Second-hand toys & games in Los Angeles typically sells for $3 to $540. Retired and discontinued lines climb steadily once they leave the shops, and a sealed example can be worth a large multiple of one that has been played with. Anything still on sale new is held down by the shop price.
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Buying toys & games in Los Angeles
Los Angeles runs on cars and on the entertainment industry, and both show up in what gets listed.
Large plastic items cost more to send than they are worth and arrive broken often enough to matter. Fetching a boxful yourself keeps the price where it should be and lets you see what is genuinely in the box.
What to check in person
Ask what age it suits and check for a safety mark, because standards have changed and older items may not meet the current one. Look at any printed or painted surface for wear, which is what makes a collectable piece worth little.
Collecting it in Los Angeles
It needs a car boot rather than a bag, so agree somewhere you can actually stop for a few minutes. That is easier away from the centre than in it.
Distance is the real cost of a collection here, not the price. A seller on the other side of the basin can be ninety minutes each way in traffic, so most people arrange handovers on their own side of town and name a specific parking situation.
Selling your toys & games in Los Angeles free
Freelance and project-based work means people move often and at short notice, and gear bought for one production regularly comes onto the market when it wraps. Household turnover is high across the rental stock generally.
Bundle by theme or by age rather than mixing everything into one lot, as a coherent box is worth more than a jumbled one. Keep instructions and original packaging with the set, and take the batteries out before it is handed over. Builds from October to Christmas, then again in a quieter second-hand wave in January.
Peer-to-peer payment apps dominate private sales, and buyers will usually offer one before they offer cash. Sales tax does not apply to a private sale between individuals.
Toys & Games worth listing in Los Angeles
Same region (California)
If nothing in Los Angeles suits, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco each have their own toys & games page, and a seller will often meet part of the way for something worth the trip.
More in Los Angeles: everything second hand in Los Angeles, or Toys & Games across the United States.
Prices converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate; sellers set their own price.