Exchanging games? (UK)

[9 to 5]

So yeah, where is the best place to hand in pre-owned games for money or even other games? Got a few PS2 titles I won't ever play again so might as well make profit from them.

[Chasing Lamely]

Previous experience has taught me you'll get a better price for them at Gamestation, unless it's a serial game (Like PES1-4) because they only sell them on for a pound, so they're worth nothing. Those you should take to Game.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Game for trade-ins of older games in a series.

Gamestation for selling one off games (such as Killzone ect)

[IAceI]

I didn't think Game were giving money anymore, why was I under the impression they were only exchanging for games now. Anyways, when I've traded in games at Game its got steadily less each time, you used to get like £15 for one game and like £5-7 for others, now I'm lucky if I get about £2 for my games.

Not tried Gamestation but it can't be as bad as that?

[Timmoru Suzuki]

Game seem to be a joke to me, offering practically pennies for brand new games.

Gamestation are mostly good, occasionally great for getting a good price. Sometimes though they can be just as bad, but more often then not they'll give you as good a price as you'll find anywhere for a fairly new to brand new game.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Gamestation is a little bit hit and miss. You'll get like £15 for a really random game and then, for a popular game, you'll end up getting around £3. Remember though you can take them, see the prices and turn them down, or only sell SOME games to them.

[Scott McFly]

Gamestation seem to be the best in my experience, I've got about £32 in credit laying around and I'm planning to take up some more games tomorrow, mainly old Xbox games. But as Hamster says, take them up and ask what you'd get for them before you trade them in. Then get the amount on a credit note and save it for the Boxing Day sale. (Y)

And not to whore my place of work, but Woolworths now have a Games Exchange thing on where you can trade it in for store credit (so, not necessarily games, but DVDs, sweets, whatever), although I've had a look at the prices and they generally seem to be worse than Gamestation. It's also only selected games, not every game can be traded, and it has to be less than 3 years old. If you throw me some names I could check the system for ya next time I'm in if you like.

[9 to 5]

Well most of mine seem to be part of a series so fuck knows. Just a few quid to shove on the bookies will be grand. But doubt my games will be worth much anyway, unless someone wants to offer me 20 quid for Half Life. >_>

[Scott McFly]

While Gamestation do exchange for cash, you'll get more if you exchange for store credit. You can generally see what you'll get going by the pre-owned price on their website, just divide that by 2 and subtract a bit more seems to give a rough estimate.

[pigeon]

I usually trade mine in at CeX these days. I think they pay slightly more than Gamestation.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Is eplay a chain? We have one in Birmingham Bullring and I dunno if they buy games - I know they have second hand games though

[stokeriño]

Yeah, there are e-play's around in other places. I'm pretty certain they do trade ins but I don't know how well.