How do you keep track of your collections?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:26 am

Dragoforce wrote: Soon your penis will be of average white man size.

you mean gay activities and age makes it shrink!?

denpanosekai · Post by **denpanosekai** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:52 pm

I used IGN for years before they went to shit/full-graphical.
Then I switched to rfgeneration, but they don't have the best listing of obscure games, had to add many titles myself.
Got sick of it just as GameFAQs launched their "My Games" service and it's pretty damn good.

No, seriously, GameFAQs.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:39 pm

Friendly wrote:
Ed Oscuro wrote: I keep it all in my head
Same. I have never once bought the same game twice accidentally.
Good memory is an awesome thing to have.

I can't claim a good memory, but I don't think I've bought the same game twice accidentally - though I very nearly did a few weeks ago. I had a vague enough memory of owning the board that I made sure to look and see if I could find it, and I did.

I often buy multiples of the same game, but not because of a bad memory, but because of sellers that don't give good descriptions (some, like that piece of shit tokyotoyfactory on eBay, will actively refuse to tell you what condition the game is in and not admit they're just reusing a picture).

denpanosekai wrote:I used IGN for years before they went to shit/full-graphical.

When I first looked at itk, they had significant gaps in their system, especially for import gamers and obscure systems. It would've been a no-starter for me.

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:46 pm

Ed Oscuro wrote:I often buy multiples of the same game, but not because of a bad memory, but because of sellers that don't give good descriptions (some, like that piece of shit tokyotoyfactory on eBay, will actively refuse to tell you what condition the game is in and not admit they're just reusing a picture).

Yeah, it's a total lottery with that guy. I've gotten a handful of FC and SFC games I couldn't find elsewhere from him with mostly good results, but it's a last resort.

I think TTF's terms/conditions page does mention they re-use a stock photo, though - maybe it's a recent change because of complaints.

Woke up this morning to see smoke billowing out my neighbours' kitchen door and three firemen charging in. Everyone and the dog on sidewalk chatting happily with fireman #4, nobody got incinerated by the chip pan. But I did instantly think of how I could quickly get all my stuff out the front door if this place blew up, haha. Would take two trips with the laundry basket at most, not too bad I guess. This is why I have an electric stove btw. >_>

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:05 pm

You know, I should really post that awesome eBay message exchange we had a while back. Dude's a complete ass, basically.

I wrote:Is this a picture of the actual item on sale?

Are there any marks or damage on surfaces, especially of the box and manual?

Regards,
(me)

Hi,
this may be not the actual item pictured.
Item is basically used, which means not like new.
We thank you for reading and agreeing our selling policy before placing an order.
Thank you for your cooperation,
ttf

- tokyotoyfactory

I wrote:Dear tokyotoyfactory,

This is a 179.99 item. I require those details to make the purchase.

Please do not make the purchase then.
Thank you very much,
ttf

- tokyotoyfactory

A refresher from eBay's listing policies:

You're required to:

Describe only the item you're selling in the listing and the terms of the sale.

Provide complete and accurate details.

Specify the condition of the item.

Describe any defects or flaws—this helps avoid problems or buyer dissatisfaction.

When selling a used, refurbished, or flawed item, we recommend including pictures of the actual item for sale instead of a stock photo.

BIL · Post by **BIL** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:55 pm

Wow, you're right. What a way to treat a simple enquiry.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:39 am

What's interesting is that everyone in this hobby has activity in gaming, and they all share the same activity of "game + doing", but activity by definition is by the means of doing, so personally I don't keep a list of my own collection because I'm not an idiot.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 7:31 pm

From my experience, most JP business sellers are resistant to giving you any more information than they've already provided. I've seen some use similar language when I tried making inquiries to check for a particular insert or version (and even a spinecard on one occasion).

Is there anything good about this tokyotoyfactory? From a cursory view, everything looks marginally to heavily overpriced.

TransatlanticFoe · Post by **TransatlanticFoe** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:05 pm

I have an Excel spreadsheet, for insurance purposes.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 8:43 pm

Ganelon wrote:Is there anything good about this tokyotoyfactory? From a cursory view, everything looks marginally to heavily overpriced.

At times he's been the only person to claim to have some items listed.

I ought to mention that I had bought something recently and had a similar kind of conversation over the condition, so maybe that history caused him to react that way.

