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| FritzWhite:
One of the mods on NA currently has a $100k bounty on the original cover art for Contra. I'm curious to know how much you've spent on your collection. What's the most you've spent on a single item and the most you WOULD spend for a special gaming piece? Have you spent more or less on your collection than its current value? Do you ever plan to sell or is your stuff going to the grave or to your kids? Any game purchase regrets? Do you have insurance? |
| TDIRunner:
(Copy and pasted from NA ;) ) I can't think of a single instance where I would have paid more than market value for a given game, although I'm sure that there have been several games that are now worth less than what I paid for them (mostly stuff that I bought new that hasn't yet appreciated in value). I keep track of my monthly spending for budget purposes, but I do not track my purchase price for a specific game, so I do not have a way to track how much a specific game has appreciated for me over time. I catalog my collection in Excel and update it with market values, so I'm aware of what my collection is worth (in theory), but I keep that information to myself. That being said, my biggest fear is that when I die, my wife will sell my video games for what I told her I paid for them. |
| Shadowfox:
--- Quote from: FritzWhite on January 30, 2018, 01:50:23 PM ---One of the mods on NA currently has a $100k bounty on the original cover art for Contra. I'm curious to know how much you've spent on your collection. What's the most you've spent on a single item and the most you WOULD spend for a special gaming piece? Have you spent more or less on your collection than its current value? Do you ever plan to sell or is your stuff going to the grave or to your kids? Any game purchase regrets? Do you have insurance? --- End quote --- Wait, what? $100k bounty? For the original Contra artwork? Can you point me to that? I actually ran into the artiest for that a year and a half ago... I bet I could get that. |
| Bear78:
No idea how much I have spent on my collection (too much I'm sure) but I've bought mostly under or close to market value. I always try to get the best deal I can and I'm perfectly fine with waiting on something if I don't feel it's a good deal. A lot of my big items I got before the boom really kicked in so they have increased in value. What I thought was a crazy price for a game 5 years ago has in some cases doubled (and I'm glad I got it 5 years ago). The most I've spent on a single game is $400 on Panzar Dragoon Saga a while back. I can't imagine spending much more then that on a single game but the 1 I would (if I had the money sitting around) would be Keio on the Sega CD. I've also sold a SE for a large amount of money / profit which I can kind of justify as making my money back from my hobby. |
| TDIRunner:
--- Quote from: Shadowfox on January 30, 2018, 02:48:24 PM --- --- Quote from: FritzWhite on January 30, 2018, 01:50:23 PM ---One of the mods on NA currently has a $100k bounty on the original cover art for Contra. I'm curious to know how much you've spent on your collection. What's the most you've spent on a single item and the most you WOULD spend for a special gaming piece? Have you spent more or less on your collection than its current value? Do you ever plan to sell or is your stuff going to the grave or to your kids? Any game purchase regrets? Do you have insurance? --- End quote --- Wait, what? $100k bounty? For the original Contra artwork? Can you point me to that? I actually ran into the artiest for that a year and a half ago... I bet I could get that. --- End quote --- http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=1&catid=5&threadid=179770 |
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