How to rate game conditions

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edenney

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I am selling off a bunch of games that are disk based. I am not sure how to rate conditions. Like what would get rated excellent vs a game that gets rated good. I don't want to have people get upsed because a game I thought was in excellent condition only looks "good" to them when they receive it. Any help or advice you may have would be greatly appreciated.

PS I tried to take pictures of the backs of the games, but I can't get scratches to show up in the pics.

Thanks.:D
 
Excellent - no scracthes, maybe a smudge or two
Very Good - a few scratches, nothing too deep
Good - disc has more than a few scratches
Fair - lots of scratches, possibly deep, still works
 
[quote name='YoshiFan1']Excellent - no scracthes, maybe a smudge or two
Very Good - a few scratches, nothing too deep
Good - disc has more than a few scratches
Fair - lots of scratches, possibly deep, still works[/QUOTE]

That's a pretty good system, and that's what I basically use but keep in mind that those words are all objective. And mean different things to different people.
 
[quote name='YoshiFan1']Excellent - no scracthes, maybe a smudge or two
Very Good - a few scratches, nothing too deep
Good - disc has more than a few scratches
Fair - lots of scratches, possibly deep, still works[/quote]

You forgot a grade of game.

Gamestop quality-looks like someone used it on a stretch of rough pavement as a frisbee or as a coaster or for toilet paper when they ran out after taking a shit, lots of scratches, questionable if it will work at all or stop smelling like someones ass.

Seriously though, I use this same chart for my own games and stuff that I'm buying. Of course, I rarely have scratched up games, so most of mine are in the Very Good to Excellent range with only a few in the good range throughout my time as a gamer.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']
Gamestop quality-looks like someone used it on a stretch of rough pavement as a frisbee or as a coaster or for toilet paper when they ran out after taking a [CENSORED], lots of scratches, questionable if it will work at all or stop smelling like someones [CENSORED].
.[/quote]

Congratulations sir, you have made it into my sig lol:applause:
 
LOL That's what I've always said about Gamestop's stuff really, though if you check every damned copy of a game they have in stock, you CAN find one that only looks like it was thrown up on by some sick kid and not even cleaned before being traded in.

Oh and I didn't notice it was censored till now, it still gets the point across though.
 
I use excellent, which I normally give to every game I sell that I originally bought brand new myself.

I give great to games that I've bought from Gamestop/eBay that don't look like complete trash, the vast minority.

Then I have what I call "good, working condition", these look like well...people have already explained, but the game still works.

Don't believe I've rated a game anything else.
 
The best thing to do, to avoid any problems later on, is to spell everything out. Don't say it's in good condition, say it has a few scratches but still works.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']You forgot a grade of game.

Gamestop quality-looks like someone used it on a stretch of rough pavement as a frisbee or as a coaster or for toilet paper when they ran out after taking a shit, lots of scratches, questionable if it will work at all or stop smelling like someones ass.

Seriously though, I use this same chart for my own games and stuff that I'm buying. Of course, I rarely have scratched up games, so most of mine are in the Very Good to Excellent range with only a few in the good range throughout my time as a gamer.[/quote]


Nice! lol

I think the gamestop online warehouse doubles as an auto bodyshop. They employees take the used discs, stick them on the end of a drill, and use them to sand down quarterpanels.
 
[quote name='TehMuff1nM4n']But you censored it... :cry:[/quote]

It's actually funnier with the censored parts in :lol:

And OP, take it from someone with a 99+% rating that at least one person is going to find something to bitch about with the game conditions you choose. But the system proposed above is fair IMO.
 
[quote name='mguiddy']The best thing to do, to avoid any problems later on, is to spell everything out. Don't say it's in good condition, say it has a few scratches but still works.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I would recommend this as well. Give a clear description of the quality.
 
[quote name='YoshiFan1']Excellent - no scracthes, maybe a smudge or two
Very Good - a few scratches, nothing too deep
Good - disc has more than a few scratches
Fair - lots of scratches, possibly deep, still works[/quote]


I do it a tad different I put or think of it as.

Mint - Nothing at all.
Near mint- a smudge or two.
Excellent- a few scratches
Good-Disc has quite a few scartches
Horrible- The disc looks like crap,but it plays. :)
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']LOL That's what I've always said about Gamestop's stuff really, though if you check every damned copy of a game they have in stock, you CAN find one that only looks like it was thrown up on by some sick kid and not even cleaned before being traded in.

Oh and I didn't notice it was censored till now, it still gets the point across though.[/quote]

When i was a gaming Noob the EB workers hated to see me come in because i would inspect the CD after they spent 3 minutes diggin through their crapily organized cd compartment, and may times tell them i didn't want it. I ended up mainly going to Babages because they workers would show me the CD and ask if i wanted it...thier stickers also came off alot easier.
 
Lol. Thanks for all the responses. It helps a lot. I recently put up 12 games and a N64 and got $380. I think that your advice will help me with the next batch I put up though. Thanks. I hope I never receive the gamestop quality game. I would have to put it under category table coasters.
 
[quote name='mguiddy']The best thing to do, to avoid any problems later on, is to spell everything out. Don't say it's in good condition, say it has a few scratches but still works.[/quote]

This. A few ambiguous adjectives will only get you in trouble down the road. Clearly describe the state of the stuff the best you can.
 
[quote name='Sinnbox']When i was a gaming Noob the EB workers hated to see me come in because i would inspect the CD after they spent 3 minutes diggin through their crapily organized cd compartment, and may times tell them i didn't want it. I ended up mainly going to Babages because they workers would show me the CD and ask if i wanted it...thier stickers also came off alot easier.[/quote]

I ALWAYS did that too, even if it was a $2-3 game, which pissed off the employees to no end, since I'd sometimes go through 5-10 copies of a game before I found ONE good one.

What I still don't get, is why the hell Gamestop put down the edict now to put stickers on the actual case artwork versus JUST the damned case? It's ludicrous to do it and most of the games have 20 layers of the damned things. I guess it would be too tough to go around and remove all of the other layers of stickers from the cases EACH week or month, whenever they do price updates.
 
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