I think that in the future if somebody does that crap, the prospective buyer should contact somebody at eBay, since it appears to be against their rules. I don't care if they get forced off eBay; there's enough scum as it is.

angryswede · Post by **angryswede** » Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:17 pm

TransatlanticFoe wrote:I have an Excel spreadsheet, for insurance purposes.

Beside the porn aspect of a well maintained inventory - this is one of the main reasons I want to keep index of my stuff, as it's demanded for an acquisition value insurance in Sweden.

Shelcoof · Post by **Shelcoof** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:01 pm

lol I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who uses a spreadsheet to document my collection. I also have a gametz account that I update occasionally.

I use the spreadsheet details the price I paid, completeness and organizes each system and accessories. Also I use it to plan for upcoming purchases.

I keep my entire collection on shelves, each shelf dedicated for a system.

Post by **undamned** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:52 pm

Shelcoof wrote:I use the spreadsheet details the price I paid, completeness and organizes each system and accessories.

I'm pretty good about remembering what I paid for an item, but there's probably a few that I would cry about if I saw what I paid originally and what I just got for it selling it.

On the topic of selling/inflation, I had a funny thing happen recently. I just sold some duplicate Megaman games, one of which fetched about $250. When I bought it, I think I paid around $100. Back then I also foolishly passed up on purchasing a couple sealed Rockman games missing from my collection. I just recently found those games for sale, but now they are more than twice the price of what I would have paid when I originally had opportunity to purchase them. I then considered the inflation that had occured with the Megaman game I just sold. What I paid for my Megaman game originally was about what I would have paid for those two sealed Rockman games back then. So, as much as the price of those Rockman games today makes me cringe, I can take the money made from the Megaman game I just sold and purchase them outright. In the end it all works out

-ud

Shelcoof · Post by **Shelcoof** » Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:17 pm

undamned wrote: I'm pretty good about remembering what I paid for an item, but there's probably a few that I would cry about if I saw what I paid originally and what I just got for it selling it.

-ud

Remembering what you paid for can be hard when its years down the road and you you have a few hundred games in your collection. That's one reason why I like to document it. Another reason is the fact that I buy games a few times a month and I need to see visually how much I'm spending per month to make sure I don't go over my budget.

linko9 · Post by **linko9** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:31 am

I used to have a record of my collection on IGN (12 year old me's decision...) but then they got rid of that feature one day, so that was lost. Now I don't really have a list of all my games, but I never sell them, so they're all around somewhere.

njiska · Post by **njiska** » Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:27 pm

Dear god did I forget what a pain in the ass doing a video game inventory can be. Started on my X360 collection about a week ago and that alone took nearly 10 hours for 105 games. The US normal releases weren't so bad, but the JP games and LEs, god damn. I've been making a point to note condition and contents of everything I have and that's been a retardedly huge undertaking, especially when multiple boxes, manuals and discs were involved.

Still got somewhere in the neighbourhood of 500 games to add for my other systems. Not counting the box of 50-60 2600 games in the basement. Any one else who's been posting in this thread having a similairly long time doing their collection?

xbl0x180 · Post by **xbl0x180** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:39 am

njiska wrote:Dear god did I forget what a pain in the ass doing a video game inventory can be. Started on my X360 collection about a week ago and that alone took nearly 10 hours for 105 games. The US normal releases weren't so bad, but the JP games and LEs, god damn. I've been making a point to note condition and contents of everything I have and that's been a retardedly huge undertaking, especially when multiple boxes, manuals and discs were involved.

Still got somewhere in the neighbourhood of 500 games to add for my other systems. Not counting the box of 50-60 2600 games in the basement. Any one else who's been posting in this thread having a similairly long time doing their collection?

I started doing an "inventory" of my video collection, but I lost interest at around 600... with about 500 more to go. At that point, I said, "Screw this! I don't care if I order the same video over and over," and instead watched cartoons and played some DFK the rest of the week

shmuppyLove · Post by **shmuppyLove** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:42 am

denpanosekai wrote:I used IGN for years before they went to shit/full-graphical.
Then I switched to rfgeneration, but they don't have the best listing of obscure games, had to add many titles myself.
Got sick of it just as GameFAQs launched their "My Games" service and it's pretty damn good.

No, seriously, GameFAQs.

