Question! Can you please take us through an entire sale, let's say you buy a collection for $100, or $1000 or whatever, How much profit do you need/want to make on each collection to make it worth it? how much goes to profit, taxes, salaries, investments? Take us through the "boring" part! =)
Don’t give these punk resellers any advice on how to manipulate the used video game market it’s been manipulated enough to a point where we can’t even afford to go out and hunt anymore. We’ve pretty much settle on getting collectibles and other garbage to fill the need for more used video games because they’re just overpriced because of retailers and people selling an entire collections and not knowing what they have. It’s an absolute mess out there.
I think the community is getting pretty strong and growing. I also think we as a community are thinking about how we can foster more love for this. It does come down to the younger gens and encouraging them and visiting then up when they come into the scene. I think more so than a market crash overall there might be a reseller crash. Mostly because there can't be that many resellers. It is also pretty common for people to grow their collections reselling as a hobby.
You mention mastering eBay is where to start, and as someone who does a lot of local BST I have kind of stayed away from eBay as a seller because of a lot of confusing parts of it. Is there any chance you might be able to do a "Beginners guide to eBay" to walk a new seller through some of the ropes? Things to do, not to do, how to set up things correctly and so on? Tools I'd need, and various other tips to not get caught up on something that might have been unexpected?
eBay is veryyyy easy. I sell on eBay full time. (Mostly non gaming things) but every part of it is quite easy. I’d love to see chase and Al pal’s insight on it. But if they don’t do it, don’t let that stop you. There are a lot of TH-cam videos out there that have a lot of great advice. Justin resells and jride flips are awesome smaller channels with no bs advice. Good luck. Dive in, just have some basic shipping supplies, a 20 dollar postal scale off Amazon and access to a printer before you make your first listing.
My recommendation (disclaimer: I've only been doing it for 4 months) is to just jump in. You'll make mistakes, but that's part of having a business. I've turned ~$150 into $1400 cash with about $3000 worth of inventory.
I used to deal 90% in video games but my local market is soo over saturated you'd lose out on deals while en-route to pick them up. It was just a fight for inventory
My thought on retro games is just due to the shear simplicity and fun factor of a lot of the games they will always have a charm or value compared to modern games. Thats why I think they have aged so well partially in the face of modern games.
In One your videos can you please explain your process for notifying your buyers that xyab aftermarket parts were used. I completely understand that swapping a screen or a battery or even a case upgrade is what is needed but those are not original manufacturer parts so there should be a disclaimer somewhere to let your buyer know that the item being purchased may have non oem parts. I am a reseller myself and have watched this channel since the beginning and would appreciate your thoughts on this subject.
Question for the next video: When is it worth it to subscribe to an ebay store vs surfing on the free listings? I'm part time AND seasonal since I source mostly at garage sales. I feel like would benefit from an ebay store half of the year but I'm hesitant to pull the trigger
Great Video! One question, do you guy's sell other "non-gaming" Retro/Vintage type items? Perhaps vintage/retro toys, signs, cameras, sports memorabilia, trading cards, etc., etc.??
Their focus is video games, but they pickup anything collectible if it can be sold for a profit that's worth the time / effort. Watch the $10 ebay challenges they have done to see them pickup / sell other things. Or look into the hobby shop Ron videos on the main channel and such.
I still see the game cube market is strong on my end, I also see popular games for the DS, I am seeing a huge decline in Xbox 360 stuff for whatever reason. I stopped buying Atari stuff because I can’t get it to sell.
Have you guys ever considered selling on Walmart? If so, what made it a non-viable option for your business at the moment (assuming you guys don’t sell on there since I don’t ever hear Walmart mentioned)?
@@catrpcrew thanks for the response! If this is something you guys ever dive into I’d be interested in learning more about it. Not sure if Walmart has the same data available as Amazon that helps with determining what sells well or not. I only do eBay and Amazon and while Walmart did seem similar to Amazon, it didn’t appear nearly as fine-tuned to me, but I also know next to nothing about it. Would love to expand to selling there if it makes sense and items move at a decent rate though
I think at its current level it isnt going to last , a recession or some other big economy hit will bring down prices for sure.. everything has its cycle, some big collectibles for many decades like stamp collecting is basically gone for most part now. i think video games will last , but at what level will it, i think some of the big dollars spent now for some games just wont hold up in long run, basically it all depends on how many stay in the hobby in order to maintain. Usually once the speculators are out then you see things level out eventually.
Until emulating becomes simpler for the average consumer, this market will last. Once that barrier of entry becomes non-existent, the retro market will take a hit as it becomes mostly for niche people like myself who want to own the original stuff.
Emulators are really simple and readily available nowadays. People like to collect and play the original hardware. People are always chasing that nostalgic feeling.
