How to Sell A Board Game - Start To Finish

I talk a lot about the games entering and leaving my collection, or about backing games and selling them...but it's been awhile since I talked about how. So this is a start to finish video on selling your board games, start to finish.

TimeStamps:
0:00:00 - Introduction
0:01:15 - Take A Picture, And Grab a Computer
0:01:58 - Pricing Your Games
0:05:58 - Where To Sell Your Game
0:09:40 - Some Other Details
0:10:14 - How/Where To Ship
0:11:30 - Batching, Packing Etc
0:15:49 - Mythic Games
0:16:50 - Closing Up

Relevant Links:

[BoardGameCo]

As a note, my copy sold within 25 minutes, with 2 more people interested before I had a chance to mark it as sold. Don't always expect that, but the point is the system works.

[beerman]

I had to pause before the video even started to say... FINALLY... I've been needing this so bad. It's amazing that in such a short time you've become the best in the business and your penchant for knowing exactly what the people need is amazing.

[andrewwalsh]

excellant tutorial, very concise & to the point, thank you! In the recent past I have sold a number of games to BoardGameCo & the brick & mortar store Noble Knight Games (located here in the US). I recommend either of those routes for people (myself included) who prefer a minimum amount of work & hassle & don't mind taking a few bucks less (vs direct sale to individuals) in exchange for those perks/tradeoffs. You do need to sell a multiple number of games at once to make it worthwhile, typically 10-15 at a time has worked for me. But again, thumbs up for this tutorial!

[kolja-v]

Your timing is impeccable :-D . I just went through my collection and have a stack of 40 games to sell in the upcoming weeks. I always enjoy your channel and it was your recommendations on how to treat my collection and what to keep or get rid off, that helped me in getting this big stack ready for sale.

[SeanUCF]

GREAT video Alex. These kind of videos are the reason I'm subscribed to your channel. I have several games I need to off load before a flood of new Kickstarters arrive and eBay just isn't cutting it. This will be very helpful!

[joshuag]

this is very helpful, I've always been hesitant to sell really anything of mine, but this demystifies it for me thank you

[cfrost]

I've sold on eBay and BGG market but never tried on FB because I rarely am on there these days. That said, I tried your method and - boom! - game sold in a matter of hours! Cheers, Alex.

[intrepidfool]

Awesome video, Alex. Thank you so much for this. As a family that has filled the amount of shelf space we deem reasonable for our collection, we have started cycling games out. We have a growing pile of games to offload / sell . This is quite helpful for us.

Keep up the great work! We enjoy your content.

[vwilliams]

I have sold many games through the years, but thank you so much for the Facebook page recommendation and the shippers that you recommended.

[AaronAndSusie]

Watched for your shipping recommendation happy to learn of a new one. For packing I also will use cling wrap to basically reseal any used games to keep covers from slipping.

[Mambaru]

A the good old 'Volumetric' shipping. It is something that a few people don't fully understand. Great video as always. I've sold through BGG, eBay and I think another site. Really should go via Face Book. But yes eBay will take the biggest percentage from your sales, they'll also take a percentage of your shipping as well. Even if you don't use them to ship through.

[nekochen]

The timing of this video is perfect, I'm about to put up a copy of Tainted Grail for the first time and a little lost.

[successfulgeek]

This is fantastic, I love to see the start to finish and this type of thing is what I do for my work every day, showing the process start to finish but not going super in depth on every detail because that would just take forever!

[cfosburg]

I would be interested in learning more about the shipping process. I spent $50 shipping used games to my family members (about 5 games - medium size box).

[dankelly]

Excellent topic! I was actually going to ask you in yesterday's video how you do about getting rid of games. 👍🏻

[Edward]

Yet another amazingly helpful video. Thank you for all your great content.

[TheSplinket]

This great answers my questions i asked a while ago thanks a lot

[BoardGameTime]

Needed this Alex!! Thank you thank you thank you! 🙌

[SteveOw]

Hey Alex, thanks so much for this *excellent* video! I'm one of the people who have been asking for it, and this video is exactly what I was looking for. I have one question about shipping: how did you come up with the $10 charge for shipping? I assume that the amount you charge will depend on the size and weight of the game. How much would you charge to ship Codenames? How much would you charge to ship Gloomhaven? How about the All-In for Bloodborne?

[MerrillWhiteKalEl]

Great video. Thanks for the shipping suggestions.