Building "My Collection" right now, and yeah it's not bad at all.

rancor · Post by **rancor** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:43 am

With 20 years of collecting behind me, I haven't a clue as to what I have. I used to take shopping trips to Hong Kong with a friend of mine when that was a mecca for the awesome/unusual (~1997 - Golden Arcade, anyone?) and come back with literally thousands of dollars of shifty goods from companies like Bung (dr. v64) CCL (pro fighter series) and FFE (Super Wild card). I have a closet full of import stuff in my parents house and every summer when I go back it's like Christmas because I've forgotten all the things I've squirrled away.
My closet here in Tokyo is pretty full of unknown junk as well from the last 7 years of collecting. After digging a few hours last week I discovered that aside from Ketsui, I have a complete set of CAVE arcade flyers (!!!) .. There's no end to the treasures buried deep in the recesses of that room. ooh! I just found a boxed PC-FX!

Spreadsheets? I probably should, but who has the time for that??

Post by **undamned** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 6:28 pm

rancor wrote:With 20 years of collecting behind me, I haven't a clue as to what I have.

One thing that's nice about that is that if you have good taste, the stuff you've squireled away is probably now worth 3x what it was worth when you bought it because the market is so inflated these days

I just sold off "slag" from my Megaman/Rockman collection on ebay and got like $1k (well, minus like 20% in ebay/paypal fees). I doubt I had more than $300 into it.
-ud

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:23 pm

Multiple excel spreadsheets.

I bring a good portion of my collection to various anime conventions in the Nevada/NorCal area (notably Sac-Anime and Fanime) for their console gaming rooms. I take whatever I bring a put it on a seperate sheet, and then keep track of inventory that way. I can also detect whether or not controllers end up broken, or video cables end up missing. Sometimes things get lost in the shuffle (I'm currently missing Alien Hominid PS2 and Space Channel 5 DC) but there's a reimbursement process that can be executed. Nine times out of ten someone else has the game and will return it by mail afterwards.

My roommate uses Backloggery and a spreadsheet and still ends up buying dupes. It works out though since I just buy the dupes from him.

AeroCityMayor · Post by **AeroCityMayor** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:18 am

Crude but effective:

http://www.petes-emulation.com/phpbb3/v ... ?f=20&t=29

And yes, I have still purchased dupes

Cheers,

Ralph.

njiska · Post by **njiska** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 9:17 pm

Holy crap is this an intensive process. But I'm starting to feel like I've made progress after 60+ hours. So far these collections are completely recorded, cataloged for condition of case, manual, disc/cart and extras and cleaned of any stickers that happen to be on the case. Even had to replace a few cases that were too badly damaged.

DVD (Like Digital Leisure's Dragon's Lair release) - 3
GOG.com - 21
Gameboy - 4
GBA - 6
Gameboy Colour - 1
Game Gear - 9
Gamecube - 31
3DS - 3
NDS - 52
PC (Physical) - 35
PS3 - 18
Steam - 313
Wii - 26
Xbox - 74
Xbox 360 - 115

Total - 717

Still have my NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, Master System, 2600, 3DO, PSX, Saturn, DC, PSP collections (est. 300 games) + my Digital purchases on XBLA, PSN and iOS. I know some of you may scoff at the inclusion of Digital purchases, but as I stated to everyone else, the point of this catalog is so I know what I own, not as a form of dick measuring. I've grown tired of losing games over the years or forgetting that I own them.

Now back to drowning in 'Goo Gone'.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:39 pm

I use nothing.... I couldn't list them all right off. But when I see a game I know eather I have it or not.

you mean gay activities and age makes it shrink!?

I think he was saying it was already small and you were trying to compensate via having "everything".

shmuppyLove · Post by **shmuppyLove** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 12:54 am

So, I've been using GameFAQs Collection Builder, but how do I share the list?

gct · Post by **gct** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:32 am

shmuppyLove wrote:So, I've been using GameFAQs Collection Builder, but how do I share the list?

By sharing the games! Feel free to send them all my way.

I used to keep a list of my stuff in a plaintext file, fixed column width. Then after a series of collection purges I think I had the numbers down low enough that I could do without the list. I still have a few games left, but I stored most of them away. I recently went looking for some other things and came across games that I completely forgot I owned, so I think I might actually need to keep a document again. Unfortunately none of these forgotten games seem to have appreciated in value at all.

The porn on the other hand, massive Excel spreadsheet, otherwise I really would get dupes.

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