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Posted: 12/14/2010 10:20:53 AM EDT
I've got a few Xbox games that I wouldn't mind trading in or selling, but it seems like the newest titles lose their value pretty quickly. Do you normally just hold onto them or is trading in something that is very popular?
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 10:23:07 AM EDT
[#1]
Guy I work with sells his... usually on Half.com.



Gets a pretty fair price, usually much better than trade value.
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 11:27:34 AM EDT
[#2]
I had looked at trading in my copy of Halo 3 due to be being severely unimpressed with it.  GameStop only offered me 3 dollars for it.  I said screw it and sold it on ebay for 15.
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 11:57:16 AM EDT
[#3]
selling yourself will yield more $$
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 12:43:58 PM EDT
[#4]
Sell if on Amazon or whatever other place you can find.

As much as I like GameStop's instant gratification, it really isn't worth it.
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 7:02:29 PM EDT
[#5]
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 7:50:21 PM EDT
[#6]
Sell your game at ebay. At the very least Ebay will tell you how much the market is willing to pay for your used games.

 
Link Posted: 12/14/2010 8:30:37 PM EDT
[#7]
I do, but only when they have decent trade specials.
Link Posted: 12/15/2010 2:47:16 AM EDT
[#8]
I move mine in EE. Cut out gamestop as the middleman.
Link Posted: 12/15/2010 4:15:21 AM EDT
[#9]
No.  
It isn't worth it hardly at all.  

I used to work for a local video game store that had better trade in prices than Gamestop –– and they still sucked peepee.


I'm just going to parrot what everyone else has posted, sell them yourself, collect more money.  
Link Posted: 12/15/2010 8:10:12 PM EDT
[#10]



Quoted:


I do, but only when they have decent trade specials.


This. I did it a lot over the last few months to knock some $$ off of new games, but given that some of my older, less played stock is now depleted, I don't really have a reason to unless I buy a new game, beat it in a week or less, and have a reason to take it back. Or there's a good trade-in special for something I want to preorder.

 



Medal of Honor was traded in within a week. I beat the SP in a couple days, didn't care for the MP, and took it back to get credit for Force Unleashed II.




Of course then TFU2 sucked so I did pretty much the same thing, but on a shorter time span (and traded in my copy of TFU: Sith Edition to boot).




Currently I have the new Assassin's Creed, but I haven't been in much hurry to beat it (Minecraft sucked me in recently) so the value will tank on it since I didn't take it back within a week or two.




Not really anything coming out in the next few months that I want to rush out and buy so I'm not really worrying about this right now.




But like others have said, you can get better money by selling online. I just don't want to go through the trouble.
Link Posted: 12/15/2010 8:41:22 PM EDT
[#11]
Trading them in is a waste and you universally get ripped off. eBay, eBay, eBay.
Link Posted: 12/15/2010 9:35:42 PM EDT
[#12]
Quoted:
Sell your game at ebay. At the very least Ebay will tell you how much the market is willing to pay for your used games.  


This. I only got $39 for MW2 ($0.99 starting bid)when I sold it on ebay but it is way more than I would have gotten it at Gamestop. I also picked up NCAA Football '11 for $43 NIB the month after it was released.


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Link Posted: 12/16/2010 3:12:53 AM EDT
[#13]
Ebay, as much as I hate Ebay at times for their fees, etc.  I managed to get $66.00 for 4 XBOX 360 games.  Tom Clancy's Endwar, Wolfenstein, Borderlands and Bioshock 2.  I believe that Gamestop would have given me less than $20.00 for all 4.
Link Posted: 12/16/2010 7:18:11 PM EDT
[#14]
Like it was said before Egay. If you have gamefly they give you a decent amount of trade in credit but its toward your membership fees...
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