Dropped off a few games yesterday at a local GameStop, I was hoping to get enough cash to get a 4000 MS points card. It was sort of weird because I rarely go there anymore, it's usually to trade games in, never buy. In total there were 5 games and after confirming with the sales clerk that I was merely trading games in and thinking about buying something, she started inspecting the discs.
She asked if I had even played the games. I told her that I had, and tried to get as much GS points as I could in the process. She seemed surprised; and said that they looked new. She went on to describe how bad the condition of most of the games they get for trade-ins. I told her that The Simpsons game which I bought used off of GameFly is in pretty bad shape. It had been scratched pretty badly when I got it, so I put it through a cycle in my disc repair kit.
She said it's still looked pretty good. Which leads me to believe that there are an assload of kids out there that are doing something other than playing vids with thier game disc's!?! I know it's a maturity thing, and the majority of gamers are kids that probably don't buy their games with their own hard earned cash. But, now I have serious reservations about buying games used.
Anyway I was out the door with my 4000 MS points card with only $10.99 out of my pocketbook; time to get Braid, GW2 and Bionic Commando!!!
