What will happen to your collection?

[XYXZYZ]

Dangerboy's post in the Goodwill thread gave me the idea for this thread -and this is aimed at people with massive collections- if you get killed in a car wreck or bite it some other way before your time, what do you want to happen your your collection? I know building a tomb and taking it with you to the afterlife would be the obvious choice, but I doubt you can trust anyone to make that happen. Would you give it to a gamer friend or family? Have it sold off? I don't know anyone that would want mine, and I'd hate to see thousands of dollars of good stuff be tossed when my family (Who doesn't have a clue what this stuff is worth) could get quite a bit of money out of it. But I'd also like to see it in the hands of someone who appreciates what it is, and will bring him the joy it's brought me.

Me, I'm really not sure what I want at the moment.

[xtremegamer]

My collection would most likely either sit in boxes with my wife for the rest of time or she would let my 3 brothers who are avid gamers split up my stuff. I would rather it all go to my brothers so they can enjoy it as much as I have. She would most likely keep the stuff she bought me like the Xbox, Xbox 360, and games she bought me for those systems. I would hope she would be smart enough to sell my 700+ video/dvd wrestling collection, lot of money sitting there.

[Lemmi_Is_God]

mine will probably be tossed out or sold at a garage sale

[VACRMH]

I've thought about this before, and I really should get a list written up.

My girlfriend would get alot of Working Designs and RPG games. Lufia, Lunar, Tales of Symphonia ect

One friend would get what's left of the saturn games, as he loves saturn.

Yada yada yada.

[64Bits]

At this point in time, more than likely my brother would get some of it (he's 15), and the rest of it would be sold off, and I would want my girlfriend to get the money. Any other material possessions I have I would want sold off to pay for my brother's and her's college costs.

[Kamisama]

Well, I think my mother would start selling it, as I mention from time to time there are also rare (and valuable) Items. In case I really die from some car accident or something. That's some scary thoughts though :)

[crazyjackcsa]

If I was killed in a car accident? My wife could do whatever she wanted to it, she knows the value of most of the stuff. My long term plan is to let it apprciate and someday sell it all. This isn't really an investment strategy as I know there are better investments than videogames, but you can't play with investments.

[PSerge]

knowing my wife... EBAY.... She would either Ebay it, or get someone else to Ebay it for her.

[lordnikon]

Today's Pro-Tip:

Don't drive cars! They are the ender of lives!

[rcgamer]

They would have to sell my stuff to pay for the funeral . lol.

[Videogamerdaryll]

It all goes to my Son...shoot,he plays most of it more then me anyhow...

[The Great Dane]

I have thought about this a little as well. While I don't really have a huge collection, there is still quite a bit of gaming stuff I have built up over the years. I don't know what my wife would do with it, though. She would probably have a hard time selling it off, as my gaming stuff is what she knows me by. She would probably keep most of it around just to remind her of me.

[Arasoi]

Ideally, Id have my collection sent to another Castlevania collector, or someone as maniacal as I am about collecting CV stuff so what legacy I have would live on in some way.

[Haoie]

It'll go to my sis, and she'd better keep up the collecting habit or she's in for a haunting.

[Tbowl]

I'll probably have my cousin sell it on ebay... educated selling!

[Mayhem]

In honesty, probably get sold off by my parents to pay for my funeral and beyond :p

(and yes, they do know the worth of certain items)

[cyberfluxor]

All NES, SNES, VB, Saturn and extra computer stuff goes to my best friend.
Gamecube & PS2 go off to my brother.
All my Genesis games that a friend of mine doesn't own can fill in some of his gaps.
Major PS1 & DC RPGs will go to a bud that lives in NC & joined the air force.
Gamegear & gameboy games will go to a friend's girlfriend so he won't sell them when he opens his store.
Other portables and games go to my parents, along with the electronic gear and main computer systems.
My uncle gets my N64 games.
A college buddy of mine would get all my PC games, he loves the old school stuff.

All the rest can be sold to a local store to help his inventory and would bring back some decent $$$. Anything he wouldn't take would most likely be given to other friends (most of the rest don't play many video games or stick to MMOs) or sold on eBay.

[s1lence]

My wife, brother, and best friend will all get there picks at it. Most of it will go to my brother though.

[Imstarryeyed]

Most of my collection (2000+ pieces) are going into my store to start off my inventory.. I got some pretty cool titles and interesting gizmos so it should be a real nice opener.

[Flack]

You never know, your family might end up giving your whole collection to a complete stranger (http://digitpress.com/archives/extendedplay_ti99.htm). That's what happened to me.

[Vinnysdad]

My collection would most likely end up in a Salvation Army box, the trash, or boxed up and put in the garage forever. This is exactly why I am in the process of selling practically everything I have collected over the years. I have thought about this exact situation a hundred times and decided to get what money I could and put it away for my son.

[Pantechnicon]

My collection will pass on to my children, either partially or as a whole, depending on the context of my death.

