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Originally Posted by herpderp118 yes

thanks

Originally Posted by crazedracerguy WHAT?????? IATCG actually bought a TV???? My God - that is front page CAG news!!!

Even though I bought an HDtv, I bought it with flipping credit. My whole Black Friday transaction($400+) cost me $20 n change in real cash out of pocket. The rest was all gaming credit(that only cost me about $150 to make).

Originally Posted by ijustw1n Translated: Thanks for spoon feeding a newbie who can't open 2 browser windows and look games up.

Translation: I just made a worthless contribution because i can yay me!

Anyway 3rd birthday can net a a couple of dollars of profit if people give a shit about it since gamestop sells it for 9.99 and the trade in is 8 at bestbuy before promos.

Originally Posted by IAmTheCheapestGamer Even though I bought an HDtv, I bought it with flipping credit. My whole Black Friday transaction($400+) cost me $20 n change in real cash out of pocket. The rest was all gaming credit(that only cost me about $150 to make).

What size did you get? I keep thinking about getting another one, but I figure I'll just wait until one of mine dies. Between the BBV credit and giving BB their own new games back, I spent about $80 on mine. Wish I had known about Duke Nukem a few weekends ago - I'd be looking at a much nicer model

Originally Posted by crazedracerguy What size did you get? I keep thinking about getting another one, but I figure I'll just wait until one of mine dies. Between the BBV credit and giving BB their own new games back, I spent about $80 on mine. Wish I had known about Duke Nukem a few weekends ago - I'd be looking at a much nicer model

I ended up grabbing a 32" model from Panasonic. It was like $320, but even so the credit I used to buy it cost me only $150 to make.

BBY still takes games without an original case don't they?

Yep, they'll take disc only

Originally Posted by Kyden139 Yep, they'll take disc only

Cool. I think I'm swinging by to get my $5 Medal of Honor and my $10 Crysis 2. I've almost picked up Crysis about 5 difeerent times but never pulled the trigger so today is the day.

The Coupons say one per but I could buy another mag and get another copy for a friend couldn't I?

Be careful their trade in values are so bad now its a joke. A lot of games only net $1-2. I did notice most Kinect games get good trade in values. That is about it.

it's odd. lots of older, unpopular games have better tiv's than new/hot games cuz they have had sales on those, etc. like i have to plat n get rid of rogue warrior which is 6, but acr/sr3 etc are so low cuz of sales i guess. idk

Originally Posted by buster90 Be careful their trade in values are so bad now its a joke. A lot of games only net $1-2. I did notice most Kinect games get good trade in values. That is about it.

With all the games that got traded in from their DOTDs, I'm not surprised. Most games that they sold for $5-$8 during these past few weeks have dropped down to a $1 TIV.

Originally Posted by slowdive21 Don't get too excited, it was a 32" CRT that pennied out.

lol

What's next? a PALM PILOT?

just kidding iam.

Went to my Best Buy today, and was told they can't do trade ins because their trade in machine is broken. Very annoyed, I asked how long it's been and if they have an estimated time for it to be fixed. They said it's been like two weeks now, and they have no idea when it'll be fixed.

So I had to go to the second closest BB instead, which is usually just as bad. I had to wait almost 10 minutes at the kiosk before someone came over to help me. Not because they were busy helping someone, not because there was a line, but simply because the employees were too busy talking to each other to care.

I feel like every time I go to Best Buy, I get more and more annoyed with them. If only their trade in values weren't so good most of the time...

Looks like Kung Fu Panda (xbox 360) got abuse to hell... it traded in to BBY for 8.00 yesterday and now is only 1.00. hahhaha. found this yesterday but did not even attempt it. flipping game is cheese money. i've realize that its not worth my time and gasoline cost thanks to BBY epic TIV drops. Like everyone else, I think BBY will be done with pre-own games by the end of 2012.

