darkSpyro

GameStop now buying used skylanders.

http://www.gamespot.com/articl...-/1100-6422506/

Oh wow, you can trade in your entire Skylanders collection and get $3 back!

I kid, but considering Gamestop's price point on trade in games, you'll probably get hardly nothing selling to them.
Although I can't remember, I know they did this during SSA...how much did they pay then? The price to purchase used figures was ok and then they dropped them and put them out for like $1.99..i remember picking up an extra Triggs, Spyro and Gilly for that.

Gamestop just did a revamp of their trade program where they're offering more for your games now. Most games just got a 20% increase in trade value when you're looking for store credit.

I have been buying any skylander figure on craigslist for 50 cents a piece for last two years and buying them at yard sales for 50 cents or less and have accumulated 432 common Figures.... Just took them all in for store credit.... Guy looked at me like I was crazy...he took my phone number and said it would be at least a day or two to process them all and when he was done he would call me back With a total! But from what he could see the lowest amount was $2.50...so should pay for all my trap team....lol for a couple waves...

Most Gamestops hate these figures being brand new, using them as trade-in is going to frustrate them even more. They take up space on shelves where one could fit multiple games, that can net multiple times the cost of the figure. They tried to do this for Skylanders once before and it failed miserably. I'm not sure why they are acting like this is something new. I foresee a repeat of the last time this happened.

EB games have always taken them in Australia and they take up hardly any shelf space as they are just dumped in a big box around the store.

^ yep! my local store has them neater though, in small plastic bags up on the pegs. I've seen a lot of the stores put them in the glass case behind the counter too.

Now I wait till some dumb parent sells them a Boomer/Ghost Roaster
(Curious how much they would give for one of them?)

It would be interesting to see if GameStop corporate issues stores a "standard" price list of what to pay for skylanders, or leaves it up to individual stores (or regions) to set their own prices. If such list exists, it would be interesting to see which ones they place higher value on. The few stores around me who buy skylanders pay only 50 cents for cores and .75-$1 for Giants/Swappers. If you have something more "rare", one of stores near me will look it up on Ebay and then offer you a small fraction of what it's selling for. Just out of curiousity, I asked what they'd give me for an extra NIB bronze E3 Hot Dog I have, and after the guy "checked things out", he said he could offer me $10-$13 "depending on what condition the packaging was in" (since I didn't have it with me at the time).

They used to sell skylanders as a way to test the waters, but ended bad.

This seems very interesting, but i can see older figures like bomer being like 50 dollars just cause they're rare

A guy I know brought in "almost 100 figures" with no variants and got $446.33 in store credit. He got $15 for S2 Bash ($16.50 with membership). Another friend took in 12 figures and got $46.

So based off of other peoples posts i decided to trade-in any figure that we had doubles, a higher series of or a lightcore figure, and I came up with 52 figures to trade in. I expected to average about $4 each based off of the posts but not so true. They do not take Minis or Disney Infinity Playset pieces FYI. Also they said they may start taking in used Skylanders games and portals in the future but they were still trying to work that all out.

This last bit of info is interesting, they said they will ship the used Skylanders to their warehouse to wipe them clean. I am attaching a copy of my receipt so you can see what prices I got as a PowerUp Member.

Hope this helps others make the right decision!

Thanks! Totally brought me to the side of wanting to sell mine, considering I stopped collecting awhile ago.

Those prices are quite fair. How much can you really expect from a figure that retails for $10

might as well trade in my reposes

Quote: tsnowman

So based off of other peoples posts i decided to trade-in any figure that we had doubles, a higher series of or a lightcore figure, and I came up with 52 figures to trade in. I expected to average about $4 each based off of the posts but not so true. They do not take Minis or Disney Infinity Playset pieces FYI. Also they said they may start taking in used Skylanders games and portals in the future but they were still trying to work that all out.

This last bit of info is interesting, they said they will ship the used Skylanders to their warehouse to wipe them clean. I am attaching a copy of my receipt so you can see what prices I got as a PowerUp Member.

Hope this helps others make the right decision!

but will they take in disney infinity power discs?

Quote: tsnowman

This last bit of info is interesting, they said they will ship the used Skylanders to their warehouse to wipe them clean.

Hm. Seems like with all the portals they've been taking in for trade, they should set something up in store that reads the figure (saving time entering it/attempting to identify it) and wipes it at the same time.

Maybe they want to make bundles of used to sell. Complete collections, or maybe by element. Perhaps a "Complete Your Collection" section online?

The only way I see this working is if they ship these to corporate to facilitate online orders, AND there's a demand for them. I'm getting a feeling there will be way more inventory for demand and they will suspend the program.

Sorry, not sure I didn't try. But Toys R Us is having a Power Disc Trade day tomorrow (9-27-14 ) at 2pm I think. So maybe you could trade or even sell them to others there.

Quote: GhostRoaster

The only way I see this working is if they ship these to corporate to facilitate online orders, AND there's a demand for them. I'm getting a feeling there will be way more inventory for demand and they will suspend the program.

