The official "I'd rather ___ than shop at a Gamestop" thread.

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Azuren said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Happened to me once after buying melee for GameCube. And the resell value would also be lower since I havnt seen a used copy that had hardly any scratches.

The reason I use amazon tho (apart from not dealing with that) is because with prime membership, you get 20% off of pre-orders and new games which released less than 2 weeks ago. So my new game price essentially beats their used game price. Amazon does have a yearly fee but since I use amazon for many other things including their prime video, its easy for me to justify it. My student discount of 50% off yearly prime is still going so...

If your used copy goes bad outside of the First month, odds are it's your own fault. 

It could be that maybe it got one additional scratch after a certain amount of time which was the last straw for it but if it was a new copy, it would have been able to endure it for a lot longer.

Which again, goes back to why I hate buying used games. The reason it failed isn't because of say the one additional scratch, it failed because of all the scratches leading upto it + the additional scratch.