Are you a cheapassflipper?

Mishimaryu

Mishimaryu

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So many people flipping with the Target mobile deal, just wanted a poll, anyone else sick off all the flipping bragging how much XX.YY they are getting in each gaming thread?

There were other's such as the Amazon penny error, where they actually honored the deals. Imo, this site only makes people more greedy!
 
I don't care as long as it's within reason. I will occasionally flip a few games to somewhere because it gives me more money to spend on games, but it is almost always after I have beat it.
 
I admit, I flip games but not to the extreme where most are doing it. I am just like Dark Rider, it is generally just to get more spending money towards games and less comes out of my pocket.

I took the time to build up some GS credit over this past week to get some stuff that I have been wanting.
 
[quote name='ZxT Vendetta']I admit, I flip games but not to the extreme where most are doing it. I am just like Dark Rider, it is generally just to get more spending money towards games and less comes out of my pocket.

I took the time to build up some GS credit over this past week to get some stuff that I have been wanting.[/QUOTE]

not to mention a CAG that got banned for trading multiple HDMI cables to gamestop LOL. All it takes is ONE chief jr detective
 
Good idea Mishimaryu! Poll for everyone who says yes and perma-ban, as it goes against the philosophy of the website. :D
 
I used to flip a bit back in the day but it's next to impossible now.

The stores around here are super anal about rules (no penny guides, no useful trade ins, etc.) and there's way too many pro flippers around here that anything good is gone within minutes of a deal being revealed or the store will catch on and restrict a deal.
 
I barely ever flip from retail stores, I have only had one really successful flip from a retail store and it was an item that no one here would even think to flip (it was not a game) but it seems as soon as a deal is going on everyone tries to sell their stuff on ebay at the same time which brings down the prices. With fees and my time involved I would be making next to nothing on a flip making it not worth my time and money to do it. There is also the possibility of losing money while buying stuff with the sole purpose of flipping it. I do much better with getting cheap items from elsewhere like yard sales and then selling those.

I did buy 2 games from BB during the Christmas sale, Halo reach limited and Bioshock 2 collectors, I still have Bioshock and I intend to flip it when Bioshock infinite comes out. I did alright with Halo reach which I purchased for 14.99 and flipped for 24.99 that was the best I could do on that one but I still made a few bucks.
 
It really doesn't go against the "philosophy of the website" at all. Being able to get the games you want as cheap as humanly possible is the philosophy here, and if that means picking up games for $2 from Gamestop and getting $20 for them at Target that's what you should do. Personally I mostly flip retro stuff I find at thrifts and flea markets, flipping from retail is rarely anywhere near as profitable.
 
I've flipped a few times. Lets just say my 3DS with Mario 3D Land cost me about 23 dollars. But generally? Nope, its pretty rare for me. More work than its worth and generally if its worth anything, I want it, lol.
 
I'll flip once in a while, but not off glitches or exploiting deal loopholes or anything, and any money I get goes back into games. I have a decent enough job and try to retain some dignity that I don't need to resort to shady practices for a quick deal, or ruin anything for anyone else.
 
[quote name='Romeo']Good idea Mishimaryu! Poll for everyone who says yes and perma-ban, as it goes against the philosophy of the website. :D[/QUOTE]

lolwut? What "philosophy"? As far as I knew, this was about getting cheap games. What you do with them is your own business...
 
I've done it occasionally, but I don't burn the deal for others. My last flip was B:AC at BB to GS last month. $32 for $10 and I got a Catwoman/Robin code for my troubles. I flipped my copy I bought at launch and replaced it with a new one to earn $22. Not bad.

I don't go buy 20+ copies to flip all crazy though, no.
 
[quote name='Mr Dude65']lolwut? What "philosophy"? As far as I knew, this was about getting cheap games. What you do with them is your own business...[/QUOTE]


Easy. Flippers buy one or several copies of a game a profit. Doing so takes away the ability for a real CAGer to get in on the deal, causing them to have to pay more elsewhere, defeating the whole idea of the website.

Essentially the flipper is anti CAG.
 
