I got to take a peek at a EB B&M POX list tonight

[BigDirty]

A lot of acronyms in the title, but I thought it would be good for me to report my findings, it was on a traditional corporate printed looking packet that said Previously Played Exclusions as of 2/2/04, and here's the basic jist:

If it's a baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, or wrestling title, it's excluded.

If it's a Greatest Hit, Platnium Hit, Player's Choice, it's excluded.

If it was part of EB.Com's <$10 title, it's excluded (only one I didn't see was Wario World)

If it's an X-TREME sports game other than T.H.U.G., it's excluded.

If a new copy in store sells for <$20, it's excluded.

If you got it for $5 at Circuit City, guess what, it's excluded.


It looks like some folks in West Chester read CAG religiously as well....

[terribledeli]

ouch. Old sports games, I understand but some of the Player's Choices are $30.

[EggViper]

i dont know wether thats every where but the 2 eb games in my area still take any non sports title.

[BoboChimp]

If it's a Greatest Hit, Platnium Hit, Player's Choice, it's excluded.

Not true for my EB, since I traded in Super Smash Brothers and Metroid Prime a few days ago with no problem.

[tenzor]

yeah i saw that list at my work to. Some of the circuit city 5 dollar games still work, i know gungrave and shinboi aren't excluded.

[ElwoodCuse]

Geez, does eBay have a deal with them to make trading in games such a waste that you just sell them online instead?

[BigDirty]

If it's a Greatest Hit, Platnium Hit, Player's Choice, it's excluded.

[Not true for my EB, since I traded in Super Smash Brothers and Metroid Prime a few days ago with no problem.

This is a YMMV type of thing, but SSBM was on the list with several of the other PCs, it was one of the titles I spot checked because it's in my collection (granted I would never trade it, it's what sold me on the cube). If the staff wants to be more welcoming to it's customers, of course they may overlook some titles, which is looking to be a more common instance as seen by several other trade-in reports.

[javeryh]

you forgot to add "if it's a video game, it's excluded." :P

[BigDirty]

you forgot to add "if it's a video game, it's excluded." :P

I think it was "if it came out before thanksgiving, it's excluded." or "if you can concievably finished the game with normal playing habits, it's excluded"

Geez, does eBay have a deal with them to make trading in games such a waste that you just sell them online instead?

For some reason, that wouldn't surprise me. :roll:

[GTmaster39]

At my EB you can only trade in "non-sports" titles and they have to be either GCN, XBOX or PS2. I thought you could trade in games from any console. Oh well.

I take it that this topic is about the 4 for 1 deals that have been going on?

[telemundus]

I saw the POX list at EB in Binghamton and almost all platinum hits titles are excluded. It's a massive list and if employees stuck to it, nobody would ever be able to trade in 4 games. So many quality games are excluded, it appears there's no way any cheapasses could ever take advantage of this deal even if they were willing to get rid of awesome games from 3 months ago.

[Squirms]

This is why I don't bother with doing any business with the B&M EB stores. I trade my old games in to a local business and typically will get 5-10 bucks more for trade and the used games to buy are actually a pretty good deal at $35. Screw you EB.

[daphatty]

As a collector, I think trading games in is a bad thing unless you got them for free. :D

[BoboChimp]

I've been buying preowned games at EBgames.com with the 25% off code. New, $50 games are usually $46.99 - 25% = $33 shipped. The ones I decide not to keep I sell on Ebay for about the same price I bought them for.