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Title: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: thefr0zenanus on November 08, 2017, 07:21:57 am
i'm kinda curious, about the amount of effort you guys take in to buy games you guys add into you're collection. other than having a job. do some of you guys do laborwork? do surveys? help out friends?
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: ignition365 on November 08, 2017, 08:27:05 am
Cashback rewards on various credit cards, selling duplicates, free giftcards through various channels, etc.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: pizzasafari on November 08, 2017, 09:33:05 am
free giftcards through various channels

Come again? What? How?
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: hoshichiri on November 08, 2017, 09:34:23 am
Just take advantage of what's around & not too hard for ya... if you use Bing instead of google, you can get rewards that translate into gift cards (Amazon, GameStop, Xbox available). Have Prime? Use no-rush shipping for digital discounts. That kind of thing.

For me though? It boils down to 'always set money aside'. Are releases slow? Are you not feeling up to hunting down older or retro releases? Save some money for games anyway- you'll be glad to have it later when things pick up again.

I've never taken on extra work for the purposes of gaming money- the closest I've come is earmarking money from anime stuff sold as gaming money. That's a bit different though, as the main reasoning for the selling was not getting money, but reclaiming storage space.

free giftcards through various channels

Come again? What? How?

Want a Bing Rewards referral? I get points for that! ;)
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: ignition365 on November 08, 2017, 09:59:43 am
Yup.  Bing Rewards.  No-Rush shipping credits.  My insurance pays me in Amazon gift cards for meeting my step count goals. 

Then you have Amazon Rewards Credit Card's 5% back, ebay bucks, Best Buy's 6% back, and cash back on other credit cards.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: pizzasafari on November 08, 2017, 10:09:53 am
free giftcards through various channels

Come again? What? How?

Want a Bing Rewards referral? I get points for that! ;)

I don't know what that is but if it gets me free stuff please do!
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: ignition365 on November 08, 2017, 10:11:07 am
free giftcards through various channels

Come again? What? How?

Want a Bing Rewards referral? I get points for that! ;)

I don't know what that is but if it gets me free stuff please do!
It gets him free stuff.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: bikingjahuty on November 08, 2017, 10:30:10 am
I know this is a bit controversial, but I sell to buy more, at least I used to. Essentially if I was hunting for games and found a valuable game for cheap I'd buy it regardless of whether or not I was interested in it or already had it. I'd then flip it on ebay, and use the money to fund the purchases of games I actually wanted to keep and play. This was especially valuable when buying directly from ebay, typically games that are either very hard to find in the wild or games that carry with them a very high price tag. he way that I looked at it is if my initial investment in 10 games I bought was $50, and I went back around and sold them on Ebay for $200, and then later bought a $200 game with that money, it was kind of like getting it for $50 since that was all the money I was out.


Honestly if it were not for this tactic my collection would be a fraction of its current size and I'd definitely not have probably half the rarer games I own. On top of that I doubt I'd got into collecting as much if I didn't do this since buying games full retail can get very expensive, at least it is too rich for my blood in some situations.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: turf on November 08, 2017, 10:37:03 am
I know this is a bit controversial, but I sell to buy more, at least I used to. Essentially if I was hunting for games and found a valuable game for cheap I'd buy it regardless of whether or not I was interested in it or already had it. I'd then flip it on ebay, and use the money to fund the purchases of games I actually wanted to keep and play. This was especially valuable when buying directly from ebay, typically games that are either very hard to find in the wild or games that carry with them a very high price tag. he way that I looked at it is if my initial investment in 10 games I bought was $50, and I went back around and sold them on Ebay for $200, and then later bought a $200 game with that money, it was kind of like getting it for $50 since that was all the money I was out.


Honestly if it were not for this tactic my collection would be a fraction of its current size and I'd definitely not have probably half the rarer games I own. On top of that I doubt I'd got into collecting as much if I didn't do this since buying games full retail can get very expensive, at least it is too rich for my blood in some situations.

YOU DIRTY SCALPER!  YOU SHOULD LEAVE THOSE FOR REAL COLLECTORS THAT WANT THEM!!!

I'm playing.  I do the same thing, except I like to do it in person.  I have sold tons of stuff to finance high priced stuff. 

Funny story, I bought women's purses at yard sales and thrift stores; then, I sold them on eBay.  That's how I bought Bonk's Adventure.   ;D
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: dharmajones93 on November 08, 2017, 10:56:23 am
I'll add this:

E-Rewards (https://www.e-rewards.com/global_home.do). If you have a Gamestop Powerup Rewards account (free or paid I believe, but you get more money with the paid) you can take surveys. I take the surveys during my lunch hour at work while I watch youtube videos and eat. I get about $30 - $50 dollars every 4 months. It's not much obviously, but it's basically free money, takes very little time, and takes a good chunk out of new AAA games or buys a few vintage games to round out the collection. The Gamestop store people are always like, "How do you get so many points!?"
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: ignition365 on November 08, 2017, 11:11:53 am
Recently, now that I'm getting to the end of my "collecting" and every thing I want is expensive, I've been selling off duplicates or games I decide I no longer want to pay for the pricier games.

