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What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« on: February 02, 2020, 02:30:20 pm »
I’m either very interested and will buy day one or not interested at all and will never buy.

So I typically buy current gen games at full price but I only buy maybe three games a year.

I’m pretty jaded out on sequels and samey concepts.

I can play a pretty broad section of the current gen back catalogue via game pass.

Warmsignal

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2020, 03:09:27 pm »
Almost always at least half-price or lower... with one exception, first party Nintendo. I buy those at Walmart because they're $50 instead of $60 and they do not get clearanced or reduced being Nintendo titles. Lately I've been picking up most modern titles anywhere from $5 - $24.99
« Last Edit: February 02, 2020, 03:11:09 pm by Warmsignal »

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2020, 03:24:02 pm »
If it's a game I'm absolutely dying to play and plan on playing it immediately, I'll pay full price on it. However, 90% of new games I have some sort of interest in, I'm much more inclined to wait 2 to 6-months and pick it up for 50-75% of its original MSRP.

pzeke

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2020, 03:49:32 pm »


I know your every move behind this face; I have control over expendable slaves.
When confrontation comes down to the wire, I'll use my cyclotrode to commence the fire.
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Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2020, 04:11:18 pm »
We just went through this topic, we don't need it again.

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2020, 05:16:49 pm »
Seether gonna seeth.  ::)


Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2020, 11:12:05 pm »
We just went through this topic, we don't need it again.

Ironically enough, he posted this on Groundhog Day. Not sure if it was intentional.

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2020, 11:44:23 pm »
We just went through this topic, we don't need it again.


He does seem very fixated on the personal economics of being a gamer. My guess is he trolls...I mean posts on here out of jealousy of what he wishes he could have, but can't for one reason or another. I'm not shaming him for not having the means to afford gaming or collecting, but how he goes about dealing with it is pretty immature and pathetic. Secretly he yearns to be able to afford this hobby and that is why he stays, and to troll us.

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2020, 06:34:52 am »
We just went through this topic, we don't need it again.

Ironically enough, he posted this on Groundhog Day. Not sure if it was intentional.

Well, seeing as how the previous times he's reposted his own topics were not Groundhog Day, I'm gonna go with no.


Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2020, 01:45:46 pm »
I'm always looking for bargains when it comes to PS4 games.

My wife bought me a PS4 for Christmas & I have been buying games like crazy. Most of them have been off Ebay, but I also like going into pawn shops & seeing what they have available. I will generally ask them how much they sell them for as soon as I walk in. If they say anything along the lines of "I'll have to look it up", I usually won't buy from them. One time a pawn broker told me that they charge what Gamestop charges. If I wanted to pay what Gamestop charges for their games, I would buy from Gamestop.

In most cases, pawn shops that sell their games for $10.00 each is what I consider fair unless its an older sports title. I also look at the discs closely too. If there is the slightest top-side scratch on it, I won't buy it. Top-side scratches can't be fixed since the game data is stored in the label. Even if the game boots up perfectly with a scratch, at some point that game will mess up.

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.

Warmsignal

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2020, 03:21:28 pm »
Yeah, I just can't get behind any business taking the lazy route and wanting to base their prices on someone else's prices. If you're going to do that, at least beat your competitor's prices. Don't look em up on eBay, either. If you're pricing isn't any different from anyone else, then why should people buy from you? Maybe try a more honest model and price them based on what you think they'd be worth given the condition, the age, the type of game, etc. I know some places that actually do that. But in order to do it that way, you have to be someone who actually cares and knows about games, not just a person who flips and resells things.

pzeke

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2020, 06:51:39 pm »
Yeah, I just can't get behind any business taking the lazy route and wanting to base their prices on someone else's prices. If you're going to do that, at least beat your competitor's prices. [/b]Don't look em up on eBay, either.[/b]

Of course I'm going to look them up on eBay for the sake of reference. Then I'll decide how much I'll discount based on the game and condition. If you don't like the price, I'm sure you'll find someone else down the road. Good things come to the patient...as long as you can be patient. I don't think there's anything wrong with using eBay as some form of reference guide.

Maybe try a more honest model and price them based on what you think they'd be worth given the condition, the age, the type of game, etc. I know some places that actually do that.

You sold the case and manual for Contra: Legacy of War for the Sega Saturn for $80 on eBay; I'm sure there could've been a better price for it based on your argument.

But in order to do it that way, you have to be someone who actually cares and knows about games, not just a person who flips and resells things.

In a perfect world... Otherwise, this sounds quite pedantic.

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When confrontation comes down to the wire, I'll use my cyclotrode to commence the fire.
You're never gonna get me!

Warmsignal

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2020, 01:30:59 am »

You sold the case and manual for Contra: Legacy of War for the Sega Saturn for $80 on eBay; I'm sure there could've been a better price for it based on your argument.

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.

Secondly, there wasn't a better price based on my argument because that sale was purely damage control. I sold it for the exact dollar and change amount that I paid for it, after I mistakenly bought it thinking that it was a CIB copy. I've no clue what the box is worth, but I paid $80 for it and then wanted my money back out of that mistake. So I made zero profit.

I do sell games sometimes (and I usually ask what I paid for them or base it on that), but I'm not in the business of selling games. 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. Asking prices are just that. I think eBay is ultimately a terrible determinant of value outside of auctions that start at $0.

pzeke

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2020, 10:04:58 am »
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.

I know your every move behind this face; I have control over expendable slaves.
When confrontation comes down to the wire, I'll use my cyclotrode to commence the fire.
You're never gonna get me!

Re: What price do you typically buy your modern games for?
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2020, 12:47:16 pm »
I think eBay is a very good tool of valuation, especially filtering to show only the sold items.

That’s what people are willing to pay for an item.

It would be lovely if everyone sold everything for a dime but to say you can’t respect people who don’t is pretty shortsighted.