{"id":352902,"date":"2010-02-23T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002443"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:43:47","slug":"gamestop-offering-50-percent-more-trade-in-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352902","title":{"rendered":"GameStop Offering 50 Percent More Trade-in Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/gamestop-thumb-158x118-37313.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Normally it&#8217;s a walk of shame for gamers to lug a pile of games to GameStop to get pennies on the dollar in cash or trade-in credit for stuff they probably didn&#8217;t finish and overpaid for. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamestop.com\/gs\/gscinema\/default.aspx?gscRef=true&#038;gscID=50offtrade_gamestop\">a deal going on right now<\/a> for the proverbial &#8220;limited time only&#8221; offers 50 percent in bonus trade-in credit for your games.<\/p>\n<p>Joystiq <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/02\/22\/gamestop-offering-50-bonus-on-every-trade-in\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fjoystiq+%28Joystiq%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">did some research<\/a> and discovered the following games will net you $35 in trade-in credit: Modern Warfare 2, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Dante&#8217;s Inferno, and BioShock 2.<\/p>\n<p>But the zinger comes with Mass Effect 2, which will net you $52 in trade-in credit, and $57 if you&#8217;ve got a GameStop edge card. That&#8217;s only $3 less than the game costs new. So in theory you could buy a used copy of the game for $55 &#8212; or about $50 if you have an edge card, and trade it back in on the spot for a $7 trade-in credit profit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2010\/02\/22\/gamestop-offering-50-bonus-on-every-trade-in\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fjoystiq+%28Joystiq%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">GameStop offering 50% bonus on every trade-in<\/a> [Joystiq]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally it&#8217;s a walk of shame for gamers to lug a pile of games to GameStop to get pennies on the dollar in cash or trade-in credit for stuff they probably didn&#8217;t finish and overpaid for. But a deal going on right now for the proverbial &#8220;limited time only&#8221; offers 50 percent in bonus trade-in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}