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Old 11-09-2008, 12:04 AM   #218
Copied from the HWV Thread:

I came away with a nice size deal... I only had $30 to work with and only one local HWV (Though I'm going to hit up the Movie Gallery in the next day) and I came away with:

1 PS2 Fatal Flaw
1 PS2 Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters
1 PS2 GrimGrimoire
1 XBOX GTA: San Andreas (PH Version)
2 XBOX Battlefiont II

Amount Spent: $29.88

Travelled a bit down the road, to the local GameStop

Traded in:

Fatal Flaw
Ratchet & Clank: SM
Battlefront II
San Andreas (Really wanted to keep it, but for the price I got in credit it was worth more to flip)
Splinter Cell: Double Agent (PS2) I had that laying around (Don't have a PS2 or PS3 so of no use to me)

I had originally had two Battlefront IIs on the table for them to process for the deal, however the clerk informed me they don't take multiples of games, so... yeah. At least it works with my 360, and I've been getting a collection together finally.

Here's where the fishy part comes in: I notice that the credit is something along the lines of $63.00, which is good... but the Fatal Flaw was listed on the receipt as $7.00 trade in value (9.10 with the tiered deal) and I figured hey it was only 3.99 why complain about a profit, so I bushed it off and looked around at games for a bit. Now I'm well aware that GS lists Backwards Compatible games with (BC) and that's what helped me notice that the clerk had given me the XBOX value for the PS2 title. I went back to the clerk and mentioned it to him, and he realized his mistake, so he had to go and re-do the entire transaction, though he couldn't find the game I had just 5 minutes before traded in. Turns out they had already labelled the game as XBOX for $16.99 and the lady working there had taken the game and hid it underneath the counter, and she said "Oh, I saw it and thought it was a great price for the game, so I was going to buy it later.." After all that, I ended up getting an extra $15.00 in credit applied to my "EDGE Gift card" as I haven't gotten my EDGE Card yet. $78 in credit for $30 spent and I have to take GrimGrimoire back to HWV to get Ninja Gaiden Black, since it only netted me $4 credit at GS, and I have a copy of Battlefront II now!

Thanks to the OP for this great deal... I'm hoping to get in on some more gaming action.