I've come to a point where I could really use some extra cash. I'm talking a few extra thousand. I need a car, and I need to retain some money in my bank account for once. For the past year or so, I haven't really "collected" anyway. I've been buying only to sell on ebay. I haven't actively collected or played video games in some time. The only thing thats made me keep building this collection is the thrill of the hunt.
I know better than to sell all my games. I would obviously regret it for the rest of my life if I sold every last once. I don't think I would regret selling about 1000 games though. For example, keep the Genesis, sell a few hundred games like Rastan Saga II and Barney's Hide & Seek. Keep the toploading NES, but sell off games like Puzzle and Bible Adventures, which I obviously won't play.
Here's a quick rundown of what I probably should be selling:
10 Genesis units, 350 games, most boxed or complete
10 NES units, 150 games, 50 doubles, maybe 40 complete games in that mix
2 SNES units, 100 games
70 Dreamcast games
2 PS1's, 100 games
3 2600's, 50 games
2 GBC's, 30 games
2 SMS, 30 games
30 N64 games
2 GG, 15 games
1 Saturn, 15 games
Thats off the top of my head, but it's the bulk of it. I'm sure there are hundreds of doubles, extras, boxes, manuals, and so on. I need advice about going about selling it all though. All at once in one big auction? Splitting it up and making my life one giant auction hell for months? Selling bits and pieces to collectors for ever and ever? I really don't know what to do. I'd love to sell it all at once and have it be done with, but I might not get the most for it that way.
If you can offer any advice, please help. I'm sure a lot of us here have had to do the same thing and sell off a bulk of the collection. If you're in the MI area, or know somebody in the MI area looking for a big lot like this, please let me know.
-Hitman-