I think it's that it wasn't valuable to him as a game, but as a commodity - and he thought, first off, that I was lowballing him (which, compared to what he could get selling it directly to someone who wanted to play it, is certainly true), and secondly, that he could browbeat me into giving him more money for it (false).
So his claims about its supposed worth were a bluff - but an absurdly poorly-conceived one... a $150, used, for a major, mass-market game, of which bajillions of copies were pressed? Um... right, have fun with that.
On the other hand, we do get people who get mad about the low trade-in values and decide to keep their games rather than sell them; and that's fine. Their outrage tells me that the games are almost certainly theirs, at least. It's the people that are willing to accept $20 cash for the DS Lite that ostensibly cost them at least $100 that bother me; those are the people that are probably selling stolen goods
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Yeah people coming in selling off newer games for not much money at all would make me a little worried. There aren't many people that pay sixty bucks for a game, play it, and then are ready to give it up for $20. I don't think we've sold any of our 360 or ps3 games yet. We sold off a bunch of older Wii and ps2 games a few months ago though.
"that he could browbeat me into giving him more money for it" This really gets me because it's so obviously a chain with buying and selling policies solidly in place. You're not the owner and you don't make the rules, so arguing with you about it is just silly.
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Love those people.
We have started taking our old games we don't want anymore to a local pawn shop. They pay about the same as most game stores.
If these people think their game is so valuable, why don't they just keep it?
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So his claims about its supposed worth were a bluff - but an absurdly poorly-conceived one... a $150, used, for a major, mass-market game, of which bajillions of copies were pressed? Um... right, have fun with that.
On the other hand, we do get people who get mad about the low trade-in values and decide to keep their games rather than sell them; and that's fine. Their outrage tells me that the games are almost certainly theirs, at least. It's the people that are willing to accept $20 cash for the DS Lite that ostensibly cost them at least $100 that bother me; those are the people that are probably selling stolen goods ( ... )
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I don't think we've sold any of our 360 or ps3 games yet. We sold off a bunch of older Wii and ps2 games a few months ago though.
"that he could browbeat me into giving him more money for it"
This really gets me because it's so obviously a chain with buying and selling policies solidly in place. You're not the owner and you don't make the rules, so arguing with you about it is just silly.
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