Coincidentally, as the weather gets colder in the Northeast, AAA games begin to surface. While this is a great excuse to stay inside, it can’t happen without the money to buy the games. While looking through my game collection, I noticed that I hadn’t played most of the games in at least 4 months or more. If I did play one of the games, it was merely to kill some time over summer vacation. After looking at both Best Buy and GameStop’s trade in values respectively, I learned that I could easily get over $160 for all of my games. By now most of you how we here at Loot Ninja feel about GameStop. To end up trading my games in with them was a huge surprise to me. Find out why below.
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I was going through my game shelf today and realized I have well over 25 current-gen games that I haven’t played in over a year. Yeah, I buy a lot of games. Anyway, I was thinking of the best way to get them out of here and figured I’d take an informal poll. What’s everyone’s favorite methods? Before you ask, I’m not giving them away.
I’ve been debating between GameStop, Goozex, eBay, and Craigslist. Each have their pros and cons, but the biggest issue for me is simplicity. I don’t want to jump through hoops to get rid of them all. So, loyal readers, hit the comments and let me know what you suggest for trade ins.
After a romantic candle-lit dinner followed by a dip in the hot tub, my friend told me about the Best Buy trade in program. I went to the trade-in page and found out that it’s quite different from GameStop. There are three steps to the process: Estimate, Print/Ship, Receive a gift card. Instead of going into a store and trading your games in, everything is done online. The one exception are the trade-in kiosks, but those are not readily available.
The real question is if you get more money for your trade-ins. After a quick call to GameStop, I have a list of three games and their values at both Best Buy and GameStop.
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As first reported on by Destructoid, I can confirm that GameStop will no longer be accepting original Xbox trade-ins for games, systems, and accessories starting February 9th. While in the store yesterday to pick up a few things, there was a hand-written sign on the counter and the store manager confirmed the policy when asked. They were waiting for the corporate issued printed up signs, but wanted to get the word out as soon as possible.
Since no games have been made for the system in about three years, I’d say the demand is pretty dead, so this isn’t all that surprising. If you still have some original Xbox stuff hanging around that you wanted to get rid of, do it now or try to sell on eBay or something of the sort.
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