Best buy console trade in

$175 lol, you can get $250-$300 for selling a PRO locally pretty easily.

 
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Smithers123 said:
$175 lol, you can get $250-$300 for selling a PRO locally pretty easily.
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Yeah for real. Gaming is at an all time high. Def can get more than 175. A used switch nearly goes for msrp.
 
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This thread sounds like when someone posts a deal for a pre-built PC.  Yes, I could do it myself.  No, the two shouldn't be compared.  Sometimes people just want to do things the easy way and don't mind that it's not necessarily the best financially sound decision.

 
I wonder if they will take a switch with no dock.  I got a basically new stich that's hackable i got as a backup but never toch but i sold the dock for it

 
WNYX585AM said:
This thread sounds like when someone posts a deal for a pre-built PC. Yes, I could do it myself. No, the two shouldn't be compared. Sometimes people just want to do things the easy way and don't mind that it's not necessarily the best financially sound decision.
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Yup. I would rather get 175 from Best By then wade through the cesspool of craigslist hagglers, no shows and thieves and hopefully end up with a completed sale from someone dumb enough to spend 300 on obsolete tech.

I would disagree that it is not a financially sound decision because your time also has value though.

 
respectablechum said:
Yup. I would rather get 175 from Best By then wade through the cesspool of craigslist hagglers, no shows and thieves and hopefully end up with a completed sale from someone dumb enough to spend 300 on obsolete tech.

I would disagree that it is not a financially sound decision because your time also has value though.
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I agree on the financially sound wording except i'm sure there are some on here that either don't have jobs or other situations where their time is less valuable to them. This is, of course, a highly subjective issue.

 
Agree on CL. Too many time wasters I’ve run into there.

I will say selling on Nextdoor has been more successful for me. Barrier to entry is a little higher so I think that helps. Mainly parents looking for stuff for their kids.
 
Fred Gordon Herbert said:
I don't understand where these people live where they claim that they can get retail value for electronics on Craigslist. In reality Craigslist is full of greedy, rude douchebags that want to rip you off, thieves who want to rob you, flakes and time wasters, etc. The worst are the idiots that try to haggle with you AFTER you've agreed on a set price and meet in person and refuse to buy it unless you give into their lowball and of course you won't so you both leave pissed off with time wasted. Some people even harass you after you sold them the product. I would rather sell to GS or BB and be done with it than deal with the insane general population.
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I've had the opposite experience from what you are quoting. I actually sold several new PS4s during last holiday last year, 3 to be exact. All agreed to the listing price. I always meet in public (inside a supermarket). Unless, it's a bigger item such as a TV, I often meet them at a police station exchange zone for that. A counterfeit pen detector with UV light on the head, you can verify the bill strips under the light, literally cost $10 online (market + light 2 way detector). I've yet to stumble across someone with fake money across the 8-10 consoles that was sold in the past. The people were generally friendly in public.

Obviously, if they are not willing to meet you in public, go with your gut feeling. If they can't meet you in person but they are sending someone else to pick up the item, it's most likely a scam.

 
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Do I need to have the original box/packaging to trade-in console in Bestbuy? I see no point keeping X1X since Series X can play all the games I have. 

 
Smithers123 said:
I've had the opposite experience from what you are quoting. I actually sold several new PS4s during last holiday last year, 3 to be exact. All agreed to the listing price. I always meet in public (inside a supermarket). Unless, it's a bigger item such as a TV, I often meet them at a police station exchange zone for that. A counterfeit pen detector with UV light on the head, you can verify the bill strips under the light, literally cost $10 online (market + light 2 way detector). I've yet to stumble across someone with fake money across the 8-10 consoles that was sold in the past. The people were generally friendly in public.

Obviously, if they are not willing to meet you in public, go with your gut feeling. If they can't meet you in person but they are sending someone else to pick up the item, it's most likely a scam.
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My experience with CL is that if you're selling, people try to low ball you (or ask for an additional discount on the spot - I usually tell them upfront in the email that price is firm). But you've got to be prepared to walk for low ballers. I usually just schedule the meet up when and where I had to do an errand - like you said, a supermarket or something.

If you're buying, forget about it. So many fake people - especially if you're purchasing electronics (like Apple in particular).

 
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Was selling like 3 n64 lots on CL a couple years ago. Each had a mario game or two in em to sweeten the lot since I had a ton of random doubles. Had a guy come to my house tried to flash his money at me trying to get all the mario games in one lot for the same price. Obviously that not how it works as the mario ones were way more expensive. I specifically told him I’m not splitting up any of the lots before he showed up. Drove there for no reason n got all pissy at me and he left with nothing. What a tool lmao. Shit was hilarious to me.
 
