tl;dr

Goozex is a new website — well, new to the UK anyway — offering online game trading service. So far, I’ve managed a two-for-one swap from it (I’ve traded in Gran Turismo 5: Prologue for the PS3 and received Dead Rising and Rainbow Six Vegas 2 for 360, all for the sweet, sweet cost of £free).

EDIT: (adding this 28th April) — my initial good impressions have been reinforced. So far, I’ve disposed of a dozen older Xbox1, PS2, and Gamecube games through Goozex, and received several much newer Xbox360 and PS3 titles instead. I’m definitely impressed with this service. You get a much better deal than you would trading games in on the high street.

I recommend you check this out with all due haste. Here’s how it works.

You go on the site and register all the games you might want to get rid of, and all the games you want. You’re put into a queue and every game has a points value. The site constantly works to match games people want to trade with games people want, and every game you are looking for with people looking to trade games. When it finds a match, the point value of the game is deducted from the buyer’s account, added to the seller’s account, and the seller is given the address of the buyer. The seller bungs it in the post, and (hopefully soon) can use his points to buy a different game from someone else.

Goozex take a small fee (€1) from the seller for each transaction, but apart from that the only costs are your postage fees. As such, it seems to offer considerably better value than selling games on Ebay or trading them in at a high street store. All transactions are guaranteed by Goozex, so you are insured against games that don’t arrive and suchlike.

If you’re a gamer, I strongly encourage you to sign up and take a look. You will get one free game purchase and 100 points just for signing up, which is enough to buy any one of a number of older games for free.

(Disclosure: that’s a referral link and I will get a small number of points from Goozex when your first trade goes through. This doesn’t cost you anything, though.)

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