Which is exactly why I wanted to trade mine in ASAP. I'm not expecting this deal to last long, maybe only a month or two. I took about a dozen figures in today and got about $35 back for them. Not bad for extras that were just sitting in a box, and it helped me pay off Hyrule Warriors.

I had a bunch of duplicates lying around so I thought I'd go over to my Gamestop and see how much I would get. I had 16 figures (Mostly cores, one light core, one giant, two swappers) and ended up getting 50 dollars for all of them(I have a pro membership there so I'm sure that helped too). If you have a bunch of spare figures you have no use for, I honestly recommend going there and seeing how much you'll get

Aww, and I already gave away all my doubles. Oh well, I'd rather know the little boy that was in my class last year is actually using them all the time.

Edit: Actually, I might be able to sell back some of those double minis that I'm going to be stuck with. I wanted Spry but had no clue what to do with a second Mini Jini. Thank you, Gamestop.

Didn't someone somewhere say they aren't taking sidekicks/minis?

Quote: Kesrael

Didn't someone somewhere say they aren't taking sidekicks/minis?

No, they aren't taking any items, adventure pack levels, or minis. They only accept core figures, giants, swappers, and light cores.

I traded in 24 figures that basically were unavoidable doubles like Tree Rex, Cynder 2, Jet Vac, Grim Creeper, Shroom Boom, Bumble Blast, etc. I only buy one version of each figure and try to make it the variant. My only exceptions have been the 10 series 3 figures, and I bought the LC figures because I thought they would be great, and quickly found out they were mostly terrible. This was a great reason to get rid of the LCs since even Skylanders seem to have abandoned them. Nobody wanted the duplicate figures and they were going for very little online. GameStop gave me $106 and change, and that paid for my Dark Edition in full. These were literally characters that I either never wanted or instantly regretted. I also dumped Fryno since his series 2 is coming out. Averaging about $4.50 for these I thought was solid, so definitely don't knock the GS prices because on a lot of these they are quite fair.

I wonder how long before someone buys one of these and there's an obscenity on the name change and sues Gamestop.

Aww, they don't take minis? Thanks Gamestop, one of the only things I'd have right now.

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Quote: Kesrael

Didn't someone somewhere say they aren't taking sidekicks/minis?

No, they aren't taking any items, adventure pack levels, or minis. They only accept core figures, giants, swappers, and light cores.

I also noticed they only accept certain in-game variants, such as the non-retail exclusive ones like Scarlet, Gnarly, and Quickdraw, but not some like Jade, Molten. They accept Polar also seeing as it was gamestop exclusive.

Quote: GhostRoaster

I wonder how long before someone buys one of these and there's an obscenity on the name change and sues Gamestop.

i can see it now


"Mommy, why is my scratch skylander named *Insert slang term for female parts here*?"


edit:

i'll take in 27 of my unwanted figures soon. probably not today.

Quote: tsnowman

So based off of other peoples posts i decided to trade-in any figure that we had doubles, a higher series of or a lightcore figure, and I came up with 52 figures to trade in. I expected to average about $4 each based off of the posts but not so true. They do not take Minis or Disney Infinity Playset pieces FYI. Also they said they may start taking in used Skylanders games and portals in the future but they were still trying to work that all out.

This last bit of info is interesting, they said they will ship the used Skylanders to their warehouse to wipe them clean. I am attaching a copy of my receipt so you can see what prices I got as a PowerUp Member.

Hope this helps others make the right decision!

scans for Ghost Roaster pricing
Huh?

I got $159 store credit for all my trade ins today.

Spyro's Adventure Camo $6.05 TIV yet sells at Walmart and Five Below for $5

i am not selling any skylanders!

traded 89 skylander and disney infinty figures and got just under $340. im NOT a pro member so my TIV is obviously lower than ZAPNORRIS but i was happy nonetheless.Lowest i got was $1.50(jet-vac,cynder) and highest was for FIRE-BONE HOT DOG at $12.50 which is funny cause i bought him at gamestop for 9.99.

polar whirlwind got me $5.00 and GITD sonic boom was $3 while springtime trigger got me $4.50

Power Up Pro costs $15 and nets you 10% bonus. You literally could have signed up for free and still got like $20 more. That GS did you a very big disservice.

Quote: GhostRoaster

I wonder how long before someone buys one of these and there's an obscenity on the name change and sues Gamestop.

Before the figures are resold, they are sent to a warehouse to be wiped clean, and then sent back to stores.

Quote: SkylanderDrew

traded 89 skylander and disney infinty figures and got just under $340. im NOT a pro member so my TIV is obviously lower than ZAPNORRIS but i was happy nonetheless.Lowest i got was $1.50(jet-vac,cynder) and highest was for FIRE-BONE HOT DOG at $12.50 which is funny cause i bought him at gamestop for 9.99.

polar whirlwind got me $5.00 and GITD sonic boom was $3 while springtime trigger got me $4.50

huh?

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Nice to see they're paying fair prices. Wonder what I could get for my legendary figures there.