Which Pays More For Used Games?

Across the 16 games both shops quoted at matching condition on September 7, 2026, Cart-A-Vision's basket paid $1,080.51 against DKOldies' $801.00 — a $279.51 lead. That's not every title: DKOldies beat us on 4 of 16, mostly the flagship names people already check before shipping anything (Spider-Man 2, Super Mario 64, The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Banjo-Kazooie). Full row-by-row numbers are below — we're not asking you to take the basket total on faith.

DKOldies is a real, established retro games shop — this page isn't a takedown for its own sake. They do publish a sell list (dkoldies.com/sell-video-games). What we couldn't find, checked directly, is a published rate formula — so you can see they'll buy a title, but not what percentage of its value you're actually getting before you ship. Cart-A-Vision's rate is fixed and published, and every price on this page is sourced and dated so you can check our math instead of trusting it.

If the deciding factor is being able to check a rate before you ship, Cart-A-Vision publishes its formula on every value page: 55% of comp cash for games (85% on high-value titles, 40% on loose discs under $30, 30–40% on Xbox 360 / Xbox One / PS4 games under $15), or 85% (100% on games $30+, 60% on loose discs under $30) in store credit — plus TCG singles, which isn't in DKOldies' matched dataset on this page at all.

Checked directly: no. We found no published condition floor and no deduction schedule for any item type on DKOldies' public sell page, as of September 7, 2026. CATRP and MyQuickFlips both publish one (see /what-we-pay) — DKOldies is the one shop in our three-way survey where we couldn't find either.

Our dataset only has DKOldies' cash offers — we priced real games against their site and recorded what they quoted in cash, the same way we did for every shop. We found no published store-credit rate or percentage to compare against our own published 85%/100% credit tiers, so that row is left blank on this page rather than guessed.

No — see "Where DKOldies wins" below. On Spider-Man 2 and Super Mario 64 and The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Banjo-Kazooie, DKOldies' quote beat ours. A page that wins every line isn't a comparison, it's an ad — the losses stay on this page the same as the wins.

Every DKOldies quote in our dataset is for a classic/retro-era title — Sega Genesis, NES, N64, SNES, PS1, PS2, GameCube. We didn't independently verify what else DKOldies buys beyond that. Cart-A-Vision's own published scope covers 35 platforms including current-generation consoles, plus TCG singles across Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece at 75% cash (up to 85% on cards comped $200+).

Decline it and it ships back at our cost — no restocking fee, no obligation. See the full guarantee. We checked directly for a published return or decline policy on DKOldies' site and found nothing stated.