I Felt ripped off!! No more Trade-ins!!

I'm Sooooo pissed off! Today i've went to a local mom & pop styled store and so i'm getting ready to sell a few of my games from PSP and PS3 and then at the end of it all i ONLY got F**KING $13 back!! what a rip off that goddamn store is! I to this day will NEVER EVER trading-in my games and stuff EVER AGAIN! i've could've EASILY gotten at least $60 or $90 bucks at eBay! now i'm done for i hate this day and wish i'd just rewinded everything from today and should've stuck to strictly to eBay for now on! Has anyone experienced this problem before? let me know

 

Should have declined and walked out, thats your option. Ive refused to trade in if the price is too low.

 

Your absolutely right! I should have, i felt so cheated during that afternoon. Still can't get over it

 

So you got quoted $13, accepted it and then are here bitching?

wtf?

 

They were probably EA sports games.

 

It's not the fact i'm "Bitching" is the fact those PSP titles cost wayy more than a merely .50 cents (yeah i'd should've been more clear about it) and yet those games i've gave are actually at least $8-15 bucks! but yet the guy didn't exactly told me how much i get back till he'd fucking finished! THAT what i was mad about! How about if that same situation happened to you and you sold your Japanese imports to a local store and only buys 'em for .50 or $1 or $2 bucks and you originally bought those for around $30 or $40 which you could EASILY gotten more than what they're wagering for! You wouldn't get mad?!

They weren't, it was actual quality games like Little Big Planet, God of War, Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories, etc.. COMPLETELY RIPPED!

 

Merged your last posts - use the multi-quote button.

Everyone is right. You took your games in and asked how much you would get for your games. They gave you a price. At that point, you have an option of agreeing to the transaction or declining it and taking your goods back. You took the former. You didn't get ripped off, you agreed to the trade.

I used to work in a games shop - this is the process we would use:

• Customer asks what we would give for a pile of games.
• We inform the customer we would have to check if we can take them, condition etc. The customer is free to browse the store, saving time if they want to part exchange.
• We check stock levels of said games. Using our knowledge of demand, we determine whether we already have too many of a title.
• We check the condition of the games. For PSP, that involves checking the casing isn't coming apart and spinning the disc to check for scratches.
• If there is hardware, we test it thoroughly.
• We price up the games from our trade-in list. Deductions are made if a game has no instructions or no case (rare we would accept anything without case at all).
• We inform the customer what the trade-in value is.
• The customer decides whether to accept.

Depending on the amount of games, how many customers are waiting to be served and whether there's hardware to test, this process could take anywhere between a few minutes and a couple of hours if there's hardware to test and lots of people to serve.

You did say trade-ins, but then you said sell. Which is it? Naturally, you get more if you trade the game in than if you want cash. And we rarely took games for cash - only in-demand games.

Vice City Stories is a Platinum game in the UK. It's barely worth anything. About £4-5 at most. A £5 game we would have given £3 trade-in for. Take off £1 if there are no instructions - in fact, that should have a map, no? More without that, too. However, CEX Sell it for £7 (ouch) and give £2 credit.

LittleBigPlanet on PSP or PS3? It's practically worthless on PS3 - CEX sell for £4. They sell it for £6 on PSP. It's $10 used on either format in GameStop over there - a bit more. They offer $2.25 trade-in on PS3 - they don't seem to list PSP trade-in values.

 

If you dislike the price they offered so much, why was your response "Okay bro, it's a DEAL"?

 

My thoughts exactly

 

What, you expect a local business, whoms entire livelyhood sits on making a decent profit margin on 2nd hand goods to give you something even remotely close to retail price?

Have more realistic expectations. One of my local shops, there are a ton of games for older systems that they sell for dirt cheap. Many others they sell on a scale generally from 5-25$ sometimes odd numbers like 4$ or 7$.

Even most PS3/360 games sell in the 7-35$ range. Don't expect to get close to that price for'em. You are better off selling yourself.

 

I guess i'd should've sell 'em myself! And yes it was my fault to agreeing with the stupid ass fucking deal!! SO YOU CAN QUIT BITCHING ABOUT ME BITCHING! I'm sick and tired of you guys not helping me out! And how the FUCK can you say i couldn't do nothing about it?! HOW ABOUT IF YOU SOLD YOUR DAMN CLASSICAL GAMES like SNES and Genesis AND THEN ALL YOU GOT BACK WAS ONLY $1 or $5 back?! You wouldn't like that shit huh?! So again, why aren't PSPs games aren't fucking worth much but FUCKING Nintendo DS shit is?!!

