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"Trading in games"

I dont know how many people have traded in their old games, but i have done it 2 or 3 times now, and iam consitently outraged at the cheeky prices the shops offer to buy them back, then a few days later you see your old game being sold £15 more than they bought it off you for. For a brand new quake 3 revolution game i was offered £20, absolutely shocking.

Take advantage of them offering 20 quid a game while you can. Most stores are offering this as a special offer at the moment - they usually only offer 1/4 the current retail price for a game.

I would shop around though. EB are renowned for offering poor prices (although they have been doing £20 for most PS2 games for a while). For example, they offered only £10 for Super Bust a Move, but a shop called Gamestation further down the road gave me £16 for it.

You also need to think about how much you paid for the game and how much gameplay you have got out of it. If you paid £40 for Quake 3 2 months ago, and are trading it in now for £20, look at it this way; it has cost £20 for approx 8 weeks - that is £2.50 a week. As long as you have been playing it regularly in that period, you have got good value for money out of it. Use this theory on all your potential trades and you won't go far wrong, but don't leave it too long or your treasured games collection will have little street value.

Bonus wrote:
> I'll have a go, I just saw Tony (hes the owner btw!)

OK, great :)

I'll have a go, I just saw Tony (hes the owner btw!)

Bonus wrote:
> Exactly, and us non-members would also support SR even more.

Cool, how would we go about asking if it could be possible to set it up?

Exactly, and us non-members would also support SR even more.

Although an auction site would be really cool especially if it was free to advertise.

Bonus wrote:
> If they traded in games they may be left with a load of rubbish they
> don't want, an auction site doesn't give them any stock headaches.

This is true, however if you had to phone up and recieve a number before you could send the game then you could moniter the games coming in and only give the numbers to games that were in demand or out of stock.

If they traded in games they may be left with a load of rubbish they don't want, an auction site doesn't give them any stock headaches.

Bonus wrote:
> We could always get SR to set up a users action site to punt all our
> old games!!

A very good idea indeed, or they could trade in 2nd hand games.

Bonus wrote:
> but then why would you
> be trading PS2 games already?

What happened was i got the game in the coke auction with the intent to sell it in an auction or to a friend, however my friend didnt want it so i thought i would auction it off, then i discovered that the auction sites charge you to put stuff on them, then i thought i would trade it in, so i phoned a local high street retailer to price it.