Idiots that don't understand video game values

[Ryu]

eh im not worried about that but several textbooks i have bought the old edition and the new edition is so different its a difficult chore to use it either in it being reorganized and pages being greatly different and in different order or differences in content
i wasnt trying to take this off topic sorry
btw, nes/snes are awesome!

[Kiwi]

the library doesnt have many textbooks or if they do their always being used

come on now ryu excuses excuses

reserve the textbooks before the first week of class, photocopy them then, and you wont have to worry for the rest fo the semester

best way to get them online is to get on it now! and you can always checkout other stores in your city, the boarders right by our university got in textbooks and offered a 25% discount on the books but hardly anyone took the chance becuase they didnt bother to look around.

[Ryu]

im going to get em online just havent had first class yet so dont want to guess which book to get

[repsac]

One of the funniest exchanges I ever saw happened at a Rhino games I shop at.

This kid walks in with a crappy PS2 game, plops it on the counter and his father says. "he wants to trade that in." well, the father and son then turn and wander off into the store while Ron. (the manager and good friend of mine) checks the value. A few minutes later, the father and son return with a brand new game, some basketball game IIRC. Laying it on the counter they wait patiently. Ron does the sale and says your total is fourty nine something.

The father balks at this and says the classic words. "But this is a trade in. I'm trading that game for this one."

It took Ron the better part of twenty minutes to explain how the trade in works, and I'm not so sure the father and son understood even then.

[etrain]

Spoiled

To paraphrase The Gord:

"Videogames are not a hedge against inflation"

I buy them to have fun, and consider the whole cost of them as sunk. If I'm not that fond of the game, and end up trading it in, the credit I get is a bonus. You get less than you would on e-bay, but I am more than willing to think of the difference as a convenience fee for not having to take the time to post and ship it.

Most other stores of any kind don't let you trade in used stuff. Videogame stores do it as a way to encourage you to buy more games (it works on me as I'm there trading/buying stuff about once a week), and it is their main source of profit. The mark up on new games and systems is VERY small.

People never see it the other way around. You can buy a copy of ICO (PS2)for 9 bucks now (used), but I never see anyone complaining about how cheap it is, despite it being a great game. People will, in the same visit to a store, complain about the small amount of money that they are getting for a trade-in, and then go and find a good, cheap used game. You can't have one without the other.

[LostMyMind]

Uh...the one that usually came with Duck Hunt/Super Mario Bros., and if you were lucky, the gun to use for DH...

Yep that the original, and yes I have the gun

[Legal Eagle]

for textbooks depending on the subjetc the textbooks age quicker.

Over the course of a year a lot changes in law, politics, sciences but comparitive far less changes in German/French/whatever or literature based courses.

[Bliss]

ugh
i admit i get REALLY MAD about textbooks prices and how little you get for them used but not at the employees, at the companies who put out a new edition every year or two
paying 200 bucks to get 10 or 20 back infuriates me so i understand how they feel, in a way, but never ever take it out on someone with no control over the situation

It always proves easier and better to conserve your books in good state (don't destroy them, don't write on them), and instead of selling it back, paste a notice on a bb in the college somewhere with the list, prices and phone, offer them at about twice what they give you at the store, and about %75-%85 of what they charge for used ones at the store, and you will possibly sell them. That's how I managed thorough college, all of them except my Copi (logic) which I won't ever part with

[protege]

for textbooks depending on the subjetc the textbooks age quicker.

Accounting and Tax books tend to outdate quickly. This is simply because the federal government redoes the tax laws every freaking year. Trust me, it's rather annoying to pay roughly $100 for a textbook...only to have it become literally worthless at the end of the year.

[crabbycabbie]

I used to be insanely addicted to video games...at one point I had a

Atari 2600
Genesis
Nintendo
Super Nintendo
Turbographx(sp?)
3DO
Colecovision
Playstation

All hooked up at the same time to one TV(there were also two VCRs connected to the same TV(both Betas to give you an idea of the timeline))

I had a network of about 30 guys around the country who traded games with me and each other(this was before the internet and all the communications we had with each other was by snail mail and yet no one EVER ripped anyone off)...We'd send five games to someone and they'd send five different games to us...because of this deal we had..we all got to play hundreds games we never would of been able to afford alone

Then I came aware of this guy who lived only 30 minutes away...this was an adult and he had very nearly EVERY game ever made...I didn't believe it myself when he told me but I've been to his house and he had a video room with floor to ceiling shelves packed with games and boxes upon boxes he didn't have room for on those shelves..he also had a big screen TV to top it off

I let the others in on him because any game he didn't have he would pay 1/2 price for(even if a used game store only would pay $3 he'd still give around $20 per game) and the best part was...he'd let you borrow any game he already had(five games at a time)...it was video gamer heaven

I stopped cold turkey about a year after the Playstation came out because I lived on a farm and had been going several years on 2-3 hours of sleep a night because of those damned games(I was too successful setting up my network and was getting too many games to play every week) and it was killing me

I got to play almost a 1000 games and I barely spent anything for them

Nowadays I'll buy a FPS if it gets excellent reviews but even now I'm scared to buy some RPG because if I do I know I'll get hooked again(playing something like Everquest interests me like you wouldn't believe but if I got online with something like that I'd never do anything else)

[LostMyMind]

Do you still have your turbographx? (yes you spelled it right) Finding more games for that is hard. I don't have the turbographx CD player

[toolbert]

Accounting and Tax books tend to outdate quickly. This is simply because the federal government redoes the tax laws every freaking year. Trust me, it's rather annoying to pay roughly $100 for a textbook...only to have it become literally worthless at the end of the year.

At least you'd get something back for it. I remember I took a Psyche class for a GE and the text book the professor wanted to use was out of print. So what did he do? He talked to the print center, got the rights to make copies for this class and we got to pay roughly $150 for a book that was copied and couldn't be sold back. I hated it when teachers would do that. We have to pay for copyright fees and the normal cost of the book...used to rip my hair out when I had to cave in and buy books like that.

[protege]

At least you'd get something back for it.

Not exactly. Because of the law changes, the book was out of date. That is, you'd get nothing for it--the bookstore actually refused to buy those books back. They couldn't resell them, so they didn't want them.

[crabbycabbie]

Do you still have your turbographx? (yes you spelled it right) Finding more games for that is hard. I don't have the turbographx CD player

When I moved I found my sister had stolen that machine and also my 3DO(and all the games for them) and sold everything(for almost nothing)

3Do was a great system but new they cost around $500(I got mine for $100 with 20 games)

I mostly got the Turbographx for playing Bomberman(I had four controllers)..that game is incredibly fun with lots of people all playing together

BTW The best game for the 3DO was Road Rash(a motorcycle racing game)...is there a really good motorcycle game for the computer out nowadays?(something that would use the microsoft controller too)

[repsac]

I've got an old 3do system floating around. The one that was like 500 before the company went out of bus and started to only do games.