Value of your collection.

[Mick Dundee]

Is there any site or app or something that I could go through and add my games to that would show me the rough estimate value of what I have? (My father in-law was asking what my collection is worth)

[madrocsz]

Honestly this would take forever, depending on how many games you have also the way prices fluctuate so much. When I try and value mine I just make a rough estimate per game per system and round lol

[sheep2001]

Collectorz.com allows you to add a value for each game,  but as stated, as the values fluctuate wildly this wouldn't really do it.  It would need to be linked to a database of average sale prices to be any use.  But would also be dependant on condition of box,cart,manual, etc, etc.  would have to be a very clever bit of software linked to a huge online database, and not sure where the database would get its pricing feeds. Or how often.

[drividian]

I use a couple of apps for my iPhone by Pure Gaming. They have several apps for various retro systems. The pricing isn't always 100%, but you can add your own custom prices to games. You can even share and view pricing information with other users. Unfortunately it currently only runs on IOS devices, but if you got one it's defiantly worth checking out.

[madrocsz]

Now all this said, if someone was to be a leet programmer, I bet something like this would sell. Essentially VGA price charting/collectorz rolled into one

[games-go-round]

Is there any site or app or something that I could go through and add my games to that would show me the rough estimate value of what I have? (My father in-law was asking what my collection is worth)

I actually think this is a pretty good idea, especially for insurance purposes.  I'm not sure how many of us have a large enough collection that we might want to take out a policy to cover it, but for valuables, it's always a good idea to photograph them and assess their value.  If you live in a high-crime area, or have had break-ins in the past, a catalogue of photos is sometimes the only way to prove what you had before it was stolen.

Of course, it could be fun to assess the value of your collection, piece by piece.  Mine's pretty small (about 50 games) so a quick check of Amazon will tell me all I need to know.  For those of us that have hundreds or thousands of games, though, well... that's probably not the best option.  If you really want to know, though, that's one way to do it!

[wiggy]

^^^ that's a REALLY good point. if I were to loose my collection for some reason, I'd have no idea how to value it other than to look up every game. I really should make a database while I'm thinking about I too...

[Mick Dundee]

the insurance purpose thing is the main reason my father in-law asked me. we live together and he wanted to make sure if something happened my stuff was covered.