I own way too damn many video games.

[kane_magus]

Physical disc/cartridge games, that is. I'm not even talking about digital stuff on Steam or GOG or whatever. A bunch of old shit that I'll almost assuredly never play again. Some are duplicates, even. For instance, I own three copies of Chrono Trigger (original SNES, Playstation, and DS versions). Hell, some of the games are stuff that I've since re-bought on Steam and/or GOG. I came to this realization while trying to get my final stuff packed. I know I've said in the past that I don't sell video games anymore, but... I think I'm going to be selling a shit-ton of video games... once I get them all back to North Carolina. -_-; Yeah, I probably should have sold them before moving if I was going to sell them at all, but it's too late for that now, and I'm not going to just leave them here. I suppose I could just take them to Half Price Books, same as I did all those old textbooks the other day, but, unlike all those old textbooks, I'm thinking I can potentially get a whole lot more money by selling the games on eBay or something. I'll need it if I can't get a new job in NC relatively quickly.

In any case, I will be leaving for North Carolina for good next Friday, Feb 21, so I have between now and then to finish packing and schedule a pick-up for the USPS to come get all of this crap (as I'm shipping the majority of it in Flat Rate USPS boxes). The sooner the better. Most everything is already boxed up, and I hope to have the boxes sealed and the shipping labels printed out by end of day tomorrow, for a Monday pick-up. I just hope there isn't some sort of limit on the number of boxes that can be picked up in a single day. >_>;

Comments

[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

Don't sell them to Half Price Books. Find a mom-n-pop used video game store. You'll get better trade-in value, or trade-in value for something rare and valuable you may find there.

If you were here, I'd recommend local chains Gameover Videogames or Propaganda Palace. I don't know what-all is in Norch Carolina.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I was thinking of trying eBay or Amazon Marketplace or something similar, but it might indeed be better to sell to somewhere local if possible. If nothing else, it would probably be much simpler to just show up somewhere and unload a bunch of stuff all at once, rather than having to worry about shipping out individual items piecemeal. No idea if I'd get as much money for it as I'd (potentially) get from selling them on eBay, though. I've never sold anything on eBay, regardless, so not sure how that even works, really, or if it's worth the trouble, even if I did (potentially) get more money from it.

In any case, I did a search for "where to sell video games in North Carolina (https://www.google.com/search?num=100&site=&source=hp&q=where+to+sell+video+games+in+North+Carolina&oq=where+to+sell+video+games+in+North+Carolina&gs_l=hp.3...1568.7462.0.7630.43.34.0.9.9.0.142.2245.30j4.34.0....0...1c.1.35.hp..5.38.1852.mMIXije9vj8)" and Lost Ark Video Games (http://www.lostarkvideogames.com/) was the top result. It isn't too far away from where I'll be living, so it's definitely worth looking into it more when I get back to North Carolina. Hell, I could probably even unload some of the older consoles there as well, let alone the games (i.e. I don't really need to keep the GameCube and original Xbox when I also have a Wii and Xbox 360 that will play [most of] those same games, respectively). After reading about it, even if I don't actually end up selling anything there, I'd still like to at least visit the place, since I'd never even heard of it before now. The only issue is that a lot of the old games I'd like to get rid of are PC games, which probably can't be resold in a store like that, since they only seem to deal in console games, so I'd probably end up having to use eBay anyway. Oh well, it's probably not that big a deal either way, I guess.

I also know that Edward McKay's Used Books (http://www.edmckay.com/) would buy games too, but that would probably be about the same as selling to Half Price Books.

The main thing is that I do not want to sell them to some place like Gamestop (http://www.gamestop.com/), because I know that they'd likely pay even less for them, if they bought them at all.