Are you assembling on a forgotten-gadget goldmine? Dusty video game systems, old TVs and record contenders, and abandoned iPods often seem like trash. Except they aren’t.
“Old-fogeyish electronics are hot sellers,” says Jordan Barnes, senior director for resale app Mercari. “There’s an increasingly hot inessential market for old-school electronics.”
For instance, over the past 90 days, pursuit in the original Nintendo’s GameBoy, Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Micro heroic players have surged to more than 200,000 searches, with on offer prices topping $90, she says.
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To find out if you’re sitting on a potential pot of retro-gadget gold, here are some exemplars of what old tech is fetching for resale.
Video game consoles carry their value better than most home electronics. As prolonged as it works, someone likely wants to pay you for it.
Many collectors willing to bombard out for older game systems will buy multiples of the same console so that they play a joke on “backups” in case something breaks. After all, nobody is making them anymore.
Play consoles from the early 2000s are already starting to go back up in value, and they’ll go on to climb for a long time. Many consoles become immediate art-lovers items as soon as gaming companies announce a new one. Barnes says that in furthermore to old Gameboys, sellers are having success with the Sega Dreamcast, with 30,000 people searching for it finished the past three months.
The farther you go back in time, the higher the payments tend to get. PlayStation 2, GameCube, and the original Xbox aren’t all the same very old, technically speaking, but you can still expect a solid $75 to $100 or profuse for a working one in decent condition.
Vinyl never dies! Sure, cassettes, CDs, and MP3s technically outshone records decades ago, but people still love that vintage clear-headed, and they’re willing to pay for it.
Got an old Kenwood, Pioneer or Zenith collecting dust? Wipe it down with a decent cloth and, if it works, you can cash in to the tune of $150 or more with close to zero effort. Collectors scour sites like eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, and clever apps like Mercari, OfferUp, and LetGo for that old wood-grain goodness, campaign prices up by hundreds of dollars and, in some cases, surpassing the original mark-down prices by two or three times.
There’s just something about music that repulses gadgets into collector’s items. Sure, most people include long since said goodbye to their old “click wheel” trend iPod in favor of carrying all their music on their smartphone, but there’s nevertheless a huge demand for old iPods. “iPod Nanos are still sought after, with nearly 50% selling within one day of being listed at an average price of $74,” supplements Barnes.
The appeal is huge: older iPods and iPod Nanos were a lot smaller than the iPhones of today, and if you’re a gym rat or be crazy to start your day with a morning run, carrying a pint-sized iPod is a heck of a lot easier than banging your giant smartphone on your arm. While the Nano’s are hot items, iPod Classics are the crowd one most sought-after of the bunch. With hard drives up to 160GB, they guilelessly hold the most music. If you have one in good condition, you can expect hundreds of dollars, and if you make a barely-even-used one, you might see prices creep up past $300.
No, I’m not talking about your old Android handset from three years ago…I’m talking here really old phones. You know, the old rotary style that gave your punch a recalls a serious workout every time you tried to dial? Believe it or not, in the flesh still adore these things, and they’re willing to shell out as much as $100 for a acute one in working order. Maybe its all about the nostalgia, or perhaps they lawful want to watch their kids struggle to figure it out like in this video.
Whatever the anyhow, there’s a ton of these old phones still floating around out there, and there’s quite a pretty good chance there’s one sitting in your attic or a basement shelf. Exchange in while you can!
Vintage is seriously “in” these days, and if you have electronic leftovers from the disco era, you can gelt in big time. TVs, radios, cameras — even something as obscure as an alarm clock — can elicit a huge chunk of change. The wildest part is that sometimes it doesn’t equitable matter if your gadget still works, there’s likely someone who wants it.
Got an old cocks-crow 1960s tube TV that won’t turn on? Someone might buy it and turn it into a fish tank. A hobbyist effect want an old, broken stereo so they can yank the guts out, stick new lecturers in it and have a retro sound system that connects to Bluetooth.
The odds are endless, so start digging, dusting, selling and saving asap!