@hampton2003 I'm guessing you haven't actually looked at a preowned game sold by any reputable retailer recently, because if it's all scratched up, they won't buy it from the original owner to begin with. But even then, yes, there are some risks that the game may have taken a little bit of damage, which is why it is a cheaper price. If you bought a car second-hand, would you expect the car manufacturer to limit the services the car can provide? IKEA lost out on money when I sold my old bed to a friend - should I have just binned the bed, or should my friend be forced to have a less complete sleeping experience because of it? This is nothing new to the games industry. I'm not a used-game buyer, usually, because I like my games new, but I have done it. And I've been doing it for years. Places like G-Force have been trading games for over a decade, this is something they should be able to cope with by now. It is not the second-hand-gaming element that has changed, it's the finances of these companies. So that's their problem, it shouldn't be ours. I'd like to add that, when I bought Bioshock, it was purely out of a little curiosity and the fact that, two years after it's release, its resale price was a complete steal. If it hadn't been for how cheap it was preowned, I probably never would have bought it (so no one was going to miss that money anyway), and it led to me buying a legit copy of Bioshock 2 and paying for DLC (which may have never happened otherwise).