I bought both FF7 and FF8 for PC for full price when they were new, which was quite rare for me even back then.
After I had completed both maybe two or three years later, they apparently had become special collector's items, and I got considerably more money for both when I sold them away second-hand.
While PC versions may have had some weaknesses compared to the PS1 originals, in my sales pitch I remembered to mention what made the PC versions special compared to the console versions:
- PC version of FF7 included some (silly) chocobo minigame that the western PS1 version was lacking (IIRC), only available to the Japanese PS1 version, if you had some extra accessory for your Japanese console. EDIT: I googled it, and I guess the minigame was "Chocobo World" for Sony Pocketstation, which was the accessory. Hmm, google says it came with FF8, not FF7, so I might remember wrong...
- PC version of FF8 had higher resolution FMV than the console version.
I think those also helped me to get some FF fans interested in the PC versions, even if in other areas the PC versions might have been lacking.