Do you trade-in your games or keep them?

[Blaxican8504]

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I used to keep them all, but I recently took advantage of the promotion gamestop had going on. I am now sitting pretty with about $80 in credit. I was initially around $120 but it was around the time Mass Effect 2 came out and it paid for that.

[bh446066]

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I only play sports games and I keep them all. I've done this since my PS1 days (like someone else said before).

[jonpt]

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Only trade in my sports games which I rarely buy now cause I just don't find myself interested in them as much as I used to be (except mlb show). Keep all of my non-sports games.

[jeremym480]

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Nothing makes the ladies panties drop faster than a 25 year old collection of video games that you don't play anymore.

[VDusen04]

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I used to keep them all, but I recently took advantage of the promotion gamestop had going on. I am now sitting pretty with about $80 in credit. I was initially around $120 but it was around the time Mass Effect 2 came out and it paid for that.

What exactly may that promotion be, good sir?

I have kept all of my games through the years but it's getting to a point where I'm beginning to second guess that. When it comes down to it, I'm not going to have room to have old video games sitting around not being used. In the mindset of a hoarder, I'd always think, "But what if I want to play this game again one day?" Thankfully, XBox Arcade and other means has helped a ton in that regard.

It's kind of similar to my VHS collection of great Detroit sports events and NBA All-Star Weekends I have from the past 20 years. With the emergence of the internet and YouTube, I'm not as crazy about being sure to record all these things, because I know they're going to exist somewhere else that will remain accessible to me.

[ruserl88]

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Nothing makes the ladies panties drop faster than a 25 year old collection of video games that you don't play anymore.

which is exactly why i'm hanging on to 'em

[techhokies]

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What exactly may that promotion be, good sir?

He's probably talking about the promotion where they gave you an additional 50%. So if the trade in value of the game was $10 then you got $15.

[jonpt]

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Nothing makes the ladies panties drop faster than a 25 year old collection of video games that you don't play anymore.

Especially when their in alphabetical order too.

[aukevin]

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Hmm I am going to have to start looking at what Amazon gives for games.

yeah I usually check Amazon's trade-in and then look at ebay's completed auctions. If Amazon is within $5 or so I just go with them. I just got $31 for NBA Live 10 on the PS3 where on ebay you were getting a range from $27 to $35 if you offered free shipping.

EDIT: LOL, I just checked and the trade-in for NBA Live is now $16. I got mine in just in time last week!

[Mo]

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That's funny because I did the same thing. Traded in all my liberal study books and only kept those in my major. The funny thing is I've never looked in the books that are in my major and it's been 10 years since I graduate. I should have traded those in as well!

HA! I did the same thing. Now they just take up space.

[bh446066]

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Especially when their in alphabetical order too.

Oh my...haven't laughed this hard in a few days.

[DJ]

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Sports games are pretty much the only games I'll buy and I tend to trade those in if I know I'm getting next year's title, or if I just don't like the game. I will usually just go to GS (convenient) when they have a good deal going on.

I'm probably hitting them up tomorrow to take advantage of the 30% extra trade-in credit.

Games like College Hoops 2K8, NFL Head Coach 09 and some non-sports games like the Metal Gear Solid series, I'll keep b/c I can't bring myself to trade them in.

[ImTellinTim]

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I just keep them. I'm mostly a sports gamer, so by the time I'm done with a title, the trade-in value just isn't worth it. I'd rather have it sitting in my dvd/game case for nostalgic value. As for the few non-sports games, I usually play them alot until I beat them, and keep them. Then I pop them in after a period of time and it's like new to me again.

[Blaxican8504]

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He's probably talking about the promotion where they gave you an additional 50%. So if the trade in value of the game was $10 then you got $15.

Yeah, that was it. Plus, I signed up for an Edge card and that got me even more trade-in value.

[Bellsprout]

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I only trade when I'm like totally out of money. I like to try to keep games as long as I can, but eventually some of them end up at Mega Media Xchange.

If I can afford to buy a game without having to trade anything then I'll just buy it. And that's the way it goes most of the time. But occasionally there'll be a mass exodus of games because I can't afford something that just came out. Like how I just traded in half my PS3 games (8 of them) to get the money for the new World Cup game.