Idiots that don't understand video game values

[Sphinx]

Same here LostMyMind. I keep them in case I ever feel the need to play it again, and more likely than not i do

[LostMyMind]

I'm one of those weird people who won't trade in their games. I got them all stacked up for future fun

[dragonflygrrl]

I trade my games in constantly, and I can never remember a time when I felt like I was getting ripped off. As far as I was concerned, if four old games I don't want equal one used game I do want, that can't be a bad thing! I have seen SC's in the gaming store, though, usually upset about the clerk's irrational refusal to pay them $49.99 for Madden '02. It's hard to resist the temptation to tap them on the shoulder and say, "Excuse me, what year is that printed on your game? And what year is it now? Take your dollar and get out of my way. I'm a *paying* customer."

I have the same crap at the phone store. These people who bought a $50 phone in 1999 and use it until it dies of old age. Then they finally decide to renew and get a new phone, and can't believe that I won't offer them a trade-in. We don't want your old crappy dual-band behemoth of a phone. I have a new trick now. I just say, "We can't do trade-ins here, but let's see what you can get for that phone!" Then I pull up ripmobile.com, plug in their phone, and cheerily inform them that ripmobile will offer them $3.25 for it. Even better is when their phone isn't even on the list, and I can read them the little blurb that says if your phone isn't listed they don't want it, but they will recycle any phone you send them.

[crabbycabbie]

I bet I had a video game "system" none of you have even heard of

It was a mechanical plastic device that was shaped like a TV set...It had a swinging arm inside with a tiny light on the end of it with two dials on both sides that moved real paddles up and down...yes it was perhaps one of the very first pongs ever made

You turned it on and the arm with the light would swing back and forth and if you stopped it with a paddle it would swing back to the other side and it would even automatically keep score

It used two D batteries and had a handle on the top for easier carrying(it was about the size of a 13 inch TV)

It was so unusual that when I tried to sell it even most video game collectors had never heard of it...I still got over $100 for it but I think due to it's rarity I might of gotten much more if only more people had known it was available

[Banrion]

Does anyone else have a Virtual Boy? My brother and I have one, but you can't play the dumb thing for more than 15 mins with out a)getting a massive headache, or b)the thing overheats and freezes.

Bad Nintendo!

[crabbycabbie]

AFpheonix

The way I was is not really something to aspire to...for me video games are like crack....I was addicted

I got VERY good at finishing these games too...one batch of five I got in the mail I completely finished in two days...if the game had an ending I'd get there within 1-3 hours(remember back then I was working on a farm for 12-14 hours a day too)...it got so it wasn't even fun anymore but I was obsessed

Now I think about it...the way I had things set up I think I paid less for the games than I did for the seven video games magazines I subscribed to every month(at about $5 each per month) and I bought the first issue of about 20 others but even then I saved those mags and in the last couple of years I sold them online for an average of $15 each

Go to a site that has video game covers and look at them...chances are you are looking at some of the mags I sold the person running the site..I'd put mine up on eBay but I also contacted the guys running those sites so they knew my auctions were coming up(a little competition never hurt anyone..especially me)

[AFpheonix]

Wow, CrabbiCabbie, you give my husband and I a run for our money!
We currently have:
an original nintendo
an original gameboy
Nintendo 64
2 gameboy advance SPs
PS2
XBox
XBox 360

My atari 2600 died, I was sad, and hubby gave his sister his old PS1, and is eyeballing the PS3 when it comes out

[repsac]

I've got an old 3do system floating around. The one that was like 500 before the company went out of bus and started to only do games.

[crabbycabbie]

Do you still have your turbographx? (yes you spelled it right) Finding more games for that is hard. I don't have the turbographx CD player

When I moved I found my sister had stolen that machine and also my 3DO(and all the games for them) and sold everything(for almost nothing)

3Do was a great system but new they cost around $500(I got mine for $100 with 20 games)

I mostly got the Turbographx for playing Bomberman(I had four controllers)..that game is incredibly fun with lots of people all playing together

BTW The best game for the 3DO was Road Rash(a motorcycle racing game)...is there a really good motorcycle game for the computer out nowadays?(something that would use the microsoft controller too)

[protege]

At least you'd get something back for it.

Not exactly. Because of the law changes, the book was out of date. That is, you'd get nothing for it--the bookstore actually refused to buy those books back. They couldn't resell them, so they didn't want them.

[toolbert]

Accounting and Tax books tend to outdate quickly. This is simply because the federal government redoes the tax laws every freaking year. Trust me, it's rather annoying to pay roughly $100 for a textbook...only to have it become literally worthless at the end of the year.

At least you'd get something back for it. I remember I took a Psyche class for a GE and the text book the professor wanted to use was out of print. So what did he do? He talked to the print center, got the rights to make copies for this class and we got to pay roughly $150 for a book that was copied and couldn't be sold back. I hated it when teachers would do that. We have to pay for copyright fees and the normal cost of the book...used to rip my hair out when I had to cave in and buy books like that.

[LostMyMind]

Do you still have your turbographx? (yes you spelled it right) Finding more games for that is hard. I don't have the turbographx CD player

[crabbycabbie]

I used to be insanely addicted to video games...at one point I had a

Atari 2600
Genesis
Nintendo
Super Nintendo
Turbographx(sp?)
3DO
Colecovision
Playstation

All hooked up at the same time to one TV(there were also two VCRs connected to the same TV(both Betas to give you an idea of the timeline))

I had a network of about 30 guys around the country who traded games with me and each other(this was before the internet and all the communications we had with each other was by snail mail and yet no one EVER ripped anyone off)...We'd send five games to someone and they'd send five different games to us...because of this deal we had..we all got to play hundreds games we never would of been able to afford alone

Then I came aware of this guy who lived only 30 minutes away...this was an adult and he had very nearly EVERY game ever made...I didn't believe it myself when he told me but I've been to his house and he had a video room with floor to ceiling shelves packed with games and boxes upon boxes he didn't have room for on those shelves..he also had a big screen TV to top it off

I let the others in on him because any game he didn't have he would pay 1/2 price for(even if a used game store only would pay $3 he'd still give around $20 per game) and the best part was...he'd let you borrow any game he already had(five games at a time)...it was video gamer heaven

I stopped cold turkey about a year after the Playstation came out because I lived on a farm and had been going several years on 2-3 hours of sleep a night because of those damned games(I was too successful setting up my network and was getting too many games to play every week) and it was killing me

I got to play almost a 1000 games and I barely spent anything for them

Nowadays I'll buy a FPS if it gets excellent reviews but even now I'm scared to buy some RPG because if I do I know I'll get hooked again(playing something like Everquest interests me like you wouldn't believe but if I got online with something like that I'd never do anything else)

[protege]

for textbooks depending on the subjetc the textbooks age quicker.

Accounting and Tax books tend to outdate quickly. This is simply because the federal government redoes the tax laws every freaking year. Trust me, it's rather annoying to pay roughly $100 for a textbook...only to have it become literally worthless at the end of the year.

[Bliss]

ugh
i admit i get REALLY MAD about textbooks prices and how little you get for them used but not at the employees, at the companies who put out a new edition every year or two
paying 200 bucks to get 10 or 20 back infuriates me so i understand how they feel, in a way, but never ever take it out on someone with no control over the situation

It always proves easier and better to conserve your books in good state (don't destroy them, don't write on them), and instead of selling it back, paste a notice on a bb in the college somewhere with the list, prices and phone, offer them at about twice what they give you at the store, and about %75-%85 of what they charge for used ones at the store, and you will possibly sell them. That's how I managed thorough college, all of them except my Copi (logic) which I won't ever part with