Do you get rid of your box?

[Phemo]

Exactly, but if you read what I'd posted you would've seen that I didn't intend to collect it, I just abandoned it in my parents' loft for decades. Fortunately it seems like a good little bonus as for whatever reason those cards are selling for more than you'd expect them to.

 

[Ninco!]

Lol a 22 year old box with 3dfx and eyes on. Some people do really collect crap

Quick to judge. 3DFX is very popular with retro collectors and worth a few quid.

 

[Simon0001]

Quick to judge. 3DFX is very popular with retro collectors and worth a few quid.

The voodoo 3 wasnt even a good card back iin the day. D3d performance wasnt great and glide was getting marginalised

 

[Rroff]

Sadly my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI the memory degraded long ago - don't think I chucked the box out until fairly recently relatively speaking I seem to recall it hanging about until I got shot of it one major clean out.

 

[chaparral]

Lol a 22 year old box with 3dfx and eyes on. Some people do really collect crap

Some old crap is worth a fair bit these days

3dfx Voodoo3 3000 16MB PCI (NEW & SEALED) | eBay
3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI - 16Mb, 2D/3D Accelerator - Instructions, CD'S - BOXED | eBay
3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 Box PCI FAST 6ns memories like in V3 3000 | eBay

 

[Junglist]

That's an endless argument in our household. I wish to keep boxes for all electronic devices and my partner wants to bin them immediately

 

[Simon0001]

Some old crap is worth a fair bit these days

3dfx Voodoo3 3000 16MB PCI (NEW & SEALED) | eBay
3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI - 16Mb, 2D/3D Accelerator - Instructions, CD'S - BOXED | eBay
3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 Box PCI FAST 6ns memories like in V3 3000 | eBay

Pretty sure they are fraudulent transactions
. Probably drug dealers money laundering

 

[iMacMart]

Nope! And it drives my wife round the bend, smaller less value items yes! But PC related etc I keep

 

[something daft already!!]

Pretty sure they are fraudulent transactions
. Probably drug dealers money laundering

You seem to surprised that people collect things. The lovely chap I sold my stuff to had a large collection of Voodoo cards in boxes and wanted to add mine and others to the collection.

Value is what price you place on an object, not what it is worth. To him, the card was valuable. To me in the past, it had been valuable but not longer. It was just sitting there under my desk, gathering dust. I got a couple of hundred quid which helped me upgrade my VR setup (which I no longer use as such).

You only have to check out LGR on YouTube and you will see there is a market for old hardware. People do like old PC related things these days. I wish I had kept more of my 80's hardware instead of "recycling" it.

 

[darael]

This seems relevant to this thread:

 

[Lopéz]

For people talking about warranty claims - I've never had a warranty claim refused over a missing box.

 

[^TANK^]

The only packaging I keep from purchases are gaming console boxes, so I can sell on re-packaged when the new generation starts.

 

[Semple]

For people talking about warranty claims - I've never had a warranty claim refused over a missing box.

I think in a lot of cases it just makes things easier, especially for shipping/transporting.

I seem to recall a long time ago when I worked in Currys, if people bought back items that were faulty without the boxes, we were told to give them the replacement item without the box. No idea why as it meant we still had to dispose of the box.

 

[Fluffybob]

I tend to keep for RMA and reselling purposes. Really need to get in the attic and have a purge though, thanks for the reminder

 

[JonRGV250]

I keep pretty much all the boxes for my PC parts, as I find it makes selling them for a decent price much much easier.
I've recently(ish) sold a FE 3060Ti, 2060 and some Corsair Vengeance Pro RAM, and I got top dollar and the items sold super fast, because (I believe) they were packaged in their original boxes.

 

[savagesam117]

Items I keep because you never know!

Amazon boxes, i'll keep a couple of different sizes for posting stuff off.

 

[something daft already!!]

Amazon boxes, i'll keep a couple of different sizes for posting stuff off.

I do this too.