I believe the USED market may hurt the 360 and PS2 come the holidays

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I don't buy consoles used because they are less reliable than the new revisions and often don't come with warranties (the used $139 Arcades probably still have the 3 year warranty though right?).

However I do buy games from the resale market. I only have one used 360 game (I found Fable II used on ebay for less than half what it was selling in retail at the time. The original owner didn't take care of the game disc and manual very well though but I figured, "hey it works fine without a hitch anyway. You get what you pay for."). But I've also bought a couple of sealed new 360 games off ebay (one was out of print, another was more than double the price in retail over here). So basically, about one-fourth of the games I bought come from the resale market.

Honestly I don't care if dealing with the resale market "hurts the devs". Not only is it legal to buy second-hand but there is nothing morally wrong about it either. No one whines, "you're killing the car manufacturing industry by buying used! Look at Ford, GM, Chrysler, etc. Now we gotta bail em out!" It's generally accepted that buying second-hand cars is a pretty normal and socially acceptable thing to do. Why should it be any different for second-hand video games? If someone has their fill of a game I want and they don't want it anymore (or they let it sit in their backlog still shrinkwrapped and decide that they should get just rid of it. lol) , I'll gladly take it off their hands if it's cheap enough to make it a worthwhile purchase. So as long as it works, comes in the original case with the manual included.

And plus buying second-hand promotes environmental sustainability. Do we really need all that plastic junk floating around in our world? I never sell my games (even the ones I didn't like. I'm such a pack rat, I swear) but the world needs resellers to balance out all the environmental waste people like me cause by storing away my neglected games instead of giving them to someone that would put them to better use.