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Auction Store, Buy and Sell Games
PrezCon offers a super-easy market where you can sell your own games on Tuesday only. Your purchases get you some great games AND support the convention, since all collected fees help with operating costs. If you have games that are not getting table time, perhaps it's time to rotate them out and add something new, while supporting a convention you love AND avoiding high shipping costs.
Sellers:
- All game lists must be pre-submitted by Feb. 20 at the latest, and the store will probably fill up earlier. Yes, we will fill every small scrap of available shelf and table space. If your list arrives after the store has filled, save it for next year's store. Please don't bring non-submitted games to the PrezCon store, except as donations.
- Download and complete this Excel sheet, leaving lot numbers blank. To minimize scarce volunteer labor, lists must contain a minimum of ten lots. Unlike some auction stores, there is no price ceiling. Yes, you can try to sell a game for $1000, but note the $.50 fee for any lot that doesn't sell.
- eMail the completed Excel sheet as soon as you are able (minimizing the chance all available shelf and table space sells out before you send) info@emsps.com and NO LATER THAN noon on Friday, February 20! We'll help if there are any technical problems with your sheet, of course, but our process won't handle additions, edits, etc. after the submission is accepted. Please do not change sheet formatting. For example, do not change numbers from 24 to $24.00, change fonts, column headers, etc.
- We'll send you back a PDF file with completed slips you can print and attach to your games with painters tape. It will look something like this sample. No printer? We'll be happy to print your slips for you for just $1 in materials costs. Just please make certain that we know you need this service. You can pick up any slips we've printed for you at the Auction Store registration desk when you drop off your games. You can then use the store's scissors and painter's tape to cut and tape them to your boxes. Can't
use Excel? You may make a copy of this Google Sheet, complete it, MAKE IT PUBLIC, and email the link. Didn't get an email with the slips attached within 24 hours? It may have been sent to your spam folder, especially if you use GMail. Check your spam folder and read this.
- We'll have semi-transparent painters tape at the store, but sellers with many games generally attach slips in advance, so they can spend more time gaming and shopping. Something like this (note the early, mid, and late prices folded onto box spine):
- Bring your games to the store between 4 and 10pm on Monday.
There's a $.50 fee per game on your list, whether or not it sells. In addition to the $.50 listing fee, the store will get
15% of your total sales, rounded up to the nearest $.25. To encourage realistic pricing and save room for games that actually SELL, each game that does NOT sell will be assessed an additional $.50. For example, if you submit 12 games, 10 of which sell for a total of $200, your fees would be $6+$30+$1.
- You MUST collect any unsold games and get your sales proceeds in cash between 6pm and 8pm on Saturday. If you don't pick up your unsold games by 8pm on Saturday, they will be considered donated to the store, with our sincere thanks for supporting us. If you can't collect your sales proceeds in cash by 8pm Saturday, you have until seven days after the con is over to email a request that proceeds be sent to a PayPal account you designate in your email.
- Here are some tips for sellers.
We need help! The more volunteers we have, the more smoothly the sale can be run. Volunteers also get first looks at the lots.
eMail eric@emsps.com if you are willing to help on either Monday afternoon and evening, or Tuesday during the sale, or (especially) during the hours after the sale ends.
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Store features in detail:
- Game dropoffs are now limited to Monday afternoon and evening. We're expecting submissions to fill all available shelving and table space, so please don't bring games you haven't pre-registered, except as donations.
- Shelving and tables for up to 1500 games. We'll have about 25 shelving units and a dozen tables to display games for sale. With labels taped to expose pricing on each game's spine, shopping will be faster with higher density presentations.
- Simplified game list submissions. The submission spreadsheet has reduced fields, with just your name, pricing, game title, and comments for everything else, such as publisher and condition. The maximum price ceiling has been removed, but note that you will pay an additional $.50 "not sold" fee for any game that doesn't sell. The spreadsheet also has a tab with detailed instructions. Just email your list BEFORE the store fills up. No submissions will be accepted after Friday, and no later than .
- Pre-completed slips emailed to you, so you can just cut and tape to the box. Use your own painters tape or attach at the store using the store's tape.
- Faster and more efficient sales process. We've spent the last three years refining our tools and process for rapid sales and seller payouts.
- Perks for volunteers. Pitch in and you can have first looks at the games and front-of-the-line privileges at each price drop. We need packers, shelvers, organizers, marketers, greeters, and especially movers. Nothing is heavy! Moving help is especially needed Tuesday evening.
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