[quote name='Romeo']Easy. Flippers buy one or several copies of a game a profit. Doing so takes away the ability for a real CAGer to get in on the deal, causing them to have to pay more elsewhere, defeating the whole idea of the website.

Essentially the flipper is anti CAG.[/QUOTE]
that's funny considering 80% of CAGs have probably flipped, once a flipper always a flipper
 
[quote name='Romeo']Easy. Flippers buy one or several copies of a game a profit. Doing so takes away the ability for a real CAGer to get in on the deal, causing them to have to pay more elsewhere, defeating the whole idea of the website.

Essentially the flipper is anti CAG.[/QUOTE]

Whatever you say...

Oh, and it's CAG, not CAGer. That makes you sound like an idiot. Although so does most of what you post...
 
Only flipping I've ever done is was Batman AC. But I did buy a magazine for each copy I bought. Needed to get a hard drive for slim 360 and it was the only reason I did it.
 
I don't purposely buy games or hoard them in order to flip them. I usually buy the games I want, I play through them and keep them on my shelf. Eventually I'll wait for a Gamestop trade in bonus and end up getting double the amount I paid for them.
 
I prefer leaving some deals for others to get in on. I usually just pick up one copy. On rare occasions I'll pick up a second copy for a friend.

I would be very annoyed to see someone buying more than a few copies of the same game that I'm after. Obviously, they're going to turn around resell them at a higher price.

So by that way of thinking, I'm not a cheapassflipper.
 
I just buy shitty games that nobody will have any interest in anyway and trade them in to MicroCenter for a 300% profit. Not getting paid for the trade-in itself, but for keeping this trash off the streets!
 
what was the target thing?

I flip a lot of things at thrift stores. As far as retail, I've bought a few things from other places to get a good trade in somewhere else, however if a collector from here wants something from here, or a friend wants the game ill pick it up and sell it to them at cost.

One part of the flipping aspect that I don't like are people who try to low ball people out of things, or lie to them about the real value, even worse say its for their collection and then flip it.
 
Im a flipper.
I buy cheap games to pad my tradelist and have lowballs when events where I plan to spend money at come up, ie Comic con, black friday.

And I always keep an updated list on Craigslist for quick sales.
 
[quote name='Balkion45']I just buy shitty games that nobody will have any interest in anyway and trade them in to MicroCenter for a 300% profit. Not getting paid for the trade-in itself, but for keeping this trash off the streets![/QUOTE]

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Ah, flipping... I've done it twice, as far as I can remember, and not at all within the past 3 years.

I bough two used copies of MGS: Twin Snakes(at GS) right before MGS4 launch, and flipped them on ebay for about a $20 profit on each.

Then, I bought a couple games on amazon around BF, and flipped them back to WM for a $25 profit on each.

IMO, it's really not worth the time and effort unless you have a decent amount of free time. Also, I do hate it when people do it like crazy whenever a store has a sale... Drives me nuts and makes me lose a chance at purchasing said sale item.
 
Iv done it a few times where you see some profit that's worth it. For the most part though its nickel and diming and too much effort involved for too little return. Rather flip something worthy precious metals, cars, etc.
 
My flipping usually came from pawn shops and thrift stores, where I'd find old games and then sell them online. I did it daily but it was usually a waste of gas because it might take a whole week before I found something worthwhile. Nowadays, I go to a thrift store maybe once a week at most so if I find something, that's great otherwise no biggie.
 
The most I ever take advantage of a sale/promo is 2 times. As for flipping I only do it for one copy and it would have to net me at least a 40% profit for it to be worth it for me. I don't think I have any flippers in my area besides the rare occurrence where maybe an employee bought it before me since I always see plenty stock available week long or even month long like the March @gamer offers so I keep my flipping at most to 1 copy or none.
 
lol at someone saying people who flip should get banned.


heh sometimes i flip if i want to even out the cost of a game i buy from a games thats "flippable" - inception


i don't do the "buy every single copy of thing and leave none for anyone"
 
I think some people have a misconception of flippers. I flip, but I don't horde and buy out stock, especially at places like Target/BB etc. Most horders are lurkers and don't even talk on the forums.

