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Yep, it works great. :-D
EDIT: Probably should elaborate. 1) if you sign up under rabbit or myself, we get points only if you trade (send) something, so don't feel pressured. 2) You immediately get 1 trade credit and 100 points when you sign up, enough to buy most dreamcast/xbox/ps2 games.
It works really well. All games have an internal value; because of this, buying points is pretty irrational since you can buy the game for less elsewhere, but it basically means you can trade between systems making it supremely flexible. For instance, if I recall, I traded Fallout PC collection and two other games, and then used those points to get GTA IV and Mass Effect for the 360. Basically what I'm trying to say is that the number of points you require to receive the game is how many points you get to send the game. This is unlike Gamestop, where they'll give you $10 for GTA IV and then turn around and sell it for $30.
There are two letdowns: 1) because you get a trade credit and 100 points to sign up, people game the system to get free games. So, people who actively trade shy away from people who recently set up accounts and never traded before. Patience is key for your first trade. 2) trading away extremely popular games can take a while, because there might be a huge lineup to trade an extraordinarily popular game (like a launch title) so you may never get to trade that game. The goozex internal system is pretty good about reducing the number of points for a particular game, but they can't lower it too much (it seems that the point values equate to the used game cost at gamestop).
I will say this: people who trade on goozex have a greater motivation to send you perfect copies of games, since sending scratched games repeatedly can get you kicked off the site. This is unlike gamestop, which buys and sells games in any condition (usually very poor).
For my part, I've stopped hoarding games and pretty much exclusively use this site. |
