Do you sell/trade in your games?

I usually trade games for new games. There are people who have spent loads of money on games and hardly played some of them.

NickSCFC wrote:I keep the ones I regard as "AAA classics" or ones I love.

Flog the rest.

I used to hoard my games but now i've become aware of the money i've wasted and will now either sell in ebay or trade in. I refuse to let a game sit unplayed on my shelf, it's just a waste of space and money. Instead I play the games, get rid of them and then if I do want to play them again i'll rebuy.

I keep them, that way if I ever want to play them again (generally I do) I have the choice.

The only time I traded a game in was when one time I picked up a flyer for GAME and they were offering some pretty good trade in prices at the time. GRAW 2 had just been released which I wanted so GRAW 1 was completed and totally surplus to requirements.

rinks wrote:I never used to, but since the 360, I trade in every game that I consider fully completed. It helps that Xbox.com provides a persistent record of all the games I've played. Makes it easier to let them go.

Games that otherwise would have gone into a cupboard, never to be played again, are effectively getting me a free console. All the money I get from trading-in goes to a separate savings account, and will eventually buy me a PS3 or Wii (or whatever follows the 360). I could go and buy one tomorrow, but I love the idea of getting one for nothing.

I've still got all the other games I've bought over the years. No point in getting rid of them now.

Where are you trading in for cash?

I always trade my games in these days, although I never used to. It just dawned on me a few years ago that I had hundreds of the things lying around that hadn't been played since completion.

Stupidly, I traded in GTA4 pretty quick after finishing, forgetting that there is going to be DLC. Duh.

I trade in impulse buys that are okay at best. Classics and favourites are keepers, even if I will never play it again.

I only keep the cream of the crop these days, coming from a guy who used to have over 200 PS2 games and about 100 Xbox games. Can't justify the money these days so I try and sell as quickly as possible.

I now have 2 360 games (Orange Box and Halo 3), 2 Wii games (Resi Umbrella and Marble Madness) and no games for my PS3.

Saving for a house/car is what did it, ebayed my entire collection. Thought I would really regret it, and yet I don't.

aye. more than i should. a game has to be amazing to not get me to trade it in. there's only 5 games i own that have never been traded in.

I usually keep all my games but this generation I've started selling a few. They tend to be average games which are only worth one play through, I'd never part with a lot of the major releases.

I'm going to trade in as many games as I can this generation. The first trade-on was my GC-collection for a 360 with Gears and the PGR3-LIVE-Arcade-Unplugged-With-Extra-Controller-bundle. No regrets.

This all makes me regret importing all those DS games

Used to trade wayyy to much, now I'm going to try keep my games unless I don't like them that much at all.
I personally would like have huge collection again one day :oops:

PostRe: Do you sell/trade in your games? by **Jax** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:10 am

I don't trade in all of them. Just the ones i don't play anymore and have no intention of playing again.

If i've played a game to death, and i love it, i won't sell it. You can play any game as much as you like.

I always sell my games I have bought and sold the following games for the DS

Project Rub
Big Brain
Warioware
Polarium
Castlevania DoS
New Super Mario Bros
Mario & Luigi
Trauma Centre
EBA
Phoenix Wright
Hotel Dusk
Zelda PH
Prof Layton
Phoenix Wright 3

and have made a PROFIT of NZD$9 which is only about 3 quid but c'mon I got to play and complete/get bored of all those games and it cost me NOTHING

Of course there are some games that are worth holding onto alot longer, I still have Picross, Clubhouse games and others

PostRe: Do you sell/trade in your games? by **Jax** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:52 am

Question: Can you trade in a console without its packaging? I want to trade in an Xbox with 2 controllers, but don't have any of the other stuff.

Cheers if you can help.

PostRe: Do you sell/trade in your games? by **Jax** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:58 am

That's good. Can get some money from that to go towards game buying, then.

PostRe: Do you sell/trade in your games? by **Meh.** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:39 am

I rarely get games when they are at full price, I usually wait a while until they drop in price considerably. By then they'd be pretty much worthless at trade in so I might as well keep them.

Usually sell them a few weeks after I buy them, games just don't seem to last these days.

With achievement points up for grabs, I tend to move games on much quicker than I would have done in the past. I have a few 360 games that are going nowhere, but only a handful.

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