Has anyone used Goozex?

[Dukefrukem]

On top of the fact that nothing is trading right now. The site will be dead in a few more months after this sale falls through and this douchebag owner comes crawling back.

[Stoke]

Arg, I wake up today and for some reason think about two of my old haunts, CoG and Goozex. Decide to hit up CoG first and see this thread. I still have over 2000 points on Goozex...sonuvabitch.

[Satertek]

I've got 4550 points and 28 tokens so I'm a bit worried.

Really like the site and would like even more to use what I've got so I hope they recover.

Edit: They sold out to a company worth less than $3M. Wow, this looks bad.

And if I read this correctly, they sold the site for $150k plus 15% of the company that bought it, making the current total value of both to be ~$590k. (And declining)

[Clark]

Originally Posted by Satertek

I've got 4550 points and 28 tokens so I'm a bit worried.

Really like the site and would like even more to use what I've got so I hope they recover.

Edit: They sold out to a company worth less than $3M. Wow, this looks bad.

And if I read this correctly, they sold the site for $150k plus 15% of the company that bought it, making the current total value of both to be ~$590k. (And declining)

Wow. They are toast. Sucks you have that many points/tokens.

This is the kind of thing that scares me about Steam. I doubt it will EVER happen, but you never know. I guess I'dd have to buy a crazy big HD if it ever looked grim.

[DiBiddilyBop]

Yeah, that kind of sucks. I have over 2000 points there myself.

It really makes me wonder how their business model could possibly go wrong. They don't handle any actual product, they're purely a facilitator so I can't imagine where overhead comes in.

[Satertek]

Originally Posted by DiBiddilyBop

Yeah, that kind of sucks. I have over 2000 points there myself.

It really makes me wonder how their business model could possibly go wrong. They don't handle any actual product, they're purely a facilitator so I can't imagine where overhead comes in.

The only problem right now seems to be a complete and total lack of communication. The reason the site is falling apart is that no one wants to risk mailing out games. If the site shuts down they lose the points. Because of this, queues are ridiculously long and noone can get any games at all. Add that to the fact everyone is also trying to spend all the points they saved up...and you get the current problem.

The new owners have said nothing and this is the only statement the founders have made on the matter. Everything else is wild speculation because they won't tell us anything.

All they really need to do is be open about who they are and what they're doing with the site and everything should return to normal. Probably.

If the point algorithms took supply/demand into better account I might make a bet on the site surviving and trade in some of my games, but the prices don't go up even if they have 100+ people in queue. It's just plain not worth it to mail out games right now since prices aren't rising and I won't be able to get anything in return for quite awhile.

[darkbase]

I've recently picked back up on Goozex as I've officially started collecting video games instead of trading them in or selling them on Amazon. I've received 92 games since February this year just on Goozex. Most of them are PS2/Xbox/Gamecube games, and almost all were 100-200 points each.

My trick is I buy those Deal of the Day game sales at Best Buy in multiples, like three copies of Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One for $10 each, and trade them on Goozex for 1000 points each. That's $30 for 3000 points, excluding shipping and tokens. 3000 points can be anywhere from 20-30 low value games that I need for my collection. Hell, even the highest point value for any game is 1200, like Suikoden II or the Skyrim Collector's Edition. A lot of people complain in the forums about how Goozex is dying and such, and I agree with they're complaints, but if you know what yo're doing you can still get a lot out of it right now.

Anyway, if you want to do this right now, Infamous 2 is $10 at Best Buy this week, go now and grab a few copies, they're still worth 1000 points and have a ton of people in line waiting for it.

[Dukefrukem]

Site is officially dying soon. They just raised the point cap to 2400. Now everyone is holding onto their games because they dont want to spend that kind of point for a new game. Look at what's readily available. It's like old Madden Games and that's it. Only 700 trades going on. Pathetic.

[Kelegacy]

Well, their algorithms and some of the change (or lackthereof) killed it for me. I used them a few years back but after they changed the rules/pricing of tokens, I ducked out.

It was decent while it was around, so I always hate to see a gametrade option die out. I'm just not surprised. It seemed on thin ice years ago.

[DiBiddilyBop]

This really is too bad. I used Goozex a lot back in the day. It really makes me wonder what killed it since the site had very little overhead... just bandwidth and keeping up with new releases.

[biosc1]

I think such a system is only as strong as its users. I used it a bunch back in the day as well, but then the selection seemed to decrease (like less people were posting games)...then I just kind of stopped using it.