| kain_kusanagi said: I'd rather pay $60 for Ogre Battle on Ebay or Amazon than trade in 3 $60 games each for $20 credit to buy it at Game Stop. I will never understand why people trade games into Game Stop. If I have something to sell I sell it myself on Ebay or Amazon. I walk away with more money and my customer pays less then Game Stop. Plus my old games are in much better shape that the crap Game Stop sells for $5 less than the new price. |
I do both, personally. Or at least here in the UK we have CEX as a trade-in option, and for the most part they're very good. I'm guessing it's very different with GameStop.
For example, if I'm thinking of selling a game, I'll first check how much I can get for it pre-owned on amazon, factoring in how much I can realistically charge for it based on the condition and how much amazon will take/any shipping losses etc.
Then I'll go on CEX's website and check how much they're offering for trade in. They have two prices - a lower one for just giving you cash, and a higher one for store credit. If the store credit one is more than I'd be getting on amazon (which about 70% of the time it is) then I simply trade it in and save the store credit until something I want comes along.
I've kind of 'made a profit' with some of this kind of stuff too. For example, I bought Twisted Metal new for £30, played it for a week or so then traded it in to CEX for £28 store credit. Then I waited a couple of months, bought it back from them for £18 from my credit. Obviously I've not made any money because I'm out of pocket from the initial investment, but I still have the same game plus £10 credit - and realistically I wouldn't have been playing the game during those few months anyway (because of the server issues).
But anyway, I suppose all of this is kind of moot because GameStop trade-ins are more likely to be like Game/Gamestation over here, where they give you bugger all money for your stuff and don't let you check the prices of anything without going to the shop. In which case, I don't use those kinds of services.
