I am not seeing it if there is, but is there a place on this forum to trade or sell used RPG materials? Or is that verboten?

Quote from: shuddemell;1090516I am not seeing it if there is, but is there a place on this forum to trade or sell used RPG materials? Or is that verboten?

Here? Not that I know of aside from just maybee asking the site owners first to be sure its ok?

Elsewhere there is e-bay and hate to say it, but BGG is a potentially ok place to sell gaming material. Though with BGG it can take a loooooong time sometimes.

And if you are not banned from there, it is my main reason for sticking with TBP.

Facebook is a cesspool, but there are a couple really good RPG auction groups.

EDIT: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RPGAuctions/
Probably have made about 20+ transactions with that one.

Quote from: Brad;1090959Facebook is a cesspool, but there are a couple really good RPG auction groups.

RPG Auctions moderated by Chris Hinson is a great one.  Well moderated, very high signal-to-noise, and contains a lot of creators amongst it's members.

RPG Auctions - Lobby is the free-chat companion to the above.  The above is supposed to be strictly listing stuff for sale/trade or posting ISO (in search of) listings.

Quote from: Brad;1090959Facebook is a cesspool, but there are a couple really good RPG auction groups.

EDIT: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RPGAuctions/
Probably have made about 20+ transactions with that one.

Thanks, that is a pretty decent auction site. They don't have anything for auction that I want and don't already have, but the traffic seems brisk, so it's only a matter of time until they do. I have a few things I may try and unload there.

Quote from: Imaginos;1090595And if you are not banned from there, it is my main reason for sticking with TBP.

I'm not, but so far I haven't found what I am looking for on there, but I keep hoping.

What are you looking for, out of curiosity?  PM me, if you like.

Just send a list of what you want to sell to Noble Knight Games.  He'll give a quote and send you free shipping labels for your stuff.  I've sold stuff to him several times now with no complaints.

Quote from: goblinslayer;1092504Just send a list of what you want to sell to Noble Knight Games.  He'll give a quote and send you free shipping labels for your stuff.  I've sold stuff to him several times now with no complaints.

NKG is kind of like [strike]Gamesteal[/strike] Gamestop for me...I have a fundamental issue with someone offering me $10 for something, only to turn it around and sell it for $50.  I know I shouldn't care, as long as I'm happy with the money they give me but I do care and feel slighted!  

Goblin Emporium has a website...they're the old G+ community.  I don't think as many moved over from G+ though.  They're okay, but traffic is slow.  I have a hard time knowing if a seller of items doesn't like my post and isn't responding to it, or if the seller just isn't on the site checking.  Probably the former, but if someone is selling something for $90, and I offer $80, I'm okay with them telling me to go f*** myself.  I'd rather them do that, actually, if they're not interested in my $80 that's fine...at least I know they saw my offer.

MeWe has a community, too (I think its called Buy/Sell/Trade Tabletop RPGs).  It's okay.

Quote from: Lord Dynel;1092512NKG is kind of like [strike]Gamesteal[/strike] Gamestop for me...I have a fundamental issue with someone offering me $10 for something, only to turn it around and sell it for $50.  I know I shouldn't care, as long as I'm happy with the money they give me but I do care and feel slighted!  

Giving you 20% of what they will sell an item for in cash is about what I've seen other places, and if that's after paying for postage, that's actually better than some places.

Guardian Games in Portland OR gives 20% cash, 30% in store credit against new items, 50% in store credit against used items.

Powells Books gives 50% more in store credit than cash, but doesn't state on their website what percentage of what they will sell the item for they give you in cash.

In the late 1980s, I remember the used book store near my mom's would give 50% credit towards other books for F&SF (less for romance) so that matches Guardian Games.

Remember the store will most likely sit on your book for a while. The Powells book buyer once suggested I keep one book to sell myself since it had such a premium price. It takes time and effort to sell a used book. I've had a for sale post up for something like 10 years and have only sold about half the stuff, but that may not have been the right market.

Places that eBay your stuff for you keep like 50%, which is a better deal but you might not get the best price, but the deal closes quickly (so they don't need to account for storing the item for years before someone bites).

Frank

If you sell to a reseller, you won't get 100% because they need to make a profit, obviously. You're paying for convenience. You exert less effort, and get money sooner. The tradeoff is that you get less money than if you sold it yourself. The above point is also correct - resellers have to store all this stuff until they actually sell it.

The numbers change if you have lots of great items that would sell quickly, but in RPGs, the number of items that are actually rare AND valuable AND in demand is much smaller than most people want to believe.