Originally Posted by xskaxninjax Went to my Best Buy today, and was told they can't do trade ins because their trade in machine is broken. Very annoyed, I asked how long it's been and if they have an estimated time for it to be fixed. They said it's been like two weeks now, and they have no idea when it'll be fixed. So I had to go to the second closest BB instead, which is usually just as bad. I had to wait almost 10 minutes at the kiosk before someone came over to help me. Not because they were busy helping someone, not because there was a line, but simply because the employees were too busy talking to each other to care. I feel like every time I go to Best Buy, I get more and more annoyed with them. If only their trade in values weren't so good most of the time...

Trade-in machine or system? Every register in the CS area should be able to do trade-ins.

Found out I was banned today while doing a two game trade-in. Must have been another wave of bans, because I traded in on December 23rd. But yeah, the worker still did it for me.

Originally Posted by DCpinoy Found out I was banned today while doing a two game trade-in. Must have been another wave of bans, because I traded in on December 23rd. But yeah, the worker still did it for me.

Same here almost exactly - traded a few games last week no problem, and then had problems today. I believe these were my only trades in all of December - about 8 games total.

At the first store they flat out refused to override. The clerk called the manager to override, and he wouldn't. He looked up my purchase history and saw that I bought a lot of clearance games and said I was violating the spirit of their clearance program and that's why I was banned. Note that I had not traded in any of those games and my purchases from the recent clearance have absolutely nothing to do with my trade-in history. In fact, I really haven't traded much of anything since the big clearance/outlet center stuff started in late November. He was just pulling a reason out of his you know what...

Then I went to the more friendly store and luckily got the guy who has processed most of my trade-ins before. But he was clearly puzzled by the popup and called his manager over too. They both knew me well, though, and did the override.

Here's the interesting part: while they wouldn't tell me exactly what the popup said, they did mention that it said to make sure that they knew that this was the actual person doing the trade-ins before overriding. Since they know me well they were laughing at that part. But that is an interesting twist I have never heard mentioned here before. It is almost like they think multiple people are trading in on the account or something? I dunno. I will probably tally up my trades and see if I passed some sort of barrier (like 50 or 100 games traded) to see if maybe that is the trigger. While I did go over 3 of some titles (and never more than 4), that was long ago (probably last time was in Sept) so I'd think I would have gotten rounded up earlier if it was just because of that. If anything, I've really laid low on trading recently, so even though I was expecting it at any time, I was surprised it came now after being fine last week.

The gaming guy at this second store said he would get it cleared up for me, but of course he doesn't know that one way or the other as it was all new to him. He is going to talk to his gaming supervisor (another person who knows me well) and see what the deal is. He has personally processed at least 75% of the stuff I've traded to Best Buy, and he couldn't even think of why I'd be having problems. Chances are I can still trade at least when he is there. But I'll probably hold off for the most part anyway (as I was doing already). I only traded 3 games in today just because of the 50% bonus with no strings attached. These were 3 games I'd never traded before (and I didn't bring any dups this time either).

As for all the "bad" values you may notice that for the most part those are games that were DotD or clearance items. They are smart to knock those down, but it doesn't really reflect on the trade-in values overall. They are still somewhat decent if you can find games that weren't part of their own clearance or DotDs. However, I still diverted several games I was going to bring to Best Buy to Gamestop instead tonight because I got more for them at Gamestop with their 50% bonus. And at GS I never have to worry about crossing some unknown threshold of trades and getting banned. I've probably traded at least 10x - 20x the amount of games there as I have at Best Buy.

the worker actually printed out exactly what the pop-up said for me. if anything i can post up the pic and exact text of what it says tomorrow. i left the paper in my bag. im kind of sad but knew it was inevitable for me. gonna talk to the gaming supervisor probably on wednesday and see what she has to say about it.

For anyone looking to transfer credit from GS to BB:
Front Mission Evolved is going for $8.99 used at GS. Current BB trade in value is $10 ($16 with 50% & 10% GCU bonus)

Is the 50% extra applicable for systems? Can I trade in a Nintendo DSI and get 50% extra for it?