Tim and I used to play a lot of video games- now it's definitely more of a situation where Tim plays a few select titles and I play almost never.
Typically, video games hold very little value. They are mass produced and if you purchase them when they first come out, you're looking at a $50-$60 price tag, which rapidly depreciates.
As we are getting ready for a church yard sale this weekend, I asked Tim to take a look at the boxes of video games we have sitting around gathering dust and decide if he wanted to sell any. I came home to several piles of games, most in the $1 pile, while three to four had prices ranging from $2-$5. Most of our games are just like new- we take very good care of everything from the disk or cartridge to the instruction booklet and case, so he felt like a few of the games could be worth a little more.
We went through the pile he wasn't sure about letting go and decided to just move out everything- we weren't playing the games, after all, so why keep them? Just as he was about to slap $1 on them all, I suggested we check the prices on Amazon.com- just in case.
WHOA am I glad that we did! We found 6 games that were worth $15-$25 each and of those 6, 5 have already sold- in less than 12 hours.
Cha-Ching!
What surprises me most is that the games that are selling the best are old Nintendo Gamecube games. I guess it truly was the best system ever, because the value is holding to these games like crazy!
So the moral of the story is- price check your items when you decide to sell them- don't just assume you know the price. Yes, it took us a little longer and yes, most of them were $1 games. However, we made $100+ by spending 20 minutes making sure of our prices. I could do that all day long.
-Kristen
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