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So I finally bought SC2.. for $7.50!

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Skyze
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada2324 Posts
July 29 2010 15:50 GMT
#1
heh. I havent been coming to this site/any gaming site lately, as two weeks ago I swore off gaming.. Basically I just really need to spend more time on the things that are important in my life (ie guitar/saxophone) and gaming took up wayy too much time in my life. If BW/WC3 wasnt in my life, I'd be the best guitarist in Canada (lol joke, but it might of been possible.. 3 hours a day into SC for 9 years and 1 hour a day into guitar, if it was 4 hours into guitar.. wow)

Anyways.. Even though I really dont want to get back into this addiction, I figured someday I am going to buy SC2, i just know it.. but for now, im pretty broke and not really interested so I was thinking of waiting afew months to get it.

Then I went to EBgames in Canada (Gamestop in the US) and they had this pretty awesome deal on trading in games.. Even though some games wern't worth much, if they were the top 150 "popular" games, they would instantly give $25 for.. I fortunately had one of these (Mariokart DS) and my brother had one he hates so let me trade it (3D heros or something for PS3??) so with both of those, I had $50 credit. Add some crappy FF game I had for DS, and down to $7.50 for SC2!

So im pretty stoked, this deal was only gonna last this week, so even though I doubt i'll even install SC2 this month, least I got it for $7.50 haha. Im fuckin surprised MarioKart DS was worth $25 in tradein! That game is soo old, but I will admit its one of the best DS games around.

Trade-ins make life great when they work out to your benefit.

Canada Gaming ~~ The-Feared
KinosJourney2
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden1811 Posts
July 29 2010 15:53 GMT
#2
That's really cheap :O

Last time i wanted to trade in games at EBgames they offered like 8-9$ for a game i had bought a couple of weeks earlier (which was pretty new).
Let's say i haven't traded in a single game since then
ocho wrote: EDIT: NEVERMIND, THIS THING HAS APM TECHNOLOGY OMG
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
July 29 2010 15:55 GMT
#3
Trade-ins are a terrible value. But when your short of $$... I guess you can give up those nostalgic games.
"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
cascades
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Singapore6122 Posts
July 29 2010 16:01 GMT
#4
On July 30 2010 00:55 Disregard wrote:
Trade-ins are a terrible value. But when your short of $$... I guess you can give up those nostalgic games.


Really? This one is no questions asked, despite the condition. How much does selling the latest games on Ebay get you?
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HeadhunteR
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Argentina1258 Posts
July 29 2010 16:03 GMT
#5
7.50$!! thats a hell of a bargain and 25 from a DS games is pretty good..
in The Kong line forever
Belegorm
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States330 Posts
July 29 2010 16:04 GMT
#6
On July 30 2010 00:55 Disregard wrote:
Trade-ins are a terrible value. But when your short of $$... I guess you can give up those nostalgic games.



Yes, and I stopped doing them years ago.

Nevertheless... when you've got several games that you're positive you'll never play again, and you're low on cash...
MUM GIVE ME SOME SCISSORS!!!
Skyze
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada2324 Posts
July 29 2010 16:07 GMT
#7
Thats the thing; How often would I play Mariokart DS again in my lifetime? MAYBE one or two hours, I already beat it and its not really a game you can play with friends (unless you got two DS's and stuff, but its better friend game on the Wii). so $25 for it tradein is pretty badass.. And that other game, my brother bought it stupidly and said he'd never play it again, so I didnt even spend money on that lol.

Win win!
Canada Gaming ~~ The-Feared
Zona
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
40426 Posts
July 29 2010 16:09 GMT
#8
On July 30 2010 00:55 Disregard wrote:
Trade-ins are a terrible value. But when your short of $$... I guess you can give up those nostalgic games.

Eh? The effort required to get more money out selling a person's old games for more money sometimes costs more than enough time to justify trading in something, especially with good deals like this. Nothing wrong with trading in at all, except that you used to often almost always get gutted "new" games from Gamestop/EB.

