Anyone here use GameTZ?

[norkusa]

Yeah, yeah, I know I said I wouldn't go back to Game Trading Zone when they switched to being a pay site, but I've just decided to subscribe for 6 months ($11.99). My decision to subscribe was based on the fact that I've pulled-off several great trades there this past month and by paying, I'd have access to members email address and potentially get even more juicy trades.

Well, 1 week after subscribing, I realized how much I used to hate the fucking site. GTZ was always a pain in the ass...even when it was free. You'd get some of the most ridiculous trade offers you've ever seen...kids offering you common NES carts for your complete Intelligent Cube or sealed Cubivore. I guess the owners of the site thought that these kind of low-ball offers would taper off once they went pay, but they haven't much.

Another thing is that hardly anyone responds to my offers. Not even offers really...just an email saying "I'm interested in your game...please check out my list and let me know if you see anything you'd like". Since Saturday, I've sent out about 80 emails to GTZ members. I've got 11 responses, none of them positive.

The forums there are another story. Right up there with GameFAQ's. Anyone else here sucker enough to pay for membership at GTZ? Thank god you can transfer sub-time there...the first shitty offer I get from someone that wants my 6 months of sub-time, I'm taking it.

[Bratwurst]

Haha, yeah.. I've traded maybe once or twice through it, never paid for the subscription though. The forums on Digital Press rivals GTZ in an eloquent aspect (though there is more than one reason) and that's the 'feedback' system.

Over there it's the norm for people with the lower feedback rating of the two traders to send first, and some of those guys have ratings in the thousands. Just.. no.

[nildem]

I haven't been able to pull off a trade since they went subscription only. Nothing but crap trade offers, like Journey Escape for Ogre Battle: MotBQ

It's sad, really. GameTZ used to rule the world. Back when it was free I would make 5-10 trades a month and get some GREAT deals.

[DDCecil]

When I started there (Back in 1999), it was a great little place, and I made plenty of good trades (119 of them to date!). When it went subscription only, I did it for about 2 months, didn't get any trades, and froze my account when I had a couple of days left and haven't been back since...

[SoulBlazer]

I have to echo other comments. I used to use GameTZ quite heaily for around three years, from the fall of 1998 to the fall of 2001. And it was a great site. I got some GREAT trades on there -- the best being a Suikoden II in mint condition for my older GBP (the GBC was out) AND I also got $20, which I used to buy the Prima book. Right now that game and book is the gem of my very small collection. :D

I just stopped using it because I switched over to sites like Amazon and EBay as 2000 and 2001 rolled around. I think my last trade was done in October of 2001 there.

I did'nt even know it was pay now. @_@

I don't have a problem, though, with the person with the lower feedback sending first. Seems fair to me. Since no money is trading hands. That's how I always did my trades about 90 percent of the time.

[Bratwurst]

I don't have a problem, though, with the person with the lower feedback sending first. Seems fair to me. Since no money is trading hands. That's how I always did my trades about 90 percent of the time.

It's a common sense sort of thing, I'll agree, but when someone who has only done about 20 trades before wants to deal with this guy with a thousand feedbacks, it gets really annoying because it's totally overlooking your established integrity. Plus I've found the 'big guys' tended to take their sweet ass time shipping out on their end.

[bigdaddychester]

I got burned by some douchebag on GTZ about a month before they switched to a pay site. I traded some common nes carts for some colecovision carts. Never got his but he got mine and never bothered to respond to any of my emails :angry: :angry:

But I did have several great trades with others on there. I recently stumbled on another site similar to GTZ.... here's a link if anyone is interested.....


http://www.switchgames.com

[norkusa]

Great...another awesome trade offer. Someone wants to trade their Timesplitters 2 (GC) for my Sims (GC). I dunno....should I go for it? x_x

http://gametz.com/?S=8942497&user=norkusa

[Jorpho]

I've dealt in PC games a few times on GameTZ, and it never seemed as bad as it sounds from this thread. Maybe it's because my Available list is so puny, or maybe the trade in console games is just a lot messier.

Anyway, I don't plan to subscribe anytime soon. I have too many good games now that I need to play first. It can be a real consumer of time, that GameTZ.
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[Oobgarm]

Great...another awesome trade offer. Someone wants to trade their Timesplitters 2 (GC) for my Sims (GC). I dunno....should I go for it? x_x

http://gametz.com/?S=8942497&user=norkusa

I think TS2 is a much better game than the Sims, but that's my 2 cents.

[norkusa]

Great...another awesome trade offer. Someone wants to trade their Timesplitters 2 (GC) for my Sims (GC). I dunno....should I go for it? x_x

http://gametz.com/?S=8942497&user=norkusa

I think TS2 is a much better game than the Sims, but that's my 2 cents.

Maybe, but that's really not the point. The guy is offering me a game that can be had for $13 new for a game that still costs $50.

