Options in trading games at gamestop age

And it could be a game they just bought and all that. Why 18 when you only need to be 17 to buy the game in the first place? My personal opinion is to sell on www. Gamers now have five national retailers to choose from when deciding who to sell their games too, plus eBay and Amazon Marketplace. Also be careful of scammers. VGPC price value at 100 or even 200 dollars. Not worth it at all to sell them at any of their stores. If you get a email from Nigeria, be careful cause many scams have been happening there. Yeah I agree gamestop sucks. It is very not difficult to bring a game into their stores because they have locations everywhere and the consumer gets the money right then.

They seem to buy anything and their prices are certainly better than Gamestop. What about the some other webistes that buy them in bulk? In my experience Amazon is great but takes a little more commission. So wonderful to discover another person with some unique thoughts on this topic. Thanks for this advice to sell games. The list included 42 PS2 Games, 9 PS3, 20 Nintendo DS, 7 PSP, 13 Wii, and 9 Xbox 360. It might be a hassle at first, but all you have to do is take pictures, answer customer questions, and ship it. As long as you know how to list them properly and present your listing well you can do quite well. You can trade them person to person and get value for value. Naturally both of those options take work and patience on the part of the seller.

Best Place to Sell Video Games? Where to go to find out on the web? So, how can anyone selling expensive games win? The average price for 26 games that all seven stores offered prices on. If you just bought a brand new game which sells for 59. It all comes down to your priorities, if you want ease and speed then selling to Amazon is great way to do it. All I paid for was a box to ship them in. Gamestop can offer the lowest prices on the trades is the convenience. Other websites may disappoint you with their lower price offer if you trade in your items. But if you want the most money out of it, taking a bit of time to list and ship the items on eBay will get you the most money. This is part of our video game collecting 101 series. There are lots out there.

This is my routine and I have been selling and trading video games for a long time. Dont go to Game Stop or Sell on ebay. We randomly chose 100 games for PS2, Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, or Wii and calculated the average price each store would give you for every game. Well, the only way to get most of money is to just go on ebay. PS2, since their still selling PS2 games now. They even take classic games.

Honestly there is no good option, Amazon people will not buy from you with a new account, and tradinng into amazon. This web site is something that is needed on the internet, someone with some originality! Selling to Amazon is very fast, but you will get a lot less than selling on ebay or selling on Amazon. It is a site specifically dedicated to video game auctions. Not to mention, the people I spoke to, got very mad when I mentioned the price, then I ask them how they find their rare games. What pokemon games do you have for the ds? Not surprised at all about GameStop being at the bottom.

Also their fees are half that of ebay and no final value fees. You are so awesome! Us do with the vintage games? And where to go to sell them? For some reason, I would rather pay the ebay fees than put up with Craigslist BS. The problem with eBay is not so much dealing with idiots, as it is actually selling something. Just wondering if anyone has used them and what they thought of the expierence. Not even Ebay would have been so quick! Your findings echo my experiences. JJ, Thanks for the great research!

Amazon by far because it is much easier to list and sell games without having to create descriptions, take photos, etc. We randomly chose 100 video games for PS2, Xbox 360, PS3, PSP, Nintendo DS, or Wii and found the prices for them on September 14th 2009. What you get in turn is virtual money that can be used to buy games for every system, and even consoles and accessories. PS2, GCN and the Xbox were the main consoles. Another way is to trade your games at gametrade. Almost every game can be sold. Also worth trying out www. At Game Stop you will get less for your game than it is really worth. Amazon, eBay, and Craiglist are the best or probably only good places to sell your video games.

The market place is only video game related and therefore your audience will be targeted. Over the last several months Amazon, Best Buy, and Toys R Us have joined GameStop and Game Crazy in the used game buying market. On ebay you may get the price that you want for your game, however you will be inundated with fees. Toys R Us sells the vintage games in bulk to some other used game retailers. The result, nobody wants to pay for them. Which of these seven options gives the best prices for old games? Has anyone tried Trade4Cash. At the same time, it feels like more retailers are asking for this sort of information on everything from purchases to returns. Gamestop is put into the same bracket as a pawn shop.

Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. This is not private information. As a final insult, when she got home, she realized that the store had given her the wrong game. That has not happened. In fact, my employees use it as a way to comfort a customer because the community is taking measures to retrieve potentially stolen items. District Manager would be getting in touch with her soon. In addition, those pawn slip stores are required to hold all serial numbered merchandise for 30 days before selling so the police have an opportunity to run the serial number through their theft reports. If you are a company that sells video games, you are looking at that 46 percent profit margin on used games with very hungry eyes.

