Where should I sell used X360, Wii and DS games online?

[ajshell1]

When I was younger, I was very stupid in how I bought games. Some of them are really bad. So, I want to see them turned into cash.

I've sold used games before at Gamestop, but they don't give you much. So I want to sell them online. The question is, where is the best place to sell them? The first things that come to mind are eBay and amazon, but the fact that some of these games start at $0.01 used makes me wonder if there are any worthwhile alternatives.

I'll give a game list if requested.

Edited October 13, 2014 by ajshell1

[StrandedonEarth]

Wii games? Sell them as custom coasters. Our Wii looooved to scratch discs all to heck, even though we sent it back to nintendo several times, and they even replaced it a time or two. All on warranty, never really resolved. Had to make sure to take the disc out before powering down.

[cantab]

Ignore starting or current prices on eBay, look at final selling prices, since many people only bid very late.

Of course if they're bad games, they're probably not going to fetch much money.

[Nibb31]

If they were bad and if they are old, then they are worthless.

[lajoswinkler]

Wait until they become "vintage". Here', I've made a little graph for you. It usually goes something along this line (pun intended).

[Kryten]

It's a pretty common impression that something gets valuable just because it's a bit old, and, as somebody who has family in the antiques business, I can assure you it's generally not true. Unless something is both in mint condition and considered collectible for whatever reason, the price will just keep slipping and slipping.

Edited October 14, 2014 by Kryten

[lajoswinkler]

It's a pretty common impression that something gets valuable just because it's a bit old, and, as somebody who has family in the antiques business, I can assure you it's generally not true. Unless something is both in mint condition and considered collectible for whatever reason, the price will just keep slipping and slipping.

That's the middle of the graph. Eventually almost all of them start rising simply because there's less and less of them remaining. The abscissa in the graph is really quite arbitrary. Sooner or later these things become valuable just because they're hard to find. Notice the end of the graph - the prices don't go absurdly high.

The key point is that there's a "valley", a time when their values are close to nothing.

[Kryten]

That only happens to mint or very rare games.

[lajoswinkler]

That only happens to mint or very rare games.

Given the fact that today's vintage games were popular when only a small percentage of developed countries' population could afford them, it happens to basically all of them.

As computer gaming was growing and spreading, it was producing games that will have ever greater valleys in these graphs.

It's difficult to predict when will a 5 year old mass produced game's value start growing again. For Atari/NES cartridges, it's already starting to happen.

[Kryten]

It's difficult to predict when will a 5 year old mass produced game's value start growing again. For Atari/NES cartridges, it's already starting to happen.

To mint ones, yes. Compare and contrast.

[lajoswinkler]

That's a fragment of the market, really...