[gamergary]

I used to use Gametz but then everybody kept making stupid offers but i was going to leave anyway because of the subscription thing.

[Daria]

I followed the link here from 50TBird's thread. I signed up initially at GameTZ 5 years ago whereas I got promptly taken for my copy of Bubble Bobble 2. LOL

Live and learn. I quit using their system when they became a fee based program. Truthfully I probably strayed before then but whatever. Right after they renounced the fees I went back to check it out. Discovered my username was still active so started trading again.

I've only got something retarded like 10 trades, but it's a useful service if you're wary and use common sense. The forums are beyond moronic though. The atmosphere's akin to Gamefaqs. But I like using their service to catalog my wants and available lists. I also keep my collection updated there in addition to my personal ledger.

Username's ztaKxileF if anyone wants to look me up.

[kentuckyfried]

I don't put much effort into trading on GTZ, but I've pulled off some decent trades.

It is truly a pain in the ass doing the offer dance back and forth, but it's the only way to assure a response from a party as replying to an offer is key to keeping response time down.

Trying to negotiate outside of offers is almost pointless I've found.

[j_factor]

I joined GameTZ in early 2001. IIRC, I specifically joined because I saw a forum post offering Phantasy Star IV for sale, and I really really wanted that game (I had just re-acquired a Genesis six months earlier). I'm still on there.

The forums used to be good, and the chat was especially great, with some lively and often humorous discussion. But when the site started requiring paid subscriptions (which were previously optional and just gave you more features), everything went downhill. Subscribing is once again optional, but the site hasn't really recovered. The forums are pretty lame now (I still post though...) and the chat is pretty dull. A lot of the people that had made the community great are long gone, or still have accounts but no longer post/chat, or do so very seldomly.

When I first joined, GameTZ was a great place to buy, sell, and trade games of all types. Nowadays, most people only want to trade newer games. I myself don't do very many trades on there, partly because of this and partly because of my own tendency to buy games 'for keeps' (and not put them up as available).

When I joined, I liked how easy to use the site was for trading. Over the years, the owner has added too many features. Since these features have been introduced to me incrementally, it's fine for me, but I'm sure this overcomplexity sucks for new users.

[Fighter17]

I join there but never had done a trade over there. I perfer getting my games over here or at different forums where my feedback rating is high. ;)

[Austin]

I'll echo norkusa's sentiments. (I'm pretty sure I've traded with you through there, heh.) I find myself drifting back to GameTZ every now and then to check trade matches and such, but it gets harder and harder. I think the farther I get away from the age of the average user there, the less I can stomach the mentality of the forums/chat.

I've had three terrible experiences out of the last ten or so trades I've done there. If it weren't for the nice deal every now and then, I wouldn't bother.

[milhouseOFpain]

i think GameTZ gets a bad rap from alot of people. sure i bitch about it on occassion and i agree with almost all of the points people in this topic have made. BUT i think the site is set up fairly well and it has alot of different things to offer. GameTZ is a younger crowd and most of the userbase is the non-hardcore type of gamer.

much like most everything else in life it sucks, but its the best the interweb has to offer.

[Steven]

I joined March 17, 2001 or thereabout. Had some great deals. A saint sold me Radiant Silvergun October 26, 2002 for $65 shipped. I remember feeling so thrilled when I booted the game up :)

Met some cool cats.

But then 2003 happened. People started trading less and less in my experience. It became a "OMG CHECK MY COLLECTION!" website. I never understood those who listed games under their AVAILABLE list but wrote NFT or Not For Trade.

Uh, thanks.

I still check back once in a while. A few trades here and there. It's alright these days. But, the golden years of 2001-2... are long over, but I s'pose with most internet things -- it's somewhat similar. A lot of my old favorite hits are simply "out of their prime."

However, for me at least, DP is as hot as ever. Then again, I only seriously started posting here around the end of 2005.

[Daria]

Steven: They've fixed that problem by adding a seperate collection list. But I do remember people doing that and how irritating it was.

[Ed Oscuro]

I've been there for a while, subscribed for a few years. Recently re-opened my account, but I've still only ever done two trades there. At one time I helped a tiny bit with filling in their x68000 and MSX2 game lists (well, mostly x68000, the MSX2 stuff was mostly limited to bickering over the correct spelling of Undead Line iirc LOL )

[ClassicGameTrader]

Yeah, I have been a member since 98' and I think that it is still a good place to make a trade or two once in a while. I kind of drift in and out every so often. Don't turn your back on it though, you never know where your next big score is going to come from. I have made some awesome deals on that site, and I am sure I will make more awesome deals in the times to come.

[CAGrabbitt]

I use tradegamesnow.com

It will be a cold day in hell when I pay a fee to use a website.

[50TBRD]

There's no fees anymore.