Parents selling your games

[SaikyoKid]

If the games were given as a gift you can't jsut say his mom paid for them so she can do what she wants.

That's like me giving you a new puppy and then just whisking him off to the pound one day because I saw you weren't paying attention to him for a split second.

Anyway, my parents would never touch any of my games these days. Not only is my current 360 one bought with my own coin, but mose of the games I still own were bought with money I made by selling my other games. If they had ever pulled a stunt like this I guarantee I probably would have not spoken to them for a good week or more.

How could one's parents be so thoughtless to their feelings and just take and be rid of something without even asking first? That is a total breach of trust. That's like if your father had given her a diamond ring for her birthday and then decided one day for no reason just to pawn it off. Ask her to imagine how she'd feel if that were to happen.

"Well that's a totally different situation." She says.
"Because I can actually interact with my games, but you only wear a ring on your finger?" You counter.

Just saying that the puppy comparison is quite extreme. You're comparing a living being to a piece of hardware, and without any kind of info saying you didn't pay attention for half a second isn't really applicable.

Also the ring comparison is also kind of extreme. Excluding the sheer monetary difference, other copies of games exist where as a diamond ring is pretty significant between a married couple. I'm just kind of surprised how quickly people afe to condemn her considering how little info people know of the situation.

 

[Smeggs]

Blowing things out of proportion is my specialty.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Iv'e heard a lot of stories about others having games they wanted to keep sold by their parents, and i have had friends that had the same situations.

Never did I htink it would happen to me, but then i get home ot find all my PSX and PS2 games have gone! I ask my mother if she knows the whereabouts of my games, and she tells me she sold them to somebody. Now i plan to track that person down and get my games back, but thats for another time. The fact she took my memories and sold them is downright unbelievable.

So who else has had this happent to them? Have you had your old games sold without your knowledge or permission?

My parents would never think of selling my games without my persmission. But, however when I was a kid my mother would throw out my N64, NES, and SNES game boxes. I didn't really care or know any better at the time, but I wish I still had them now.

Funny my mum did the same. Only she did it because "girls don't play video games". She hates that I still play them now that I'm old enough to buy them without her having any say so. But I got mad when she did. When I move, I'm packing everything and hiding the games and systems and giving them plus the money to send them to me to my mate so that I know they'll get there in one piece and they won't be sold. And I'll leave enough room in one of the boxes for her to pack my Wii in there as well since she has that

Fortunately my parents haven't sold my games, and they would consider a statement like that sexist (plus I'm male, so it wouldn't apply to me anyway), buy my mom absolutely /loves/ to go on rants about how it's time to "put away childish things" because she thinks I should have outgrown both videogames and any cartoons that aren't Looney Toons or Pixar at this point. I'm almost 22 and still living at home, but it's because we agreed before I ever graduated high school that I would be able to live at home rent free as long as I was going to school full time. Well, I've been living at home for about three weeks now after living on campus for the majority of the last year and a half (I'm doing my final internship, which is actually a for-credit part of the degree in my home county to save money), and suddenly I'm 12 again. They enforce a bedtime, wake me up every morning whether they have a reason to or not, and then pull the "when you start acting like an adult[footnote]apparently defined in their minds by doing exactly what they say when they say it[/footnote], we'll treat you like one" line. Just a note to any teenagers who are about to graduate high school: if you can afford to do it, move out of your parents house as soon as possible.

 

[username sucks]

didnt happen to me, but my friend's dad sold all of his games. and consoles. and tv. and bed.and everything in his room. and maybe threw out the window and smashed would be a better phrase than sold.

back on topic, my parents wont sell my games, even if i want to sell them, because they think they will become valuble, like old games are now.

 

[Triaed]

I sold my parents for games a long time ago, and it was worth it!
When I wish I had them back with me I just put in that cartridge of Asteroids in the ol' 2600 and smile

 

[johnnyLupine]

When i was doing my first year of a-levels i got caught playing on my ps2 instead of revising and so i was banned, i was later caught playing on my x-box and got the same punishment. i had bought both of these with my own money, gained from birthdays and a part time job so i resented my mother for taking them from me.

