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[lexi]

swingerz golf gc .80 - $8

Awesome, 1000% Markup, Hooray for EB!

 

[cvxfreak]

Where I am, if you went to Gamestop, you'd've gotten an extra $10 for every 3 current generation console games you traded in.

Nice deal, that's still going on?

 

[Cubsfan23]

Deadmeat from opa-age posts here now?

 

[Syckx]

Gamestop does do cash for trade, but your lose 20% and any trade-in promotions are not valid.

 

[_Angelus_]

EB buys dead Xboxs? Well I guess its time to dig up the damn corpse I've got in my closet so they can reanimate it then.

 

[ferricide]

you sure, cause right before you hit the submit button to make it live, you are warned that you are about to be immediately charged by ebay for the listing fee. then later on once it sells, you get charged a "final value fee".

http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/payment-due-date.html

i'm positive. it calculates up all the fees you accrue on ebay in the course of a month, and then charges it to your CC in one lump sum at a specified date (check that url).

and i have to say -- posting this to the forum was inviting criticism.

 

[MoxManiac]

2.40 for RE0? 1.60 for Wario Land 4? 60 cents for Splinter Cell?? Good god, EBgames are crooks.

 

[bitwise]

http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/payment-due-date.html

i'm positive. it calculates up all the fees you accrue on ebay in the course of a month, and then charges it to your CC in one lump sum at a specified date (check that url).

and i have to say -- posting this to the forum was inviting criticism.

thats incorrect actually.. i was about to list some more items (non game related) after i read this, glad i looked further, i would have been soo screwed in bounced check fees haha.

http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

"Insertion fees and optional feature fees are charged at the time of listing and are non-refundable. "

 

[Alex Anderson]

eBay only charges your actual credit card or bank account once a month, and only when you owe them $10 or more (perhaps the $10 thing has changed). They're just talking about the amount that's charged to your ebay account at the time of listing. The listing fees aren't refundable, but the final value credit is refundable if the buyer doesn't pay.

Regardless, I don't think I'd be listing items without money in the bank, either.

 

[bitwise]

eBay only charges your actual credit card or bank account once a month, and only when you owe them $10 or more (perhaps the $10 thing has changed). They're just talking about the amount that's charged to your ebay account at the time of listing. The listing fees aren't refundable, but the final value credit is refundable if the buyer doesn't pay.

Regardless, I don't think I'd be listing items without money in the bank, either.

i have one of these in mint new condition and someone just payed $97 for one wtf

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1345&item=5933129144&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW


im going to list it, i sent ebay help an email just to be sure they arent going to charge my bank account right away for the listing fee. thanks for the info guys

 

[drohne]

tactics ogre gba 4.00

i recently sold tactics ogre gba on ebay for ~$60. :/

 

[duderon]

dayum, desperate times call for desperate measures, i guess.

 

[BobbyRobby]

i recently sold tactics ogre gba on ebay for ~$60. :/

Nice, I'm glad I still have a sealed copy now.

 

[Mejilan]

I've still got TWO copies of TO KoL. What a game!

 

[jedimike]

That's too bad... I would have doubled your money and wired it to you same day. Of course, not knowing who you are, I would be very hesitant. Anyway, if you have a PayPal account you could have gotten much more money just by selling it here. Instantaneous dinero... if you have the debit card.

Something to think about in the future.

 

[bitwise]

That's too bad... I would have doubled your money and wired it to you same day. Of course, not knowing who you are, I would be very hesitant. Anyway, if you have a PayPal account you could have gotten much more money just by selling it here. Instantaneous dinero... if you have the debit card.

Something to think about in the future.

debit card is tied to my (currently) negative balance checking account, so any money deposited into it would have been wiped out

and for real, would someone really have western unioned me the money right away before they got the items from some guy online? i know i wouldn't.

 

[CrimsonSkies]

Thank goodness for EBay. I have a 200 plus rating on there.

