[Dead] EBGames $10 Bonus for ANY 2 Non-Sports Titles 01/30-02/27

[yeldarb367]

they should take turok right?
Yes.

[mmn]

they should take turok right?

Any non sports game. Even SOME "sports" are included, like Soccer, Wrestling, any Extreme Sports, and any Racing game.

[scuba]

sweet I wasn't sure about this racing game I had either but at least i know they might take it now.

Thanks

[ChessPieceFace]

Most of my stuff was wrapped, since I'd just bought it from TRU and wanted to return it if there was a problem. Only the stuff I already owned was unwrapped.

The only game that didn't work for me that wasn't a sports game was Spy Hunter PS2.

[jngx80]

The only reason they don't move more used Jam Packs is that they grossly overcharge for them. $4.99 is the same price most retailers cut them too new when they're no longer the latest release. In fact, many retailers already have the most current one at $4.99. Which makes me wonder what the margins are on those things.

In any case, EB has no excuse for charging more than $2 for something they acquired for a quarter. An 800% markup is pretty generous.

I agree with the price of jampacks - they are overpriced. But don't look at the percentage markup - consider what they're actually making in terms of dollars. For example say I pick up a penny guide and then resell it for $1. Percentage wise it looks great but if you looked at what I have, it's still just a dollar. I would have to sell a bunch of these just to make some substantial money. For stores like EB and Gamestop include rental fees, etc. and you can kind of see why they have to have a big markup.

[kingofny187]

damn, this deal really hooked me up! I had cancelled my PSP preorder, but today I was able to get it back by trading in enough games to get nearly $250 on my edge card! The best part - I hit 3 TRUs, and only bought 2 copies of some of the really crappy games, and thereby was able to leave plenty for other CAGs!! Could this be any better?!?!


what games did you trade in for psp. anyone else traded in games for psp and save money if so what did you trade in.

[dopa345]

Can someone confirm that they're still taking demos and Jampacks?

[m0rningbreakfast]

Will they only take 2 games a day from a person?

Or can you bring in 4,6,8 or even 10 at a time if you wanted?

[masha]

Can someone confirm that they're still taking demos and Jampacks?

I can confirm it :D

[Chacrana]

Will they only take 2 games a day from a person?

Or can you bring in 4,6,8 or even 10 at a time if you wanted?

I brought in 18 (in addition to 5 others that I traded in for Devil May Cry 3.)

It's fine to bring in as many as you want, but there's a limit of 12 per transaction. So just tell the guy working there to give you credit for 12 of the games or something and then if you have more, make that a seperate transaction.

[GenDV138]

Will they only take 2 games a day from a person?

Or can you bring in 4,6,8 or even 10 at a time if you wanted?

I don't think they have a limit of how many games a day you can trade in, I've traded in 12 games at the same time last Wednesday.

[Kaboobi02474]

Can anyone confirm if any of these games work?

Magic Pengel
Stuntman
Simpsons: Road Rage
Road Trip: Arcade Edition
.hack//infection

[oper00]

Can anyone confirm if any of these games work?

Magic Pengel
Stuntman
Simpsons: Road Rage
Road Trip: Arcade Edition
.hack//infection

...

All of them work since they're NON-SPORTS games.

[darkje]

I traded in 12 in one sitting, then went to TRU, picked up some more Primals and Turoks (they have like 100 left in the backroom) and went back to EBgames to trade in another 6.

First time the guy scanned them all even though there were duplicates, second time a new guy asked the manager and he said go ahead on duplicates.

I hope that I can trade in the rest of my primals & turoks + other misc stuff without them giving any trouble.

Now I wish I had picked up more jampacks (onlyones left are the $4.99 ones) and more maestro/ejays. It seems someone came by and picked them all up out of the green tag bin, I guess not beeing greedy backfired here when someone else was.

I'm going back to ebgames to trade in another 12 tomorrow, will report back ;)

[Chacrana]

I traded in 12 in one sitting, then went to TRU, picked up some more Primals and Turoks (they have like 100 left in the backroom) and went back to EBgames to trade in another 6.

First time the guy scanned them all even though there were duplicates, second time a new guy asked the manager and he said go ahead on duplicates.

I hope that I can trade in the rest of my primals & turoks + other misc stuff without them giving any trouble.

Now I wish I had picked up more jampacks (onlyones left are the $4.99 ones) and more maestro/ejays. It seems someone came by and picked them all up out of the green tag bin, I guess not beeing greedy backfired here when someone else was.

I'm going back to ebgames to trade in another 12 tomorrow, will report back ;)

How much are Turok and Primal at TRU? I haven't had a chance to read through that gigantic 70-page thread yet.

[sabin23]

I traded in 12 in one sitting, then went to TRU, picked up some more Primals and Turoks (they have like 100 left in the backroom) and went back to EBgames to trade in another 6.

First time the guy scanned them all even though there were duplicates, second time a new guy asked the manager and he said go ahead on duplicates.

I hope that I can trade in the rest of my primals & turoks + other misc stuff without them giving any trouble.

Now I wish I had picked up more jampacks (onlyones left are the $4.99 ones) and more maestro/ejays. It seems someone came by and picked them all up out of the green tag bin, I guess not beeing greedy backfired here when someone else was.

I'm going back to ebgames to trade in another 12 tomorrow, will report back ;)

How much are Turok and Primal at TRU? I haven't had a chance to read through that gigantic 70-page thread yet.

Primal is about $1.50... Turok varies depending on the system. I've seen anywhere from $1 to the $5 range. Go for the Gamecube version since that's the cheapest I believe.

[salmonaxxx]

Does EB give you your store credit on a card? I've only traded stuff in at GS, and they give you a paper reciept with a barcode.

[Scorch]

Can anyone confirm if any of these games work?

Magic Pengel
Stuntman
Simpsons: Road Rage
Road Trip: Arcade Edition
.hack//infection

...

All of them work since they're NON-SPORTS games.

YMMV. My store uses the exclusion list.

[Chacrana]

Does EB give you your store credit on a card? I've only traded stuff in at GS, and they give you a paper reciept with a barcode.

Yes, they have the EB Edge card where they put all your credit.

[MightySlacker]

Can anyone confirm if any of these games work?

Magic Pengel
Stuntman
Simpsons: Road Rage
Road Trip: Arcade Edition
.hack//infection

...

All of them work since they're NON-SPORTS games.

YMMV. My store uses the exclusion list.

Why not print off the promo description off the site that says that any non-sports game isn't excluded? Or talk to the DM?

Dave

[slidecage]

I traded in 12 in one sitting, then went to TRU, picked up some more Primals and Turoks (they have like 100 left in the backroom) and went back to EBgames to trade in another 6.

First time the guy scanned them all even though there were duplicates, second time a new guy asked the manager and he said go ahead on duplicates.

I hope that I can trade in the rest of my primals & turoks + other misc stuff without them giving any trouble.

Now I wish I had picked up more jampacks (onlyones left are the $4.99 ones) and more maestro/ejays. It seems someone came by and picked them all up out of the green tag bin, I guess not beeing greedy backfired here when someone else was.

I'm going back to ebgames to trade in another 12 tomorrow, will report back ;)

How much are Turok and Primal at TRU? I haven't had a chance to read through that gigantic 70-page thread yet.

Primal is about $1.50... Turok varies depending on the system. I've seen anywhere from $1 to the $5 range. Go for the Gamecube version since that's the cheapest I believe.

primal for PS2 is 50 cents

[bugg33]

I traded in 12 in one sitting, then went to TRU, picked up some more Primals and Turoks (they have like 100 left in the backroom) and went back to EBgames to trade in another 6.

First time the guy scanned them all even though there were duplicates, second time a new guy asked the manager and he said go ahead on duplicates.

I hope that I can trade in the rest of my primals & turoks + other misc stuff without them giving any trouble.

Now I wish I had picked up more jampacks (onlyones left are the $4.99 ones) and more maestro/ejays. It seems someone came by and picked them all up out of the green tag bin, I guess not beeing greedy backfired here when someone else was.

I'm going back to ebgames to trade in another 12 tomorrow, will report back ;)

How much are Turok and Primal at TRU? I haven't had a chance to read through that gigantic 70-page thread yet.

Primal is about $1.50... Turok varies depending on the system. I've seen anywhere from $1 to the $5 range. Go for the Gamecube version since that's the cheapest I believe.

primal for PS2 is 50 cents

$1.50 at mine

[slidecage]

when you even figure the games sell for 50 cents or a buck, add the extra 5 per game they are giving. Total 5.50 or 6 bucks per game. This is about the Same you would hope to get for half of the junk games TRU had dirt cheap. So instead of going the ebay route (fees + paypal fees + shipping fees + worry about being payed) Just take the games to eb

i hope to go This Monday weds and friday and dump around 40 games i got for free at TRU last month

(best is Soul cal 2 6.00 before 5 extra

[schultzed]

Picked up 8 Jampacks today at a different TRU . . .

Put 2 on the EB counter . . . clerk gave me the credit. Put the other 6 out and she said they can only take 2 of one game. But she was cool and did 2 more. So I unloaded 4 total.

$21 in credit for $3.20 cash

She asked about the TRU sale and said she was going to go over there after work.

I told her I left 8 JPs at the TRU (true . . . I couldn't bring myself to hoard all of them).

She also said she goes to CAG . . . by name w/out me saying it.

[Chacrana]

Now I'm wondering, how much would EB pay for Suikoden III? Like, is there anyway I can find out short of going there and asking them? I'm tempted to trade it in at EB, but at the same time, I could sell it on Half or EBay and potentially get more. And then, there's a bunch of PS1 games I want to pawn off but I don't think they're worth anything... does EB give you more than 50¢ for those?

[darkje]

Primal is $1.50 at my TRU, Turok is $3.48.

So I get $10.75 for $5, not bad, I'll end up paying about $100 for my PSP.

[Strider Turbulence]

Now I'm wondering, how much would EB pay for Suikoden III? Like, is there anyway I can find out short of going there and asking them? I'm tempted to trade it in at EB, but at the same time, I could sell it on Half or EBay and potentially get more. And then, there's a bunch of PS1 games I want to pawn off but I don't think they're worth anything... does EB give you more than 50¢ for those?


Honestly, they probablly won't even give you $10. I traded in a Fatal Frame II (ps2) last month and was only going to be given $5 for it. When it was on the shelf the next day the tag was $29.99.

[PhrostByte]

Surpisingly, out of the 40 or so crap games I did trade in, one of the titles that I decided to keep was Primal. That game looks pretty cool.

[trunks982]

so they do accept any jampacks?

[masha]

so they do accept any jampacks?

YES! THEY DO ACCEPT ANY JAMPACKS =;

[schultzed]

Surpisingly, out of the 40 or so crap games I did trade in, one of the titles that I decided to keep was Primal. That game looks pretty cool.

I really liked Primal . . . the combat is crappy (mostly press one button long enough with a little movement and you'll win). But the story and cinemas are really cool. The game is very atmospheric with great voice work.

I finished it . . . these days that's true of about 30% of games I play.

[IndyDad]

Picked up two Metroid Prime/Wavebird bundles at KMart. I want to trade in the games, but they have that "Not for resale" in blazing glory, and I'm sure the barcode probably won't scan accurately at EB (since this was an exclusive for KMart).

Has anyone tried to trade this in? Can I trade it in with disc and instructions but no cover? I've thought about printing out the UPC from the web and taping it over the current barcode.

Any help appreciated.

[help1]

Picked up two Metroid Prime/Wavebird bundles at KMart. I want to trade in the games, but they have that "Not for resale" in blazing glory, and I'm sure the barcode probably won't scan accurately at EB (since this was an exclusive for KMart).

Has anyone tried to trade this in? Can I trade it in with disc and instructions but no cover? I've thought about printing out the UPC from the web and taping it over the current barcode.

Any help appreciated.

I always trade in the "not for resale" stuff, if it has a messed up bar code, it doesn't ring up and the employee (poor poor man) must manually do it.

EDIT: forgot to ask my question:

is it possible to trade in two of the same games in?

[IndyDad]

Thanks help1, I'll give it a try.

[chargeup45]

so they do accept any jampacks?

YES! THEY DO ACCEPT ANY JAMPACKS =;

They didnt accept mine. Maybe word is getting around, but they said "no demo compilations". I wasnt about to create a fuss about it, but luckily I only picked up a couple of jampacks to give it a shot.

[GenDV138]

EDIT: forgot to ask my question:

is it possible to trade in two of the same games in?

It might depend on the employee, I did it once with two Dead To Rights GC, I just asked him nicely if I could trade doubles in and he said he would see if it would work with the promo and it did.

[AndrewUIS420]

www.ebgames.com will than go to trade in games on the side bar to the left, down a little bit,. It shows you how much the money you will get for each of them is and if they are restricted or not, but it doesnt say anything besides sports games is restricted

[help1]

Thanks help1, I'll give it a try.

Thanks help1? Thats a CAG first!! I MAY JUST QUOTE YOU FOR MY SIG!!! Maybe tom.

[help1]

www.ebgames.com will than go to trade in games on the side bar to the left, down a little bit,. It shows you how much the money you will get for each of them is and if they are restricted or not, but it doesnt say anything besides sports games is restricted

where does it tell trade in value?

[salmonaxxx]

Primal is $1.50 at my TRU, Turok is $3.48.

So I get $10.75 for $5, not bad, I'll end up paying about $100 for my PSP.

EB only gave you 75 cents for those two games before the bonus? Whoa, gotta avoid them.

How much does an EB Edge card cost? On their website, it says you need to buy one...

[minqqq]

so they do accept any jampacks?

YES! THEY DO ACCEPT ANY JAMPACKS =;

They didnt accept mine. Maybe word is getting around, but they said "no demo compilations". I wasnt about to create a fuss about it, but luckily I only picked up a couple of jampacks to give it a shot.

find a hott girl to trade em in for you. the ebs have been fussy about crap trades lately, so i have my gf do the demos and other crap games. it's funny hearing about all the flirting stories after she's done with the trade. hott girlfriends come in handy.

[masha]

so they do accept any jampacks?

YES! THEY DO ACCEPT ANY JAMPACKS =;

They didnt accept mine. Maybe word is getting around, but they said "no demo compilations". I wasnt about to create a fuss about it, but luckily I only picked up a couple of jampacks to give it a shot.

As long as system accepts it, they'll take it. I traded a few today. He just didn't want to take them. Sorry to hear that.

[trunks982]

i got summer and winter 2003, and winter 2002 jampacks. i hope i can trade them in. Especially the duplicates.

[oper00]

i got summer and winter 2003, and winter 2002 jampacks. i hope i can trade them in. Especially the duplicates.

I think it's harder now since EB games has been cracking down on the TRU sales. They pretty much know about it very well by now. I have like 4 jampacks and I can't return them and I don't know what I'm going to do with them (probably trash them) since we all know they won't ever do this deal again.

[salmonaxxx]

Jeez, almost every cheap TRU game is excluded on this list: http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/ads/shops/instoretradein/exclusions.asp All Jampacks, and stuff like Primal and Mojo, too. Guess I'm screwed.

[cyberlian]

Jeez, almost every cheap TRU game is excluded on this list: http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/ads/shops/instoretradein/exclusions.asp All Jampacks, and stuff like Primal and Mojo, too. Guess I'm screwed.


That is for the normal deals. This extra $10 for every 2 only excludes the obvious sports games (i.e. anything w/ a year, wrestling, etc.)

[Timothyx]

EDIT: what cyberlian said.

[salmonaxxx]

Oh, thank God. I thought they had changed the list to prevent TRU games from being used, but the (non-sports) list doesn't matter at all?

[Nephets]

Tomorrow I'll trade in the 6 games I got for a guaranteed 30 bucks, and more too, but I don't expect more than 40. Which is cool because I only spent 22 at TRU.

But, I will only go if Star Fox Assault will be at EB tomorrow, anybody know if they'll have it in stock tomorrow?

[Rig]

Tomorrow I'll trade in the 6 games I got for a guaranteed 30 bucks, and more too, but I don't expect more than 40. Which is cool because I only spent 22 at TRU.

But, I will only go if Star Fox Assault will be at EB tomorrow, anybody know if they'll have it in stock tomorrow?

I thiknk they would probably have it, but did you rent it first? I was pretty disappointed with the overall game. The Arwing levels were good, but the ground and Landmaster missions sucked. IMO of course...

