Is there an equivalent of Craigslist in Europe? With some patience, you can sell it for at least 2/3 of the original price, if the game is good and not too far from its release date.

It's a total ripoff. They shouldn't make more than five bucks off of your used game.

I've only traded in one game my entire life and that would be GTAIV. I used the credit to help pay for NHL 09. =]

I've only sold a few games that I've owned. They were games that I played a bit and just had no interest in and could at least get a reasonable amount back. The think I won't do though is buy used games from them if I can still buy the game new somewhere else. It makes no sense to buy a used game if it's only a few dollars cheaper.

If the game is $60 new somewhere and Gamestop has it for $55 used, why would I buy it used just to save five dollars? If saving five dollars is that important, I'll wait till it's on sale. I bought GTA4 for $37.99, Madden 09 for about the same price. And this week, I might buy Smackdown Vs. Raw and or Saints Row 2 for $39 each. The prices for all of those four (and there are a bunch of other sales going on too) are cheaper than the prices you would find on used copies at Gamestop.

Every game can't be 20 hours long with infinite multi-player replayability. 

If that's the case, make sure you buy every single FPS to date, and you should be fine.

Thats quite good actually.

My local Xtravision charges 10 Euro a week rental per game.

I would take anything up to a month to finish a game as my time is limited so that option for me is no good.

I don't get game rentals... how did they ever get that authorized by the gaming industry is beyond me... Movies yeah cause it's like going to the theater, but games....

I guess because they still sell some copies to the rental companies. In the case of Gamefly, you can easily buy the game you've rented, so this probably helps with sales a little, too. I'm sure they don't like rentals, but it's better for them than to have people simply lending games to one another.

Obviously you have to be a bit savvy. I bought Mario and Sonic brand new on offer in Morrison's for £15 and traded it in a month later at GAME for £20 (part exchange). If I'm offered less than half the price I originally paid for it I often keep hold of the game, but really, if you're never going to play a game again, you may as well get what you can for it (though I imagine in a lot of cases ebay would be a better bet than a shop).

Thats a good deal koweniciki thanks for the heads up.

There is no Game in my town just gamestop but I will check online as I imagine they would do a postal service with them.

Mind you the Irish deal probably wont be as good.

I always trade in games when ive completed them and feel ive done as much as i want to...why keep them? At least you get something back