Second-hand toys & games in Melbourne typically sells for A$4 to A$765 (about $3 to $540). Completeness decides nearly everything, and the box matters more than people expect. A complete set with its instructions is worth several times the same pieces loose.
Buying toys & games in Melbourne
Melbourne has the strongest vintage and op-shop culture in Australia and a large student population across several universities, so buying second hand here is entirely ordinary. It is also the country’s music city, which keeps instruments, amps and records moving in a way they do not everywhere.
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
Count the pieces if a set claims to be complete, and check for the small parts that go missing first. Look for name labels and chew marks, test anything with a motor or a sound, and make sure batteries have not been left in to corrode.
Collecting it in Melbourne
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.
The tram network covers the inner suburbs densely and is how most small handovers happen. The city is flat, which makes collecting a bike or a chest of drawers by car straightforward, though inner-suburb streets are narrow and permit parking is tightly enforced.
Selling your toys & games in Melbourne free
Students arrive in February and leave in November, which inverts the northern-hemisphere rhythm. The inner suburbs also carry a lot of share-house accommodation, and share houses reshuffle constantly rather than seasonally.
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.
Bank transfer via PayID is instant and is what most private buyers will offer. Cash on collection remains common for larger items.
Toys & Games worth listing in Melbourne
Same region (Victoria)
If nothing in Melbourne suits, Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo each have their own toys & games page, and a seller will often meet part of the way for something worth the trip.
More in Melbourne: everything second hand in Melbourne, or Toys & Games across Australia.
Prices converted from sterling at the 2 August 2026 rate; sellers set their own price.