[Nephets]

Tomorrow I'll trade in the 6 games I got for a guaranteed 30 bucks, and more too, but I don't expect more than 40. Which is cool because I only spent 22 at TRU.

But, I will only go if Star Fox Assault will be at EB tomorrow, anybody know if they'll have it in stock tomorrow?

I thiknk they would probably have it, but did you rent it first? I was pretty disappointed with the overall game. The Arwing levels were good, but the ground and Landmaster missions sucked. IMO of course...

I've read reviews and saw videos, seems like a game I'll love, and I loved Adventures, Landmaster and ground missions, well, I expected them to suck. :P

Starfox is a beloved franchise of mine, I will pick it up even if I hate it.

So, you think they'll have it? So tomorrow is the stocking date? Or the shipping date?

I just don't want to go down to EB only to find out it's not out yet.

[MorPhiend]

Tomorrow I'll trade in the 6 games I got for a guaranteed 30 bucks, and more too, but I don't expect more than 40. Which is cool because I only spent 22 at TRU.

But, I will only go if Star Fox Assault will be at EB tomorrow, anybody know if they'll have it in stock tomorrow?

I thiknk they would probably have it, but did you rent it first? I was pretty disappointed with the overall game. The Arwing levels were good, but the ground and Landmaster missions sucked. IMO of course...

I've read reviews and saw videos, seems like a game I'll love, and I loved Adventures, Landmaster and ground missions, well, I expected them to suck. :P

Starfox is a beloved franchise of mine, I will pick it up even if I hate it.

So, you think they'll have it? So tomorrow is the stocking date? Or the shipping date?

I just don't want to go down to EB only to find out it's not out yet.

If you Pre-Order it, can't you do 5 for $50 credit? (Assuming you have 5 games that aren't excluded.) You should do it that way, if it's cheaper.

[Nephets]

Tomorrow I'll trade in the 6 games I got for a guaranteed 30 bucks, and more too, but I don't expect more than 40. Which is cool because I only spent 22 at TRU.

But, I will only go if Star Fox Assault will be at EB tomorrow, anybody know if they'll have it in stock tomorrow?

I thiknk they would probably have it, but did you rent it first? I was pretty disappointed with the overall game. The Arwing levels were good, but the ground and Landmaster missions sucked. IMO of course...

I've read reviews and saw videos, seems like a game I'll love, and I loved Adventures, Landmaster and ground missions, well, I expected them to suck. :P

Starfox is a beloved franchise of mine, I will pick it up even if I hate it.

So, you think they'll have it? So tomorrow is the stocking date? Or the shipping date?

I just don't want to go down to EB only to find out it's not out yet.

If you Pre-Order it, can't you do 5 for $50 credit? (Assuming you have 5 games that aren't excluded.) You should do it that way, if it's cheaper.

How can I preorder something that comes out tomorrow?

[MorPhiend]

Tomorrow I'll trade in the 6 games I got for a guaranteed 30 bucks, and more too, but I don't expect more than 40. Which is cool because I only spent 22 at TRU.

But, I will only go if Star Fox Assault will be at EB tomorrow, anybody know if they'll have it in stock tomorrow?

I thiknk they would probably have it, but did you rent it first? I was pretty disappointed with the overall game. The Arwing levels were good, but the ground and Landmaster missions sucked. IMO of course...

I've read reviews and saw videos, seems like a game I'll love, and I loved Adventures, Landmaster and ground missions, well, I expected them to suck. :P

Starfox is a beloved franchise of mine, I will pick it up even if I hate it.

So, you think they'll have it? So tomorrow is the stocking date? Or the shipping date?

I just don't want to go down to EB only to find out it's not out yet.

If you Pre-Order it, can't you do 5 for $50 credit? (Assuming you have 5 games that aren't excluded.) You should do it that way, if it's cheaper.

How can I preorder something that comes out tomorrow?

Well, your first post was asking if it would be in stock tomorrow. Thus, if it's not, pre-order for 5 games... duh :roll: :D

[Nephets]

I thought they had a limit of one week for preorders? I didn't think you could preorder something a day before it comes out, but thank you for the advice.

[MorPhiend]

I thought they had a limit of one week for preorders? I didn't think you could preorder something a day before it comes out, but thank you for the advice.

Oh, IDK. I was just spouting an idea. Just ignore the previous posts then...

[yogi99]

Any one know the trade in value for Tao Feng (xbox), Eternal Darkness (GC) and Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure (GC) at ebgames?

[epobirs]

Any one know the trade in value for Tao Feng (xbox), Eternal Darkness (GC) and Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure (GC) at ebgames?

ED brings $1.50

Universal brings $1

Can't say for Tao Feng since I haven't seen any in the TRUs I checked. If I had I might be tempted to keep one just to fill out the library.

[MorPhiend]

Any one know the trade in value for Tao Feng (xbox), Eternal Darkness (GC) and Universal Studios Theme Park Adventure (GC) at ebgames?

You'll probably have to pay them $12 just to take Tao Feng. So, I'd say the $5 bonus isn't worth it in this case... :wink:

[epobirs]

I waws pretty amazed on Sunday when I made a quick check of my local TRU and found they'd put out more copies of Primal!. This was at around 3:30 PM so I can only wonder what else had been there earlier.

If TRU keeps this up I may be looking to place a pre-order on an Xbox 2 if that gets an official realese announcement for this year at E3.

[cyberlian]

found 0.99 rayman arena, mojo, r racer w pacman bonus disc all at my TRU, they didn't have a green tag, but it rang up for 90% off

[schultzed]

i got summer and winter 2003, and winter 2002 jampacks. i hope i can trade them in. Especially the duplicates.

I think it's harder now since EB games has been cracking down on the TRU sales. They pretty much know about it very well by now. I have like 4 jampacks and I can't return them and I don't know what I'm going to do with them (probably trash them) since we all know they won't ever do this deal again.

Well, if nothing else, you have some cheap cases.

I was happy yesterday when I traded in 4 JPs for $21. They were all the same one :shock:

[screwkick]

Went to EB this weekend. Traded in 4 TRU games and got $28 store credit.

The trade in values for the games were nothing before the bonus $10. All 4 games got me $8. Thank god for the bonus credit.

I still feel like I'm being raped when I trade in games. It's so shady. What sucks is they will give me a dollar on a trade, then turnaround and sell it for $15. :evil:

[Chacrana]

Went to EB this weekend. Traded in 4 TRU games and got $28 store credit.

The trade in values for the games were nothing before the bonus $10. All 4 games got me $8. Thank god for the bonus credit.

I still feel like I'm being raped when I trade in games. It's so shady. What sucks is they will give me a dollar on a trade, then turnaround and sell it for $15. :evil:

That's why I'm glad they're running an offer like this. I would get like $40 for what I traded in on Friday, but instead I got $130 w/ Devil May Cry 3 payed for in full. I'm thinking that I'll trade in some more stuff just to get as much as I can so I'm set for game buying through like the whole friggin summer and I'll trade in a bunch of PS1 and Dreamcast games for some pocket change. Of course, I wouldn't sell anything rare or valuable to them considering the shit base price they give you.

[cag1000]

i know of a TRU with about 30-40 Turoks for a $1 a piece. I bought maybe 10-15 couple days ago and got the 10 for 2 plus like .50 .75 each. Now i'm thinking about going back and doing all at once. And by the way i traded multiples(like 10 of each) total of like 40 games(only like 4 titles) couple days ago to eb no problem, clerk was like dam hit a clearance?

[shrike4242]

i know of a TRU with about 30-40 Turoks for a $1 a piece. I bought maybe 10-15 couple days ago and got the 10 for 2 plus like .50 .75 each. Now i'm thinking about going back and doing all at once. And by the way i traded multiples(like 10 of each) total of like 40 games(only like 4 titles) couple days ago to eb no problem, clerk was like dam hit a clearance?

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

[PhrostByte]

Went to EB this weekend. Traded in 4 TRU games and got $28 store credit.

The trade in values for the games were nothing before the bonus $10. All 4 games got me $8. Thank god for the bonus credit.

I still feel like I'm being raped when I trade in games. It's so shady. What sucks is they will give me a dollar on a trade, then turnaround and sell it for $15. :evil:

That's why I'm glad they're running an offer like this. I would get like $40 for what I traded in on Friday, but instead I got $130 w/ Devil May Cry 3 payed for in full. I'm thinking that I'll trade in some more stuff just to get as much as I can so I'm set for game buying through like the whole friggin summer and I'll trade in a bunch of PS1 and Dreamcast games for some pocket change. Of course, I wouldn't sell anything rare or valuable to them considering the shit base price they give you.

If you've got anything good for DC.. I just started my collection recently so I might be interested in some stuff. And I'm sure you'll get more from me than ebgames.

[trunks982]

i called eb they said no jampacks allow
EDIT: i forgot... it was a manager that picked it up. i recognize his voice.

[cag1000]

i know of a TRU with about 30-40 Turoks for a $1 a piece. I bought maybe 10-15 couple days ago and got the 10 for 2 plus like .50 .75 each. Now i'm thinking about going back and doing all at once. And by the way i traded multiples(like 10 of each) total of like 40 games(only like 4 titles) couple days ago to eb no problem, clerk was like dam hit a clearance?

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


lol u dont beleive me?
trust me i'm the biggest swindler on this site bar none
I also went to trade back some games(7) (cost me $14) at FYE and the dude thought i was returning and handed me $140 cash.
Beleive it

Edit: the clerk at eb also bought a perfect dark from me for 2 bucks(paid $1) could have gotten 5 from him but i was nice.....this time

[rarebucky]

i know of a TRU with about 30-40 Turoks for a $1 a piece. I bought maybe 10-15 couple days ago and got the 10 for 2 plus like .50 .75 each. Now i'm thinking about going back and doing all at once. And by the way i traded multiples(like 10 of each) total of like 40 games(only like 4 titles) couple days ago to eb no problem, clerk was like dam hit a clearance?

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


lol u dont beleive me?
trust me i'm the biggest swindler on this site bar none
I also went to trade back some games(7) (cost me $14) at FYE and the dude thought i was returning and handed me $140 cash.
Beleive it

Edit: the clerk at eb also bought a perfect dark from me for 2 bucks(paid $1) could have gotten 5 from him but i was nice.....this time

You're probably the same ass that wiped out that TRU in Route 10 in NJ. Considering your profile says "nj", I wouldn't doubt it. Go screw yourself.

[MorPhiend]

i know of a TRU with about 30-40 Turoks for a $1 a piece. I bought maybe 10-15 couple days ago and got the 10 for 2 plus like .50 .75 each. Now i'm thinking about going back and doing all at once. And by the way i traded multiples(like 10 of each) total of like 40 games(only like 4 titles) couple days ago to eb no problem, clerk was like dam hit a clearance?

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


lol u dont beleive me?
trust me i'm the biggest swindler on this site bar none
I also went to trade back some games(7) (cost me $14) at FYE and the dude thought i was returning and handed me $140 cash.
Beleive it

Edit: the clerk at eb also bought a perfect dark from me for 2 bucks(paid $1) could have gotten 5 from him but i was nice.....this time

You're probably the same *** that wiped out that TRU in Route 10 in NJ. Considering your profile says "nj", I wouldn't doubt it. Go screw yourself.

It's not that he doesn't believe you, it's that you're a moron who ruins it for everyone else. There's a thread that was started that talks about EB corporate passing down that there is now only one copy of each game per person, not visit, person! And it's because of idiots like you. Now we can't even trade in the two copies of a quality game we might have in two seperate visits because of jerks like you who trade in 40 Turoks (which will never sell) all at once. Please, don't take this the wrong way, but, go find a bridge and jump off... and shoot yourself on the way down, just to make sure...

[shrike4242]

i know of a TRU with about 30-40 Turoks for a $1 a piece. I bought maybe 10-15 couple days ago and got the 10 for 2 plus like .50 .75 each. Now i'm thinking about going back and doing all at once. And by the way i traded multiples(like 10 of each) total of like 40 games(only like 4 titles) couple days ago to eb no problem, clerk was like dam hit a clearance?

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


lol u dont beleive me?
trust me i'm the biggest swindler on this site bar none
I also went to trade back some games(7) (cost me $14) at FYE and the dude thought i was returning and handed me $140 cash.
Beleive it

Edit: the clerk at eb also bought a perfect dark from me for 2 bucks(paid $1) could have gotten 5 from him but i was nice.....this time

You're probably the same *** that wiped out that TRU in Route 10 in NJ. Considering your profile says "nj", I wouldn't doubt it. Go screw yourself.

It's not that he doesn't believe you, it's that you're a moron who ruins it for everyone else. There's a thread that was started that talks about EB corporate passing down that there is now only one copy of each game per person, not visit, person! And it's because of idiots like you. Now we can't even trade in the two copies of a quality game we might have in two seperate visits because of jerks like you who trade in 40 Turoks (which will never sell) all at once. Please, don't take this the wrong way, but, go find a bridge and jump off... and shoot yourself on the way down, just to make sure...

Yeah, there's always at least one asshat fscks it up for the rest of us. And yes, I pick up more than one copy of a game, though I don't do it to trade it in, I turn around and offer it up to CAGs for cost + shipping. At most, 3 of them in one sitting, and never any more than that total. If they don't sell, they go back as a return, not as trade-in fodder.

Heaven help us if cag1000 and slidecage end up breeding. :shock: The super-hoarder? :shock: :shock:

[MorPhiend]

i know of a TRU with about 30-40 Turoks for a $1 a piece. I bought maybe 10-15 couple days ago and got the 10 for 2 plus like .50 .75 each. Now i'm thinking about going back and doing all at once. And by the way i traded multiples(like 10 of each) total of like 40 games(only like 4 titles) couple days ago to eb no problem, clerk was like dam hit a clearance?

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


lol u dont beleive me?
trust me i'm the biggest swindler on this site bar none
I also went to trade back some games(7) (cost me $14) at FYE and the dude thought i was returning and handed me $140 cash.
Beleive it

Edit: the clerk at eb also bought a perfect dark from me for 2 bucks(paid $1) could have gotten 5 from him but i was nice.....this time

You're probably the same *** that wiped out that TRU in Route 10 in NJ. Considering your profile says "nj", I wouldn't doubt it. Go screw yourself.

It's not that he doesn't believe you, it's that you're a moron who ruins it for everyone else. There's a thread that was started that talks about EB corporate passing down that there is now only one copy of each game per person, not visit, person! And it's because of idiots like you. Now we can't even trade in the two copies of a quality game we might have in two seperate visits because of jerks like you who trade in 40 Turoks (which will never sell) all at once. Please, don't take this the wrong way, but, go find a bridge and jump off... and shoot yourself on the way down, just to make sure...

Yeah, there's always at least one asshat fscks it up for the rest of us. And yes, I pick up more than one copy of a game, though I don't do it to trade it in, I turn around and offer it up to CAGs for cost + shipping. At most, 3 of them in one sitting, and never any more than that total. If they don't sell, they go back as a return, not as trade-in fodder.

Heaven help us if cag1000 and slidecage end up breeding. :shock: The super-hoarder? :shock: :shock:

:rofl:

But shrike is right. Look at his K Mart trade thread for crying out loud! He's selling games that he bought for $15 + tax for $18! He's a true CAG. To many of you are just rapists. The point of CAG is to help everyone, not rape them of the ability to get good deals as well.

[darkje]

It's just not cool to try and trade in 20 copies of the same game, they will know something is up and might take measures that ruin it for everyone.

Yes, I do have 12 orso copies of primal, but I don't trade in anymore than 2 per visit (the funny thing is, the guy at my EBgames said, bring in as much as you want, I sold the ones you brought in over the last week already, and he loves sealed games, they fly off the shelves).

In any case, I traded in 12 more games today, no problems at all. Went back to toys r us here, they were half restocked, picked up some more $1 titles.

[cag1000]

68 pages of people posting the same thing and you jump on me lol fuck off jealous did u wanna play mary kate and ashley fuck a horse? it's not like i stole games from under you. i just did it before u could. what pissed u cant do the same thing?

[shrike4242]

i know of a TRU with about 30-40 Turoks for a $1 a piece. I bought maybe 10-15 couple days ago and got the 10 for 2 plus like .50 .75 each. Now i'm thinking about going back and doing all at once. And by the way i traded multiples(like 10 of each) total of like 40 games(only like 4 titles) couple days ago to eb no problem, clerk was like dam hit a clearance?

