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GameStop will quit accepting trade-ins of original Xbox games, accessories and systems on February 9. The information comes from an internal memo sent out earlier this week. According to a few managers that we’ve talked to thus far, GameStop will continue selling Xbox stuff until the stocks are toast.
Some stores are receiving signs to indicate the change. We have yet to receive advanced specifics on the wording, color, font, or size of the signs. Chances are they will be boring and won’t comment on the pitiful amount of money Xbox trade-ins have netted consumers over the last three years. The signs almost certainly won’t advise consumers that corporate officials (presumably) grin little shark-toothed grins whenever a person hands off a console to be resold at a greatly inflated price.
As we all know here at Destructoid, the original Xbox has been dead for a while. Now that GameStop is finally acknowledging its lack of relevancy, I’m a bit sad. There is a part of me that misses the grotesquely large controllers, late night sessions of Azurik, and that neon green dashboard.
[Update: We were sent a picture of the sign by an anonymous tipster. You can check it out in the gallery or here.]
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5:32 PM on 01.03.2009
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p.s. Please people, just keep your consoles. Consoles don't die if there are good games you've yet to play.
Something doesn't add up...
But yes, yes you do need to hunt down a copy of L&R somewhere, that game is just incredible. (I bought a copy from a Mom & Pop shop a couple of days ago, popped it in my 360, and was STILL blown away by what the Xbox could do graphically.)
What is the trade-in value of an old Xbox? $20 US?
It's down to...$12 US. (Down from $15.)
In store credit.
$9.60 if you want cash.
the end of the story
the end
At that price, it's almost better to give the games and system to charity if you don't want it.
I traded in my SNES and all my games when the N64, don't remember to what store, and got like $70.
I think it's not worth trading-in games.
I just wait for prices for games to drop - i.e. I'm buying Ninja Gaiden Sigma for PS3 for $10 New at Best Buy tomorrow.
Isn't that the point of a business, to make a profit?
Halo 2. Nuff' said. I know more people who play that than they do 3. I for one hate both.
Buy a psp then use tweezers to remove the barcode and put it on a broken one and( at a different store) return it(broken one with new barcode) to get all your cash back.
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