Went a little overboard - advice on downsizing?

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Re: Went a little overboard - advice on downsizing?

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vlame wrote:keep one of each system and only the complete games you love/care about or have seen a price jump in the last 3 years. for japanese games get rid of them if they do not have the spine card.
so much emotion and investment goes into this hobby, heh heh, I'll think about it. I decided to keep the systems I actually enjoyed growing up and are fun and dear to me (nes,snes, genesis, ps1). I don't think I'll be going back to buying them again, but I bet you I would rebuy the snes and nes if I sold those.

Also, why the heck do those spine cards matter so much? They don't do anything.
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shateredsoul wrote:Also, why the heck do those spine cards matter so much? They don't do anything.
japanese disc games, video-photo-music CDs, Laserdiscs (most discs for that matter) and such are NOT complete IF they do not include them, for many reasons but most obviously, the Original Box Insert (OBI strip, spine card) contains the barcode. This is a long standing jab at resellers and 2nd hand stores.

These were MEANT to be packaging garbage, now they are just another piece to collect.

most people place them in the manual or under the disc tray, look there. :)
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shateredsoul wrote:
vlame wrote:keep one of each system and only the complete games you love/care about or have seen a price jump in the last 3 years. for japanese games get rid of them if they do not have the spine card.
so much emotion and investment goes into this hobby, heh heh, I'll think about it. I decided to keep the systems I actually enjoyed growing up and are fun and dear to me (nes,snes, genesis, ps1). I don't think I'll be going back to buying them again, but I bet you I would rebuy the snes and nes if I sold those.

Also, why the heck do those spine cards matter so much? They don't do anything.
Spine cards matter for 2 reasons, some collectors want them, but they will really only increase value on the epic - epic games. For everyone who won't pay $35 Donpachi because it doesn't have a spine, there is someone else who will.

Now on a pricier game like Hyper Duel or Blast Wind, having the spine card can add $10-20. Its not uncommon to see spine cards to rarer games sold individually.

If you don't care about them, then no harm no foul, it won't affect sales on any of the games you have.

With that said - don't sell the modded DC's, you'll have a hard time getting $80 back out of them, more around $60, but still, its a great system, the game cases leave a small footprint, and the library is small. And the exact same can be said about Saturn. If its a money thing, then its a money thing - but if its a space thing, just rubbermaid it for awhile and give it 6 months.

One thing you can do when you don't want to list individual prices and ship individual packages is to take pics of everything you have and ask people to make offers. Say something like $50 minimum order, or shipping is $5-10-15 per order because I only use priority flat rate boxes, so this will avoid dealing with the one game at a time purchases if you wish to do so.

$4-500 is high on the DC lot, not insane but high, same goes for the $300 floated price on the Saturn lot. Keep in mind when you bundle something, people generally only "value" what they need or what they can easily flip for profit, so while you may have invested $400 into that bundle, someone else might only see $225 in their value. An example is this, maybe you value Napple Tale at $50 because you paid $50? However one sold on ebay for $35 last week, so now someone else values it at $35, now factor in that the person looking at that lot already has Napple Tale, so they would be reselling (more importantly reshipping it), so they may value it at $22-23. All of a sudden on just one game there is a $27 discrepancy. Avoid bundles unless you just want it gone or really hate packing individual packages.
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^^ good advice 5-star.
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Re: Went a little overboard - advice on downsizing?

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s1mplehumar wrote:I'd sell the 64 lot and the PS2. Everything else is CIB. Keep the Saturn and DC stuff.
id agree with this guy but personally i dont sell any of my game stuff its FAR FAR to precious to me i might sell machines i have that are good for nothing but parts machines but other than that im the video game pack rat from hell lol

that saturn looks like something special is it a PAL or JP or LTD saturn or something (i just skimmed the thread so if it was mentioned my bad)
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Re: Went a little overboard - advice on downsizing?

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korn16ftl3 wrote:that saturn looks like womething special is it a PAL or JP or LTD saturn or something (i just skimmed the thread so if it was mentioned my bad)
japanese i think.
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^ If you have nothing to do for the next hour, learn the history of the SAT-J, its mesmerizing :P

Seriously though, the Saturn did well in JP, it had MULTIPLE console releases, and not just in Japan, but in East Asia. Multiple official controller releases, etc.

Here, i'll get you started: SCROLL DOWN TO THE SATURN MODELS SECTION
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mjmjr25 wrote:^ If you have nothing to do for the next hour, learn the history of the SAT-J, its mesmerizing :P

Seriously though, the Saturn did well in JP, it had MULTIPLE console releases, and not just in Japan, but in East Asia. Multiple official controller releases, etc.

Here, i'll get you started: SCROLL DOWN TO THE SATURN MODELS SECTION
MK-80001 - easiest to mod right?
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The 80000A is easy to mod, I do not know about the 800001, though it may be even easier. The 80000 is difficult.

Honestly, i'm not sure why people still mod them, well I guess for CD-R's maybe, but if its for JP games, you can get a JP bare console for $50ish. The controllers / AV / AC are all interchangeable, so you don't need any of that, plus the JP consoles are damn slick looking.
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Re: Went a little overboard - advice on downsizing?

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My advice: Sell the genesis and N64. Keep most of everything else.

Some of those games if you really don't play them anymore you can get rid of them, but I wouldn't get rid of all of those Dreamcast and Saturn games. I think that's a little extreme.

A lot of Genesis games are available on the Sonic collection.
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