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[chaseroni]

Yeah...wish I hadn't sold Electroplankton as a kid, it was a gift from my mom.
I ended up buying another copy eventually but I wish I hadn't done that in the first place..just wanted the new pokemon game.

 

[AJUMP23]

I keep all my stuff, but I did give away my WiiU, and I don't regret it.

 

[Artoris]

Sold Zelda game and watch and was not too happy soon after

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Gave away my Jaguar. I wish I still had it to pull it at laugh at.

 

[Kuranghi]

I recently sold some PAL Gamecube games including a "Good" condition Chibi Robo for £110, makes me wonder if I should've kept it but I decided to sell it since it wasn't anywhere near mint.

There is a sealed PAL copy listed for like ~£500 right now and a sealed WGA 85 graded for £1500.

 

[Bragr]

I got rid of all my cool shit 10-ish years ago just because I needed space, without really thinking it through.

I gave away my original GameBoy AND Gameboy color with a bunch of games like Tetris and Pokemon Red just because I didn't want it to "take up space". And the N64, Gamecube, DS, 3DS, I had tons of games in great condition and just sold it all for nothing just to clear it out.

And the PS2 with all the games I had, would be kinda cool to have now, I had all the classics.

Like most, I got tired of all the space it takes up and just got rid of it, but later on, when you realize just how much of your life you have been gaming and how much it means to you, you start to value it more.

 

[Artistic]

Sold COD4 as soon as World at War released. Regretted it and picked it back up a few weeks later.

Sold my PS3 two times during that generation. Mainly a exclusive machine, so they were periods of it collecting dust.

 

[Bragr]

I recently sold some PAL Gamecube games including a "Good" condition Chibi Robo for £110, makes me wonder if I should've kept it but I decided to sell it since it wasn't anywhere near mint.

There is a sealed PAL copy listed for like ~£500 right now and a sealed WGA 85 graded for £1500.

Gamecube seems to be the promised land on the used games market, people can't get enough of those games. While PS2 games are worth nothing.

 

[fallingdove]

Yes. Sold mint copies of Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy II, and Final Fantasy III with packaging to buy a pair of shoes.

 

[LordOfChaos]

I would not have sold my N64 and all my games and two controllers (one atomic purple, must have) for 90 bucks in retrospect

 

[20cent]

Sold my entire Mega Drive, Super Nintendo and Saturn collection in 1997 to buy a Nintendo 64 + Mario 64 when it came out in Europe... Everything was complete/in box/mint with dozens of japanese imports...

I still regret it. I hate this console, maybe that's the reason.

 

[HerpDerpstreit]

I had a Panasonic Q Gamecube that was modded for region 1 and 2 dvds and GC discs. Sold it for more than I paid for it but wish I had hung onto it now.

 

[Kuranghi]

Gamecube seems to be the promised land on the used games market, people can't get enough of those games. While PS2 games are worth nothing.

Good to hear, I have good-to-great quality PAL copies of Twin Snakes, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess and the Metroid Primes. I think Twin Snakes is worth a decent amount but I actually want to hold onto that one for a while longer because I like it.

 

[clem84]

I sold 1.5 bitcoin for 900$ back in 2015.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The only time I regret is having sold the Silent Hill 2 xbox game for a girlfriend, since then I have never sold anything to anyone.

The worst regret of my life.

 

[purvispisgah]

I sold my Xbox 360, Skates 1,2, and 3, and NCAA 14 and have been regretting it ever since.

"I'll never bother to play these again."
-my stupid brain

Only in the last 2 months have I gotten a PC good enough to run RPCS3 and emulate the games, but it's just not same. The 360 was such a good console.

Miss you boy.

 

[Susurrus]

Not particularly since I don't go back to play games usually, but my regret lies in more the stuff I sold is worth significantly more now.

 

[Thanati]

About a year after selling my Amiga 1200 with 030 accelerator. Tried to get one again last year but the price is crazy!

 

[WitchHunter]

Have you ever had any selling remorse, having sold a game/console only later to regret it?
What was it and why do you feel this way?

So I recently watched a video that uncovers the fraud and deception in the videogame sales market (see thread on this here) and I thought id go an have a look at some recently sold prices on ebay.

I used to own a copy of Spawn on SNES, which was VGA rated at 85.
A few years ago I sold it for $130.

It blew my mind to discover that a 75 Wata grade copy recently sold for $910!!

I sold my C64 back then. I fuckin regret it. That was the dream machine. Those were the times. I could literally finish books while game loaded the next area.

 

[RafterXL]

Never. Holding on to old bullshit is an albatross. Anytime I upgrade anything, the old stuff has to go. Consoles, tvs, movies, comics, baseball cards, everything but books, gone.

I used to one of those horders and the day I stopped and got rid of it all was like someone removed a mountain from my shoulders.

 

[MrA]

I sold a copy of super man 64 to a kid at a garage sale once, I think I charged like a dollar, the kid was so excited....

 

[Celcius]

I’ve sold tons of gaming related things over the years that I wish I hadn’t.

FF3 on snes, along with all my other snes games
My n64 and all the games
My ps1 and all the games including ff tactics, ff7, xenogears, much more
My ps2 and all the games
My x360 and all the games. I also never connected my system to the internet to sync any of my achievements before I sold it.
Deleted my Oblivion save data with over 309 hours. Also didn’t keep most of my old memory cards.
My Dreamcast and all the games
Tales of Vesperia ps3 edition imported from Japan at launch
My GameCube and all the games including tales of symphonia
My snes mini
Some of my ps3 games
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head

 

[EDMIX]

Nah, I sell shit that sucks. Like the Zune.

