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Wow, Mario kart Ds is 20 base?

Originally Posted by J7. If you spread them around you could've made quite a bit more. If you brought them all to GC & TRU, and just one game to AMZ. Just trying to help you make more and not have GS get all the trades. Values in red. Bigs 2 best with GS+50% Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs - $11 (same, new date) $20.83 at GC/$17 AMZ GTA IV - $5.75 (same, new date) $12.50 TRU & AMZ Cloudy with Chance of Meatballs - $13 (same, new date) $20.83 at GC/$17.50 AMZ G.I. Joe - $14.25 (same, new date) best with GS+50% Guitar Hero: Metallica - $12.75 (same, new date) best with GS+50% ($17.50 TRU & AMZ) 50 Cent - $6.50 (up $1 from OP) $12.10 TRU, $11.50 AMZ, $10 GC Ice Age - $8.25 (down $1 from OP) $16 GC, $12.10 TRU & $11.50 AMZ is just under GS's X-Men Origins: Wolverine - $10.25 (same, new date) $18.75 AMZ (on 11/22 has gone down since now $16), $16.80 TRU.

Well there is no Game Crazy anywhere near me so that rules out that option for me. Also I didn't trade in GTAIV, I was just reporting the value. Other than that the differences between the other options are not worth the trouble. Both Cloudy's are, in essence, the same with the 50% bonus compared to Amazon & TrU. Same goes for Ice Age. 50 cent and X-Men Origins might have been a couple dollars better, but I needed some filler for the Trade 6 promo at GS.

I see what you are saying about maximizing the TiV's, but for a difference of about $5 total on 2 games it just doesn't make sense to bother with TrU and Amazon in this case, at least for me. There is a time value in coordinating those trades and the ease of just taking a bag of games to GS usually offsets packing and mailing games out to amazon or TrU especially since your credit is available immediately once you trade your games to GS/EB. With Amazon and TrU, you have to play the waiting game, and there is still a chance that they could reject part of your trade. GS pretty much takes anything with very few questions asked and you are free to pick up some new stuff before leaving the store.

I've traded in with Amazon in the past and will do so again if they bring back some of their better promos, but this is the most profitable and easiest way to go for me.

Originally Posted by japaki buttt.. how much of a profit is that..40-50$?

It was yeah like $30 profit from just a few minutes. It would be really sweet if you could find a store with all 3 games with the $30 TIV. You are pretty much guarenteed to find the games worth $25. Uncharted 2, Dragon Age, Borderlands, ODST is 27 and both the stores I went to probably had half a dozen copies of all these games. If you did it'd be an easy $49.50 profit. I may go check tomorrow at some point or this weekend again.

Horrid story at Gamestop yesterday. Went there and traded two games for L4D2. Then traded a few other games. Went home to check the balance and found $0. I later found out that instead of giving me in store credit, they used it to purchase an Edge card since I didn't have one. I must of said yes or something when they were asking me. I do remember them asking me something about having an Edge card. The employee was talking in a soft tone as well. So dang that sucks. Guess I got to use the Edge card to my advantage.

Originally Posted by mrkool899 Horrid story at Gamestop yesterday. Went there and traded two games for L4D2. Then traded a few other games. Went home to check the balance and found $0. I later found out that instead of giving me in store credit, they used it to purchase an Edge card since I didn't have one. I must of said yes or something when they were asking me. I do remember them asking me something about having an Edge card. The employee was talking in a soft tone as well. So dang that sucks. Guess I got to use the Edge card to my advantage.

It's totally worth it, anyway, and will pay for itself pretty quickly. Technically, the EDGE is free when you buy a subscription to Game Informer.

Alright I really hope so, just tell me how I can use it to my advantage. I rarely go to Gamestop to buy games.

Originally Posted by mrkool899 Alright I really hope so, just tell me how I can use it to my advantage. I rarely go to Gamestop to buy games.

