Review Fix Exclusive: JJ Hendricks Talks PriceCharting Marketplace And More

January 30, 2016 Patrick Hickey Jr. Video Games 0

Review Fix chats with JJ Hendrix of the PriceCharting Marketplace, a site that unlike eBay and Amazon, allows you to sell your old video games from free. And unlike retails the likes of GameStop, the PriceCharting Marketplace will allow you to get fair market value and sometimes more. Discussing the origin of the service and their goals for the new year, Hendricks lets us know exactly why you should sell your old games on there.

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Review Fix: What inspired this service?

JJ Hendricks: I’ve been a seller on eBay since 1999.  I got tired of sending them money every month.  eBay is also a bit of a pain to use in many ways because it’s made for selling anything.  We decided to make a cheaper, easier marketplace focused on video games.

Review Fix: How do you make money doing this?

Hendricks: The marketplace is free and we have no plans to charge sales fees.  We make money with some affiliate ads to eBay and Amazon.  If we don’t have it available and someone we let people know that eBay and Amazon might.  Our costs are really low with all hosting on Google’s Cloud services.  So far revenue is more than enough to pay all the bills.

Review Fix: How much time does it take to manage the site?

Hendricks: Managing the site doesn’t take that much time.  Maybe an hour a day to answer emails from users and make sure the servers are running just fine.  We spent most of our more time developing new features and improving the site and trying to spread the word so more people know about the marketplace.

Review Fix: Considering what you guys do, why do you think people still trade their games into GameStop or sell them on eBay?

Hendricks: Convenience is the main reason for Gamestop.  It is easy and fast.  But you get the least amount of money.  eBay has a big network of people and a brand name.  Most people haven’t heard of our marketplace yet.  The feedback from people who do try it is great.  They really like how easy it is and the savings on fees.  We need more people to hear about our free marketplace.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2016?

Hendricks: We want to continue growing every month and adding new features to make the site even easier to use.  Things like improving tracking and making shipping easier for sellers.  And making it easier for buyers to find what they are looking for.

Review Fix: Bottom line, why should someone use your service?

Hendricks: The PriceCharting Marketplace is free, it takes 30 seconds to make a listing, and every purchase is guaranteed.  More people are using the site every day so there are always new listings to buy and new buyers to purchase your games.

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About Patrick Hickey Jr. 14273 Articles
Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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