But I'm running into constant financial situations that all of that selling money is just going straight to the bank to pay for stuff.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: sworddude on November 08, 2017, 11:18:56 am
I know this is a bit controversial, but I sell to buy more, at least I used to. Essentially if I was hunting for games and found a valuable game for cheap I'd buy it regardless of whether or not I was interested in it or already had it. I'd then flip it on ebay, and use the money to fund the purchases of games I actually wanted to keep and play. This was especially valuable when buying directly from ebay, typically games that are either very hard to find in the wild or games that carry with them a very high price tag. he way that I looked at it is if my initial investment in 10 games I bought was $50, and I went back around and sold them on Ebay for $200, and then later bought a $200 game with that money, it was kind of like getting it for $50 since that was all the money I was out.


Honestly if it were not for this tactic my collection would be a fraction of its current size and I'd definitely not have probably half the rarer games I own. On top of that I doubt I'd got into collecting as much if I didn't do this since buying games full retail can get very expensive, at least it is too rich for my blood in some situations.

YOU DIRTY SCALPER!  YOU SHOULD LEAVE THOSE FOR REAL COLLECTORS THAT WANT THEM!!!

I'm playing.  I do the same thing, except I like to do it in person.  I have sold tons of stuff to finance high priced stuff. 

Funny story, I bought women's purses at yard sales and thrift stores; then, I sold them on eBay.  That's how I bought Bonk's Adventure.   ;D

I do the same thing except for the buying part for the games that I really want. I keep the money around So I can buy many lots and bigger lots if excellent chances come up wich contains stuff that I need, excellent deals for a to good of a price or just stuff wich I need but are hard to find if it's a very good price

Even to cheap to get myself a shinobi III for the megadrive but someday I'll find one :P It's only 1 of the 4 megadrive games that are very high on my megadrive list. Could just hit the bullet and buy them 4 games but what can i say.

Had some but the condition was always lacking.

I will say though thanks to the not buying part my collection is lacking some pretty common and some of the more must have games not that I mind since I pretty much have everything that I truly want except for 4 sega titles.

As far as size of the collection goes, without this I would have 100 games tops, It's way to expensive otherwise especially the games that I want to play or probably the everdrive route if I'm truly honest and only some cib copies of my favourite games maybe a collection of 50 games ;D
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: 98dgreen on November 08, 2017, 11:58:08 am
Reselling doubles.  Only buying games at yard sales and thrift stores.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: chrismb on November 08, 2017, 12:00:34 pm
I buy most of my game used and usually wait for the prices of new games to drop really low (for example, I wanted to buy Final Fantasy XV when it came out but it was 65$, I got it a few days ago for 20$ )
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: jce3000gt on November 08, 2017, 12:45:51 pm
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Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: badATchaos on November 08, 2017, 07:42:13 pm
Don't eat.

But seriously though. One way I save money is remain sober. Alcoholic can be expensive. ;D That's not the only reason why I don't drink, but its definitely a plus.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: burningdoom on November 09, 2017, 12:57:23 pm
Don't have a kid, lol. They drain your account.

But honestly, I've been doing it by selling off parts of my collection that I don't want or need anymore.

Back in the day, I'd hold on to ANY comics, games, or movies I got in my collection. Because pre-internet, it was a lot harder to come by things and I'd take what I can get.

But nowadays, there's the internet. So I can be a lot more picky about what I add to the collection. In the meantime, I can trim the fat off of that old stuff that I picked up that may not be the greatest.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: spac316 on November 09, 2017, 04:49:47 pm
Helping out my friends and family give me a little pocket money.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: maximo310 on November 10, 2017, 02:16:40 am
I used to use E-Rewards, and then got banned out of the blue one day after a number of surveys, so i recently switched to Swagbucks, and make some extra money on the side since it allows a number of gift card purchases from various companies.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: tpugmire on November 10, 2017, 07:51:03 am
I do the bing rewards thing too. I also make and sell CD-I controller adapters.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: hoshichiri on November 10, 2017, 10:17:28 am
free giftcards through various channels

Come again? What? How?

Want a Bing Rewards referral? I get points for that! ;)

I don't know what that is but if it gets me free stuff please do!

It seems I can't earn referral points right now *grumble*- but setting up is easy. Just login to your Microsoft account, then go to account.microsoft.com/rewards, it should let you sign up.

