eBay or Amazon your videogames

[Cagliostro]

I'll admit it. It's all the girlfriend's fault. She loves to shop online and got into selling online as well. I had Karaoke Revolution Vol 1 when we met, and since then, she's been snatching up all the others. Once she realized how much these games are going for, she started buying extra copies when she found them cheap and selling them. Then she got me on the game.

Karaoke Revolution - Country Edition just dropped off the market, apparently. She was trying to pick it up, and bought a bundle of the games so we could pick up the final two we are lacking, which included this game. She said she was seeing it for around $70 on eBay, and figured after buying all those, she'd pay somewhere around this for the game itself unless she was particularly lucky selling the other games.

While I was out Christmas shopping, I remembered in October finding the Country edition in a store for $29.99. I certainly kicked myself later not picking it up. But I went back into the store and they still had it, new, for the same price. I snatched it up, plopped it next to the register and bought it. What I didn't realize was that the store was going out of business and they were selling all new games for 20% off. I bought it for $25.

The lovely girlfriend posted the new version of this game for $99. It sold the first day.

That was my Christmas miracle.

[Nav]

I've never been shrewd enough to make any money selling games, partly because I keep any game I have even the remotest chance of playing again. I keep telling myself I'll finish Dropship UPF someday, but it's not going to happen until I unpack the PS2 at the very earliest!

The other problem is that I'm usually the one paying through the nose for rare games instead of going out and looking for them at a more reasonable price. Games stores seem more organised nowadays though, I find they're usually aware if they've got a valuable game.

[emotional leper]

I have very few games that are worth any money anymore (what with my selling them all off.) The other problem with selling my NES and SNES games is that some of them sell for far, far more than they're actually worth.

[Worm of Despite]

I regret eBaying my N64. Then again, I didn't make good use of the system. I never bought Paper Mario or Majora's Mask. I partly blame the Dreamcast, which caught my when it came out. I eventually eBayed it. Damn, I regret that too.

[emotional leper]

I used to have all the NES and SNES megaman games, along with FF1, 2, and 3 for the US. Now I'm down to FF1 (with no NES,) and FF2, Megaman X, Super Metroid, Legend of Zelda, Super Mario World, and a broken copy of Wing Commander.

All the ones I want to get back (the Megaman and Megaman X games) are expensive as hell due to some perceived rarity.

[balon!]

I used to have all the NES and SNES megaman games, along with FF1, 2, and 3 for the US. Now I'm down to FF1 (with no NES,) and FF2, Megaman X, Super Metroid, Legend of Zelda, Super Mario World, and a broken copy of Wing Commander.

All the ones I want to get back (the Megaman and Megaman X games) are expensive as hell due to some perceived rarity.

I had the same problem, when I rebuilt my collection. I ended up buying the anniversary collection for the PS2

[emotional leper]

Well, my best mate has copies of some of the NES ones, and, under the principal of what's mine is his and what's his is mine, I can play them pretty much whenever I want.

It just sucks that you pay as much for X2 and X3 today as you did the day it came out.

[balon!]

Well, my best mate has copies of some of the NES ones, and, under the principal of what's mine is his and what's his is mine, I can play them pretty much whenever I want.

It just sucks that you pay as much for X2 and X3 today as you did the day it came out.

True dat. It's the same concept that makes my old transformer action figures worth enough to buy a frickin car with. If only I had kept them.

[matrixman]

I'm thinking that the internet has made it too easy for people to act on impulse, whether it be to buy or sell whatever. Then next day, the guilt and regret set in.

Me, I'm glad we held onto our N64. I don't consider the unit mine technically; it's my stepbrother's but I've had it to myself for a number of years now and anyway, he's moved onto a PS2 in that time. So I see the N64 as a permanent loan, heh.

I like to play the N64 every now and then. It's like coming back to an old friend.

[Cagliostro]

Y'know what...I'm the same way with my old games. I clutch tightly onto them. Thus, I'm part of the problem with things becoming rare. And I always think I'll play them again some day. The girlfriend is all about selling everything off and only messing with the new stuff. While there is some logic in there, there have been some amazing discoveries that have happened to me from suddenly picking up a game again and finally figuring out what was supposed to make the thing fun in the first place.

Then again, I also have a habit of buying RPG, getting about halfway through them, or usually right up to the ending, and then stop playing them. Some of this could be that I'm in an irritating place, but sometimes it is that I've got to go through the irritation of leveling up the characters for a while before I can handle the ending. And sometimes I just get a new game and forget about it. So I have all these near ending games that I just need to finish one day, but I usually think, "well, I should just start it over" which never goes anywhere if I do.

But yeah, I'm also one of the buyers more than the sellers. And my girlfriend is the opposite. I JUST got an email as I was typing this up that she sold all the games up for bid and is looking to purchase more to turn around and sell for a profit.

