I am a collector who sells/resells extras and stuff I don't want to fund additional purchases. I actively look for collection pieces I need but I will not pass up a purchase for the sake of reselling either.
I am a collector as well, but will not pass on anything that is easy to sell. Have to fund the collection some how. When dealing on NA I always try to give people better deals. I have traded 12 or 14 games for 1 recently and I am always willing to trade and have made a lot of trades, but it isn't easy everyone "values" there stuff differently.
I started as a collector, turned to the reselling, and am now in it for the gaming aspect, but still do the reselling on the side. So, I guess now I'm only in it for the profit, but that's only because I've finished off my collection (or will when these last 4 games come in the mail)
Collector to the bone here. I have always collected something. It seems I was a vintage gamer even as a kid when I used to grab up Atari and Coleco stuff when they were clearly out of the spotlight. I am like Seth in the respect that I started awhile ago and I like to finish things. I have had this goal for quite some time now and I intend to have my NTSC set. I'm not particularly in a hurry, but I do like to stay moving. I only resell as necessary, but it has funded major parts of my collection. I will help out a friend over making a quick buck any day.
I am a collector more than a player, and a player more than a seller. I have only sold a few games in my life.
I love hunting down the games for my sets. Right now I am on the 32x and am considering the Master System next. I have a ringing in my ear to do the Turbografx/PC Engine though. I want everything, it is hard to choose whats next.
The question I have posed before is, "Would you still collect if your games weren't worth anything?"
I am a collector as well, but will not pass on anything that is easy to sell. Have to fund the collection some how. When dealing on NA I always try to give people better deals. I have traded 12 or 14 games for 1 recently and I am always willing to trade and have made a lot of trades, but it isn't easy everyone "values" there stuff differently.
That's the handy thing about the ezine guide, at least for carts. It makes for a decent frame of reference.
Well my resale-ing dipped considerably since I completed my collection. So I don't know if that makes me more a collector than a reseller because I didn't continue to do it after I completed my collections. Take that FWIW anyways
The same exact thing happened to me. My set has been stagnant for some time now. and ever since I bought out MLNs collection, I've tried to steer clear of buying lots on ebay or even searching for them. My resale has dipped big time. I only resold to fund my collection anyways.
Why has our society gotten to the point where people who want to make money are "bad" or "evil".
theres nothing wrong with making money you have to have money in order to survive. But there is also a thing called being kind, helpful, honest, generous, but that seems to be a forgotton life style. Its hard anymore to tell who is sincere and whos not.
A good example of what im talking about is former member nofriend, it seems he joined with the best intentions of being part of the collecting, gaming group, But after being here a while it seemed like he was upset because he didnt have the rare games or collection some of the other members did. Then he kind of became obessed with buying rare stuff but then turning around and selling it soon after. Im assuming he spent to much and had to sell because he needed the money to pay debt. But you older guys know he would pay a lot for something and then come post about it get his pats on the back. wow cool man , nice etc then it would be for sale. then it got to the point he did what he did because it seemed he got obessed with having rare stuff to come brag about.
This also holds true for a few other members they got in over their head and use poor judgment to get more and more. I dont know if they were really bad guys or just got caught up in needing the feeling of being a better collector than everyone else.
So its alright to make money just dont obessed with it
agreed jaredkk. wrldstrman, he was talking in more of a Randian sense. when money was the currency of work/time, no one would ever think like that. now that money is simply the goal and not the value in which people assess their worth as workers/thinkers, well, i guess it would be bad to be obsessed with it.
back to the thread. i'm a collector. I take pride in it as well, cleaning the games (interior and exterior), arranging in alpha order in my bins, keeping my database to track prices, when do I buy, what I still need, etc.
I'm 100% in it for the collecting. I hardly sell anything. Over the course of my collecting, I've probably only sold about $1,000-2,000 worth of stuff. And I've bought a LOT of stuff since I've started collecting . And I only sell stuff that is a double, except for when I got rid of all of my non-Nintendo items.
And when I did that, I only did it for the purpose of getting money to buy Nintendo items. I wasn't really looking for a "profit." I would have been (and did, on some occasions) happier to trade.
I think I am both a collector and reseller. I initially resold so I could collect more, which I still do. I just landed up coming across so much extra stuff locally I could resell that I became a larger reseller than I expected. Actually I'd rather trade than have to buy/sell stuff with money. Trading games can be tougher, than say, the trading that happens in collectable card games. It's much harder to have exactly what someone is looking for with games. Especially because condition, and completeness usually matters a lot more.
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So a bit of both I guess.
I love hunting down the games for my sets. Right now I am on the 32x and am considering the Master System next. I have a ringing in my ear to do the Turbografx/PC Engine though. I want everything, it is hard to choose whats next.
The question I have posed before is, "Would you still collect if your games weren't worth anything?"
I am a collector as well, but will not pass on anything that is easy to sell. Have to fund the collection some how. When dealing on NA I always try to give people better deals. I have traded 12 or 14 games for 1 recently and I am always willing to trade and have made a lot of trades, but it isn't easy everyone "values" there stuff differently.
That's the handy thing about the ezine guide, at least for carts. It makes for a decent frame of reference.
Well my resale-ing dipped considerably since I completed my collection. So I don't know if that makes me more a collector than a reseller because I didn't continue to do it after I completed my collections. Take that FWIW anyways
The same exact thing happened to me. My set has been stagnant for some time now. and ever since I bought out MLNs collection, I've tried to steer clear of buying lots on ebay or even searching for them. My resale has dipped big time. I only resold to fund my collection anyways.
Why has our society gotten to the point where people who want to make money are "bad" or "evil".
theres nothing wrong with making money you have to have money in order to survive. But there is also a thing called being kind, helpful, honest, generous, but that seems to be a forgotton life style. Its hard anymore to tell who is sincere and whos not.
A good example of what im talking about is former member nofriend, it seems he joined with the best intentions of being part of the collecting, gaming group, But after being here a while it seemed like he was upset because he didnt have the rare games or collection some of the other members did. Then he kind of became obessed with buying rare stuff but then turning around and selling it soon after. Im assuming he spent to much and had to sell because he needed the money to pay debt. But you older guys know he would pay a lot for something and then come post about it get his pats on the back. wow cool man , nice etc then it would be for sale. then it got to the point he did what he did because it seemed he got obessed with having rare stuff to come brag about.
This also holds true for a few other members they got in over their head and use poor judgment to get more and more. I dont know if they were really bad guys or just got caught up in needing the feeling of being a better collector than everyone else.
So its alright to make money just dont obessed with it
agreed jaredkk. wrldstrman, he was talking in more of a Randian sense. when money was the currency of work/time, no one would ever think like that. now that money is simply the goal and not the value in which people assess their worth as workers/thinkers, well, i guess it would be bad to be obsessed with it.
And when I did that, I only did it for the purpose of getting money to buy Nintendo items. I wasn't really looking for a "profit." I would have been (and did, on some occasions) happier to trade.