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


lol u dont beleive me?
trust me i'm the biggest swindler on this site bar none
I also went to trade back some games(7) (cost me $14) at FYE and the dude thought i was returning and handed me $140 cash.
Beleive it

Edit: the clerk at eb also bought a perfect dark from me for 2 bucks(paid $1) could have gotten 5 from him but i was nice.....this time

You're probably the same *** that wiped out that TRU in Route 10 in NJ. Considering your profile says "nj", I wouldn't doubt it. Go screw yourself.

It's not that he doesn't believe you, it's that you're a moron who ruins it for everyone else. There's a thread that was started that talks about EB corporate passing down that there is now only one copy of each game per person, not visit, person! And it's because of idiots like you. Now we can't even trade in the two copies of a quality game we might have in two seperate visits because of jerks like you who trade in 40 Turoks (which will never sell) all at once. Please, don't take this the wrong way, but, go find a bridge and jump off... and shoot yourself on the way down, just to make sure...

Yeah, there's always at least one asshat fscks it up for the rest of us. And yes, I pick up more than one copy of a game, though I don't do it to trade it in, I turn around and offer it up to CAGs for cost + shipping. At most, 3 of them in one sitting, and never any more than that total. If they don't sell, they go back as a return, not as trade-in fodder.

Heaven help us if cag1000 and slidecage end up breeding. :shock: The super-hoarder? :shock: :shock:

:rofl:

But shrike is right. Look at his K Mart trade thread for crying out loud! He's selling games that he bought for $15 + tax for $18! He's a true CAG. To many of you are just rapists. The point of CAG is to help everyone, not rape them of the ability to get good deals as well.

Thanks, MorPhiend. I do the little I can. :oops:

[jngx80]

[quote="darkje"]It's just not cool to try and trade in 20 copies of the same game, they will know something is up and might take measures that ruin it for everyone.

Yes, I do have 12 orso copies of primal, but I don't trade in anymore than 2 per visit (the funny thing is, the guy at my EBgames said, bring in as much as you want, I sold the ones you brought in over the last week already, and he loves sealed games, they fly off the shelves).

quote]

Isn't what you're doing the same as Cag1000, even if you do it in separate trips? People should've traded in 1 copy at 1 store. I was telling people to spread it around but I guess when someone hoards 15 copies of the same game you know it's all going to end up at 1 location.

[MorPhiend]

68 pages of people posting the same thing and you jump on me lol shaq-fu off jealous did u wanna play mary kate and ashley shaq-fu a horse? it's not like i stole games from under you. i just did it before u could. what pissed u cant do the same thing?

No. we are angry about everyone doing this. I have had about 17 copies of Mad Maestro! that I got at Xmas for free (Don't worry. There were over 50 left when I left, and there are still some today...). But I didn't run to EB and rape them with these, along with eJay and Clubworld, etc... I got the Maestros because at the time, everyone was complaining about their TRUs not having any. But then, everyone must have gotten some eventually because I couldn't find anyone who still wanted one. So I gave them to people at school who had PS2s. I didn't try a rape job.

The worst part is, you not only contribute to deals like this being ruined, but you come and brag about it after the system has been changed because of these exploits/rape jobs. Like I said, find the nearest bridge. I officially announce the first nomination for the 2005 Cag Villain award. Not only did you exploit and brag, but then you try and defend yourself. If you were proud enough to brag, then you shouldn't feel the need to defend yourself.



On a more positive not, to shrike:
Don't thank me. I call them as I see them.

[MaxBiaggi3]

did u wanna play mary kate and ashley shaq-fu a horse?

Now that would be an interesting game. I would pay $5-$10 for a clearance copy of that title. Please let me know when you get it in stock, pretty please!

[shrike4242]

did u wanna play mary kate and ashley shaq-fu a horse?

Now that would be an interesting game. I would pay $5-$10 for a clearance copy of that title. Please let me know when you get it in stock, pretty please!

Coming soon from the producers of The Guy Game, it's Mary-Kate and Ashley meet Lady Godiva! :rofl: Where the men are real men, the women are real women, and the horses are happy as heck that the women are around. :twisted:

Hey, ZL, aren't you the technical advisor for that game, or at least, the stuntcock? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[MorPhiend]

did u wanna play mary kate and ashley shaq-fu a horse?

Now that would be an interesting game. I would pay $5-$10 for a clearance copy of that title. Please let me know when you get it in stock, pretty please!

Coming soon from the producers of The Guy Game, it's Mary-Kate and Ashley meet Lady Godiva! :rofl: Where the men are real men, the women are real women, and the horses are happy as heck that the women are around. :twisted:

Hey, ZL, aren't you the technical advisor for that game, or at least, the stuntcock? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

ummm... Well, if you're gonna do it, at least make their likenesses be from before the anorexia and drugs... But then they would be underage... nevermind, it was an awful idea anyway. But what if they made it an Eyetoy game???

[rarebucky]

To keep this thread somewhat on track...I don't know if anyone else found this, but I traded in a bunch of games today and some of them rang up as $10, as if they were being traded in for a new game (the "trade in 5 non-excluded games, get a new game free" promotion). It rang up because I had 5 of them in there (Bloodrayne, Red Faction II, Ty The Tiger, among others). So, instead of getting like $8 credit, I got $10. Pretty cool, and I didn't have to put it towards a pre-order I didn't want :)

[Nephets]

I know I could call, but for all people who went to EB, was Star Fox Assault in stock? :P

[MorPhiend]

To keep this thread somewhat on track...I don't know if anyone else found this, but I traded in a bunch of games today and some of them rang up as $10, as if they were being traded in for a new game (the "trade in 5 non-excluded games, get a new game free" promotion). It rang up because I had 5 of them in there (Bloodrayne, Red Faction II, Ty The Tiger, among others). So, instead of getting like $8 credit, I got $10. Pretty cool, and I didn't have to put it towards a pre-order I didn't want :)

Nice! I need to find a ride to EB to trade in a couple of games...

[FriskyTanuki]

I wish my TRU had a ton of PS2, GC, or Xbox games so I could take advantage of all of this possible trade-in credit. EB deserves it.

[oper00]

There's a thread that was started that talks about EB corporate passing down that there is now only one copy of each game per person, not visit, person!

Holy shit, really? Wow, corporate was fast on making that rule. But yeah, it's true, people like cag1000 fucked up the 2 for $10 trade-in deal because I haven't even gotten a chance to trade in any jampacks yet (only a measly 4). You got to only trade in 10-40 games? Boo-fucking hoo. I can't trade them anywhere now. I keep seeing TRU games stocked on the shelves everywhere because that. It's only a $2 loss but everyone well knows that's not the point.

Buying these games on these kinds of deals shows how much manners you have. Either you left some for others or you show your true selfish-self

Rot in hell.

=/

[MorPhiend]

There's a thread that was started that talks about EB corporate passing down that there is now only one copy of each game per person, not visit, person!

Holy s***, really? Wow, corporate was fast on making that rule. But yeah, it's true, people like cag1000 shaq-fued up the 2 for $10 trade-in deal because I haven't even gotten a chance to trade in any jampacks yet (only a measly 4). You got to only trade in 10-40 games? Boo-shaq-fuing hoo. I can't trade them anywhere now. I keep seeing TRU games stocked on the shelves everywhere because that. It's only a $2 loss but everyone well knows that's not the point.

Buying these games on these kinds of deals shows how much manners you have. Either you left some for others or you show your true selfish-self

Rot in hell.

=/

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50791&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta rt=0

EDIT: NM. Go to page three of this thread. It looks like it is going to be the slidecage/cag1000 rule, and not an across the board rule...

:rofl:
LoLarbears if all these two did was screw themselves over!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/MorPhiend/LoLarbear.jpg

[oper00]

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50791&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta rt=0

thank you for the link

[shrike4242]

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50791&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta rt=0

EDIT: NM. Go to page three of this thread. It looks like it is going to be the slidecage/cag1000 rule, and not an across the board rule...

:rofl:
LoLarbears if all these two did was screw themselves over!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/MorPhiend/LoLarbear.jpg

Sounds like we need to burn the "cag1000 rule" and "slidecage rule" into CAG lexicon as the following:

"cag1000 rule"/"slidecage rule": when you make such a nuisnace of yourself to EB/GS/GC/GR/etc. in trading in large multiple of games from TRU/Overstock.com/etc. that would make any retailer gag on the sheer quantity of the same title, they make up rules about trade in quantities and you're such a dumbass, you actually believe them and think it applies to the rest of public, and not just yourself

Something like that, MorPhiend?

[nixts]

I'm planning to take advantage of this deal and trade-in about 160 games in my collection. However, after calling my local EB to find out the limitations, they said under no condition will they accept more than 12 games per day per customer. The guy on the phone said they aren't even supposed to accept more than 6 per day?! Anyone else having trouble getting your EB to accept more than 12 per day?

I don't think it would make a difference at most locations, but the manager of my local EB is literally there 24/7. So there's no way around him, except going to another location.

[shrike4242]

I'm planning to take advantage of this deal and trade-in about 160 games in my collection. However, after calling my local EB to find out the limitations, they said under no condition will they accept more than 12 games per day per customer. The guy on the phone said they aren't even supposed to accept more than 6 per day?! Anyone else having trouble getting your EB to accept more than 12 per day?

I don't think it would make a difference at most locations, but the manager of my local EB is literally there 24/7. So there's no way around him, except going to another location.

Road trip to multiple locations, methinks.

[Chacrana]

I'm planning to take advantage of this deal and trade-in about 160 games in my collection. However, after calling my local EB to find out the limitations, they said under no condition will they accept more than 12 games per day per customer. The guy on the phone said they aren't even supposed to accept more than 6 per day?! Anyone else having trouble getting your EB to accept more than 12 per day?

I don't think it would make a difference at most locations, but the manager of my local EB is literally there 24/7. So there's no way around him, except going to another location.

Nope, I didn't have a problem. Then again, I was in there on Friday and things might've changed since then considering extent to which people are screwing over EB. Not that screwing over EB is bad or anything...

[schultzed]

Wow, you guys need to calm down (page 17 of this thread).

I brought in 2 Jampacks and 2 games from my tradelist (no one wants them). Devil May Cry GH and Unreal Championship (both free from TRU in Dec.). My EB is picky about not having 2 of the same at once.

The manager rung them up ($12.25 for each) DMC and UC got $2 plus the bonus. Then he told me (nicely) that I couldn't trade in anymore JPs because he doesn't have the space for them . . . true enough it is a tiny, tiny mall store.

Not a problem, I only have 2 more JPs to trade in . . . I can hit another store in the next 2 weeks.

$24.50 credit for $1.60 cash. Quietly up to $78.75 in credit by trading in ten .80 JamPs and four free games. But, I'm running out of stuff to trade in . . . I can probably do 2 more sets of 2 (2 JPs and 2 games).

[nixts]

I managed to find a great EB location which allowed me to trade-in half of my games (my local EB said they wouldn't let me trade-in more than 12). The computer accepts 6 titles for the promotion at once. So if you're trading several dozen, be prepared to sign multiple trade-in slips. There were several games excluded from the promotion which surprised me, including some wrestling and racing games (listed below). I'm pretty happy with the haul so far though.

Games Traded: 76 (60 Xbox, 5 GameCube, 11 PS2)
Credit: $499.50

http://members.aol.com/nixts/ebhaul.jpg

Excluded:

Def Jam: Fight for NY (Xbox)
Pulse Racer (Xbox)
Sega GT 2002 (Xbox)
Sega Soccer (Xbox)
WWF Raw (Xbox)

For reference, all the games I traded were from my personal collection. There were no multiples of the same game, nor did I buy any games to trade-in for the promotion.

[trunks982]

i went to eb today to get the credit. i gave in 6 games. the lady was talking about TRU in a low voice to another worker, while she ringing my games up. later on, while she giving me the eb edge card, the other worker smiled and pointed to the turok:evo game. i guess they know about the TRU sale.

[yeldarb367]

I don't have the patience to buy and trade in so many times. Congrats to those that make it work.

[trunks982]

oh yea i forgot. after that trade in, i went to tru at times square whihc i heard someone said there are around 30 primals. i went and i dont see any primals. no primals, no mojo, no frequency, no fantavision, no mad maestro, no turoks, no olsen games, no ps1 green tag games. NADA. i guess those green tagged games are gone. i do see lots of dead or alive 3 for xbox and oddworld munch. i didnt get what i wanted. i shouldve picked up DOA. plz dont PM me to pick up DOA for u ppl. im not wasting my time going there again. thats 1hr train ride. post office near me too far.

[ajh2298]

Took 12 games there tonight before promo $9.00 in store credit, after promo $69.00 in store credit. Plus I traded in 2 sets of games on Sunday at another EB for $24.00 in credit. My TRU's were all picked through so most games were games in my collection. I did get a Primal and a few of the $1.00 music games for the PS2 at the TRU's in Altoona, PA yesterday(if anyone cares they had a ton of jampacks and like 30 E-jay games). And for any Pittsburgh CAG's all the Pittsburgh stores are cleaned out of the 90% games but had Bloodraynes, and Turoks for all systems.

p.s
I did find a GH version of GT2 for the PSX for $0.70.

[cag1000]

I managed to find a great EB location which allowed me to trade-in half of my games (my local EB said they wouldn't let me trade-in more than 12). The computer accepts 6 titles for the promotion at once. So if you're trading several dozen, be prepared to sign multiple trade-in slips. There were several games excluded from the promotion which surprised me, including some wrestling and racing games (listed below). I'm pretty happy with the haul so far though.

Games Traded: 76 (60 Xbox, 5 GameCube, 11 PS2)
Credit: $499.50

http://members.aol.com/nixts/ebhaul.jpg

Excluded:

Def Jam: Fight for NY (Xbox)
Pulse Racer (Xbox)
Sega GT 2002 (Xbox)
Sega Soccer (Xbox)
WWF Raw (Xbox)

For reference, all the games I traded were from my personal collection. There were no multiples of the same game, nor did I buy any games to trade-in for the promotion.

don't see u jealous haters jumping on this guy. dam he almost outdid my trade. And yes i will defend myself and slidecage for taking heat for something we all contributed to. Something even you whiners contributed to in a small way. Take some blame and stop blaming others for your shitty trading skills. I bought all my games on Fri and Sat gave all you whiners all week to take your pick. I took the scraps.

[MorPhiend]

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50791&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta rt=0

EDIT: NM. Go to page three of this thread. It looks like it is going to be the slidecage/cag1000 rule, and not an across the board rule...

:rofl:
LoLarbears if all these two did was screw themselves over!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/MorPhiend/LoLarbear.jpg

Sounds like we need to burn the "cag1000 rule" and "slidecage rule" into CAG lexicon as the following:

"cag1000 rule"/"slidecage rule": when you make such a nuisnace of yourself to EB/GS/GC/GR/etc. in trading in large multiple of games from TRU/Overstock.com/etc. that would make any retailer gag on the sheer quantity of the same title, they make up rules about trade in quantities and you're such a dumbass, you actually believe them and think it applies to the rest of public, and not just yourself

Something like that, MorPhiend?

Motion seconded! All opposed???

[MorPhiend]

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50791&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta rt=0

EDIT: NM. Go to page three of this thread. It looks like it is going to be the slidecage/cag1000 rule, and not an across the board rule...

:rofl:
LoLarbears if all these two did was screw themselves over!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v235/MorPhiend/LoLarbear.jpg

Sounds like we need to burn the "cag1000 rule" and "slidecage rule" into CAG lexicon as the following:

"cag1000 rule"/"slidecage rule": when you make such a nuisnace of yourself to EB/GS/GC/GR/etc. in trading in large multiple of games from TRU/Overstock.com/etc. that would make any retailer gag on the sheer quantity of the same title, they make up rules about trade in quantities and you're such a dumbass, you actually believe them and think it applies to the rest of public, and not just yourself

Something like that, MorPhiend?

Motion seconded! All opposed???

*Looks around*

Being that there is no opposition, I declare this slidecage/cag1000 rule to be officially admitted into the CAG lexicon. And it shall hereby be abbreviated as the SC1000 rule ("S" for slidecage, "C" for cag1000 and 1000 for the number of Primals and Turoks they each bought.).

Meeting adjourned!

