Selling my deck

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨twistypencil@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

I’ve been trying to sell my deck (64gb, like new, only 3 months old) for a couple weeks now. Marketplace, Swappa, OfferUp… But I get zero bites. It’s in excellent condition, with screen protector and no controller drift and I’ve priced it lower than others I’ve seen sell. I have pictures of all sides, with it on and showing a game. I’m wondering what I need to do to sell it, what am I missing?

I want to get the new deck, but unload this one first, it’s more than $100 cheaper than I got it for which means way less than the new decks are going for.

Any suggestions? Or is nobody buying used decks now?

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narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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.
  
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Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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.
  
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Hello_there@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not selling? Drop the price.
Already dropped the price? Keep on dropping til it sells.

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BaroqueInMind@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I'm in the market for a used Steam Deck, and will only buy one if it's under $200

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Lemmchen@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
My Bro, you can buy a new 64GB one for 369€ and a completely refurbished one for 299€.

I guess you have to lower your prive.

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- twistypencil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I sold for 268$
  
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wolfshadowheart@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  International shipping from the US at least is going to be tough. I’ve seen items that cost $50 or more to ship.
  
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  - wolfshadowheart@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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 ;)
    
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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Probably not going to sell it for more than $200

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dan1101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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morgan_423@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
eBay it. Much easier to sell electronics there than local marketplaces, even though shipping can be a pain.

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Meuzzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- twistypencil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I proceed it at $299
  
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  - Meuzzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Damn, is that for the 512GB version? I should have waited…
    
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CorrodedCranium@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It could be a combination of other people wanting the new Steam Deck or them thinking $100 off is 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

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PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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Blackout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I love these posts with only partial information. How are we supposed to help this person?

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mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Most people won’t want the 64GB model since the eMMC storage is much slower…

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- Midnitte@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Most people in the market for a deck can probably follow a tutorial to replace the storage
  
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  - mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And they won’t bother, they’ll just look for a Steam Deck with an NVMe drive already.
    
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