Your games must of been pretty worthless to get no credit even after getting an edge card, got some titles?

Originally Posted by anthfett06 TIV Values from today. Went to the one gamestop to buy 6 games to trade in at the other gamestop. Found one Assassin's Creed 2 but unfortunately no CODMW2 or LFD2 used (all three of these games are $30 TIV). 360: AC2 - 30 Borderlands - 25 Dragon Age - 25 Halo ODST - 27 PS3: Uncharted 2 - 25 Batman AA - 23.25

Do you live in a tax free state? I can't see where you would make more than about $15-20 doing this. Three top tier $54.99 games would be around $106 with EDGE and B2G1 (I factored in sales tax at a pretty standard 8%).

If you traded them back in (with the 50% bump, inlcuding EDGE):
AC2: $45
Uncharted, Borderlands, Dragon Age: $37.50/ea
ODST:$40.50
Batman: $34.87

Total would be right at $232.87. minus your $212, you made about $20 bucks, I reckon. If you didn't have that Ass Creed, you would have only gotten about $10.

He paid for his games with store credit, I assume. That's tax free.

Does anybody know the TIV of New Super Mario Bros. Wii by chance?

Originally Posted by sgaldis Do you live in a tax free state? I can't see where you would make more than about $15-20 doing this. Three top tier $54.99 games would be around $106 with EDGE and B2G1 (I factored in sales tax at a pretty standard 8%). If you traded them back in (with the 50% bump, inlcuding EDGE): AC2: $45 Uncharted, Borderlands, Dragon Age: $37.50/ea ODST:$40.50 Batman: $34.87 Total would be right at $232.87. minus your $212, you made about $20 bucks, I reckon. If you didn't have that Ass Creed, you would have only gotten about $10.

At least for my state, the purchase of used games with a Gamestop credit is tax-free, and so after Edge and B2G1 Free, the cost of each game at 49.49 becomes 98.98 for three games. Two times that amount is 197.96. Total profit after all said and done is roughly $32. I did something similar, but I only plan on doing this once and not abusing it because this will only lower TIV for others.

Yeah paid with credit which means no tax. So that is $198 total.

TIV for New Super Mario Bros is $25. Saw it up on the board yesterday.

Originally Posted by anthfett06 Yeah paid with credit which means no tax. So that is $198 total. TIV for New Super Mario Bros is $25. Saw it up on the board yesterday.

Ahh..thanks mate!

Originally Posted by anthfett06 Yeah paid with credit which means no tax. So that is $198 total. TIV for New Super Mario Bros is $25. Saw it up on the board yesterday.

Luckily in CA we still get charged tax even with credit.

Hmmm so I'm thinking of doing that trade in two games deal to get New Super Mario Bros. Wii, but so far I only have Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games to trade in. Is there a cheap game on that list of games to trade in that I could possibly get somewhere?

I am trying to get rid of my gamecube (updating to Wii finally) what all do I need to have to trade it in to gamestop?

Does anyone think that ODST TIV will drop since Gamestop will be selling it for $40 new? Cause I'm wanting to get rid of it soon.

just traded in a few games an hour ago. forgot to ask them how much each got before saying yes, o well. I could of gotten a few more bucks at GameCrazy.

base tivs
halo 3 - $13
halo odst - $27
COD4M (360) - $9.75
NFSU (PS3) - $8
DBZ bust (PS3) - $5
RF:guerilla (PS3) -15

Originally Posted by bgame2 Wow, Mario kart Ds is 20 base?

Yep. It was posted on their board in-store. $30 after edge + the trade 6 bonus.

Originally Posted by Vap Does anyone think that ODST TIV will drop since Gamestop will be selling it for $40 new? Cause I'm wanting to get rid of it soon.

I think if anything it'll drop to like $20~$25. I'd think it'd be best to get rid of your copy as soon as possible though, IF you want max profit out of your game. If you still want to play the MP, then by all means hold onto it.