Have you guys ever just... thrown stuff away?
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Your better off selling your old systems than giving them away for that vary reason, your charitable-ness may fire back on you. If you want to be charitable offer the item up for shipping and your costs alone to someone here on CAG, or sell for about 10-15$ less than ebay value here, this way the resellers won't hit (they won't bother for 10$ less than ebay value) and you will get someone who actually wants the system to use. I am all for being charitable however sometimes being "too nice" will hurt you in the long run.
Donate complete systems and games to hospitals if possible, you can be sure that people are getting use out of them there.
Donate complete systems and games to hospitals if possible, you can be sure that people are getting use out of them there.
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[quote name='SaraAB']Your better off selling your old systems than giving them away for that vary reason, your charitable-ness may fire back on you. If you want to be charitable offer the item up for shipping and your costs alone to someone here on CAG, or sell for about 10-15$ less than ebay value here, this way the resellers won't hit (they won't bother for 10$ less than ebay value) and you will get someone who actually wants the system to use. I am all for being charitable however sometimes being "too nice" will hurt you in the long run.
Donate complete systems and games to hospitals if possible, you can be sure that people are getting use out of them there.[/quote]
I just had that happen, someone on here offered me IQ for PS1 for $20 off Ebay price(of $60 they said it was worth), but they had bought it from someone from CL for $10. I didn't find out how much they only paid till they posted their cost in a thread about someone else getting a complete copy for $19.
Honestly, I'm here for CHEAP games and paying Ebay price for anything is an INSULT to me, especially when some CAGs I've seen post in threads brag about lowballing flea market and yard sale people out of their decent quality stuff. There's making a profit and then there's being a jackass and overpricing the crap.
And, I had a friend who donated some stuff to a hospital once and one of the sick kids parents proceeded to help themselves to his nes or snes stuff and walked right out the door with it. So, sometimes, you get a thief who will kill any charity and good will you're trying to generate. It only takes one to turn others off of being charitable.
Donate complete systems and games to hospitals if possible, you can be sure that people are getting use out of them there.[/quote]
I just had that happen, someone on here offered me IQ for PS1 for $20 off Ebay price(of $60 they said it was worth), but they had bought it from someone from CL for $10. I didn't find out how much they only paid till they posted their cost in a thread about someone else getting a complete copy for $19.
Honestly, I'm here for CHEAP games and paying Ebay price for anything is an INSULT to me, especially when some CAGs I've seen post in threads brag about lowballing flea market and yard sale people out of their decent quality stuff. There's making a profit and then there's being a jackass and overpricing the crap.
And, I had a friend who donated some stuff to a hospital once and one of the sick kids parents proceeded to help themselves to his nes or snes stuff and walked right out the door with it. So, sometimes, you get a thief who will kill any charity and good will you're trying to generate. It only takes one to turn others off of being charitable.
Yeah, we donated some "too nice" furniture to the salvation army and now they constantly call us asking us if we have any more furniture to donate...
The deals that I have gotten at yard sales were voluntary, aka the person at the yard sale priced it that way or was offering 1/2 price off items in order to get rid of their stuff.
I assumed the hospital would keep track of video games but I guess they don't.
I put all the games I had for trade on my tradelist, no one wanted it so it went to ebay, I think this is the process that most people here use, the stuff has to be gotten rid of eventually. I mainly use ebay to sell off my doubles of games that I pick up along the way in lots and stuff and if people here don't want them. I still have to trade my DS games..
I am here for reasonable priced games (I won't expect someone to ship me an NES cart for 1$ for instance). I enjoy trading with people too because that means I can exchange a game that I already played for one that I have not yet, which is the biggest value this site holds for me, instead of having to put the games on ebay and pay the high fees or god forbid trade the games into gamestop, which is something I will never do again unless they have a really amazing trade in promotion (which I seriously doubt will happen again).
The deals that I have gotten at yard sales were voluntary, aka the person at the yard sale priced it that way or was offering 1/2 price off items in order to get rid of their stuff.
I assumed the hospital would keep track of video games but I guess they don't.
I put all the games I had for trade on my tradelist, no one wanted it so it went to ebay, I think this is the process that most people here use, the stuff has to be gotten rid of eventually. I mainly use ebay to sell off my doubles of games that I pick up along the way in lots and stuff and if people here don't want them. I still have to trade my DS games..
I am here for reasonable priced games (I won't expect someone to ship me an NES cart for 1$ for instance). I enjoy trading with people too because that means I can exchange a game that I already played for one that I have not yet, which is the biggest value this site holds for me, instead of having to put the games on ebay and pay the high fees or god forbid trade the games into gamestop, which is something I will never do again unless they have a really amazing trade in promotion (which I seriously doubt will happen again).
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