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***Ready to level up your PlayStation games catalog like a collector without buying multiple lots that include games you don’t want or games chewed up by somebody’s dog and covered in 12 years of annoying GameStop stickers? If so, you’ve come to the right place!***

All games purchased will be in JUST OK or PRETTY GOOD or FANTASTIC or PRISTINE shape. Many game cases have been kept in a dark & dust-free environment for years. All games (except NEW, of course) are also tested right after purchase and before shipping and a screenshot will be sent.* (1)

And while you’re here… 

Browse the hundreds of other PS4 games (and some PS5 ones) across multiple bookshelf lots (the “stacks”) and individual listings. 

You will find the usual suspects like Madden 18 that seem to multiply like rabbits on eBay, but there are also rare jewels like an unopened copy of the rarest variant of What Remains of Edith Finch.* (2) 

Many of the games that came from the original PS collection that seeded Errata Games Press are private, single-owner copies. So no GameStop stickers or mystery goo or chewed-up cases. If you do find a crusty GameStop sticker after purchase (won’t happen), consider yourself lucky. You get to keep the game and get a full refund, including shipping. All unsealed/used games are backed up with a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee, no questions asked.* (3)

Please see below for details on how you can stack games and save. Also, if you’ve read this far, drop a message if you have any questions whatsoever, or just want to talk about your favorite PS games.* (4)

STACK & SAVE ON LOTS & INDIVIDUAL LISTINGS

Deals change rapidly on the numbered bookshelf lots (#1 – #10) as they frequently get stocked. Individual listings will also have different deals going on, but those deals won’t change nearly as often as the bookshelves. So keep an eye out for savings when you bundle games. Sometimes it’ll be in the bookshelves; sometimes an individual listing or within a category. Do trophies stack? Not always. But these deals do.* (5)

SHIPPING

Shipping is upfront and pretty standard. You want to buy games, not do a bunch of math. So to streamline things, all titles fall into one of two shipping rates:

A) New and used standard games are charged $4.79 for the first game and $2.59 for every game after that, regardless if it’s a JUST OK copy of Madden 18 or a brand-spankin’ NEW copy of Stardew Valley. Except in some rare cases, this is non-negotiable.* (6)

OR,

B) Bigger ticket and rarer titles, many deluxe/limited or collector editions, etc. will include free shipping. But sometimes it’s accidentally added when a title is listed. Dropping 3-figures on, say, the collector’s edition of Night Trap, or Blade Runner, or the Annapurna Interactive boxed set should entitle you to free shipping. Getting charged shipping is just getting poked in the eye on your way out. Whether that’s a Red Dead Redemption 2 steel lockbox weighing 10 lbs or the rarest variant copy of What Remains of Edith Finch that weighs 4 oz–nobody should get nickel-and-dimed, even for another $4.79. For these larger purchases, you’ll be contacted about extra packaging, added insurance, signature delivery, etc., at no extra cost to you.

Bonus Round: Each game purchase gets one 20-sided die roll. At the end of every month, the lucky person closest to 20 wins a game in their favorite genre (I choose the game). No strings attached or future purchases necessary, I even pay to ship. I also occasionally pack a free game with a random order, because who doesn’t like a free surprise?* (7)

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End User License Agreement (EULA)

By purchasing Item (“Game“) from the Seller (“The Merchant Between Save Points“), the Buyer (referred hereforth as the ungendered “Stan” instead of PS “fanboy” or “fangirl” or “fanfurry,” etc.) hereby consents to the following binding conditions, statutes, provisions, arcane spells, and branching dialogue trees: 

Stan acknowledges that all deals (“Stack & Save“) on Game purchases are final, sans eBay’s nosebleed taxes, and that all Stack & Save purchases are subject to change at the whim of The Merchant Between Save Points. Stan also acknowledges within the following provisions, clauses, and janky tank control gameplay mechanics that, 

(1) condition FANTASTIC is akin to the more common VERY GOOD but maybe even slightly better, just not quite PRISTINE, as Game cases don’t have that same sheen and gloss, or that plasticky smell of unopened physical media. PRETTY GOOD is where you shrug your shoulders, happy that the Game loads, plays, and has a storage case for a home but might not look as cool on your shelf or as PRISTINE or even FANTASTIC. If a Game is JUST OK, it loads, it plays no problem, but it’s not great to look at, like it got into a knife fight at the bar and barely escaped with its life. 

