Collectors - If you got run over by a bus...

What would happen to your collection of stuff? Some of you do have a large collection of games, some sealed and fantastic stuff but if you did get killed tomorrow what would happen to it? I would suspect that some of it would be disposed off cheaply by partners and parents down the local pawn shop (Non much call for Japanese Sega Saturn around these parts, I'd struggle to sell 500 games, even if they are new, I'd be doing you a favour taking it offf your hands for $200..., etc).

My next of kin would probably stick my whole collection on yahoo japan and someone would get quite the bargain...

 

my siblings do know that my collection is worth quite a bit, so i think they wouldn't just throw it away (aka sell it as a lot to a pawn shop)...

 

My friends and family would know what to do.

Many of my friends like video games (just not to the ridiculous degree that I do). They would be allowed to take anything that they'd actually find useful/entertaining.

My dad is the most financially saavy person I know. He'd be able to get the most out of my games.

I can only hope that they'd keep some around as a never ending memorial to me.

 

Most of mine would end up on the tree lawn. I hear about it everyday.

 

GAME OVER !

 

I'd make a letter of some sort before i die explaining not to sell any of my consoles and games although give instructions on what PC games could be sold.

I'd state as well that if any console(s) and/or game(s) is sold that every effort is made to check in order to be able to know what price to sell at. I would even get my parents/partner to first try and sell as much of my stuff on assembler if its still going when i die then ebay or the eqivelent because id want them to get something from the sale of my stuff and not just let anyone get my stuff at first.

To be honest the one thing i'd want is a secure trophy case or something with all my collection displayed in it and anything thats not mint or in good condition i'd want to get used.

 

Whats a tree lawn?

 

All my stuff would just go to my younger brother. And he could do whatever he wanted with it. I don't have anything of real value though. Just a lot of stuff.

 

Wouldn't someone have a Viking Funeral and be burned with their collections?

 

A German collector that I used to talk with just died a week ago. Very sad, he was only 32 and it came all of a sudden. He shrank down his collection to a minimum over the past few years, but yet it included some very precious items such as an authentic Propeller Arena GD-R Beta disc. I assume his family will keep it in honor, there were only about 40-50 games left anyway.

I think my parents would be sentimental enough to just conserve everything. They don't know too much about selling and values, but they know that it's not worth 500$ in total. They would never give it away for a price that low... and there's still my game list which shows exactly what I paid for each game (shipping included), that would certainly help if they wanted to sell something. I don't think of my collection is really worth to "conserve" though, it's just a selection of stuff that I like. If it needs to be sold for my relative's good, then it needs to be sold. Some people might see this differently, I am thinking of those with real large and passionate collections like Assembler's, Adol's, Rupert's, wheelaa's et cetera (sorry if I didn't list someone really passionate^^, it's just a few names that stroke me right now) but I'm not at this stage yet.

 

I guess none of my stuff would be sold but given to friends/family, mostly hardware and cartridge games (up to N64).
I'd really like my friends to have my stuff if anything happened to me, even though it's quite a small collection every game and console was an effort to get.
For those with very huge sealed collections I think the best would be to keep them intact, as a way to preserve history (yeah, it might sound a bit stupid), as it would be a shame to sell them.
Anyway I wouldn't like to think of anything of this happening soon :noooo:

 

If i died I probably wouldn't care what happened to my stuff now, would I?

In any case, my gf is aware of the worth of the stuff I have, so she wouldn't pawn it off or something for an easy buck. She'd probably ebay it for a good easy buck Or sell it here.

 

I say sell it all, provide for a great college for my nephew.

 

I'd have it buried/cremated with me.

Seriously though, hmm I'm not sure. I don't have much, maybe £400 worth of AES stuff, my parents would probably eBay it all.

 

Yahoo Japan, but I'm sure my better half would have to use one of those "we'll sell your shit for you" that take 30% of the ending price.

 

My Best Friend Tim Gets everything

 

Anything I have will get divided up between my brothers and sisters. Anything sealed would promptly be unsealed. Anything esoteric/they don't care about enough would promptly be sold on ebay/craigslist/Gamestop and the rest play with like they where meant to be.

Strangely I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

All of my stuff would probably be given away to the right friends. My girlfriend knows who is who and she would see that they got the right stuff (Paul, Donny etc....).

If it came to a point where we were really hard up though and Kelly needed the money then I presume it would be sold; but in all honesty I wouldn't really be bothered. As far as I am aware worm food doesn't have feelings towards its collection :icon_bigg

 

My wife has already suggested a rather large skip would be ordered - however my eldest daughter is a bit more business like and would probably arrange an auction and thus they'd be winging off to sunny climbs, if you can call Skegness sunnier climbs that is ;-)

 

Well compare to Scotland .. ;-)