I did buy a lot of games with the Target deal recently, but it was mostly to get rid of the stock of crappy games I had built up over time, and most of the games I bought were for me to play. To each his own though.
 
[quote name='Mishimaryu']not to mention a CAG that got banned for trading multiple HDMI cables to gamestop LOL. All it takes is ONE chief jr detective[/QUOTE]
I paid for Skyward Sword with HDMI cables. :D


That and the PS+ card from target are about the only things I've ever flipped from a retail store (even then, I only got two PSN cards; one to sell and one to keep.)
 
I usually just buy one copy of a game or 2 if its cheap and I know my friend might be interested. Not always buying a game to play it though, and I usually don't try to make a whole lot off a flip. Would rather just share my finds with other people who are looking for a good deal.

We have a store in Pitt called the Record Exchange, and I usually find good stuff there that is easy to flip. But again, I would rather spend my time looking for good deals on games that others might be looking for rather than by a bunch of crap and try to make cash off it.

Guess I am not so much a flipper as I am just a nice person or something?
 
I only flip stuff from thrift stores, and even then I only do it if I'm going to make a good profit. I'm also not a person who lists items on Amazon or eBay at super high prices fishing for idiots. When I sell stuff, I look at the lowest current listed price on Amazon, subtract 2 or 3 dollars, and post it at that price.
 
Normally, when I'm at a thrift store, rummage etc I shop for myself first but if it's a good enough deal and I notice there is a demand on CAG for it I'll pick it up. The only time I did it at a store was my walmaty marked down all of our copies of Metroid Prime Trilogy 3 weeks after release to $20 each(10 copies). I dropped the $200 and made off with more than $500. Let's be honest, ANY gamer would've hopped on that chance.
 
This is a question of morality. I personally wouldn't buy ten copies of a game for cheap just to trade them in for marginal store credit because I would want other people to have a chance at getting the same deal I got. I would, however, buy a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 if I found it at a lawn sale for $5.

I think "flipping" constitutes the routine act of buying multiple retail copies of the same game for cheap with the intent of selling them for personal gain, and that's just incredibly selfish. There are better ways to make money than screwing over fellow consumers.
 
[quote name='Blade']This is a question of morality. I personally wouldn't buy ten copies of a game for cheap just to trade them in for marginal store credit because I would want other people to have a chance at getting the same deal I got. I would, however, buy a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 if I found it at a lawn sale for $5.

I think "flipping" constitutes the routine act of buying multiple retail copies of the same game for cheap with the intent of selling them for personal gain, and that's just incredibly selfish. There are better ways to make money than screwing over fellow consumers.[/QUOTE]
I think most of the disgust is from the flippers that are considered hoarding, you know the ones who buy 4+ copies, and comes on CAG to brag about it. I have no problems with people buying 2-3 copies to cover there cost to get a free copy for themselves.
 
[quote name='spmahn']I only flip stuff from thrift stores, and even then I only do it if I'm going to make a good profit. I'm also not a person who lists items on Amazon or eBay at super high prices fishing for idiots. When I sell stuff, I look at the lowest current listed price on Amazon, subtract 2 or 3 dollars, and post it at that price.[/QUOTE]


Congrats on leaving money on the table! I hope that staying on your perception of the high ground is helping your savings account to grow.
 
[quote name='Romeo']Good idea Mishimaryu! Poll for everyone who says yes and perma-ban, as it goes against the philosophy of the website. :D[/QUOTE]
This site is for people to get deals on cheap games. But far too often I see people who wait till day 6 of a 7 day sale to go into a store and then blame some imaginary hoarder/flipper for them not getting a game. I understand people are busy in their lives and maybe they can't get there Sunday(when most deals start), but if you can't make time to get to a store till late in the week then don't blame someone else for you missing out on a deal.

