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Trade games straight up with other gamers thru new online service

March 17, 2009 in News comments 10

A new online service was revealed today that helps gamers connect for the purpose of trading games by mail. The service apparently helps balance trades through a point system and guarantees trades if you use their postage system.

Mooch announced a new peer-to-peer video game trading service today that will give gamers another option when it comes to trading in video games.

While I signed up for the free beta today, I obviously haven’t tried it yet, but I still wanted to share what information I could gleen off of the Web site.

It sounds like you can just list the games you have, and the games you want, and use the system to search for trades with other members. Once a deal is arranged you simply mail each other the game.

To balance trades, they’ve implemented a point system. Points can be traded straight up for games if you can find a trade, or traded alongside of games to make that Call of Duty/Wii Carnival Games trade fair.
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    Blaze Mar 17, 09
    I'm gonna register, doesn't look bad atm.
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    Phi Mar 17, 09
    Dammit, for US residents only ;~~;
    I guess I'll have to go back to getting ripped off for my trade ins in Game Stop
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      Blaze Mar 17, 09
      Lol I just noticed too, I won't be saving any money after all...
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    punksk8er Mar 17, 09
    Finally an alternative to Gamestop. I really hate gamestop for how the rip everyone off. I bought Oblivion say Monday, I brought it back Wednesday of the same week, and they gave me $25 for a brand new game I played once. I hope this kills gamestop.
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    cornfedgamer Mar 17, 09
    I just tried proposing a trade, so we’ll see how this works. Update: If you run out of the points they use to balance trades they’ll charge you $15 for 100 more. Plus you have to pay to mail the game, which I imagine will cost $3-$5. So there is some cost involved, but probably less than Gamestop.

    If you’re constantly trading bad/old games for new ones you will quickly lose points and need to purchase more. For example, if someone accepts my Gears of War for Halo Wars trade I’m out 91 of my 100 free points. I would have to trade a newer game for an older one to get those back…

    So lets estimate here. If I pay $4 to ship my game, and used $15 worth of mooch points, I’m essentially trading a game and paying $20 for another used game.

    If I did the same thing at Gamestop: They said they would buy back Gears of War for $8 and sell me a used copy of Halo Wars for $55, putting the cost at $47. So wow, I guess it can be worth it.
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    chautemoc Mar 17, 09
    There's also http://www.chasethechuckwagon.com ...been around for awhile and donates to charity.
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    dwg14390 Mar 17, 09
    Hasn't this been done before??

    Except only know it's seems to be finally getting support.....I think there was a site called gooz.com or something that did something similar + it was worldwide.
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      kik36 Mar 17, 09
      quote dwg14390
      Hasn't this been done before??

      Except only know it's seems to be finally getting support.....I think there was a site called gooz.com or something that did something similar + it was worldwide.
      Yeah it's Goozex.com
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    BANDITO ATTACK Mar 18, 09
    i wonder if there are any insurance policies on this stuff.

    not that i would exploit this stuff to finally get fallout 3.
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    carouselambra Mar 18, 09
    La-lay-lalalay LAY LAY LAY LAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LALALA lalala la la lay la la la la la LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. what a completely and utterly ridiculous idea. Go buy your own games dingus.

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