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How much have you and would you spend on your collection?
Shadowfox:
I just spoke with Anna (Bob's Business partner for eCommerce stuff)
Bob didn't have any more original artwork pieces left and she doesn't have any clue were to look. :( So hopeful...
Shadowfox:
And even a bit more detail: Anna seems to remember that someone snatched the Contra original artwork while it was in the Ocean office way back in the day.... so it's out there.... time to go hunt down an employee list....
segamer:
I spent, Maybe $20k to $30k on my collection. I spent $400 on Little Samson on NES.
Tech13:
I'm curious to know how much you've spent on your collection.
Too much but I am happy
What's the most you've spent on a single item and the most you WOULD spend for a special gaming piece?
$200 on Lunar for sega cd in near mint condition. Honestly I have all the high priced things in my collection that I want except a ps4 pro... but I am working on that.
Have you spent more or less on your collection than its current value?
if you count repairs, custom cases and art prints, More
Do you ever plan to sell or is your stuff going to the grave or to your kids?
I have a stepson that would like it, but honestly everything is for sale. If someone offered me $350,000 I would let my collection go (with it taking me almost 20 years to get it this far)
Any game purchase regrets?
Yep, and I sold those crappy games or traded them away.
Do you have insurance?
House insurance covers the games at current market value, and my firearms keep the robbers away.
Megatron:
I have spent quite a bit on my collection, although how much I have no idea. I definitely haven't spent what it's worth, so if I ever did sell I would theoretically come out ahead. But it's hard to judge if I overpaid for something when you look at newer titles. I've paid over $100 for new special editions of current titles (Arkham series, etc) which just depreciate in value. And the most I've ever spent on something is also tricky, as I own systems, and paid $500 for an Xbox One X.
So taking the current and last generation out of the equations, (PS2/GC/XB and earlier) I think the only thing I paid an absurd (for the time) amount of money for something would be the Gamecube Component cable, which I paid around $160 or so. Other than that I rarely pay market value for anything. I definitely own things worth a ridiculous amount of money (seriously, why is Power Blade 2 worth THAT much?) but I paid considerably less than what they're worth, or I got them before the price jump. One example would be Vanark for PS1. I paid $5 for that in 2015. Now it goes for $100. The only times I consider paying market price is if it is something considerably hard to find, either just finding the game in general is tricky or finding one in great shape. I recently paid $45 for a jewel case variant of D. But only because I don't think I've seen a copy of that in stores or online in years.
As for selling, I part with things here and there, but I have never considered selling the bulk of my collection. I've given my family information on the stuff to sell if anything happens to me, but other than that I plan to hang on to this stuff for the foreseeable future. And I have home insurance which covers the value of the games plus a few thousand buffer in case it increases substantially over the course of a year.