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For me I felt like I was going through the motions. Too similar to DKCR with less the appeal. Boss should have been K Rool. I'd say get Kirby All Stars, SMB U and/or SMB 3D World over this one. Different strokes though...
Further, I did not "lose" anything, either time. Selling something back for less than you bought it for, after YEARS of use, is not "loss". I got great value back for an item that is towards the end of it's lifecycle. If you told someone several years ago that they could "rent" an Xbox One S for $30 for 4 or 5 years, it would be the slickest deal ever posted on slickdeals. You'd be a farking legend.
In any case, there have been numerous front page deals about Gamestop offering great value for last gen systems. The last one for Xbox went front page and had hundreds of thumbs up. So clearly you are demonstrably wrong about how little people care. When those prices went up and someone posted here, a great many slickdealers went out and traded in their systems. With Series S being in stock in many places, it was an EASY $80 upgrade. Clearly you do not have your finger on the pulse of slickdealers and how they use Gamestop.
Nobody cares if you don't like Gamestop, nobody is making you trade-in there. Sell on Craigslist, you'll absolutely make more money if you want to go that route. Not everyone wants that hassle. The notion that there cannot be any good deals at GS is foolhardy. I dump my old systems when new generations come out because I don't want them anymore. I'm not a collector. I could sell them on craigslist or ebay but it's a hassle, they almost always have SOME fault by the time I let them go and the last thing I want to deal with is complaints. Gamestop often has solid trade-in offers, especially when there is a new revision or generation out.
Further, I did not "lose" anything, either time. Selling something back for less than you bought it for, after YEARS of use, is not "loss". I got great value back for an item that is towards the end of it's lifecycle. If you told someone several years ago that they could "rent" an Xbox One S for $30 for 4 or 5 years, it would be the slickest deal ever posted on slickdeals. You'd be a farking legend.
In any case, there have been numerous front page deals about Gamestop offering great value for last gen systems. The last one for Xbox went front page and had hundreds of thumbs up. So clearly you are demonstrably wrong about how little people care. When those prices went up and someone posted here, a great many slickdealers went out and traded in their systems. With Series S being in stock in many places, it was an EASY $80 upgrade. Clearly you do not have your finger on the pulse of slickdealers and how they use Gamestop.
Nobody cares if you don't like Gamestop, nobody is making you trade-in there. Sell on Craigslist, you'll absolutely make more money if you want to go that route. Not everyone wants that hassle. The notion that there cannot be any good deals at GS is foolhardy. I dump my old systems when new generations come out because I don't want them anymore. I'm not a collector. I could sell them on craigslist or ebay but it's a hassle, they almost always have SOME fault by the time I let them go and the last thing I want to deal with is complaints. Gamestop often has solid trade-in offers, especially when there is a new revision or generation out.
I literally said a comment to another person as a joke they would need to sell a PS5 to get enough trade in credits to buy the game in this thread. You said you traded in your Xbox one and lost $30 of value and you're now even further proving my point that your one off opportunity and random trade in deal is something no one should care about. You're the one who's stretching the story to fit your narrative. Like I said no one is trading in a console because you only lost $30.
GameStop has historically given shitty trade in offers so when Slickdeals promotes trade ins for GameStop it's because for once they're not actually shitty. This isn't a GameStop trade in forum. I made one joke and you took your personal anecdotal experience and are acting like GameStop is the best and only option. For your case it worked out for you with the random deals they had at the time. No one should give a shit about your personal experience with your random specific situation so that you lost only $30. I don't know why that's such a hard concept to grasp that your personal situation alone would never make someone trade with GameStop. If I go to GameStop and do the same thing you did and I lose $100 I am not going to basically say yes to that deal because you lost $30. I don't care what you got and even if it was the same $30 means something different to everyone. You don't need to be offended because your story doesn't matter when it comes to what other people do with their stuff. It's not going to change their decision or motivate them in the slightest to what the end result is
GameStop has historically given shitty trade in offers so when Slickdeals promotes trade ins for GameStop it's because for once they're not actually shitty. This isn't a GameStop trade in forum. I made one joke and you took your personal anecdotal experience and are acting like GameStop is the best and only option. For your case it worked out for you with the random deals they had at the time. No one should give a shit about your personal experience with your random specific situation so that you lost only $30. I don't know why that's such a hard concept to grasp that your personal situation alone would never make someone trade with GameStop. If I go to GameStop and do the same thing you did and I lose $100 I am not going to basically say yes to that deal because you lost $30. I don't care what you got and even if it was the same $30 means something different to everyone. You don't need to be offended because your story doesn't matter when it comes to what other people do with their stuff. It's not going to change their decision or motivate them in the slightest to what the end result is
It's also hilarious to me when people whine about Gamestop's business model as though they have a profit margin that's through the roof. Their trade-in prices are low because that's what it takes to operate a ridiculously specialized store with actual brick and mortar locations in the 21st century. If you don't want to trade in at GS, then don't trade in at GS. Nobody is making you. But the business model is what it is. The profit margin for retailers on NEW video games and systems is extremely low, a video game store could never even operate if they couldn't make money on reselling used gear. Gamestop will very likely go out of business at some point, and the same people that were whining about their low trade-in prices are going to whine that it's gone.
If you don't like Gamestop, don't use Gamestop. Don't pretend like you're above people who do. You talk about my personal and anecdotal situation as though it's not repeatable, when it very much is. If you consistently trade-in and upgrade your systems when new hardware comes out and they run their promotions, which is relatively frequent, you can make out great. You just have to know what the hell you're doing.
The difference between me and you is that I don't feel the need to tell anybody what to do, whereas you're so badly anti-Gamestop that you can't even see it. You decidedly to flippantly tell people not to even bother looking at Gamestop because it's not even remotely possible to get a good deal there when it's demonstrably possible to do exactly that on a regular basis. I don't have any loyalty to GS either. I buy games from other companies frequently if they have a better price. I'd sell elsewhere if I could make more money in a similar no-hassle way. In a heartbeat. I don't owe GS anything. Where do you sell for more money without taking on the risk of a person-to-person transaction? I'll sell my old shit there tomorrow.
Anyway, do what you want. I'm not your financial advisor, avoid Gamestop all day long if you want. Not my business.
The difference between me and you is that I don't feel the need to tell anybody what to do, whereas you're so badly anti-Gamestop that you can't even see it. You decidedly to flippantly tell people not to even bother looking at Gamestop because it's not even remotely possible to get a good deal there when it's demonstrably possible to do exactly that on a regular basis. I don't have any loyalty to GS either. I buy games from other companies frequently if they have a better price. I'd sell elsewhere if I could make more money in a similar no-hassle way. In a heartbeat. I don't owe GS anything. Where do you sell for more money without taking on the risk of a person-to-person transaction? I'll sell my old shit there tomorrow.
Anyway, do what you want. I'm not your financial advisor, avoid Gamestop all day long if you want. Not my business.
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https://www.nintendo.co
You get more gold coins if you buy it from Amazon and then redeem it on the Nintendo store. When you buy a code from another site, and then redeem it, it acts like you bought the full priced digital version of the game, even if it's on sale. I just redeemed the Amazon code for 300 gold coins.
Regular price at Walmart is $50, so I bought my digital code there.
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Digital is tied to the system, account.
Non transferable. Unsellable. Can't share.
Un.. well you get my drift here.