She's nuts, I tells ya!

[matrixman]

I can see how the lure of profit would be irresistible for anyone!

Trading seems to be a strength with your girlfriend. Have you two considered dabbling in the stock market?

If I had a game that I knew was in high demand, I'd be tempted to sell it too. Unfortunately - or fortunately - I have games that nobody else wants, so I'm blissfully unaffected by the lure of eBay.

[Holsety]

I have very few games that are worth any money anymore (what with my selling them all off.) The other problem with selling my NES and SNES games is that some of them sell for far, far more than they're actually worth.

Or less...Earthbound should sell for like $200 or something...
(I got my copy for $8 before I even knew what it was...the game cover looked interesting).

All the ones I want to get back (the Megaman and Megaman X games) are expensive as hell due to some perceived rarity.

I can't believe SNES games are even sold on ebay anymore for over $20, people should just go for roms and a plug in controller at some point...

The most rare games I can think of are Suikoden I and II (about $90 for Suikoden I, $140 for II, which is good since I got both for $10), Rez, Briganidine ($50 or $60? Got for $20). Unless there are some NES or Gameboy games which are selling for big $$ now but I'm way too lazy to check (they might be broken anyway).

I might sell Brigandine, but only if I get the Grand Edition (probably more expensive but I've never found it, in japanese but the game's storyline is crap so who cares?). I might well kill to save the suikoden games.

I usually buy used games looking for deals on slickdeals or somewhere like that.

Then again, I also have a habit of buying RPG, getting about halfway through them, or usually right up to the ending, and then stop playing them. Some of this could be that I'm in an irritating place, but sometimes it is that I've got to go through the irritation of leveling up the characters for a while before I can handle the ending. And sometimes I just get a new game and forget about it. So I have all these near ending games that I just need to finish one day, but I usually think, "well, I should just start it over" which never goes anywhere if I do.

Umm...I feel you on this Maybe 30% of my RPGs I've never finished...and it would be higher, but last summer I started several games anew and mopped them up, they were much easier (fire emblem has made everything else easy...).

[hierachy]

lol I have a nes with mario bro's that I bought for like £5 for lulz maybe 6 or 7 years ago.

[emotional leper]

The reason X2 and X3 sell for so much (from what I've gathered from people who are supposedly more knowledgable than I) is that there were fewer carts produced than with other games, do to X2 and X3 having an additional, on-cart physics chip, which jacked up the price.

Also, I want a SuperScope Six.

I paid about fourty bucks each for my copies of FF1 and FF2, and happily so for the copy of FF1, as it's in practically virgin condition -- It works every time in every NES I've ever shoved it into.

[Cagliostro]

The most rare games I can think of are Suikoden I and II (about $90 for Suikoden I, $140 for II, which is good since I got both for $10), Rez, Briganidine ($50 or $60? Got for $20). Unless there are some NES or Gameboy games which are selling for big $$ now but I'm way too lazy to check (they might be broken anyway).

Wow, the Suikodens are that much? I bought S2 for about $30 a year or two ago. Amazing. And I do have Suikoden I as well. Hmmm...but I doubt I'll ever sell, despite never playing very much of Suikoden 2. I understand it is the best of the series, and possibly even the best game out there. One day....one day....

[Menolly]

As someone just getting into console gaming I am curious. Is there a library, swap or barter site somewhere, where you can list games you are willing to lend or swap, but don't want to actually sell off?

...would such an idea work here...?

[emotional leper]

As someone just getting into console gaming I am curious. Is there a library, swap or barter site somewhere, where you can list games you are willing to lend or swap, but don't want to actually sell off?

...would such an idea work here...?

Not that I'm aware of. Older consoles can often be gotten for cheap; The NES is now out of patent, and knock-offs are being legally produced. The only reason to have a real NES these days is the nostalgia factor. They're often in poor condition when you find them and I've had to repair one to get it to work. If I had the money, I'd build a small computer inside of an NES, probably an embedded system, running NetBSD, with an emulator and roms on it, with TV Out and a USB controller's guts transplanted into an NES controller. So I could have the looks and more games than I could shake a stick at.

[Menolly]

If I had the money, I'd build a small computer inside of an NES, probably an embedded system, running NetBSD, with an emulator and roms on it, with TV Out and a USB controller's guts transplanted into an NES controller. So I could have the looks and more games than I could shake a stick at.

*sigh*

...as the old Mazda commercials used to say...

"zoom-zoom"

...as the techno-babble flies right over my head...

[emotional leper]

I'd build a tiny computer inside the shell of a Nintendo that would play nintendo games on a TV.

[Cagliostro]

Why go to that trouble when a Nintendo will already do that? I'm confused.