Metal Gear Solid New Sealed... What Should The BIN Be?

[rpepper9]

I usually never find good stuff at the thrift stores around my city. However I did recently find a factory sealed Metal Gear Solid 2CD set for the PlayStation. It is the original, not the Greatest Hits version. It was only 2.99 so I bought it. I already have a copy of this game so I thought I would put it on eBay. I couldn't find another copy that had sold recently on eBay that was not a GH vesion. So I am wondering what I should set my reserve at, and the Buy It Now if I choose to use one. Sealed GH versions are going for about 16.00 + inflated shipping. Should I assume that this original would go for about twice that and set my reserve at 32.00 and maybe a BIN of about 3 times as much as the GH, just to see if I have any takers?

Any help on the priceing of the factory sealed original game would be helpfull since I don't usually have old factory sealed games for sale and not really sure of what the value should be.

Thanks

[WanganRunner]

Just use advanced search to check around for other completed auctions. Just use "Metal Gear Solid", then limit the critera to completed auctions and the Sony Playstation platform. See what others sold for....always a good way to determine market value.

[Ed Oscuro]

I'D PAY $2 FOR THAT

or even $20

But not $200 which is what you seem to be looking for. Though I'd love to get a copy of the non-GH version again.

[Xantan the Foul]

Only set a reserve if you want to halve the number of bids.

I never bid on reserve auctions, and nobody I know personally does either.

[demen999]

From my basic knowledge about MGS, I don't think its worth 32 to a collector. I know I wouldn't pay that either lol. You might be able to get 15 for it.....

[Aussie2B]

I wouldn't even bother with a BIN. Chances are you'll either shoot way too high or way too low. Better to let the chips fall where they may.

Just start the bidding at a price you're comfortable getting and leave it at that.

[Aussie2B]

From my basic knowledge about MGS, I don't think its worth 32 to a collector. I know I wouldn't pay that either lol. You might be able to get 15 for it.....

Might be able to get $15? O_o Did you read where rpepper said that sealed GH copies were going for $16? Why would it be questionable if it would sell for less than what the GH version goes for? o_O

[demen999]

Whoppps missed the sealed part AHHHHHH! Damn words on the Internets.

[poopnes]

I've had the best luck just setting the starting price at .01$. You'll attract bids that way. I can't imagine it'll go for more than $30, but if you start low and get bids early it does attract more attention.

[Bronty-2]

I usually never find good stuff at the thrift stores around my city. However I did recently find a factory sealed Metal Gear Solid 2CD set for the PlayStation. It is the original, not the Greatest Hits version. It was only 2.99 so I bought it. I already have a copy of this game so I thought I would put it on eBay. I couldn't find another copy that had sold recently on eBay that was not a GH vesion. So I am wondering what I should set my reserve at, and the Buy It Now if I choose to use one. Sealed GH versions are going for about 16.00 + inflated shipping. Should I assume that this original would go for about twice that and set my reserve at 32.00 and maybe a BIN of about 3 times as much as the GH, just to see if I have any takers?

Any help on the priceing of the factory sealed original game would be helpfull since I don't usually have old factory sealed games for sale and not really sure of what the value should be.

Thanks

$75-$100 would be a better bin. I haven't watched this game in like a year plus, but back then sealed was worth $60-80

[The-Bavis]

I agree with not doing the BIN at all. It deters people from running up the bids early on. If you put it too high, it will scare bidders away a lot of the time.

[Poofta!]

MGS is one of the cheapest and most common good PS games, non sealed, non greatest hits copies go for around 5 bucks. sealed, you may attract sealed games collectors. i doubt itll go over 30 bucks. just start from 2 bucks and see how far it goes. dont do reserve.

[demen999]

^^ thats what I though poofta! I see it all the time GH, and non GH.

[Promophile]

MGS is one of the cheapest and most common good PS games, non sealed, non greatest hits copies go for around 5 bucks. sealed, you may attract sealed games collectors. i doubt itll go over 30 bucks. just start from 2 bucks and see how far it goes. dont do reserve.

How common the game is used has no bearing on sealed prices. In fact games that went GH can be the hardest to find sealed non-GH since after a certain point all games produced were GH. Thats why sealed FF7s go for hundreds.

[PDorr3]

Sealed game prices are as crazy as ever, I would expect it to go for atleast $70 and expect it to fetch uypwards to $100. What would I pay? $10.

[rpepper9]

Thanks for all the responses. It is quite a mixed bag of ideas on how to get the best out of the auction. I think I will start it low as suggested, and have no reserve. But I think I will put out a crazy Buy-It-Now just to see if someone will take it. Adding a BIN only cost an extra .05, so if someone were to take it, it would be worth it.

[Gemini-Phoenix]

It all depends on whether or not the game is sealed with proper original cellophane with a tear strip, or in shrinkwrap.

Many greedy sellers will try to fob off a shrinkwrapped copy for high prices on eBay, and as a result, usually get spammed up with annoying eMail's from me telling them that their game is a reseal Etc Etc...


If it is the former though, then you'd be right to add quite a high price as a reserve or BIN - Maybe around $140-$160 which is still fairly high, but shows you aren't too greedy.


At the end of the day, you paid pittance for it, so you should just realy set the auction off with a $1 start and no reserve and just be thankful fr what you get for it - You're quids in whatever it finishes at, and there's a good chance it'll finish fairly high anyway.

[Gemini-Phoenix]

And just a quick word to all you others out tere who really don't have a clue about sealed games...

Non GH versions command a very high price for sealed versions - Regardless of how cheap a non-sealed or GH version is.


Take FFVII for example - Fairly common in it's GH guise, and relatively cheap too - But a lot harder to find as a black label. Sealed ones often go above $120.

Same rule goes for MGS; Castlevania SOTN; FF Tactics; FFVIII; FFXI - And many more. The black label versions ALWAYS sell for high prices, even if the GH versions are available sealed for only $5


I have previously seen sealed black label MGS games sell for close to what sealed FFVII's sell for.

I've also seen a lot of greedy eBayers list such games with stupidly high BIN prices, such as $225, and even up to $300!


You should NEVER compare a black label version with a GH version. They are two different entities. Black labels are only limited to one million copies, whereas a GH version of the same game may have as many as 20 million copies floating around.

Sealed black labels are very few and far between nowadays, so out of that initial million copies, their rarity is thus greater.

[demen999]

Hmm lesson learned I guess. I really didn't know the ratio of non GH made to GH.