After that, just use bing instead of google. You can do other things, like quizzes and such, to earn extra points. If you max out your daily rewards, you can get about $5 a month- which sounds terrible, but it's like 3-5 minutes a day tops.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: rayne315 on November 10, 2017, 02:39:13 pm
Cut off a digit... lol if you have Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance (usually given by your work) you can claim anything that cuts through your bone. my cousin does Woodworking for a hobby and ended up accidentally band-sawing off a quarter inch of his middle finger and got a lot of money for it, 1.5X his yearly Income.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: Warmsignal on November 11, 2017, 12:29:55 am
Dirty scalpers, the lot of you.

Actually waaay back in the early days, I used to buy duplicates with the intention to trade them. That never happens. Who actually knows people that want to trade games? Not me. So I'm still sitting on that stuff to this day, just riding the value train to the pot of gold some day when a single N64 console is worth a grand, and probably won't be long given how collector's be - and they be crazy.

I just do that good old fashion fork over thing, or just throw my wallet at them and beg for mercy. If gets to be too expensive, I scratch it from the list. I go for things I think might not remain cheap as a priority over the more expensive, and I stay on top of what's coming out that's worth scooping up right away. I would say I'm still relatively thrifty even in this ridiculously overblown era we're in.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: burningdoom on November 11, 2017, 11:00:57 am
Dirty scalpers, the lot of you.

Actually waaay back in the early days, I used to buy duplicates with the intention to trade them. That never happens. Who actually knows people that want to trade games? Not me. So I'm still sitting on that stuff to this day, just riding the value train to the pot of gold some day when a single N64 console is worth a grand, and probably won't be long given how collector's be - and they be crazy.

I just do that good old fashion fork over thing, or just throw my wallet at them and beg for mercy. If gets to be too expensive, I scratch it from the list. I go for things I think might not remain cheap as a priority over the more expensive, and I stay on top of what's coming out that's worth scooping up right away. I would say I'm still relatively thrifty even in this ridiculously overblown era we're in.

There's a little site called GameTZ that's just for game trading. Been using it for years. No fees or subscription needed. Solid feedback and transaction system.

I'm always up for trading, too. But I don't have a whole lot left of tradable stuff anymore. Same username on that site as here, BurningDoom, if you wanted to see the tiny bit I do have left.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: Warmsignal on November 11, 2017, 06:35:33 pm
The problem is, now the games I'm interested in are not common titles and most people don't have them, or if they did, I'm not sure they'd trade them. Because all I have duplicates of are common titles that only a newbie wouldn't have.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: wartoy on November 13, 2017, 08:38:28 pm
I work alot of overtime my job requires it eventhough i don't need or want it. Usually 4 or 5 hours a day so I reward myself and spend the extra on what I love.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: bikingjahuty on November 14, 2017, 09:33:40 am
I'd be interested in the Flea's response to this.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: burningdoom on November 14, 2017, 12:54:58 pm
I'd be interested in the Flea's response to this.

He probably harvests organs.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: doafan on November 14, 2017, 01:35:14 pm
Started to sell my duplicate titles at Mercado Libre and honestly got a good ammount for them so decided to sell those physical games where I own the digital version and it worked pretty good, now am selling those titles that never played and that only had at my collection because a friend told me that I need to have it and guess what, yeah they are selling too also am selling comics and damn it the people is paying good ammounts of money for them, honestly I don't have space to keep them and since already own the digital versions which were free and can be stored in an USB don't have any problem with this, got a New Nintendo 3DS and six games with this process also managed to have some money saved at my bank account which of course am gonna use to purchase more titles but will have to wait the right moment to get them at the best possible price  ;D
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: bikingjahuty on November 15, 2017, 12:48:23 am
I'd be interested in the Flea's response to this.

He probably harvests organs.

I always assumed he was secretly El Chapo or Bill Gates.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: ignition365 on November 15, 2017, 08:11:58 am
I'd be interested in the Flea's response to this.

He probably harvests organs.

I always assumed he was secretly El Chapo or Bill Gates.
I think he has explicitly stated at the very least that when he picks up a lot of games for dirt cheap and it had dupes, he goes and sells the dupes.
Title: Re: Making extra money for games purchases,
Post by: Warmsignal on November 15, 2017, 03:21:42 pm
I'd be interested in the Flea's response to this.

He probably harvests organs.

I always assumed he was secretly El Chapo or Bill Gates.
I think he has explicitly stated at the very least that when he picks up a lot of games for dirt cheap and it had dupes, he goes and sells the dupes.

But he has not explicitly stated weather or not he is a well known celebrity. Perhaps an entrepreneur, businessman, scientist, doctor, lovable TV personality... is Flea in fact, Dr. Oz?