At what price would you sell your collection?

[weezle]

The other day i was talking to my husband...he thinks i am obbsessed and i have a mental problem cos i am so crazy about my 2600 collection! We were talking about whether i would sell my collection if i could get a fair amount of money. But thinking about it...i don't think i could ever sell the lot off. I would cry for days if i lost the whole lot to a fire or something. So i don't think i could ever sell it. Even if it could buy me a house...i couldn't do it.

 

So i am asking the question of at what point would you sell your whole collection off?

[minorleagueguy]

For me it would boil down to 2 reasons:

1) loss of interest

2) financial reasons

 

Thats the only reason I'd sell anything...

 

minorleagueguy

[Happy_Dude]

*puts on Dr Evil face*

 

One Million Dollars

[+Nathan Strum]

It depends...

 

Space isn't really an issue, since I don't have a huge collection.

 

If I had to sell it to pay medical bills for a family member - off it goes.

 

There are quite a few games I could dump without missing. And I own a couple of rare ones (CIB Quadrun and Stronghold). I suppose though, I'd have to clear several thousand for the whole collection, in order to feel I got something out of it. I doubt it's worth that much.

 

But there are some games that have significant meaning to me. Either because of how and when I got them, or the people that I played them with as a kid. Most of those wouldn't bring much money anyway since they're pretty common, so there's nothing to be gained in selling them.

[Mindfield]

I don't think I've ever actually sat down and evaluated my collection. If I had to throw out a ballpark figure I'd say it's probably worth around $1500 or more -- but that's a wild guess. I know I've put tons into it. But that's a monetary value; I don't think I could ever sell it except under extremely dire circumstances -- there are certainly other things in life that would demand priority if it came right down to it, but I couldn't bear to face the prospect of purging absolutely everything unless those circumstances were staring me in the eyes and threatening to sodomize me. The collection has a great deal of sentimental and personal value to me that exceeds its monetary value.

[sku_u]

If someone came in and offered me $50K for my entire collection, I'd not only take it, I'd help them pack it up. That's about what my collection's probably worth if I were to sell everything smartly on Ebay and got the high end on most of it and I could probably get about 90% of it again within a year if I wanted to.

[txfds]

I have 44 games with my 2600 atari "darth vader" black style. The current value is probable not that high, but I wouln't sell it anyway, I'd rather give my ps2 games up!

[SteveW]

I don't have a whole lot of rares in my collection, so I couldn't sell it for very much. I've got some nice homebrews and such, and some interesting controllers like the Suncom Joysensor, but other than that, I don't have too much that's all that interesting. I couldn't sell my collection for much. Not that I'd ever want to. I've only sold 3 games in my lifetime, so I doubt I'd sell my entire collection, unless I was in a financial hole with no other way of raising the money.

[txfds]

I sold 4 games at the pawn shop for 1$ (canadian $), those were double I had...

[keilbaca]

I have 44 games with my 2600 atari "darth vader" black style. The current value is probable not that high, but I wouln't sell it anyway, I'd rather give my ps2 games up!

 

I already started selling my PS2, Super famicom, and famicom games, well ones i don't play at least.

 

I'll sell my games for a very good reason, as I had to once already to keep my brother in college.

[SS]

For me it would boil down to 2 reasons:

                    1) loss of interest

                    2) financial reasons

 

              Thats the only reason I'd sell anything...

 

 

I'll second that.

[kyle]

In the worlds of Patrick Swayze in the movie Road House THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF MONEY!

[snorlaxnut]

I am not selling my collection. Not going to make the same mistake twice!

[AtariAger]

After a few of my recent acquisitions...I'd have to say..."NOT FOR SALE"!!!

 

 

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[Recycled]

I am not selling my collection. Not going to make the same mistake twice!

 

I think that's a painful lesson every collector learns. It's easier just to keep what we have, then buy it over again. I mean, really, what's the chance of having to sell your video game collection in order to pay a medical bill? (I don't mean to offend anyone who has ) Plus, it may also provide cheap entertainment in lean times.

[MattG/Snyper2099]

2600 collection or the ENTIRE thing? I don't know. I think if I had to, I could sell my arcades individually and get about $4,000. That's what would go first. I doubt I'll ever sell my 2600 collection or collection of all the carts I have (1,500+). It's cost way to much to let it go to money. I WOULD sell it if someone was crazy. (Like say 20K crazy.)

[+Random Terrain]

I don't think I would sell mine because I (or my family) bought many of those games back in the 1980s when they were new or semi-new. One of the few connections I have to a special time in my life that only spanned a few years. Having the actual games I got back then is worth more to me than any used replacements that I would buy later.

 

The original games I have still look as new as the day I got them for the most part, unlike the huge box of used games that were given to me in the 1990s. I love having these other games, but they just don't mean as much.

[Lord Helmet]

My collection is worth more to me than it is probably really worth, so I would have to be in a REALLY bad situation to part with it.

[spacecadet]

I would sell my collection for $100,000.

 

Then I would take $50,000 and put a down payment on a house. I would take another $40,000 and put it in an IRA. I would take another $5,000 and put a down payment on a car. Then I'd use the remaining $5,000 to buy back my game collection piece by piece

[weezle]

well, i am just glad to hear that some of you are equally as crazy as me! I don't think i could even sell up if family was sick! How mean is that!!! And if i did sell up...i know that there would be some carts i could never get again and that would eat away at me for the rest of my life!

[FireTiger]

2nd spacecadet

[candiru]

well, i am just glad to hear that some of you are equally as crazy as me! I don't think i could even sell up if family was sick! How mean is that!!!

 

Eh, I don't think it's mean. If someone gets seriously sick, as high as medical bills are, it would likely be just a meaningless drop in the bucket. Why make a bad time worse? Especially, as someone else already said that most of the common stuff won't fetch a good price anyway.

[Artlover]

I'd never sell anything for any reason for any price. Because I'd just end up missing it and regreting it latter, then trying to find the stuff again, which would be both harder and more expencive to do.

 

Sorry sis, you better win the lottery if you really want that kidney transplant.

 

(I'll reconsider for any serious offer over 1 million dollars!)

[Chickybaby]

With all the medical bills I have regularly if we had to sell some of the stuff, so be it. As it is we are looking through things.

But some of the games I would never part with while alive and are irreplaceable for one reason or another.

As horrible as this sounds - Has anyone figured out what will happen to their collections once they are muerte or written it in their wills who they'd want to care for their games?

[keilbaca]

With all the medical bills I have regularly if we had to sell some of the stuff, so be it. As it is we are looking through things.  

But some of the games I would never part with while alive and are irreplaceable for one reason or another.

As horrible as this sounds - Has anyone figured out what will happen to their collections once they are muerte or written it in their wills who they'd want to care for their games?

 

My will has my collection that will go to my very good friend back at home. He has just as big a collection of NES games, so he is the acceptable person for it.