People see what they feel is a good deal and they'll jump on it without hesitation. That's like this past weeks' Target trade deal. I waited till Saturday afternoon to take advantage of that. By then I expected to be told that it was one trade per person PERIOD and that old games didn't qualify at all. I got lucky though and managed to get in on the deal. But as they say, he who procrastinates....well you know.;)
[quote name='Mr Dude65']lolwut? What "philosophy"? As far as I knew, this was about getting cheap games. What you do with them is your own business...[/QUOTE]
Oh how I wish people could just follow that last statement of yours. So I picked up 4 copies of something and I decided to make a comment about where I'm going to offload them. You don't have to comment on me picking up the games or what I plan on doing with them since it's my money/credit I used to buy them with. But people just always gotta make a snide remark as if it's gonna change someone's mind.
[quote name='Theenternal']what was the target thing?

I flip a lot of things at thrift stores. As far as retail, I've bought a few things from other places to get a good trade in somewhere else, however if a collector from here wants something from here, or a friend wants the game ill pick it up and sell it to them at cost.[/QUOTE]
The Target thing was a deal last week where they had a trade-in deal in their stores with a cell phone kiosk in the store. It was supposed to likely be any two games from a select list would get you a $20 coupon that you had to use that day towards any game $29.99 and over. But thanks to a misprint in the physical ad it read that it was any two games.

Some people went as far back as Genesis titles, while most stuck to the ones for the systems listed on their trade-in screen(PS1 to current gen stuff including handhelds). It felt good to get rid of older titles like old sports titles for PS1 and get a decent value for them via the coupons.
[quote name='spmahn']I only flip stuff from thrift stores, and even then I only do it if I'm going to make a good profit. I'm also not a person who lists items on Amazon or eBay at super high prices fishing for idiots. When I sell stuff, I look at the lowest current listed price on Amazon, subtract 2 or 3 dollars, and post it at that price.[/QUOTE]
Anytime I've posted something for sale on Amazon(penny guides, PSPGo's, whatever), I usually put it at $1 below the lowest current price. That way I make the most and it helps offset the Amazon fees and the fact that Amazon only usually gives a MAXIMUM shipping credit of $3.99, even on stuff like the Black Ops Prestige Edition bundles, which cost $15-ish to ship UPS Ground.

But if you're willing to be nice like that and leave some meat on the bone for other people then good on you. But as for me I wanna make whatever price the market is willing to pay me or close to that.
 
I do some flipping. Nothing extreme. I like to play games a lot (especially now that finals are over) but can't afford to buy them all, so I find ways to get games for super cheap. Like if I want a game, I wait until a B2G1 or something similar and sell the other two games, keeping only the one I want, which ends up costing little to no money after the sale of the other two. Things like that. I don't hoard at all, though.
 
I've never flipped. Seems like too much hassle, and I'm a collector as much I am a gamer anyway so if anything is worth flipping it's usually something I'd rather keep.

This reminds me of the thread for Super Mario All-Stars. The second people got wind that it was a limited release, we had people bragging about buying their wal-mart's entire stock, selling the box alone for $60 on eBay, etc. I ended up getting my copy for Christmas from my sister. I opened it and I play it.

The other big flipfest I remember on cag was DDEAL. GameStop had a code glitch where it was supposed to take $10 off your total order on used games, but instead it took $10 off each used item, even if the item cost less than $10 (making it free). That was back when CAG16+saver+edge all stacked...and they all stacked with DDEAL. GameStop never corrected the error and the sale wasn't shortened either. They also honored almost every order. I admit I cleaned up rather well on that deal, but I didn't order any "free games" mainly because anything that would have been free I either had or didn't want. Every game I got from that sale I played and still have. But there were many a cag talking about ordering 15 free games and then trading them all back in to GS/Amazon/BBV/wherever they wanted credit.
 
[quote name='Drclaw411']I've never flipped. Seems like too much hassle, and I'm a collector as much I am a gamer anyway so if anything is worth flipping it's usually something I'd rather keep.

This reminds me of the thread for Super Mario All-Stars. The second people got wind that it was a limited release, we had people bragging about buying their wal-mart's entire stock, selling the box alone for $60 on eBay, etc. I ended up getting my copy for Christmas from my sister. I opened it and I play it.

