Are Any of You This Kind of Customer?

[quote name='sisco1986']just sucks to be you if you want it used and it doesn't come with the case or instructions (or some bonus CD) and to that I say . :-({|=[/QUOTE]

And to that I say, that's being a complete jackass.
 
[quote name='Josef']Ever wonder why you don't see any used/complete GBA games at Gamestop? The store destroys the boxes/instructions even if the games are traded in complete. I was lucky to "save" a newly traded in copy of Harvest Moon back when it first came out - the box was just about to be trashed.[/QUOTE]

Sadly, its true. Some stores are just to small to save GBA boxes/manuals when often times when they are purchased, an employee forgets they even have them, or their for kids and they generally don't care.
 
[quote name='howlinmad']
The spokesman of the group and about 3 of his buddies are standing there with a stack of Madden, random basketball and baseball games, Super Mario/Duck Hunt cartridge, Tetris for the first Game Boy, and a PS Tomb Raider game.
They look with dumb blank faces when the guy either won't take them because a bite is taken out of one or all of them, or they get .50 for Madden 1872. Most of the time, they either have no cases, or a regular CD case with the manual attached with a rubber band for the PS2 titles.
Then they have to call their cousin and tell them while they are in line, then explain how gosh darn shocked (put it nicely, you translate it) they are.
Then stare at the clerk for another 45 seconds while he tells them the same thing he did 5 minutes ago.

Then, either 90% of the time, they will just take their buck seventy-five they are offered, while the place marks up everything about 750%.

Or taking their stack of crap off the counter in a slump, they then walk out with their buddies starting the sentence with "man shit" then tell what they should do to the MF'r behind the counter.[/QUOTE]

Very accurate and very funny - you forgot one thing though. They usually want CASH for the tradeins, which of course nets them even LESS money.

I saw this happen at an EB a few weeks back - except the group was a bunch of kids (10-13 or so in age) and they didn't swear while doing it. I cringed looking at the game cases - I just knew the contents were not likely to be "mint and complete". They even had some newer games like Halo 2 (which was one of the beat to hell ones). I think they got $12 cash for 5-7 games, including Halo 2.
 
Sorry to say it, but the people with the trashed manuals are usually pretty dense (or young kids). They're the ones who aren't smart enough to figure out the game on their own and actually need to take the manual out of the case for help. All of my manuals are in excellent shape because I've never wanted or needed to actually look at them, and when I do look at them, I look through once and put them back in the case. I'm sure that goes for most people here.

In my experience, anyone who truly needs to read a game manual to figure out the game won't have the presence of mind to put the manual back in the case when they're done with it. Then it gets lost or mangled or gooped on. Of course, there are exceptions, and some games are complicated enough to warrant reading the manual (or come with nice enough literature that it's worth browsing). But for the most part, I think the chances of the instructions going to hell increase exponentially when someone who actually needs to look at them takes them out of the case.
 
I have a few things to say and admit. Back when the N64 came out, I was a lot less careful with my games, mainly because I wasn't much of a gamer. I just played a few games here and there, nothing big. I even wrote my initials on some of my Gameboy cartridges (all of which I still own, so I didn't fuck any used game buyers over with it). But even though I didn't much care for my games, I did keep all of my N64 game boxes in my garage, up until we moved and my dad threw them away. I wasn't very angry at the time, but now that I've become a hardcore gamer, and my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder has gotten worse (literally, I step in patterns when I walk, etc.) I realize that he totally screwed me over for collection purposes. Oh well, I only have 4 N64 games now after getting a few stolen and others I've traded. But the point still remains that I won't buy a game that's not complete. And the same goes for trading. I hate buying games that aren't complete, so I might as well do others like me a favor by trading in my games complete. Hell, I even traded in my DS with everything included (both stylus', Metroid Hunters demo, precautions booklet, etc.).

But then there are other circumstances that cause things to get lost, damaged, etc. Like kids, for instance. I have a little 3 year old brother who gets into everything. Whenever we rent from Blockbuster, he somehow gets ahold of the disks and just grabs them and puts smudges all over it. Before we have the chance to take it away from him, he sometimes throws it for the hell of it. It's annoying, but even if you put it high up they always find a way to get it if they really want it. So the point is that not all things can be avoided. Instead of getting pissed that they don't have a used copy complete, I just take my business elsewhere. I realize that some things can't be bought at most other places, like rare PS1 games, but if it's something you know you can get elsewhere, just leave. If you're really sick of it, buy your games new. It sounds to me like it's important enough to you to pay a few extra dollars to get it new.

Well, that's just my two cents.
 
How about when you get a used playstation game from EB.com and get a disc that has blockbuster carved into the thing? It's a good thing that game is only getting me free shipping.
 