Sony charges GameStop for each PlayStation 4 Pro, but systems have reportedly always had either low or negative margins for the companies involved. Games that they bought for a low price, are selling for a price that is close to new, and games where none of the revenue has to go to anyone who actually made the game itself. The business of selling new, boxed games to players is a tough one in which to make a buck, and companies like Walmart that sell games do so at least partially to get you into the store to buy other products with higher margins, or to purchase accessories that offer hefty markups. Be aware of this reality when you go into a GameStop, and be ready to walk out and go someplace else to get your sealed copy of Resident Evil 7 if you encounter too much resistance. Only four of the 12 systems on the first page of results are new. See if you can track it down! This figure hammers home just how lucrative used product sales are for GameStop.

This has always been the case with GameStop; the company wants to sell the items that makes them the most money. GameStop is in the used game business, make no mistake. The issue that is in the news right now is the idea that GameStop is putting in place a system that rewards dishonesty, but pretending the company has ever taken a neutral approach to whether you buy a new or used game is revisionism. That has always been the case. But the incentive system was put in place to make sure employees were constantly aware of the value of selling used games and systems over new. Therefore they want to sell more used games. They will take your old games and turn them into new ones. Every game that is a success at retail owes at least part of its sales from people who paid for it using their existing games. The statement is accurate; the company never told anyone to lie and not everyone lied.

GameStop is going to lead with used and refurbished systems no matter where you click or when using most common search terms. So just remember that GameStop clerks are not your friends, and they are not there to sell you what you want. GameStop is simple and convenient, and no aspect of this process is hidden. No one is telling these employees to be misleading, but the company is putting them in a situation where the bosses can exert tremendous pressure on employees to push items with high margins. GameStop, GameStop is merely the first store that focused on games and perfected the methods to derive the most value from buying and selling games to players. The Circle of Life generates great value for the customer. Selling used games is very profitable for GameStop. The incentive system does the rest.

GameStop exists to make money. You can filter results to show only new consoles, but you have to look pretty hard on the page to find that option. And if they want to sell you a used game, so what? Employees who do it well will likely be promoted. Xbox One when you search for that console, but only five of the 12 results on that page are new systems. Electronics Boutique for years, and quit relatively soon after what was then EB Games was acquired by GameStop in 2005. Employees have always been pressured to move those items first, and the GameStop website uses a lot of tricks to get you into used product. Gamasutra reported on the huge margins on used games back in 2009. The only real story here is that a very old incentive system has likely been made a bit more explicit and pronounced for those working in the store.

GameStop exists to make money, and the money is in used games and hardware. Of course, I have a strong ethical value against selling my games, but still, you always have the idiots that try to sell horrible games that someone else could have damaged. If it sells, be proud. This is very true. Truther friend for a Loose Change DVD. My gf wonders why I drop so much on Saturn, PS1, and Dreamcast games. This could certainly make the employees bitter, and hostile to the average customer. GameStop known as _the_ place to buy and sell used games. Gamestop, trade them for new games and then take those to the used stores that pay cash and sell them there.

You, the consumer, have a choice. MY games are always in perfect condition. It kept happening and it turned out it was the managers doing it. Next time you go into your local GS, take a look at the original Xbox game section, or the ever expanding PS2 section, or hell, ask them how many used PS2 systems they have in their system room. Keep saying it as it is. Gamestop and most of them look like they barely escaped with their lives. Not too hard to do! Once I backhanded my brother for resting an opened can of Dr. ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR OF HIS GARAGE was my new copy of Just Cause 2, not in the fucking box. On our midnight release for Dead Rising 2, I chatted up a customer for about an hour straight, just talking about all things gaming related.

The shiny surface reflecting sunlight drives it crazy. MANY times a day. One thing people never add into the equation on used games and their condition is that a lot of them are stolen goods. Guess what, they look like mint condition. Every single thing he described is what he has to put up with every day. Ben is going through. Why the fuck are these people trading in games that obviously have less value than that tissue I used before going to bed last night, that no sane person would pay for, and still getting huffy when they find out the game is worthless? My parents thought it was too violent and forced me to get rid of it, on pain of losing my PS2, so I microwaved it. Then look at the people that bring them in. Wow, couple of my own comments as a long time gamestop shopper.

