Is it worth blowing $35,000 for a bunch of videogames? Are you serious?
For a bunch of video games? Sure. But for one video game? Nope..
Some people have too much money and not enough sense.
If that collection is worth $35,000, then mine must be worth $500,000 or something.
I would guess that's exactly how this guy(and probably 99.9999% of game collectors) went about amassing his collection. Otherwise, it wouldn't be collecting. Rather, it would be investing. And like you said, doing it for investment is a fool's errand, which is why I don't know a single person who's done it.There was an article a few years back of a record collector that had millions of vinyl, had a cooled storage room paying a high electricity bill and all. Worth millions.
Couldn't sell it for even a few hundred thousand thanks to most of the collection being on mp3 on the net.
outside of a few prints that were discontinued and dj's/producers wanted, the collection was just not moving.
Collecting now a days is a fools errand unless its just for personal appreciation.
is he too lazy to sell them individually?
The $25k "offer" was probably either him or someone he knows, just to "show" people that this is really "valuable."
Couple grand, maybe $5k tops for the lot. Sure there are some $50, $100, and one or two $150-$200 games in there, but not very many. The vast majority can be bought for pretty cheap.
And damn, Infinite Space goes for $60? I almost bought that new for like $20.
My theory? He put it up there to start a GAF thread in which we discuss his game collection. Mission accomplished, guy.
He rejected 25k? Ahahahaha.
Or better yet - 35,000 items from McDonald's value menu.
I don't imagine he thinks someone is going to hit the BIN on $35K; I think it's deliberately set high so he can collect offers. Without speaking with him directly I don't really know if this person is crazy or just fielding offers while using eBay as a way of advertising that this stuff is out there.
That said, while the collection is clearly not $35,000 worth of stuff, it's closer to it (in terms of adding up the retail value of each individual item) than the majority of you seem to be giving him credit for. That Earthbound would sell for $500.
There are a lot of Saturn games there that go for between 50 and 100, and those add up. He doesn't have the rarest NES games but he does have Chip & Dale 2 and Duck Tales 2, which are about $100 each. EVO, Wild Guns, etc. on SNES are all approaching the $100 mark. Etc.
On the other hand, you can't sell a whole bundle of expensive things for the price you'd get for them individually.
my GC component cable is worth over $100 then PSO is worth $50.
I don't understand the demand for the GCN component cable, when the backwards compatible Wii can play it with the same controller, looking better in 480p, etc.
Yea, people in this thread are underestimating what all of this is really worth. I wonder if someone here who has the time would actually add up what everything listed is worth.
To throw out some more prices, Dracula X on snes complete is worth around $200. The GBA Micro famicom edition is worth around $200. So between Earthbound, Dracula X, GBA micro, Snatcher, Duck Tales 2, Chip N Dale 2 is $1500 just right there.
Nintendo only manufactured them for a limited time if I remember correctly. They also removed the digital AV port halfway through the gamecubes life cycle from newer manufactured consoles.
I dunno, that's a pretty nice shelf.
Wait a second, are those Skylanders hung on the wall?
I don't understand the demand for the GCN component cable, when the backwards compatible Wii can play it with the same controller, looking better in 480p, etc.