Either people just don't mind seeing their rather expensive games mangled, or they don't understand how sensitive and vulnerable the discs are. Neither explanation is good enough for me though.
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There is a guy here at work...people have loaned him CDs and DVDs and they come back all scratched up. We've watched him. He just grabs it (not by the edges, with his fingers on the bottom). Sometimes he just tosses it on the table top, or when he's leaving for the day he just tosses it in his bag with all the other stuff in there (papers, plastic containers, etc). He seems to have no regard for how it could get scratched. Weird cause he is a big music person and has lots of CDs.


I think it's funny that Gamestop/EB destroys GBA/SNES/N64 boxes. You think that someone would have learned from the ebay prices that they should keep them around.

I'm always amazed at how many disc-only PS1 games there are. I mean, fuck, I understand for NES/SNES era games (I'll be damned if I can tell you where our Chrono Trigger box, DWIV box, etc went, back when we didn't know better), but with the CD/DVD cases, it seems so weird that people lose the rest of it. I mean, even lose the frickin case?
 
If the store doesn't give more for the case and manual, I keep them. I often buy and sell the same game multiple times and I never know when I could get the game again CD only (or never know when a fellow CAG will need them). Plus, why give away what you can keep especially to a store?
 
[quote name='PenguinMaster']If the store doesn't give more for the case and manual, I keep them. I often buy and sell the same game multiple times and I never know when I could get the game again CD only (or never know when a fellow CAG will need them). Plus, why give away what you can keep especially to a store?[/QUOTE]

I have to admit, I will probably be trading in classic Castlevania for GBA and I will keep the box/manual around for a while. I know from the boards here that EB will just destroy it anyway. If I decide to get it again later I will have it laying around.

At least the old guy at the mom-n-pop type store knows the value of boxes - he keeps them (even GBA, even on games not worth much).
 
i got a copy of Valkryie profile for ridiculously cheap off of ebay a while back that was "complete".

it was missing the manual and the case was cracked. swapped out the case but to this day I'm missing the manual :(

When i was younger my parents never bought me games so I was always buying the shitty trashed games that I knew my friends liked, so now i have beat up copies of chrono trigger, secret of mana, super metroid etc.

however, the only game my parents ever bought was FFVI (or III US) and I have that complete!
 
I just bought 15 dreamcast games for $50 from ebgames.com (used the CAG link, score one for CheapyD!). And 8 of them came back complete (big ups to ebgames.com, much better than Gamestop.com, IMHO) and 7 came blank jewel cases. It's seemingly getting harder and harder to get games complete.

I was able to do a google search for the CD case art so I printed them off (looks good too). Does anyone know where I could possibly download (.pdf files or otherwise) the manuals? I can't seem to find a site where I can print them to make a book. I'm ok with downloading them and making new booklets for the cases. PM or post would be great!

Don't worry, I don't trade in used games, so I am not flodding the market with these! Thanks!
 
[quote name='GreenMonkey']I have to admit, I will probably be trading in classic Castlevania for GBA and I will keep the box/manual around for a while. I know from the boards here that EB will just destroy it anyway. If I decide to get it again later I will have it laying around.

At least the old guy at the mom-n-pop type store knows the value of boxes - he keeps them (even GBA, even on games not worth much).[/QUOTE]

Your EB destroys GBA boxes? They only have a few boxed games in-store, but they don't destroy them. Plus, EB gives a little more for boxed games.
 
Great thread.

I hardly ever buy used, for just this reason -- I find it unbelievable that people do not trade in complete games. Its like trying to sell someone an incomplete car.
 
I do it when I buy a cheap disc only game from someone for like 2 bucks. I recently did just that with Legend of Mana, and I think I'll take it in to gamestop.
 
I "treat my games like babies" now but when I was 4 with my NES, I threw them around. I was also a big computer gamer between the ages of 6 and 12; back then, I didn't give a damn what happened to the boxes and manuals. My parents ended up throwing the boxes away when we moved and I've lost some manuals since we've moved so many times. Now I go online and look how much the complete older games (even PC) games go for and I feel like crying, hehe.

Some of my games get scratched because I lend games to my friends and when I get pissed at them for scratching my games, they get mad at me for caring more about my games than our friendship, haha.
 
I have not traded in a game since the early days of Funcoland.

Tell me, do they still give you extra for your trade in if you have the box and instructions?

I believe Funcoland offered an extra $5+ for games with boxes and instructions.

My mom made me save and take care of every single game she bought me for this reason.
 
[quote name='GreenMonkey']I'm always amazed at how many disc-only PS1 games there are. I mean, fuck, I understand for NES/SNES era games (I'll be damned if I can tell you where our Chrono Trigger box, DWIV box, etc went, back when we didn't know better), but with the CD/DVD cases, it seems so weird that people lose the rest of it. I mean, even lose the frickin case?[/QUOTE]

I have a reason why, though I don't know how accurate it is. I assume many people did the same thing with these PS1 and DC games that they did with their CD's, that is throw away the case, back insert included, and put the game and manual in a CaseLogic binder.

I've thrown away most of my music cd cases for the same reason, but have always kept the back insert in case I ever wanted to display them in a case again.
 
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