I've always wanted to do this

[Che]

Have you ever thought about going into trade a game at a place like Gamestop, and someone is in there who wants what you're gonna sell to the Gamestop? Say I took in Final Fantasy XIII. I'd probably get around 30-35$, but they turn around and sell it for 49.99 used. I'd love to say: "hey I'm here to trade in FFXIII" and a guy behind me go "oh man, they were out of used ones until you came in!" and then I reply "meet me outside and I'll sell it to you for 45$ instead of 49.99" and then I make 5-10$ more than I normally would.

lulz.

[Rhaps]

You would make an excellent scalper!
I would try that, but the hicks out here have constricted gamestop flow, so they rarely have game shortages >.>

[Jin]

Say I took in Final Fantasy XIII. I'd probably get around 30-35$, but they turn around and sell it for 49.99 used.

$30-35? What the hell kind of magical Gamestop do you live near and how do they bypass company policy that requires them to bend game sellers over a table?

[Victoria]

$30-35? What the hell kind of magical Gamestop do you live near and how do they bypass company policy that requires them to bend game sellers over a table?

Yeah... I already told Che in a VM about that. If you're lucky, you'll get $15+ from GameStop in credit. I don't know about cash... I'm thinking $5+ or so.

Edit: So, Che managed to get 20$ cash from his ebgames. I'm surprised.

[Pete]

ebay.

Simple as that.

[Xithor]

Better than ebay is half.com, sell all my textbooks on there for good money. Video games would be easy too

[SOLDIER #819]

Don't think I've sold a game back to them for a long while.

I remember when I first got my Wii and bought Twilight Princess. Not long after I got an automated message where they asked me to bring it in if I was done with it so they could buy it back. That was pretty bad.

[Furore]

Oh I love ebgames.
Look at their list for just released titles with $90+ tradein value.
Buy those games for $70 or less at Big W.
Trade the games into ebgames while also pricematching the lowest price elsewhere.
PROFIT!

[Josh_R]

Yeah... I already told Che in a VM about that. If you're lucky, you'll get $15+ from GameStop in credit. I don't know about cash... I'm thinking $5+ or so.

Edit: So, Che managed to get 20$ cash from his ebgames. I'm surprised.

My local gamestop actually has a sign up with the game credit trade-in rate. For FFXIII they give $35 in store credit. I was surprised to see that. Most of the new games are high in trade-in value at my gamestop. I normally don't trade my games in at gamestop, cause I find that my dumbass friends will give me 2x what they will.

[Sean]

The last time I sold a game to gamestop for credit was Fable, which I at the time got $40 for (Three weeks after I bought it for $50) which surprised me.

I once sold them a copy of FFIII (VI) for SNES for $50, though this was when it was still Funcoland, before they, Software, Etc, and Babbages were bought out by Gamestop. No joke. Granted they turned around to resell it for $70, I still made $50 for an old SNES game that I went online and bought again for $20 off eBay.