Maybe both.

hylian_elf wrote:

I send them to you to do the Chillout trade or we post separately?

I think we'd send them to one person to pass on as a full order.

If people are up for this, I'll post the games I'm wanting to shift. Others should post what they want and we'll see if we make the Chillout quota.

Let us know if you find more. If we can't piece together enough stuff to flog to Chillout, I'll just have to put some stuff back on eBay again.

acemuzzy wrote:

Sorry haven't managed this. Still confused, would we each send to you and your to them, or each send to them? What's the cost we'd be saving, something other than postage, and enough to warrant double postage??

No problem.

The idea is that to sell to something like Chillout games (which has got a good reputation from what I can see in the Retro thread), you need a certain amount of items or to meet a certain price.

You'd send the odd game or two you want to shift to me, I bundle everything up, and sell the lot to Chillout. Once I get the money from them, I then send the money via Paypal or whatever to the relevant people.

It's probably a bit of a faff, and it'll require some trust, but if people have a few random games lying around that they want shot of, but don't meet Chillout et al.'s minimum order or can't seem to get them to sell on eBay (or can't be bothered), it's at least one way of getting something for the titles that are just cluttering up your shelves.

There could be a minor problem, not meaning to throw a spanner in the works - everyone would have to be as accurate as possible with the description of the item's quality, and accept that they may get less that they expect.  Once they've got it, they keep it I believe, so if they decide that your copy of [Last Battle] is in fair condition rather than mint, they drop the pay out accordingly and lumping it seems to be the only option.

Edit: RetroK and I used them recently though and I was very happy with them.  I got rid of plenty of stuff that was just taking up space.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

... they drop the pay out accordingly and lumping it seems to be the only option.

Yeah, if my experiences with other 'send us your shit' services is anything to go by, they can decide to send you less money and there's bugger all you can do about it according to the Ts & Cs. I've used Ziffit a few times in the recent clear out I had, and they're mostly good - but they did once decide that something I sent was exrental and hence they owed me nothing for it.

This Chillout Games Union thingy is just an idea, feel free to ignore it. (Or go back to talking about games to play when you want to relax.)

Blue Swirl wrote:

(Or go back to talking about games to play when you want to relax.)

 There is only one series worth mentioning...

Yep.  Whatever that is up there it's a poor man's Monkey Target.

With the right musical accompaniment monkey pool, golf, bowling and especially flight are chilled out masterpieces, alone of with friends. Flight is sublime, perfectly balanced. Beautiful.

trippy wrote:

With the right musical accompaniment monkey pool, golf, bowling and especially flight are chilled out masterpieces, alone of with friends. Flight is sublime, perfectly balanced. Beautiful.

I don't think I ever played it without a room full of drunks vying for the podium tbf.

Chillout also return a detailed condition report outlining where they agree and differ with your opinion of each item's condition and the revised price. I've had experience where they upgraded and downgraded based on condition so they are fair.

Chillout is all about convenience. They cut down on costs but of course you won't get the price you would get selling privately - but I got rid of over 250 items with them in one sale hassle free and was paid within a week of them acknowledging delivery.

Watch out for currency charges - they pay via paypal in sterling and if your paypal default currency is dollars (as it was with me) paypal will charge you.

Is this the gaming on drugs thread? If so, never play Resident Evil while using psychedelics.