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heres the thing about gamestop.

The Main Thing About Selling
ok well they have to make money somehow just like anyone else.basically , if you were to buy a brand new game (using mw3 as an example) if i didnt like it and brought it back they would give me around 40 bucks for it..a old game you will see on the shelfs for around 30 bucks. they will normally split that price and depending on the condition they will add or subtract a few bucks


Why They Do This
They do this to make money. if they would offer you full price for the game, how would they make money. They make money by offering you around half as much as they would re sell it for. if i bought a $30 game and return it as trade in value then they would give me around 15 bucks because thats how they make money.. its a scam but still.


Things to help counter this
there is not many ways to counter this. one way is weekly deals. this weeks deal is trade in 3 games and get $10 trade in value. If you have many old games then this is a perfect way to get more money than normal. i would suggest trading in old games at a time like this. trade in 9 to get 30 dollars. but a catch is the game has to have a value of 2.00 dollars so you cant trade in total crap games


The Games They Sell
Most Games they sell are not worth anywhere near to $60 you have to pay for it. this is becasue gamestop is a middle man. this means that a game distributer will give x amount of games to sell and they get x amount of money.then gamestop sells the games to local buyers and most of which are little kids, which is how they make a lot of money in the ways above.


How i Counter With It
my bro friend works there and he gets me a small discount on certian items.


Easy Discount if you go there a lot
Ok well i go to gamestop maybe once a month.well the power rewards thing they talk about is worth it. a $10 discount is 10000 points. i have 2000 points from going there 2 times. each time i spent around 30 dollars. this next time im going im buying a 200 item. so yes. do sign up for this system because it actually save you some money


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If you buy (Say Mw3) like you said, trade it in, yeah you get about 40, but then they try to sell it for $54. If its used it should be way less.. otherwise pay extra 6 for brand new
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game stop is so gay i mean i buy everything from them
But i Bought A Slim Xbox And Acted Like I Was Gonna Return It
This Was All In 1 day And The trade In Value Was Only $110.00
I Was So Pissed Lol
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Free-WaW-Lobbys wrote game stop is so gay i mean i buy everything from them
But i Bought A Slim Xbox And Acted Like I Was Gonna Return It
This Was All In 1 day And The trade In Value Was Only $110.00
I Was So Pissed Lol


lol that sucks dude
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Oh, and btw they dont have battletoads... ):
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nice post keep it up
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Free-WaW-Lobbys wrote game stop is so gay i mean i buy everything from them
But i Bought A Slim Xbox And Acted Like I Was Gonna Return It
This Was All In 1 day And The trade In Value Was Only $110.00
I Was So Pissed Lol


haha dang bro that sucks
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i am liking you post kepp them up
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rubertlc1996 wrote i am liking you post kepp them up


thanks man. .its just im going there soon so thats where i got the idea
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MadSkittlez wrote If you buy (Say Mw3) like you said, trade it in, yeah you get about 40, but then they try to sell it for $54. If its used it should be way less.. otherwise pay extra 6 for brand new


Thats true thats why i only get brand new games
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