A new site where gamers can trade games with other gamers...pretty cool!

[duffmanth]

Gamepro.com has a feature article about a site that lets gamers trade games with other gamers at values that are set by users. It seems like a good idea, and sounds like a better idea than going into Gamestop or Best Buy and getting jack shit for your games. Here's the article: http://www.gamepro.com/article/previ...-game-trading/

[Kitsune Sniper]

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I'll stick to GameTZ. This site sounds... a bit fishy for some reason.

[kaedesdisciple]

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I'll stick to GameTZ.

So is this the new GameTZ, where gamers can post up their collections that they love and won't trade?

[Kitsune Sniper]

So is this the new GameTZ, where gamers can post up their collections that they love and won't trade?

Anyone who puts up their collection on that site is just asking for it, seriously. :P

I only list the stuff I want to TRADE.

[Jorpho]

GameTZ already has the ability to list "collection" stuff that is not for trade.

This sounds like a shill piece.

[Kitsune Sniper]

GameTZ already has the ability to list "collection" stuff that is not for trade.

You've never had the displeasure of having some random idiot who can't read nag you again and again because he wants something in your collection.

It's why I don't use the collection side of things, only trade.

[duffmanth]

Anyone who puts up their collection on that site is just asking for it, seriously. :P

I only list the stuff I want to TRADE.

I completely agree. I would never post pics of things I collect like games.

[Kitsune Sniper]

I completely agree. I would never post pics of things I collect like games.

I said on that site ;_;

[DigitalSpace]

I wonder if Gamepro got paid for this "feature."

[mnbren05]

I wonder if Gamepro got paid for this "feature."

It was probably one of their "ads" in disguise. What may seem like a story written by the magazine may be nothing more than a cleverly placed ad to draw in peeps.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Yellow journalism Transformers... Media-Robots, Propagandized.
Yellow journalism Transformers... Content designed to please the eye.
Yellow journalism Transformers... Exaggerations and lies in disguise.
Yellow journalism Transformers... Might as well be lobotomized.
Yellow journalism Transformers!

All form Queen Margarita!!! For the Royalty!

Yeah, I got nothin'.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

I don't understand how they can (with the paid insurance) "guarantee" that you'll get the game you're expecting in the event that the other trader doesn't come through with their end of the bargain.

What if it's something rare/valuable like a boxed Chrono Trigger for SNES ... or MVC2 for PS2?

Does the site have some kind of magical stockpile of rare games for such an occasion?

[Icarus Moonsight]

The insurance would compensate through cash-replacement value (in the legal term sense, not literal)... Not the actual thing. But that would only be my guess from my dealings with insurance.

It's like a safety net policy. If you don't get your end, file a claim and the trade then becomes a sale instead. Then they hound the bastard that flaked for their comp. The service could be good. I just wouldn't take the 'articles' word for it.