It seems par for the course to have an opinion in this thread, so allow me to point out that I was a deputy manager at GAME in the UK before I moved into my current job. In business, you have to lose money to profit money, no matter what the situation is. Is it so fucking hard to just keep them on a shelf with the manual inside the case? THOUSAND dollars worth of product this way and the entire store got fired, except for the managers. There is no consumer charity in business. Who trades games in? Zelazny, Asimov and Gaiman combined. When I was his age I knew how to take care of my games and toys. Did they lose money on this particular policy? Yes I went there.

Gamers that buy these kind of game actually care about it, and they sell it because they truly need the money, not because a new version is out. Oh dear, I almost broke out into tears when my Left 4 Dead 2 disc cracked. The only Xbox 360 manual I ever lost was the manual for Left 4 Dead. The only disc I ever deliberately damaged was my copy of Mercenaries. Iv dealt with irritating customers, there can be lots, most of them come in pairs. DS games are really bad about this, too. He is saying it like it is. Every one of you ignorant idiot fucks who leaves your games out of case lying around needs to be stoned to death.

The Escapist Classic Videos: Doomsday Arcade Ep. Have you ever worked in retail at all? Were you aware that leaving the games in the sun causes damage to the box and disk? Granted, it was easier to blow on a cartridge then than it is to clean off a scratched disc now. EVER bow down and kiss their feet just because they shop at my store. In conclusion to my little rant, GAMESTOP! Killzone 2 that I swapped for a mint condition one for the sake of not getting judgemental looks from the employees when I traded it in. Ben, but on the whole, customers are generally quite good about this sort of thing in my neck of the woods.

PS2 and Xbox games, some of them being nearly a decade old, which still work beautifully, have a new looking box and in most cases, pristine manuals. PS2 stopped working a couple of months after he got it. No criminal charges, just lost a job. As such, products of every stripe come to us more than others who have a similar business model. It was in French, and the translation was hilariously poor. Still have the platinum hit though! Sure its cheaper, but you end up like a friend of mine who only has 3 games to choose from on his 360. That way if they do destroy my game I can keep theres. Yeah, we have one of those where I work.

They give store credit, a worthless currency everywhere else. Know what I do with my games? The Orange Box to taunt his cat. Better to get them before someone else. Guilty Gear games from gamestop, one was brand fucking new, it worked, the other two were used, there was no clarity when shined in the light, but both games were returned, refurbed, and returned again, because they did not work, for what ever reason my semi new PS2 slim would not play them, as opposed to my other games. LOVE when people think FIFA 2005 on PS2 has a high value, and are amazed when I explain it trades in at one pence. Try a Video Review The Escapist Classic Videos: Apocalypse Lane Ep. He constantly loses the discs and, cases. Having worked in retail myself, I feel this guys pain and support his well justified pent up rage against the common customer. Yes, they make money off of traded in games and accessories, no one claimed differently.

Ben or another employee. Dealing with the average customer will turn you into a dick. How does he know how the game got in that condition? Everything else Ben has said struck very close to home for me. But Iv also seen my fair share of employees with an attitude problem who are frankly embarassing in their ability to go off the handle, get smug or insulting, with little to no provocation. Better a buck than gathering dust and taking up space on my DVD shelf. Is it just me or do all gamestop employees seem like dicks? Look at how many games come in on day 1 or 2 of release date with scratches all over them and no box. Its nice to have. Madden, but FIFA that pollute the shelves.

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With all of that being said, I absolutely encourage anyone that plans to trade in their games to shop around, at least at the 3 online options. Just like that, I could have a gift card to spend on whatever I chose to, which would honestly probably be another game. Since getting the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, I have ended up with a few duplicate titles in my collection. While not a needed necessity, I could put that towards a game, buy LEGO sets, or even dinner for tomorrow night. After all, during the first major title push of the year, how else was I going to afford all the great games I wanted? Interestingly enough, I had the potential to get a bit more than I had bargained out of Hyrule Warriors. As you see, out of the 4 stores I looked at, values differed quite a bit based on what was going on. Up Rewards Pro account. Mart would be a worthwhile endeavor.

Mart, so logically it would seem that Wally World is the way to go, right? Mart, not too shabby. After taking a look, I came up with some interesting results. Now I could spend that on everything that is on their website, but besides the free shipping, there were absolutely no frills at all. Amazon was probably the most straightforward yet also the worst in value. GameStop about my trade in credit. That is, unless they have some sort of massive deal going on. Mart, their prices would have to be silly.

