I recently bought Tales of Vesperia for the 360 and wanted to buy a strategy guide. I generally like to get the strategy guide for RPGs because I don’t like missing extra content (sometimes that stuff is impossible to get without help!). I noticed that there weren’t any guides at Best Buys or Gamestop, so I went to Amazon and saw:

Holy crap! This game came out not too long ago! I thought strategy guides were supposed to be like 20 bucks. Lame. I started poking around Ebay to see what strategy guides were worth something. First stop: Final Fantasy 7.

I know, right? That’s ridiculously expensive. It is “Buy It Now”, so that could mean that nobody will ever buy it, but I didn’t see any other similar items for a reasonable price. It’s the only 1st edition copy there too. I think I threw my Final Fantasy 7 strategy guide long ago…

I started searching for strategy guides I knew I still had from back in the day.

These are just a few of the guides on Ebay. After spending some time looking through my guides and price checking on ebay, I calculated that I could make about $300. Some of them weren’t worth anything, but several were worth a lot. Not bad for guides that I don’t use anymore.

So hold onto those strategy guides and keep them in good condition! You never know what they’re going to be worth later on.

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