How to capitalize on gamestop trading services.
By breaking3po 9 Comments
I trade my games all the time, but do it wisely. I manage to play alot of newer titles, yet, I don't spend a buttload on it all. I can't actually. I'm on a tight budget most months in the year. There is no question that other methods or selling games will give you more gaming for each dollar you spend. But for a bit of convenience, and remember we pay extra for convenience every day (look at your cell phone bill), I agree to keep doing what I do. Lets go over it a little, and maybe some of you out there will come out better because of it.
For one, trade them as soon as you lose interest in them. Theres no sense in keeping them after you lose interest. Unless you plan on keeping it forever, trade as soon as you stop playing it. I buy games right on launch day, play em, get bored eventually, and trade them in as soon as theres a good trade deal. You usually want to trade them towards a preorder to get more credit. Use the edge card for more credit.
We will take some examples, of games I have, assuming I'm pretty sure I'm done play all of them right now:
-Borderlands - Sells used for 35 bucks now or so? Meaning youll get maybe 10 for it, if you would have traded it when it was still a $60 dollar game, you would have gotten $25-$30 or more depending. Borderlands seems like one a person might come back to, it might be worth it more to keep it at this time.
-Final Fantasy XIII - Probably the only one worth trading right now, since it still sells for 50-60.
-Resident Evil 5 You can buy that anywhere for $10-20 bucks and it will probably stay that way. If you never want to play it again, trade it in. Otherwise, its not worth it, since you might end up buying it again.
-Prototype (!!!) - Same as RE5. Trade it if you are done forever with Prototype, otherwise just keep it. (If I traded it in back when it first came out, it was worth 30 in credit. With that credit, I come near to owning RE5 and Prototype forever at current prices and I would have had a game to play in the mean time)
Look at it one more way. I don't buy every game I want to own when it comes out. If I buy a game for 60 bucks, lets say I do it with Red Dead Redemption, and I can trade it back for 30 dollars plus whatever extra bonus amount. Then, a year or two later after I do this with another game, buy RDR again for $20. For $80, ($60 initial and $20 2 years later), I play the ever living out of RDR for a month, then own 3 gamers forever (using the trade in credit to buy 2 older games). What do I lose? $20 bucks because I want to play RDR now. $20 for the convenience of play RDR right now but also wanting to play other games. Thats a price I'll pay.
Let me mention as well Gamestops used game policies. Within 7 days you can trade it in for a full refund. You can abuse the heck out of this, within reason. No, you can't play a game, return it, walk out, walk in, get it again, and repeat. You can't try a game each day out of a month not spending a dime. Managers will quickly shut down that kind of abuse. But, most of them are still very cool about using that used policy to try a game, then bringing it back to get another. Something that I do: well, RDR comes out in a week, but I'm kind of bored with everything I have now. Later on, I'm going to go pick up a used copy of ODST to play the Reach beta, and when I go back to pick up RDR, I bring it back in with the receipt and put the full return amount into it. Playing ODST for a full week cost me nothing.
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