Gaming Selling Dragon's Crown

[kezza825]

Hi.

I was planning on selling my copy of Dragons Crown at Cex but noticed that they'll buy it off me for £22 (in vouchers). They sell it at £32 so I wondering, is it worth selling via Ebay? As I did a quick search on it and could only find a handful of Dragon's Crown copies listed on there and going for roughly £40. Is it a rare game or collector's item?

For give me if u posted this in the wrong forum but u just wanted some advice.

Many thanks.

 

[FAST6191]

It is not a super rare game* but it is one that was fairly well liked in what was then (and to this day) a less than saturated genre when it comes to new releases, one quite a few missed the boat on (most of the buzz in the so called gaming press was about the artwork being more of the Boris Vallejo persuasion and them having monocles pop whilst spitting out their tea and the ladies among them coming over all unnecessary and having to have a little lie down, something they had apparently never seen nor expected to happen).

*VGChartz I know but they have something http://www.vgchartz.com/game/51813/dragons-crown/?region=All

While you can never be assured of a sale if you don't want the money (or in store credit as the case may be) right away, and can be bothered to deal with shipping and the kinds of oxygen thief that inhabit the online selling platforms then why not give it a punt, especially if it is free to list (I don't know if ebay is these days but there is also stuff like gumtree, facebook groups and all those other things).

Similarly I don't know what direction the price will head in the future -- most Atlus stuff it is even vaguely good will creep up as the years go on, however being the Vita version... could go either way. I could well see the Vita being something of an overlooked classic -- would have sucked to have it and expect to play lots of games but what library it did get actually stands up quite well. Think Sega Saturn or something. Cex prices can be on the high end as well for a lot of things -- they definitely follow fads quite well, and exploit you being able to walk out of the shop with it there and then. I would not bank on it being neogeo prices any time soon either -- the PS3 and PS4 both got versions and if a PC version ever drops**...

**given we saw a PC port of Bullet Witch (a low rated early 360 title) the other month, some 11 years after release you never know these days.

 

[kezza825]

I thought about selling on ebay but I've had bad experiences with people buying items off of me and then contacting ebay to give refunds without my consent.. Yeah that's happened 3 or 4 times. I'm in 2 minds whether to sell it or not as I know that the vita has been discontinued but I somewhat think that in many years the vita will be a forgotten classic that collectors will hunt games down for but then again, for £20 something I can just get rid of it as I have completed and have no intentions of playing anymore.

 

[Hayato213]

I thought about selling on ebay but I've had bad experiences with people buying items off of me and then contacting ebay to give refunds without my consent.. Yeah that's happened 3 or 4 times. I'm in 2 minds whether to sell it or not as I know that the vita has been discontinued but I somewhat think that in many years the vita will be a forgotten classic that collectors will hunt games down for but then again, for £20 something I can just get rid of it as I have completed and have no intentions of playing anymore.

Wouldn't be a problem if you provide the correct description, most of time return is because of wrong description, or item is damaged, broken etc, so you gotta be more careful to list on ebay to not get burn.

 

[FAST6191]

Wouldn't be a problem if you provide the correct description, most of time return is because of wrong description, or item is damaged, broken etc, so you gotta be more careful to list on ebay to not get burn.

Don't know what it is like around you but here Ebay and all the other tat selling places are full of chancers and conmen, or at least enough of that that it is a real risk and sours the experience. So much so that I don't maintain accounts on them and often find myself sorting out problems for friends and clients.

 

[Hayato213]

Don't know what it is like around you but here Ebay and all the other tat selling places are full of chancers and conmen, or at least enough of that that it is a real risk and sours the experience. So much so that I don't maintain accounts on them and often find myself sorting out problems for friends and clients.

Well I tend to be accurate with what I sell and list it as no return.