I will give a word of advice: DON'T BUY USED GAMES FROM GAMESTOP'S WEBSITE. While I didn't have any problems with the PS2 titles I purchased from them, I had several PS4 titles with lots of scratches. To make matters worse, when I sent an email asking them about replacing them, they never responded. Fortunately, the stores that had the same copies of the defective games, let me swap it for a working disc.[/size]
I’ve never bought anything used online from GameStop (or anything, really). I like having my games complete, as far as disc-based games are concerned, so the fact they don’t disclose if the games they’re selling are complete or not is a definite turn off for me—making a purchase to then be surprised with a disc only copy doesn’t sound like fun.
Firstly, I wondering if you went sleuthing after my eBay information, and then searched out my previous transaction activity or something to that effect to prove a point? Or, were you the buyer? Because I don't recall sharing anything about this on the forum and I just checked to verify that listing info is no longer available. I feel like you're about to tell me what I wore today and where I ate lunch.
Nah, I just happened to search for PS4 lots a few days or so ago and came across your listing for Among the Sleep and Teslagrad, no sleuthing involved, other than having seen your past feedback as a seller. It was simply an observation.
Taking scalpers and any other shady sellers out of the equation, eBay I feel is a good way to gauge prices for anyone who wishes to legitimately sell games. People can use the advanced search feature to lookup sold listings for the item they want to sell and go from there; it obviously goes without saying that if you want to sell your item, beating your competitor’s price should be your way to approach things, but that isn’t necessarily always true—I don’t have to lower my standards for the sake of making a few bucks, especially if the price I’ve set for the item is reasonable. I know there are places that sell at eBay prices, but most of these dimwits don’t even bother to lookup/research what they’re selling and literally set their prices based on the highest asking price, and this is even seen on the website itself. A good number of resellers use PriceCharting, too, which in turn uses eBay as a metric; and even GameValueNow does this. While eBay is quite a nauseating place at times, the stigma it has been given over the years is at times unwarranted.
Personally, I usually have a price in my mind for whatever item I want to sell, but I will still do a little research and check for how much that item sold and decide if selling at that price or take a percentage off after factoring condition.
I just can't respect the act of people looking things up on eBay to reference what something is "worth" to them. That's not an estimation of worth as much as estimation of entitlement.
Don’t you think that’s a shallow thing to say? I feel like you're saying these things to try and ruffle feathers, but in turn you're sounding rather flippant; the way you word your posts often have a holier-than-thou connotation, if I'm being honest. People have the right to sell whatever they have at whatever price they deem fit and even lookup for reference for the sake of furthering their sale—doing that doesn’t make them intrinsically greedy or somehow dishonest. It’s okay if you’d rather sell low because “it’s the right thing to do” instead of making a profit by however small the margin is, there’s nothing wrong with either, but it’s important to be considerate and disagree without being disagreeable in the process.