That’s a good point but I also believe that over time each console starting with the NES and older stuff will little by little become less sought after …because the generations did not grow up with it … shoot it won’t be too long until the switch and ps4 are nostalgic to younger generations
I’m curious if you ever get complaints or returns of disc-based games that have the xyab cases? I know there are collectors that want like even the generic registration card for the game to be “CIB”…so what do they think about non-OEM plastic
If they’re buying it on Amazon I highly doubt they even know it’s a different case. It’s mostly the average consumer buying on there and not diehard retro fans
Disc base games are going to die eventually due to disc rot. The one thing you will not be able to stop. How long that term is. Depends on the disc the manufacturer and how much it was used and resurfaced.
Hey comment folks, does anyone make a decent disk resurfacer in the price range between a simple JFJ and the entry level used $1,500 elm USA machine? I feel like there's a huge gap there that nobody provides a solution for.
Lol, my chikdhood console had a boom in the late 90s and early 2000s, *sigh I'm old Also just comment Atari still has pretty valuable games. A few of them are in the thousands. I will admit though the market is drying up as the fans of the console have gotten older and slowed down buying. Even myself has slowed down a lot since I'm about done the collection and real life stops me from dropping several grand on Air Raid.
I don't think Nintendo market will ever die...there are too many great games ONLY available on Nintendo hardware that you can't get anywhere else (unless you use emulators)...Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is probably the last console from Microsoft and Sony to have games on them that you can't get elsewhere, although a lot of them you can also get on PC.....PS4/PS5 Xbox One/Series S/X are a joke.....4 years into the life cycle and there isn't really anything EXCLUSIVE to the newest consoles worth a damn...just get a PC and most games are available there without emulation.....Nintendo is the one that will always be profitable for re-sellers...I mean even in 20 years from now when people consider the Switch to be retro, it will still sell....just replace the battery like they do with the Game Boy Advance SP.....not much goes wrong with the Switch....sure, there is joycon drift, but there are tons of Pro Controllers that don't have that...also some good 3rd party controllers for the Switch that don't have that and plenty of them are currently available...the Switch also has sold over 100 million consoles so there will be plenty of them to go around to retro gamers in 20 years...PlayStation and Xbox are dying IMO....Microsoft doesn't even need the Xbox brand to survive....they make their money on Windows and Office...Sony is the opposite, if the PlayStation brand dies, there will be no more Sony....Now that consoles are costing as much as gaming PCs, there is no reason to buy a console that relies on you to pay monthly to play online....my brother recently bought a gaming laptop with an RTX 4050 in it for the SAME PRICE as an PS5 Pro....yet he will get WAY more use out of the laptop than he would a PS5 Pro....
Have you guys ever thought about designing your own game? If so, what would be the platform (video game, mobile, table top, RPG) and what would be the elevator pitch concept / story?
Was Atari ever good? Sure some items sold for more than they do now, but really does anyone want to play the terrible games that came with that console? I don't think there are a comparable number of diehard Atari lovers like there are Nintendo fanatics. Nintendo has a large fanbase because a lot of the games were good.
the code idea is not very smart as it would essentially allow someone to sell one copy and keep one copy. All the 20 usd upcharge would do is make people be able to buy a second copy of the game for 20 usd.
You missed the point… physical comics still exist and sell when it would easy to make it a digital only medium. Even though theyve gone through a crash and majority of creators are trash they still sell. Also the vintage comic market is still thriving and selling for big money
the comic market is still huge. See tons of people buying them at conventions and online. Sold a $7k collection a couple months ago myself. Still selling extremely well
If you not looking to invest into stocks and such. Look to invest into rare vintage Pokémon cards (singles or packs) they are not reprinting those cards, like they can very easily reprint a video game. The vintage cards are a lot harder to produce fakes, like it is for video game market!
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Question! Can you please take us through an entire sale, let's say you buy a collection for $100, or $1000 or whatever, How much profit do you need/want to make on each collection to make it worth it? how much goes to profit, taxes, salaries, investments? Take us through the "boring" part! =)
Don’t give these punk resellers any advice on how to manipulate the used video game market it’s been manipulated enough to a point where we can’t even afford to go out and hunt anymore. We’ve pretty much settle on getting collectibles and other garbage to fill the need for more used video games because they’re just overpriced because of retailers and people selling an entire collections and not knowing what they have. It’s an absolute mess out there.
I think the community is getting pretty strong and growing. I also think we as a community are thinking about how we can foster more love for this. It does come down to the younger gens and encouraging them and visiting then up when they come into the scene. I think more so than a market crash overall there might be a reseller crash. Mostly because there can't be that many resellers. It is also pretty common for people to grow their collections reselling as a hobby.