[dopa345]

I think there also should be some sort of term or award to commemorate whoever mentioned buying up all the Mary Kate and Ashley games... for swallowing their pride and braving funny looks from cashiers to uphold the highest ideals of CAG.

[MorPhiend]

I managed to find a great EB location which allowed me to trade-in half of my games (my local EB said they wouldn't let me trade-in more than 12). The computer accepts 6 titles for the promotion at once. So if you're trading several dozen, be prepared to sign multiple trade-in slips. There were several games excluded from the promotion which surprised me, including some wrestling and racing games (listed below). I'm pretty happy with the haul so far though.

Games Traded: 76 (60 Xbox, 5 GameCube, 11 PS2)
Credit: $499.50

http://members.aol.com/nixts/ebhaul.jpg

Excluded:

Def Jam: Fight for NY (Xbox)
Pulse Racer (Xbox)
Sega GT 2002 (Xbox)
Sega Soccer (Xbox)
WWF Raw (Xbox)

For reference, all the games I traded were from my personal collection. There were no multiples of the same game, nor did I buy any games to trade-in for the promotion.

don't see u jealous haters jumping on this guy. dam he almost outdid my trade. And yes i will defend myself and slidecage for taking heat for something we all contributed to. Something even you whiners contributed to in a small way. Take some blame and stop blaming others for your shitty trading skills. I bought all my games on Fri and Sat gave all you whiners all week to take your pick. I took the scraps.

I have yet to trade anything, so right there you are lying. And what he did is completely different! He took games from his personal collection (no multiples and no TRU/thrift store crap) and traded legitimately. That is what sales like this is for. EB wants quality games to come in. They mark them up and make money, thus are willing to give a bonus on the credit. Do they know that crap will come in? Yes. But that should normally be evened out on it's own. They did not know TRU was doing this. That's where the problem lies. They did not want every Turok and Primal ever created to come in the door, only accompanied by JamPacks. That only helps them lose big. When that happens, there is not much chance of a good deal like this happening again in the future (if at all).

Just look at the few games that nixts had that they wouldn't take. The worst one is probably RAW, and that's not too bad. And the others are even good! If those are the worst titles that they would not take from him, I'm sure most of what he gave was quality. With a collection that size, you are going to have a good deal of quality. You make no sense, so stop whining about people not liking you after you come on here and brag that you (and people like you) potentially ruined this from ever happening again for the rest of us.

[FatBoyInside]

My local EB said that they will end the promotion early with Feb.18th being the last day for this trade-in deal. Also, another EB location refused all "promo/demo" discs. I hope this is a store-by-store regulation, and not a national corporate memo.

On a good note, I found out that the EB's PSP 1-yr warranty plan is only $25 (covers everything, but does not protect against theft or lost). I think this is a good investment, particularly if you have any credit remaining.

[nixts]

I managed to find a great EB location which allowed me to trade-in half of my games (my local EB said they wouldn't let me trade-in more than 12). The computer accepts 6 titles for the promotion at once. So if you're trading several dozen, be prepared to sign multiple trade-in slips. There were several games excluded from the promotion which surprised me, including some wrestling and racing games (listed below). I'm pretty happy with the haul so far though.

Games Traded: 76 (60 Xbox, 5 GameCube, 11 PS2)
Credit: $499.50

http://members.aol.com/nixts/ebhaul.jpg

Excluded:

Def Jam: Fight for NY (Xbox)
Pulse Racer (Xbox)
Sega GT 2002 (Xbox)
Sega Soccer (Xbox)
WWF Raw (Xbox)

For reference, all the games I traded were from my personal collection. There were no multiples of the same game, nor did I buy any games to trade-in for the promotion.

don't see u jealous haters jumping on this guy. dam he almost outdid my trade. And yes i will defend myself and slidecage for taking heat for something we all contributed to. Something even you whiners contributed to in a small way. Take some blame and stop blaming others for your shitty trading skills. I bought all my games on Fri and Sat gave all you whiners all week to take your pick. I took the scraps.

I have yet to trade anything, so right there you are lying. And what he did is completely different! He took games from his personal collection (no multiples and no TRU/thrift store crap) and traded legitimately. That is what sales like this is for. EB wants quality games to come in. They mark them up and make money, thus are willing to give a bonus on the credit. Do they know that crap will come in? Yes. But that should normally be evened out on it's own. They did not know TRU was doing this. That's where the problem lies. They did not want every Turok and Primal ever created to come in the door, only accompanied by JamPacks. That only helps them lose big. When that happens, there is not much chance of a good deal like this happening again in the future (if at all).

Just look at the few games that nixts had that they wouldn't take. The worst one is probably RAW, and that's not too bad. And the others are even good! If those are the worst titles that they would not take from him, I'm sure most of what he gave was quality. With a collection that size, you are going to have a good deal of quality. You make no sense, so stop whining about people not liking you after you come on here and brag that you (and people like you) potentially ruined this from ever happening again for the rest of us.

Exactly, I parted with many pieces in my collection for the sake of store credit. Like I said, I only traded games I own and didn't trade any multiples (don't own any) and didn't buy any games to trade either. This transaction was 1/2 of the games I plan to trade. I plan to use about $500 on PSP stuff and save the rest for Xbox 2 (hopefully later this year). Here's a sampling of what I traded (missing 2 receipts out in the car).

AirForce Delta Blue Storm (X)
Apex (X)
Beach Spikers (G)
Big Mutha Truckers (X)
Breakdown (X)
Burnout 2 (X)
Capcom v. SNK EO (X)
Carve (X)
Circus Maximus (X)
Dark Summit (X)
Def Jam: Fight for NY (X)
Enclave (X)
ESPN X-Games Snowboarding (X)
Eternal Darkness (G)
Fireblade (X)
Galleon (X)
Genma Onimusha (X)
Group S Challenge (X)
Hitman 2 (X)
Final Fantasy X (P)
Italian Job (X)
Indy Car Series (X)
Maximum Chase (X)
Mafia (X)
Max Payne 2 (X)
Mercedes: World Racing (X)
Mortal Kombat: DA (G)
MTX Mototrax (X)
Phantasy Star Online (X)
Pro Race Driver 2 (X)
Psi Ops (X)
Pulse Racer (X)
R: Racing Evolution (X)
Rally Fusion (X)
Red Dead Revolver (X)
Sega Soccer (X)
Shenmue 2 (X)
Socom (P)
StarFox Adventures (G)
SSX Tricky (X)
Suffering (X)
Terminator: Dawn of Fate (X)
Tony Hawk's Underground (X)
Total Immersion Racing (X)
Toxic Grind (X)
True Crime: Streets of LA (P)
Turok Evolution (X)
UFC Tapout 2 (X)
Voodoo Vince (X)
Wakeboarding Unleashed (X)
Wreckless (X)
WWF Raw (X)
X2: Wolverine (X)
Zelda: Wind Waker (G)

[nixts]

Because I traded so many games, many people apparently wanna know what I got the most credit for. Bear in mind, these prices include the $5 bonus. There are a slew that are $7-8, so I'm looking at titles above that. Here's a sampling:

AirForce Delta (X) - $17
Capcom vs. SNK EO (X) - $11
MTX: Mototrax (X) - $11
Psi-Ops (X) - $10
Red Dead Revolver (X) - $9
Zelda: Wind Waker (G) - $10

[cag1000]

I managed to find a great EB location which allowed me to trade-in half of my games (my local EB said they wouldn't let me trade-in more than 12). The computer accepts 6 titles for the promotion at once. So if you're trading several dozen, be prepared to sign multiple trade-in slips. There were several games excluded from the promotion which surprised me, including some wrestling and racing games (listed below). I'm pretty happy with the haul so far though.

Games Traded: 76 (60 Xbox, 5 GameCube, 11 PS2)
Credit: $499.50

http://members.aol.com/nixts/ebhaul.jpg

Excluded:

Def Jam: Fight for NY (Xbox)
Pulse Racer (Xbox)
Sega GT 2002 (Xbox)
Sega Soccer (Xbox)
WWF Raw (Xbox)

For reference, all the games I traded were from my personal collection. There were no multiples of the same game, nor did I buy any games to trade-in for the promotion.

don't see u jealous haters jumping on this guy. dam he almost outdid my trade. And yes i will defend myself and slidecage for taking heat for something we all contributed to. Something even you whiners contributed to in a small way. Take some blame and stop blaming others for your shitty trading skills. I bought all my games on Fri and Sat gave all you whiners all week to take your pick. I took the scraps.

I have yet to trade anything, so right there you are lying. And what he did is completely different! He took games from his personal collection (no multiples and no TRU/thrift store crap) and traded legitimately. That is what sales like this is for. EB wants quality games to come in. They mark them up and make money, thus are willing to give a bonus on the credit. Do they know that crap will come in? Yes. But that should normally be evened out on it's own. They did not know TRU was doing this. That's where the problem lies. They did not want every Turok and Primal ever created to come in the door, only accompanied by JamPacks. That only helps them lose big. When that happens, there is not much chance of a good deal like this happening again in the future (if at all).

Just look at the few games that nixts had that they wouldn't take. The worst one is probably RAW, and that's not too bad. And the others are even good! If those are the worst titles that they would not take from him, I'm sure most of what he gave was quality. With a collection that size, you are going to have a good deal of quality. You make no sense, so stop whining about people not liking you after you come on here and brag that you (and people like you) potentially ruined this from ever happening again for the rest of us.

lol i could care less about u whiny losers but u shouldn't sit on these threads and find scapegoats for a deal that this entire community exploited. Sux to be 15 with no car and $$$ watching 70 pages of a thread with people listing what they got and traded lol doesn't it? So he traded his own collection have you even read this thread lol that's 1 person. Maybe you should jump over to that one thread about a kid that pre-ordered a psp for like 40 bucks lol. I'm proud of my deals and posted a story of a very cool ebgames clerk who took all my trade ins all at once. Everyone posting in this thread got a good deal and the rules were bound to change either way, it's what companies do grow up. Now since the deal is over and just the whiners and haters are left it's def time to lock this bitch up.

[Timothyx]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

[MorPhiend]

Definitely can see your maturity and IQ level (or the lack thereof) in that last post. If you could care less, that is why you keep responding, eh? You still make no sense. And you continue to say things that you know nothing about. There are probably a few who did what you did. But you are the one bragging, so people have every right to flame you. And as far as you trying to "insult" me, I am 25, with a truck and have spent $300 on videogame deals in the past month, am paying my own way through college, and yes, I have been following this thread since it began - I'm glad that you just proved that you know nothing about the things which you speak of, less work for me. And you now whine about me using nixts as an example, you were the one who dragged him into this, only you are too ignorant to realize that he is nothing like the scum that you are. And I didn't say that was the only way to go about a deal like this, but you more than exploited it and then bragged about how you got in on the deal before they decided to clamp down on your like. You asked for flames. And the deal isn't over. It's just over for the likes of you and slidecage, since they already are familiar with you guys and now you both have most likely sealed your own fates as far as your local EBs go. So stop spewing this filth from your mouth and let people talk about deals and such. Face it, nobody is standing up for you.

[MorPhiend]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

Man, I hate that. I have always hated EB B&M, because this is the way they are. But GS B&M has always been awesome to me. I would have invited the first guy to call the cops. Especially if the store was full of people. Then when the cop gets there, he has to face the issue of slander (especially since I keep receipts in my wallet until they are no longer useful to have ready access to - then they get filed away). But even if you couldn't prove that you had bought them, that means nothing. He had no proof you stole them! That is utterly ridiculous... :roll:

[Timothyx]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

Man, I hate that. I have always hated EB B&M, because this is the way they are. But GS B&M has always been awesome to me. I would have invited the first guy to call the cops. Especially if the store was full of people. Then when the cop gets there, he has to face the issue of slander (especially since I keep receipts in my wallet until they are no longer useful to have ready access to - then they get filed away). But even if you couldn't prove that you had bought them, that means nothing. He had no proof you stole them! That is utterly ridiculous... :roll:


thanks. I had the receipts in my pocket, but i am a quiet guy and do not like to make a scene. I am real upset about how it was like in the mind of the clerk.....trade in, hmmm........alright theres this game....this game.......THIS GAME IS STILL WRAPPED!......YOU ARE A CRIMINAL.

I hate it when a nerd gets a little power over another nerd and then abuses it just because they can. He didnt even listen to my explaination.

[PimpJuice69]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

Same thing happened to me today, the jerk-off was named Nathan and works at the ebgames in Arden Fair mall in Sacramento. I had 4 games, 2 primals, 1 r racing, 1 dave mirra, it's not like I had 10 copies of primal.

I was pretty pissed since I had no problems trading multiples in to that same damn store yesterday. I also had 0 problems trading multiples to Elk Grove store also. As a matter of fact the employee that let me do it was working today too. Hell I was even willing to just trade in one copy of primal and my one copy R:Racing. So after being accused of stealing games I was told it was California law not to take multiple games, I call BS, but maybe someone better versed in the law could confirm or deny?

After arguing with him for a bit. I just gave up and told him to give me his name, store #, and DM's #. He gave it to me and now I'm debating whether to call and raise holly hell or not. Think I could at least get him in some trouble if I complained? Or would I be wasting my time?

Luckily though I have 4 ebgames within about 15 miles of where I live so I just made a trip to 2 other ebgames, careful not to trade multiples and got my damn credit.

[oper00]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

Same thing happened to me today, the jerk-off was named Nathan and works at the ebgames in Arden Fair mall in Sacramento. I had 4 games, 2 primals, 1 r racing, 1 dave mirra, it's not like I had 10 copies of primal.

I was pretty pissed since I had no problems trading multiples in to that same damn store yesterday. I also had 0 problems trading multiples to Elk Grove store also. As a matter of fact the employee that let me do it was working today too. Hell I was even willing to just trade in one copy of primal and my one copy R:Racing. So after being accused of stealing games I was told it was California law not to take multiple games, I call BS, but maybe someone better versed in the law could confirm or deny?

After arguing with him for a bit. I just gave up and told him to give me his name, store #, and DM's #. He gave it to me and now I'm debating whether to call and raise holly hell or not. Think I could at least get him in some trouble if I complained? Or would I be wasting my time?

Luckily though I have 4 ebgames within about 15 miles of where I live so I just made a trip to 2 other ebgames, careful not to trade multiples and got my damn credit.

Lol, california law? No such thing! since when was eb games the same as pawn shops and relating them to criminals? they lied to you hardcore.

[tenzor]

PimpJuice69, there would be no point in complaining. Most EB's and Gamestop can refuse a trade in when it is necessary. Especially if someone is trading in multiple copies or they know something is up such as you just trading in the same game the day before and now again. Best thing for you to do is give your games to someone else to trade in or just try different EBs.

[PimpJuice69]

PimpJuice69, there would be no point in complaining. Most EB's and Gamestop can refuse a trade in when it is necessary. Especially if someone is trading in multiple copies or they know something is up such as you just trading in the same game the day before and now again. Best thing for you to do is give your games to someone else to trade in or just try different EBs.

That's what I was afraid of :(

Maybe I can get him in trouble for accusing me of stealing?

It didn't even really bother me that they wouldn't take multiples, I figured there was a chance of that. What pissed me off was the fact that they basically called me a thief and refused to take in a single copy of R:Racing and Primal.

[Timothyx]

PimpJuice69, there would be no point in complaining. Most EB's and Gamestop can refuse a trade in when it is necessary. Especially if someone is trading in multiple copies or they know something is up such as you just trading in the same game the day before and now again. Best thing for you to do is give your games to someone else to trade in or just try different EBs.

That's what I was afraid of :(

Maybe I can get him in trouble for accusing me of stealing?

It didn't even really bother me that they wouldn't take multiples, I figured there was a chance of that. What pissed me off was the fact that they basically called me a thief and refused to take in a single copy of R:Racing and Primal.

if there is someone who is above him at the store, just tell them what happened and that you want to write a formal complaint. or just say you were upset at how you were treated.

[jimbodan]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

Same thing happened to me today, the jerk-off was named Nathan and works at the ebgames in Arden Fair mall in Sacramento. I had 4 games, 2 primals, 1 r racing, 1 dave mirra, it's not like I had 10 copies of primal.

I was pretty pissed since I had no problems trading multiples in to that same damn store yesterday. I also had 0 problems trading multiples to Elk Grove store also. As a matter of fact the employee that let me do it was working today too. Hell I was even willing to just trade in one copy of primal and my one copy R:Racing. So after being accused of stealing games I was told it was California law not to take multiple games, I call BS, but maybe someone better versed in the law could confirm or deny?

