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[–] Whitworth 0 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.

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[–] recon_johnny 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

This is a great analogy. People shouldn't take it as talking about games (which they have, already).

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[–] R00STRE 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago 

Fuck man, me too. Except my mom went in and demanded the games back :(

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[–] phillyjoe 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

At least she has balls

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[–] draaaak 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

What was the game you bought with your $7 coupon?

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[–] carlip 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Battle toads.

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[–] fightknightHERO 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Dude... i feel like a piece of shit after reading this i did the same thing only with PS2 games...

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[–] Gigglestick 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Super Nintendo... but it was the console, controllers, and 27 games to my mom’s friends shitty son. 50 bucks for all of it.