Use OfferUp if you have bad experiences from Craigslist. By reading some of these replies, I highly doubt all of you have experience with Craigslist or offer up and are just making excuses or going off of some other story you've heard. I have been selling and buying on Craigslist and offer up for years and ninety-nine percent of the time, things go smoothly.

If you want to leave hundreds of dollars on the table,that's your right but Best Buy only giving you $175 when you can get $275 or more selling it privately is a way better deal.

Have any of you actually used OfferUp or Craigslist or Facebook marketplace to see how much One X, Ps4 pro and Switch are going for in your area? I 100% guarantee they're going for more than $175.
 
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Freeze Time said:
Use OfferUp if you have bad experiences from Craigslist. By reading some of these replies, I highly doubt all of you have experience with Craigslist or offer up and are just making excuses or going off of some other story you've heard. I have been selling and buying on Craigslist and offer up for years and ninety-nine percent of the time, things go smoothly.

If you want to leave hundreds of dollars on the table,that's your right but Best Buy only giving you $175 when you can get $275 or more selling it privately is a way better deal.

Have any of you actually used OfferUp or Craigslist or Facebook marketplace to see how much One X, Ps4 pro and Switch are going for in your area? I 100% guarantee they're going for more than $175.
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99% of the time people on offer up or craigslist are low-ballers. It's not even specific to area, as I've lived in a couple different places, and you always get some idiot asking if you'll take 50% of your asking price. You have to factor in convenience. That in and of itself makes this best buy offer more appealing to most people I'm sure.
 
Yes, I get lowball offers but I just ignore them or tell them the price is final. Half of the time I've found out that they buy it for the price I'm asking even after low balling me.

Let's say I'm asking $300 for my console. Best Buy would give me $175 for it. The person on offer up or CL or FB offers $250. They low-balled me since I wanted $300 but it's still more money than what Best Buy is offering me. No matter how you try to spin it, you will be able to sell a PS4 Pro, Switch or One X for more than what BB is offering.
 
hgmk80 said:
Do I need to have the original box/packaging to trade-in console in Bestbuy? I see no point keeping X1X since Series X can play all the games I have.
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No, just whatever it asks you for on the trade-in page, which is just what it comes with - power, controller, etc.

 
I've had amazing luck on eBay personally with bigger priced items/systems. I've sold a sealed CE worth $800, a couple sets of older toys for $300+, and a bunch of other random shit in the $100-$300 range and have yet to have any issue. (Hell the only two people I've had try to raise complaints were both on items under $40 and I won one of the cases and the other was just a DLC code that I didn't sell properly)

Likely gonna sell my Spiderman PS4 Pro on there if none of my friends want it. Never had much luck on local sites, and I live in Indiana, so I especially don't want to deal with people in the wild.

 
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SgtWiggles said:
I've had amazing luck on eBay personally with bigger priced items/systems. I've sold a sealed CE worth $800, a couple sets of older toys for $300+, and a bunch of other random shit in the $100-$300 range and have yet to have any issue. (Hell the only two people I've had try to raise complaints were both on items under $40 and I won one of the cases and the other was just a DLC code that I didn't sell properly)

Likely gonna sell my Spiderman PS4 Pro on there if none of my friends want it. Never had much luck on local sites, and I live in Indiana, so I especially don't want to deal with people in the wild.
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I am very wary of selling on eBay because I've read a lot of horror stories that the buyer has a lot of protection and can get away with fraud very easily. I think it's also pretty late for me to get into the eBay game so that's why I stick with local.
 
I actually sold my Xbox One X to BB via UPS and just got my trade credit one week after dropping it at the UPS store. You don't get a coupon if you do mail in, but they pay the postage and you don't need to wait inside the store for them to test it. For how I personally value my time, coronavirus exposure, and gas/wear on my car this was well worth it, YMMV.
 
GreenArmadillo said:
I actually sold my Xbox One X to BB via UPS and just got my trade credit one week after dropping it at the UPS store. You don't get a coupon if you do mail in, but they pay the postage and you don't need to wait inside the store for them to test it. For how I personally value my time, coronavirus exposure, and gas/wear on my car this was well worth it, YMMV.
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150 is a damn low price through.

 
Freeze Time said:
I am very wary of selling on eBay because I've read a lot of horror stories that the buyer has a lot of protection and can get away with fraud very easily. I think it's also pretty late for me to get into the eBay game so that's why I stick with local.
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I've been selling off a lot of my collection: both games I played and some stuff I never got around to. For example, at this point I'm never going to play my unopened (or any, really) PSP games ;). I even sold a Gran Turismo PSP hardware bundle I simply never got around to opening. For whatever reason it sold for more than I paid for it - I guess to a collector. So it hasn't all been cheap stuff. It's been nice as the only reason I could justify dropping $500 on the Series X is that I sold at least that much worth of stuff this year.

