TOP 8 REASONS TO USE GLYDE.COM TO BUY & SELL USED GAMES

Referring back to an article on Glyde.com I wrote in March, I’d like to update you on my experience with this website and how it has been successful for me, and more importantly, how it can be successful for you. Since March, I have seen this site grow significantly from the alpha stage to beta stage. Glyde went from about a dozen Xbox 360 games when I first tested this site out, to over 170 Xbox 360 games currently listed for sale by other gamers. No doubt their used game inventory will expand even further for all consoles, including the PS3, Wii and even hand held games for the PSP and DS

I want to share with you my personal experience using Glyde, but first, here is a list of reasons to use Glyde.com to buy and sell used games. If this list doesn’t convince you to use Glyde, maybe my story below will. This list is in no particular order.

1. It’s not GameStop! No more accepting incredibly low trade-in credit and then seeing that same game for sale on the shelf for twice the amount they paid you for it.

2. You are selling your game directly to fellow gamers, much like yourself. No corporate markups here. Glyde charges a 10% fee from your sale and a small shipping cost for the mailer they send you to ship out to the buyer, which is totally worth it.

3. No need to use Craigslist or similar sites anymore to schedule a ‘meetup’ in order to sell your game to a random stranger at some random public parking lot. Why go through the hassle? Why bother taking and editing photos of your game for your ‘for sale’ ad? Glyde does it for you.

4. Get more value out of your used games. You can choose to sell your game at the market price Glyde recommends, or change the amount you want to charge for it. You are in control.

5. Find games at a lower cost than retail chain stores. Again, you’re buying and selling gamer to gamer. No “middle man” markup for corporate profits. There are many deals to be found.

6. Have your profits mailed to you by check, have your profits directly deposited into your bank account, or just use the credit to buy other games listed for sale, from other Glyde users.

7. No up-front fees to use Glyde. It’s free to sign up so if you have some games in your collection collecting dust, why not list them for sale and give gamers a chance to play a game you obviously aren’t going to play ever again?

8. Customer service, customer service, customer service. There are some really cool guys I have communicated with over at Glyde. Feel free to send them an email with any comments, complaints or suggestions on improving their site. They will listen to you! (Unlike the guy behind the GameStop counter who chooses to answer the phone over and over again instead of dealing with the line of customers in front of him.)

Now onto the actual numbers. You’re asking yourself, “is this worth it? I need to see actual examples from a Glyde user”, right? If the list above did not convince you, here are the games I have sold on Glyde and my overall profits from each sale. Every game I have listed on Glyde.com, I have sold. Some took a few months in the beginning, some took a few weeks, some have only taken a couple of days. Either way, I found that this site works for me. I don’t get that guilty feeling you get when trading in your games. You know that feeling I’m talking about. It’s like, only $5 credit for this game? Man! Well, alright.. it’s $5 off the new game I really want. I’ll save money whenever I can. And so you do it anyway. I say, no more my friends.

Left 4 Dead: Sold for $25.50. After the 10% fee of $2.55 and the $1.25 mailer, my profit was $21.70. I originally bought the game for $50 so I almost got half of my money back.

F.E.A.R. 2: Sold for $10.00. After the 10% fee of $1.00 and the $1.25 mailer, my profit was $7.75. Don’t know if this was a good deal or not, but the game wasn’t in demand like L4D was, so I took what I could get.

Fallout 3: Sold for $20.25. After the 10% fee of $2.02 and the $1.25 mailer, my profit was $16.98. I was done with the game and never wanted to play it again. I think someone got a good deal on this one and I was happy to sell it to them.

Mario Kart Wii: Sold for $35.00. After the 10% fee of $3.50 and the $1.75 mailer (bigger package due to inclusion of the Wii wheel= more cost for mailer), my profit was $29.75. Not a bad deal as I was able to take that money and put it towards Wii Sports Resort instead, which is getting more playtime than Mario Kart did.

Call of Duty 4: Sold for $23.75. After the 10% fee of $2.37 and the $1.25 mailer, my profit was $20.13. This was the last game I sold, and that was just this week. Why keep COD4 around when Modern Warfare 2 is right around the corner? Once a sequel comes out, I’m the type of gamer that does not go back to the game before. It’s time to move on.

Finally, the one game I have purchased on Glyde surprisingly made me money. Here is how:

I purchased Assassin’s Creed during a Glyde promotion for $17.56 including shipping costs. (Buyer pays shipping) At the time Glyde was offering a $10 credit when purchasing games, so in the end, I only paid $7.56 for Assassin’s Creed, and sure enough, a $10 credit was deposited into my Glyde account. Played the game, enjoyed it, and then decided to re-sell the same game on Glyde for more than I originally paid for it.

Re-sold Assassin’s Creed for $16.00 and after the 10% fee of $1.60 and the $1.25 mailer, my profit was $13.15. So in the end, due to Glyde’s promotion, I ended up getting paid more than $5 to play an awesome next gen game. And the cool thing about Glyde is, they do these kinds of promotions all the time. Take advantage while you can! Follow them on Facebook. Follow them on Twitter. Oh hell, while you’re at it, follow me on Twitter as well. Glyde.com is still a new site so they want your business, but they won’t be making money, if you’re not making money first. It’s a win-win situation if you ask me.

I encourage you to at least try Glyde out to see if it works for you. It has for me and I will continue to use it when selling my used games. The only negative I can see someone arguing is the amount of time it takes for a buyer to receive their game. (Glyde sends the seller the mailer which takes a couple of days, then the seller sends the game to the buyer, which takes a couple of more depending on when the seller drops it off) But you’re most likely getting a good deal so patience will go a long way. Besides that, Glyde is also a great place to find used DVD’s, CD’s and even books. What’s a book you ask? I don’t know, but you can buy and sell them too. Check the site out for yourself, it’s most definitely worthy of your time.

