Store Item Descriptions

Hello all – happy to see many sellers are registering and entering their items for the Gen Con auction and consignment store.

One thing to note for everyone – unless your packaging is covering up the box description, text describing the game on your item can really be focused on anything that the buyer may need to know about your copy for store items.

  • Additional pieces or missing pieces
  • Included expansions
  • Copy of English rules included if a foreign language version

Now get back to it – those games will not enter themselves!

Gen Con 2026 Registration is now Open!

Apologies for the delay!

Be sure to check our Tutorials if you have any questions about creating your account, confirming your existing account, or adding items to sell.

Please use our Discord server to get the most immediate feedback to any questions.

We look forward to seeing everyone in Indianapolis!

Reminder

When you have created/confirmed an account with our updated site, the Overview page will have a toggle between our two current shows – Origins and Gen Con.

Please ensure that you have selected the correct event for your items – we will not be able to accept any items onsite unless they are registered with that event. On the the profile page you are also agreeing to the conditions listed for each show (Origins shown below for example).

Origins

Some differences between the two events to keep in mind:

  • Origins: Store only with prices for Friday and Saturday
  • Gen Con: Store has three days of prices (Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
  • Gen Con: the only show with live auction

Breaking the Silence

Hello everyone.

We are working behind the scenes and hoping to make announcements soon about registration dates for both Origins and Gen Con.

We will post on Facebook and in the Discord channel when we are able to open things up.

Be sure to get your badges for Origins and Gen Con!

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon!

Tentative 2025 Live Auction schedule

Thursday 10 am to 11 pm


10:00 amBoard Games: Family / Sci-fi / Fantasy games
12:00 pmWargames: (SPI / S&T / general)
1:00 pmTSR RPGs: OD&D, AD&D, 2nd edition
2:00 pmSpecial event: The Tracy Hickman Collection
3:00 pmSci-fi RPGs
4:00 pmFantasy RPGs, including Mythos
5:00 pmWargames: (AH / MB / general)
7:00 pmBoard games: Sci-fi / Fantasy
8:00 pm Crowdfunding spectacular
10:00 pmAuction After Dark


Friday 10 am – 11 pm


10:00 amBoard Games: General
12:00 pmWargames: GMT / ASL / General
2:00 pmMiniatures: Pre-painted / Unpainted
4:00 pm Upainted miniatures and Games Workshop
5:00 pm Games Workshop
6:00 pmGames Workshop and painted miniatures
7:00 pmD&D 3.0 and up, plus general RPGs
8:00 pmCollector Section


Saturday 10 am to 11 pm


10:00 amBoard games: General
11:00 amBoard games: General / Train Games / LCG
12:00 pmCCGs
1:00 pmCCGs and Board Games: General
2:00 pmAny remaining RPGs and Board Games
4:00 pmTOVA (Toys, Oddities, Video games, Art)
7:00 pmCharity Auction (including Ace of Aces)

Waiver Process

Agreement:

In exchange for a faster auction check-in process you agree to the following:

  1. You shall advise us of any known items that were pre-registered but are not being dropped off.
  2. You recognize that we are not scanning each item individually.
  3. Should an item appear to be missing at the end of the auction, not being recorded as sold and not being among the items returned to the seller, the auction will be held harmless against the loss, since we cannot verify that the item was turned over to us.
  4. You are trusting the auction to do everything it can to prevent items from being misplaced.

Waiver forms can be signed onsite if electing to use this option.

We are extending registration deadlines by 1 day

Maybe we were looking at the wrong calendar year.

Maybe we were thinking it was a leap year.

Regardless – our intent each year is to give you all an entire weekend to get your items registered ahead of Gen Con.

  • Live Auction registration is now extended to end of day (23.59.59) on July 20, 2025.
  • Store registration is now extended to end of day (23.59.59) on July 27, 2025.

Please remember also that no one will be permitted to enter a registration line unless all items are tagged and ready to be processed.

We look forward to seeing you all in Indianapolis.

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