(2) The Merchant Between Save Points believes wholeheartedly, per the drafting of this Agreement, that What Remains of Edith Finch squeaks by Disco Elysium as the best in the ill-defined genre “walking simulator,” even with the former’s unforgivable jank, barebones gameplay, and the latter’s complex dialogue trees, RNG mechanics, and deep worldbuilding. Of all the Finches in that Game‘s extensive family tree, Gregory and Lewis, of course, immediately come to mind. Aside from sidekick Kitsuragi and that weird Measurehead fella, Cuno is the only other side character I can remember from Disco. Fight me.

(3) 30-Day Money Back Guarantee, obviously, doesn’t apply to any UNSEALED Game shipped to Stan SEALED, unless the Game in question is not exactly as described by The Merchant Between Save Points, in which case Stan will receive a full refund on purchase so long as aforementioned Game is returned in exactly the same condition, i.e. UNSEALED. Furthermore, Stan will be responsible for incurring any shipping costs because that’s on you, Stan. For an UNSEALED/USED Game, if condition is not as described, The Merchant Between Save Points will refund Stan and also incur shipping charges to have UNSEALED/USED Game returned. Stan should keep in mind that this isn’t Gamefly, but The Merchant Between Save Points agrees that it was a valuable service (and apparently still exists) back in the day.

(4) eBay, by virtue of it being a digital marketplace, is inherently a transactional space where a Game can be exchanged for fiat currency, though a space proliferated by AI automation and Blade Runner (1982) rogue androids who not only can sell a Game much faster and with much more volume (i.e., smaller margins) than The Merchant Between Save Points, but can also bid, run auctions, and even write aggressively mediocre “Description” to go along with stock cover art that looks nothing like the actual Game getting purchased; and in lieu of that, The Merchant Between Save Points can’t compete, but encourages Stan to send a message and share gaming strats, PlayStation memories of yore, latest non-shovelware platinum, or wax nostalgia about the limitless potential of the 1MB memory card of the original PS1, etc., so that the transactional feels more like an exchange between humans, not algorithms. No purchase necessary.

(5) Stan does not exploit glaring loophole of 30-Day Money Back Guarantee by only playing the purchased Game “until the platinum pops” and returning aforementioned Game, as such behavior would appear unethical, though not quite on the same unethical level as the $800 million rug pull Chris Roberts has managed to fleece from the PC gaming space thus far through Star Citizen. 

(6) An example of a rare exception would be if Stan swept through the stacks like an F5 tornado and snagged 16 games at once and loaded them into Stan‘s cart. If this is the case, then Stan is encouraged to negotiate a lower shipping cost. The Merchant Between Save Points will oftentimes agree to negotiate, but not always, especially if Stan is already stacking multiple coupons, offers, storewide discounts, etc.

(7) Free Game copy would not be a scratched-up loose disc or come with a case covered in GameStop stickers and… whatever else that make those cases stick together. Condition of Game will also be FANTASTIC or PRISTINE or even NEW. And no, there is no guarantee winner will not receive a copy of Overwatch or Just Dance 2014 or, if your chosen genre is RPGs, the same troll copy of Paragon, Anthem, Battleborn, or another dead Game with zero servers online that has been passed around on eBay since at least 2014. But per the final clause of this Agreement, that will not happen to Stan, since The Merchant Between Save Points is all about the benefits of owning games on physical media that actually work, because he is also a Stan and hates getting burned by shady eBay sellers, or people like that truly awful director of the truly awful movie Wing Commander, Mr. Chris Roberts. 

So game on, Stan! Long live the Sony PlayStation!

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