After arguing with him for a bit. I just gave up and told him to give me his name, store #, and DM's #. He gave it to me and now I'm debating whether to call and raise holly hell or not. Think I could at least get him in some trouble if I complained? Or would I be wasting my time?

Luckily though I have 4 ebgames within about 15 miles of where I live so I just made a trip to 2 other ebgames, careful not to trade multiples and got my damn credit.

Ha! I know who that tool is! He is a total dickweed, he screwed over one of my friends awhile ago. I hope you complain and they fire his ass.


EDIT: Anyone in the area of the Arden Fair store, please think twice about giving them your business, the EBgames on Fair Oaks Blvd. in Loehman's plaza (about 5 miles away, maybe less) is literally about 50 times better then the Arden Fair store. ALL of their employees are extremely nice and go out of their way to help you.

[MightySlacker]

CALL CALL CALL - The DM in our area doesn't put up with that shit. Once they wouldn't honor a valid coupon and I called, she sent me a gift card and the guy got a royal reaming.

Dave

[PimpJuice69]

CALL CALL CALL - The DM in our area doesn't put up with that shit. Once they wouldn't honor a valid coupon and I called, she sent me a gift card and the guy got a royal reaming.

Dave

The DM's name I got was Tracy, is that the same DM you're talking about?

[tenzor]

PimpJuice69, there would be no point in complaining. Most EB's and Gamestop can refuse a trade in when it is necessary. Especially if someone is trading in multiple copies or they know something is up such as you just trading in the same game the day before and now again. Best thing for you to do is give your games to someone else to trade in or just try different EBs.

That's what I was afraid of :(

Maybe I can get him in trouble for accusing me of stealing?

It didn't even really bother me that they wouldn't take multiples, I figured there was a chance of that. What pissed me off was the fact that they basically called me a thief and refused to take in a single copy of R:Racing and Primal.

oh I didn't realize he accused you of stealing. You could probably complain about that to the DM.

[FriskyTanuki]

I'm contemplating trading in some unplayed cheapass games from my collection that I may never get around to actually playing. I'm not actually sure which ones that I'd include though, but I have a good idea. Would this deal be a good idea to get rid of some cheap games that I could easily get for cheap if I feel the urge to get them again?

[nixts]

I'm contemplating trading in some unplayed cheapass games from my collection that I may never get around to actually playing. I'm not actually sure which ones that I'd include though, but I have a good idea. Would this deal be a good idea to get rid of some cheap games that I could easily get for cheap if I feel the urge to get them again?

I traded-in quite a few games in my collection which I bought cheaply (CAG + Edge discount online) and only played a few times. I definitely think its worth it, especially if there's something you want (PSP, DS, etc.)

[BABETOOTH]

FYI Never trade your games sealed during offers like this one. If you unwrap the games they wont be able to sell them as new thus giving a cheap as gamer a chance to buy a new game as used. When I was younger i traded a new game wraped and only got like 5 bucks. A few days later they were selling it as new full price (I recognized a nick in a corner of the game) I was told that is illegal for the store to buy games as used and then sell them as new...

[MightySlacker]

CALL CALL CALL - The DM in our area doesn't put up with that shit. Once they wouldn't honor a valid coupon and I called, she sent me a gift card and the guy got a royal reaming.

Dave

The DM's name I got was Tracy, is that the same DM you're talking about?

Yes. Tracy rocks. Talked to her today when asking about that post that Slidecage made :-)

Dave

[Mishimaryu]

thanks for the heads up Jimbodin yea I usually shop at Elk Grove and Loehmens plaza EBgames the workers don't give much of a hassle.

[jimbodan]

thanks for the heads up Jimbodin yea I usually shop at Elk Grove and Loehmens plaza EBgames the workers don't give much of a hassle.

I've been to most all Sacramento area game stores multiple times and I can say without a doubt that the Loehman's Ebgames definately has the best/most friendly workers.

[Nephets]

I presume around 7pm or so, I'll head out to EB and try to get these trade-in's I got taken care of.

I hope I get enough to pay off most, if not all, of Star Fox Assault tomorrow. Though I only have six to trade in.

[urzishra14]

wow... heh you know.. i took a bunch of jam packs i got for kmart the other day and traded them into the pawn shop today and they didn't even care (i got 10 bucks a jam pack.. that ruled)...

[darkje]

So, can anyone confirm if it's true that they changed it so that the 18th is the last day of this promotion?

I remember reading it in one of all the threads but can't find it anymore.

[memi]

2/27;;

[epobirs]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

Store that tried that on me would have become a very ugly place. Of course, that sort of thing is very rare since I'm twice the age and twice the size of the average EB clerk. Unless they can produce a large gun they have no hope of intimidating me in any fashion.

I would be fine if they placed a limit on duplicates or even the number of distinct items I could trade at one time. I try to accommodate my benefactors when it is within reason. But any zit-faced EB clerk who accused me of trying to pass stolen goods would need to make good on his threat to summon the police. The LAPD really doesn't like being called out on false alarms.

[punqsux]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

Store that tried that on me would have become a very ugly place. Of course, that sort of thing is very rare since I'm twice the age and twice the size of the average EB clerk. Unless they can produce a large gun they have no hope of intimidating me in any fashion.

I would be fine if they placed a limit on duplicates or even the number of distinct items I could trade at one time. I try to accommodate my benefactors when it is within reason. But any zit-faced EB clerk who accused me of trying to pass stolen goods would need to make good on his threat to summon the police. The LAPD really doesn't like being called out on false alarms.

i would have invited him to call the police, as when doing trade-ins i always carry the recipts i bought the games on, just for any such accusations. i would call the district manager and report both of them.

[jkam]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

Store that tried that on me would have become a very ugly place. Of course, that sort of thing is very rare since I'm twice the age and twice the size of the average EB clerk. Unless they can produce a large gun they have no hope of intimidating me in any fashion.

I would be fine if they placed a limit on duplicates or even the number of distinct items I could trade at one time. I try to accommodate my benefactors when it is within reason. But any zit-faced EB clerk who accused me of trying to pass stolen goods would need to make good on his threat to summon the police. The LAPD really doesn't like being called out on false alarms.

i would have invited him to call the police, as when doing trade-ins i always carry the recipts i bought the games on, just for any such accusations. i would call the district manager and report both of them.

You know what gets me about this? I really just don't understand the mentality of these clerks and managers. I can understand them being wary of stolen goods but 2 copies of a game hardly seems like grand theft to me. It seems that all the stores that take trade-ins or buy old games have these same issues. It's obvious that these corporations have deals like these to get people into the store...then you have some jerk behind the counter shoving you out? What sense does this make? Although I have had some really cool workers at EB lately it stinks that people have to go through this. I too carry my receipts around with me just in case and I would have waited for the police to show up.

Over and over again people seem to think this is illegal or something. Once you bought that game at TRU or anywhere else you OWN it. You can do whatever you want with it (except return it to Wal-Mart because that is fraud) trade it in, throw it in the air, play frisbee, write on it...whatever.

If the store doesn't want to take your games fine no biggie...they have the right not to take them. It just seems there are other ways to go about this. The person behind the counter could have just explained why he didn't want to take them or said I'm sorry but I can only take 1 copy of each game. The biggest kicker is awhile back when EB found out that they had someone's stolen PS2 they made him buy it back rather than return it to him...and people complain about taking advantage of EB??? THEY ARE OFFERING THE DEAL....THEY DON't HAVE TO. Whatever happened to customer service???

[MaxBiaggi3]

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that EB, TRU and other stores have people watching sites like this for threads about taking advantage of their stores, especially since some idiots are running their mouths to clerks at the various stores about how they're working the system. If EB (or any other store for that matter) wants to limit trades as a result, I can understand completely, but they still need to maintain a decent level of customer service. It is possible to say "no" politely but firmly to a customer without pissing people off.

[Chacrana]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

Yeah, it seems as though a lot of EB managers are menstruating about this whole deal thing and I know that EB corporate definitely regrets having this whole $10 bonus. Assuming there's truth to what the other poster said about EB cutting off the offer on the 18th, then I'm glad that I'm headed there on Friday to trade in a last bunch of games (and for the record, I'm not trading in 20 jampacks or some crap like that.) Anyway, with that whole EB being gay thing, it just makes me glad that I can buy stuff with the Edge card online rather than having to go to the stores where some really angry managers are. I luckily haven't had a problem with the managers yet though

[oper00]

Yeah, it seems as though a lot of EB managers are menstruating about this whole deal thing and I know that EB corporate definitely regrets having this whole $10 bonus.

I think it was more of bad timing of the promotion that overlapped the TRU clearance sale. Otherwise, they wouldn't be doing such drastic things.

[lurknomore]

Isn't it ironic that they are so quick to saycall us theives, when in times before this $10 promotion they are accepting trade-ins for games for pennies on the dollar of their real worth. I would never trade with them without this $10 promotion and the TRU deal. I'd rather throw games out then give them the satisfaction of buy a game from me for $10 and then selling them for $45.

[MaxBiaggi3]

I'd rather throw games out then give them the satisfaction of buy a game from me for $10 and then selling them for $45.

Realistically though, how many people do you imagine are actually paying $45 for a used game when the new copy is available for just $5 more (or the same price with GGC)? I think EB ends up keeping a lot of those $45 used games and having to deteriorate their value over time (probably for a big tax write-off I'm sure). As ridiculous as I think it is to pay $50 for most new games, I can't imagine many people are regularly paying $45 for used games.

[Chacrana]

I'd rather throw games out then give them the satisfaction of buy a game from me for $10 and then selling them for $45.

Realistically though, how many people do you imagine are actually paying $45 for a used game when the new copy is available for just $5 more (or the same price with GGC)? I think EB ends up keeping a lot of those $45 used games and having to deteriorate their value over time (probably for a big tax write-off I'm sure). As ridiculous as I think it is to pay $50 for most new games, I can't imagine many people are regularly paying $45 for used games.

Well I do think that people are buying games for $2-5 less and getting a used game as opposed to a new one. Stupid? Defintely. But it seems like it does work for EB otherwise they'd price them lower than they do.

When I was at the store on Friday, I traded in .Hack//Mutation for like $7 and then while I was still in the store, some guy buys the game I sold for $30. The retail price is $30 so that really amazed me. Even though the game is harder to find now, EB marking the game up like that is bordering on ridiculous.

[Watchman]

Honestly, having worked in a game store, earlier on before CAG got as big as it has, I too would have thought someone stole duplicate copies of a game- but only ones that were absolutely brand new, 50 dollar games. WHO ON EARTH WOULD HAVE MULTIPLE COPIES OF A HOT GAME?! I'm not buying that mom, your aunt, and Cousin Merle all gave you the exact same game. No freakin' way.

But a 2.00 game? Whatever. Fine. But I'd still limit just one copy per- and if you send your friend back in 10 minutes later with another copy whom I saw you walking around with 20 minutes earlier? One trade-in a day. And I'll call my other branches to make sure you don't pull it on them too.
I'm not advocating the store and their policy- I hated most of them. But just "sticking it to them" is only going to cause tighter policies and limited quanities.
There's getting a deal, and there's exploiting a deal for capital gain. They don't owe us anything. THEY'RE GAMES, not the government. Private companies can do whatever the hell they want. Period.

And I hate em all for it.

[MorPhiend]

What happened to me today.

I have 3 sets of 6 different games to trade. each have 2 of my own collection, 1 Music Maker, 1 Primal, 1 MGS2:S, and 1 Clubworld. Today was the first chance I have had to trade in to EB.

I go to my local store and hand him the 6 games. He looks at them for 5 seconds, and hands them back and says "I cant take these". I say in my sexy voice: "Why not?" He says "because most are stolen. Leave now or I'll call the police." I replied "they arent stolen. I got them on sale at another store and couple are old games I havent played in a while." He said "Leave". I go, polite as usual.

Ahhhh, I love Valentine's Day.

I drive to another EB. I hand the bloke the 6 (all unwrapped, since I am a fast learner...) and he is scanning them. After he hands me the slip to fill out, I ask if it ok for me to sell back more of the same games. Right after I asked I followed up with "If I cant, its no big deal" and he gives me my edge card and asks me to leave. I ask why. He says that anyone with more than one copy of a game either stole them or is trying to rip the store off. I said I have no intention of ripping the store off, and that I didnt like being accused of stealing. He gets angry and I scurry out.

Great, now there is weirdness at my 2 EBs. I will feel strange going to either of them. I am a person that tends to take things personally, and that both clerks jumped right to me being a thief really pissed me off. I was polite and made sure that they knew I was alright with not being able to trade duplicates, but I still received guff like I was out to scam someone.

Store that tried that on me would have become a very ugly place. Of course, that sort of thing is very rare since I'm twice the age and twice the size of the average EB clerk. Unless they can produce a large gun they have no hope of intimidating me in any fashion.

I would be fine if they placed a limit on duplicates or even the number of distinct items I could trade at one time. I try to accommodate my benefactors when it is within reason. But any zit-faced EB clerk who accused me of trying to pass stolen goods would need to make good on his threat to summon the police. The LAPD really doesn't like being called out on false alarms.

i would have invited him to call the police, as when doing trade-ins i always carry the recipts i bought the games on, just for any such accusations. i would call the district manager and report both of them.

You know what gets me about this? I really just don't understand the mentality of these clerks and managers. I can understand them being wary of stolen goods but 2 copies of a game hardly seems like grand theft to me. It seems that all the stores that take trade-ins or buy old games have these same issues. It's obvious that these corporations have deals like these to get people into the store...then you have some jerk behind the counter shoving you out? What sense does this make? Although I have had some really cool workers at EB lately it stinks that people have to go through this. I too carry my receipts around with me just in case and I would have waited for the police to show up.

Over and over again people seem to think this is illegal or something. Once you bought that game at TRU or anywhere else you OWN it. You can do whatever you want with it (except return it to Wal-Mart because that is fraud) trade it in, throw it in the air, play frisbee, write on it...whatever.

If the store doesn't want to take your games fine no biggie...they have the right not to take them. It just seems there are other ways to go about this. The person behind the counter could have just explained why he didn't want to take them or said I'm sorry but I can only take 1 copy of each game. The biggest kicker is awhile back when EB found out that they had someone's stolen PS2 they made him buy it back rather than return it to him...and people complain about taking advantage of EB??? THEY ARE OFFERING THE DEAL....THEY DON't HAVE TO. Whatever happened to customer service???

That's exactly what I said in the first place punq. And like epobirs, nobody gets away with an act like this on me for very long. I would have dealt with it right there. But since it is later, follow the advice others have given. Call the DM. One of my infinite B&M bad experiences was when I was standing in line to buy a new game and someone said something about thinking about modding their Xbox. I turned to them and basically told them the disadvantages of doing such. The guy in front of me got done with his purchase, and the extremely anal *insert expletive here* at the counter started yelling at me. And I got a lecture about how they could never accept a used Xbox game, system or accessory from me since he had "caught" me talking about my modded Xbox. I tried to be polite and explain what I had said, that I didn't even have a modded Xbox, but he just started calling me a liar and said that now they wouldn't even sell me an Xbox game, for fear that I would copy it and try to return it. And if I ever tried anything, he would call the cops (and he pointed to the paramedics in the corner who had his manager on a gurney because he had just had a heart attack). So I said, yeah real smart, those are paramedics, not police. Then i tossed the GCN game in his face and walked out, down the hall to GS and bought the same game.

The only reason I didn't take him on right there was that his manager was having a heart attack. So my friend, who witnessed the whole thing from afar, asked what that was all about. I told him and he said it didn't surprise him because the same guy had given him crap three times previously (one time he gave my friend a ten minute lecture on how stupid he was because my friend has a PS2 and how great the Xbox is). So I said, "Let's take him down." We asked some of our other friends about EB and found some that had also had problems with the kid. So we all called in our complaints. The next week the jerk was no longer working there.

They were not at all happy that I was in store with game in hand to purchase and some power-hungry-quasi-omniscient geek made me walk down the hallway and pick up the same thing at GameStop instead. Believe it or not, most companies (even large ones), like happy, loyal, return customers. Employees, on the other hand, are a dime a dozen. You just have to get to the right people in order to change a situation.

