That left six, and while they were eager to take them, they weren’t eager to give me more than ten bucks apiece for them. The manager explained apologetically that they had enough of these games and couldn’t sell them at a profit. GameStop wouldn’t even take some of the titles: “Bionic Commando”, “Uncharted 2”, “Dead Rising 2”, and “Ghostbusters” were no-gos. Our first visit was, surprisingly, not our least satisfying. “Bionic Commando” was the butt monkey of the group, and, surprisingly, “Saints Row The Third” was the star. In other words, a mix of old, new, popular, and unpopular (Hey, “Bionic Commando” was actually pretty good, OK?). We had with us these games, all on PS3, and all in good condition with manuals: We went to a whole bunch of used-game traders with ten games, to see what they’d offer us and how easy it was to get a deal. The bad news is that nobody has really put them head to head. The good news is that this means you have a lot of options. But recently, everybody from Best Buy to Amazon has been after GameStop’s control of the used game market. Time was, there was one answer, and only one answer: GameStop. It’s a tradition as old as gaming: you buy a game, play it until you’ve squeezed every moment of sweet enjoyment out of it, and then sell it to finance your next round of gaming.
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