Would You Sell Your Collection?

[Neonsolid]

Gone.

[izret101]

I could never see me selling my collection. I would sell doubles, or extra things that i just have for the sake of having not becuase they are really part of my collection. If i ever end up in a situation like that i would limit my budget drastically or stop collecting until it became feesable. I dont have to deal with any reasons to sell my collection though. No family, wife or college i'm still 16.

[NintendoMan]

I would, as anyone on here would for the right price.

If I did ever sell my collection though it would take alot of money. I mean, the game don't show the half of it. All the time put into finding games, cold day through fucking hot as hell days. All the driving time and gas I had to buy. All the ebay looking and searching. (Sometimes, I spend hours at a time looking for things I want, or might want)

[DasCrewShtool]

if I had to for my child, without a second thought.

[Psyleid]

depends how much money i'd get.

[Dire 51]

I had to do it once. I didn't want to, but the circumstances at the time - which I really don't want to go into - demanded it.

It may take me next to forever to rebuild, but I'm off to a good start.

[doomedpeasant]

Ive recently just started to box all mmy stuff up except ps, ps2, gc, xbox, snes. Not because i really need money or anything but i just don't have the desire anymore to collect the older stuff anymore. So expect to see a huge list of shit for sale in the next few days from me.

[ROBOTRON]

NEGATIVE.

I would not sell my collection at this time.

[Jumpman Jr.]

No way in hell.
Although, I'm pretty sure, when I get married, my wife will make me sell it. Good thing thats not for a long time :P

[vincewy]

Depends on what part of my collection, my Neo-Geo collection, never, it's part of my youth memory and I've been collecting for 10 years. I'd not be able to get those with new conditions back regardless of how much money I have later on (most are kept just like new). My sealed Dreamcast games, maybe, only if I have to and the price is right, given I have another set of opened games that I want to play, but even those are hard to get rid of as I've put a lot of effort finding them.

[Xantan the Foul]

Sell my collection? Death first!

[Muscelli]

i am probably going to sell it all, slowly though...

I am drifting away from collecting... I hardly play my consoles any more...

maybe this is just a phase that im going through? any other collectors expierence this?

[S_W_Prof]

i had the same problum at one point i just stoped collecting and just sold everything
first to go was my snes the my dreamcast then my n64 then my
ps2 my plastation and sadily my xbox

but dont worry the eurge to collect come back and it comes back stronger than ever

i started collecting again about a year ago and have gotten some of it back but i lost alot of memories when i sold all that stuff

[Trevor Belmont]

Never again. I'm currently going through hell trying to get back all that I've lost before. I can honestly say that selling your collection is not worth doing, unless you absolutely have to due to financial reasons.

I went through a period in which I wasn't really into gaming as much as I used to be. During this period, I proceeded to get rid of my Saturn with games like Dragon Force, Panzer Saga, Guardian Heroes, etc. I also sold my Turbo Duo with the Ys games and Beyond Shadowgate, just to name a few.

Well, just like I had started to lose interest in games, that interest became rekindled out of the blue. I slowly started collecting back all that I had sold, paying probably twice as much if I was lucky. I had originally purchased all of my old stuff at a time in which they weren't collector's items and when I could actually buy Duo stuff from a few local game places at normal prices (yes, that time did exist).

To make a long story short: don't do it. Your interest will be rekindled someday. I don't care if I'm 90 and can't even pick up a controller, I'll hold onto this stuff this time around.

[DiabloNeonX]

If I needed to feed myself yea..

I'm in a really big financial pinch myself right now, and I've considered many avenues to either get or save money. The one thing I could never do is sell my collection. Hell, I have Atari 2600 games that are older than I am that my parent bought brand new back in the late 70s.

I have sacrificed food to save money. (I only eat about once a day now. Sometimes twice if I have some extra cash or something)

Point is...I've considered many ideas to make or save money (I have recently just found new employment after being laid off two months ago), but selling my collection has NEVER been one of them..

[NintendoMan]

I will never sell another game from my collection again! The last few times I did was when I sold my whole NES collection and the system for 60 bucks

I too back in the day sold my entire NES collection for something (can't remember what). That was when I didn't "collect" though, but lost a hell of a lot of money!

[drewbrim]

I had planned to start a thread similar to this but since it fits here I'll just throw it out there.

Anyone else out there nervous about a baseball card like collecting crash? Baseball cards used to be all the rage collecting (and value) wise, and after the market flooded those $100 cards went down to $50, then $20, then $10 where they find themselves today.

Can you imagine if video game collecting had the same situation. At first I'd be pissed since the dollar value of my collection would plummet. But it would be pretty sweet to pick up some now expensive or inflated games for about 10% of what they sell for now. So obviously the perfect scenario is to sell while they will bring the cash and then replace them for the love of collecting for much less than what you paid for them.

Ebay 10 years from now.........
Earthbound $5
Dracula X $10
Panzer Dragoon Saga $20 shipped

You laugh now, but the people with 100's of rookie cards of Clemens, Bonds, McGwire, etc... aren't

[Dr. Morbis]

I had planned to start a thread similar to this but since it fits here I'll just throw it out there.

Anyone else out there nervous about a baseball card like collecting crash?

Not in the least. I'm not in this for the money, I'm in it for the games. Anyone in this hobby for financial reasons is probably in for a rude awakening. 99% of videogames lose 99% of their retail value. Only the truly rarest of the rare games hold any value worth talking about.

[Moon Patrol]

Definitely would sell my NES collection, but I couldn't ever part with my Genesis/SMS/32x collection. Im in the grey area on my atari though, because I would like to start a collection getting boxes and manuals for it, would look a lot better than the 40 carts I have laying around.

[Alucard]

I don't think that I would sell my collection. I don't think I could live with the feeling of not having it. Unless I absolutely had to do it I don't think that I would do it for all the money in the world. Thats at least how I feel at the moment.