[chargeup45]

Before saying anything else, I'll agree... there are complete asses out there who enjoy having some position of authority for moments like these. Luckily, I haven't had to deal with an employee like this. The EBGames guys are just doing their job where I work. Had a problem with the demo discs, but I didnt throw a fuss.

With that said, I see very little of a problem with trading in multiples, if it works. But people should be wary and expect problems. Right now, EB is sitting on thousands of awful jampack games that they'll never be able to sell back. They probably have more used copies of Mad Maestro than Halo. And for some reason, people have 15 copies of Primal. Unless EB is aware of the TRU sale, the assumption should be that the games are stolen. How many other reasons can there be that someone has 15 copies of Primal? Even 2? And in some cases... still sealed?

Someone was clued in to what was going on and some employees were alerted. Stealing or not, this deal allows us to manipulate the system. EB is getting ripped off, and they're figuring out why and how to stop it. For some reason, stealing is why they think its happening. For future reference, I would recommend just politely carrying out the rest of the transaction. Asking questions just invites unnecessary conflict, unfortunately. It's the reason why I didnt ask why they wouldnt take my jampack and Nintendo demo disc: I know why they wouldnt take it. EB had enough trouble selling Billy Hatcher, let alone a 2 year old demo of it.

"Isn't it ironic that they are so quick to saycall us theives, when in times before this $10 promotion they are accepting trade-ins for games for pennies on the dollar of their real worth. I would never trade with them without this $10 promotion and the TRU deal. I'd rather throw games out then give them the satisfaction of buy a game from me for $10 and then selling them for $45." (I'm being lazy about quoting)

I dont know what games are getting only 10 dollar trade in value and then sold at 45. Most of the big name games from the holidays still fetch 30-35. Doesn't Psi Ops still get 10 despite being a 20 dollar game now? I'll admit... there are times when EBs trade in prices arent that great, but they're very careful to price their used items in order to make a profit. If people didnt buy that 45 dollar used game, they wouldnt sell it at that price. Once it stops selling at that price, it drops. Thats just the way it works.

As much as EB is using used games as a profitable service for themselves, its a fantastic service for gamers looking for obscure titles that would never be in a local store at this point. I probably wouldnt find Panzer Dragoon Orta otherwise, so despite some lackluster trade ins, I appreciate that they offer the service.

[MightySlacker]

A couple of things:

Any of you Sac area CAGers go to the Davis store? Because someone there is about to get shit-canned for a really ugly dispute with a customer that sounded awfully like a "accused of theft" deal.

And here's the scoop on why this promo might end on the 18th:

There was a group of 3 managers in the LA area that were selling jampacks and allowing them to be traded back in on the same transactions. Not only would the be an infinite store credit loop, but they were also putting them all on edge cards, thus not only giving the edge cards for free, but they were trying to bump up their stores numbers. They all got fired :-).

That also reminds me that those idiots that were selling the penny guides for $5 with free edge card all got fired too AFIAK

Dave

[PimpJuice69]

A couple of things:

Any of you Sac area CAGers go to the Davis store? Because someone there is about to get shit-canned for a really ugly dispute with a customer that sounded awfully like a "accused of theft" deal.

And here's the scoop on why this promo might end on the 18th:

There was a group of 3 managers in the LA area that were selling jampacks and allowing them to be traded back in on the same transactions. Not only would the be an infinite store credit loop, but they were also putting them all on edge cards, thus not only giving the edge cards for free, but they were trying to bump up their stores numbers. They all got fired :-).

That also reminds me that those idiots that were selling the penny guides for $5 with free edge card all got fired too AFIAK

Dave

I've never been to the Davis store. I also don't think I'm going to call and complain, today I traded in the last couple of games I had at the Loehmans EB with no problems and used my credit to grab a cube and a few games, so now that I have a nice shiny new toy my anger has receded a bit, but I do plan on never going to the Arden Fair EB ever again.

[Strider Turbulence]

A couple of things:

Any of you Sac area CAGers go to the Davis store? Because someone there is about to get shit-canned for a really ugly dispute with a customer that sounded awfully like a "accused of theft" deal.

And here's the scoop on why this promo might end on the 18th:

There was a group of 3 managers in the LA area that were selling jampacks and allowing them to be traded back in on the same transactions. Not only would the be an infinite store credit loop, but they were also putting them all on edge cards, thus not only giving the edge cards for free, but they were trying to bump up their stores numbers. They all got fired :-).

That also reminds me that those idiots that were selling the penny guides for $5 with free edge card all got fired too AFIAK

Dave

That's just lovely. I think the 'best' of EB trade in offers are done until the next batch of consoles.

[josekortez]

Forgive my ignorance, but when does the Buy 2, Get 1 Free Sale start again?

[gamefreak117]

Forgive my ignorance, but when does the Buy 2, Get 1 Free Sale start again?

It starts this Friday, February 18th. It is a 3 day sale, through to Monday, the 21st.

[dracula]

A couple of things:

Any of you Sac area CAGers go to the Davis store? Because someone there is about to get shit-canned for a really ugly dispute with a customer that sounded awfully like a "accused of theft" deal.

And here's the scoop on why this promo might end on the 18th:

There was a group of 3 managers in the LA area that were selling jampacks and allowing them to be traded back in on the same transactions. Not only would the be an infinite store credit loop, but they were also putting them all on edge cards, thus not only giving the edge cards for free, but they were trying to bump up their stores numbers. They all got fired :-).

That also reminds me that those idiots that were selling the penny guides for $5 with free edge card all got fired too AFIAK

Dave

Oh man, that is ho ho HOLARIOUS

I will probably ask around as to which LA eb store managers got canned(i live in los angeles). As far as accusing someone of theft on a trade in and threatening to call the cops, they should know better.

[fragmanslayer]

If someone calls you a thief and you have the receipt, you could show them the receipt, or get witnesses for a lawsuit for slander. With all the dumb lawsuits going around, you could get a pretty penny if you made a big deal about it, expecially if the jerk at the counter makes a big deal out of it and you have witnesses.

[epobirs]

Yeah, it seems as though a lot of EB managers are menstruating about this whole deal thing and I know that EB corporate definitely regrets having this whole $10 bonus. Assuming there's truth to what the other poster said about EB cutting off the offer on the 18th, then I'm glad that I'm headed there on Friday to trade in a last bunch of games (and for the record, I'm not trading in 20 jampacks or some crap like that.) Anyway, with that whole EB being gay thing, it just makes me glad that I can buy stuff with the Edge card online rather than having to go to the stores where some really angry managers are. I luckily haven't had a problem with the managers yet though

The managers may be freaking but I don't think this is at all unexpected at the corporate level. Past experience would tell them that somebody is inevitably having a blowout that coincides with their own promotions on trade-ins.

Viewed at the national level this isn't all that bad. It may seem like everyone is doing it but those of us here and at the, ahem, lesser gaming bargain sites are a tiny subset of all the people who might participate in the promotion. The frame of opportunity is very limited. First, you have to get some worthy items at TRU, and second, you must know about the EB promotion and have one or more in proximity to take advantage of it. I'm pretty sure other people cleaned up a lot of the green tag merchandise at the six TRUs I checked but after I was there all of the "good" (pronounced "horrible crap marked down to pennies on the dollar") stuff was most assuredly gone. The number of big EB trade-in users other than me from those stores cannot be more than three or four. Probably less.

Others posting here indicate they've swept the other SoCal TRUs equally well. All of our trade-ins between us don't amount to all that much in the total cost of running this promotion. We aren't improving EB's bottom line but it isn't like we weren't expected to show up at the party and eat more than our share of cake.

[MightySlacker]

100% agreement with epobirs. I'm really lucky that my EB guys are cool and laid-back. Although one of them was giving me shit about how they should limit me on stuff, and I almost felt bad. Then I saw a customer come in and trade in a SNES with about 25 games for $23.90 credit, then go get FUCKlNG DUKES OF HAZARD XBOX and have to pay $8 on top of the credit to get it. The employess couldn't even look me in the face after that FLEECING. and we won't be talking about how I'm working the system again :-)

Dave

[Timothyx]

first off, thank you to everyone for showing their support for what happened yesterday. The problem for me is that I live 10 miles from the EB headquaters in West Chester, PA. From what other people have told me (fairly reliable, but not concrete) the employees of the stores around the corp. headquaters get evaluated heavily. I have no intention of getting anyone fired. I still feel terrible about yesterday, but I dont want anyone fired. My firend that works at EB corporate said the guy would get canned if I explained exactly what happened.

I am not a vengeful person and I do not want to be responsible for someone losing their job. that said, i am going to call my DM tomorrow and tell them what happened, PG style.

If they know I got a employee fired at that store, no one will ever be nice to me there again, and I cannot risk that (yes, my life is that dull).


If someone calls you a thief and you have the receipt, you could show them the receipt, or get witnesses for a lawsuit for slander. With all the dumb lawsuits going around, you could get a pretty penny if you made a big deal about it, expecially if the jerk at the counter makes a big deal out of it and you have witnesses.

i should of shown him the receipt, but i was too embarassed and just wanted to leave as soon as possible. AKA, I am too much of a pussy to do it. I wish I wasnt, but I am. thank you for the advice, slayer.

[Timothyx]

then go get FUCKlNG DUKES OF HAZARD XBOX and have to pay $8 on top of the credit to get it.

Dave

LOL! oh god that is funny. when i read dukes of hazard i laughed so hard i spit some soda on my jeans.

[Chacrana]

then go get FUCKlNG DUKES OF HAZARD XBOX and have to pay $8 on top of the credit to get it.

Dave

LOL! oh god that is funny. when i read dukes of hazard i laughed so hard i spit some soda on my jeans.

Yeah, that guy must friggin suck at life.

anyway, if there's anything I got out of reading that, it's that I'll probably get at least $1 per game with all these garbage PS1 games I'm gonna trade in.

[nixts]

Back after completing another EBGames run on this deal. Once again, I traded exclusively games from my collection. I didn't trade any multiples, nor did I buy any games for the promotion.

Games Traded: 110
Trade-in Credit: $942.00

http://members.aol.com/nixts/ebrun.jpg

The EB store manager, the same one who took my first 76 titles, thanked me for coming to his store. My batch today included mostly Xbox games including Fable, Riddick, and Ninja Gaiden, so they brought a slightly higher value (per title) than my original batch. I have approximately 50 more games I can trade, but I'm not sure I will. I already have more than enough credit for my PSP + several games and hopefully, my Xbox 2 (Xenon, 360, whatever you want to call it) later this year.

Great deal. :)

[kingofny187]

did anybody use this deal with the tru deal to get a cheaper psp. if so pm me and we can make a deal.

[chargeup45]

100% agreement with epobirs. I'm really lucky that my EB guys are cool and laid-back. Although one of them was giving me shit about how they should limit me on stuff, and I almost felt bad. Then I saw a customer come in and trade in a SNES with about 25 games for $23.90 credit, then go get FUCKlNG DUKES OF HAZARD XBOX and have to pay $8 on top of the credit to get it. The employess couldn't even look me in the face after that FLEECING. and we won't be talking about how I'm working the system again :-)

Dave

I wouldnt expect any less from a customer trading 25 SNES games. Id be interested in hearing what games he traded, but I might throw up.

About the LA fraud thing... not surprised at all. You'd be surprised how often it happens. This one adds a new level of absurdity.

[oper00]

Back after completing another EBGames run on this deal. Once again, I traded exclusively games from my collection. I didn't trade any multiples, nor did I buy any games for the promotion.

Games Traded: 110
Trade-in Credit: $942.00

http://members.aol.com/nixts/ebrun.jpg

Great deal. :)

DEAR GOD

=P~

[chargeup45]

BTW... is there official confirmation that this ends on the 18th? Because I really wanted to trade in and pick up Midway Arcade and Second Sight when the 9.99 deal starts.

[shrike4242]

Back after completing another EBGames run on this deal. Once again, I traded exclusively games from my collection. I didn't trade any multiples, nor did I buy any games for the promotion.

Games Traded: 110
Trade-in Credit: $942.00

http://members.aol.com/nixts/ebrun.jpg

The EB store manager, the same one who took my first 76 titles, thanked me for coming to his store. My batch today included mostly Xbox games including Fable, Riddick, and Ninja Gaiden, so they brought a slightly higher value (per title) than my original batch. I have approximately 50 more games I can trade, but I'm not sure I will. I already have more than enough credit for my PSP + several games and hopefully, my Xbox 2 (Xenon, 360, whatever you want to call it) later this year.

Great deal. :)

People like you, nixts, are why the deals still happen. No 20 copy of Primal, just a whole lot of games from your collection. Great score for you, job well done.

[nixts]

Once again, because people want to know the value of some games I traded (to see if its worth trading in their games), here's a short sample. Games I traded that brought higher than normal value (above $9, and from today's batch):

Chessmaster (Xbox) - $12
Counterstrike (Xbox) -$11
Crash N Burn (Xbox) - $10
Fable (Xbox) - $20
Full Spectrum Warrior (Xbox) - $12
Guilty Gear X2 (Xbox) - $11
Ninja Gaiden (Xbox) - $12
SNK V. Capcom SVC (Xbox) - $12
Star Wars Knights (Xbox) - $11
Super Mario Sunshine (NGC) - $10

There are plenty more, I just don't have all the receipts in front of me.

[Zon27]

Once again, because people want to know the value of some games I traded (to see if its worth trading in their games), here's a short sample. Games I traded that brought higher than normal value (above $9, and from today's batch):

Chessmaster (Xbox) - $12
Counterstrike (Xbox) -$11
Crash N Burn (Xbox) - $10
Fable (Xbox) - $20
Full Spectrum Warrior (Xbox) - $12
Guilty Gear X2 (Xbox) - $11
Ninja Gaiden (Xbox) - $12
SNK V. Capcom SVC (Xbox) - $12
Star Wars Knights (Xbox) - $11
Super Mario Sunshine (NGC) - $10

There are plenty more, I just don't have all the receipts in front of me.

Ninja Gaiden for $12...ouch. :(

[nixts]

Nearly forgot, best today was;

Steel Battalion (Xbox)- $75

I only paid $103 for it used, so that was a killer deal.

[seanw]

Hate to say it, nixts, but I have to wonder if the GS +30% deal wouldn't have been significantly better for you.

[nixts]

Hate to say it, nixts, but I have to wonder if the GS +30% deal wouldn't have been significantly better for you.

Other people have mentioned that, or parting it out on Ebay and FYE. If I was in a dire need of cash, I could understand the logic there. But I just parted out this many games because of the promotion. I wanted to stockpile credit for the next-generation consoles now. Thankfully, I have a decent job so I can afford all this stuff to begin with. My wallet will just take a smaller hit when the PSP and Xbox 2 arrive. :)

[schultzed]

Even though you can get decent value . . . don't trade in your collections folks . . . you'll regret it later.

[Chacrana]

Even though you can get decent value . . . don't trade in your collections folks . . . you'll regret it later.

Yep, ya'll should only trade in teh stuff that's a definite mistake purchase. I personally would never trade in stuff like Ninja Gaiden or the games that I enjoyed.

[Timothyx]

Nearly forgot, best today was;

Steel Battalion (Xbox)- $75

I only paid $103 for it used, so that was a killer deal.

amount fo dust + space used by controller + awesome trade-in price = me doing the same thing tomorrow.

[Nephets]

Well, they accepted four of my six games, they couldn't except doubles at all, but I got 25 dollars for the four games I spent like 10 dollars on total, if that.

I used that credit to get Star Fox Assault halfway paid off. I have four extra games to trade in, I may just keep those to use towards GR promotions.

I mentioned of a seperate transaction to see if I could get the doubles traded in, but he said "it would be the same and it would make no difference", is he right? Or did he not want a copy of extra Mojo and ED so I could get a bonus 10 from those?

[epobirs]

Well, they accepted four of my six games, they couldn't except doubles at all, but I got 25 dollars for the four games I spent like 10 dollars on total, if that.

I used that credit to get Star Fox Assault halfway paid off. I have four extra games to trade in, I may just keep those to use towards GR promotions.

I mentioned of a seperate transaction to see if I could get the doubles traded in, but he said "it would be the same and it would make no difference", is he right? Or did he not want a copy of extra Mojo and ED so I could get a bonus 10 from those?

Just go when a different clerk is running the place. Make no mention of any other transactions and just do your business. Unless the manager is a complete psycho the guy isn't going to check everybody's history.

