Trading in games is horrible.

[AshfordPride]

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Well, if you're buying a used game for ten bucks (like I did with Saints Row and Dead Rising) then good for you.

But jeez... When I was a lil' tike I traded in over a dozen GOOD Gamecube games for about eighty dollars and thought that I hit the FUCKING JACKPOT. WHO NEEDS PIKMIN 1 AND 2, EH? I GOT MONEY. NOW I CAN BUY THAT NEW MARIO PARTY GAME. Today, I can't trade in games. It's sickening. You get ten bucks for a game and they slap a sticker on it for thirty dollars. PROFIT! So now, my Gamecube game collecting is MISERABLE. Looking back, I really shouldn't have dumped all those games those years ago...

It just seems so tempting, y'know? If anything, beat the game in under a week and return it for your full price. That's what I did with Bioshock.

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Anyone else fall into this trap?

[Ghost1124]

I didn't.

I fell to the trap of "give away awesome underrated games to your cousins cuz you beat it and their poor and too lazy to get a fuckin job"

[Maverick-Alex]

Game trading is a fucking lie

All the games I buy are my memorable treasures

[AshfordPride]

At 6/23/08 06:19 PM, Ghost1124 wrote: I didn't.

I fell to the trap of "give away awesome underrated games to your cousins cuz you beat it and their poor and too lazy to get a fuckin job"

My friend still has my Shadow of the Colossus. It's been three fucking years.

[robattle]

I didn't.

My mom must have known it was a scam...

[malachi117]

I traded in a entire Box of old Xbox, Gamecube, & PS2 games thinking I'd never play them anyways.

I got like 149$.
But now I wished I hadn't. Sure I might not have played them ever but It was nice collection.

Never again.

[BlueFlameSkulls]

When I got my Wii I wanted to get some gamecube games I missed out on.

The big two were MGS Twin Snakes and Super Smash Brothers Brawl. MGS is fucking rare and I still haven't got it. Melee however was something I could get easily. So I was looking for some prices. Keep in mind this is 2007, 3 years after it was released. I thought I could get it for £20. NO NO NO. The cheapest was for £30, so I bought it anyway.

Put the disc in, it's fucking broken. The disc had a huge scratch on it. It was noticeable and if I brought in a faulty second hand game into whatever game shop, they would turn it down without a thought no matter how good or rare it was.

The only one left was for £17.99. Bargain if it worked. And I'm holding the game case right now. It's a "Player's Choice" grey case. Fuck loads of scratches but still manages to work. If I was to bring in any popular game, good condition with manual (fuck I hate getting second hand games without manuals) a month after release I would get a quarter of what I paid for it originally.

I decide I want the game again in a few years. It's £60. Fucking wankers.

[DirtySyko]

At 6/23/08 06:17 PM, AshfordPride wrote:

Anyone else fall into this trap?

When the Xbox released, I traded in my N64, Dreamcast, and all my games, so I could afford to get some more Xbox games.

It is the only time I've traded anything in, and it remains one of the worst decisions I've made, right next to my decision to sell all of my Ninja Turtle toys when I was like 11, because I was "too old for action figures". I had every single original Ninja Turtle action figure released, the entire set. The vehicles and all.

Fuck me :(

[kidd25]

...ebay anybody:Dwe buy it,play it,and sell at the same price. ITS EBAY!

[AshfordPride]

At 6/23/08 07:04 PM, kidd25 wrote: ...ebay anybody:Dwe buy it,play it,and sell at the same price. ITS EBAY!

You go, eBay. I sure do love paying thirty five dollars for God Hand. Thanks for the seven dollar shipping and handling fee.

[aquaticmole]

I got more money selling 6 PS2 games for 50 cents each, when I went to gamestop [before I sold them] to see how much they were to trade in and it was 2 dollars for all of them. Then as I was looking around I noticed all of them were 10 dollars each used.

[SniperWolf1564]

I made the mistake of selling Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Turns out that I could have gotten $60 from an eBay auction instead of the measly $10 that I got from GameStop.

It was in good quality too. No scratches, manual intact, case undamaged, etc.

[Thegluestickman]

I tried, but the retards at EB games wouldn't let me, I traded in a brand fucking new game, not even open the plastic was still on it! "Um... There's to many of these games, $2"

[MetalDart]

At 6/23/08 06:17 PM, AshfordPride wrote: Anyone else fall into this trap?

I went to the store with a lot of my old SNES, Gameboy, and PS1 games to get some Gamecube and XBOX games. Not worth it at all now that I look back at it. I miss them so much.

Thankfully, Amazon.com has those old games, some at really good prices.

[Deadly-Shadow]

You can get pretty good deals at Blockbuster, but EB Games is a rip off. People have told me that they only got a dollar for some of their games.

[Phantox]

Trading games at gamestop is useless. It's better to sell them to some random person. You'll get like 100% more than you would at gamestop or some other place

[Gu-rrilla]

A friend of my mine tried selling her DS to a place called GameStor, and they were only willing to give her $30 for the system and $5-6 for the games.

Selling back games is B.S.

[TheMaster]

I remember once, seeing some bloke in GAME, shouting at and threatening the shop assistant, because he'd been offered fuck all for a copy of Mario Kart Double Dash, when they were selling it for £30 preowned on a shelf next to him.

[aquaticmole]

I remember this kid was trading in shrek 2 like a few weeks after the movie was released and it was still in perfect condition never aven opened once the clear wrapper was still on it and it was only 5 bucks.

