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Game stores have balls
paigeoliver:
I just plug my laptop into the TV and play the same games on the TV. Sure you lose out on SOME titles, but you will NEVER find a gaming platform (other than like some of the aborted platforms that only had like 30 games), that you will be able to completely exhaust your fun without running out of time or money first.
X-Box, Playstation, Nes, 3D0, PC, Atari 7800, Neo Geo, whatever you pick there is so much out there. My closest thing to a console these days is my Neo Geo MVS cabinet, I am up to like 25 cartridges for it now.
RetroJames:
I rarely to barely buy ANYTHING retail. It is always a sucker's bet. I also never "trade-in" anything back to a store. Sell it yourself.
paigeoliver:
Also, if you are simply willing to live slightly behind the PC gaming curve (which is STILL way ahead of the console gaming curve), then you can pick up all those GAME OF THE YEAR titles a few years later for $10 and it will come with all the expansion packs, and they will play like a dream on a $50 video card.
TalkingOctopus:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 28, 2005, 12:51:07 am ---Also, if you are simply willing to live slightly behind the PC gaming curve (which is STILL way ahead of the console gaming curve), then you can pick up all those GAME OF THE YEAR titles a few years later for $10 and it will come with all the expansion packs, and they will play like a dream on a $50 video card.
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Yeah for the most part this is what I do too and it is awesome.
DrewKaree:
--- Quote from: tommy on March 27, 2005, 12:23:26 pm ---
The point is there should be somebody making sure people dont get robbed
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I know it's the heat of the moment talking. What you just said would break down like this on the street:
Mugger: Gimme yer wallet dude
You: Here you go....don't shoot me!
Mugger: (slips you a ten spot) Keep this and go get yourself something pretty!
You're not being "robbed". You're free to take your "business" elsewhere, like Peale is pointing out. There are OTHER avenues you can take, you're simply pissed that you can't do a simple trade without getting what you percieve to be fair market value. If people didn't take what they offered, and more did what Peale suggested to you, more than likely they would prolly up their price.
--- Quote ---how do they expect someone to buy a game and get nothing in return if they want to trade it in, i guess we all learned to get ripped off and like it these days.
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You weren't OFFERED "nothing in return", you were offered $8. Feeling like that's a ripoff is valid, but all they did was practice currently accepted market tactics.
If you REALLY want to feel like you got the hosing of your life, do what my mom did. Buy a BRAND SPANKING NEW CAR, decide to trade it in with 376 miles on it, and get dinged TEN EFFING GRAND!!!! ::)
Did I help? Does losing $42 bucks seem like a drop in the bucket compared to the stupidity of some other markets? If you don't accept the current market tactics, not only are there ways around it, YOU are the sucker for not working those avenues!