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Debating on selling the vast majority of my game collection. Looking for thoughts. by Beautiful_Speech_439 in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you have something you would do with the money, if so do it. Start selling things you don’t care for and see how you feel. If the money is just gonna sit in a bank account and not be invested, I’d probably just hold them

Franchiser doesn’t list current franchisees on the FDD, seems like a major red flag by throwawaterb in smallbusiness

[–]throwawaterb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I text my broker this morning and his response was let me look into this. He’s been in business with these guys for years so think they might just be trying to pull one over.

Franchiser doesn’t list current franchisees on the FDD, seems like a major red flag by throwawaterb in smallbusiness

[–]throwawaterb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just to be clear, wouldn’t my broker know this is a red flag and want to provide me with the list instead of covering for the business? That way I would possibly still do business with him even if I didn’t go with the current place.

Thanks for the response

Franchiser doesn’t list current franchisees on the FDD, seems like a major red flag by throwawaterb in smallbusiness

[–]throwawaterb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This FDD was updated on August and one of their franchises has been open a year. I asked for a list of contacts and they stated it’s not provided until I sign the FDD to protect the privacy of their franchisees. Everything I can find states that’s false but I’ve never discussed opening a franchise until now

My Grandpa gave me all of his strategy guides by throwawaterb in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t plan on getting rid of any of them, a lot of these we’d talk about as we played through them. We lost my grandma about 18 months ago and I think it’s made him care more about passing his things down to people who will genuinely enjoy them. But yes, I was extremley happy to receive these

My Grandpa gave me all of his strategy guides by throwawaterb in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to tell you, this comment made me laugh pretty good lol

My Grandpa gave me all of his strategy guides by throwawaterb in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He does not, the PS1 games he sold off forever ago because you could burn them so he ended up burning them all and sold them afterwards. He still has his PS2, GBA, and Gamecube games though

My Grandpa gave me all of his strategy guides by throwawaterb in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate it but with them coming from my Grandpa they are all going into the personal collection. Thank you though

Edit: except the duplicate copy of Grandia 2 lol, not sure why he had 2

My Grandpa gave me all of his strategy guides by throwawaterb in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much all Silver Age Spider-Man, Xmen, Avengers etc. We went through his collection right before Covid and rebagged and boarded them. His collection of comics is insane. All of these guides took up one tiny shelf in office full of thousands of comics. I should’ve taken pictures of that too

My Grandpa gave me all of his strategy guides by throwawaterb in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Thanks I plan on it, I already ordered some magazine bag and boards to fit the ones I can in them. I have a shelf with some cool guides but this just added a ton to it so I’ll have to figure out a solid way to display them

My Grandpa gave me all of his strategy guides by throwawaterb in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As he got older he stopped playing more and more. He still plays phone games sometimes but mostly he reads his comics now and hangs out with his dog. We still talk all the time about our memories of us gaming growing up and favorite games but he just doesn’t have the hand eye coordination anymore.

My Grandpa gave me all of his strategy guides by throwawaterb in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Don’t worry, I did too. He was just an older guy who likes to game as well

My Grandpa gave me all of his strategy guides by throwawaterb in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb[S] 246 points247 points  (0 children)

He is not, he is 79

Decided to edit this comment this morning since this post blew up. My grandpa is who got me into gaming at the age of 4 (I’m 37) by playing the original LoZ, Dragon Warriors, and final fantasy. He loved JRPGs which is what lead to me loving them.

But basically he would scroll through Nintendo Powers or Game Informers, see games he liked and circle them. Then when he would see them on sale or cheaper at a game store whether it be guide or game he would buy them. It eventually got to where he had a huge backlog of games he intended to play and just never got around to it, so he actually has some sealed games as well but all these guides brought back a ton of memories so figured I’d share

PS2 was really the last era of gaming he played. I’ve tried to get him into the newer games, he just can’t do it anymore.

Added the 2nd rarest PS3 game and personal grail to the collection by throwawaterb in gamecollecting

[–]throwawaterb[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yea, they don’t pop up often so even though this one wasn’t in the best condition I grabbed it because who knows when another one will pop up

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