I use the value from recently ended items on eBay.  Sometimes it's better to rely on a long-run average (when it's a game that fluctuates in value quite a bit), but usually recent auctions on eBay are a good source for price info.

Definitely by value. If you find a NTSC SE in the wild for $2 doesn't mean you can only trade or sell it for that much. If I'm going to trade it, it's going to be for something ungodly rare. Of course, I'm the same as NGD here in that those that help me I will help them and give 'em a break.

FamicomJL wrote on 30. Sep 2006 at 14:14:


Okay, I have to disagree with you a little bit, there, FJL.  How much you pay does have something to do with further trading.  What if you payed the full price versus getting a fraction of the deal?  You're definately going to milk that sucker for all that it's worth rather than if you got a kickin' deal.  For example, I got a MegaMan 5 for roughly $10 at an EBGames that should've cost about $25.  I can now sell that for a little cheaper if I wanted to, or use it as trade bait for something I want that isn't necessarily $25 but maybe 20 or somewhere along the lines of that.  So both prices come into play here.

3 letters: NWC - the price on that piece of trash escalates everytime a new owner gets ahold of one, because you know they're not going to sell it cheaper than what they bought it for.  People paid full price & are selling it full price + interest.

Of course, you dont trade F2 for a Rygar cart if you found F2 for $2 I think i wrote the question alittle wrong. I ment, if you find i.e a complete F2 for $5 and trade it for a Myriad cart (about equal value i'd say), would you think "hey, i only payed $5 for a Myriad cart!" or would you think "i payed $400 for the cart" ? Technicaly your expences for getting the Myriad cart is only $5, but how do you think, did you pay $5 or $400 for the cart?

I almost always trade for stuff for my own collection.  I trade things to try and reduce the amount of money I spend.  But so long as I get things I want/need for my collection, I could care less what happens to the items I traded.  That goes for low end to common stuff though.  When I sale a test stations or something very high end, I want it to go to a good home and be taken care of.  All the test stations I have sold or traded went to people I know or have spoke with pretty often.  Good question though.

Gary wrote on 02. Oct 2006 at 04:35:

I think it's a good question you brought up, but like NGD said, I could care less what people do with the stuff I trade (most of the time at least).  As for what you said in the paragraph above -- for all you know, the person whom you traded with could have bought/traded some of the same stuff in better condition from someone/somewhere else, and then resold yours as it was replaced by something better

well personally i beloeve what you payed for it does matter. honestly i just found a Buble bobble 2 at a game shoaw for $6.00. now i already have it complete. but if someone offered me something i really wanted that valued out around 70 bucks or so i might trade it for that instead of trying to get $110.00 worth of stuff. mainly because i only paid 6 bucks. plus if i like the trader and if its for something i really want i would be more incline to trade and give someone a good deal. deals come and go and its always good to try to pass one along to someone especially if they have ever passed one on to you. i once had a big collector literally GIVE me a BB2 for FREE. Mainly because i really needed i at the time and he had a couple of them. so i got that BB2 and then obtained another CIB one, and then i went and literally gave away the BB2 that was given to me to someone else. And now i just found another one for 6 bucks so i dunno know what i wanna do with it lol. but anyways i believe price has a lot to do with the way you look at it. another exampls was my friend found 2 copies of megaman X2 for $7.00. well i found an extra copy of mega man 6 for $10.00 so i went ahead and traded my extra MM6 for his X2 and it was an even trade really. he paid 7 bucks for my MM6 and i basically paid 10 for his MMx2. so this way it helped out both of our collections and we didnt need to spend a lot for them.