GameStop, EB Software or even that sleezy game store that looked more like a hangout than a place of business to trade in my games to get store credit. Best Buy surprisingly comes in second, IF I had a Gamers Club Unlocked. That said, there were a handful of games for which Best Buy offered better pricing. BUY a used game. Best Buy gift card for the six games I was turning in. The huge benefit to using Amazon over either of the other two is the variety of products on which I can use my credit. There was a period back in 2004 when I used a stack of Xbox games to get a PSP, then the time a few years later when I used the PSP and its games to get a Nintendo DS Lite. UPS Store, and less than a week later I had the credit in my Amazon.

Thanks for your Great Post. Fifa street free download. Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2 and PS3 games since I first got those systems. One thing I noticed about the game was the vast contrast between difficulty levels. It all started back at the start of this month, when I decided to back up my save data on my PS3. That was the case today, when I decided I wanted to dive into the world of Dragon Age, starting with Dragon Age: Origins. Amazon or Best Buy credits at all. At Stock Options Channel, our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the GME options chain for the new December 15th contracts and identified one put and one call contract of particular interest. Investors in GameStop Corp saw new options begin trading today, for the December 15th expiration.

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If a store is hitting their COL targets but one salesperson is not, that salesperson may face punishment or even lose their job, according to company employees. Circle of Life program will soon go away. This is company wide and in discussions with my peers it is a common practice. Circle of Life program has taken forcefulness to a new level. Have you gone to GameStop over the past few months and tried to buy a new game? Employees across the web are complaining about this new practice, which they say punishes them for doing their jobs. We do not disclose information to any third party sites. What items does Vintage Stock buy and sell? Due to copyright laws and pirating, we no longer carry games for computers.

If no reasonable exchange can be made, a refund may be issued. Defective items will be exchanged for replacement. We want you to love your item and will guarantee that it will work as described. Print an application or Download an application. You must have your original issuing receipt to obtain a new check. How much can I get for my stuff? New or vintage, recent or classic, visit us to get cash for your stuff.

Do you have a subscriber program? All of our stores offer rental. You should work for us! Try it today and start saving! Fill out our contact form for email support. How does that work? CDs, LPs, video games, video game systems and accessories, comics, sports and game cards, collectable toys and memorabilia.

What do I do if I have lost my Cooler than Cash Card or selling payout check? Do you guys carry new comics? Lost gift card or check? If you signed up in the store, it may take up to four weeks to be enrolled. We also offer rentals for movies and video games. Does Vintage Stock offer rentals?

CDs, LPs, video games, video game systems and accessories. If you would like to be a subscriber and take advantage of the discounts and other specials, contact your local store. Pick up that new release when you want it! We love buying your stuff! We can replace any gift card by canceling the original and issuing a new one. Gift certificates make a great gift! Please see the store for our full return policy. We mainly focus on movies, music and video games. We are not responsible for lost or stolen checks.

We send out a weekly movie announcement and a monthly update or coupon. We are very glad you joined the Preferred Customer Newsletter! Are you excited about movies, video games, music, comics, cards or giving great customer service? With our rental program, if you decide to keep the movie or game you rented, we will deduct your rental price from the item total. Visit us to get cash for your stuff. They will take a look at it and give you a Cash and Trade value.

They are available in any amount. You should receive a confirmation email within 30 days of signing up. Resumes may be sent to our HR department. Do you have gift certificates available? To find your local Movie Trading Company, click here. How do I get a job? Unfortunately, we cannot give quotes until we see the items. Contact the store for more information including pricing and item stock. You must be at least 16 to work in our stores. Do you still buy books?

They typically arrive on Wednesday, unless there is a holiday earlier in the week. Fill out this application and take it to your local Vintage Stock, or attach and send via email. To contact them, check our locations page. We have tons of great games for all of these systems. We are looking for great people to join our team. Visit a store near you to get cash for your stuff!

You must call your local Vintage Stock or Movie Trading Co. Contact your local store and they will be able to issue you a gift certificate. Do you buy or sell computer games? What is the return policy? We also love buying your stuff! What video games do you carry? We have extended our return policy to include items with a receipt within 30 days of purchase. Texas division of Vintage Stock.

Yes, we do carry new comics. What items does Movie Trading Company buy and sell? When do they usually hit the shelf? We can replace any check issued as payout minus a stop payment and reissue fee. Is there an age requirement to work at Vintage Stock? You must have the original issuing receipt to obtain a new card.

We carry every video game system from the vintage Atari and Nintendo systems to the latest XBOX360, Playstation 3, and Wii, plus handheld systems like the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. Bring your stuff into your local Vintage Stock or Movie Trading Co.