Having to sell your collection?

Has anyone else had to do this? I'm moving out and having to sell all my collection to cover some bills/rent. This is depressing :crying:.

 

Yep. Did that long time ago. Now I have just a very small, tiny collection.

 

i did too. all i have are 360 and xbox games for the most part.

 

Think of it as a chance to think about what really matters to you in your life. It sucks to have to sell stuff to pay bills ofcourse. But hopefully your gaming collection isn't that horribly depressing to part with.

 

I tend to do this from time to time when I get bored of one collection and want to move on to another. I heavily regret it every time.

One time I had a sizable naomi collection that I sold off bit by bit. Another time I built up a nice little j-saturn collection that I also sold off.

Now a days i'm trying to not let my self sell off my collections. I might sell off a few games but I try to keep the bulk of my stuff. Right now i'm working on building an army of ps2 games I missed out on. It's growing too fast. =S

 

Really, gaming just isn't all that important right now for me. Its still there, and there are items I won't sell due to being attached or just being unique, but certain things I realize I can live without, and will be there for me to pick up again in the future.

 

There are some core items in my collection that I will never sell, but most stuff is easy to come by again, if I ever have to sell it.

 

I sold some stuff to cover some of my business costs but it wasn't stuff I really cared about.

 

I did. In the end, it is just stuff. I have learned that material goods are nice to have but better to have a small amount of stuff you really like than a ton of shit.

 

Exactly. Back when I had my PS1 and just a handful of games, I appreciated the few games I had much. I want to put the main aspect on gaming again as opposed to collecting just for the sake of collecting.

 

If i had to do this i would totally go and drink conium after.

 

I've been on the other side of this question. A number of my friends got married, went broke, or had some other reason to dump their collections all at once. In a couple of cases, I had the pleasure (or the heartache) of coming in and being the buyer for the whole shebang. The really nice stuff I hung on to, but anything duplicated or common enough I ended up redistributing to other gamers, or into the resale market.

I'm generally in agreement with Taucias, in that material possessions shouldn't be an important driving factor in anyone's life. But any time I've sold a particularly uncommon or valuable item in my collection, I've regretted it. On the other hand, I've been unusually restrained about my spending on games this year, and I haven't been going after the oddball items or the expensive rarities. It's also become evident to me that anything *really* good or beloved gets reissued for a later system. Knights in the Nightmare for DS, soon on PSP? Persona 3 revised and reissued not once, but twice? Every Namco arcade game worth anything on a disk for every system, over and over again? I bet you a lot of money that anything in your collection you really love, somebody out there is already working out a way to sell it to you again on the next platform.

 

I did awhile back. I used to have a massive Sega Saturn collection (500+ games, 32 systems, every accessory imaginable), but one day I decided to just let it go, and so I sold it. 'Twas a beautiful time though... for half a year I didn't work at all. Just lived off of that. Well, and I bought a Japanese 360 and whatever shmups were out at the time.

However, my love for the Saturn still burns, as now I have two systems (one is my girlfriend's, the other is my modded skeleton Saturn) with about 50 games (including Taromaru, Blast Wind, PDSaga, and Radiant Silvergun, so I still have a decent Saturn collection all things considered :nod.

 

I've only started selling of redundant games (Megadrive Sonics when I have Sonic Jam, Metroid Primes when I can get the Trilogy etc.) or titles I've repeatedly tried to get into and failed miserably at.

 

I have been sellling some of my collection to get by, I already have sold all my nintendo stuff. Just the other day I just sent off my entire 64 collection. Ps2 still debating if I should get rid of it. Honestly I am loooking at survival atm.

Besides I realized I want really playing half of it, and once I get work I won't really have time for it. Collecting is a fun thing, but it shouldn't be a preority in yout life especially when it comes to survival. Though to be honest I am definetly keeping the dreamcast and saturn.

 

Funny how some stuff goes obsolete and it ain't worth jack, while some stuff reeks of terribleness, goes obsolete and becomes valuable investments (^_^);

 

I've reached the point where I've started parting with a lot of stuff I feel like I don't really need and stuff that has no actual "personal value" to me. Also recently got rid of most of my duplicates and stuff too... hard to do, but mostly made sure stuff gets relocated to people who'll appreciate them as much as I appreciate the stuff I'm not prepared to get rid of in any foreseeable future.

 

I sold some stuff, even decided to sell more now. I came to the realization that I wasn't using much of the items I collected, which I originally bought to play around with. I only keep the hardware/games I actually use.

 

Its really depressing to part with your so hard earned collection,but i see it as an opportunity to mature and decide what is your most lovable system and collection to keep.

I had a pretty big collection and systems but i sold most of my stuff to pay the bills and buy other stuff that are more rare and valuable!

I know collect only chosen dev stuff and 3do/xbox stuff that i really love!!

Havent regret selling my stuff though,the hunt to get all these was fun...