Ars PSP Go review: Sony charging much more for much less

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twesterm said:

Procrastinato said:

 

 

I'd show you the auctions, but I'm not going to hand out my eBay account id on an internet forum... I apologize that I can't "prove" it to you in this manner.  I have an alternative for you, however.. a better one, actually.  Just visit eBay, start the process of "selling" an item, and you can find the average sale price very easily, if you're interested.  I think you'll be surprised.

Until publishers offer a trade-in program for UMDs-to-digital, the eBay solution is actually a pretty decent one, IMO, if you currently own a UMD PSP and want to upgrade to a Go.

Fine, show me an auction where a used copy of a PSP game goes for retail price or more.  It doesn't have to be more, I just want to see something even close. 

I find it absolutely absurd that you think it's alight to just completely rebuy your collection and think people can get a bargain somehow by using eBay.

Wow you're stubborn.

Go to eBay, like I said, pick "Sell an item" from your account drop menu.  Then type some game titles into the "What's it Worth" box.  Note that RPGs, like "Brave Story PSP" ($17.19 -- a bit more than $2 above PSN price), "Disgaea PSP"($29.23 -- near $15 more than PSN price), etc. tend to sell for, on average, at least what they cost in the PSN store.  And, indeed, I sold my Brave Story for 19.99, and my Disgaea for $24.99 -- I didn't even get to the average on the latter.  I charged $2.99 shipping, to boot (it actually costs me like $3.50 to ship, including the packaging though).

I'm not trying to make you mad, twesterm.  I just wanted to point out something that is a perfectly viable option... at least in my book.