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 How many can afford to keeping buying new games?, Getting value for your used games

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greyshadow
post May 6 2010, 11:05 AM

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tried the website, a little slow considering the traffic is pretty much low atm..

and a suggestion, i would recommend you to put in the region information and console compatibility to the games, especially X360 games

eg, someone wanted a copy of fallout goty, and is using a ntsc/u console, and I have a PAL copy... if the trade is successful, the buyer won't be able to play it as it's region locked.

Same thing with Wii games, region important as M'sia players are mostly a mixture of NTSC/U and NTSC/J, and some PAL consoles. Which the region compatibility is an big issue too.
greyshadow
post May 7 2010, 09:33 AM

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QUOTE(melt @ May 7 2010, 09:13 AM)
Trading games is not bad but how sure we are that the another trader is not one of the scammer? As you said you wanted all around Malaysia to enjoy the affordable prices but who is going to protect us when we do trading?

and is there any extra charges during trading using your site? If your answer is NO, I would really like to know what are you going to get to open this service for us? (That if you are willing to tell  smile.gif )
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remember the popular idiom, "There's no such thing as a free lunch"
and if you have visited his website and logged in, you can see at the top corner (free trades:2)

so the trading service ain't free, and of cos they gonna charge you some fee for providing such service as middleman for trading games

sorry to say this, judging from most of M'sian mentality (everything wants cheap & free tongue.gif), and LYN is already providing a FREE platform for trading original games (checkout the garage sales game section, and each console's subforum's sales section)
and most importantly, most of the forumer already knew each others, and there's a mutual trust here.... i would say until now, I've only seen ONE con case (PS3 MW2 seller) which is a pretty rare incident considering thousands of transaction are dealt thru this free LYN forum.

SwitchIT is gonna have a tough time to compete with LYN wink.gif
greyshadow
post May 10 2010, 08:58 AM

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i don't think a used market can help or boost a primary market

the developers only benefits from the first purchase, as certain percentage of the purchase price goes to them...
when the game is resold again, they gain nothing at all
So far until right now, I haven't seen any developers or publisher is in support of the 2nd game market, in fact most of them are aggressively against it

so, 2nd hand games promotes buying originals = yes
but contributing to developers? NO

 

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