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What item in your collection wouldn't you sell for any price?

Jul 1, 2017 at 3:32:54 PM
Brock Landers (61)
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My childhood SNES stuff

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Jul 1, 2017 at 3:36:51 PM
D~Funk (81)
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I dunno, i wouldnt want to get rid of the snes sign but then again if i sold my whole collectiom (which i dont think i would) it would be kinda silly to keep it. Big box Earthbound. Most of my shoot em up collection. Theres a lot i wouldnt want to part with which is why i dont!  

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Jul 1, 2017 at 3:52:38 PM
SNESNESCUBE64 (42)
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I can't part with my childhood gamecube. Too many good times on there. Same with my old gameboy advance both of these aren't in the best shape, but theres just too many memories. Most of my favorite games that I've ever played were those to platforms and I just can't see myself getting rid of it. I also generally don't sell gifts so that knocks out my small snes and n64 libraries. To me, there is a lot of sentimental value there, which is worth more to me than money.

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Jul 1, 2017 at 5:10:40 PM
wesr (19)
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I wish i hadn't sold all my childhood gaming stuff. At the moment it'd be the T2 autographed NES game signed by Robert Patrick. My college buddy got it signed in NJ at a con and was the only one getting games signed. Wish i'd known about it as i had a few other games to get signed.

Jul 1, 2017 at 5:15:20 PM
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Originally posted by: Metal Wolf Chaos

Originally posted by: dougeff
 
Originally posted by: zfleming54

I can't even fathom the idea that I would have something that I wouldn't sell if I could just buy another on ebay and pocket some cash...



Monkey Rule...if I found another mint copy of my favorite game first, I would be willing to part with it. But only by suckering some other guy into paying more than the going rate, which I wouldn't do. So, we're back to "no". In that scenario, I would just say "go find another copy, you can't have mine ".
What if the other person offered you $1000 and knew that the going rate wasn't that high? (This is just theoretical thinking) At that point, you wouldn't be suckering them. I guess, in that case, you would sell your second copy. But what would distinguish these two identical mint copies from eachother where one is okay to be sold, but the other isn't? The order in which you found them? Where you found them? It doesn't really matter to me because you can do what you want but I am curious. Where does the sentimental value come from in that this one copy, which is not the original one you played when you were younger, is off limits but every other copy is not?

 





I played my friends copy in '96. And another friends copy around '98. When I got a PS2 around '01-02, I found this copy. I've had it for 15 years.

I sold 95% of my PS1 games since then. But I couldn't part with this one.

I also have CDs that I can't part with. I used to own 500 (music) cds, and I've sold like 400+ of them. Some of them, I just can't sell, even though I have copies of every song I like on my computer/ipod.

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Jul 1, 2017 at 5:29:38 PM
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My Nintendo Power collection, I have a full set in mint condition. Also not just the magazines, but all the gear, pins, clothing....all merchandise.

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Jul 1, 2017 at 5:40:52 PM
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Few years back my parents bought me earthbound for snes as a high school graduation gift. So Id have a hard time selling that one. But everything else is expendable.

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Jul 1, 2017 at 5:43:28 PM
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For *any* price? Literally nothing.

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Jul 1, 2017 at 5:44:01 PM
Bort License Plate (56)
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-Things from my childhood

-Things I've received as gifts

That's about it. Nothing is irreplaceable

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Jul 1, 2017 at 5:57:06 PM
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Originally posted by: Bert

-Things from my childhood

So - and I don't mean to pick on just you here, this is more of a general observation - if someone offered you one million dollars for your childhood copy of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, you'd tell them to take a hike?
 

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Jul 1, 2017 at 6:03:14 PM
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Originally posted by: Kobun Heat

For *any* price? Literally nothing.

Yea, pretty much. If the sky is the limit, I would have no problem selling every game-related item I own.


