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?
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. 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 $50 people would buy it immediately. Now you have to find a happy medium both you and buyers are happy with.
Don’t feel guilty about believing in supply/demand while disliking capitalism. Commerce isn’t capitalism and trade existed before stock markets, corporations, and shareholders.
Not to turn a steam deck comment thread into something political. I’m not saying capitalism is good or bad. I’m just saying that stores existed before Adam Smith or the Dutch East India Company (or whenever you want to say capitalism emerged). Ancient Egyptian cities had markets. Prehistory probably had commerce.
I sold for 268$
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.
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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.
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
eBay it. Much easier to sell electronics there than local marketplaces, even though shipping can be a pain.
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…
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
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Most people won’t want the 64GB model since the eMMC storage is much slower…
