If your goal is to absolutely maximize money, the Auction is probably not the best possible choice. A lot of the bidders are actually dealers, and they are only looking for good deals. If a couple enthusiasts are in the room when your item comes up you may do very well. If not, you'll get maybe half of what it would retail for. Or maybe less, if the dealers already have a lot of copies.
On the other hand, the fees are very low, and the process is much easier. You won't have to worry about shipping, feedback, etc. Drop off the games Wednesday or Thursday, have fun at the con, and come back around Sunday to collect your money and/or unsold goods.
So as a fairly convenient way to get some money for old games, it's great. As a way to squeeze every possible nickel from old games, it's probably not ideal.
There are multiple sections just for wargames AND if you honestly have unopened copies of old Avalon Hill games those have a decent shot of ending up in the "Crème de la crème" section and getting a lot of attention and quite possibly a higher price than EBay due to the enthusiasm generated when people bid against each other in-person for really unusual things. Definitely no guarantees of anything, no, but I always sell stuff at the Gen-Con Auction instead of EBay because I like not having to deal with packaging/mailing things and scam bidders.
My additional advice would be to simply do your homework on what the games may typically sell for in other platforms and set your reserves accordingly.
Well with the supposed expansion tot he ICC, if I understood the articles I have seen lately, this might bode well for the auction rooms to get some expansion to them.
Jerry
Well that's exciting to hear. Hopefully it's much larger and has better accessibility.
Still hoping to get an auction page posted on the main Gen Con website here but we can share the auction will be in a much larger space on the 2nd Floor of the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown.
https://livegameauctions.com/2023/04/16/new-auction-location-for-2023/
Good and potentially bad/good
Good is obviously more space and any lines won't have to contend with the flood of foot traffic.
The potentially bad/good (unknown) is this will have an unknown impact to participation. Are less people going to come because they don't want to walk to the new location and were going to the auction because it was 'right there' or will you gain people because there is more space and people just weren't going in because it was too crowded so, passed. The diehards will find it, just don't know how the casual attendee will be impacted.
Hopefully Gencon allows 'We've moved' type displays because I guarantee that the vast majority of people aren't going to have seen any social media posts and just know to come to area X for the consignment/auction.
Yeah signage at Gen-Con seems tightly restricted, but hopefully they will do something like that, and certainly they will mention the new location in the program guide.
We are planning for the first time to have tentative sale categories listed in the events catalog. This will hopefully at least show most people there is an auction running at most times daily and the location.
Other than having the aforementioned page in the program book, having a page on the GC website, and reminding everyone constantly of the new location…we will also ask about other notifications on site we can utilize.
jerry
Event registration will open on May 1 at the Auction website. Event registration will close on July 23.
As a reminder, there will be no onsite registration.
We will not be requiring pre-approval on any event submissions this year.
Items can be entered now.
Lets see if I can actually be done early this year and not printing off labels on Tuesday.
The registration website may still have a few references to last year's approval process or the vaccination wristbands - you can disregard those - we are in the process of making any needed updates.
I would like to buy a beer for whoever put the expected auction times in the event listing this year.