Would you destroy retro sales items for the money?

[Neil]

YOU DID WHAT?

*Falls off chair*


That's what lofts are for no?
I still have a copy of ET for the 2600 up there, it is mint mind lol.

[Strider]

If this thread has taught me one thing it's that Kernow is far funnier than I actually thought he was. His responses have been pure gold. Keep them coming.

[plopboy]

TBF Kernow is right, it is only stuff and in the grand scheme of things quite inconsequential.

If my collection went up in smoke tomorrow I would be a bit peeved but I would end up with some insurance money, an enforced clear out and a chance to collect stuff again but in a more informed manner.

As half the fun in this hobby for me is the collecting aspect as I only play a handful of my games.

[Wools]

I'm sure a few people would want to hunt me down for throwing some of those games away, but they're easy enough to get hold of and no one was willing to buy them for cheap anyway!

Although the experience of playing games is worthwhile and expensive, the ownership of them is fairly worthless if you just want to play good games.

[Decider-VT]

Off the top of my head, I threw out Snatcher on the Mega CD

Wouldn't you have gotten a fair bit for this on eBay?

[Wools]

Well I was selling on here, Rllmuk & eBay and Snatcher was one of the game left over.

If I remember correctly, Snatcher was one of the few games which did not sell on eBay and I received no offers at all. Although the Kojima link does make the game more interesting to buyers, I think the Mega CD has never been a big draw and I guess I was just unlucky selling at that particular time.

Either way, they've gone to the big Games Master in the sky. I only own around 30 games now I should not have to go to such measures again.

[Sketcz]

You should have videod it. Then slapped some kind of kitsch music track over it.

[speedlolita]

I've thrown out a few PS2 recently, just because I couldn't be bothered to sell them. lol

[nem]

I've never understood throwing away stuff. If there's something I can't be arsed to sell, I give it away. I had some old MTB bike frames that were genuinely worth absolutely nowt. I put up a post on a local bike forum and some dude came and picked them up that night. Very little work on my end and both parties were happy

I have a very hard time believing that nobody would have come picked up those games that Wools binned. The problem with accepting offers is that so many times sellers want offers but don't want to be lowballed. What the fook is the point? I don't know what price point the seller has in mind, so naturally I'm going to offer what it is worth it to me, and most likely on the lower end of that scale. The seller then declines or most likely doesn't even reply back. It just isn't worth it, so I very rarely make offers

[huxley]

I sold off a load of retro stuff on here a while back. Some of the stuff that didnt sell I gave away, also sneaked some extras to the people who purchased multiple items, rather than chuck it. Funny thing only one person got back to me thinking I made a mistake.
If someone wants to buy something to break it let them, I`d rather give it away than bin it.

[QualityChimp]

If you were selling an item on here and someone offered you your asking price, in exchange for you making a Youtube video of yourself destroying the item, would you do it?

If we're talking about NTSC-UK specifically, I'd say "No" as there's a lot of nice people on here I'd rather give stuff to than let another person destroy it. I'd rather people get joy from using something than destroy it.

A while ago we had a thread on here where someone said they didn't like selling to people on ebay if they thought the buyer would resell it for profit elsewhere. And a lot of people argued that when selling an item, your main intention is to get your asking price, so cares what they do with it?

That's the way of the world though. The buyer of your item may make more money, they may not. You just have to accept this in the same way a car loses money as you drive it off the forecourt, the PC you've bought won't be able to play some games the following year and Apple will have a newer, shinier device that'll make you look really anachronistic if you don't update.

During my art student days I enjoyed taking personal artwork which people praised, selecting one piece and then burning it.

Did you ever hear about the KLF (Ancients of Mu Mu, Doctorin' The Tardis) and the way they burned ?1 Million pounds? They did it just to see what it would feel like. In the end they felt shock, guilt and finally boredom. When interviewed in 2004, Drummond of the band said he regrets it and is still unsure what the artistic significance is.

I guess it comes down to the type of person you are. I'm a bit of a hoarder because I like the memories associated with things and I'm convinced I'll use them again, but I don't subscribe to the school of having mint, sealed copies of Radiant Silvergun and Stinky Pete The Prospector on the shelf unused.

I'm also the type of person who doesn't drop litter, spit in the street or graffiti my name on walls. I'll hold doors open for people and tell oiks to stop scraping their names on the queue fence at Alton Towers (before realising they're with lots of friends...).

When people smash guitars at the end of a concert, I think it's a waste and some kid would've loved that or it could've been sold for charity. At the end of my concerts, I finish with a guitar workshop and repair broken guitars. (I made that up, but I would).

An interesting topic though, Sketcz!

[Atomizer]

That's the way of the world though. The buyer of your item may make more money, they may not. You just have to accept this in the same way a car loses money as you drive it off the forecourt, the PC you've bought won't be able to play some games the following year and Apple will have a newer, shinier device that'll make you look really anachronistic if you don't update.

Thats interesting. All 3 of those examples are based on businesses and how they're there to make profit. That's precisely what a individual seller essentially is - a business, just on a much smaller scale. If you're selling something, the underlying reason over anything else is because you want to make money off of it. Things such as personal gratification come after money, unless your giving it away for free, in which case, would be because you either want to get rid of it, or because you want to pass it to someone who would appreciate it more than yourself - but of course, you're no longer a seller at this point, but more like a charity.

[Sketcz]

Did you ever hear about the KLF (Ancients of Mu Mu, Doctorin' The Tardis) and the way they burned £1 Million pounds? They did it just to see what it would feel like. In the end they felt shock, guilt and finally boredom. When interviewed in 2004, Drummond of the band said he regrets it and is still unsure what the artistic significance is.

Ace, I was waiting for someone to mention the KLF and their money burning. Yes, I only heard about them after burning my paintings (for whatever reason), but I find the whole thing fascinating. I'm not sure I could wilfully destroy currency though.


Another thing I was thinking about when making this topic is that I used to give a lot of low value games to charity stores, until I discovered to my shock and horror that they bin items after a weeks if no one buys them (this was in Poole, Dorset). A neighbour of mine used to once a week go skip diving to fish anything he fancied from their bins. He had around 300 video cassettes (probably more), piles of games, an old PC, and more furniture than he knew what to do with (mostly it ended up clogging the hallway in my flat).

I never saw him with any items I'd handed in, but I thought to myself, ****ing hell, this stuff just ends up getting chucked. He used to give me tonnes of crap, which ironically I used to sometimes just give back to the charity stores or end up binning myself (if no one at work wanted it, which they didn't).

I don't know if this is the same for all charity stores around the country, but I thought it utterly disgraceful.

[Fastware]

I've done it for unreleased game protos. Worked for a game company and were clearing some space in the office and found a lot of discs. Asked my boss if I could keep them guessing he would say yes. Said no instead. Managed to slip a couple into my pocket and binned the rest.

Hurt like hell, but I did not want to lose my job.

True story.

[Sketcz]

Those are worth a fortune you realise, right?