And the verdict is?
I finally sold it all, but I did have to make several concessions on my initial price estimates. I am still happy with the results, though, making almost $450, about double the online trade-in values offered to me to begin with. I did figure that it would not have taken so long, though. It took a couple months to finally get rid of it all - damn crappy economy... ;)
I really am surprised at how slowly the Atari 2600 items took to sell. It had what I thought was a special collector's value based on the kind of model I had (stamped "Not For Resale - Display Purposes Only" and had a special "Manufactured in Sunnyvale, California" sticker, making it more "rare" and therefore more valuable, or so I thought). But apparently it was only worth what someone else would pay for it. I sold it for more than a "regular" late '70s model per the VGPC, but not by very much.
After my initial round of sales, several NES and SNES titles also took awhile to sell, even the ones in boxes and/or with manuals. I figured those would go quickly, but I had to come down on price quite a bit for those also, although still more than the non-boxed estimates. And really surprisingly, early on I sold just some empty boxes and even just some manuals without games and made more than some of the stand-alone cartridges of some titles. The market for some items can be very surprising.
That's all, folks!
This is probably my last post, but I will keep this blog active for awhile in case anyone needs this info as a resource. Thanks to everyone who checked out the blog and commented or voted. Good luck in trying to sell your Classic_Plastic_Gold!
