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

I'm poor so yes, I've bought used games and a used xbox.
I dont care if I get a used console as long as it last me and my xbox has lasted me for a good time.
When I buy games they come with an annoying sticker thats frustrating to rip off becuase it leaves the case sticky and ugly.
I hate the fact that when you sell a new game that you payed a full 50$ for, they give you around 15$ for it and then they sell it for around 44$.

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I used to buy a lot of used games, but I try to avoid that nowadays if I can get a new sealed copy.

People don't seem to know how to NOT mistreat their games most of the time. Whenever I see a used title, the booklet is filled with weird stains, the discs seem to have been sandpapered and the boxes... sometimes they aren't even included >___>; Do they use their games/boxes/booklets as coasters and doorstops? geesh...
I also dislike it when some stores put stickers on them. :/

Of course, I have to be less picky with older/rare games.

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The only used games I bought were from friends, or off ebay at 0.01$, which I only bought for music ripping purposes (I got every single Turok games that way, all system mixed, even including the GB ones). I usually buy new though.

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I'm more of a used game guy. They wouldn't be selling the game if it didn't work. But I have had a couple of bad run-ins with used games like with my struggle for Dark Cloud 2. Bastards at EB sold me a demo disc. I returned the next day demanding a refund. Then I turned to Gamestop where they had a used one. Go figure that didn't work, so I went to anothe Gamestop and just bought a new copy. Haven't had any troubles since.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I buy games and consoles used almost exclusivley. It's so much cheaper, and for some reason, even new consoles only have about a two month wait before they're available second hand somewhere. Also, i know a bunch of places that sell used games for dirt cheap. I only started buying new games recently, when i came into some money, and now that i'm employed again.

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Most of my game purchases are from the 16 and 32-bit eras, and most of what's left nowadays is used. It really isn't a problem, though; compared to those dirty-ass Americans, most Japanese seem to treat their game equipment like fine china.

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I'll buy used copies of games that have been already released for awhile, but very rarely of a game that is just released. You'll save only a couple of dollars, and you have better peace of mind.

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New if possible just because of the peace of mind that I'm the only one who's played it. I'm just picky that way.

I will go with used games though if a title is either rare/hard to find but I generally try to avoid used games.

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I try to stay away from used games like the plague, but I'll concede if it's a really hard game to find new (most recently this happened with the original Mario vs Donkey Kong, which I had been trying to find new for for almost six moths before I finally broke down and bought a used copy for $20). Consoles though, I'd probably never buy one used, unless I was getting it from a friend (since I could hunt them down and hurt them if something was wrong with it).

Since most games get cheap no later than a year after they come out, I see no reason to buy a game used because it's cheap. I have such a large back log of games anyway that I don't mind waiting for a game to get cheap before I buy it.

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I always buy my consoles new. I sell off previous consoles when moving to the next gen. So I don't have any of my old school games. I feel tempted to buy older consoles again sometimes but I just use emulators when I have an urge to play Snes, Genesis etc. I wouldn't want old beat up ones anyway. In the case of Sega Saturn. I owned a used one for a while because I needed to play Panzer Dragoon Azel and Dragon Force II.

As for games I prefer to buy new, but I'll buy used if their condition is good.

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I've only purchased used games. It's been a long time since I've gone out to take a look at what's available at the local game store, but sometimes I'm able to find some used games that are under $10 and difficult to find normally. All the used games I've played have worked from start to finish, so I've been lucky up to now.

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I have gotten many used games. Many times, it's the only way I can find a particular game. Furthermore, if I go to pawn shops, I can find quite a few rare gems like Cvania SOTN.

Systems though, no. It seems senseless to not pay an extra twenty or thirty U.S. for a new system.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I tend to go for used games since I usually don't have the budget to always buy new and I can wait for some games to come down in price. However, if its something I must have, like "Resident Evil 4", then I buy it as soon as I can get my hands on it, regardless of new or used. Of course, I do run into the situation where I have scratched discs or (and I really hate this) no instruction manual or missing/mangled pages (maybe I'm weird but I like reading the instruction manuals that come with games).

