360 2nd Hand Value Software

[Jimmyboy]

Just got to start a thread about how the price appears to have dropped right out on 360 software. I know the games tend to dip in price on 360 after a few months (which is a good thing) but it seems like shops have caught onto this now and are under valuing software to compensate. Games released 5 months previously often become completely valueless regardless of quality. I took some games into Blockbuster to trade and walked straight out again because the prices were just ridiculous. These were trade prices offered not the sell prices where you'd expect it to be low. I mean GTA4 had a trade in value of £6! :nuts: You may as well bin unwanted games for that amount of cash and save on the petrol travelling into town.

[toffee]

You may as well bin unwanted games for that amount of cash

or you could take to a shop offering higher values (CEX offer £15 trade on GTAIV), or just sell em on ebay/amazon.

[UKBoy]

I thinks its fair to say that the values you are offered are purely based on the retailers chance/time taken to resell that item.

GTA IV for example, has been out 6 months, probably 50 % of people who bought it are now trading it in and so retailers will have large amounts of stock on hand and will be having to store it until it resells (if ever) and likely will have to include it in a deal with other games just to see it shift.

Some retailers arent currently taking things like football games and wrestling games, due to massive stocks of games being traded back in every time this years update comes in:there are only a small percentage of gamers that will want to buy an old title with players in the wrong teams etc.

Mostly these days I tend to think of games in the same way as film dvd's, you know that you wont get much for them so you may as well play them til you complete them or get bored of them and then pu them at the back of the shelf and play them again a year later, saves being insulted by a low offer for trade in, when as you say, you paid out for petrol or a bus ticket to go and get a valuation that wasnt acceptable so you kept the games anyway.

With very few exceptions, games arent a good investment and always think of this when considering whether to buy the likes of this years NFS or Tomb Raider or similar, often yearly updating games.

[DjSatansfury]

£1 for Fifa 08 on the Xbox from one high street place.

Says it all really.

[Mr M0by]

or you could take to a shop offering higher values (CEX offer £15 trade on GTAIV), or just sell em on ebay/amazon.

GTA IV trade-in was £18 (If Mint or lightly marked) as of Wednesday at HMV.

[camaj]

GTA IV trade-in was £18 (If Mint or lightly marked) as of Wednesday at HMV.

Given the prices on ebay, that's a very good price. I expected ebay to be higher, while some copies sold for over £18 most seemed to be below, even as low as £10!

[KRW]

Always factor in the popularity of a game. GTA4 must be everywhere, but I've had surprisingly good prices for old, crap games just because no-one else bought them. You'll be lucky to get 50p for Viva Pinata.

[mr starface]

I think eBay has got to be the way to go, I sold a load of my old games last week and some of the prices I got (including P+P) were:

Saints Row £10.39
Project Gotham Racing 3 £8.55
Far Cry Instincts £10
Tomb Radier Anniversary £10.70
Perfect Dark Zero £4.41

Even my old FIFA/Pro Evo's went for a few quid each.

Bearing in mind most of those titles dont even have a trade in price to speak of not too bad.