 

[Great Wasabi Man]

Silly me and I thought I could get more then the 1.00 they offered me at Gamecrazy for SCD....guess not.

 

[SKluck]

I'll never understand why people trade in games. You get back 10% what you spent on it, if you are lucky. Just rent the fucking thing and save yourself 30 bucks.

 

[CB3]

I'll never understand why people trade in games. You get back 10% what you spent on it, if you are lucky. Just rent the fucking thing and save yourself 30 bucks.

Traded in burnout3 at gamerush last week. Got it for $45 after gamers gift card at bestbuy. Gamerush gave me $40 after about 2 months after release date. So not quite 10% as long as you know where to go

 

[ferricide]

"Insertion fees and optional feature fees are charged at the time of listing and are non-refundable. "

sigh. they are CHARGED TO YOUR ACCOUNT and then your account is, in turn, billed once a month. do you really think ebay wants to charge dozens of sub-$1 fees to people's credit cards, obliterating all profits in merchant fees from visa et al. or charge a lump sum and make more money?

i promise. they charge you once a month. which is what the url i linked says:

eBay requires payment in full each month if your invoice has a balance of $1.00 or more.

how do you think you get a "balance"?

moot now, i suppose.

 

[john tv]

Wow. You got thoroughly PWNED there. Alllllll those games and all you got was a measly $145...? :/

It's amazing what these retailers can get away with...

 

[demi]

There are no words...

 

[MrAngryFace]

EB and Gamestop dont care about walkins anymore, their a pawn shop plain and simple. New games? Who cares. They can rape people on old ones.

 

[MoxManiac]

Holy crap, TO GBA is worth that much? Ebay time!

 

[Oni Jazar]

Starving my ass. You wanted it same day because you were desperate for crack admit it. It's sad when gamers go south. Even sadder when they get ass raped by EB for it. Ah well enjoy your crack, cracky.

 

[Cold Shadow]

You got MEGA-PWNED, either way you are a fucking dumbass. You could have gotten atleast $450+ for all this.

 

[impirius]

Starving my ass. You wanted it same day because you were desperate for crack admit it. It's sad when gamers go south. Even sadder when they get ass raped by EB for it. Ah well enjoy your crack, cracky.

:lol

"You're just a crackhead. Sorry about that cracky, crack, cracky. Hey Tom, he's just a crackhead. Aren't ya cracky? He's a big ol' crackhead. Here's some crack, cracky!"

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Wow, if you were interested in credit you could have really cleaned up at fye (check the used trade-in prices at wherehouse.com).

Bless you!

 

[Oni Jazar]

These are the used games that I recently listed on Half.com and sold them all in less then a month.

Metal Arms: Glitch In The System - $13.70
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - $12.26
Voodoo Vince - $12.94
F-Zero GX - $13.75
Shenmue 2 Xbox - $7.80
The Getaway - $6.95

 

[Folder]

bitwise
Is actually 12 years old

:lol

A year older than you then.

Don't worry about it lad, EB rips off the biggest companies in the games industry all day long.

 

[dem]

Holy shit
They screw you that bad on games?

They actually give you like 60 cents? Thats a fucking joke.

 

[Mr_Furious]

No shit. The case alone is worth $1. It baffles the mind why anyone would voluntarily trade-in games at EB or GS.

 

[bitwise]

You got MEGA-PWNED, either way you are a fucking dumbass. You could have gotten atleast $450+ for all this.

fuck you, prick.

pff, anyways. must be nice to go through life without having to make any difficult choices

 

[levious]

fuck you, prick.

pff, anyways. must be nice to go through life without having to make any difficult choices

Most people living paycheck to paycheck or otherwise in unstable financial situations don't buy that many games in the first place... learn from your mistakes.

 

[bjork]

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. If he didn't have time to wait out an ebay sale or a yard sale or whatever, I don't see why he should be getting grief for trading his games in. It might not have been the amount anyone thinks he should've received for the stuff, but it wasn't anyone else's decision to make anyway...