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Jul 1, 2017 at 6:10:11 PM
Bort License Plate (56)
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Originally posted by: Kobun Heat

Originally posted by: Bert

-Things from my childhood

So - and I don't mean to pick on just you here, this is more of a general observation - if someone offered you one million dollars for your childhood copy of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, you'd tell them to take a hike?
 



are you making me an offer?  

Nah, you're right. I'd take the million. But it would never happen

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Edited: 07/01/2017 at 06:11 PM by Bort License Plate

Jul 1, 2017 at 6:12:01 PM
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I would sell anything if it was for an absurd amount, but the childhood snes is what would hurt the most to lose.

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Jul 1, 2017 at 6:28:12 PM
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This might sound nuts but my Sony Trinitron TV is the most irreplaceable item in my collection. I love the way my games look on that TV and even the sound it makes when I turn it on. I'm afraid every time I fire it up that it'll be the last time.

Jul 1, 2017 at 6:52:32 PM
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Originally posted by: knightriderce

This might sound nuts but my Sony Trinitron TV is the most irreplaceable item in my collection. I love the way my games look on that TV and even the sound it makes when I turn it on. I'm afraid every time I fire it up that it'll be the last time.
Not nuts at all. Now that you mention it, i feel the same about the two PVM's i have. I went through 3 CRT tv's and 3 PVM's all with horrible geometry and issues that i had to ask for help just to get into my house. I finally have a good setup and PVM's with perfect screens and it was not easy to get here. I wouldn't get rid of them for sure, so good point. 

 

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Jul 1, 2017 at 7:20:28 PM
Bronty (65)
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I think the question should be more 'what wouldn't you sell for (pick a value or a multiple of FMV). Because for a billion we'd all sell out.

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Jul 1, 2017 at 8:34:27 PM
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I resently mentioned this but for me it's a Sega Saturn promo VHS tape, and as a kid I never owned a Saturn.

My reason was that I was a serious gamer as a kid but in college I was an idiot and sold everything.

That VHS tape is, to my knowledge, the last and only piece of gaming memorabilia that I own from my childhood. It's a pretty rare tape and would be hard to replace, even though it's probably worth no more than $25. Regardless, I wouldn't take $1,000 for it and even is someone really did offer me $25,000, I just couldn't let it go.

Of course, if you started offering prices high enough to pay for my young children's education, grudgingly, I'd be ablidged to sell. There is not price for me, personally, that I'd want to sell at. Regardless, there does seem to be a point where it seems a little short sighted and negligent to not consider the good that could come of letting go, taking the money and putting it to proper use.

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Jul 1, 2017 at 8:38:26 PM
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Actually... this:
 
Originally posted by: Bronty

I think the question should be more 'what wouldn't you sell for (pick a value or a multiple of FMV). Because for a billion we'd all sell out.

This is true. I'd sell it all for a billion dollars.

Then buy it all back for a fraction of that... and jump into my pool of money because I'd be rich.

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Edited: 07/01/2017 at 08:40 PM by AirVillain

Jul 1, 2017 at 8:58:21 PM
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Originally posted by: empire

Everything has a price
This. Sadly.

 

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Jul 1, 2017 at 9:16:52 PM
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Everything has a price


Edited: 07/01/2017 at 09:17 PM by attakid101

Jul 1, 2017 at 9:17:42 PM
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Originally posted by: empire

Everything has a price
 Jinx!!

 

Jul 1, 2017 at 9:56:39 PM
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My store champion stuff from the 1995 Blockbuster Video World Video Game Championship II (SNES Donkey Kong Country).

Jul 1, 2017 at 10:08:50 PM
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It would have to be my Virtual Boy, N64, SNES kiosks. :-)

Jul 1, 2017 at 10:20:11 PM
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This is a question for the two people that own sealed Sculptor's Cuts.

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Jul 1, 2017 at 10:36:21 PM
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My original gameboy color. I remember to this day when I got it. It was my first "console"

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