionally African-American neighborhoods. Dunno anything about the area, but it seems weird that anywhere in Tennessee has hipsters o.O
It's similar to what the SF/Oakland area went through back in the late 90s, and at least here, the same people are responsible. They're coming from all over, but primarily from expensive cities like Seattle, SF, and LA, and a lot of them are happy to pay $1700-2000 for a decent size apartment, or plonk down $70k over list price on homes, because prices are still cheaper than wherever they came from. Absolutely guts me to see what's happened to my hometown in just the last few years.
We're still a bastion for weirdos, outcasts, liberals, and atheists, as we've always been, and our local politics and culture still reflect that very strongly, but I worry about how much more conservative things might become over the next decade. Mostly I keep hoping that the transplants will get sick of the grey skies and constant drizzle and go back to where they came from :p
Yes. Hipsters are all over the damn place downtown. And I hate them. I'm not even sure how they afford to live in these nice places. They're probably I'm not going to say it so they're probably able to live their annoyingly hipster lifestyles and eat organically and wear their stupidly tight jeans and...I think you get my point. Again, I feel your pain.
Like you, I'm hoping that the transplants get sick of it and leave. Granted, I'm kind of a transplant, too but...I'm an exception because I'm a gamer. And I'm cool. Or something. ^.^()
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Yes, I've seen that before, and particularly with one channel I've followed for years. The guy will sell off a bulk of his games - a year later he's like "why did I do that?" and re-buys them at a higher price, then sells off some other games - a year later he's like... "why did I do that?" and re-buys those ones again. Then those games he re-bought the year before he sells off again and... you get the idea. Drives me nuts. If you like the game just keep it!
That describes almost exactly one person who I'm subscribed to.
I've thought that maybe some people prefer the process of finding/buying games over anything else (which is really fun to be fair), and in the back of their minds it makes them want to do all this.
Either of you thinking about Snestastic? When reading these, he is the one who comes to mind. If not, he is interesting, because he has even mentioned that about himself. He is one that I think enjoys the selling and rebuilding deep down.
In all honesty, I can see fun in it. I knew a comic book collector who would collect full sets, sell them, and start over. The fun for him was the building. Building is also a lot more fun at the beginning. Once the honeymoon phase wears off, you just move to the next. I'm not sure these people have the wrong mindset.
I have seen some people sell collections that makes me a bit sad. But most of them have solid reasons. I'm seen someone with a full SMS and Megadrive sell off everything. A complete Game Gear collection was sold off. Mostly due to family issues. It's sad but understandable.
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I saw a guy on Nintendo age who has completed the N64 CIB set like 3 times. Every time he sells it and starts over. I personally dont like the thrill of the hunt so the concept seems alien and absurd to me.
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I saw a guy on Nintendo age who has completed the N64 CIB set like 3 times. Every time he sells it and starts over. I personally dont like the thrill of the hunt so the concept seems alien and absurd to me.
My guess is that the thrill comes from completing the set and flipping it for a profit to start over once again.
Full sets could potentially mean more money than selling the items lose since it is a complete set and not some random lot after all.
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Yes, I've seen that before, and particularly with one channel I've followed for years. The guy will sell off a bulk of his games - a year later he's like "why did I do that?" and re-buys them at a higher price, then sells off some other games - a year later he's like... "why did I do that?" and re-buys those ones again. Then those games he re-bought the year before he sells off again and... you get the idea. Drives me nuts. If you like the game just keep it!
That describes almost exactly one person who I'm subscribed to.
I've thought that maybe some people prefer the process of finding/buying games over anything else (which is really fun to be fair), and in the back of their minds it makes them want to do all this.
Either of you thinking about Snestastic? When reading these, he is the one who comes to mind. If not, he is interesting, because he has even mentioned that about himself. He is one that I think enjoys the selling and rebuilding deep down.
In all honesty, I can see fun in it. I knew a comic book collector who would collect full sets, sell them, and start over. The fun for him was the building. Building is also a lot more fun at the beginning. Once the honeymoon phase wears off, you just move to the next. I'm not sure these people have the wrong mindset.
I have seen some people sell collections that makes me a bit sad. But most of them have solid reasons. I'm seen someone with a full SMS and Megadrive sell off everything. A complete Game Gear collection was sold off. Mostly due to family issues. It's sad but understandable.
Nope. I don't want to name drop, but this guy has a small channel, been doing it for a lot of years. He doesn't build sets or anything, he just goes through phases of buying tons of games, then he'll come back in a later video and say "I just sold off like 300 random games, including x, y, and z which are great games that I love but they weren't doing me any good." Then like a year later he's buying them back. I swear he has games that he's bought at least 3 or 4 times over.
But he admits that's how he's always been, and I've known people with similar habits, not just with game collecting. People who like to start anew over and over, and can never really get anywhere with goals because they love the feel of a fresh start, and really don't have any attachment to the goal or the objects themselves. That's like the opposite of my psychology, I could never be like that.
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Then like a year later he's buying them back. I swear he has games that he's bought at least 3 or 4 times over.
I used to do that, I'd hit a point where I wouldn't have time or inclination to game for awhile and I'd look at my collection and think "what a waste of space and what a waste of money this was" then dispose of it for little cash, every time thinking I'd 'outgrown' gaming. Typical kid, wanting to 'grow up'. Gaming is my hobby, it always will be.
3 or 4 years ago I started again having only been left with the PS2 games I couldn't bear to part with and literally a couple of PS1 titles. Gone were all the Megadrive games I'd owned before several times, my PS1 collection (all the Konami, Namco and most Squaresoft games I owned from new, Klonoa, Symphony of the Night soundtrack edition, the works).
