What's the dollars to points equation again?

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IrishFan replied on 10-02-2009 1:44 PM

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To be honset there is not one. But if you where to buy points ya thats about right.

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batmania15 replied on 10-02-2009 1:45 PM

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points have no value

now it takes $5 to buy 100 points but once you buy those points they have no value, points are not worth money

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Kanano replied on 10-02-2009 2:18 PM

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criminolelawyer:

And you cannot buy $7.50 worth of points. The next up is 200 pts @ $10.

I wasn't talking about buying points, I was talking about games that are worth 150 points, like Final Fantasy X-2

http://www.goozex.com/trading/games/9389-Final_Fantasy_X_2-PlayStation_2

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Bobster823 replied on 10-02-2009 2:21 PM

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You can buy 400 points for $20.
But you can also buy a game on sale for $20 and send it out for 950 points.
You can form your own opinion but there isin't a "true" answer. It's like the Undefined answer in math class.

Edit: When looking at a specific point price for a game, I compare what I can send out to get it. Like I just sent Nascar 06 for xbox for 100 ponts, and now I am getting The first season of Scrubs for 100 points. Nascar had no more value to me and Scrubs, well Scrubs is Scrubs

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acsguitar replied on 10-02-2009 2:25 PM

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It's all dependent on the resale value of a used game.

If you look at the resale of a game on Gamestop then the points are worth less then say Ebay.

1000 Points game might be tradeable for 30 bucks on Game Stop but 40 Bucks on Ebay.

However, I always think 5 dollars = 100 points. It would be way more complicated then that though to figure out an actual value.

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Phrozenspite replied on 10-02-2009 2:30 PM

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indeed as a rule of thumb i use the 5 dollars=100 points one mentally as well when figuring out if something is a good deal or not.  I also use that in trading to figure out if buying that item to flip would be a cheaper way of obtaining points than to buy them from goozex.  Same goes with deciding if i'm going to trade off that game I just bought or sell it on ebay(i go with whichever would yield the higher value)

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nissan288 replied on 10-02-2009 2:59 PM

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supposedly 100 pts = $5 but I've traded about 6 games I bought for $20 a piece for 1000pts each, so that comes out to roughly 100pts = $2.

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TenTonHammer23 replied on 10-02-2009 4:28 PM

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I use the $5 for 100 in all factorings of game value cause I just consider "if I bought the points to buy this game on goozex, that is what I'm paying".  I'm not gonna bother myself with "if I buy said random game and trade it out for this random amount of points, I can get this game for this points, yadda yadda".  So much easier.

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Kanano replied on 10-10-2009 5:48 PM

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Alright, thanks for the confirmation guys.