- If my wife and I both die when the kids are minors, pretty much all of our assets will be sold off to build a trust fund to help raise the little ones. I imagine the kids will hang on to a few of the newer pieces of the collection, but most of it will be liquidated along with with everything else we own.

- If only I die by while the kids are minors, the kids will get whatever they want, but I can't imagine they'll want all of it, so Mrs. Pan will enlist knowledgeable help - perhaps DP's own ubikuberalles - to sell off the rest on Ebay and maximize the proceeds, and then they can all take a fun trip somewhere (Ubik...no skimming off the top or I'll come back and haunt you, kthx).

- If I die when the kids are adults, they'll get everything to do with as they wish.

I'd just as well have it that my collection is liquidated, reduced or somehow otherwise dispersed upon my departure from the mortal coil because I don't want it laying around as some sort of de facto "monument" to my existence. No, I'm not ashamed of my collection or anything, I just don't want any kind of shrine when I'm dead. For this same reason I'm being cremated and will have no grave marker of any type. I'll live on in memory, or not at all.

[bangtango]

I would probably let two of my siblings who are gamers pick the collection clean. Keep what they want and sell/pawn the rest to give them a little bit of spending money.

[mr_nihilism]

Everything will go to my daughter. She's only two years old now, so hopefully I won't take the dirt sleep until she's old enough to appreciate everything. Or she can just eBay it.

[Kuros]

As of now, the games and everything would go to my brother. Who knows what will happen later in the future.

[NES_Rules]

My parents refuse to believe that my collection has any value to it all, so they would probably throw it all out.

[TheTrench]

That´s why you get a will or living will if you have anything of worth, so you make sure it goes to someone who knows what it´s worth or what to do with it.

[DarthKur]

I've contemplated this sad scenario many times before and not just concerning my classic gaming stuff but the myriad of detritus that I've accumulated over the years. I've always been a pack rat and always will be. The thing is I'm very much a hermit so there's no one that anything would go to in the event of my ultimate demise, besides my folks of coarse, which are in their 80's at present. Needless to say they couldn't care less about 99.9% of the things I've amassed. I guess if I end up in a bone yard before they do they get it all and anything they don't want I've instructed for it to be donated to the Humane Society.
Personally I plan on living forever. ;)

[Anthony1]

I've been thinking a bit about this myself too. Considering how expensive funerals are, and gravesites and all that crap, I wouldn't want my wife burdoned with all those expenses, so I have told her that when I die, she can sell all my systems and games on Ebay.

But, what I really should do, is make up some kind of list, to tell her what to sell individually, what to sell in lots, how to price it, etc, etc. I should also let her know which stuff doesn't really have any big time resale value, so that those games and systems my two little boys can have. Stuff like Sonic carts and stuff. Really common games that are good, but aren't worth much.

I'm just wondering if she could really deal with it all. The actual process of putting all that crap on Ebay and packing it up and everything. It can definitely be a tiring process, and to do that with somebodies belongings. somebody that was very close to you.... I imagine it would be quite painful to have to do that. But hey, that's just the way shit is. If she really has no use for it, might as well sell it and get the money for it. My main concern would be that she actually get's top dollar for it. For some reason, the thought of me being dead and her selling everything doesn't bother me, but the thought of me being dead, and her selling everything and not getting top dollar for it, does bother me, lol.

[Single Player Gamer]

Well considering I'm 25 I havent put too much thought into what I'm going to do with my collection. My wife would probably allow her brother to grab the things in there that he liked and I imagine she would hold on to the rest for a while then sell it slowly over time. Luckily the planning I have done for the future already includes a large life insurance policy so my wife and my parents wouldnt be burdened with expenses. If I have children which I plan to in a few years then thats another story. If I have a gamer child then of course the collection would go to them to enjoy. I imagine for those gamers that know my wife and I that they could request things and recieve them as well. My collection represents something that brings me joy more than an investment and if I can I would share that. Too be honest now that I think of it, I wouldnt mind that parts of my collection were donated to childrens hospitals or something similar.

Oh and to Flack: After reading your article for what its worth thats a great thing that you've done whether you are aware or not. I don't know you but I just wanted to let you know that its nice to see you are doing something like that for someone you didnt even know.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Knowing my family? The garbage bin. They want me to throw out the boxes for my games, fer cris'sakes.

[Nescollector]

It would be cool if some of the more valuable stuff showed up on Antiques Roadshow on PBS in say 30 years from now.

[ConsoleFreek]

My entire collection would be purchased by an eccentric multi millionaire and used to start up the first Australian fine gaming and computer museum with the center piece of the museum being a 30 foot hight solid granite statue of myself and Bowser, King of the Koopas in our last epic battle.:ass:








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[neuropolitique]

As of now (no children, wife, etc.) I plan on giving a few choice pieces to friends. Everything else gets donated to Goodwill. Let the cycle start over and such.