would you sell your collection if......

[mailman187666]

A lot of times some of us run into hard times as far as cash, living arrangements and other various set backs in life. Sometimes we are in desperate need for cash or a car, or a place to live, etc. Now most of us collectors don't want to sell our collection or even portions of our collection. If you found yourself in a rut like needin a new car or something like that, would you bite the bullet and sell what you wish you could keep? or would you find other means of funds (this is if you already have a job but still need more money.) Or have you actually had to sell off part of your collection for similar emergencies? You don't have to go into detail about your personal matters if you don't want, I'm just looking for people who have/would turn to selling a bunch of thier collection even if they didn't want to. I have not had to yet but my car is starting to die and was conidering downsizing a little bit to afford a new one. (no this isn't a to sell or not to sell thread).

[RadiantSvgun]

I've had to do that before. But I just end up buying back the stuff I sold.

[Dark_Sol]

i thought about it. but i guess i cannot

[Buyatari]

Most things can be bought again. Often at lower prices or in better condition. No bid deal selling these types of things. One of kind items are tougher to sell.

[Pantechnicon]

Fortunately, I haven't yet had such a need arise. But if push came to shove, then yes, I could easily sell off my entire collection and content myself with console gaming henceforth via emulation. As a family man, one's priorities can not lie foremost with material items. Or to put it in less flowery terms: My kids can't eat carts and discs.

[Hwj_Chim]

I could sell the US stuff, maybe if I had to. But never my import stuff.

[Terminusvitae]

I've had to do this on numerous occasions, unfortunately. Thanks to my recent years of precious-metals-dealing, though, it's becoming increasingly unlikely that I'll need to do so again.

*crosses fingers*

[Barbarianoutkast85]

I was in a pickle about two years ago, I needed a place to stay. So what I did was sold off all my doubles but that was it, I still didnt have enough money to get an apartment. I bit the bullet and lived in my car for three weeks until I made enough money at work to get a place. So the answer is no I wont sell off my video game collection. I've been working on it nearly six years and I'm not about to flush any of it down the drain.

[cyberfluxor]

I'm slowly sacrificing loose carts and saving it towards buying other games on the same system complete. It's certainly not a dire moment for cash however I'd prefer to get rid of things I don't care as much for and get what I really want. I've been showing this tendency for a few months now and it freaked out a friend of 4 years because he's never heard me say "sell a game to get rid of it" before. He expected me to just keep buying forever and actually begin to pick more stuff up until I burried myself in my room and die from a collapse. LOL Of course my game collection isn't nearly the size as others but he doesn't understand the whole "gotta buy a bunch of games I've never played" thing.

[shawnbo42]

Fortunately, I haven't yet had such a need arise. But if push came to shove, then yes, I could easily sell off my entire collection and content myself with console gaming henceforth via emulation. As a family man, one's priorities can not lie foremost with material items. Or to put it in less flowery terms: My kids can't eat carts and discs.

Well said. My kids also cannot eat carts and discs. What's wrong with these darn kids today anyways?.....I think if I DID ever sell off anything, I'd probably end up buying it back when the situation improved, but maybe not everything. I like to think I 'd be a little pickier as to what I'd buy/collect for.

[Tommy]

I'm with the fathers on this point. I think if it came down to it I would sell off my collection and just have to deal with it but I can think of alot of other things I can sell off before I sell the collection but just for WOW factor, yeah I could do it and not think twice about it.

[NES_Rules]

Well, I've got about 350 extra games and 25 systems, so if I ever need money, I'll set up an eBay account and sell them off. If that wasn't enough, I'd sell off games that I don't have the system for and of that still wasn't enough, then I'd go for games I don't like or play. And if that's still not enough money, then I must have gotten into some serious trouble...

[steeniekins]

It'd be hard.
I'm proud of my still-growing 83game collection.
I'm currently a collage student and working part-time, and still living at home.
So I don't see a reason yet. I'd probably only sell my brother's NHL07 and gran turismos he left here when he left. HAHA and possibly my Xbox (the first one) But never my 64, SNES and PS1/PS2 games, etc. They are my children. I threaten my parents whenever they have a garage sale that if they touch my games they will lose a finger for each one sold. I think of them like antique jewelry. Stupid I know, but that's how I am.

