Alright guys, well it takes for me to be at the bottom of the barrel to ask ya'll for advice on selling games.... here I go.

First, I tried selling the games on kijiji (the canadian equivalent of Craigslist). I got barely any replies for the fighting games.

I also did a yard sale. So far I sold the prince of persia trilogy (before taking the pics), and Shadow of the Colossus (which I had bought twice by mistake).

So now I'm thinking of selling on ebay. With the following games, what is the best strategy?

If you're gonna ask why I'm selling, I'm just moving on, and these are games I actually have no interest in playing (don't take offense, these are my tastes).

Bioshock 1 & 2	Other Wii games	EA Big games	PoP Forgotten Sands
Paid 15each	8$, 10$	4$, 8$	free, 13$
Sell for 10 each?	3$ each?	3$ each	8$ each?

Monster Hunter Tri	Important games	DS, 3DS games	God of War series
Paid 40$	10$, 20$, 10$	Gift (35$?), 15$, 12$, new (35$), 6$	8$, 12$, 15$, 10$
Sell for 10$?	Sold, 15$, 8$?	30$, 10$, 8$, 5$	5, 10, 10, 10?

PS2 Fighting games	Important PS2 games	Rockstar games
Paid 6$ each	5,4,6	4, 5, 10, 10
Sell for 5$ each?	5 each?	5, 5, 10, 10

Thanks for the help,

happyD

If you got any video game meetups near where you live in the near future. Go there and make offers to sell or trade for other games, they are by far the best places to buy and sell games. It's also good to check the price on ebay for games for a base prices.

It's not very easy to sell fighters or racers mostly because people move on from them when the newer games come out.

Look up games that you are selling and see what they are selling at and if you're okay with it. put games up for bid... Sometimes lower minimum bid is good, because you get more watchers, and more watchers mean people drive up the price at the end. But it's more risky.


That's what I do, you generally get best price you're going to get. Trade-in via amazon generally gets pretty fair prices as well, and they pay for shipping atleast in U.S. But you only get amazon credit.

Oh my god thank you.

There is actually this very rare gaming convention going on in my city, which is really rare because this city is super quiet. We have like 30k people...

I'm so glad you mentioned this.

If that doesn't work would ebay be a good try or is it just a waste of time? I'm thinking a game like NSMB or the 3DS games would sell well, is that a good hunch?

I've never used craigslist or kijiji but I have used ebay. If I were you I would list your games on ebay.
-Try to have the end time be on a week night, sometime between 6pm and 10pm
-Make the starting bid at .01
-Free shipping
-Have pictures in the description, both of gameplay and of the actual game being sold. It's free, don't be lazy.
-Take off the used game stickers as best as you can.

Don't expect much money from some of those games, they might not be worth listing. Check the prices that each game is going for.

So to you and Ishiki I'll ask, how do I ship the games? I'm scared of putting the item up for bid if I don't know how to send it to the buyer.

If I say free shipping, should I send it with or without the box to save on shipping? If no box, it loses value right? Is there a way to ship cheap with the jewel case?

You really should have had a GC. Those used prices are sweet. ^_^

I own a retro Video Game store now, I recommend you hold on to all the Nintendo first party games because the price will get better.

:)

I used to play on my roommate's Wii, but he's gone now so I got a WiiU in replacement (to play the upcoming games).

Ebay can be good you might just be at the mercy of shipping prices. From my experience at the conventions Nintendo is by far the biggest followed by Sega and Sony and a few Microsoft sellers. From what i saw there are a lot of collectors who show up but also a lot of your "average joe". Your best bet is to find someone who is looking to collector buy games for a certain platform such as 3DS.