[jkam]

If anything this deal has taught me how to open a PS2, XBOX, and GC game really quick,easy, and neatly.

1. Open up a paper clip
2. Slide it under the plastic on top where the fold meets. Then drag it to the other side.
3. Take the top plastic strip off you just went across and then pull the rest off like a sock.
4. Pull off the sticker seal (works better from where it says pull on a PS2 game..on the back). Once you take it off wrap the wrapper up in a ball and put the seal around it.
5. No mess now just a plastic ball wrapped in a sticker seal.

NOTE: Gamecube games are even easier...just poke the plastic by where you open the game case up...it is indented for easy openage.

[MorPhiend]

If anything this deal has taught me how to open a PS2, XBOX, and GC game really quick,easy, and neatly.

1. Open up a paper clip
2. Slide it under the plastic on top where the fold meets. Then drag it to the other side.
3. Take the top plastic strip off you just went across and then pull the rest off like a sock.
4. Pull off the sticker seal (works better from where it says pull on a PS2 game..on the back). Once you take it off wrap the wrapper up in a ball and put the seal around it.
5. No mess now just a plastic ball wrapped in a sticker seal.

NOTE: Gamecube games are even easier...just poke the plastic by where you open the game case up...it is indented for easy openage.

That is how I open all of my games and DVDs, only with my pocket knife. I then slide the case back into the wrapper once I'm done playing [or in the GCN case, I just keep the cases in the plastic because I have those handy little Nintendo brand disc holders (BTW, I need three more disc wallets if anyone has extras they want to get rid of)].

[Blues]

How long is store credit good for? I traded in some games and got RE4 and VJ2, and I don't plan to get anything else until I finish these and some other games.

I was just wondering if it "expires" or anything.

[JohnnyA]

This deal is slowly going the way of the buffalo. Exhibition discs no longer work.

[bob330i]

I know in CA and MA, gift cards, gift certificates and the like cannot have expiration dates by state law. Since it's really a store credit, those also tend to not have expiration dates. However, when I worked retail in college in the late 80s/early 90s, some of the stores I worked for did have store credit "slips" that expired, normally they were good for about 6 months or so. Dunno what the general policy is nowadays. Couldn't hurt to ask so you don't get hosed.

BTW, noob question. They put my credit on an Edge card. My understanding was that you had to pay for a yearly fee for this card. So is the card good for one year of 10% discounts or is it even good for any discounts at all?

[oper00]

I know in CA and MA, gift cards, gift certificates and the like cannot have expiration dates by state law. Since it's really a store credit, those also tend to not have expiration dates. However, when I worked retail in college in the late 80s/early 90s, some of the stores I worked for did have store credit "slips" that expired, normally they were good for about 6 months or so. Dunno what the general policy is nowadays. Couldn't hurt to ask so you don't get hosed.

BTW, noob question. They put my credit on an Edge card. My understanding was that you had to pay for a yearly fee for this card. So is the card good for one year of 10% discounts or is it even good for any discounts at all?

Store credit expires and charge a yearly fee on edge cards? I never heard of this O_O

[Watchman]

A couple of things:

Any of you Sac area CAGers go to the Davis store? Because someone there is about to get shit-canned for a really ugly dispute with a customer that sounded awfully like a "accused of theft" deal.

And here's the scoop on why this promo might end on the 18th:

There was a group of 3 managers in the LA area that were selling jampacks and allowing them to be traded back in on the same transactions. Not only would the be an infinite store credit loop, but they were also putting them all on edge cards, thus not only giving the edge cards for free, but they were trying to bump up their stores numbers. They all got fired :-).

That also reminds me that those idiots that were selling the penny guides for $5 with free edge card all got fired too AFIAK

Dave

What was your source on this?

However, this is very likely. A certain company I worked for in the entertainment retail business fired no less than 3 entire staff teams from two different branches for trying to beef up their numbers with pre-loaded cards and such.
Game and movie mall-based chains depend on these "frequent shopper" cards to keep people coming back in to shop instead of running over to Wal-Mart and paying less.
Consequently, because of this "card dependency", they put additional pressure on staff and management to fill quotas or lose their jobs, regardless of thier numbers. I was the top seller in our store as far as actual sales numbers, and just about everything else, save for one thing- magazine subscriptions. The "free trial" was misleading and difficult to turn off, and I would tell my customers this so as not to have any backlash when they got screwed when the subscription might keep going.
Naturally, I didn't get many subscriptions. I also didn't have any mad customers either.
Long story short, thanks to a secret shopper who reported I didn't pitch her a mag sub on a pack of batteries she was buying with a CC, I got written up and was told that if it wasn't for the fact I had already put in my two weeks notice, I would have been fired for it.
2 years, record sales, top-shelf customer service, and a loyalty base to boot from them (I still hear that people ask for me there), and yet, they would have canned me for not pitching a mag sub.
Wow. :roll:

[MaxBiaggi3]

That'll teach you to hussle some magazine subscriptions. :)

[Watchman]

That'll teach you to hussle some magazine subscriptions. :)

Not on my conscience. Not worth the deception.:^o

Or the screaming.

[peloquin17]

sounds like you worked for funcoland.

i managed one for years, and they would always make us push the subscriptions and the cleaning kits.

i've seen people fired for not doing it.

shitty business tactics.

[ViolentLee]

The difference is, those of us who worked at Funcoland got commission off those items. I was able to make a good living out of high school pitching those things -- not to mention the other various spiff-earning items out there.

[lurknomore]

This deal is slowly going the way of the buffalo. Exhibition discs no longer work.

Is this true? Rats, I've got an XBox Exhibition vol.2 ready to go.

[Watchman]

The difference is, those of us who worked at Funcoland got commission off those items. I was able to make a good living out of high school pitching those things -- not to mention the other various spiff-earning items out there.

Though I didn't work at Funco, I did at one time work for another branch of the same company- but this wasn't where I had those particular problems...

Gads, if we had commision, I'd have owned 43% of the company back when I worked where I did. :cool:

[alfonsosoriano]

I'm going out to a TRU and a EBGames right after tonight...

[MightySlacker]

This deal is slowly going the way of the buffalo. Exhibition discs no longer work.

Is this true? Rats, I've got an XBox Exhibition vol.2 ready to go.

NO, ITS NOT TRUE. The deal still works and will continue to work unless they end it early on the 18th. If it doesn't work for you, it's due to an EMPLOYEE, not thte fact the deal changed. You can either listen to the employee and the deal is dead, od print out the terms of the deal and fight for it. It's that simple.

Dave

[chickenhawk]

Anyone have any idea what these games get in trade in value? I live kinda far from an EB and don't want to drive all the way out there and end up getting basically nothing. I know the extra $10 will probably make it worth it, but I'm wondering what the total would be for these.

MGS 2 Substance (XBox)
New Legends (XBox)
Siren (PS2)
XIII (GC)

[gugaplex]

mgs substance is $2 and siren is $4. Don't know the others. Probably $.50-$1?

[chickenhawk]

mgs substance is $2 and siren is $4. Don't know the others. Probably $.50-$1?

Thanks! I was guessing next to nothing for XIII and NL. :)

[CaptPete]

XIII got me $1 this morning.

[darkje]

YMMV!

I saw a post on another forum that said a guy got from Tyson's Corner, VA:

Star Wars Sith Lords
XMen Legends
All Star Baseball 2004
Rainbow Six 3 (NOT Black Arrow)

+ a new EB Games Edge card,

His total was $33.68 including tax.

XMen was now $5, Rainbow six was now $11.69, AS Baseball was now $5.39, and Sith Lords was now $5.00. The discount promo that appears on my receipt is Promo #3387

2435022 590/400
Orig Price: 44.99 ea.
Disc: 39.99 Promo #3387
You Saved 5.00 buying Pre-Played.

I went to EBgames a few hours ago before I knew of this, else I would try it out...so anyone going to EBgames, good luck, looks like a computer glitch.

[bob330i]

Store credit expires and charge a yearly fee on edge cards? I never heard of this O_O

Must be a youngin' :wink: Yes, in the ol' days, GCs and credit did have expiration dates.

Re: Edge cards, found the answer. I guess they put a sticker on the back that gives you the 10% off preplayed games and that sticker is what costs $5/year.

[JohnnyA]

I went to 2 different EBs today that took in Exhibition 2's yesterday. Today, the deal will not work with them. Completely different employees at each location btw.

This deal is slowly going the way of the buffalo. Exhibition discs no longer work.

Is this true? Rats, I've got an XBox Exhibition vol.2 ready to go.

NO, ITS NOT TRUE. The deal still works and will continue to work unless they end it early on the 18th. If it doesn't work for you, it's due to an EMPLOYEE, not thte fact the deal changed. You can either listen to the employee and the deal is dead, od print out the terms of the deal and fight for it. It's that simple.

Dave

[DenisDFat]

Yeah, I got the edge card for free, and recently bought the sticker add-on

[Ugamer_X]

This deal is slowly going the way of the buffalo. Exhibition discs no longer work.

Is this true? Rats, I've got an XBox Exhibition vol.2 ready to go.

NO, ITS NOT TRUE. The deal still works and will continue to work unless they end it early on the 18th. If it doesn't work for you, it's due to an EMPLOYEE, not thte fact the deal changed. You can either listen to the employee and the deal is dead, od print out the terms of the deal and fight for it. It's that simple.

Dave
Yes, it is true...I know first-hand that Jampacks were taken out of this deal last night...I'm not sure if it's all Jampacks or just the olders ones, but as of today the extra $10 would not apply.

[CaptPete]

Crap! I knew that I should have gone yesterday! I took in a couple jampacks this morning and the older ones wouldn't work on any promo (W02 and S03). I ended up trading in 3 for a total of $0.75.

[gamefreak117]

I just came back from a local EB Games, and they didn't accept my Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 along with Zapper. wtf? They then scanned 2 other games, which wasn't mine but behind the counter, and it got the $10 bonus. The cashiers said maybe its because some titles are excluded, and my games don't qualify. I then threw in my own copy of Project Gotham Racing along with a copy of Zapper for them to scan, but it still didn't work. They even did 1 qualifying game of theirs, and one copy of my fodder game, but it remained as if there was no promo. It didn't give the $10 promo. I'm going to hit another EB in my city. Damn, if it wasn't raining yesterday, or the day before, I would of scored by yesterday. Damn clouds!!1 LoL.

Even though the fine print does say "Some Titles Excluded", I'm going to fight for this one. I don't want to think I spent 30 minutes hunting for 2 games, and getting EB store credit "Easily", (especially since they have this deal advertised), and to be stopped by an employee who denies me.

[MightySlacker]

This deal is slowly going the way of the buffalo. Exhibition discs no longer work.

Is this true? Rats, I've got an XBox Exhibition vol.2 ready to go.

NO, ITS NOT TRUE. The deal still works and will continue to work unless they end it early on the 18th. If it doesn't work for you, it's due to an EMPLOYEE, not thte fact the deal changed. You can either listen to the employee and the deal is dead, od print out the terms of the deal and fight for it. It's that simple.

Dave
Yes, it is true...I know first-hand that Jampacks were taken out of this deal last night...I'm not sure if it's all Jampacks or just the olders ones, but as of today the extra $10 would not apply.

I just got back from trading 2 Exhibition v 2 and 2 Hard Hitter Tennis without a hitch. Can you elaborate on that first-hand knowledge?

Dave

[alfonsosoriano]

Traded in:

Primal (3x)
Gungrave
Dave Mirra 2
Frequency

Got $35, so I'm happy with that. I've gotten $70 credit, add $20 of a mall gift card, and I have $90 to use there, if I choose.

When I traded the three Primals in the guy was asking the other one if he can do three, and he was like just do it, I don't care. Awesome employees.

[gamefreak117]

Damnit, I just wasted a hour, and got denied at 3 EB Games in my city. One said that my Zapper and SeaBlade were select titles that are excluded, whatever that means. They all ring them both up for just $1.25.. a bad experience, especially since it was sunny a couple hours ago.. now its raining again like yesterday, but not as heavy.

I guess I'm going to try going to the Daly City / Serramonte Mall EB Games to see whats up.

[Ugamer_X]

This deal is slowly going the way of the buffalo. Exhibition discs no longer work.

Is this true? Rats, I've got an XBox Exhibition vol.2 ready to go.

NO, ITS NOT TRUE. The deal still works and will continue to work unless they end it early on the 18th. If it doesn't work for you, it's due to an EMPLOYEE, not thte fact the deal changed. You can either listen to the employee and the deal is dead, od print out the terms of the deal and fight for it. It's that simple.

Dave
Yes, it is true...I know first-hand that Jampacks were taken out of this deal last night...I'm not sure if it's all Jampacks or just the olders ones, but as of today the extra $10 would not apply.

I just got back from trading 2 Exhibition v 2 and 2 Hard Hitter Tennis without a hitch. Can you elaborate on that first-hand knowledge?

Dave

I'm not sure if it's all Jampacks or just the olders ones

I was denied when trading in jampacks today at various EB's...One manager had to manually input the extra 10. At another store, some employee told me that they were taken out of the system as of last night, which makes sense since I traded in Jampacks during the previous week at the same EB's without a hitch. So, it wouldn't surprise me if they started to exclude Exhibition discs as well seeing that they are now excluding certain Jampacks.

Edit: I realize you are talking about the Exhibition discs, I'm just pointing out that it may not be an employee error anymore if something does not ring up correctly...Sorry if I worded my first response poorly.

[kingofny187]

did anyone get a promo for seablade and legends of wrestling

[Ugamer_X]

did anyone get a promo for seablade and legends of wrestling
Legends of Wrestling falls under the sports category and it won't work.

[io]

OK, so do we have ANY confirmation of the promo ending early (on the 18th)? I traded in a few today and the manager said it goes to the end of the month. It seems like if it came down from corporate to end it in 2 days that he would know about it, but perhaps not. Also, the web site still shows it going until Feb. 27th.

Does anyone know what NBA Street Vol. 3 fetches? I got it from Gamerush for the trade-in 3/preorder for $30 deal, so I paid about $10 cash after my trades. If it gets $35 or $40 with the bonus I might just trade it in to EB and pick it up again in several months when it's a PC title. I know it would get $35 at Gamerush anyway.

Edit - just realized that NBA Street Vol. 3 might not even qualify for the bonus because it is a sports title even though it is brand new - or does it because it isn't a 200X-type game?

[PhrostByte]

I gotta confirm the no more jampacks thing... At the Owings Mills Mall ebgames the guys love me there and took in about 7 jampacks so far... but today I came in and they said it's no longer in the system. Tried it at 2 other ebgames.. no go.. FOR NOW ON, SPORTS TITLES AND JAMPACKS ARE EXCLUDED!.

[oper00]

Damnit, I just wasted a hour, and got denied at 3 EB Games in my city. One said that my Zapper and SeaBlade were select titles that are excluded, whatever that means. They all ring them both up for just $1.25.. a bad experience, especially since it was sunny a couple hours ago.. now its raining again like yesterday, but not as heavy.

I guess I'm going to try going to the Daly City / Serramonte Mall EB Games to see whats up.

lol is it that bad to drive in the rain in the west coast? i guess it's like snow here in the midwest :wink:

[cyberlian]

confirmed no jampacks, i only have two of the winter 03, so i'm fine (it's a pretty good demo disc for $.79)

[YoshiFan1]

It really sounds like EB is starting to exclude some of the non sports games as well then since Zapper and Sea Blade didn't work and it was posted in the TRU thread that Mojo is now excluded as well. I am kind of worried everything I try to trade in tomorrow won't get the $5 bonus.

I understand them blocking Jampacks but they shouldn't be excluding full games that are non sports.

[io]

It really sounds like EB is starting to exclude some of the non sports games as well then since Zapper and Sea Blade didn't work and it was posted in the TRU thread that Mojo is now excluded as well. I am kind of worried everything I try to trade in tomorrow won't get the $5 bonus.

I traded in Mojo (Xbox) today (Weds). Not only is it still allowed for the $5 bonus, it is still a "PO" game so it counts for their more restictive trade-in deals as well. I traded 2 Mojo's and 2 other different games. He informed me that 2 "qualified" for the deal and 2 didn't, so I was about to ask for the 2 that didn't back (I assumed at first he meant the 2 Mojo's). It turns out he was talking about the "PO" vs "POX" games, and it was actually the 2 Mojo's that "qualified". Regardless, I got the $5 bonus for all 4, so it didn't matter.

