[–] Whitworth 0 points 70 points 70 points (+70|-0) ago
Remember your first big experience with buyer’s remorse? I remember mine. I had a bunch of old Sega games I had saved up for over time and bought with my own money. I enjoyed them, but I heard about this new concept where stores would buy your old games for store credit. I figured the games I had were still in good condition, so they must be worth close to their original value. The allure of getting a whole new stack of unplayed games was too much to pass up, so I carefully boxed them all up, went down to the store, and dropped them on the counter. A few moments later, the checker was rifling through my stack of game, checking them each against a laminated book of prices, and when he was done, he printed off a coupon and handed it to me. It was a coupon worth $7 in store credit. I was shocked, but my stubbornness wouldn’t let me go home with that same old stack of games I walked in with, so I took the coupon, and with more money out of my own pocket I picked out a single game I knew nothing about in trade for my stack of games that I enjoyed playing with again and again. And of course, I got home and found out I got a shitty game that I didn’t like. I felt like the biggest fucking idiot on the planet.
Now I look back, and I realize it never really mattered much in the end. It was just some dumb videogames, and I learned a valuable lesson from it in the end. I mean, it could have been worse. Instead of videogames, it could have been my entire fucking life. And instead of getting a shitty game out of it, I could have thrown the entire first half of my life away for nothing and ended up with the entire second half of my life being miserable and alone.
[–] 15912348? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
There was a place in my home town that used a tier system - if you brought in, say, a Tier 1 game, you could trade it and $5 straight across for another Tier 1 game. A much better system for this kind of thing than giving a kid 10 cents on the dollar for his old used games.
Edit: I get your larger point as well - I just thought this was a better way to handle game trades. I don't think there's a good corollary for this business model with women.
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[–] One-Way_Bus 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Must explain why her photo is out of focus too.
[–] Tubesbestnoob 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Old wrinkly skin is less obvious in a blurry pic
[–] weakside ago
it is just the surface..