Collector Market Check: October 2026 Asking Prices
Updated
This month we look at what sellers are asking right now, loaded live from eBay when you open the page. These are asking prices, not sales.
Why This Check Uses Asking Prices
Our previous market checks were built on stored eBay sold comps. The most recent sold-comp snapshot in our catalog was captured September 28, 2026, and it has not been refreshed since. The eBay listing service we use today returns active listings, not completed sales, so we cannot honestly publish an October sold-comp report.
Instead, the four games below show current eBay listings, loaded in your browser when you open this page. Every figure in those blocks is an asking price set by a seller. None of them is a sale, and none of them is our estimate of value.
Prices & references in this guide
How to Read an Asking Price
A listed price tells you what a seller hopes to get, not what a buyer paid. Copies can sit unsold for weeks at an ambitious price, Best Offer listings often close below the number shown, and an auction shows the current bid rather than the final one. Shipping and tax are not included in the figures.
Use asking prices as a ceiling and a supply check: how many copies are available in a condition right now, and how far apart the sellers are. Then compare them with the recorded sales history on each game page, keeping in mind that history is dated and the market may have moved since.
Condition Labels Still Need Inspection
We sort listings into graded, sealed and loose groups from the words in their titles. That is useful for a first pass, but our September check showed a graded copy sitting in a raw-sealed group because of how its title was written. Before you buy, read the full title, the grader, the grade, the seal and the region of the exact copy you are considering.
The Four Games Below
Super Mario Bros. had no raw-sealed sales in our September sample, so the live listings show what sealed and loose supply looks like today. Pokémon Yellow shows graded copies, where small differences in grade drive large differences in asking price. Chrono Trigger is a high-value loose cartridge where cartridge-only and boxed copies are easy to confuse. Perfect Dark is the game whose labels needed a correction last month.
Each block refreshes from eBay at most every few hours and hides any listing more than six hours old, replacing it with a search link. If a block shows only a link, eBay had no matching listing for that condition when the page loaded.