[Videogamerdaryll]

Yes...

I'd try to hold on to a few things that I mainly play but everything else can go.
Right now I play online games mainly..I'd keep the 360s,PS3,Wii and my Arcade Machines.

When I got into Pocketbike/Mini Moto GP Racing..I didn't have the loot to invest in the more expensive over $1000.00 bikes so I sold off a bunch of gaming stuff that I piled up through the years to sell on ebay.
You could say that stuff was part of my collection but I call it gaming stock..
Do I regret it,hell no..I'm having a blast racing these little bikes and I really needed to get rid of somethings.
I don't miss any of it...
,
My wife said to me the other day while I was
rearranging the storage unit"you have a lot of gaming stuff here that,wouldn't you rather have home."
I said No..With the Baby coming no......I could care less about this crap..I'd be better off someone just come unload the damn place.


.......
Right now I'm considering selling two of my Arcade machines that I never use..

[jwm2]

Fortunately, I haven't yet had such a need arise. But if push came to shove, then yes, I could easily sell off my entire collection and content myself with console gaming henceforth via emulation. As a family man, one's priorities can not lie foremost with material items. Or to put it in less flowery terms: My kids can't eat carts and discs.

Sometimes i think mine do, hehe.

[kazuo]

A guy I used to know sold off his entire collection for $100k.

No joke.

If my collection was anything like his, and someone offered me $100k for it in one shot, TAKE IT.

[Buyatari]

A guy I used to know sold off his entire collection for $100k.

No joke.

If my collection was anything like his, and someone offered me $100k for it in one shot, TAKE IT.

I'd love to know more about this. Even Will Somerack didn't get 100k when he sold off his collection which contain close to mint complete copies of almost every Atari,Colecovision and NES game ever made.

I would be tempted to sell my collection in one shot if I thought there was a buyer with the funds.

[Vroomfunkel]

Would I sell if i had the need? Well, I sold my whole collection over the last year with no specific need to at all. I realised it took up a lot of space, cluttered the place up, I didn't really play any of the games any more anyway, and I figured I would rather have the money.

I suppose at the back of my mind is also the fact that I would like to buy a house some day and I don't know anywhere that will take rare Megadrive games as a deposit. Having sold up, and saved up I now have something almost approaching a decent deposit (as long as I move out of London, that is ...)

Plus I have a lot mroe space. I don't miss any of it really. I kept a Saturn and 10 jopypads in order to play multiplayer Bomberman and Death Tank Zwei if & when I feel like it. That's it - and I am more than happy with that.

[Family Computer]

I'm currently a collage student and working part-time, and still living at home.
So I don't see a reason yet.


hilarious

[BocoDragon]

I just passed through a rather dire situation....

I kept the games.

I just acted as if I had nothing in the world..... I wondered where my next meal was coming from.... even though I had rare games sitting next to me.

Weathered that shit.... now I've got cash again.... and my collection is intact!

[Pantechnicon]

My kids can't eat carts and discs.


Sometimes i think mine do, hehe.

There's a difference between eating games and eating through games, and my kids do plenty of that too.

..Although there was this one time my best friend's then-3-year-old daughter spread grape jelly all over his CD-ROM of Aces of the Deep. I have no idea how it must have tasted. LOL

[mailman187666]

I could see where father/mothers would sacrifice thier collection to take care of thier familys. That is definately #1. I didn't take that into consideration when I started the thread. It seems as though most of us here would sell some of our collections if the need were to arise. We are all highly into collecting and whatnot but yet we are all ready and willing to give up a lot of our hobby if we are in need. I think that most of us have at least a whole storage bin's worth of games that we'd have absolutely no trouble getting rid of at all, so its almost as if most of us have games that we don't care if we owned them or not. So why is it that we all own so many games that we don't give a crap about? its all part of this hobby I guess.

[gamebotonline]

Only if if can down to survival, which hopefully it never will.

