Here's a situation that might sound familiar to many gamers: in your prized library of games you've got the games your playing now, the classics you'll never stop playing, and then the games that you never play anymore because you've beaten the entire game or you're just tired of it. So you look at those misfit games, not knowing what to do with them. You could always take them to one of those chain video game stores (you know the ones I'm talking about), but if you do that, you're going to feel like the clerks are laughing at you when you leave with your paltry $20 for the five games you gave them (if you're lucky). A more prudent option would be to sell them on eBay. However is one option that I'd like to tell you about:
Goozex.com . Funny name? Yes. Serious business? Right again! So what this business provides is a way for you to find games that you want to play, and find gamers who want to play the games that you want to get rid of. All games are assigned a point value according to their fair market value based on supply and demand. The more a game is in demand, the more likely it is to have a higher point value. You create a list of all the games that you want to get rid of, and Goozex's system will search for other users who want that game. When there is a match (I think the system uses a "first come, first serve" idea so users who put up the same game for trade before you will be matched before your game gets match, and similarly for the games you want) the system will let you know and you can confirm or reject the trade. Then you simply mail the game to the matched user's address and you will receive the point value for the traded game. So now you take the points that you just earned and find a game that you are interested in that is within your points budget. Now you wait in line until the system matches you and the matched user will send you the game, and the points will be deducted from your budget. Now for each game you receive you are required to pay $1 to Goozex (everyone's gotta make money, right?), though when you sign up you get one free trade (at least I did when I joined). I have received 2 games so far and am waiting in line for a 3rd (one game was just released, one is less than six months old, and the other was released over six months ago). I have sent in 5 games so far (only one was released in the past year). The great thing about this website is that you can still get a good price on older games (at the moment, Gears of War is worth 750 points and most new releases start around 800-900 points). Here is a link if you want to check it out (yes, that is a referral link, meaning if you click through it and sign up I will get rewarded).
Goozex
There was another option I was hoping to tell you about, but a few days before I started writing this, it expired. This article was about donating your games to troops in Iraq, but the contact person in Iraq was leaving at the end of February. Hopefully there will be another opportunity like this that I can tell you about before it ends.
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