Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "DASI" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: That'll be five of your pounds, sir (snigger!)..... Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:03:18 -0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 60 Message-ID: <71n2gi$9iv10@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <71ld42$9iv7@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p85s03a01.client.global.net.uk X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Tones wrote in message... >Why oh why do the vendors (mentioning no names) give you such >PATHETIC discounts Hi Interesting topic, but here's a look at some of your comments from the opposite perspective :-) The 'trouble' with games is, as soon as a superior title/product in a particular genre is released, previous titles are substantially devalued. This is especially true of sequels, as the original game is made virtually redundant as everybody will want to ditch it and get the latest version. Here's a contrasting example: Mr Bloke buys Fifa World Cup 98 in May for £45. Six months later Fifa 99 is released. Mr Bloke wants to part exchange his old game for the new one and expects about £30 for it. This is completely unreasonable, as the retailer probably paid roughly that much for it brand new, and since the sequel is out the publishers will be offering the original (Fifa 98) to retailers for even less! Thus, if the retailer wants to make any profit whatsoever, he probably won't pay more than £15 for it. >Not everyone has free flowing cash - so to make the best of it alot of >peebs part with some of their best titles to get that 'Mega shooting >game II'. An irony, especially if the game they are trading it in >against is complete pap... Anyone daft enough to flog all their best games in order to buy a rubbish one surely isn't deserving of any sympathy? >But what narks me off even more is that they have the gall to shrink->wrap them, but them back on the shelf, and mark them up at a fiver >less than the full price version. What a complete,absolute con. I've >even seen them 'accidentally forget' to put 2nd hand stickers on >them..... This is obvoiusly illegal and the perpetrators deseve a good kicking (telling off ;-)) As for the banning of the 2nd hand games trade - who cares? You'll always get much more money for your old titles by selling them privately anyway... Most retailers aren't trying to con you, or rip you off - they're simple folk who delight in debauchery and the worship of the devil. Oops... Cheers DASI dasi@globalnet.co.uk "Red wizard shot the potion, red wizard shot the foooood."