Let me explain myself, i realise that i was a little shit and frankly nowerdays im a slightly bigger shit for different reasons, all through my school career i was able to do well without putting in any effort. Until i left compulsary education. because i had never really worked hard to get results the time i really needed to i struggled to keep at it. So yeah i was real prick.

this however is not what i want to talk about, after my exams i asked for my consoles back only to be told that i could not, it was either "but your so much nicer when your not playing your games" or "your an addict and you need to break the cycle" i forget which but both have been used extensivly.

i cant help but rant about the first one because i find its peoples attitudes towards me which changes when i stop playing games, for whatever reason, rather than me suddenly becoming a human being.

ive digressed again..

right. i keept asking for my consoles back for several months and got the same response, when i went to university i bought a laptop and became a pc gamer. I forgot about my ps2 and x-box until i came across a big box full of my old games three or four years later, i asked where they were, a little out of curiosoty but mostly out of nostalgia and was told that they had hidden them in the shed and then accidently broken them and had to throw them out and had hoped that i would just forget about them.

last year i had some financial difficulties so i sold the majority of my big box of games for arround..£20.

 

[JaceArveduin]

Ouch, that sucks. I'm off to college and all that happened to me is my room was requisitioned for storage and all of my stuff got shoved in a cabinet. Oh, and they rerouted the internet so it'd go to my sisters room.

(This was my grandparents house, and it's basically a duplex, my room was in the other half of the duplex which is basically storage)

But yeah, me n a mate are campin out in the living room over break now.

 

[johnnyLupine]

I have removed my post but in return i give you...a dancing monkey!
















































































Its invisible.

 

[Gitty101]

I have never had this happen to me. My games are my property and there would be hell if my parents sold something belonging to me without my say.

 

[tehweave]

As much as I want to side with you, and let me say that as a bottom line I do, this is the major problem with our generation. So many kids having to deal with the fact that mommy and daddy sold part of our childhood isn't really a problem. Most of the stuff we do as kids is throwaway anyway, and losing your possessions isn't something that should be shed tears for, but something that we need to cope with.

I am happy that you didn't say you were going to sue her, dear god have I met too many people who would instantly jump to that conclusion. The thing is, you are still a minor and unfortunately due to our laws, anything that a minor wants to do have to be done through a parent, (and in my opinion most of what we do before we turn around mid-twenties is rubbish anyway) so the parent would have the right to do so.

If you were away for a time and your mother sold your games, why did you not take them with you? When I went off to college I took my N64 and games with me because I wanted to play them. My parents also understood that my games are valuable and while they both see them as a massive waste of time (their words) they understand that I don't.

I've seen this happen too many times where a parent sells the kid's old games, and the kid gets mad at them. They come from a different time, and most don't see the value in something that was mass produced that you could easily pick up from a garage sale or game store or online for under 5 bucks. They have a different mindset and see games as a childish thing. What you need to do is let them understand that you can be a mature adult and still play games.

You can't simply be mad at them for selling your old possessions, you have to explain to them why the possessions mean something. Why something that was mass produced that comes on a disc or a cartridge is valuable. Parents don't understand "save files" and why they're important. You need to explain this. Tell them. Make sure they know that while they might (and do) think it's silly, you put value into these things.

 

[lunavixen]

my mother sold my mega drive without my permission when i was younger (my brother and i basically owned it, i refurbished a console and my brother owned a lot [about 70%] of the games, mum owned a handful and i owned the rest), but never saw a cent of what mum sold it for) and i still played it at the time she sold it, i've since been trying to refind all those games, but it's painfully slow because of how rare some of them were (all had original cases, slips and the cartridges were in perfect condition, except for altered beast, that was given to me)

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Oh my god I would have been so angry...

Kudos to you for being so calm about it. I'm like 29 and I am actually sitting here fuming for you xD.

 

[WalrusPowers]

All my PS1 games and half of my PS2 games. I wept.

Thankfully I managed to track them down and the people who bought them were nice enough to just give them to me.

 

[lapan]

If it goes the way the video games industry wants it will soon not be possible to sell your games anyways

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Wow, that is angering! I've never heard of it happening to anyone, and my parents wouldn't get rid of my stuff without me knowing, but I do feel for you fella. Not my idea of a good day! I know how much I love my PS1 (PSX died years ago!)

 

[JackWestJr]

Well, seems like she did it feeling a bit guilty considering she didn't even CONTACT you, and just waited till you inevitably found out. Then again, maybe she was betting you wouldn't even notice.

 

[Elvis Starburst]

I'm among the group who wants to know her side of the story XD but seriously, get that shit back. My parents never would do that, cause they knew how much I loved them, and I started gaming at 6 or so, at LEAST, and I was better than my bro on the N64 XD so they knew better than to do that to me

Edit: Whoops, forgot I read the second edit you made earlier XD

 

[Ectoplasmicz]

Well, seems like she did it feeling a bit guilty considering she didn't even CONTACT you, and just waited till you inevitably found out. Then again, maybe she was betting you wouldn't even notice.

I noticed the minute i got home