How much should I be asking for this?

[SignGuy81]

I'm just going to agree to disagree with you two that I overpaid for a non-working system seeing for one thing that is a hobby of mine I like to work on electronics to start with(so to me a $25 non-working console is more valuable than a $25 working console). 2nd someone else(Blaster) has been easily selling modded NES controllers for work with Atari for $25. I could just as easily have taken the NES controller and the Sega Controller that both came with it and made one of those myself and made my money back on the whole thing plus had an NES Console, a Zapper, and a Genesis game pad with no cord left over for other projects.

Edited February 5, 2018 by SignGuy81

[Tanooki]

Well you started the topic asking how much, and the NES was brought into it as you co-listed two things. It's fine if you do not agree, so good luck with the sale.

[icemanxp300]

Well that is up to you but I personally would not buy an untested system for $30 and then spend $10 on a power supply and then $10 more on a game just so I could fix the zapper, controller, and system and "hope" to get $70. Best case scenario you profit $20 and you have $50 into this thing in the beginning "hoping" it just needed the pin connector fixed. Figure in pp fees and you are not even making $20 anymore.

 

 

When I buy I expect to double my money w/the possibility of at least breaking even. If your system would have had something really wrong with it you would have lost money on the deal or at least put forth a lot more time making that $20 profit spread out of more labor. All of this is "hoping" you are getting $70 which might be hard.

[SignGuy81]

Well I guess until people start handing me consoles working or not for 5 bucks with all the things included like the last deal I got I'll just keep hoping.

[toptenmaterial]

I just think it's hard to make money selling video games unless you do it professionally. My guess is that the sellers you see here on AA have some sort of system in place, and part of that comes from taking their lumps. However, I've find that I've had much better luck trading stuff. You don't need to be a wiz to do that.

[icemanxp300]

My guess is that the sellers you see here on AA have some sort of system in place, and part of that comes from taking their lumps.

 

Yes and that system means buying bulk for me. I buy 20 pin connectors at a time so I don't pay $12 each for them. Just like power supplies. I buy them 10 at a time so I can get them for $6 each. Doing so I just paid a few hundred but overall I am saving about half per each nes I sell.

 

It's very hard to keep up on game prices and you have to know values fluctuate. January is the absolute worst month of the year to sell in. Tax season and Christmas are they heavy hitters. Summer slumps as well but right now immediately after everyone goes broke for xmas prices are down and people are not buying.

 

My advise is don't hope to get something. KNOW what you will get and if by some chance the market changes and you get more that's a bonus. If you can't find stuff cheap don't buy it. It's simple. You don't "have" to purchase something just so you have something to resell. Invest your money in something you can sell.

 

I see all sorts of game systems locally I could buy and break even on. What do I do instead? I spend my money on shit like zoo pals LOL.

 

You know what my local Gamestores pays for an nes? $5. I shit you not, they literally pay $5 for a complete nes. Knowing this means that I have the upper hand when people are selling. I know they are bs me if they try and tell me they can get $40 at a gamestore. Break it down, set prices and walk away. If you can't make money then there is no point in doing it. I pass good buys all the time juts because it is not worth the drive time and gas.

[Eltigro]

 

If you can't find stuff cheap don't buy it. It's simple. You don't "have" to purchase something just so you have something to resell. Invest your money in something you can sell.

 

 

 

I don't know how many items I have passed up because the price was just "okay".

 

Also, a while back, a friend of mine took two Intellivisions and about 17 boxed games to a game store and they offered him about $10 for the lot. I paid $40 and feel I got a decent deal. He'd had them since he was a kid.

[+Swami]

I'm sure there are GC games that are incompatible with the early backward compatible Wii, but if you have three of those Wii's, like me, is there any compelling reason to get a GC if you are not a serious collector? I suppose it's a little like asking if there is a compelling reason to get an Atari 2600 if you have a 7800....well, not quite. To the point, is the GC not worth much since people may have or can instead get a Wii?

[icemanxp300]

It is worth having a GameCube for the sole purpose of using the Gameboy Player. Toss a modchip in it and be able to play any GC game you want for $1 as well.

[Tanooki]

The GC also has marginally better quality visuals too if you can get it up to higher output quality levels. Grossly kicks its ass if you get the HDMI upgrade. GB Player is the obvious reason as you add 1000s of games to the system library due to it running GB, GBC, and GBA and not regionally locked either.

[cybercylon]

I remember when those GC players could be had on the cheap even with the disc for about $15.00 total at the various game stores that existed. This was shortly after the Wii came out. Now I've seen prices of around $50 for the start up disc.