The other big flipfest I remember on cag was DDEAL. GameStop had a code glitch where it was supposed to take $10 off your total order on used games, but instead it took $10 off each used item, even if the item cost less than $10 (making it free). That was back when CAG16+saver+edge all stacked...and they all stacked with DDEAL. GameStop never corrected the error and the sale wasn't shortened either. They also honored almost every order. I admit I cleaned up rather well on that deal, but I didn't order any "free games" mainly because anything that would have been free I either had or didn't want. Every game I got from that sale I played and still have. But there were many a cag talking about ordering 15 free games and then trading them all back in to GS/Amazon/BBV/wherever they wanted credit.[/QUOTE]

wow, i never heard about that. how many years ago was that? in reference to the DDEAL glitch.
 
[quote name='DCpinoy']wow, i never heard about that. how many years ago was that? in reference to the DDEAL glitch.[/QUOTE]

DDEAL happened early 2010. It really was pretty awesome lol. One of my orders I literally got 5 recently released (at the time) used games for $27. But like I said, I didn't take advantage to the point of ordering free games, or even flipping the ones I ordered for profit. People STILL bitched about GameStop though, for sending them their incredibly discounted, sometimes free, games without cases and/or manuals.

In similar cases, there were several occasions where Best Buy had coupons that took literally the entire price of a game or accessory off. EG: A game cost $29.99, and they issued a coupon for $30 off that game. People talked about photocopying the coupon, which was supposed to be one per person, bringing their friend/relative with, going to every best buy in town, accumulating 10-15 of the free thing, then trading them in to GameStop stores for credit. A few people got banned from certain gamestop stores iirc. I'm pretty sure I used one of the coupons once on a Disney game of some sort, but I don't remember exactly. If I did, I still have the game. I've never traded in or sold a game in my life.
 
[quote name='Drclaw411']DDEAL happened early 2010. It really was pretty awesome lol. One of my orders I literally got 5 recently released (at the time) used games for $27. But like I said, I didn't take advantage to the point of ordering free games, or even flipping the ones I ordered for profit. People STILL bitched about GameStop though, for sending them their incredibly discounted, sometimes free, games without cases and/or manuals.

In similar cases, there were several occasions where Best Buy had coupons that took literally the entire price of a game or accessory off. EG: A game cost $29.99, and they issued a coupon for $30 off that game. People talked about photocopying the coupon, which was supposed to be one per person, bringing their friend/relative with, going to every best buy in town, accumulating 10-15 of the free thing, then trading them in to GameStop stores for credit. A few people got banned from certain gamestop stores iirc. I'm pretty sure I used one of the coupons once on a Disney game of some sort, but I don't remember exactly. If I did, I still have the game. I've never traded in or sold a game in my life.[/QUOTE]

Damn, that's crazy. I wish I had gotten in on that.
 
In similar cases, there were several occasions where Best Buy had coupons that took literally the entire price of a game or accessory off. EG: A game cost $29.99, and they issued a coupon for $30 off that game. People talked about photocopying the coupon, which was supposed to be one per person, bringing their friend/relative with, going to every best buy in town, accumulating 10-15 of the free thing, then trading them in to GameStop stores for credit. A few people got banned from certain gamestop stores iirc. I'm pretty sure I used one of the coupons once on a Disney game of some sort, but I don't remember exactly. If I did, I still have the game. I've never traded in or sold a game in my life.
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Fairytale Fights was one of the games that it worked on. I cleaned out both best buys in my town. It was a better deal at the time to trade to Blockbuster, which was doing a either a B1G1 or B2G1 and then flipping games from that to Gamestop. That was a great 2 days.
 
[quote name='yourlefthand']Congrats on leaving money on the table! I hope that staying on your perception of the high ground is helping your savings account to grow.[/QUOTE]

Considering that A. I have a real job where I make real money and B. My only goal when it comes to flipping is to turnover items as quickly as possible, I think I do all right.
 
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