Parents selling your games

[Fappy]

My stepdad's parents sold all of his original Star Wars figures (you know, the collectible 80's figures) when he was away at college. Thank god they didn't sell his comic collection.

My parents know better not to sell any of my stuff! Though, when I got back from college my mom had completely rearranged everything in my room and moved a bunch of stuff to the basement. D:

 

[spartandude]

their old games, you want the back just buy a new one of ebay or something, their must be more to the story as I don't tend to trust the victims statement alone.

i think the problem is more the principle that his mum just took his games and sold them with out permission

 

[krazykidd]

their old games, you want the back just buy a new one of ebay or something, their must be more to the story as I don't tend to trust the victims statement alone.

i think the problem is more the principle that his mum just took his games and sold them with out permission

Thing is , she doesn't need permission . She is his mother , he is living under her roof , he is underage . She has the right to do what she pleases . It's pretty shitty situation but she has the right to .

OT: yes and no . My dad was a gamer when i was living with my parents . So all the games were basically his , he did sell or give away a few ( read: a lot) of games that i would have loved to still have . But they were his games . So many snes , and playstation games gone . I am trying to rebuild the collection we ( me and him ) once had , slowly but surely.

 

[weker]

their old games, you want the back just buy a new one of ebay or something, their must be more to the story as I don't tend to trust the victims statement alone.

i think the problem is more the principle that his mum just took his games and sold them with out permission

Well it's her house and some of it was paid with her money most likely, I assume she just thought they were old and assumed he was too old for them in the same way parents would sell baby toys when your 18 years old.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Years ago my Mom sold all of my NES and SNES games and things but that's one of the downsides of being poor I guess. We're better off since then which is fine but I still miss those old games. I've replaced the SNES and some of the games so there's that.

 

[Captain Booyah]

their old games, you want the back just buy a new one of ebay or something, their must be more to the story as I don't tend to trust the victims statement alone.

i think the problem is more the principle that his mum just took his games and sold them with out permission

Thing is , she doesn't need permission . She is his mother , he is living under her roof , he is underage . She has the right to do what she pleases . It's pretty shitty situation but she has the right to .

That may be correct in a technical sense, but that doesn't stop it from being a horribly outdated way of living. Just because you're a teenager doesn't mean you're not a human being who should have the right to own their own property without worrying it's all going to have disappeared by the time you get home. Regardless of whether it was her "right", selling what is somebody else's and not asking their permission first is a huge violation of basic trust and communication -- and, if I may say, damn inconsiderate.

OT: No, nothing like that ever happened when I was growing up, thank goodness. I'd completely flip out if I found out somebody had sold my stuff without asking. Games are retrievable, though; at least she didn't do something truly horrific, like erase everything on your memory cards. *shudder*

 

[GrandmaFunk]

Thing is , she doesn't need permission . She is his mother , he is living under her roof , he is underage . She has the right to do what she pleases . It's pretty shitty situation but she has the right to .

Legally, you are correct.

Morally, what she did was pretty shitty, regardless of him being a minor or not.

 

[BreakfastMan]

Um... No, my parents have never done anything like that. They respect that my stuff is my stuff, and they would not even think to sell it without my permission. Have no idea why your parents think it would be okay to sell you stuff without your permission.

 

[megajon]

No my parents never done that to me but my brother did borrow my playstation when he moved out because he has no form entertainment and most of my games and we had a shared chipped one he took as well on him moving back he losts both of the consoles and all the games he borrowed 100+ games i'd think this is worse since got no money out of it. how he managed it i do not know but he looses ahell of alot of stuff.


Actually i think my mum was thinking seeling my ps2 and games not long ago as she came up to me as asked if i still played it if i'd said no she'd sold it but fact i'm old enough she needs my permission first and she didn't get it so she buggered off.

 

[teqrevisited]

Quite a few years ago my mum tried to convince me to sell my PS1 games. I flatly refused because the trade in value is criminally low compared to what they're actually worth to anyone that wants them.

Some time before that, when we were moving house, she tried the same argument with my Mega Drive.

Spoiler: My response

 

[Wolfram23]

Well, I have no idea what happened to our old NES and SNES so I assume my parents must have sold them at a garage sale or something. However, I still have my N64 and all my games for it.

On the other hand, and some miscellaneous point all my hot wheels disappeared, and same with my building sets. I forget what they were called but I remember a green base, and then there were vertical, horizontal, and diagonal beams and basically you could build huge buildings out of it. Even had wall panels. The other one was sort of like Kinex or w/e.

Good news is that I still have my army men tucked away. My kid is getting those... Just like I still have some of my dads.

 

[Sexy Devil]

I think my parents figured out around the time my games got a dedicated shelf in my room that a nervous breakdown would ensue if I found that they had disappeared one day. Seriously, that shelf is the only thing in my room that's organised, everything else is a mess.

Helps that my parents both have game types that they play on occasion.

 

[alandavidson]

No, my dad and I are both gamers, and if anyone had ever sold or given away our games there would have been hell to pay.

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

Tell your mum that trading used games is the same as piracy. That should get an interesting reaction.

dude my mom is a cop and she has me pirate music for her

 

[HavoK 09]

luckly my parents where never that type, what i own is mine and i chose to do what i think its best with it.

But if that ever happened to me i would sell my parents shoes, i dont need memories or they need shoes to live but its better to live and jave those.

I pitty those who have suffered this sort of things

oh and horray for steam in that matter, they dont know the password and even if they did steam guard would just give a big FU to whoever got my precious things

 

[The Funslinger]

Regardless of law, the lack of communication there is awful. And legal =/= moral. I can see some Escapists are going to make somewhat bad parents in the future...

In any case, I can top this with a story a friend of mine who owns a local cafe told me. When he was a teenager, his father (whose wife had passed on) remarried. One day, he returned from work to find that she had burned or sold his father's (my friend's grandfather's) military uniform, his various written commendations and medals because they were "useless crap that were taking up space". No beforehand discussion, just *blip* gone. To me, that's the insight that proves a total *****. If that'd been me, she'd have been out on her ear by sundown.

 

[Maze1125]

Parents who disrespect their children by making decisions for them without asking their opinion first, and know their children so little as to not know what things each child cares about, are bad parents. Simple as that.

And I say that as a parent.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Are your parents having financial problems?
Even if they are, they should discuss it with you first to see if you have a better idea to raise money for food & heat.

 

[KrossBillNye]

The only reason why I would ever do that to my kids or if my Parents ever did that to me was the following:

1) I/They was being completely rotten.
2) I/They never showed the parents any respect.
3) I/They never helped out around the house to "pay" for my room and board.


I think that is just about it.

When I was younger my father actually tried to toss out the N64 into the garbage and we went into a verbal disagreement. In the end he won in making me realize that if I want stuff like this, I need to earn it.

Is it a harsh method? Yes. But it does teach you some facts in life.

Is that your case? I haven't a clue but I would speak to her in my honest opinion to figure out why she did that. My parents are reasonable as I would be reasonable to my kids. If she didn't have a valid reason as to why she did that then there was no justification for what she did.

 

[KapnKerfuffle]

Wow, a good argument for digital media vs. physical.