Ever traded games in?

[Kovlak]

When I was a kid. And later when I was in college.

There's actually a funny story. I found a retro store where I could trade in games and instead of receiving the money pronto, I could instead wait for a percentage (maybe 50%) on the games after being sold in the store. I didn't need the money nor was I looking for any game at the time, so I waited for a month. I got more than 100€ back. The guy was visibly ill when he saw what he had to give me. Later I saw he had lowered the percentage.

 

[Aunt Sarah]

Oh yeah, I used to trade in for the new things. Sold Gamestop plenty of games suddenly worth big bucks today. I think I got like four bucks for my copy of Resident Evil for the Sega Saturn. Well... we all know what that goes for now...

 

[Badseed Badseed]

@Luna FM
I am a little confused by the question asked by the title of your thread, do you mean:
Did i trade in games and stuff at a reputable store where they gave me a fair price and a great
customer experience?
Or did I endure the massive Ass R****G I got over at GameStop? Just to have GS resell my
$5 game for $49.99? Please clarify

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

@Luna FM
I am a little confused by the question asked by the title of your thread, do you mean:
Did i trade in games and stuff at a reputable store where they gave me a fair price and a great
customer experience?
Or did I endure the massive Ass R****G I got over at GameStop? Just to have GS resell my
$5 game for $49.99? Please clarify

Did you take a game to a store and traded it in for something else? Whatever they did afterwards is beyond the scope of the question (but feel free to add it).

 

[Morgan Katarn]

if I ever. That was the only way for me to get new games or consoles back in the day. my family was not loaded so if I wanted a new game I had to trade in the ones I did not want and often had to use my allowance to pay the difference.

 

[thumbsdown's iconthumbsdown]

Did you take a game to a store and traded it in for something else? Whatever they did afterwards is beyond the scope of the question (but feel free to add it).

I'm rereading the thread and I guess I misunderstood the title as well lol... (took "exchanged" for "trade in")

 

[Badseed Badseed]

Did you take a game to a store and traded it in for something else? Whatever they did afterwards is beyond the scope of the question (but feel free to add it).

I am so sorry, I understood totally what you were saying (I was trading games before that was even a thing at stores) I was using sarcasm to to explain the typical GameStop customer experience. Maybe you never went or they don't have GameStops where you live, but in the good ole USA when you say trade in games you think GameStop. And the extreme torture that will follow. So I am sorry I made you explain again for nothing.

That being said, actually when GameStop was still Funco Land you got pretty decent returns on what you brought in. It was later after the mergers and when the Big wigs figured out they cold basically rob any customer of all their money when trading in items to make themselves rich.

This presents TWO MAJOR PROBLEMS:

1. Gamestop made $1.2 BILLION on trade-ins last year. Their bad consumer policies
will ONLY get worse.
2. And this is the BIGGER problem right now GameStop accounts for 45% of the AVAILABLE
PHYSICAL used video games market.

OK GameStop oldman rant over.
But seriously go somewhere else.

 

[zombie100379]

i traded "just cause 1" on ps2 for yakuza 1 on ps2 - both games were brand new , i returned "just cause" a week after i bought it because it was too easy - it was a straight swap with no extra cash to pay , one of the best decisions i ever made as yakuza is bloody awesome.

 

[iamthemilkman]

I pretty much always regretted trading in games when I was younger. I'd usually do it out of FOMO for a game or console. As I reached adulthood, though, the only time I ever traded in games was when I bought doubles on clearance or something and then held onto them until Gamestop would have a good trade-in promotion. I remember having like $1300 at Gamestop at one point because I had a bunch of cheap stuff I had bought on clearance, at thrift shops, garage sales, etc. It helped me afford more games when I was a broke ass college student/young adult.

 

[zombie100379]

my biggest regret was swapping golden axe warrior for alex kidd in shinobi world - i just didn't understand rpgs at that point (i was pretty young)

 

[Hargad]

I only trade to a local retro game store that I trust. I know I could get more on ebay, but I've done that before and dealing with the post office and shipping supplies was too much of a hassle. The store near me has been good to me and I know the other people that come in there are actually into gaming and not just buying and reselling.