Here is the closest i've come:

I sold a stack of PS1 titles to a pawn shop for about three dollars each. I had no groceries at the time. The games included Silent Hill and Ballistic, now valued at 10 to 15 dollars. Those are the ones I miss the most.

Also, I sold my boxed DS online with the Metroid Prime Hunters Demo to pay for the expense of releasing Gamebot Volume 2. Don't worry, my wife owned one as well (which I have totally hogged!).

[ProgrammingAce]

I've had to twice, and opted to a third time. When i had to do it, i decided i'd rather ditch one $1,000 item then a bunch of $20. At least i'd never have to worry about getting it back. This was generally due to car repair bills and a string of bad luck.


The one time i had a choice, i was overdrawn on my bank account and had about a week and a half before my next paycheck. I took a stack of about 50 xbox games i had just gotten in the mail (I bought the set for the console, not the games) and took them down to gamestop without even looking to see what they were. I ended up getting about $25, which i somehow managed to loose before i made it back home...

[zektor]

I have, I didn't like it, but I'd do it again if I *really* had to.

A father here as well.

[mnbren05]

I've done it before as many have. As a college student spare cash is hard enough to come by and this year I was layed off after the New Year. I was out of work for probably 4 and a half months and I sold a lot of my collection to help get me by. I had to sell off some N64 carts, my entire SNES collection and system, my NES famiclone and carts, lots of Xbox games, all of my Gameboy items, and a few rare anime DVD's. Although I held on dearly to most of my N64 library and my genesis items. Luckily I got another job and I did not have to deplete my collection anymore.

[kazuo]

I'd love to know more about this. Even Will Somerack didn't get 100k when he sold off his collection which contain close to mint complete copies of almost every Atari,Colecovision and NES game ever made.

It's a pretty hefty collection. I used to talk to him often, but after he started moving around (and I stopped using IRC), I haven't talked to him at all, really.

My bro did talk to him around a year or so back; he is now rolling in it (money... duh) and has become quite the ladies man.

There's pics of his collection floating around the 'net. I think internetarchive (or web archive... whatever) has the ebay auction he listed archived (he was originally asking $70k for it).

Anyway, link to the only FS thread for it I know of that survives:
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/showthread.php?t=31487

[boatofcar]

I sold most of my collection to move here.

[Gamingking]

I've never had the situation apun me. So I don't know what I would say, seeing as hopefully i'll never be in that position. My parents bought my car.

[FAMOUS]

Im doing it right now, i have a little bit of credit card debt and can barely afford the minimum now that im on my own, so i decided to start selling everything i dont play to help get this plastic off my back! PS2/XBOX/N64 and maybe if i have to go all the way my genesis and nes collection soon up for sale!

[grolt]

It's a pretty hefty collection. I used to talk to him often, but after he started moving around (and I stopped using IRC), I haven't talked to him at all, really.

My bro did talk to him around a year or so back; he is now rolling in it (money... duh) and has become quite the ladies man.

There's pics of his collection floating around the 'net. I think internetarchive (or web archive... whatever) has the ebay auction he listed archived (he was originally asking $70k for it).

Anyway, link to the only FS thread for it I know of that survives:
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/showthread.php?t=31487
Here's the archived auction...amazing.

http://web.archive.org/web/20041208073719/http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8137357473

[Arasoi]

I'm currently considering selling my Castlevania collection, just due to not being as passionate about collecting for it as I once was.

I don't even know that I'd get that much for it, though.

[briskbc]

I've had to sell some of the rare games in my collection more than once in the past. I did it at a time when the I could sell something for $50 USD on eBay and walk away with $75 when I converted it over to Canadian dollars. Now that the Canadian dollar is worth more than the US (for now) I should really start getting those games back. I'll still be ahead.

[crazyjackcsa]

I've never sold off the whole collection, and given it's actually value (very little) I doubt I ever would. How much could I get for 220 games and 7 systems? A grand? Tops? I have however gone through some thinnings. Usually I will sell off 10-15% of my games every couple of years.

