You've just found a grail-level item... you care nothing about. What do you do next?

[RH | 4,904]

After seeing @Fryer64 post about a friends mega find, it got me thinking about a good, general community question/poll.  What would you do if you were out, making your regular collecting rounds at thrift shops or through various online market places you bumped into a "grail" level item that you have no interest in collecting.  What would you do with it?  The poll list the options that I can think of, but feel free to chime in otherwise. 

Most of us collect for the sake of the enjoyment of whatever we obtain but let's be honest with ourselves, you might be a HUGE Nintendo fan but if you found a pristine Panzer Dragoon Saga that was sealed with a $5 sticker on it, you'd be a fool not to buy it.  Or, maybe you love PS1 titles but *gasp*, what's an NWC cart doing at this garage sale?!?!  You'd buy it of course, but what next?  Discuss below.

Edited February 16, 2022 by RH

[MrWunderful | 2,927]

Immediately sell it to a try hard investor bro leech for the highest amount of money possible.  

[B.A. | 1,139]

Sell it without the use of the term "grail" anywhere to be found. 

[RH | 4,904]

1 minute ago, B.A. said:

Sell it without the use of the term "grail" anywhere to be found. 

Yeah, I get it.  But the point I was trying to make is it's a hot item, can fetch a fair chunk of change and would be easy to get peoples attention.

Grail is definitely over used.  For me, I've only selectively used it for ever finding the cel that the sword used in early Final Fantasy games was likely painted on.  The thing probably doesn't exist anymore and if it does, it's obviously a single item--that's a "grail", if you're going to use the term.

But, hype is hype, and that's part of what this is about.

[tbone3969 | 304]

Sell it for as much as possible. Then use the money to pay bills.  Raising a family is expensive.  If I had any money left over after all bills and debt were 100% paid off, I would probably invest the remaining 60-70% in retirement funds, or the market, and then spend the rest on some gaming goodness for my personal collection.

Edited February 16, 2022 by tbone3969

[B.A. | 1,139]

Yeah, I guess to be more specific I would probably sell it to someone on here without the hype.  Those items sell themselves and I don't have the time/energy to squeeze every penny out. 

[Tabonga | 2,318]

I would suss out a value from ebay and stick it on craigslist.  Hard cash on the spot and you don't have to worry about shipping etc.   If it is a hot item there will be someone within driving distance that can come up with the hard specie.

I really only have one long term bill I am working down - depending on how much lucre I conjured up out of this I would put it towards that bill - if the amount I got was in excess of that I would bank it.  

Edited February 16, 2022 by Tabonga

[twiztor | 851]

If it was a game/item that i recognized as being highly sought after, probably leave it for the next collector that would appreciate it. Unless it was just an insanely low price that i couldn't pass up, in which case, of course i would buy it.

I would probably hold onto it for awhile, but ultimately post on here that i was looking to offload it. Most likely sell (there's not very many game items i'm after anymore and certainly nothing in that $25k price range!). Give the ol' NA discount, so that the other member would get a good deal but i'd still make more than my share. boring answer but the likely outcome.

Edited February 16, 2022 by twiztor
actually answering the question at hand

[RH | 4,904]

15 minutes ago, twiztor said:

@RHthe question in the poll is missing a "NOT". it currently says: "1. What would you do if you found an extremely rare and desirable "grail" item that you personally have interest in?"

which completely changes what you're actually asking

Thanks, fixed!

[docile tapeworm | 4,198]

@tbone3969 I feel you. Sell and pay bills. Got little ones counting on me.

[Hammerfestus | 3,846]

Sell that thing.  Daddy needs a box for his Samson.  Other than blowing some on collecting the rest is probably going towards paying off the house or something.

[Gloves | 11,779]

I hold onto it literally forever "just in case". >_>

[DefaultGen | 5,405]

Shelve it! I can sell my labor for money. I can't sell my labor for grailz!

