Sellers Regret

PostSellers Regret by **Outrunner** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:07 pm

Has anyone here had sellers regret after selling their gaming collection? I'm cataloguing my collection for sale and I'm finding the idea of parting with some of my stuff a bit hard. I'm not so fussed about a lot of it, I don't have much of an attachment to my PlayStation, Nintendo or Xbox stuff (aside from the odd game, but I don't want to keep consoles just for one or two games). It's the Sega stuff I'm having second thoughts about. But the thing is, I rarely actually play any of them any more. I can't remember the last time I set my Saturn up let alone the Master System or SG-1000. It seems a shame to keep them when someone else could be playing them and, if I'm being honest, the money that I could get from the Sega stuff would come in handy. Basically, I don't know if I'm hoarding them because of an emotional attachment I have to these games that got me through a lot

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Zilnad** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:26 pm

Regret selling the Metroid Prime Trilogy on Wii as a bundle to a friend as I could've sold it on eBay for a lot more!

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Dowbocop** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:30 pm

Not gaming but I sold my complete Star Wars Tazo collection for fifteen quid. One of the worst financial decisions I've ever made and I've failed two university courses :cry:

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Captain Kinopio** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:34 pm

I sold Chibi Robo GC to someone on here, Parksey I think. It wasn't for very much either.

Absolute scumbag.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Imrahil** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:46 pm

I sold my Amiga 600 and all the games in 1996 so I could get a Playstation. Easily my biggest gaming regret.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **more heat than light** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:50 pm

I am filled with sadness every time I think about my old GameCube collection. Wish I'd never got rid of it.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **J. Vengeance** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:52 pm

It's not so much as a selling regret but a hand me down regret, when I got a playstation 1 I gave my negative to my nephew who broke it within a week :fp:

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Drumstick** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 6:59 pm

Yes.

Trading my boxed N64 + 20 CIB games including Banjo-Tooie for my GameCube and a couple of games.

Trading in some GameCube games to make way for other GameCube games.

I've rebought the GameCube games I regret selling and most of the N64 games I wanted. It's not like I play them all the time but not having them feels wrong.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Vermilion** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:05 pm

Traded in a few PS3/PS4 games over the years, but nothing that's ever really bothered me.

Not sure i'd be too happy selling my Dreamcast stuff though.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **FatDaz** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:10 pm

Imrahil wrote:I sold my Amiga 600 and all the games in 1996 so I could get a Playstation. Easily my biggest gaming regret.

About to say the same thing. 7years of games, expanded ram and extra disc drive and o sold it for £10 to a flat mate at uni as it was cluttering up the place

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Rex Kramer** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:22 pm

Not specifically a selling regret but a regret non the less was attempting to upgrade the RAM on my Atari ST back in 1992. I had no soldering experience and completely strawberry floated up the machine. :cry:

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **OrangeRKN** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:22 pm

I only traded in two games growing up. One was Klonoa Beach Volleyball on the PS1, for which I got 50p. It will currently set you back over £100 on ebay :simper:

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Zilnad** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:33 pm

Speaking of trade ins reminded me I traded in Project Rub for 50p. I really should have just kept it for that price. It was when I was young and didn't have an income so I just traded a bunch of stuff in bulk. Never bothered with trading in ever again.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Poser** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 7:37 pm

I gave away my mkI Escort in 1997. Those things are worth £20k+ now.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **jawa_** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:14 pm

Oh, boy. I try not to think about these things. And now this topic is bringing the horror back :lol:

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First up: My hugevcollection of Zzap! 64, Commodore User and C&VG game mags. I chucked 'em out in the mid-90s. I love gaming mags and it hurts that I got rid of these classic ones.

Next: My Sega Mega Drive (Asian version). I had bought it on import in 1991 and it played UK/Europe, US and Japanese game carts. I had a collection of about fifteen mint-boxed Japanese titles including Strider, Golden Axe and ESWAT. I sold it all for around £70. Ggnnh.

Next: My Sega Master System MK I console, magazines and collection of around forty mint-boxed cartridges. The games included Power Strike I and II... the latter of which is around four hundred quid now. I sold the lot for £30 and I feel sick thinking about it. Ggnnnnnh. But, hey, I subsequently re-bought a MK I and re-built a collection of around forty games. No Power Strike, though!

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Herdanos** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 8:43 pm

jawa_ wrote:Oh, boy. I try not to think about these things.

It is the only way.

Every now and then I think about the games I wish I still had. But then I think:

- times were leaner then, and if I didn't trade in, I wouldn't have played most of the games I loved.
- it's pointless to think "I'd get so much more if I sold it now, than I did then" because if you'd not sold it then and kept it until now, you'd have kept it because you wanted to play it, not because you wanted more money for it.
- there are so many games now. Realistically I will never replay every game I currently hold, and I've slimmed down my collection quite significantly already.
- and if my kids / grandkids end up getting into games, they're not going to want to replay the ancient games I once loved (and we won't have the time), they'll want to play something new.
- I'll always have the memories* of playing and enjoying the game; you don't need to own it to do that.

A good example would be Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for N64. It was one of a handful of games I knew I'd no longer be able to play** if I sold my N64 and collection but I did so anyway; I couldn't justify keeping it, and I've put the money I got from selling it all towards things that have created new memories and experiences for me and my family. But that doesn't change the fact that it remains a formative game for me, and one that I'll always think fondly of.

If someone placed a brand-new N64 under my telly tomorrow morning (ooh and I hope it's one of the translucent blue ones - now that I do regret selling) with a copy of MNSG and an actual working Memory Pak that doesn't immediately corrupt or fail upon reloading, would I sit in front of the telly and play the game anew? No. Because I don't have time. And if I found the time; I'd probably carry on with my current game. I love MNSG but I've already played it. I'm using my time to play something else. One day I might (I hope) play it again, but if I don't... it's OK.

*Maybe.
*Excluding emulation, which I'm not against for any moral reason - I lack the hardware / technical knowledge. Also, if I could have any game ever, immediately, for free, choice paralysis would prevent me from ever playing anything.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **rinks** » Mon Dec 04, 2023 11:59 pm

I never traded in stuff before the 360 era, so I still have anything of nostalgia-emotional or financial value.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **Cumberdanes** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:12 pm

Not so much a collection but I regret getting rid of one specific game, Michigan Report From Hell on PS2. I traded it in for buttons years ago and it’s a £400+ game now and it goes up every time I check.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **rinks** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:10 pm

Cumberdanes wrote:Not so much a collection but I regret getting rid of one specific game, Michigan Report From Hell on PS2. I traded it in for buttons years ago and it’s a £400+ game now and it goes up every time I check.

Damn, that’s one I always intended to buy when it was first out, but I never got round to it.

PostRe: Sellers Regret by **kazanova_Frankenstein** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 2:20 pm

I traded in my Xbox 360 collection for pennies off of a Wii U. That wasn't a great move, especially as those games are now largely backwards compatible (I did not have a One until the One X had been out a while).

I threw my A500 out when I dropped it moving house and a few key caps fell off. Should have kept it. I did not actually sell that one mind.

Most of my sales were simply to fund the next game I wanted to play, so I cant really claim to have too many regrets. I suppose I wish I had held on to my copy of Secret of Mana. And Hired Guns - that had lovely packaging.

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