[quote name='ktims777']Before you complain about me selling a couple of codes i was given by friends who dont have interest in playing multiplayer and are letting me sell them cause I am currently unemployed, maybe do a little research and see that the pic you posted above is from a CAG member named Dabamus that got his hands on 42 codes and sold them here and on ebay.[/QUOTE]
A couple is fine...I'm not saying anything about that, and I knew someone would say something about that, I was just waiting to respond. If you buy your game and get your code but you don't necessarily want Sgt. Johnson, fine, sell him, I see no problem with that. But just getting 100 codes handed to you by a friend and selling them for $10 while other people aren't getting a code that's RIGHTFULLY theirs, is just wrong.
If you can honestly go through your day feeling good making $10 off free codes, fine, but I wouldn't be able to. I mean, would you go to a place where they give you free peppermints, take all their peppermints, and then go sell them to people for a quarter each? That'd basically be like doing the same thing. But anyway, say you walk into Gamestop to find that the employee just gave 100-200 of the DLC codes to his friend so he can resell them, and now they're out of codes, so you don't get one. You'd be okay with that?
Oh, and he's not much of a CAG. I true CAG wouldn't steal from other CAG's and then sell the items they stole for $10 each, which, in retrospect, is what he did. I'm not saying he stole from the exact CAG's posting in this thread, but there very well could've been people going into that Gamestop or whatever store he got them from, and not receiving their code because they were out, hence, he stole, though indirectly, from a fellow CAG.
[quote name='drduranduran']agreed, I recently sold a Juggernaught code since I had an extra and I also got laid off 6 months ago and still see no real job coming anytime soon. If it wasn't for the layoff, I would have just given it away for free. Keep in mind, I also offered trades for the code and happily sold it for $5 (which anything more would be completely unfair and I wouldn't have allowed someone to try and pay me something insane for it). I simply wanted to recoupe some of my loss on a $60 title since I am unemployed.
Granted, I agree on the pic above, that is a sick amount of unlock codes and selling one character unlock for $7.50-$10 is hella lame. He should seriously give a few out to CAG people who got screwed on the TRU deal (like me, but I got one from a buddy at a GS, so I don't need it) and then he should sell the rest to those who simply opted out (for a reasonable fee). Everyone wins and there is good Karma for everybody.[/QUOTE]
Exactly what I'm saying. If you actually pre-ordered two games, go ahead and sell the code(s) you don't want. If you didn't want/need Juggernaut, why keep it, just sell it and make some money back on your game purchase, but don't pick 100 codes up for free just so you can sell them when there's the chance you're going to be stealing from someone in the long run. And keep in mind, the people buying these codes are people that got jipped off in the first place, probably because of the employee's giving away too many of the codes to their friends for free.
In other words, when you pre-order a game with a FREE pre-order bonus, that's not what it really is. It's more of a way to let you know there'll be some codes up on eBay for some DLC for the game, because you'll only actually get your code that you deserve if you get lucky.
But like I said, if you pre-order 50 Halo: ODST's, then the codes are yours, and I say go ahead and sell them, that's fine, but just going in to a store and having them given to you for free, for nothing, even if you didn't pre-order the game or don't even own the console the game is on, that's just wrong.
The way I look at pre-order bonuses is that they actually are part of what you're paying. So say you pay $60 for the game, then say the Sgt. Johnson code is $5 of that, or $10, so when you don't get the code, it's like you spent $5-$10 and got nothing. So, if you do get the code, go home and sell it if you want, you spent $5-$10 on it, why not sell it if you don't want it. Just like if you were to buy an Xbox 360 and it came with a 12+1 month card as a bonus, I don't expect you to give it away, I would deduct the $50 from the cost of the console, and then resell it to get some money back.
But yeah, selling one or two codes you get, that you actually pre-ordered the content for, is fine, and I even suggest doing it so you pay a little less for your game, but stealing from other people and then charging them for the items you stole from them is a pretty
ed up move.