 

How are we supposed to help you out? You've already done it.

Some SNES and Genesis games ARE only worth $1-5. Likewise PSP, which isn't a very popular format any more. Deal with it.

You are acting like a child. How old are you?! Time to act your age... or grow up.

 

Thing is most people would of said no thank you walked out the door and tried to sell their games on places like here or ebay. I have been stung by Secondhand dealers myself I sold 8 Master System Games for about $20.00 then they resold them for $20 each. Yes I was pissed at the time (as you are now) but I got over it and a lesson was learnt.

 

I am grown up to know the fact of what the hell i'm doing! and as a matter of fact some people DO STILL play PSP games ya idiot! The fact i'm saying is those games normally cost $5-10 bucks or sometimes 15 depending! and no! the whole "It's old so it means it's worthless to many people and not popular anymore" talk! If THAT's the case, care to explain to eBay or Amazon of all places that sells the same EXACT SHIT for what i wanted to go for! maybe for now on i should do street selling and tag my own fucking prices however i want!! And start doing Free McBoot services & Bootleg DVD movies like how those smart taiwanese & chinese people does it! but my movie qualities are gonna be better than there's of course!

But thing is.. It's different to what your selling before and mines is still relevant like the Nintendo DS & PSP! Just i guess no one wants to help but instead wants me to get more irradiated & frustrated.

 

Firstly, we have an edit button and a multi-quote button. Please use them instead of double posting. I keep having to merge your posts.

People still play PSP games. It doesn't mean they're popular. People still follow the Nazi party, too. PSP games were poorly made - the cases come apart and when mistreated, they easily scratched and then they're worthless. DS games, conversely, are cards - no scratching them.

Could you please refrain from swearing and ranting. I thought you said you were grown up enough to know what you were doing? Then know that you're making yourself look a fool, and act like an adult. By the way, calling a moderator an idiot is the fast route to a time out.

Once again you're saying nobody wants to help. How are we supposed to help you? If you had posted whilst in the store, we would have helped by saying refuse the offer if you're not happy with it. You've sold them your games. NOTHING we say is going to get you them back.

 

Log off, and come back in a week.

 

No Thanks!

If your not helping then why bother posting to my thread then? Just asking and i apologize for the vulgar language it's my fault and also i plan on doing a bootleg and free mcboot service instead to clear my mind and lastly i don't know why your taking the store's side instead of mines. So you know what imma cool off for a bit till i get a nicer answer from you guys. Thanks for taking your time anyways to reply, it's been appreciated (well not much)

 

Considering that you're flipping out. It might be a good idea before you go off and say something you regret.

You're just butthurt that you got called out on your silly mistake. You're also arguing with staff as well.
You were told to use the multi-quote or edit, and you still refuse to. You'll just find yourself banned if you do it again, then you'd probably get pissed off at that too.

Also, what nicer answer are you looking for exactly? It's common sense if you don't get the offer you want, you decline it. There's nothing we can help you with since it's past tense.

 

The bottom line is that you can't profit within a business by giving a seller their expected price - this is the standard of buying and selling.

Online prices are also often artificially inflated by both oblivious sellers and as sellers intentionally targeting oblivious buyers in multiple ways including that VGA crap - so in general you should have a general value range before you buy or sell anything - that way you know your limitations. Prior to trade-in you could've compared recently sold item prices across a variety of sites or asked for a price check on them within the Marketplace section on here to play it safe.

If they were considering things outside of their profit margin, you likely should've been able to haggle the trade-in value up with them but if it was a resounding no, then they obviously are unaware of the value of particular items and in this manner (or considering giving you a good deal if they were only willing to rip you off if you compared prices of similar items they had in-store against your own), you are negating your own profit margin and others by effectively devaluing items sold.

Either way - it is of equal fault from a personal view and unless you handed over absolutely everything and the shopkeep came back with your cash after likely putting items in a stock room - then you should've tried haggling or eventually declined as in the end, it never hurts to try.

The point the others are trying to make is that unless you were twisted into the deal/couldn't back out or the shopkeep screwed you by not maintaining the initial agreement - then it sadly, boils down to you when you look at it from a business view.

 

i think someone is willingly looking for a ban or is awfully dense.. it doesn't make sense lashing out on everyone trying to give you advice thanks to your own stupidity, and yet at the same time complain that no one tries to help.

certainly.. some odd mannerism at display.