[YoshiFan1]

Maybe they just excluded the PS2 version then? (I hope neither version is excluded, since I plan to trade in the PS2 version).

[Timothyx]

man, i got 4 jampacks today. uhhhh, this was going to end my trade ins. great, now i am stuck. ill bring them anyway, because i gotta get rid of them. just when i thought id be done, eb rained on my parade.

[oper00]

eb rained on my parade.

hoarders did it. i never got to get on in the deal once

[PhrostByte]

man, i got 4 jampacks today. uhhhh, this was going to end my trade ins. great, now i am stuck. ill bring them anyway, because i gotta get rid of them. just when i thought id be done, eb rained on my parade.

Don't trade them in to eb.. they'll only give you 25 cents a peice. See if gamestop will take them, if not, try gamecrazy.

[Timothyx]

man, i got 4 jampacks today. uhhhh, this was going to end my trade ins. great, now i am stuck. ill bring them anyway, because i gotta get rid of them. just when i thought id be done, eb rained on my parade.

Don't trade them in to eb.. they'll only give you 25 cents a peice. See if gamestop will take them, if not, try gamecrazy.

alright. thank you for the advice.

[MorPhiend]

man, i got 4 jampacks today. uhhhh, this was going to end my trade ins. great, now i am stuck. ill bring them anyway, because i gotta get rid of them. just when i thought id be done, eb rained on my parade.

Don't trade them in to eb.. they'll only give you 25 cents a peice. See if gamestop will take them, if not, try gamecrazy.

alright. thank you for the advice.

Well, of course, try EB first. GS sure isn't going to give you a bonus $5. Maybe EB would by chance, it seems that some have still been getting lucky.

[PhrostByte]

man, i got 4 jampacks today. uhhhh, this was going to end my trade ins. great, now i am stuck. ill bring them anyway, because i gotta get rid of them. just when i thought id be done, eb rained on my parade.

Don't trade them in to eb.. they'll only give you 25 cents a peice. See if gamestop will take them, if not, try gamecrazy.

alright. thank you for the advice.

Well, of course, try EB first. GS sure isn't going to give you a bonus $5. Maybe EB would by chance, it seems that some have still been getting lucky.

The only way to get lucky on this is to have the manager input the price manually. See GameStop has a similar promotion, except it's trade in 3 titles get $10 extra. I don't know if jampacks count... GameCrazy also has $10 bonus credit for 2... again, not sure if jampacks count. I don't know what I'm gonna do with mine to tell you the truth, but I have 2 more PStwo's to put on ebay, I guess I'll just throw in the jampacks and maybe get an extra page visit or 2 on my auction. :\

[salmonaxxx]

The Edge card I got today seems to be an old one, because it has light scratches and faded colors. Should I worry about putting credit on it? Could the person who had it before me use the serial number to buy stuff? (I made sure to keep my receipts when I trade stuff in, but I don't know if that's proof enough.)

[gamefreak117]

Does GameStop take in duplicates? I'm still trying to dump in my last 2 copies of Zapper and one copy of SeaBlade.

[sabin23]

I remember reading in one of the threads that somebody tried to trade in Cabela's Dangerous Hunts at EB and the computer rung it up as negative store credit (-$4.70). When I traded it in, I actually got $5! Combined with the current EB promo, the total was $10 store credit.

Running in parallel with the TRU deal, that's one of biggest return on investment besides the Jampacks/Exhibiton demos and that Mary-Kate and Ashley game. I only found 2 copies of Cabela's Dangerous Hunts at $2 though. Anybody have the same luck with this game?

Also, I had a question for you guys. I have 4 different Edge Cards from trading in games (spread out at 4 different EB locations). Is it possible to consolidate the store credit from these 4 cards into 1 card? I wanted the option of purchasing online too. I'm getting mixed messages from EB. The people at the stores said I can use the Edge cards online but when I emailed EB, they said I can't purchase online.

Any recommendations with what to do with my 4 Edge cards? Thanks.

[Spoon_si]

Great.. all of U got to go abuse the system... and ruined the deal for the casual gamer...

Well I saw a kid goin into eb today and try to trade in 20 copys of Primal & like 10 copys of jam packs. it was alot cause he went to his car twice to reload.

the employee went to ask his manager if he could do it? the manager came out and turned him away.
and both titled didn't go in the system for the $10 bonus.

I couldn't help but laughing... I felt sorry for him & helped him carry a stack of games to his car.

I asked where he got the games. he said he got them from an online store.. I doubted him, but I offer him $2 for primal. and he took it. yea i knoe this is $1.50 but you cags memeber hoarded them all away.

Yea i know this game sucks.. But for $2 it's worth playing alittle.

[gugaplex]

If your edge card has a pin number that you have to scratch off to reveal, you can use it online. If it has no pin number, you can check the balance online, but cant use it make online purchases.

[jkam]

Also, I had a question for you guys. I have 4 different Edge Cards from trading in games (spread out at 4 different EB locations). Is it possible to consolidate the store credit from these 4 cards into 1 card? I wanted the option of purchasing online too. I'm getting mixed messages from EB. The people at the stores said I can use the Edge cards online but when I emailed EB, they said I can't purchase online.

Any recommendations with what to do with my 4 Edge cards? Thanks.

You can put all of your edge cards on one card...just have an EB clerk do it. Another option is to take all of them and buy a gift card with the total amount which can then be used online. Like above...just make sure it has a scratchable area which reveals a PIN # to be used online.

You also could have given the clerk the same edge card at all the different EBs in case you didn't know.

[bob330i]

On Mojo, I was able to trade in both the Xbox and PS2 versions at one of my EBs yesterday night (5ish). So it may be a YMMV thing. I have one more Mojo to turn into another EB. I'll report back if I have any trouble. Been easy so far but I haven't had the nerve to turn in doubles during the same visit.

[n00bie]

man, i got 4 jampacks today. uhhhh, this was going to end my trade ins. great, now i am stuck. ill bring them anyway, because i gotta get rid of them. just when i thought id be done, eb rained on my parade.

Don't trade them in to eb.. they'll only give you 25 cents a peice. See if gamestop will take them, if not, try gamecrazy.

alright. thank you for the advice.

Well, of course, try EB first. GS sure isn't going to give you a bonus $5. Maybe EB would by chance, it seems that some have still been getting lucky.

The only way to get lucky on this is to have the manager input the price manually. See GameStop has a similar promotion, except it's trade in 3 titles get $10 extra. I don't know if jampacks count... GameCrazy also has $10 bonus credit for 2... again, not sure if jampacks count. I don't know what I'm gonna do with mine to tell you the truth, but I have 2 more PStwo's to put on ebay, I guess I'll just throw in the jampacks and maybe get an extra page visit or 2 on my auction. :\

I think Gamestop's promotion is 3 titles get an extra 30%, not $10.

[jkam]

I just traded in:

Primal
Turok
Ejay Clubworld
Music Maker

Got the extra $20. It seems as those most of these situations are YMMV. As for the jampacks I don't know as I don't have anymore to trade in.

[sabin23]

Also, I had a question for you guys. I have 4 different Edge Cards from trading in games (spread out at 4 different EB locations). Is it possible to consolidate the store credit from these 4 cards into 1 card? I wanted the option of purchasing online too. I'm getting mixed messages from EB. The people at the stores said I can use the Edge cards online but when I emailed EB, they said I can't purchase online.

Any recommendations with what to do with my 4 Edge cards? Thanks.

You can put all of your edge cards on one card...just have an EB clerk do it. Another option is to take all of them and buy a gift card with the total amount which can then be used online. Like above...just make sure it has a scratchable area which reveals a PIN # to be used online.

You also could have given the clerk the same edge card at all the different EBs in case you didn't know.

Thanks for the info. I didn't know I could put everything onto one card. I guess I'd better get the card with the pin on it so I can at least have the option of purchasing online.

[sabin23]

eb rained on my parade.

hoarders did it. i never got to get on in the deal once

Hoarding isn't right but people get greedy sometimes thinking they can turn a profit. I tried to limit what I get unless TRU was stacked with excess inventory. For example, one store had 60+ Mario Kart: Double Dash strategy guides (not with green tag BTW) that scanned in at 1-penny, I picked up 8 to look at all the purdy pictures.

I picked up 2 copies each of all the 90% games on the 1st day of the sale, as to leave the remaining copies for my fellow CAG or the casual gamer on a limited budget. But another store I go to, almost nothing is green tagged and a week later, most of the games were still there untouched. So I went back and bought a couple more copies yesterday.

I usually keep one for myself, give away one or two to my friends and then sell any extra ones to EB... but I try to be smart about it and only sell one copy per a location at a time and spread it out to different stores (and I do it on different days). I don't understand how those people trying to trade in a mountain full of Primal (like in 20 copy quantities) at one time expect to get away with it.

[CaptPete]

Bad news this morning from my EB.

The original Maximo wouldn't take on the extra $5. Mojo Xbox is still good for the 2/$10 deal, but it's POX now too, as ts Jampack V10 apparently (I have a sneaking suspicion that the clerk may have been jerking me around on that one, but since Mojo turned POX overnight, it's possible).

The good news is that V11 and the Summer 2003 M-rated Jampack are still both PO. For some reason Black and Bruised PS2 also came up as PO, even though it's on the online exclusion list.

[MaxBiaggi3]

Yea i know this game sucks.. But for $2 it's worth playing alittle.

Primal isn't really bad at all. The story and characters are interesting enough, and the art direction is kind of neat. The only real problem is that the fighting is kind of limited, but that certainly doesn't make it a bad game, especially at a bargain basement price of $2 new.

[IndyDad]

PS2 SpyHunter denied.

[jngx80]

Primal was okay. It was very linear, the combat was weak, very little interactivity (why can you only crawl up specific walls??)

Anyone know how much credit Mary Kate and Ashley is getting before the extra $5?

[MaxBiaggi3]

JamPacks denied at my location as well. They went through yesterday, but today was a different story. I'd already gotten rid of all my duplicates anyway and was having misgivings about getting rid of my remaining singles, so I guess I'll keep them instead of taking a lousy 25 cent trade-in.

[bob330i]

Just got back from my TRU and the nearby EB. Mojo was ok but it was down to 0.25 from 0.50 yesterday. No big, the 2/$10 still applied.

Today was the first day I bought duplicates in one TRU purchase (two of each Mojo, Primal). My other purchases have always been one of each title at a time. It's like fishing limits, there's a reason so that everyone should have a good chance at the catch.

On Monday, a small horde of horders (hehe) came right after I got my single title purchases and clearned the green tag table. They must have had 15 Primals, 10 Mojos and a stack of another, forgot that title. Those are the guys which I/we have issues with.

I think I'm done after my last trade group (four left). It also helps me not get stuck if the promo does end tomorrow.

[FaintDeftone]

Is this deal still going on, or did the TRU hoarders kill it already?? I was going to go legit and trade in Halo 2 and Paper Mario 2 tomorrow for something new and I'll be pissed if it ended because of this...

[YoshiFan1]

Mojo for PS2 didn't work for me today. Just $0.25 without the bonus applied.

[Timothyx]

yeah, the guy at EB told me the deal will end on the 28th. but with some changes to the trade in list, its half dead already. oh well, i got enough for a psp. thank you CAG!

P.S. The guys at EB need a quota of psp preorders. since i know i wont need some of the credit so I am preordering 2 psps and just getting my $ back after they launch. I already have my first preorder paid in full at another eb, but i though it would be nice since these guys were nice to me. if you had nice people help you out at eb, use $20 of misc. credit to preorder a psp. you can get it back after it launches. its like a store credit bank! (uhh...banks have interest and free toasters, though)

[organicow]

I traded a jampak (#10) in just now, no problem. I did savages skies, jsrf, turok, and jampack and got $21.50 in credit. they didn't even bat an eye at the jampack!

Also scored a near-mint Suikoden I (no manual) for $35! nice!

[minqqq]

P.S. The guys at EB need a quota of psp preorders. since i know i wont need some of the credit so I am preordering 2 psps and just getting my $ back after they launch. I already have my first preorder paid in full at another eb, but i though it would be nice since these guys were nice to me. if you had nice people help you out at eb, use $20 of misc. credit to preorder a psp. you can get it back after it launches. its like a store credit bank! (uhh...banks have interest and free toasters, though)

shouldn't you leave that extra pre-order spot for someone who actually wants that PSP? because i don't think they're having any trouble selling PSPs. it's still a month before its release and every EB in my area has their orders filled through at least the second shipment.

[lurknomore]

My exhibition disc was rejected, but the guy just punched the $5.00 in. I was grateful, but I haven't traded that much junk in....so I was due.

[Timothyx]

P.S. The guys at EB need a quota of psp preorders. since i know i wont need some of the credit so I am preordering 2 psps and just getting my $ back after they launch. I already have my first preorder paid in full at another eb, but i though it would be nice since these guys were nice to me. if you had nice people help you out at eb, use $20 of misc. credit to preorder a psp. you can get it back after it launches. its like a store credit bank! (uhh...banks have interest and free toasters, though)

shouldn't you leave that extra pre-order spot for someone who actually wants that PSP? because i don't think they're having any trouble selling PSPs. it's still a month before its release and every EB in my area has their orders filled through at least the second shipment.

my reservation was already for 2nd shipment. anyway, when i pull my reservation on the 24th, the next person moves up a notch. still, its all atleast a week before their system comes in. no one will be missing a psp because of me. actually, one person will get on 2nd shipment rather than third. i am making someone's day (a month from now). i made sure i wasnt bumping someone from first shipment. the only thing my actions create is someone getting it earlier and a good, CAG-friendly employee gets "the man" off their back, if only briefly.

[darkje]

Does anyone know if the spiderman 2 UMD will be included on the second shipment from EBgames?

They told me they expect mine to come in end March and they didn't know if it included the Spiderman 2 movie.

[Timothyx]

Does anyone know if the spiderman 2 UMD will be included on the second shipment from EBgames?

They told me they expect mine to come in end March and they didn't know if it included the Spiderman 2 movie.

its the first million unitos. so, unless they ship a million on launch day, you will be okay. i think you'll get spidey.

[DenisDFat]

consider yourself lucky if you don't get the UMD.


horrible format, horrible movie

[JohnHam]

consider yourself lucky if you don't get the UMD.


horrible format, horrible movie

Blasphemer!

[Timothyx]

horrible format, horrible movie

...horribly free! horribly sold for $10 to a friend who didnt get it with his system in may!

[PhrostByte]

I traded a jampak (#10) in just now, no problem. I did savages skies, jsrf, turok, and jampack and got $21.50 in credit. they didn't even bat an eye at the jampack!

Also scored a near-mint Suikoden I (no manual) for $35! nice!

maybe it's just the old jampacks that they don't take anymore. :oops:

[DenisDFat]

a friend who wants a spiderman 2 umd is not a friend worth having

[toshi]

Is the GC metroid Prime PO or POX?

[Timothyx]

Is the GC metroid Prime PO or POX?

i think PO if that means you can trade it in. i dont thinks its excluded.

[Sancho]

you guys do realize that many people will get ripped off by this right?

Say if I take 2 games to them that I would receive 10 dollars each for if this promo wasn't going on.With this promo, you only get the "extra" 10 dollars from the two games combined, thus Eb ripping you off by 10 dollars worth of credit.

Strangely nobody has thought of this and won't bother to think about how much their games are actually worth used. :roll:


now if you're smart and you acknowledge how the deal works, then you can utilize it to your advantage by trading in 2 games worth less than 5 dollars trade in each.

EB marketing managers will find ways to completely rip off customers at every turn, while making them think that they are scoring a sweet deal.While it may benefit some, it usually swindles easy money from unsuspecting consumers :roll:

[Machikunas]

you guys do realize that many people will get ripped off by this right?

Say if I take 2 games to them that I would receive 10 dollars each for if this promo wasn't going on.With this promo, you only get the "extra" 10 dollars from the two games combined, thus Eb ripping you off by 10 dollars worth of credit.

Strangely nobody has thought of this and won't bother to think about how much their games are actually worth used. :roll:


Dude, that is amazingly wrong. It is "bonus" credit, thus, it is added to what you would be getting otherwise. So.... if you take 2 games that would get ten each normally, you now get 10 + 10 + 10(bonus) = 30

Did you seriously not understand that?