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RedYoshi999

MAB wrote:

This would never have happened if you went DIGITAL 4 LYFE BABY!

I came in this topic just to look for your comment.

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Tasuki

SCAR392 wrote:

KennyPowers wrote:

SCAR392 wrote:

It really depends on how fast you're trading your games in. The amount of money you lose by trading in, stacks up, especially if you don't trade them in within the first month.

I've never understood your logic when it comes to "losing money" on trade ins, and I've seen you repeat it numerous times.

If I have a game I paid $60 for and I no longer want it, and I sell it online for $30, how am I "losing" money on that? I'm taking something I no longer want/use and am getting $30 back which I can then put towards my next $60 game purchase, meaning I will have purchased and played TWO $60 games and it has only cost me $90, as opposed to $120.

With your example, you are still losing $30 off of the initial buying price. That's the main part I'm talking about. You paid $90 for a $60 game. I understand that you played the game you traded in, and had fun with it(I'm guessing) while you had it, but you don't have it anymore, because you traded it in.

What I'm trying to understand, is why anyone would buy a game for $60 and even factor in whether they are going to trade it in. If you're trading in a $60 game for $30, it wasn't really worth $60 to begin with. It's all about how said product retains it's value to the buyer.

EDIT: I also understand that things like these lose value over time, which is why the trade in value is lower than the initial price, but if you never trade it in, it will always be that $60 you spent. Once you trade it in, it will be that $30 you lost. That's just my perspective, especially since I tend to play a handful of games at once, and try to get the most out of them.
That's how I used to find glitches in Tony Hawk games, because I'd be bored of them, but when I didn't have any money to buy new games, I'd go back and play them again.

I understand where you are coming from and it does make sense.

For me I dont buy a game thinking ok in six months I should get X amount of trade in credit when I trade this game in. For one thing I very rarely buy a game when it's $60 unless it's something big like Mario Kart 8. Usually my games I buy used or from Amazon when they are at a really good price. Usually when I trade a game or two in I pick up another used game for $30 or less sometimes I might go as high as $40 so I am not really losing that much. Also they way I see it is that by trading in a game I no longer play some other person like me who can't afford $60 for every game will get a chance to pick up a used copy and play a great game. And even if I want to some day play the game again it's usually a game that I know I can pick up fairly cheap. However most games I have traded in I have either 100% or they are games that I haven't touched in months and I know that I wont play them again.

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SCRAPPER392

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Well, I've 100%ed games, but sometimes I go back and play them, or let someone else play them. If a game has a multiplayer mode, that has like infinite replay value, as long as you're playing with the right people. Just like how people played Mario Kart Wii for like 5 years straight.

I do think there are exceptions for trading in games, but getting $30 back is the price you get back after like a month or 2 of a game's release date. If you didn't get all the main game trophys or achievements on Xbox or PS, and think that is a feature worth buying a console for, you're doing it wrong.

It's ultimately not my decision, obviously, There's no doubt in my mind that people are trading games in too early. When I saw Halo 4 on the GS shelf, only a week after it came out, I was shaking my head.

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Tasuki

@SCAR392: Yeah I dont understand those ones that trade in Halo 4 a week after it came out makes no sense to me. I figure that those might be stolen copies that people trade in for cash or store credit just so they can get a large amount. I knew that a Gamestop that I worked next door to had a guy that would always come in a day or two after a big games release date and trade in a copy for cash well they found out that he was stealing games from places like Best Buy and Walmart and then trading them in for quick cash.

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Oh, well stealing games is different than playing them for like a week, but ya. There's still an abundance of games that get traded in almost immediately. There's probably at least 6 copies of Watch Dogs from any platform at my local GS, as I type this. I wouldn't know for sure, but I've seen it happen to other games.

I saw CoD Ghosts on the shelf like 2 days after, because they supposedly didn't like it(I asked the clerk about it), even though it's basically the same as any other CoD. I realize the difference bteween CoD Ghosts and Black Ops II, but it's not enough to hate one over the other and lose $10, on the spot. I was actually going to trade in Black Ops II for Wii U torwards Ghosts, but it was worth like $8 torwards the copy, which is BS. I'm not buying anymore CoD.

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skywake

The grey market hurts the gaming industry as much as piracy does. The one and only thing I have against the used market.....

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