[General Discussion] Do you buy used games/consoles?

I buy used games now & then. Since I've gotten more into Ebay than I used to be, I don't buy many used games from Gamestop anymore. I used to have a 10% off discount card that I did use a bit though. There are only 2 types of used games: "like new," and everything else. I'm not interested in the "everything else" category, and when I pick up something that's been taken care of like I would have taken care of it, it's like new anyway except for cheaper. How can you go wrong with that?

The only thing that I've been disappointed with lately is that many of the DC games I've gotten off of Ebay have been in much worse shape than described. For example, games described as "mint" have a crack all the way down the front of the CD case, sticker gunk where a sticker had been pulled off the front of the case, a water-soaked-then-dried manual, and millions of little swirls on the disk. Sorry, but that is NOT mint. I don't mind paying for what I get but I have found it difficult to judge which items are worth bidding on in that realm...

If the CD/DVD is scratched, I just run it through my scratch repair rig. If it still doesn't work I just return it. I have done this with 2 games I got from Gamestop that didn't work even after several runs on the scratch repair kit. After all, I never look at the bottom of the CD so as long as it works it's fine.

How ya doing, buddy?