You mention mastering eBay is where to start, and as someone who does a lot of local BST I have kind of stayed away from eBay as a seller because of a lot of confusing parts of it. Is there any chance you might be able to do a "Beginners guide to eBay" to walk a new seller through some of the ropes? Things to do, not to do, how to set up things correctly and so on? Tools I'd need, and various other tips to not get caught up on something that might have been unexpected?
eBay is veryyyy easy. I sell on eBay full time. (Mostly non gaming things) but every part of it is quite easy. I’d love to see chase and Al pal’s insight on it. But if they don’t do it, don’t let that stop you. There are a lot of TH-cam videos out there that have a lot of great advice. Justin resells and jride flips are awesome smaller channels with no bs advice. Good luck. Dive in, just have some basic shipping supplies, a 20 dollar postal scale off Amazon and access to a printer before you make your first listing.
My recommendation (disclaimer: I've only been doing it for 4 months) is to just jump in. You'll make mistakes, but that's part of having a business. I've turned ~$150 into $1400 cash with about $3000 worth of inventory.
I have a question! So now that we are past a year into the barn what do you wish you had done differently with the build?
Forever Physical Strong 💪🏻
awesome video! thank you so much for all you advice and guidance Chase and catrp crew
Lol! Tangible, rare and retro items will always have a history and demand 💰 🤑
ive been on mercari for right at 4+ Years and its been on life support for awhile now sales have been horrible.
What’s the best place to buy original cases for games we want replaced? I want original cases
Burning question is what you guys paid for the game barn inventory?
I used to deal 90% in video games but my local market is soo over saturated you'd lose out on deals while en-route to pick them up. It was just a fight for inventory
My thought on retro games is just due to the shear simplicity and fun factor of a lot of the games they will always have a charm or value compared to modern games. Thats why I think they have aged so well partially in the face of modern games.
What style of music do you listen to chase. And coffee or tea
is the ps5 pro anniversary a investment for a new console?
In One your videos can you please explain your process for notifying your buyers that xyab aftermarket parts were used. I completely understand that swapping a screen or a battery or even a case upgrade is what is needed but those are not original manufacturer parts so there should be a disclaimer somewhere to let your buyer know that the item being purchased may have non oem parts. I am a reseller myself and have watched this channel since the beginning and would appreciate your thoughts on this subject.
Have you guys used the Mercari selling platform?
Question for the next video: When is it worth it to subscribe to an ebay store vs surfing on the free listings? I'm part time AND seasonal since I source mostly at garage sales. I feel like would benefit from an ebay store half of the year but I'm hesitant to pull the trigger
We think it's always worth getting the $5/mo store to start. There's pretty much an instant return on investment. We can dive into this further.
Great Video! One question, do you guy's sell other "non-gaming" Retro/Vintage type items? Perhaps vintage/retro toys, signs, cameras, sports memorabilia, trading cards, etc., etc.??
Their focus is video games, but they pickup anything collectible if it can be sold for a profit that's worth the time / effort. Watch the $10 ebay challenges they have done to see them pickup / sell other things. Or look into the hobby shop Ron videos on the main channel and such.
I still see the game cube market is strong on my end, I also see popular games for the DS, I am seeing a huge decline in Xbox 360 stuff for whatever reason. I stopped buying Atari stuff because I can’t get it to sell.
Have you guys ever considered selling on Walmart? If so, what made it a non-viable option for your business at the moment (assuming you guys don’t sell on there since I don’t ever hear Walmart mentioned)?
It's definitely an option, one we haven't had time to explore. Don't know much about it outside of it being pretty similar to FBA
@@catrpcrew thanks for the response! If this is something you guys ever dive into I’d be interested in learning more about it. Not sure if Walmart has the same data available as Amazon that helps with determining what sells well or not. I only do eBay and Amazon and while Walmart did seem similar to Amazon, it didn’t appear nearly as fine-tuned to me, but I also know next to nothing about it. Would love to expand to selling there if it makes sense and items move at a decent rate though
On whatnot Biggymiami
If folks like you keep sending all their inventory to the mothership (amazon), the game market WILL eventually die.
People will buy and then sell it again. Its a cycle…..
At least we know you guys actually eat!
I think at its current level it isnt going to last , a recession or some other big economy hit will bring down prices for sure.. everything has its cycle, some big collectibles for many decades like stamp collecting is basically gone for most part now. i think video games will last , but at what level will it, i think some of the big dollars spent now for some games just wont hold up in long run, basically it all depends on how many stay in the hobby in order to maintain. Usually once the speculators are out then you see things level out eventually.
Until emulating becomes simpler for the average consumer, this market will last. Once that barrier of entry becomes non-existent, the retro market will take a hit as it becomes mostly for niche people like myself who want to own the original stuff.
