UK Platinum Deal: 99p!

[Jessie]

... If you trade in three DS games you don't use, that is!

Tadaaa (http://hotukdeals.com/item/405007/pokemon-platinum-for-99p-when-you-t/)!

I'm so excited! <3

[Blastoise]

Congrats, congrats.

EDIT: How little is 99 pence? It sounds like a deal.

[Jessie]

It's very very little.

[Pikachu]

Congrats, congrats.

EDIT: How little is 99 pence? It sounds like a deal.

It's about $1.57 for us Americans. Pretty good deal, I have a few games I don't play.

[Kai Lucifer]

wait wait wait wtf tailsy are you being serious here?

...wow, you are. It's off to Gamestation over the weekend for me. :D

[YetiPenguin]

Wow, that's great. I'd die to get a game for a buck seventy-five. :/ Nintendo does love those deals. I could bring in my old DS and some cash fr a DSi, here.

[Spaekle]

I wish GameStop would do things like this instead of offering 75 cents for games you've never even played. :\

That sounds awesome, though! Perhaps makes up a little for having to wait longer?

[Mike the Foxhog]

Stupid half term, normally I'd be unable to reach anywhere that sold games at any point and so buying it from Amazon wouldn't have been a waste of about £22. xD

Then again I don't have 3 DS games I especially want to give up... damn you all.

[RainbowRayquaza]

This would be great but I only have 4 DS games and I still play 3 of them D:

[Salazard]

Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad deal? xD I mean, a DS game costs around £30. So that's £91 for Pokemon Platinum (In a sense without discount from the games being pre-owned or shit) and Platinum isn't even worth buying anyway unless you don't have Diamond or Pearl!

[Chucho]

It's not if you've already completed the games in the past.

[Salazard]

It's not if you've already completed the games in the past.

I s'pose I don't really like starting again unless it's a new region/remake...

(Soul Silver & Heart Gold FTW!)

[Jetx]

Damn my not even having 3 games D:

[Peegeray]

Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad deal? xD I mean, a DS game costs around £30. So that's £91 for Pokemon Platinum (In a sense without discount from the games being pre-owned or shit) and Platinum isn't even worth buying anyway unless you don't have Diamond or Pearl!

i disagree, cuz some games aren't even £30
and platinum is awesome. i have diamond, pearl and platinum. platinum is definitely worth it

[Dannichu]

This was so fantastic; I have loads of games I never play but don't really want to sell because Gamestation'd give me about £3 for them. So I traded in Brain Training, Project Rub, Hoshigate and 99p for my shiny new Platinum game~

I called myself Giles, and I have four Pokemon on my team so far; Buffy, Xander, Cordelia and Spike. Hee!

[Mike the Foxhog]

Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad deal? xD I mean, a DS game costs around £30. So that's £91 for Pokemon Platinum (In a sense without discount from the games being pre-owned or shit) and Platinum isn't even worth buying anyway unless you don't have Diamond or Pearl!

Yeah, but you never get anything like as much as the game's worth when you trade them in, what with the shop having to make a profit from it :3

[Cirrus]

Aw man, wish I'd seen this earlier. Though I guess I don't really have three games I would trade in, I play all my old ones. D:

[Espeon]

I hate you all with your 99p games!

Also, it's not a bad deal if you have three games you never play. That or you could have bought three really, really cheap games for the DS. There must be some so rubbish they're on sale for £2.95 or something.

EDIT: I just found out my friend had 6 games they wanted to get rid of and would have let me use three to get the 99p offer! D:

[Mustardear]

I wish GameStop would do things like this instead of offering 75 cents for games you've never even played. :\

That sounds awesome, though! Perhaps makes up a little for having to wait longer?

You Americans generally get better prices for new games from what I've seen. Platinum cost £30 - £35 when it came out in the UK (I think), which is around $47 - $55. Or maybe I'm wrong.

[Spoon]

You Americans generally get better prices for new games from what I've seen. Platinum cost £30 - £35 when it came out in the UK (I think), which is around $47 - $55. Or maybe I'm wrong.

Pokémon DS games and other popular DS series, like Mario and Legend of Zelda, go for around $35. Used Pokémon GBAdvanced games go for $30 at GameStop. Wii games go up to $50 dollars.

So if your conversions are right it sounds like the UK has the worst luck with games, pricewise and release date wise.

[Spaekle]

Used Pokémon GBAdvanced games go for $30 at GameStop.

Used Pokemon games are really expensive. >:| I love the used GBA case at Gamestop; I was able to get the second Advance Wars game for like $5 and the GBA Final Fantasy's for around $12. Well, VI may have been more like $20, I dunno, but still a lot cheaper than the Pokemon games. I know I paid like $30 for a used FireRed. You could probably get a NIB copy online for that price or less.

Although that's still not as bad as $50 for a DS game. Damn, that sucks. D:

[Spoon]

Used Pokemon games are really expensive. >:| I love the used GBA case at Gamestop; I was able to get the second Advance Wars game for like $5 and the GBA Final Fantasy's for around $12. Well, VI may have been more like $20, I dunno, but still a lot cheaper than the Pokemon games. I know I paid like $30 for a used FireRed. You could probably get a NIB copy online for that price or less.

Although that's still not as bad as $50 for a DS game. Damn, that sucks. D:

They definitely are, pratically all the other (used) GBA games go for $15 dollars or less. I've found it easier to get used games through friends. My Sapphire managed to get water damage and no longer worked, so I bought a friend's copy for $15 dollars. I only played Pokémon games (and Sonic games) during the GBA era, so I should look into some of the quality titles back then.

I meant that Wii games go for $50. The highest amount I've seen for a DS title, excluding Guitar Hero, is $40 for Final Fantasy titles.

[Storm, Earth, and Fire]

You Americans generally get better prices for new games from what I've seen. Platinum cost £30 - £35 when it came out in the UK (I think), which is around $47 - $55. Or maybe I'm wrong.

A typical pattern is that prices maintain the same numbers, they just swap the currency symbol.

It's to make up for the fact that Americans are poorer than both Britons and Continentals. v_v