Show Posts
1
Marketplace / In need of thoughts and maybe help
« on: May 03, 2020, 03:42:55 am »
Hi all,
I am currently suffering from a slight cash flow problem, which is obviously impacting my ability to add to my collection. There are a quite a few things that have come and then gone that before i would certainly have picked up.
I'm certainly not grumbling, people out there are in far worse position, but none-the-less there is something out there that i think aligns to my collection, which my collection would never be complete without, and time has either run out or is certainly running out for me to get it.
Initially when i started out collecting, it started out as just getting new ps4 consoles - Special editions (this started when i got the 20th anniversary edition for my birthday), for quite a while i had more consoles than i did games.
Some time down the track i picked up a new xbox one elite, for practically nothing. This evolved my collecting to also start picking up new special xbox one editions. As time went on i started to see game collectors editions drop to really low prices, so started to pick them up too, later deciding it was quite cool getting them at such low prices, but i was missing out on some of the cooler/rarer collectors editions (as stock didn't last to a price drop). The challenge was then set to get all the collectors editions, but pay minimal prices for them. Sometimes i held off and lost them, others i paid a higher price for than i could have got them for. For most though it worked out pretty well. As i was doing this i had a focus on ps4 collectors editions, but if it helped financially i would fall back to xbox one's - This soon stopped, as i decided if it wasn't ps4 i didn't want it.
This story is going on longer than i thought - Apologies. Anyway over the last year and a half i have become a PS4 games collector and a gen 8 console collector. For a while the best part, for me, of my collection was my taco bell consoles (the gold ps4 and platinum xbox one), this lasted until taco bell did another competition with the xbox one eclipse. Now, there's an obvous hole in my collection. When the competition first started i kept an eye on ebay, then as it became obvious i didn't have the money i stopped looking. As this was a while ago, yesterday i had a look and only saw one, and this was missing parts that initially came with it.
Now i feel like i am at (or past) the now or never stage to get it. So, the question is, as i live in Australia i am reliant on international shipping, are there any available to anyone in the US, and is there anyone in the US that would be willing to become my best fried and help me get it? Even, if that was the case, the next question is how can i afford it. I've been thinking about this, i do have the limited edition ps2 game the getaway (it's been opened, but like new), i know the prices on ebay are absurd, and it's well over-priced, so i also started to think about how much i could get for my new xbox collectors editions (mostly dark souls 3 & morrowind). Does anyone think that these 3 combined could cover the costs, or is that unrealistic?
If you made it this far, it's appreciated
Thanks all
I am currently suffering from a slight cash flow problem, which is obviously impacting my ability to add to my collection. There are a quite a few things that have come and then gone that before i would certainly have picked up.
I'm certainly not grumbling, people out there are in far worse position, but none-the-less there is something out there that i think aligns to my collection, which my collection would never be complete without, and time has either run out or is certainly running out for me to get it.
Initially when i started out collecting, it started out as just getting new ps4 consoles - Special editions (this started when i got the 20th anniversary edition for my birthday), for quite a while i had more consoles than i did games.
Some time down the track i picked up a new xbox one elite, for practically nothing. This evolved my collecting to also start picking up new special xbox one editions. As time went on i started to see game collectors editions drop to really low prices, so started to pick them up too, later deciding it was quite cool getting them at such low prices, but i was missing out on some of the cooler/rarer collectors editions (as stock didn't last to a price drop). The challenge was then set to get all the collectors editions, but pay minimal prices for them. Sometimes i held off and lost them, others i paid a higher price for than i could have got them for. For most though it worked out pretty well. As i was doing this i had a focus on ps4 collectors editions, but if it helped financially i would fall back to xbox one's - This soon stopped, as i decided if it wasn't ps4 i didn't want it.
This story is going on longer than i thought - Apologies. Anyway over the last year and a half i have become a PS4 games collector and a gen 8 console collector. For a while the best part, for me, of my collection was my taco bell consoles (the gold ps4 and platinum xbox one), this lasted until taco bell did another competition with the xbox one eclipse. Now, there's an obvous hole in my collection. When the competition first started i kept an eye on ebay, then as it became obvious i didn't have the money i stopped looking. As this was a while ago, yesterday i had a look and only saw one, and this was missing parts that initially came with it.
Now i feel like i am at (or past) the now or never stage to get it. So, the question is, as i live in Australia i am reliant on international shipping, are there any available to anyone in the US, and is there anyone in the US that would be willing to become my best fried and help me get it? Even, if that was the case, the next question is how can i afford it. I've been thinking about this, i do have the limited edition ps2 game the getaway (it's been opened, but like new), i know the prices on ebay are absurd, and it's well over-priced, so i also started to think about how much i could get for my new xbox collectors editions (mostly dark souls 3 & morrowind). Does anyone think that these 3 combined could cover the costs, or is that unrealistic?
If you made it this far, it's appreciated
Thanks all