Trade in values are like death and taxes...

I've got a few to trade in myself, but will wait it out. Just need a little more time to finish them...

Originally Posted by panda911 Wtf did they really drop Far Cry 3 to 14 base? It was 22 not even a week ago. I hope BBY knows what they're doing. I'm really worried about what the TIV for big games that are a part of their promo. I'm hoping they're still ~40, otherwise I'm going to cancel most of my preorders and only pick up what I really want, which is only 2 games.

I could go on for days on this topic. As predicted, corporate support is being pulled bit by bit for the tradein program. I am sure they are having less and less money being allocated across the board for the program.

I remember when the program started talking to some guy doing my tradein who claimed to be on the executive board of gaming or whatnot for best buy that met in MN every so often to plan out the program. He guaranteed Gamestop would be on their heels in two years time. Last time I went by there he had been axed with all the other gaming managers companywide.

The current tradein program has been a colossal cluster from day one. They have still never gone away from the godawful pay to ship the game to texas for refurb (which they also pay for) and pay to have it shipped back to random stores. The transaction costs on that are enormous, and completely unnecessary for many handheld games. They never ever accurately figured out what the cost of entry into the market segment was. They have been guided by reactionaries only (2011 was the year of the Great BBY Flipping, late '11 and 2012 was the year of the bannings, and 2013 will be the year of the downward slide).

I do not see any way the gaming tradein department can survive through 2014 (I just hope bby survives in general). And the thing is, they could have had a great program if they just fixed all the little things and spent the money to build inventory and goodwill for 5 years.

To not derail the thread any further, has anyone traded in a cartridge only Vita game?

Originally Posted by J7. For games and some other stuff: Auction style is 9%, BIN is 15% fees. What I do is either just start my auction at the bare minimum or start my auction as close as possible to my BIN price. Your BIN has to be 10% higher than your auction. That way I get as close to my BIN price as possible without paying an extra 6%. Ebay also now puts their fees on your shipping so I just do free shipping now, always. I'm going to definitely look into that global shipping program if Ebay sides with the seller as long as it reaches their facility, that would be awesome.

Thanks, I always noticed people leaned more on the Auction style unless it's an item they know won't sell too fast. But I've always done BIN simply because I'd fear that it end up cheap if I played the 99 cents game. Before eBay changed their layout and forced you into categories, I would always go to a 'similar' one to shave off the a bit of the FVFs. Doesn't work too well now though since your auctions get hidden though.

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Originally Posted by killercane I could go on for days on this topic. As predicted, corporate support is being pulled bit by bit for the tradein program. I am sure they are having less and less money being allocated across the board for the program. I remember when the program started talking to some guy doing my tradein who claimed to be on the executive board of gaming or whatnot for best buy that met in MN every so often to plan out the program. He guaranteed Gamestop would be on their heels in two years time. Last time I went by there he had been axed with all the other gaming managers companywide. The current tradein program has been a colossal cluster from day one. They have still never gone away from the godawful pay to ship the game to texas for refurb (which they also pay for) and pay to have it shipped back to random stores. The transaction costs on that are enormous, and completely unnecessary for many handheld games. They never ever accurately figured out what the cost of entry into the market segment was. They have been guided by reactionaries only (2011 was the year of the Great BBY Flipping, late '11 and 2012 was the year of the bannings, and 2013 will be the year of the downward slide). I do not see any way the gaming tradein department can survive through 2014 (I just hope bby survives in general). And the thing is, they could have had a great program if they just fixed all the little things and spent the money to build inventory and goodwill for 5 years.

Yeah, something is clearly going on with trades ins since values have plummeted over the past few weeks. I would be okay if they went down a little bit, since the values were almost too-good-to-be-true during the holidays (between the $20 preorder certificate and 60 day price match window, they paid me to play quite a few games after trading them back), but now they are worse than Gamestop in most cases (which is already really bad).

NSMBU tanked to $14 (from $20). Oh well.

Originally Posted by eXiON To not derail the thread any further, has anyone traded in a cartridge only Vita game?

Yes I have. They take them same as they would DS or 3ds cartridges without the case.

Also, noticed the TIVs have changed and adjusted on the site akin to what they may be for 100% in bonus come tomorrow.

100% bump.

The biggest thing that has hurt them is that they've never known how to really sell the used games. They take to long to get back on the floor, their used prices are often higher than the new prices because the two sides of the office apparently aren't talking to each other, etc. It is just a mess. When someone walks into a store and sees that Medal of Honor: Warfighter is $14.99 new (last two days) but that the used version is $24.99, well they think the store has their head up their ass. Also, while in some ways I'm glad they don't, mixing used and new games might have helped them (how many soccer moms ignore the pre-owned but if searching for the game on the new shelf saw a used version for $10 less would grab that?) and of course the simple fact that so many people trade in disc only for no reason other than just cause they can they've wound up with a huge collection of ugly black cases in their pre-owned sections.

Looks like my Best Buy trade-in days are coming to an end, used to be great @100%, then it was good, now it just seems kinda bad.

Will probably go back to just selling my stuff now...

I know this is just piling on to what others have said but these TIV values are not urging me to trade with Best Buy. I had Scribblenauts Unlimited for Wii-U ready to trade and it will net me a whopping $12.60. If this game was $20 or $30 normally I would understand but that's far too low for a $60 retail release from a few months ago.

I don't want to seem entitled to a certain TIV or anything but these values are abnormally low.

PS Vita (white) WiFi base trade in value in store is $121

Got $38.40($24 base.....yes, I know this is the same as the 100% @ BB) for Halo 4 at GameStop vs $26.40($12 base) at Best Buy. Both of these are with the 10% gamer club bonuses. Whoever wants that 50% bonus GameStop coupon and have the 6,000 points to get it, you have until tonight to do it. GS has a number of better TIVs, too. Just buy a used game for 49-99¢ to get the 50% bump.

Probably got more than twice I would have gotten at BB for the games I traded in. Halo 4 isn't something I'd play, but it was given to me with an Xbox and a bunch of others.

i was going to trade in medal of honor warfighter and sleeping dogs to bestbuy but

tiv for both after bonuses at bestbuy = 21
tiv for both before bonuses at gamestop = 27

nuff said

Hey guys, anyone know what happened to the Best Buy/GameStop flip thread?

$9 - ni no kuni? Wow...

Originally Posted by etcrane Hey guys, anyone know what happened to the Best Buy/GameStop flip thread?

it got nuked thats what happed. all the flips mentioned in the thread died after the previous 100% promo anyway :(

Looks like its back to eBay for me. Didn't wanted to leave BBY but BBY left me no choice.

yeah i hate to say it, but it looks pretty rough this time around.
I had to use tons of my credit to get household stuff like washer, drier, fridge, and all my amazon credit keeps going to diapers/wipes/etc. this was a good run while it lasted last 5 years, but amazon/gamestop/bbv/bestbuy gravy train seems to be slowing down...

These crappy values are going to make me take my business elsewhere, I made silver on just gaming purchases/trades this year (no consoles either). It will also cause me to preorder less of those victory can be preordered games too, which sucks as I liked being able to play them within a week and get most of my money back without having to hassle with selling them. I guess I will be selling my stuff on Amazon and Glyde mostly and use VGFive to trade.