[fcgamer | 4,723]

I'd live stream myself and @OptOuttogether somewhere in a local rice field, chewing betel nuts and burning the fucker.

The horseshit that passes as grails these days, lmfao, that's common crap and the only folks that want it are ignorant investors from an inorganic market. 

give me stuff that's actually a grail

[Tanooki | 4,934]

I doubt I have anything grail level but I have a few things worth over a grand, one probably around 5x that or more given the stupidity of pokemon buttboy behavior over sealed goods.

In the case of those 3 things that come to mind, they're shelved and displayed.  I couldn't afford any of them again, wouldn't want to buy them again, and I'd rather appreciate them for what they are.

If I were put in a spot I had to sell them, I'd take care of the issue with the funds, and what remains would go to fund my interests off budget as a slush fund to keep my sanity.

 

Quite honestly my disgust level is pretty high these days over where prices have gone largely due to a mix of the manipulative potentially gray area/illegal crap Halperin pulled with wata/heritage.  And then the trickle down expansive exploitation it has caused down to the beater copies of game and gaming paraphernalia etc these days right to the lowest rung crap like used food boxes and paper cut out of a magazine that's framed.  I've been VERY and repeatedly tempted on HD camera to slice open that pokemon red version box for the world to enjoy.  A mix of missing the fact I could open up a new gameboy game enjoying untouched goods, the buzzy smell of the cardboard paper and plastic mix encased for so long - and the sadist knowledge I'd really cause some problem child of our hobby to have a potential stroke from it.  From there that otherwise untouched but now once item would return to its shadowbox to continue being visually enjoyed on display..

[croagunk | 798]

I would buy it and give it the proper protection. I wouldn’t sell it. Only because I’d be worried I’d become interested in it later and regret it, haha.

[a3quit4s | 4,101]

Buy it and put it on the bay after listing it for sale here first.

I’d at least be a bro and start bidding at $0.01 though instead of some insane BIN price. 

Edited February 16, 2022 by a3quit4s

[Tabonga | 2,318]

1 hour ago, Gloves said:

I hold onto it literally forever "just in case". >_>

 

[Gulag Joe | 582]

Surprised nobody said "buy it, open it up and play it" yet

 

[Gloves | 11,779]

Just now, Gulag Joe said:

Surprised nobody said "buy it, open it up and play it" yet

 

I mean let's be real here - most of the actual "grails" are pretty shit, as games go.

[Gulag Joe | 582]

9 minutes ago, Gloves said:

I mean let's be real here - most of the actual "grails" are pretty shit, as games go.

I'm just fishing for opty

[Gloves | 11,779]

2 minutes ago, Gulag Joe said:

I'm just fishing for opty

Fair!

[RH | 4,904]

11 minutes ago, Gloves said:

I mean let's be real here - most of the actual "grails" are pretty shit, as games go.

*Panzer Dragoon Saga.

*Lefty SMB3

*Pokemon Red

Man, opening one of those and posting it on YouTube would rive people crazy.  Maybe not truly rare, but you'd have some ill people, and those are all good games.

[Gloves | 11,779]

9 minutes ago, RH said:

*Panzer Dragoon Saga.

*Lefty SMB3

*Pokemon Red

Man, opening one of those and posting it on YouTube would rive people crazy.  Maybe not truly rare, but you'd have some ill people, and those are all good games.

 

9 minutes ago, RH said:

I mean let's be real here - most of the actual "grails" are pretty shit, as games go.

 

[A_Feisty_Pickle | 244]

Last year I found ~$50k worth of games from a game store and ended up paying < $1500 for all of it. Some of it I sold for way less than value (found out value afterwards), sold 1 thing for way more than I thought I would, and kept a few of the lower value items just cause. In the end I made around $20k after tax, plus kept a couple cool items for the shelf. Majority of it went towards stock but I did blow a little bit on a couple new computers.  No ragrets.