best place to dump past gen games?

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I noticed alot of the older games (PS2) are fetching $1 or less at bestbuy even with the 100% extra deal wouldn't be much. I'm done with goozex since trades take forever even if your top 10 for new release titles....

Has anyone had luck selling older games in a bundle on ebay, craigslist?
 
Craigslist or game forums would probably be your best bet. Video game lots are a pain in the ass to list on eBay now since you can only charge a flat shipping fee of up to $4...otherwise you have to enter the dimensions/weight/etc. Plus I've noticed that lot prices are creeping downwards.

You could also try Amazon...I have better luck selling single titles there.
 
Might as well list what you got. Figured the good titles will be gobbled up quickly and the not so good titles will get "low balled."

I think that's the correct use of that phrase, offering a low offer of money for something.
 
[quote name='KanYozakura']Craigslist or game forums would probably be your best bet. Video game lots are a pain in the ass to list on eBay now since you can only charge a flat shipping fee of up to $4...otherwise you have to enter the dimensions/weight/etc. Plus I've noticed that lot prices are creeping downwards.

You could also try Amazon...I have better luck selling single titles there.[/QUOTE]

You don't have to enter shipping dimensions, I just leave them blank when I ship parcel post or priority. When you ship first class, you don't have to enter shipping dimensions at all. But if you ship them individually in a bubble mailer it's around 7-8oz I believe which is around $2.50.
 
I unloaded all of my PS2 games on Ebay in lots, all of the games I saw were going for 10 dollars or less were bundled together. I sold about 30 something games for 80 dollars or so. Not exactly a large amount of money but it freed up space in my room and since I don't have any bills or anything like that, it made for some nice pocket/date money. :)
 
[quote name='PocketIguodala']I unloaded all of my PS2 games on Ebay in lots, all of the games I saw were going for 10 dollars or less were bundled together. I sold about 30 something games for 80 dollars or so. Not exactly a large amount of money but it freed up space in my room and since I don't have any bills or anything like that, it made for some nice pocket/date money. :)[/QUOTE]

yea I'd rather sell them as a bundle I think, still the fees suck but shipping out 100s of packages really sucks

I literally have about 300 or more Ps2 games in my collection (not all listed on my trade list)
 
[quote name='PocketIguodala']I unloaded all of my PS2 games on Ebay in lots, all of the games I saw were going for 10 dollars or less were bundled together. I sold about 30 something games for 80 dollars or so. Not exactly a large amount of money but it freed up space in my room and since I don't have any bills or anything like that, it made for some nice pocket/date money. :)[/QUOTE]
Eighty bucks for 30 games? I woulda cringed at only getting that for my prior gen stuff. Unless it was all sports titles or all disc only, I would say you got robbed.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']Eighty bucks for 30 games? I woulda cringed at only getting that for my prior gen stuff. Unless it was all sports titles or all disc only, I would say you got robbed.[/QUOTE]

$80 isn't bad if they already picked out the good stuff for individual sale.
 
[quote name='Prepster']Estarland is a great place, they offer fair prices for your games.[/QUOTE]

I second that, especially if you wait for when they offer a trade in bonus.
 
[quote name='Indigo_Streetlight']$80 isn't bad if they already picked out the good stuff for individual sale.[/QUOTE]
That's what folks on CL and here tried doing with my old games, picking out the good shit while leaving the 'common' titles.:roll: But sometimes ya just gotta say 'only selling em as a lot' and eventually they'll get the hint and STFU and either pay the price for the lot or get lost.;)

I did a lot of researching to get to my final price I put up though.
 
I hate lots. I have a fuckton of games, so I never benefit from lots. It annoys me when people insist ion selling lots even when I would pay a fair price for anything I cherry pick, and they've been trying to sell the lot for a damn month and a half!!!! lol
 
if you live in southern california there is a great shop called IGotNext located in monrovia.

i traded in a few games and got a pretty decent account.

think i got about 15 buxs for ps1 megaman legends, and about 10 for final fantasy 7

plus a bunch of dc games
 
[quote name='CaoPi']yea I'd rather sell them as a bundle I think, still the fees suck but shipping out 100s of packages really sucks

I literally have about 300 or more Ps2 games in my collection (not all listed on my trade list)[/QUOTE]

You should sell the ones worth the most individually, and the others as a bundle. You usually make more that way. Or like if you had a series like Xenosaga, sell all 3 together, you'd get more.
 
[quote name='Zaku77']I hate lots. I have a fuckton of games, so I never benefit from lots. It annoys me when people insist in selling lots even when I would pay a fair price for anything I cherry pick, and they've been trying to sell the lot for a damn month and a half!!!! lol[/QUOTE]
You know what the people who tried to 'cherry pick' my lots best games offered as a 'fair price'? $5 shipped per HTF/"rare" game, regardless of what they were getting on eBay or Amazon at the time.

So let's say a game was getting $35 online to sell according to completed auction listings on eBay. After shipping that's about $4 and before fees, which are usually 15-17%. They wanted my good games for less than 20% of their perceived value. Yeah. Not gonna happen.

Besides which, I only sold them as a lot so that the price was spread out amongst the ENTIRE lot. That way all of the games are 'worth' the same, even the common stuff that was only valued at $1-2 on eBay by that point.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']That's what folks on CL and here tried doing with my old games, picking out the good shit while leaving the 'common' titles.:roll: But sometimes ya just gotta say 'only selling em as a lot' and eventually they'll get the hint and STFU and either pay the price for the lot or get lost.;)

I did a lot of researching to get to my final price I put up though.[/QUOTE]

*nod* Selling lots definitely requires some strategy, "sticking to your guns" is one tactic. I've learned a bit selling NES games on ebay; my first lot of 32 NES games with stuff like Contra, SMB 1-3, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, etc, etc. only pulled in $90-100. Nowadays though I'd sell the Contra and Mike Tyson individually, the SMBs as a lot, and finally list something like 20 NES games for $60; more thinly seeded with only the hard-to-sell uncommons.

Sometimes you have to experiment with different bundles and find the prices people are willing to pay. I know there's a lot of commons where it would be tough to get $1-2 out of, so I'll often use them as leverage to get my money out of a hard-to-sell uncommon.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']You know what the people who tried to 'cherry pick' my lots best games offered as a 'fair price'? $5 shipped per HTF/"rare" game, regardless of what they were getting on eBay or Amazon at the time.

So let's say a game was getting $35 online to sell according to completed auction listings on eBay. After shipping that's about $4 and before fees, which are usually 15-17%. They wanted my good games for less than 20% of their perceived value. Yeah. Not gonna happen.

Besides which, I only sold them as a lot so that the price was spread out amongst the ENTIRE lot. That way all of the games are 'worth' the same, even the common stuff that was only valued at $1-2 on eBay by that point.[/QUOTE]

Well sure, that's a different story. I might try to undercut by $5 or so, but considering that there's no craigslist fees, it's still well fair. fuck people that do that type of stuff. lol
 
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