I still have an old 30GB model and would have no issue selling it.

For its time....it was a great MP3 player and MS did the best they could, but that market barely exist any more since phones can clearly be MP3 players. Phones out here now supporting shit like 1TB sd cards lol

 

[Sgt.Asher]

My gamecube for metroid prime 3, I miss that bios boot

 

[MrMephistoX]

The Cannon Spike thread reminded me I once owned that ridiculously short game.

 

[6502]

Sold a few n64 carts to fund a new game 22 yrs ago. Last week I finally bought the last one back. Played for a few goes and then consigned back to storage.

They left an odd hole in my soul.

 

[hybrid_birth]

I regret selling my amd graphics card for $125 only for that card to be worth $500 the next year. If only i knew there would be a graphics card shortage.

 

[Nobody_Important]

I regret selling every single console that I've ever gotten rid of. And here in the last 2 years in particularly I have mentally beaten the crap out of myself for it.


I grew up in a house with a single mom who busted her ass to get me what she could. Along the way I got a super nintendo, a Nintendo 64, playstation 2, a game boy color, a game boy SD, etc etc. And all of these things over time obviously became obsolete and just started collecting dust in the back of my closet and were eventually either just tossed when we moved or I traded them in at game stores for the newest thing.



But now that I am an adult and I understand the way the world works I emotionally beat the crap out of myself every time I think about it because to me at the time all of those things were just random bits of technology. I had no concept of what an emotional keepsake is and by the time I got rid of them they meant very little to me because I hadn't used them for quite a long time at that point. It was just an old toy that I didn't use anymore. But looking back now I understand just how hard it must have been for my mom knowing what she made at the time in order to get me those things. Especially those earliest purchases. She must have worked her ass off to be able to get those for me.


And not a week goes by these days that I don't think back on that and wish that I had every single one of those things back and sitting on my bookshelf in my living room right now. It just feels very callous to have taken something of such value and gotten rid of it so carelessly.

 

[R6Rider]

I've only ever sold 2 games and don't regret either of them (technically one was a trade in towards another).

 

[PhillMeCream]

my red spideyman ps4 but at least I got a ps5

 

[Kreen101]

Once, when I paid to see Trail of the Pink Panther.

 

[baphomet]

I sold a fully loaded CPS3 with Street Fighter 3 Third Strike. I got well over a grand for it, but still I occasionally wish I could hook it up.

 

[Havoc2049]

-My Commodore 64c with 1571 disk drive, printer and around 20 boxed games and some productivity software
-Sega Saturn and around 25 games
-Sega Dreamcast and around 30 games, with a bunch of Dreamcast collectables, controllers, KB&M, magazines, etc.

 

[Kamina]

I sold a few game boy games when i was a kid/teen that i thought i didnt need any longer.
Big mistake.

 

[Alex Anderson]

I used to have a discs only Panzer Dragoon Saga and a complete mint Sega CD Snatcher. Oops. Probably sold em both for 100 bucks each years and years ago

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Demon's Souls Deluxe Edition. That goes to show how broke I was at the time to hock a wonderful gem like that.

 

[Martinski43]

Sure I’ve had a few times when selling something I like I kinda regret it immediately but sometimes it needs to be done if short on cash.

But usually I sell stuff that collect dust in or sits in a box for years.

 

[eyesabitdull]

Trading in my PSOne for a PS2 as a kid and later on my PS2 for a PS3 was a mistake.

It pains me how little games from that era is playable today.

I really have to just go into emulation and call it a day.

 

[MayauMiao]

Never sold my old consoles due to failure of the unit but I do regret not taking care of it a lot better.

 

[MilkyJoe]

I sold my Nintendo Switch after a year. Kinda regret it.

Check out your local CeX there are loads for sale

 

[Gloomnivore]

I went from having seller’s remorse to hoarder’s remorse. I preferred seller’s remorse.

 

[Emedan]

Sold my Nintendo GC for an OG XboX and Halo, didn't regret it then - certainly do now.

 

[Umbasaborne]

I regret trading in my old consoles. I dont do it aymore, but i was a kid, and if i wanted to upgrade, then that was the path forward. I did however recently buy back my gamecube from a friend I sold it to years ago, plus my games. I have cib copies of mario sunshine and animal crossing (including the memory card) that are in really good shape

 

[John Bilbo]

Yes. I regret selling my PS Vita for dirt cheap. I should have kept it and made it into an portable emulator.

 

[BigLee74]

My Xbox One X.

I didn’t need it anymore (had bought the Series X), but I had left my COD infinite warfare/modern warfare remaster disc inside it.

Fucking idiotic schoolboy mistake.

 

[PhantomFox94]

Traded in a complete in box copy of Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes to GameStop. I still feel like shit about that one.

 

[Warnen]

When I moved a few years back sold off most of my Sega Saturn collection, wish I didn’t oh well life moves on.

 

[AlteredForms]

“Seller’s remorse” what’s that?

 

[AlteredForms]

Seller’s remorse, what’s that?

 

[BlackTron]

I traded in a lot of my old gaming stuff at Funcoland during the N64/Dreamcast era where I was desperate for new games but I was just a 13 year old with no money. Dawn of time stuff like my original copy of SMB and the big gray Game Boy. The most painful was Mario RPG but it was worth a decent chunk.

I mean, when shit like Goldeneye, Zelda, Soul Calibur, PSO are dropping, WTF do you do. It's an emergency.