Visit Glyde.com now and test it out

GLYDE.COM: SMOOTHEST WAY TO BUY & SELL GAMES, DVDS, CDS AND BOOKS

Forget retail. Forget GameStop, Craigslist, eBay and Amazon. Forget everything you know about buying, selling, or trading your used games. Glyde.com is the next big thing for us gamers and computer nerds, and yes I say computer nerds with pride as we have hijacked that stereotype and made it cool. Kind of like what Glyde is doing to the process of getting more value out of your used games, DVDs, CDs and books. It’s probably the easiest way I have ever sold a used item of mine. I can’t decide what the best part is, the fact that they send you pre-stamped, pre-addressed packaging to ship your sold goods, or the fact that all the images of your items are pre-loaded on the website. No waiting in line at the post office and no photography skills needed. No more emailing and calling to meet up with someone on Craigslist to buy your used item, no more haggling over the price, and finally no more accepting ridiculous trade in credit at GameStop. Do you have time for a quick story? Come… take a stroll with me.

My local GameStop accepts game trade ins and they accept DVDs for store credit as well. I bought the whole Season 3 of BattleStar Galactica on DVD after hearing about it Vancouver, Canada. (if you don’t know what BSG is, you’ve missed out on one of the best TV Series I’ve ever seen in my lifetime) Anyway, I finished watching Season 3 and no longer really needed the set anymore. However, I did want to buy Fallout 3. So I headed over to GameStop to trade in the DVD set and get some credit towards my new game purchase. At GameStop, they had the nerve to offer me sixty cents per disc. So that’s $3.60 total for my original $45.00 purchase. It wasn’t worth it at all to me so I decided to keep the DVDs for a rainy day. It’s a good thing I did because I found out about Glyde.com.

I went onto this brand new site and signed up immediately to test out how it works. After signing up, I clicked on sell, typed in BattleStar Galactica and up came a list of Battlestar DVDs, CDs, games and books I could choose from. Under the DVD section I clicked the Battlestar Season 3 and up pops a picture of the DVD cover and the price you can sell the DVD for according to the condition of the DVD. If I had never opened my DVD set and it was still in its original factory seal, I could have listed it for $42.50. Well, I opened it already so I had to pick the next condition which is Excellent. (The discs play perfectly, there were no visible scratches and no damage to the case.) So I picked excellent and ended up selling my DVD set, that GameStop wanted to give me $3.60 for, on Glyde.com for $35.50.

Now, I didn’t end up getting the full $35.50 as it was listed because there are some small costs involved with transactions on Glyde. They display this up front before you list your used goods for sell. You only have to pay Glyde 10% of the sale price and the cost of shipping and handling for your used games/DVDs/CDs/books to whoever buys your used item. They send you a pre-stamped, pre-addressed Glyde mailer so you don’t have to worry about it. All said and done, the 10% fee was $3.55 and the mailer cost me $1.50. So I ended up getting a total of $30.45 by placing it for sell on Glyde.com. Do you think I’m glad I didn’t accept that pathetic trade in credit at GameStop now?

Here is why I think Glyde has the potential to be the next big thing. As I was learning about what Glyde.com was about, I didn’t think I would have that many things to sell. But, literally within arms reach I found multiple games, DVDs, CDs and books that were just collecting dust in my office and really doing nothing more than take up room. Especially the books. When you’ve finished reading a book, what do you do with it? Give it to someone else to read? Put it on your bookshelf as if you’re really going to read it again? These are tough times for a lot of us, why not try and make money off of something you’ve already benefitted from? Why not post it for sell and let someone else benefit from it and get paid at the same time? Glyde is making it so easy for you to make this possible.

Look, I’m not the type of person that holds onto things for very long. I know there are tons of people out there, just like my Grandma, that likes to hold onto things FOR-EV-ER. How much of these items do you have lying around the house? Go ahead, look around. I’ll wait. Look in the junk drawer, look on your dusty bookshelf, look in your sock drawer… wait, close it. Check the garage, your car, your closet.. everywhere you could potentially have some used items you thought no longer had any value to you. Place them for sale on Glyde.com and see what happens. What have you got to lose? It’s as easy as throwing it away.

Glyde is currently being developed in Silicon Valley and it was started by internet veterans from eBay, AOL and Excite. If you go there now, you’ll notice the site is still in its alpha stage and requires an invitation code to start exploring Glyde. Hopefully I have kept your attention long enough for me to give you the opportunity to try it out yourself. The Gamer Report readers can head on over to Glyde.com and enter invitation code “TGR“. So far, I’ve had a pretty successful experience selling some things. I already told you I sold my BSG DVD set, but I also sold my Halo Graphic Novel and even sold a CD to some dude in Wisconsin.(I’m bummed I didn’t keep all my old CD cases, I used them for coasters.)

Who knows what I’ll sell tomorrow but I’ll tel you what, it’s pretty cool getting an email saying you’ve sold something you didn’t think was worth anything. The process is so easy, you owe it to yourself to check out Glyde and enjoy its no hassle simplicity. Check it out and tell me what you think in the comments. If you post something for sell on Glyde, tell me how much money you made. Same thing if you end up finding a game you’ve been wanting to play for a while, buy it and let me know how much money you saved compared to a retail store. Now go! Spread the word: Glyde.com.

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