Retro collection for sale soon .... Selling advice.

[nick heppinstall]

Just finalising the list. Will then be starting the not unpleasant task of making sure it all works :-)

It would be ideal to sell the lot in one go which is probably about as likely as winning the lottery .....

I might have a go with the lot on ebay. It's worth a punt for the £8-10 to list.

Anyone have any other ideas at selling the lot in one go ?

I'm sure I can sell the stuff individually on ebay or other places but it's just such a pain ......

Suggestions gratefully welcomed :-)

[philwhite]

nick heppinstall said:

Just finalising the list. Will then be starting the not unpleasant task of making sure it all works :-)

It would be ideal to sell the lot in one go which is probably about as likely as winning the lottery .....

I might have a go with the lot on ebay. It's worth a punt for the £8-10 to list.

Anyone have any other ideas at selling the lot in one go ?

I'm sure I can sell the stuff individually on ebay or other places but it's just such a pain ......

Suggestions gratefully welcomed :-)

It all depends on what you’ve got to sell, some retro stuff is worthless others can be worth a lot, I sold some duplicate games a few years back, one of them being Streets of Rage 3 for the Mega Drive which went for over £50 on eBay, Road Rash 2 on the over hand went for just £1.25.

There are some shops that specialise in retro stuff that may take the lot off you; some will let you trade it in against new stuff (www.retrogames.co.uk is a good one to try). But if you sell a big job lot on eBay I guarantee whoever buys it will split it and resell individually, if you want to make as much money as you can this is what you need to do. It takes time but you’ll make so much more £££ in the long run.

I’d make a list of everything you have and see what the prices are like on eBay at the moment, see if you have anything valuable.

[nick heppinstall]

Thanks Phil. I've done the list and priced everything up on ebay using listings that have actually sold ( tooke me 3 days ! ). I've taking the average ish price of each item or if I could only find one item that sold I've knocked a bit off in an attempt to obtain a realistic valuation of the collection.

It's well into 4 figures .....

My ideal would be for a collector to say 'Hey i'll have all that, my well off girl will buy it for my Birthday !'

Or to sell the lot to a local shop. Theirs a few locally that deal in retro stuff.

Guess that wownt happen though ...

[LukeBird]

May well be worth sticking the list on here first, I've seen a few people respond to threads like this suggesting they'd be interested (I could be! ) in some things.

[philwhite]

nick heppinstall said:

It's well into 4 figures .....

Wow, that must be some collection!!

[Neil_H]

If you sell to a shop or sell as a job lot, you'll get a lot less than the individual prices.

I'd be tempted to open a shop on Ebay and do it that way. Ebay is crap now but generally with more specialised things such as this, the buyers tend to be ok to deal with, rather than idiot kiddies.

[nick heppinstall]

philwhite said:

nick heppinstall said:

It's well into 4 figures .....

Wow, that must be some collection!!

That was probably a bit missleading ! It's more than 1k but less that 3 !

[nick heppinstall]

LukeBird said:

May well be worth sticking the list on here first, I've seen a few people respond to threads like this suggesting they'd be interested (I could be! ) in some things.

Luke I'll pm you when I've finished the list.

[nick heppinstall]

Neil_H said:

If you sell to a shop or sell as a job lot, you'll get a lot less than the individual prices.

I'd be tempted to open a shop on Ebay and do it that way. Ebay is crap now but generally with more specialised things such as this, the buyers tend to be ok to deal with, rather than idiot kiddies.

Hows it going Neil ? Yeah I might do that. I'm just a bit tight and lazy ! :-)

[LukeBird]

nick heppinstall said:

LukeBird said:

May well be worth sticking the list on here first, I've seen a few people respond to threads like this suggesting they'd be interested (I could be! ) in some things.

Luke I'll pm you when I've finished the list.

Thanks chap.

I think the ideas on splitting and selling separately (ish!) is a bit harder work but is likely to net you a lot more £!
I've bought quite a few rare consoles on eBay over the last few months (a SNES, Panasonic Q, have bid on a few others oh and an absolutely mint NES!) and the listings tend to have more 'serious' buyers and less morons.

[nick heppinstall]

Here's a few bits :

Atari 2600 - Brand new and boxed.

Atari Jaguar Console - Brand new and sealed. All Atari seals intact.

Nintendo 64 Aqua Blue Mario 64 Pak - Never used and totally mint.

Super Mario All Stars plus Super Mario World Pak - Near mint.

Microsoft Xbox - Brand new in box with 4 sealed games - Halo 2, Fable The Lost Chapters, Project Gotham Racing 2 and Forza Motorsport.

