"Fair market value" for a board game is usually a combination of completed Ebay auctions and completed sales in the bgg marketplace. Don't go by ads in either place, only look at what something has actually sold for. Once you have a price, don't forget about shipping. Your game might be worth $50, but if you're trying to trade it for my $50 game, then after shipping it's like I've paid $65 for a $50 game. That rubs some people the wrong way. Especially if it's something in print where I could just as easily get it brand new for about that price from an OLGS and usually I can manage to get free shipping. A great example for me personally, recently I was trying to get a copy of Super Dungeon Explore. I just couldn't make a trade work on it (people wanted ~$75-$100 worth in trade goods). Eventually miniature market put it on sale and I picked it up for $50. Added a few other games I've been eying to get free shipping and there you go.
That's not to say you have to give away the farm to get what you want, just to be realistic about value as well as availability. Here's another great example, I recently refused an offer for my copy of Roads and Boats. The person wanted to buy 3-4 games from my want list from his FLGS, and ship them to me for R&B. I'm sure he would have ended up paying in the $150 region, around what R&Bs is valued at, but 1) he wanted to trade inprint, easy to get games, and 2) he was going to pay twice what an OLGS would have charged for those games. If I had done that game I would have traded away a hard to find item for around $75-$100 worth of new, easy to get games. So I passed. Sometimes, even if the dollars line up, the deal doesn't make sense. Hope this helps, feel free to shoot me a PM if you have any other questions I can help with. On Saturday, August 4, 2012 12:15:33 AM UTC-4, Wolfe13 wrote: > > When trading is it fair market, BGG market, eBay, Amazon or supply and > demand. Reason I ask is it seems I can not get a trade to work for me and > the other party... frustrated > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bgg_down/-/IFfucaoiRkwJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
