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It helped my wallet so much that I stopped working at GameStop. As a customer, you're encouraged so much to place a pre-order since "you can just cancel it later" and get your deposit back. But how often has that happened for most customers, realistically?
I would routinely pre-order and buy new releases, leave them in their boxes sealed, and not end up playing them, so I'd just have to trade them in for less than half their value for other releases. And so the cycle continued.
Why would you trade them in to GS? If they're sealed you could probably even get better prices just selling it to your friends or even ebay...
Hell, just stick them in a closet and forget them for a decade or two and they'll probably have gained value to collectors.
Or open them and play them. Now or later. I like having the "problem" of having a backlog of games to play, better than being bored (actually, maybe it would be better to get bored on occasion and use that to broaden my horizons).
Probably. I sometimes did, I think, but it was just easier to scam myself out of money and trade the games in