Sega Dreamcast - Near mint and boxed.

Vectrex in superb condition - Box has both polys ( rare ) and Mine Storm overlay present. Warranty card also included.

Gamecube Pearl White Mario Smash Football Pak - Brand New with seals intact.

Gamecube Mario Kart Double Dash Platinum Pak - Brand New with seals intact.

Gamecube Resident Evil 4 Pak - Brand New with seals intact.

Amiga 1200 Magic Pack - Brand new in origional shipping box.

[Digby]

Not sure what the prices are like now, but I still have loads of consoles (many mint), old computers and various addons etc in my loft.Will be interesting to see what you get matey as I keep wondering about selling all my gear.I sold 2 boxed vectrexs a cple of years back (both boxed with polys, books, receipt and one was still inside the rare outer cardboard box - never seen another one of those!) for just over £500

[Dupont666]

I just looked at prices and my brain almost went into melt down, in my collection I have:

Rez
Power Stone 2
Outrigger
Cannon spike
ready to rumble boxing 2
San francisco rush
Power stone
crazy taxi
Soul caliber

And at least 6 more weird and wonderful ones as I alays refused to buy any of the mainstream ones.

They are all used but in very good condition, what kind of prices can I expect compared to ebay?

[Neil_H]

nick heppinstall said:

Here's a few bits :

Atari 2600 - Brand new and boxed.

Atari Jaguar Console - Brand new and sealed. All Atari seals intact.

Nintendo 64 Aqua Blue Mario 64 Pak - Never used and totally mint.

Super Mario All Stars plus Super Mario World Pak - Near mint.

Microsoft Xbox - Brand new in box with 4 sealed games - Halo 2, Fable The Lost Chapters, Project Gotham Racing 2 and Forza Motorsport.

Sega Dreamcast - Near mint and boxed.

Vectrex in superb condition - Box has both polys ( rare ) and Mine Storm overlay present. Warranty card also included.

Gamecube Pearl White Mario Smash Football Pak - Brand New with seals intact.

Gamecube Mario Kart Double Dash Platinum Pak - Brand New with seals intact.

Gamecube Resident Evil 4 Pak - Brand New with seals intact.

Amiga 1200 Magic Pack - Brand new in origional shipping box.

*dribble*

[Dupont666]

Dupont666 said:

I just looked at prices and my brain almost went into melt down, in my collection I have:

Rez
Power Stone 2
Outrigger
Cannon spike
ready to rumble boxing 2
San francisco rush
Power stone
crazy taxi
Soul caliber

And at least 6 more weird and wonderful ones as I alays refused to buy any of the mainstream ones.

They are all used but in very good condition, what kind of prices can I expect compared to ebay?

Oh and also got a bleemcast for gran turismo.

(note stupid PH will not let me edit a post without failing)

[philwhite]

Dupont666 said:

Dupont666 said:

I just looked at prices and my brain almost went into melt down, in my collection I have:

Rez
Power Stone 2
Outrigger
Cannon spike
ready to rumble boxing 2
San francisco rush
Power stone
crazy taxi
Soul caliber

And at least 6 more weird and wonderful ones as I alays refused to buy any of the mainstream ones.

They are all used but in very good condition, what kind of prices can I expect compared to ebay?

Oh and also got a bleemcast for gran turismo.

(note stupid PH will not let me edit a post without failing)

Bleemcast for the DC is quite rare should should fetch a few £££, I see you have Rez too!! You're in luck, this is the one of rarest PAL releases and you could see anything up to £70 for it! The other games are unfortunatly only worth a few quid each, although Powerstone 2 is fairly hard to come by so you may make £10.

Edit: Looking on ebay Rez looks to be going for about £45, not to bad!!

Edited by philwhite on Monday 17th August 17:34

[LukeBird]

Neil_H said:

*dribble*

+1

Unfortunately, some of that is likely to offend my wallet after my recent spending habits!
Hmmmm....

[_dobbo_]

nick heppinstall said:

Amiga 1200 Magic Pack - Brand new in original shipping box.

Must.... resist.... urge.......

[Halb]

I still have my NES/SNES/64/GG/Megadrive/Grandslam and they all work. All my NEW games were mint...but I let my nephews play with them and now the boxes are cruddy

[nick heppinstall]

_dobbo_ said:

nick heppinstall said:

Amiga 1200 Magic Pack - Brand new in original shipping box.

Must.... resist.... urge.......

:-) If anyone is interested in the few bits above then drop me a PM. I'll try sticking them in the Classifieds to give PH'ers first dibbs before other forums or <sigh> ebay....