Now, after a lot of bargain hunting and trade-ins, my collection's larger than ever by a mile (in numbers at least), but there's several gaps in it when it comes to my favourite games from the past - so many of them are too obscure or too damned expensive. I content myself with knowing that I own several new treasures that I didn't have back then or weren't even released.
I do have to tidy the collection out every now and then, doing so now, it just gets too big, but the junk gets traded in for more gems so it just adds fuel to the fire. I will never get rid of my collection again - not only are the older 8/16/32 bit generation games becoming harder if not impossible to find cheap, there are so many recent consoles with ultra-obscure games that I can only get hold of now because online-enabled chain stores still carry that format. Rare/obscure PSP/DS/PS2/Wii games in the wild? No chance! Even some of the Wii U's ports and exclusives are starting to hot up already.
It is sad if someone is forced to sell their collection for whatever reason, or gives up on collecting only to regret it later, but sometimes people do just want to move on. It's best not to get too emotionally involved with what other people do with their things, as much as possible, life's complicated enough.
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Then like a year later he's buying them back. I swear he has games that he's bought at least 3 or 4 times over.
I used to do that, I'd hit a point where I wouldn't have time or inclination to game for awhile and I'd look at my collection and think "what a waste of space and what a waste of money this was" then dispose of it for little cash, every time thinking I'd 'outgrown' gaming. Typical kid, wanting to 'grow up'. Gaming is my hobby, it always will be.
3 or 4 years ago I started again having only been left with the PS2 games I couldn't bear to part with and literally a couple of PS1 titles. Gone were all the Megadrive games I'd owned before several times, my PS1 collection (all the Konami, Namco and most Squaresoft games I owned from new, Klonoa, Symphony of the Night soundtrack edition, the works).
Now, after a lot of bargain hunting and trade-ins, my collection's larger than ever by a mile (in numbers at least), but there's several gaps in it when it comes to my favourite games from the past - so many of them are too obscure or too damned expensive. I content myself with knowing that I own several new treasures that I didn't have back then or weren't even released.
I do have to tidy the collection out every now and then, doing so now, it just gets too big, but the junk gets traded in for more gems so it just adds fuel to the fire. I will never get rid of my collection again - not only are the older 8/16/32 bit generation games becoming harder if not impossible to find cheap, there are so many recent consoles with ultra-obscure games that I can only get hold of now because online-enabled chain stores still carry that format. Rare/obscure PSP/DS/PS2/Wii games in the wild? No chance! Even some of the Wii U's ports and exclusives are starting to hot up already.
It is sad if someone is forced to sell their collection for whatever reason, or gives up on collecting only to regret it later, but sometimes people do just want to move on. It's best not to get too emotionally involved with what other people do with their things, as much as possible, life's complicated enough.
The thing about the Wii and DS, even the PSP, is if you weren't actively collecting when they were still relevant, you're gonna have a hard time filling it in. They were bound to become very collectable platforms from the start, but a lot of people didn't foresee that.
But I'm very content to have given up on modern, current gen game collecting. Even that can't be made easy anymore, and it's all this psychology of "rare and limited" that has come from classic game collecting into the modern era. I don't see anything all that special about today's instantly-rare games. Mostly because I'm way out of touch with modern gaming, I can't see the collecting appeal at this point, which probably explains why I still love Nintendo stuff. To me, it's Nintendo, it's the "end of history" as far as I am concerned with gaming. Focusing in on just one platform, namely the Wii U, is much easier to do, and frees up a lot of needed cash to keep working on that classic game collection.
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I sold a very small selection of games recently, the first time in years, mainly owing to space considerations. Portland is currently in the midst of a ridiculous flood of transplants from out of state, driving housing costs, traffic, and general costs of living into ridiculous territory. We're currently being ranked as the most quickly gentrified city in a century, and as a native of PDX, I'm really not a fan of seeing my rent climb from around $798-850 just a couple years ago to $1175 in June. There are larger spaces around for that same amount of money, so I want to move, but with a vacancy rate around 2-3%, openings get snatched up in a blink... and that's assuming they accept cats.
The end result is that people are paying more for less, and people are increasingly trapped wherever they are. I've had to get creative with the layout, find ways to fit more shelves, or squeeze more consoles into the living room, and I've managed to free up enough room to fit maybe another 100 games/movies, but after that...?
My sales so far were strictly games I already have on PC, or had multiple console versions, or just hated to the point I knew I wouldn't regret selling them, but I may dig more out as time goes on. I'll never stop collecting games, but it's harder and harder to justify owning multiple versions of the same game. If I can sell 10 games I have on Steam already, and bring in 10 more that I don't have on any platform, that seems like a much better way to go under the circumstances.
Things have definitely become tighter budget-wise these days. State employee wages have been stagnant for years and when we did receive raises, it was piddly little 2% raises that didn't even cover cost of living increases. Meanwhile, everything has gone up in price. Gas, food, housing, taxes, goods...you name it. And video games. Yes, video games. Because while you can go to the store and buy a new game for $60 just like you've been able to since that became the de-facto price in 2005, half the game is locked away behind a paywall or drip-fed out as DLC and Season Passes. So your average game costs $80 on the low-end these days and nearly $120 for the full season pass treatment, just to get the full game experience.
I've recently been drawn back into reading comic books and man, those suckers have gone up in price too. Your average issue costs $3.99 now.
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i sold some games and always regretted it. i just recently bought the last one back about twenty years later.Brigandine for ps1 and it was over 100 bucks!
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i sold some games and always regretted it. i just recently bought the last one back about twenty years later.Brigandine for ps1 and it was over 100 bucks!
Crazy how prices like that can jump up so fast. How're we supposed to keep track of it all?
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Brigandine is such a damn good game. The price might have been high but at least you got it back. ^.~