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deadlydorito
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Im returning brutal legend so ill get cash back or whatever, and selling Killzone2 and Res evil 5 to get discount on stuff.
So im hinking of preordering left4dead2? I dont know many games that are coming out now, i bought batman and returned it when i finished it five days later XD.
any tipss
So im hinking of preordering left4dead2? I dont know many games that are coming out now, i bought batman and returned it when i finished it five days later XD.
any tipss
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As for "What's Coming Out," There' s Dragon Age Origins, Assassin's Creed 2, and CoD MW2. Also, Uncharted 2 just came out, and it's pretty damn good.
You'll get a full 50 dollars of value in goozex points to buy other games. Just request your next game as full package and you'll get pretty much a brand new copy in the mail in a few days.
That way you can still look at yourself in the mirror in the morning and not cut your wrists when you realize you spent 60 bucks in a game and then days later got back 20 for it.
But yeah, of course you'll get less money trading at gamestop. That's how a Middle Man works. You get convenience, but it costs you. There's honestly no reason to complain about it. Sell it yourself if you're unhappy with the trade value, nuff said.
This. If you trade smart at Gamestop, you get a good chunk of money for it. I haven't paid more than $20 for a game in ages.
I only buy games typically in the Gamestop buy 2 get 1 free, or the 30% off of your purchase up to three games (+10% with your EDGE card).
If it is, make sure if you sign you with Goozex that you look around the forum first and find someone with a referral link in their sig.
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Yeah, Goozex rules. I don't think I've paid more than $4 to play a single 360 game yet.
Brutal Legend is so new that frankly you could do fairly well trading it in at Gamestop.
Right now they are doing my favorite trade in deal, the one in which I hoard clearance games from rental places and other stores for. Trade in three wii/360/ps3 games get an extra ten bucks, or 4 for 20 extra dollars. Only caveat is that the game must be worth more than two dollars, which isn't a problem with this fellows list of games.
Anyways, good man on ditching a piece of crap like Brutal Legend.
http://www.toysrustradeincenter.com/Default.aspx
Actually a quick search says you'll get about $67 trading at Toys R us for all three games.
Not this. Go through a bunch of extra work and you still get less for trade than what you can elsewhere. Frankly I consider Gamestop a very last resort, and that is generally only for buying obscure stuff that they might have sitting around. For selling I'd use anything but them. I'd put up with the spam on Craigslist before I ever sold anything to Gamestop. Check Google maps, there might be a smaller game shop in your area.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/Cykstfc
They're required to hand over all serials and CD keys. If they're not transferable, they aren't listed in the Goozex system, and if you try to register the CD key and it's unavailable then that's negative feedback and you get your points back.
Most modern games allow more than one use per CD key and it's only the really restrictive DRM (TAGES) that doesn't allow you to deauthorize a computer at all.
If by "bunch of extra work" you mean "hold on to games 'til there's extra trade in credit" then yes, you're right.
Yeah, if you sell it yourself on craigslist, you're sure to get more money. I believe there was already an explanation of what a "Middle Man" is earlier in this thread.
I personally feel like I'm selling it for a good price (who knows, maybe it's high?), but you're in the dark as to how many views your ad is getting.
BTW - If anyone's interested I'll shoot you the link in a PM.
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Yes. Be very careful when buying used PC games that have been releases in the past 5 years as many contain account/email lock on CD keys for their MP components.
Some examples:
Battlefield 2 - the cd-key is only tied to the game and not the account created. You can create bazillion of accounts but limited to only having 1 instance of that cd-key running.
Battlefield 2142 - the cd-key is tied to the account created from it. That means you are limited to 1 account for that particular cd-key.
Ubisoft games - I'm not exactly sure how Ubisoft handles account restrictions since you pretty much make an MP account that's tied to the particular cd-key. I'm guessing this is similar to BF2.
Games for Windows Live - games that use Live for it's MP component have limited Live key activations (I'm not certain on revokes).
Valve Games - Don't even think about it. With Steam, registering a game will lock it to a particular account. Valve also does not provide any support for secondhand or used products. So no revoke. Unless you run into an old HL GOTY edtion key that has never been registered on Steam, then you're screwed. So unless it's new or unregistered, don't even touch it.
By the way to be clear, im returning brutal legend because i finished it and wont play it anymore AND ill get full money back hopefully if i claim that it sucked balls (its been less than a week). Satsifaction guarantee rules, and yeah im going to pick up uncharted 2.
Have decided im going to wait for final fantasy 13, god of war 3 and the blizzard pc games... Also, theres no aussy retailer that takes in used pc games since people did it to rip them off pajama man. I tried returning wow but they didnt want.
As others have said, Goozex is utterly fantastic. That being said, it has its limitations: the glut of games in the system are between six months and two years old, so it's awesome if that's what you're looking for but terrible if that's what you're trying to get rid of. If you use it right, though, it will save you TONS of money. When I bought my PSP, I traded away three or four high-demand games for a dozen fantastic PSP games.
Half.com is also a great site. It may take a while to sell a game, but you'll generally get a good price for 'em. It's basically the same as eBay (even run by the same people), but you basically trade away the uncertainty of the auction format for getting a few bucks less (but still significantly more than Gamestop)
I tried to trade in Time Crisis 4 with the gun because it was on one of those "most wanted" lists. . . you know how much they were going to give me? $4.00
four fucking dollars.
I also gave them a list of about half a dozen other games on the most wanted list, they were going to give me $30 for all of them. That included some that had just come out that week.
you'd get way better value just walking around town with a backpack full and asking people if they want to buy games, and quicker too.
also trading Brutal Legend makes Ormagoden
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it's win win for both buyer and seller.
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Then I think about. . . OR I could hold onto it and possibly enjoy it later, or trade it with a friend for something I would play, etc.
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Anyways zero, dont turn in your gamecube games! best games ever. fire emblem resident evil 4 metroid prime paper mario... gamecube games are the most underrated shit ever.
I bought Batman : AA for $30.00 at Walmart and just traded it in for $40.00, traded ODST and got another $40.00, those with NHL '09 (just bought '10) and one other really shitty older game.
In the end I got Uncharted 2 and Brutal Legend with $.02 added to my edge card.
Goozex is the perfect kind of "new game sucks" insurance. If you buy something and realize within two days that it's just Not Your Bag, you can flip it around for virtually full MSRP in Goozex credit. I've done this with several titles that would probably get me lynched around these parts for revealing their names. :rotate: And yeah, it's not so hot to buy brand-spanking-new releases, but it's perfect for filling out 4+ month-old games that you missed for one reason or another. I picked up DMC4, Tales of Vesperia and Pure for about the price of a new 360 game, and I got matched for them each within 24 hours.
This is the week to trade in stuff to gamestop though.
For example, I just traded in:
Halo 3: ODST - $30
Brutal Legend: $27.50
Tomb Raider Anniversary - $5
Plus 10% more on those trade-in prices since I'm a member. Also since I traded three or more games, they added another 10%. And since some of that was going to Modern Warfare 2 (as well as paying off DJ Hero), they upped the percentage again.
I forget which gameit was I looked at yesterday but they only knocked off a whole $4.00 of the new price and it's been out at least 4 months.
So, for ODST, it was.. 30 + 3.33 + 3 + 7.5, about 43.83$.
The cheapest people are selling ODST for on Amazon is 43.98$ used, and most Craigslist ads are selling for 40 or 45.
Whoever says Gamestop doesn't have good trades hasn't taken advantage of multiple offers. Fine work, Unbreakable!