Below is a humorous example of human consumerism in action. How logical and orderly “free markets” operate!
http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=76432&page=1

Buy 3 games for $50 (total amount in Australian currency) take them to retail store that offers 3 games traded in for a new game. Take the new game and trade it in at EB Games and get $77 with your Edge card which gives extra 10% of trade in value. Repeat process over and over. Make lots of store credit. $27 profit made every time in store credit.
You can more or less do this anywhere in the world works for PS3, 360 and Wii games.

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I give you people a golden piece of information. I do this every day during my lunch break from work. Thank god it is a short walking distance betweem the EB Games and the retailer I get the new games from to do my trade-ins.
So far over $2700 in store credits I have made from this trick. I stumbled across this idea on another internet forum site.

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This is the dumbest scheme ever. I can make more money faster with less work and only leaving my house once with store credit at stores I’ll actually buy things from. Just buy random crap online at cheap values and return at whatever store sells them with a good return policy. Walmart works great for this.
Still doesn’t mean it isn’t sketchy and worth doing. You may be thinking you are screwing the company, but the bottom line is they will fire the little guy rather than the bigwig taking a pay cut because they aren’t making enough.

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sounds fun!

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here is a better idea every now and then you can find a gem of a game that you wanted but didn’t want to pay full price for on clearance or used. Play it for a few weeks, beat it, and then eBay it or trade it back in and end up breaking even or even gaining a little. I was able to do this with Call of Duty 2 a while back, I bought it on eBay used for about $17 played it regularly for a couple of months then turned around and sold it and I think I made a few dollars in the process. And that is completely legal.

But those who are most strongly supportive of free markets argue that they “always work” and do not need correction. Are they working?

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