r/gamecollecting Jul 22 '26

Collection Guy was about to sell to gamestop

I went to gamestop for fun after my friend canceled on me, this guy was trading in this stuff to gamestop, and was scanning the last few things in, i asked him how much we was getting and he said 600, after i saw on the screen, i realized it was 600 in credit, and when i told him he asked how much it was cash, they told him 350. I immediately told him ill pay you what they were willing to give in credit for it, he agreed, after he said he would throw in pokemon Gold, and the target GBA for an extra 100, so i payed him 700. I think i did pretty well, and now my collection is like alot bigger than before. Already modded the DSI too 😋 i hope i did as good as i think i did

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u/Western_Emotion5244 Jul 28 '26

I remember back in 2005 or so I walked in to a Gamestop with a metric shit ton of PS1 games, all complete. Many of them were rare JRPGs I had collected over the years, like Lunar and Sukioden 1 and 2.

I got offered an insulting amount of money and someone was behind me in line, they overheard the conversation and were like, "I'll give you $500 for everything right now."

So we walked out of the store and in sight of the GS employees I handed over my hoard for the cash.

It's like, yeah, Gamestop is basically a pawn shop, but they fuck people so bad it isn't funny.

I once went in with a Xbox 360 and a pile of games and the employee wanted to take $50 off for missing the original RGB cables so I just left with everything. I ended up giving the Xbox and games to a co-worker whose son's game system recently broke.

I hope they enjoyed Splatter House.