Should You Buy a Used Gaming Console and Games or New?

By Philip Woods

Stretching your money to afford a new game or two for your gaming console is hard enough to do today. Buying a new gaming system is outrageous. But what are you to do when your old one decides it has played it's last game? There are a couple of choices. You can either go spend your hard earned money and buy a new system, which could possibly be $500 or more or you can go to the discount store in your area.

There is one in every town. They sell all kinds of used movies, games and music as well as buying them. They also have resources to order items they may not have in stock. This is the resource for many who are serious about their movies, music and games. They may hang out here or have a job at this store.

Even though these people may look like they don't know anything, it is a myth. People who work at these places not only know what they are talking about, but they are looking to sell you something you will like, and not force-feed it to you. They often go home and play the same things they are selling.

Many people do not understand about the difference between a discount store and regular retailer is the discount store will always have a cheaper price on their items. When the games are first released, they will be the same price at all stores. Once people have played these games and won, the price will start to go down because there will be games that have been traded in or returned rentals. They will still cost about thirty dollars because there is more demand than supply.

The games and systems that you will be perusing at the discount outlets will not be broken or missing parts. These still have to be in good shape to sell. Often they may be in better shape or gamers would not be spending their money at the discount shops. A low price on a game only means that it is not as popular as when it first came out or they have quite a few of them.

Trade in your old games that you are tired of playing and get newer ones that you will play. The price you get may not even be half of what you paid for the game new but you most likely can get more in a store credit. This allows you to have a new bunch of games to play instead of the same old ones.

Keep these things in mind when dealing with a discount store and a traditional store. The game or product you buy is not going to be returnable unless there is some kind of defect from the manufacturer. In other words, if you decide you do not like it, they will not take it back. Although the products are supposed to work when leaving the discount store, after you buy it and it breaks there is little to be done about this. The older X-Box and PlayStation games are not as popular so finding them or trading them is not going to work. You would do better at selling them on the Internet. - 29872

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