February 2018 hauls - Hoarding continues

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amace04:

--- Quote from: Megatron on February 03, 2018, 03:44:13 AM ---I brought a PS2 trade in to a local video game store to see what they would offer. It was a PS2, 2 controllers, memory cards and about 50 games. Average, common, near worthless games. Mostly titles like Jeopardy, Hitman, Dead to Rights - stuff you'd see in a goodwill or a flea market. Some good ones (Ico, SotC, MGS 3) but again, nothing to write home about. Nothing rare, no RPGs or big name, must have or pricey titles. I was going to put it on offer up for like $100 OBO just to be rid of it, but tried this first.
Anyway, the woman goes through everything and offers me $250 credit for all of it. I couldn't believe it. Either she knew something I didn't, her figures were way off, or this place is seriously over priced. So I took the credit, and immediately bought a Nintendo Switch they had in box with Mario Odysee.

So a mint Switch plus Mario cost me about $50 out of pocket, a spare PS2 and a ton of worthless games I would have never played. :D

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Nicely done. Hopefully you didn't have a gem in there you didn't know about.

I figure, one of the pawn shops I go to sells common ps1/2/3 xbox/360 and wii games for $5 each. More collectible games are individually priced. If they do something similar, I can't see them getting more than $250 for the games, plus $60 for the system with controllers - and that's on the higher end of things. You got yourself a great deal from the sounds of it.

Megatron:

--- Quote from: amace04 on February 03, 2018, 10:35:38 AM --- You got yourself a great deal from the sounds of it.

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So I have been running the numbers through my head and I think I "may" have figured this out. Possibly. So a buddy of mine works in a game store in Virginia. he told me that usually stores will either offer one of two deals for trade ins: credit value or half cash value (ie 20 credit or 10 cash) or credit value and 2/3 cash (ie 20 credit or 13 cash). It depends on the store.
If this lady was new, and when I said I wasn't sure if I wanted cash or credit, she may have found the cash value and doubled it, as opposed to finding the 2/3 factor. That might explain it. $125 cash or $185 credit seems a bit more plausible.
Anyway, I have more doubles and extra systems laying around. I might find out when she is working and go back. I could use a new Neo Geo ;)

TDIRunner:
Dang , I would have bought that SOTC from you

wiggy:
Finally get to play those MSU-1 ROMs :D

TDIRunner:
As much as I love the MSU1 feature, I have yet to find a game where I enjoy the music BETTER than the original. It's a cool feature to have though.

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