Your thoughts on selling/trading games • Page 2

DangerousDave_87 13 Sep 2017 18:24:40 6,835 posts
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elstoof wrote:

rich2701 wrote:

heavy_salad wrote:

rich2701 wrote:
it winds me up when you buy a game for Ł45, complete it in a week (if it's story driven), then apparently it's only worth Ł30 if you try and trade-in or sell on eBay.
Why would that wind you up? What do you want? Your money back?
Because we all know that that's not how value works. The game doesn't lose a third of its value after a week
That's exactly how value works. Your second hand copy of a game is worth as much as the next person is willing to pay for it, no more

If there's only a tenner between a 2nd hand game and a new copy (for disc formats) then I'll just buy new. The reality is, however, that I rarely buy new on day one.

If I'm not buying it new I'm usually waiting for the price to come down, so paying more than 2/3rds for a 2nd hand copy makes no sense at all.

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