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Should I keep these collectors edition games?
Hairysun
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So, I am at Best Buy yesterday picking up crap I ordered online. The whole in store process was problematic so I was there for a while. While I'm standing there I spot a few boxes of the collectors edition SWTOR behind the counter. I ask the girl helping me if those are for sale. She said as long as there isn't someones name on the box. She checked and there was two of them without a name. I impulsively bought them.
I already have a basic digital version of the game. I have no need for the online gifts, in box stuff and access to the collectors edition vendor in game. My question to the vast superior knoweledge base that is MMORPG.com is ......
Should I keep them in hopes of selling them for a profit down the road ?
~Hairysun
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It depends on how many other people do the same thing, essentially. If there's a large amount of CE's on offer on ebay, the price will not rise much. It's also the most expensive CE in MMO history afaik, so it's already starting from a high base price.
Another thing to consider is how many CE boxes were made. If there was only ever 1 production run, then the chances of scarcity will be much greater. However, if EA decide to make another 50K because the first run mostly sold out, then it rapidly drops the potential "investment value" of individual units.
The further you get from launch day, the lower the demand for CE's will become. The retail price of boxes usually start dropping 3-4 months after launch, because the hype wears off. That means the CE (at original price) represents less and less value compared to the standard box.
If SWTOR remains a solid success for the next 5 years, and EA don't keep on making CE boxes (even in relatively small amounts), then an original CE box in shrinkwrap will fetch a handsome price in 5 years' time.
Speculation is always a risky business
No, you should return them. I was watching eBay the week before release and sure they were selling in upwards of $400, but that was more or less for late comers crowd of, "OMG I forgot to pre-order and I want in the early access, I'll pay anything..."
Then about a day or two before launch they dropped under $200 and most now are barely selling for $175. And if one were to look around, you can still get them for $150. Or find a copy that was returned or never picked up, like the two you bought...
So yeah, just return them if you don't plan to use the codes as they're not worth anything anymore...
id gladly take them off your hands if you want :P
Depends on how successful you think this game may be.
As succesful as wow? Then keep them.
As fucked up as Age of Conan or other such? Sell.
I predict holding on to them.
Good luck.
Regards
Melmoth
I'd say sell one, keep the other! Unless you get a nice chunk of change for the first, then sell both and more!
I am thinking the benefit of the collectors edition is the in game vendor only for collectors edition subscribers. I have no idea what is in the vendor as I have not seen one. I agree that historicaly the price keeps going down until they reach the F2P model. It is a matter of whether SWTOR will remain popular enough to stay a subscriber game.
~Hairysun
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I have been watching the prices as well. It seems you can readily get them on Amazon as well as Ebay. The potential is in the long term as SPOTTYGECKO suggested.
~Hairysun
http://www.straightdope.com/
keep them, half year latter you wont be as stupid as scam yourself out of 300 bucks.. and 300 isnt even expensive life lesson
Hmm you might want to wait for a few months. You might see demand for it.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan-
Yes, you should keep them to sell later, but only time will tell if you did the right thing. If the game is papular you may be able to sell each collectors edition for three to four times what you paid for them if BioWare/EA does not reissue. If the game falls on it's face you may well have wasted the money. I was able to pick up several Collector's Editions for STO for ten bucks each while a friend of mine paid much, much more at release. Please note that I am not saying SW:TOR will fail as badly as STO has.
I would return them personally.
I've been watching ebay a bit for them, and seen some boxes go for less then retail.
There was the buzz of the new game so people were paying a lot for them at first, but that market has dried up.
IF SWTOR has legs to be a solid MMO for years to come, then they might be worth something.. otherwise.. take em back.
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The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan-
I sold my extra CE un-opened for 750 bucks. i'm sitting on the other until the prices go way up there. you can still play the game with a digital and be perfectly happy. plus most of those in game features like the CE vendor will open up in time. and if not? i have a spare physical CE for 4000 bucks to sell you in a year.
same in game content for the DE and the CE for TOR.
WOW CE had in game content that couldnt be downloaded or got any other way. so your betting on people wanting the statue. to show off their geekiness.
if the statues are numbered and limited then thats a win if not.. then well.. meh.
I would keep them, WoW CE was selling pretty cheap after release aswell as the price dropped, no one really thought that 3 years later they would be worth 3k+ sealed.
None of which really has any effect on how much something is worth as a collectors item.
Tyco used to make 2 train sets back in the 70's or something. One was blue for boys, and the other was pink for girls, or something like that. Regardless, they didn't sell. They because collectors items because they were very limitted, with values around about a thousand dollars in some cases. Tyco decided many years later to try again and manufactured a bunch of them, the value on the ones people owned previously because pretty much nonexistant.
There's less value in hundreds of thousands of something, then there is in just a few thousands of something. Being good or bad becomes meaningless unless the item is produces in a limitted quantity, then it becomes worth something, whether it's good or bad, and often times things that aren't good become worth more becuase they tend to get made in much fewer quantities and therefore rarer.
Like a misprinted baseball card for a no-name player can be worth as much as or more then a card for someone that is in the hall of fame. And then only as long as the printing error only effected a small number of cards made.
I have some toys that are worth a couple hundred because they recieved the wrong paint scheme, the regular ones aren't worth a thing though. Then they decided to make one of the toys come in the wrong paint scheme on purpose, and now it's worthless.