I've had very little problem on eBay. Yes, the buyer has a lot of protections, but the amount of cases brought is very low. I've been selling off and on for 10+ years and have only had a handful of issues. I had one douche who bought a sealed game and played it and didn't like the game itself and wanted to return. In that situation I had to take it back which really sucked. But that was one bad experience out of 100's of sales. I've had a few other returns (that were still sealed or in original condition so in that case I'm only out my original shipping cost). Fortunately I haven't had anyone outright steal (like claim they never go it or something). You are actually protected from that sort of thing with delivery confirmation. In that case I think eBay and/or PayPal just eats the cost.

Bringing this back around on topic, I seriously considered selling my original Xbox One when I got the Series X. But I'm just going to give it to my son who's at college now, He and his girlfriend still use her old Xbox 360.so I figured instead of making a few bucks I'd give it to them. It looks like an original 500 GB Xbox One would sell for about $150 shipped on eBay. But you are talking $20-$30 shipping and with fees that puts you probably under $100. I don't know what Best Buy or Gamestop gives for those but I'd trade there for probably anything over $80 or $90.

Xbox One X looks like it sells for about $250 on eBay. But you have to factor the shipping, fees, your time to list and package and ship, and the small chance for a buyer trying to cheat you. $150 actually isn't horrible given all that, though in that case I'd probably try to sell it - would clear around $180-$200.

 
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io said:
I've been selling off a lot of my collection: both games I played and some stuff I never got around to. For example, at this point I'm never going to play my unopened (or any, really) PSP games ;). I even sold a Gran Turismo PSP hardware bundle I simply never got around to opening. For whatever reason it sold for more than I paid for it - I guess to a collector. So it hasn't all been cheap stuff. It's been nice as the only reason I could justify dropping $500 on the Series X is that I sold at least that much worth of stuff this year.
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I was cleaning out my old stuff and was thinking about doing the same.

Did you sell piecemeal or all together?

I'd rather sell my collection of original Xbox Tony Hawk games as a collection then trying to ship them for $10 a piece.

 
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io said:
I've been selling off a lot of my collection: both games I played and some stuff I never got around to. For example, at this point I'm never going to play my unopened (or any, really) PSP games ;). I even sold a Gran Turismo PSP hardware bundle I simply never got around to opening. For whatever reason it sold for more than I paid for it - I guess to a collector. So it hasn't all been cheap stuff. It's been nice as the only reason I could justify dropping $500 on the Series X is that I sold at least that much worth of stuff this year.

I've had very little problem on eBay. Yes, the buyer has a lot of protections, but the amount of cases brought is very low. I've been selling off and on for 10+ years and have only had a handful of issues. I had one douche who bought a sealed game and played it and didn't like the game itself and wanted to return. In that situation I had to take it back which really sucked. But that was one bad experience out of 100's of sales. I've had a few other returns (that were still sealed or in original condition so in that case I'm only out my original shipping cost). Fortunately I haven't had anyone outright steal (like claim they never go it or something). You are actually protected from that sort of thing with delivery confirmation. In that case I think eBay and/or PayPal just eats the cost.

Bringing this back around on topic, I seriously considered selling my original Xbox One when I got the Series X. But I'm just going to give it to my son who's at college now, He and his girlfriend still use her old Xbox 360.so I figured instead of making a few bucks I'd give it to them. It looks like an original 500 GB Xbox One would sell for about $150 shipped on eBay. But you are talking $20-$30 shipping and with fees that puts you probably under $100. I don't know what Best Buy or Gamestop gives for those but I'd trade there for probably anything over $80 or $90.

Xbox One X looks like it sells for about $250 on eBay. But you have to factor the shipping, fees, your time to list and package and ship, and the small chance for a buyer trying to cheat you. $150 actually isn't horrible given all that, though in that case I'd probably try to sell it - would clear around $180-$200.
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Surprised Ebay forced you to take back the opened game. If anything I would have refunded less if they returned it.

I've sold well over 100 games on there and never had that happen though, and hopefully never will.

 
Zimmy said:
I was cleaning out my old stuff and was thinking about doing the same.

Did you sell piecemeal or all together?

I'd rather sell my collection of original Xbox Tony Hawk games as a collection then trying to ship them for $10 a piece.
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For low value stuff I just bundle and ship them at once.

 
mrpuck27 said:
Surprised Ebay forced you to take back the opened game. If anything I would have refunded less if they returned it.