I do buy used consoles as well. I haven't run into any major problems (yet).

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I'm a cheap a$$ gamer, so I buy used games/consoles. My first SNES got stolen so picked up a 2nd hand that was years ago. Most recently I bought a Game Boy Color so I had something to do on the bus. It's been a long time since I bought something new, I remember I got Suikoden IV with my new PS2 console and that was not a good memory. I'm like 5 years behind gaming if there's such a thing, but a game's a game, I play, I have fun.

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I try not to, because I'm one of those people who wants to buy just new games, but those games that end up being hard to find are where that mindset changes.

Basically if I have the choice between new or used, I'd buy new. However, if the game is hard to find and I can only find used, then I'll buy it used. I don't like buying games from the Internet, so I guess I miss out on those "new" games, but the quality of my used games are usually really good.

No scratches, no marks, no tears, etc. on used games is a must.

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I do buy them, yes. Since I started paying my own money for games, I quickly learned that I cannot possibly get everything brand new. I go for brand new games, maybe on release day, when the game is absolutely unmissable - the others can wait. I've bought used games off eBay at times, never had a problem, of course the box isn't sparkling new, but I can accept that when I want an NTSC copy of a game that's been released too long ago, as happened with Kingdom Hearts (bought the PAL version, found it indecent, then went on playing other things and when I wanted to try KH again, I went NTSC).
I live in Italy and there's a games shop in my city that sells used games, but they'll only take in games in very good condition, so I often buy secondhand games from them and I've always been happy. Scratchless CDs-DVDs, boxes and manuals in near-pristine condition.

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I bought use SNES almost all the time in the late 1990s. Most people had upgraded to the Playstation and N64 by 1996/early 1997, and I found tons of games at garage sales and whatnot. I bought Civilization for $10.... and must have put in hundreds of hours playing. Even to this day, I still play Civilization games (IV most notably) and I still own the many games I bought used.

I also bought a PS2 used (about a month of usage), that was kind of a bad idea. Within about 8 months, I started having problems with it... Although, I don't know how much a new one would have faired.

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I just got myself a won an auction for a used Dreamcast today, let's see if it's in good shape.

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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.

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I bought my Platinum Gamecube used. I think I payed $150 for it. I was good friends with the guys who worked at the store and they assured me it was like new. I guess the guys who bought originally were all like, wtf this isn't a PS2, and took it back like a week later. Score.

In a kinda way my PS2 is also used. I originally bought the 2nd revision new but one day my friend is all like, hay you want to trade your PS2 with some dude's much newer 50001 model. It was for modding reasons and I didn't care about having a modded PS2 so I took the offer. Score 2.

To this day both my Gamecube and PS2 work flawlessly.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I pretty much bought three out of four of the Tenchu games used. As long as they work, it doesn't matter to me.

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As long as it's in decent condition and you're not buying so you can sell it to someone else I think it's more silly not to buy second hand games over new ones. They seem to have this odd way of the price dropping drastically in many cases, they also tend to judge games on popularity not their actual quality, for example I remeber seeing soul calibar 2 being only £10 about a month after it was released and that was brand new copies of the game!

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i bought devil may cry 3 special edition and im pretty happy with it, what a hard and cool game!!

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I'm quite happy to buy used games, mostly from ebay. The only games I get new are ones I simply don't want to wait for or that I receive as gifts - which is quite a few actually as most people buy me either games or books, not really interested in much else!

Our EB stores seem to have permanent clearance sales on just lately and I usually buy a couple of games every time I go - the sort of games that 'may' be ok to play, wouldn't normally buy but they're so cheap it's hard to resist!

As for consoles, all mine have been new except for a N64 which I bought from Cash Converters just to play Zelda. Cost me $50 for the console, 2 controllers and 7 games, then I had to pay $50 to get the bloody Zelda game! Still, it was worth it, I enjoyed the game and the N64 has never been touched since!

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I dont really bother with used games because its usually about 5 bucks off new games that were returned... And also Its a bitch to find a used game thats:

-In its original box
-comes with a book

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