But the blog title is misleading. I thought you found a deal for SC2, but it was just some trade-in.
"If you try responding to those absurd posts every day, you become more damaged. So I pay no attention to them at all." Jung Myung Hoon (aka Fantasy), as translated by Kimoleon
Skyze
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada2324 Posts
July 29 2010 16:09 GMT
#9
Also yah, I know trade-ins are terrible value sometimes..

Like for my original DS, they wanted $3.. and for some FF game I had, it was 30 cents! So obviously those I kept. but $25 for Mariokart DS which is a really old game (I think I bought it two years ago for $25 lol) is pretty sweet
Canada Gaming ~~ The-Feared
Puosu
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
6984 Posts
July 29 2010 16:13 GMT
#10
I paid over ten times the amount you did. 78.40 U.S. dollars from the EU Blizzard store for the digital version. If it was any other game I would be pissed as hell but knowing its the game I will be playing for the next decade I really don't care, it's cheap for the time I am going to spend on it anyway.

Trade-ins sound pretty nice imo. I know I have a lot of games I never really played after the first playthrough and don't really feel like going through the hassle of ebay etc. Too bad there's no shop here that does that. -__-
Skyze
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada2324 Posts
July 29 2010 16:20 GMT
#11
yea. Its pretty much a special deal this week only, due to SC2.. Other weeks, I woulda only got like $30 total instead of $52 total in trade ins. I feel for ya, games are expensive =[

I bought like 5 copies of SC1 over the years, so im sure I'll eventually spend more on SC2 too =[
Canada Gaming ~~ The-Feared
sixfour
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
England11061 Posts
July 29 2010 16:24 GMT
#12
yeah, trade-ins are awful value, but i guess if you're never going to play it again and the amount extra you'd get by selling it elsewhere isn't worth the time taken, go ahead.
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AnodyneSea
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Jamaica757 Posts
July 29 2010 16:26 GMT
#13
Hey should still play with me on SC2, team rusha !
Lost within the hope of freedom, not for control but in the light of our cause
funkie
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Venezuela9374 Posts
July 29 2010 16:27 GMT
#14
Why can't I be canadian?

or American?

Or some place else where I could buy SC2 at an affordable price.

Jesus Christ, I hate you all people T_T;

</emo>
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FaCE_1
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada6163 Posts
July 29 2010 16:45 GMT
#15
yeah, got SC2 for 10$ too at ebgame.
Gave two resent PS3 game that I dont play anymore
n_n
Subversive
Profile Joined October 2009
Australia2229 Posts
July 29 2010 16:51 GMT
#16
Wow this is a sweet deal. Wish we had it here
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DemiSe
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
883 Posts
July 29 2010 17:01 GMT
#17
That's a great deal!

Trade-ins make life great when they work out to your benefit.

Certainly! Considering trading in some of my games so I could get another copy and play on US or Asia, unless they fix that with 1 account.
Let's See Who's Stronger, Your Tricks, Or My Skills.
0mgVitaminE
Profile Joined February 2009
United States1278 Posts
July 29 2010 17:51 GMT
#18
This reminds me of when I wanted to trade in a ton of SNES/N64 games in like 6th grade to get a gamecube and super smash bros. Me and my brother were expecting all this money and we would be rich and get all this super kool leet gear, except when we traded it in they gave us about $1.50 a game or something.
Hi there. I'm in a cave, how bout you?
Skyze
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada2324 Posts
July 29 2010 17:53 GMT
#19
yeh.. sometimes you get nothing at all. I remember trading in like 20 CDs to get enough money to buy Warcraft 3 on its release day lol.
Canada Gaming ~~ The-Feared
alexpnd
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1857 Posts
July 29 2010 22:30 GMT
#20
I was looking at trade ins but realized ps one and dreamcast games wouldn't cut the cake lol.
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