Emulators are really simple and readily available nowadays. People like to collect and play the original hardware. People are always chasing that nostalgic feeling.
That’s a good point but I also believe that over time each console starting with the NES and older stuff will little by little become less sought after …because the generations did not grow up with it … shoot it won’t be too long until the switch and ps4 are nostalgic to younger generations
I’m curious if you ever get complaints or returns of disc-based games that have the xyab cases? I know there are collectors that want like even the generic registration card for the game to be “CIB”…so what do they think about non-OEM plastic
Good question. I can say as a collector, I would lower the value of any CIB game I'm interested in if it's in a non-OEM gamecase.
If they’re buying it on Amazon I highly doubt they even know it’s a different case. It’s mostly the average consumer buying on there and not diehard retro fans
Disc base games are going to die eventually due to disc rot. The one thing you will not be able to stop. How long that term is. Depends on the disc the manufacturer and how much it was used and resurfaced.
You on a diet chase? Looking slim my guy
Is this a sponsorship for what not?
Nope! It's a part of our business just like Amazon and eBay.
Hey comment folks, does anyone make a decent disk resurfacer in the price range between a simple JFJ and the entry level used $1,500 elm USA machine? I feel like there's a huge gap there that nobody provides a solution for.
With physical dying and less and less discs are being sold I doubt it will ever be a better option.
Lol, my chikdhood console had a boom in the late 90s and early 2000s, *sigh I'm old
Also just comment Atari still has pretty valuable games. A few of them are in the thousands. I will admit though the market is drying up as the fans of the console have gotten older and slowed down buying. Even myself has slowed down a lot since I'm about done the collection and real life stops me from dropping several grand on Air Raid.
The irony of this video coming from your channel is wild
What do you mean?
@ resellers suck.
I don't think Nintendo market will ever die...there are too many great games ONLY available on Nintendo hardware that you can't get anywhere else (unless you use emulators)...Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is probably the last console from Microsoft and Sony to have games on them that you can't get elsewhere, although a lot of them you can also get on PC.....PS4/PS5 Xbox One/Series S/X are a joke.....4 years into the life cycle and there isn't really anything EXCLUSIVE to the newest consoles worth a damn...just get a PC and most games are available there without emulation.....Nintendo is the one that will always be profitable for re-sellers...I mean even in 20 years from now when people consider the Switch to be retro, it will still sell....just replace the battery like they do with the Game Boy Advance SP.....not much goes wrong with the Switch....sure, there is joycon drift, but there are tons of Pro Controllers that don't have that...also some good 3rd party controllers for the Switch that don't have that and plenty of them are currently available...the Switch also has sold over 100 million consoles so there will be plenty of them to go around to retro gamers in 20 years...PlayStation and Xbox are dying IMO....Microsoft doesn't even need the Xbox brand to survive....they make their money on Windows and Office...Sony is the opposite, if the PlayStation brand dies, there will be no more Sony....Now that consoles are costing as much as gaming PCs, there is no reason to buy a console that relies on you to pay monthly to play online....my brother recently bought a gaming laptop with an RTX 4050 in it for the SAME PRICE as an PS5 Pro....yet he will get WAY more use out of the laptop than he would a PS5 Pro....
Have you guys ever thought about designing your own game? If so, what would be the platform (video game, mobile, table top, RPG) and what would be the elevator pitch concept / story?
Hello! :)
Is Chase really 47? I assume he's joking about that.
No lol he’s late 20s I think still, 27-29 range
@jfh.8064 Thank you, he's said that a few times now. I think it's an inside joke I don't understand.
Was Atari ever good? Sure some items sold for more than they do now, but really does anyone want to play the terrible games that came with that console? I don't think there are a comparable number of diehard Atari lovers like there are Nintendo fanatics. Nintendo has a large fanbase because a lot of the games were good.
the code idea is not very smart as it would essentially allow someone to sell one copy and keep one copy. All the 20 usd upcharge would do is make people be able to buy a second copy of the game for 20 usd.
Comic books? Are you kidding? Comics has never really recovered from the huge crash in the 90s.
I’ve made 80,000 selling 1 comic collection you are just flat out wrong … 😂
You missed the point… physical comics still exist and sell when it would easy to make it a digital only medium. Even though theyve gone through a crash and majority of creators are trash they still sell.
Also the vintage comic market is still thriving and selling for big money
the comic market is still huge. See tons of people buying them at conventions and online. Sold a $7k collection a couple months ago myself. Still selling extremely well
If you not looking to invest into stocks and such. Look to invest into rare vintage Pokémon cards (singles or packs) they are not reprinting those cards, like they can very easily reprint a video game. The vintage cards are a lot harder to produce fakes, like it is for video game market!
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