Have any of you ever made/tried to make a profit from being a CAGer?

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JLi313

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Like finding deals on CAGer.com and bought the item.. then sold it to a friend or on ebay for extra what you paid but less than or equal to what the stores are selling it for?
 
I've had a few unequal trades off of CAG before, but I've never outright sold anything for more then a few dollars extra to cover shipping.
 
To Get into more detail, Last TRU clearance last Jan. I picked up 3 Digital Devil Saga's for 10.00. I popped them on Ebay. They sat in my TRU clearance for 3 days before I got there and bought them. So people in my area had there chance to get them :)
 
I think most cag'ers have done this. I know I have. Im not trying to be a hoarder tho, or send my unborn children to college by abusing TRU clearances. But I have no problem picking up a second or third copy of a game to use for trade fodder, or to sell on ebay and recoup some of my cost.
 
I have... though nothing highly sought after. Early in my CAGing days, I would buy anything that was cheap. During the CC $5 sale (man, that was a good sale) I bought about 20 games (including such great titles as Eternal Ring:lol:). I ended up selling 12 of those games.
 
[quote name='Puffa469']I think most cag'ers have done this. I know I have. Im not trying to be a hoarder tho, or send my unborn children to college by abusing TRU clearances. But I have no problem picking up a second or third copy of a game to use for trade fodder, or to sell on ebay and recoup some of my cost.[/QUOTE]

This is how I look at it too.

I've broken even on every single clearance last year in 2006... there is nothing better than completely free games.
 
Not intentionally. I have bought games really cheap, played them, decided the game sucked and sold them back to EB at a slight profit.
 
Bought Disgaea for $5 (they had multiple copies) from Circuit City back in the day and sold it for I believe $40 so I could pay back my sister.

Other then that, no. I have never tried to profit from any of the deals here.
 
I traded Trauma Center for a DS and a GBA game I believe.

I also bought Phoenix Wright for $30 and sold it on ebay for $45, but that didn't involve CAG.
 
iazybandit took my Wii Cover I spent 6+ hours on and created it exclusivly for CAG, and bought some Wii DVD Cases and put it on eBay and made nothing but profit off of me, another CAG.
 
Yes, several times, not on a huge scale though..

Typically the deals I find on CAG are for myself

the deals I used to resell back in my eBay days were all YMMV and never from CAG posts
 
I haven't made money off of CAGs, but I have made alot of money from being a CAG. Last year when MGS 3: Subsistence came out I was able to score a preorder copy without having a preorder; purchased for $40 and sold for $160 on ebay.

I did somewhat the same with the PSP mic/headphone combo when it seemed no one could find them. I found a TRU that had 6 in stock so I bought 4 @ $20 a piece and EBayed them at $45 each.

I'm not out to screw over another CAG, I wouldn't do that. What I am out to do is to help support my gaming; if someone wants to pay me $65 for a SNES and a copy of Super Mario World, I'll sell it to them then wait for it to come to the Wii VC for $8.
 
i scored some of the wii component cables for myself, then saw posts on cag about how much they we selling for and was able to sell them for a decent profit on ebay and buy another pair at retail price. and i'm still looking for a wii.

usually if i am able to make any money reselling its from B&M deals i've come across.
 
I think it's a common practice, and I've done if quite a few times. But I do think there's a line between buying a game on clearance and trading it somewhere for more store credit -- or even Ebaying it -- and hording a ton of deals at one location, thus assing out all prospective other CAGs. I admit to hoarding once or twice in my time as a CAG, but have since learned my lesson: Share the wealth. Also, I find stuff like trying to return unopened games without a receipt -- purchased elsewhere -- for cash to be pretty detestable. I won't even talk about the PS3 ebay debate. But I guess all our moral lines and our consciences are different.
 
I have recently sold both of my Marvel vs Capcom 2's (purchased for $5 apiece at the infamous CC clearance a while back). One went for $110, the other for $150.

I mostly pick up games that I intend to play, however.
 
I remember back in the day when TRU offered gift certificates (Geoffrey Dollars) in exchange for ANY 16 bit games (Genesis & SNES). I can't remember what the exact quantity was (something like 10 - $10). I went around to all of the used game stores and bought up every single copy of the old sports titles that sold for literally pennies. I then traded them and turned about $40 worth of games into almost $400 worth of store credit.:cool:
 
[quote name='Mookyjooky']iazybandit took my Wii Cover I spent 6+ hours on and created it exclusivly for CAG, and bought some Wii DVD Cases and put it on eBay and made nothing but profit off of me, another CAG.[/QUOTE]

Wow. I didn't know that. That's real gay on iazybandits part.
 
[quote name='Mookyjooky']iazybandit took my Wii Cover I spent 6+ hours on and created it exclusivly for CAG, and bought some Wii DVD Cases and put it on eBay and made nothing but profit off of me, another CAG.[/quote]

What a little bitch. I guess brilliant ideas need to be copyrighted from now on.
 
I bought the 3 GBA Castlevanias for ~$60 (seperately) off of CAGs and a few months later decided to sell them and they sold for $180. Thats about all though, really only buy stuff if I want to play it.
 
Profit? I doubt it, but breaking even? Yeah. If possible, at a sale from CAG, I'll get two copies of something (assuming there's several left after I get 2), and sell one off to pay for the other. Got Ikaruga for free that way last year via the morning update.
 
[quote name='Mookyjooky']iazybandit took my Wii Cover I spent 6+ hours on and created it exclusivly for CAG, and bought some Wii DVD Cases and put it on eBay and made nothing but profit off of me, another CAG.[/quote]

What an ass.
 
Last time I made a profit from CAG was a while back, with the FYE trade in deals. I would hunt for games like Malice or NBA 2k4, buy them for 10 dollars a piece used, clean the cases to remove any stickers, and trade them in to FYE for more than twice the credit. I built more than 500 bucks of FYE credit there when all was said and done.

Too bad that doesn't work anymore.
 
[quote name='Chitown021']I remember back in the day when TRU offered gift certificates (Geoffrey Dollars) in exchange for ANY 16 bit games (Genesis & SNES). I can't remember what the exact quantity was (something like 10 - $10). I went around to all of the used game stores and bought up every single copy of the old sports titles that sold for literally pennies. I then traded them and turned about $40 worth of games into almost $400 worth of store credit.:cool:[/QUOTE]
I remember that, too. I made bank on that, picking up tons of new N64 and PSone games with very little investment.
 
I sold FF12 from the TRU 50% off coupon advertised here. The buyer on eBay decided to return it (my return policy is a 15% restocking fee and no refund on shipping) so I made about $4 on that and gave it to my gf in exchange for hockey tickets.

The CC clearance from a couple years back paid my rent for two months. I decided to walk in there with $500 and by the time I sold all of that on ebay I had a little over $1,100.
 
[quote name='ViolentLee']I remember that, too. I made bank on that, picking up tons of new N64 and PSone games with very little investment.[/quote]


If I remember right that was how I got my N64 system (I think they did the promo right around launch).
 
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