Donkey Kong Country: Tropic Freeze - Nintendo Switch [Digital Code] for $41.99

Is it true that this game is difficult? Considering for my 7 year old but he has low tolerance for playing the same level 30 times to pass and "game over" penalties...

Here's the facts. Xbox one was $500 base model and price 5 years ago. You bought it for $250 and sold it for $220 to GS. If you state that it's a good resale value based on your price you bought it for, that's subjective. You loss $30 and that's not true for most people. You got a good deal but someone who paid $500 lost over $250 of value. Like I said no one cares about your situation. They're not trading in their Xbox because you only lost $30

Um, nobody said anything about the XBox One base model. I did not buy the base model for $250, nor did I trade it in for $220. Those are not things that happened. You made all of that up in your head to prove a point that you don't have. Please try to keep up. In fact, I bought the XBox One base model WAY back in the day and then traded it in for a newer revision because I wanted the upgraded hardware, a fresh warranty, and they offered a great trade-in value at that point in time as well. It was similarly priced (i.e.- ~$50 difference between trade-in and new hardware, to get better hardware under warranty? No brainer). I then traded the newer revision in for a similarly small difference, and I'd already used it for a couple of years. The money I paid vs. the value I got was good.

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

If GameStop goes out of business it's because their model is not working and clearly your so called God tier trade in of old consoles to new ones is not a good financial model to keep their business a float. Still also not seeing what I said as inaccurate. You keep sucking off GameStop though and I'll keep doing me. If GameStop is the end all for you so be it, I'll keep looking for the best deal that fits me and I would think that's what most people's view is as well. I have zero loyalty to one company just because one deal worked out great. Not how capitalism works, but maybe a monopoly is more your thing though

Lmao, who said anything about a monopoly? I've repeatedly said not to use Gamestop if you don't like Gamestop. Read that again. What I'm responding to is the unnecessary exageration that you need to trade in a PS5 to get a $40 game, when there are actually frequent trade-in promotions that a great many slickdealers take advantage of regularly.

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.

Same price on Nintendo's Digital Store
https://www.nintendo.com/games/de...ze-switch/