There are many places online to shop and sell your games.
There are even retail places that will pay you for your old games too. There is a never-ending supply of video games
and gamers are constantly upgrading their consoles. Games are frequently
discarded after the game is beaten to death. There is a good profit margin for
selling your used video games through online, garage sales, or retail stores. The
real question is what place is going to get you the best deal possible and what
place is not going to take advantage of you?
GameStop:
I am going to start off with the worst place to sell your
games. I used to sell all my games as a young naïve child because I did not
know any better. I had no concept of financials and bargaining power. GameStop
is literally known for taking advantage of you and strives to do so. I am very
much against this corporation and I try not to shop here at all. They will give
you as low as like 30 cents for a game you might have paid $50 for. I know they
have to turn around and sell it and they have to make a profit on it, but this
company will give you $5-20 depending on how new the video game is and how
popular it is, but then they turn around and sell it for $35-45 completely laughing
in your face. Especially if it is a sports video game then they will actually
give you less than $5 because sports game is remade each year. I remember one
time as a youngster I went in with around 15-20 games and made a little less
than the price of a new video game. I would never suggest anyone to sell their
video games unless I am pulling a prank on them or they have aggravated me. I
cannot believe this company still exists while I am in my young adulthood
because they were always well known for ripping people off and still are to
this day. You have to be pretty financially irresponsible to want to sell your
video games at GameStop.
Disc Replay:
Disc replay is a little like GameStop, in how they can
sometimes give you bad deals with selling to them. They are not consistent
though, sometimes you can work up a good deal and sometimes it is bad; whereas GameStop
is always a bad deal. I will say that the environment at a Disc Replay is much friendlier
too whether it’s the customers shopping there or the employees. I have never
had a bad experience with being helped there. The customer service was always a
good plus when shopping here because the people working here were always around
my age and would continuously be down to have a nice conversation with me. Disc
Replay is really good with their return policies and giving you a good chance
to change your mind on a deal once it has been made. I would rank this better
than GameStop, but still not the best.
Best Buy:
My experiences with Best Buy have not always been top notch,
but they have helped me sell my games time and time again. They are better than
GameStop and Disc Replay, not in the customer service category, but in getting
the best deal. For retail stores, they give you the best deal by far. Compared
to the other two choices above, Best Buy will do at least 5 percent better than
the competitors. You can make most of your money back by selling your consoles
and tablets to Best Buy. The customer service was not always my favorite there
because the employees I dealt with always had to ask a manager for help and
never could make decisions on their own.
eBay:
Selling used video games on eBay is really good for making
some quick easy money. You can list a lot of video games by console, for
instance 25 PlayStation 2 games, as many of the games for that specific console
are not worth that much. You can list old video game lots with the console,
packaged with 10-20 games, a controller, and the power cords. eBay is good for
listing rare games, high value and hard to find consoles, and vintage games.
You can sell accessories to your games or just cords or replacement parts that
people are missing. I would recommend selling on eBay because it is easy once
you set up an account. You want to build up your profile though, so people feel
comfortable buying products from you because there is feedback between each
transaction.
Amazon:
I saved the best for last because I truly believe Amazon is
the best for selling your video games. I have never had a single problem selling anything using Amazon, as a long-time user. Amazon is so well known so the traffic
on the site alone is great because you have more people that will buy from you.
Selling used video games on Amazon is so great. Video games are quick to list,
and there is no listing fee on their site. You do not actually pay anything
until the game is sold, and the game sell so quickly. Just like eBay, you can
sell everything on Amazon as well, like consoles, video games, controllers,
memory cards, power cords, and just about any accessory. Games get listed so
quickly by typing the UPC code, which is the bar code on the back of the case
of the video game, or the back of the cartridge of an older game. If there is
no code, you can just type in the title of the game and name of the console to
which it belongs. Amazon is so nice, it provides a $3.99 shipping credit for
video games, which in turn gives you some bonus money. Amazon has such a good
name and there is a reason it is so popular; they make sure all their customers
are happy and make it easy to buy and sell using their website.
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