Alrighty, so about 2 months ago I decided I wanted to try selling my video games on Amazon. For those of you that don't know, I am a big gamer and love vintage / retro video games. I decided to just go all out and pay for the pro merchant account which is $39.99 a month.
Of course the hardest part of this was trying to figure out what I was going to name my store!!! Whenever I make a character in a video game, I always get stuck on picking names and how my character look. ITS A BIG DEAL! Well it didn't take me too long to figure out a name and thus,Sneaky Squirrel Games was born.
The reason I named my store Sneaky Squirrel Games is due to my special operations background in the Navy. We have some very secretive mission in my line of work and when anyone I knew was going to go screen for DEVGRU I would always say they were going to go be Sneaky Squirrels. I think it is a very fitting name and I hope everyone else likes it!
So within the first 3 months I have had some amazing results! I have been averaging $3000 - $5000 a month in video game sales! On top of that my ebay store is still going strong and I just had my highest month ever! $6500.00 in sales!
I have a few tips for anyone that wants to sell video games online. Picking the correct mailers for shipping is pretty important. I have narrowed it down to 2 types of mailers.
Of course the hardest part of this was trying to figure out what I was going to name my store!!! Whenever I make a character in a video game, I always get stuck on picking names and how my character look. ITS A BIG DEAL! Well it didn't take me too long to figure out a name and thus,Sneaky Squirrel Games was born.
The reason I named my store Sneaky Squirrel Games is due to my special operations background in the Navy. We have some very secretive mission in my line of work and when anyone I knew was going to go screen for DEVGRU I would always say they were going to go be Sneaky Squirrels. I think it is a very fitting name and I hope everyone else likes it!
So within the first 3 months I have had some amazing results! I have been averaging $3000 - $5000 a month in video game sales! On top of that my ebay store is still going strong and I just had my highest month ever! $6500.00 in sales!
I have a few tips for anyone that wants to sell video games online. Picking the correct mailers for shipping is pretty important. I have narrowed it down to 2 types of mailers.
These two types of self adhesive mailers are the ones that I use. Kraft bubble mailers are way to go, I have not had a single video game show up broken since I started using them.
The two sizes I have linked above are the 250 ct #0 Kraft Bubble Mailers 6.5" X8.5" Padded Envelopes
which work great for the following types of video games: Nintendo, Super Nintendo, N64, Sega ( loose cartridges ) PS1, PS3, Dreamcast and any other smaller game media.If you are looking to ship Xbox 360, PS2, Sega CD, Sega Saturn or DVDs I recommend the #0 6.5x10" KRAFT BUBBLE MAILER PADDED ENVELOPES-250 qty
.If you are looking at the $30ish dollar price tag for the envelopes I can tell you they are well worth the money and they go a lot faster than you think. I burned through a 250 ct box of the 6.5 x 8.5 mailers within the first month and now I have the 6.5 x 10 mailers but I will be ordering another box of 6.5 x 8.5s for my smaller games.
If you have not opened up an Amazon store, I highly recommend it, you wouldn't believe how fast games sell on there. Well thanks for reading my post, good luck with all of your finds.
Famous Turtle OUT!
