Considering officially refurbished Steam Decks are already a lot cheaper and they are checked for functionality/repaired if necessary and also come with fresh warranty, only going down $100 from the original asking price likely doesn't get your listing a lot of attention.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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This. I'd pay a little extra for the additional warranty and assurance from the company that everything works. Even if it's not as good as OP's unit in reality, it feels like it would be.
While I think capitalism is shit, I do believe in supply and demand. I was recently getting zero bites on my desktop computer, then lowered the listing price by 50% in the auction and sold it in a week at 80% of the original listing price.
It turns out the price I thought was fair, didn't meet the market and there were exactly zero people interested in buying it at that price. That's what's happening to you sadly.
Think of it this way: at your current price you get no bites. If you were to sell it at $50 people would buy it immediately. Now you have to find a happy medium both you and buyers are happy with.
Don’t feel guilty about believing in supply/demand while disliking capitalism. Commerce isn’t capitalism and trade existed before stock markets, corporations, and shareholders.
Not to turn a steam deck comment thread into something political. I’m not saying capitalism is good or bad. I’m just saying that stores existed before Adam Smith or the Dutch East India Company (or whenever you want to say capitalism emerged). Ancient Egyptian cities had markets. Prehistory probably had commerce.
Not selling? Drop the price.
Already dropped the price? Keep on dropping til it sells.
I'm in the market for a used Steam Deck, and will only buy one if it's under $200
You just beat me to saying the same thing, I'm also in the market and I'm watching for sub-$200 units, especially for a unit that's only got the 64GB storage in it.
I sold for 268$
Hard to say without seeing a listing. If needs to be priced aggressively because most of the demand now will be for the OLED version. The market is probably saturated with regular Decks.
I feel like selling it internationally is your best bet. Find someone in Australia and sell it to them for fair shipping.
Selling it locally is just going to make you tear your hair out. You're trying to sell a popular device that has just had a refresh and a fair sale, outside of Facebook Marketplace or somewhere where a buyer is, quite frankly, not knowledgeable, I feel like your chances are just very slim.
On the other hand, Australian's are looking at ~$1,200 AUD for a "new" high model that someone else bought and supposedly didn't use.
You'd be doing the Steam Deck community a favor by selling it to an enthusiast without charging them extra just because they're down under.
International shipping from the US at least is going to be tough. I've seen items that cost $50 or more to ship.
Yeah but so what? They can also go as low as $15 so it'll just depend on the package size. I mean frankly, they are the ones who need it most and OP is clearly in a position where they are able to take some kind of L trying to sell it.
May as well be a good guy and pay it forward. Few around the states would be likely to buy it when the availability from official sources are just simpler and safer.
Besides, I bought a guitar from eBay from AUS. If they can charge me only $217 after shipping and the guitar itself, then a Steam Deck can get a nice price too ;)
Sorry friend, Valve absolutely cratered the resale value of LCD Decks with the OLED launch and restructuring.
I was considering selling my Deck and moving to the Go in the days before the announcement, and the very day I decided to sell, Valve put out that press release. Instantly new LCD Decks were $150ish cheaper, so that just comes right off the top of what you could get for a used one.
eBay it. Much easier to sell electronics there than local marketplaces, even though shipping can be a pain.
It could be a combination of other people wanting the new Steam Deck or them thinking $100 off is not worth a possible risk when there are Steam sales (where I think Steam Decks go on sale as well) and refurbished models being listed on Steam
I think with the recent price drop of the LCD models and the launch of the OLED ones, the 64GB LCD one is in a very tough place. I've sold my 256GB LCD one for only 200€. I've could have gotten much more a week before the OLED announcement but then I had no motivation to sell it in the first place. I wanted to upgrade to OLED and that's where I am now.
I just bought a used Steamdeck (512GB) a few weeks ago. Not sure what you're pricing it at, but they were going for ~$400 around here (Denver). The person I bought it from dropped the price another $50 to get it sold, which makes me assume they had it posted for a while...
Price it to move.
I priced it at $265, if you look at recently sold prices, 279$ is what others have been paying
You're pricing it too high. Referb 64GB models from Valve are selling for the same price, and those come with a warranty and are verified tested from Valve.
Plus, almost anyone buying a 64GB model will be upgrading the internal ssd, so that's another 50-100 dollars depending on the ssd they choose.
So honestly most people are probably not going to be interested unless its around $200 or a little more.
If you're not willing to cave on the price, then you'll just have to leave it up for a long time and hope somebody comes along willing to buy it at your price.
Rule of thumb selling used stuff: it's never worth as much as you think/hope it is. Just take the loss and sell at a bargin. I used to do tons of garage/yard sale buying and selling, and I never bought stuff unless it was a fantastic deal, and I struggled to ever sell anything unless it was priced as a fantastic deal.
Someone bought it for 279, so not too high!
Right on.
Damn, is that for the 512GB version? I should have waited...
The local market for a steamdeck is going to be ziltch unless you live in a major metropolitan area. Not many people are going to be in the market for one in the first place.
It's probably not worth the risk implied with second hand vs the discounted new unit directly from Valve. You should lower it or just assume you're not going to sell it
Most people won't want the 64GB model since the eMMC storage is much slower..
Most people in the market for a deck can probably follow a tutorial to replace the storage
And they won't bother, they'll just look for a Steam Deck with an NVMe drive already.
I love these posts with only partial information. How are we supposed to help this person?
Not sure what other information you're looking for. Their social security number? DNA profile? Top 3 favorite movies?
Post was pretty darn clear on what the issue was lol.
How much are you selling it for and where is local? If it's worth that much why don't you sell it on eBay? He added the price after I posted.