I've sold well over 100 games on there and never had that happen though, and hopefully never will.
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Happened to me before as well. Sold a copy of a sealed Xbox 360 game and buyer claimed it didn't work. Got it back and it looks like the buyer moved the system with the disc inside and you can see the damage. But again this is a one time incident over many years

 
I'm also leery of EBay, I sold a bunch of older games I had a while back and had this one guy try to run a scam on me.  I noticed the game was at his PO but not picked up after a week.  All of the sudden, a claim was filed against it and I immediately submitted the information (and I used EBay for the shipping, so they had the information).  I actually called his post office and spoke to the Postmaster who confirmed that the guy had a small basket of packages that had been sitting there a while and not picked up.  He then waited a bit and the day before time was up he called in an got an EBay person to refund him without even talking to me, even with the evidence, the Postmaster named and number in my favor.  Fortunately when I called EBay they recredited me (I guess they ate the cost or something), then when I called the post office again apparently he had then picked everything up.  I think his game was to order a bunch of stuff, wait until the last minute then file claims for non-delivery, get refunded and it would be too late to do anything about it and pick up the stuff.

Upon looking at his account I found that the regularly left bad feedback to get refunds and tried to scam buyers, but EBay refused to do anything about it.  Fortunately due to the last call EBay found in my favor they blocked his feedback on me.  I sent messages to several of his marks and he had done the exact same thing to them.  It takes ALOT before EBay bans a buyer, even with a distinct history of shady stuff.  They should really keep better track of people that leave a bunch of negative feedback, it is a sign of a scammer.  No one runs into bad sellers anywhere near the rate he said he did (like 80% of his buys).

 
I feel like half the stuff I bought from eBay in the last year was not as described. Nothing like paying for a like new game that is so scratched even gamestop would deny it. Other fun one is what do you mean it has water damage... there is mold growing on the inside of the case and the cover art is rippled and the print is coming off, how do sellers not see this when people post stuff?
 
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Anyone figure out a way to use the 10 dollar coupon online? Or figure out what it can be used on? Want to preoder guilty gear strive w/ it..or something.

 
Zimmy said:
I was cleaning out my old stuff and was thinking about doing the same.

Did you sell piecemeal or all together?

I'd rather sell my collection of original Xbox Tony Hawk games as a collection then trying to ship them for $10 a piece.
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Really a case-by-case thing. Collections are easier to sell but you usually gotta take less for them. But since everyone these days wants "free shipping" and it is by no means free as a seller, it probably isn't a bad idea. It runs close to $4 to ship a game in a bubble mailer, so selling games for less than $10 shipped doesn't get you much. I still do it because I'd rather someone have the game than keep it in storage or throw it out. But if there are easy to put together collections it is probably worth it. Anything that you can sell for $15-$20 and up, individually, I'd probably just do that though. Having said all that, I pretty much sell all my stuff individually.

mrpuck27 said:
Surprised Ebay forced you to take back the opened game. If anything I would have refunded less if they returned it.

I've sold well over 100 games on there and never had that happen though, and hopefully never will.
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I don't think eBay forced me to - but the buyer was threatening to make a claim and I just didn't want to deal with the potential hassle. I figured my spotless feedback was worth preserving. I'm sure I could have fought it, but it wasn't worth the trouble. Of course the buyer went on my blocked buyer list afterwards! And really that's the only problem I've had in like the last 5 years.

About 3 years ago I started selling off my collection to make some extra money and just since then I've sold at least 500 things. And that was mostly the low-hanging fruit - things I was 100% never going to play and didn't even want to keep in my collection any more. I could mine the higher end of my collection for years and get a lot more for it. As I've gotten older I just realized I'm never getting to this epic backlog that I built up over 15+ years thanks to CAG and I might as well cash some of it out. It's also just part of de-cluttering. I don't want my kids to have to sort through all this stuff - so I'm really just trying to keep much less. I remember way back in the day people here used to say these video games we bought cheap and put away for later would never pay for our kids' college. And while that was certainly not my intention when I bought them, they are quite literally helping pay for my kids' college now.

trinken wir said:
I feel like half the stuff I bought from eBay in the last year was not as described. Nothing like paying for a like new game that is so scratched even gamestop would deny it. Other fun one is what do you mean it has water damage... there is mold growing on the inside of the case and the cover art is rippled and the print is coming off, how do sellers not see this when people post stuff?
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I try to understate my stuff. I mean a lot of what I'm selling is new/sealed stuff that I bought like 10 years ago and never got around to playing. (Side note: old DS and 3DS RPG games can be pretty valuable if still sealed). But if there's even the tiniest tear in the plastic I'll mention it. And for used stuff I'll go with "very good" if there's even the slightest ding to it. I use "like new" for things that I literally opened and maybe played once - as they do really look like they were just opened. I figure my "like new" is better than most Gamestop "new" items ;).

 
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