Consoles
Flip the console over before you hand over any money. The sticker on the underside of every PlayStation 2 carries an SCPH model number, and those few characters tell you more than the seller ever will: which disc drive is inside, whether it can take a hard drive, how it
Games
Nobody walks into a retro shop and asks for Cubivore. They ask for Melee, for Wind Waker, for Sunshine – and while they haggle over games everyone already owns, the collectors who know better are scanning the bottom shelf for a case with Shadow Lugia glowering on the front. The GameCube
Buy & Sell
A boxed, complete Dreamcast copy of something desirable can sell for double a loose disc – and yet half the listings I scroll past bury that box in a dim phone photo taken on a beige carpet. If you're serious about getting what your collection is worth, the selling