[lkermel]

I've sold a few games from my collection many years ago and I realize now that I shouldn't have... I'm sometimes tempted to sell off some of my Game&Watch collection, looking at how hot they are on Ebay. But I don't think I will, I have enough income to feed my family and my collection. If the situation changes in the future, I may sell it, hard to tell really. As mailman187666 said, family is #1 on my list and if the need were to arise, I may sell it... or some of it...
More realistically, I'd be ready to even give it away to a Video Game Museum if such thing existed.

[Lemmi_Is_God]

im about to start selling some of my stuff, because of bills (i got hit with a $400 water bill i wasnt expecting)

i dont want to sell stuff, but when its gone its gone i wouldnt buy any of it back
i would keep one of each system if i could with most of the games and i would sell my extra systems with some games and various other attachments/add-ons/controllers

anyone interested in a Treamcast? :)

[7th lutz]

Only the common stuff for the most part. I never had to do that yet.

I also good balancing what I can afford. The only thing that would cause me to do that is stuff like water bills.

[boatofcar]

im about to start selling some of my stuff, because of bills (i got hit with a $400 water bill i wasnt expecting)


WTF? How is that even possible?

[Zing]

That's enough water to irrigate an small African country for a year.

[Lemmi_Is_God]

WTF? How is that even possible?

its a bill for 3 months but its to high for some reason, this is after i fixed all the leaky faucets 5 months ago, and even filling the pool at the beginning of the season 5 months ago
and that bill was only $260

[zektor]

Selling my collections in the past due to debt has completely ruined the collecting of those systems for me. I had almost every SMS game (112 I think) and sold them. I had a monster of a Vic-20 collection. I also had a massive TG16 collection. Snes, Jaguar...quite a few. I made small attempts to re-collect them, but it just makes me sick to have to re-purchase games I already had, or not be able to find them again (or find them only in worse condition), as well as find them to be three times as much as I spent for them when I last collected.

That said, I can never collect those systems again (or so I feel at the moment). I took on a new mission I never did previously in the Genesis (never collected it) and now have about 1/3 of the entire set. I know the same thing would happen here should I ever sell, and I am going to try my damnest never to have to do that!

[theshizzle3000]

Yeah I am finding myself refocusing my collecting, because sadly I cannot pay college living expenses with SMB/Duckhunt carts.

[Jumpman Jr.]

I can't imagine myself being in dire-straights of needing money, but I could see myself wanting to buy a house in a few years and wanting some more cash to put onto a down-payment.
I don't go into dept (by any means) when I buy games. If an emergency ever came up and I needed money right away, I would have it, so wouldn't ever be forced to sell anything.
However, as I mentioned above, when the time comes to buy a house, the thought might be there to sell some of my games. The thing is, though, is that I could only see myself selling certain things.
I couldn't see myself selling any of my NES, SNES or N64 items (which, by then, hopefully I'll have CIB collections of all three). But I could see myself selling some some of collections that don't mean all that much to me (like all the complete Sega libraries I have and such).

[shoes23]

I've never sold off the whole collection, and given it's actually value (very little) I doubt I ever would. How much could I get for 220 games and 7 systems? A grand? Tops? I have however gone through some thinnings. Usually I will sell off 10-15% of my games every couple of years.

That is exactly my rationale behind not selling off parts of my collection. It took me a lot of time and money to amass what I have now. I would much rather pick up another job delivering pizza's or mowing lawns to gain the extra income I need. I'm always a little surprised when people mention selling off their collection to pay their bills (specifically credit cards). Granted there will always be those unforseen expenses that can't really be planned for, but that is why you should set up an emergency fund for yourself to help pad those expenses.

I'm a family man though too, and like many others said, if hard times befell my family, I would be the first to volunteer the video game collection to be liquidated.

[Zebbe]

I would never sell off my collection. If I ever get into financial troubles, I'd use the Power of the Swedish Welfare System to get out of it.

[wrldstrman]

Im planning on letting all my atari 2600 stuff go except for a handful of games along with my 5200, odessey 2, jaguar, and genesis. Its come to the point I have turned my den into a store room and have had to move a lot of stuff like my pool table out because theres no room. so its time to lighten the load.