[Jayblin]

I've found that if I'm stupid enough to sell my games, I'll at least sell it to someone who doesn't know how games are meant to be priced.

But I don't sell my games anymore. One day as I get older, they shall provide many stories as to how I spent my childhood. Kinda like a journal, only more awesome.

[zimzap]

If you think video games are an investment, you are not very bright. Video games, just like most consumer purchases, are a depreciating asset. You should never buy a game in anticipation of your expected payoff when you sell it. If you want a good return on your investment, go buy some equity.

[X-Naut]

I've got a Gamestop Edge card. Normally, games I trade in would be worth about $10, but with the 10% extra trade-in value thing that the card gives me, they're worth up to $11 or even $12.

What a high roller I am, eh?

[AshfordPride]

At 6/23/08 09:02 PM, zimzap wrote: If you think video games are an investment, you are not very bright. Video games, just like most consumer purchases, are a depreciating asset. You should never buy a game in anticipation of your expected payoff when you sell it. If you want a good return on your investment, go buy some equity.

I'm not expecting a profit. This isn't speculation... I just want a reasonable amount of money for something that I am selling. It's terrible to see a game go back on the shelf that's priced three or for times as much as you got for it.

At 6/23/08 10:29 PM, X-Naut wrote: I've got a Gamestop Edge card. Normally, games I trade in would be worth about $10, but with the 10% extra trade-in value thing that the card gives me, they're worth up to $11 or even $12.

What a high roller I am, eh?

Whenever I buy something, I always give them the card... Then they say "That'll be &47.93." and I'm all "Oh, but I have the card..." and then they're all "Yes, this is with the card."

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Then I'm sad... And I sit in my room and read the free Game Informers they send me.

[DirtySyko]

At 6/23/08 10:47 PM, AshfordPride wrote:

Whenever I buy something, I always give them the card... Then they say "That'll be &47.93." and I'm all "Oh, but I have the card..." and then they're all "Yes, this is with the card."

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Then I'm sad... And I sit in my room and read the free Game Informers they send me.

I try my best to never buy games at Gamestop. Gamestop is the only game only store in my town, but I absolutely can't stand them. I've had far more bad experiences there than any retail store I've been too... I wish my town had a fucking Best Buy >:(

I don't know why I can't just go in, get a game, and leave. It's never that simple. The employees will gang rape me with their elitist video game opinions, try to impress me, and then belittle me when I don't want to purchase the collector's edition of whatever game I am buying. And the worst is when I buy a popular game but didn't have it pre-ordered. "Do you guys have any copies of GTA IV?" "Did you pre-order it?" "Naw." "Hmmm... Yeah, we have a copy, but next time you should pre-order."

REALLY, THAT'S STRANGE MR. GAMESTOP EMPLOYEE, BECAUSE, I'VE LIKE, NEVER PRE-ORDERED A GAME FROM GAMESTOP IN MY LIFE, YET, EACH AND EVERY TIME I GO IN TO GET A POPULAR GAME ON THE DAY OF IT'S RELEASE THEY HAVE EXTRA COPIES. HMMM, WEIRD.

There is only one guy who works at the Gamestop in my town that I can stand, so I try to avoid going there unless he is working. It must be the environment... Working around video games turns you into a social outcast douche bag.

[Noodleboy111]

Did somewhat of the same thing with my Gameboy. Sold it for $4, then bought a used Gameboy game from the same store for around $20.

[DarkMana]

I tried to trade in a stack of ten or so PS2 games at EBGames... They were willing to give me $34 or something. That included God of War 2 which only came out a month previous at $18.00. They were only willing to give me $0.50 for the original SOCOM in perfect condition.

I just walked out.

[jitterman]

I actually havent but thats basicly because I am a compulsove buyer and carefull seller(not a good combination). no matter what just about everything loses there value after it has been bought and sold to the retail market. You might have a better time selling an amount of AT LEAST 3 games on ebay for 40 dollers. No matter what you will never get a good deal selling items through local trade in stores.

[narf109]

i dunno what u people are bitching about... of course they make a profit off of it. why else would they do it.

I made $300 with the trade in of all my ps2s with exception to the ones I still play. I dont play them anymore and i dont care if they make a profit off of them because i couldnt sell those games to people for the price they set for them anyway. Believe me I've tried.

Whether its a good deal or not, i got 300 in my pocket for future worthwhile games, and i didnt have to work to get it. I'm not a rich guy and i take what I can get, I don't have parents to buy all that kind of shit for me like 50% of the people on here.

[SoaSJuGGaLoSoLDieR]

Nope, altogether I've traded in five games. The first three were years ago because I was desperate for game money, then the last two were two games that I bought and couldn't stand and couldn't sell to anyone else. Now that i have a 360 my cousin is tryin his hardest to get me to sell my ps2 games (i have 90+), gamecube games (10-15?), and regular xbox games (i still play them on my 360...) just because he always trades his games in... i've seen him trade games back in for less than half of his money to the same store he bought it from because he got tired of it or beat it... he's an idiot....

For example, he bought Dead Rising for $49.99 used shortly after the game came out... he played it for two weeks and traded it in because he got tired of the storyline or somethin stupid like that, and had a choice of getting like $14 in store credit, or $11 in cash... (it's a local game store, not eb games/gamestop/best buy etc.) and he took the store credit.

[Jerkapotamus]

The only games I've traded in were Assassin's Creed and UTIII, each getting me $30. I didn't mind selling Assassin's Creed, but I probably should have kept UTIII. I really want to play some of the mods now that they're out.