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[I collect VHS tapes]

I've been collecting mostly Nintendo and PS1–PS3 games for a long time, along with Nintendo and Sony hardware.

I'm planning to move in about a year and starting to think about how to offload my physical collection. For those of you who've sold off big collections before, what worked best?

I'm honestly leaning toward just trading everything in for store credit at a local shop, since piecing out individual games and listing them on eBay sounds like a total nightmare. I'm in California so there are some great local shops near me.

At the same time, I'm curious whether anyone's had good luck selling in lots on eBay or similar sites — or if that usually ends up not being worth it compared to selling individually.

 

[baphomet]

You'll always make more selling individually. A store will probably buy it for ~50% of it's value.

I'd sell of high ticket items individually and then sell the rest as a lot if I was just trying to offload them.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

You'll always make more selling individually. A store will probably buy it for ~50% of it's value.

I'd sell of high ticket items individually and then sell the rest as a lot if I was just trying to offload them.

Thanks. I figured I'd get super low balled if I asked for cash but was hoping store credit would be a bit better if I decided to stick to a local shop

 

[cireza]

You should sell them one by one on ebay over the course of a complete year. Where is the rush ? Just take the games with you.

 

[videogamedude]

sooooo watcha got

 

[FMN]

Facebook is worth looking into too if you have one. There's groups on there for stuff like that.

 

[Dacvak]

Sell 'em on GAF.

 

[PlayStaytion]

I've been collecting mostly Nintendo and PS1–PS3 games for a long time, along with Nintendo and Sony hardware.

I'm planning to move in about a year and starting to think about how to offload my physical collection. For those of you who've sold off big collections before, what worked best?

I'm honestly leaning toward just trading everything in for store credit at a local shop, since piecing out individual games and listing them on eBay sounds like a total nightmare. I'm in California so there are some great local shops near me.

At the same time, I'm curious whether anyone's had good luck selling in lots on eBay or similar sites — or if that usually ends up not being worth it compared to selling individually.

Dump your consoles bios for pc emulators legally, Nintendo shouldn't argue about how you experience your library @120fps cause this is stupid and you literally pay them for the same game every generation.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Thanks everyone. I don't have a Facebook account, but I might make one as that would actually be a really convenient way to do this. I didn't even think of that.

I used to have a dummy account for when I was buying and selling rare VHS tapes so I could probably just reactivate that

You should sell them one by one on ebay over the course of a complete year. Where is the rush ? Just take the games with you.

This is part of a larger project. I love games but in reality film is probably just as big as a hobby when it comes to collecting if not bigger and I have like 1 trillion VHS tapes.

I was thinking of keeping most of my films, but getting rid of my games, which is also part of me going fully digital

So yes, I could take my time but with the games plus tapes plus the hardware it really is a significant amount of shit I really just don't want to box up and move.

 

[JORMBO]

You could always sell any heavy hitters online and then dump the rest at a local store. The store won't give you as much, but sometimes it is worth it to take a hit on things if you don't want to list and have the ship tons of games.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

You could always sell any heavy hitters online and then dump the rest at a local store. The store won't give you as much, but sometimes it is worth it to take a hit on things if you don't want to list and have the ship tons of games.

I'm probably gonna check out Facebook marketplace but otherwise yeah this seems like the way

 

[ReyBrujo]

Check Pricecharting to get an idea of your best games, you can use GameEye which has barcode scanner to quickly catalogue and find out which games are the most expensive. If you don't have the time or the patience (selling via Marketplace can be irritating, you get 100 people asking you whether you still got it, 50 will ask for a discount, and a good number will ghost you after you reply. Imagine that for every marketplace item you have) you can bulk sell via ebay. I recently started scavenging ebay again for some SNES stuff to complete some cartridges I have from teen, prices are kind of high (plus I must account for international shipping) but I'm seeing many items that don't sell at all because they are placed in auction with a high base (like, pricecharting base price for a used game). So, start also checking how auctions are going to get a grasp of demand.

You can always post a picture of your collection here and we can quickly check which ones might be worth something, or even get someone who wants to get some at the Neogaf marketplace.

 

[StereoVsn]

I have been slowly selling through eBay as I want to downsize my collection a bit.

It's not too bad and while not amazing option, I can't imagine dealing with Facebook marketplace as a seller for this sort of stuff.

Local stores will lowball the hell out of you.

 

[Krathoon]

Before you die, you bury your games for another collector to find.

 

[LyricalShrike]

Ebay, Facebook marketplace or similar, and specialist forums are the best places to move valuable games. Do you have the original packaging and everything for your old stuff? Much of the value of older games comes with completeness. A neo Geo game can lose a third of its value if it's missing the manual or the little paper insert that came with the game. Loose cartridges or grody disk games are better off sold as bulk lots.

 

[riko]

I've had good luck on ebay. List individually, be patient. Take photos as you pack. Make sure you protect yourself from scam buyers (who might tamper or swap rarer stuff out). Ship with tracking, and know that shipping insurance is mostly a scam (you will struggle to get them to cover anything but a true loss)

I've been collecting since the late 80s as a kid and have only begun selling the older stuff I know I'll never touch in the last few years.

 

[Trogdor1123]

That's a good question. I have a black sega Saturn with 4 or 5 games to get rid off. I idea if those things are worth anything or how to test to anymore.