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Originally Posted by confoosious trade in estimator broken for anyone else?

This page works for me:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....7093&type=page

thanks. the other one doesn't.

edit: http://www.bestbuytradein.com/bb/Quo...VideoGames.cfm

Originally Posted by confoosious trade in estimator broken for anyone else?

site works for me. linkhttp://www.bestbuytradein.com

Turned $147 GS credit into $174 at BB. Coulda been more but I didn't want to chance a bunch of MW3 copies so I just did one 360 one PS3.

I think FIFA Street is the next best flip if anyone else is lookin to take advantage of the B2G1.

Nevermind it is....

Originally Posted by slowdive21 The website is pretty consistent with the stores. You should get $35 for a trade in or $37.50 (extra 10%) if you are gamers club unlocked member. I was thinking the same thing, since the 3rd game is free and you will break even on the first 2, but I don't have GS credit.

Yep, just turned in one MW3 360 and one PS3 (store didn't have an extra) with Skyrim at GS. It basically came out even, maybe within a couple bucks or so in GS credit. Skyrim cost the difference plus I get PUR points at GS for the purchase and GC points for the trade.

At my best buy, I was told that I could only trade in 1 title per year period, regardless of platform. They said I should receive an e-mail with the new rules soon. Although, I'm not sure how reliable their info is.

i traded in 1 of each without any issues today.

Originally Posted by Jesse757x At my best buy, I was told that I could only trade in 1 title per year period, regardless of platform. They said I should receive an e-mail with the new rules soon. Although, I'm not sure how reliable their info is.

Originally Posted by technicalstylez i traded in 1 of each without any issues today.

I think they don't know what they are talking about, or they misinterpreted the new rules.

I was recently banned, so I had called the 1-877 (dont remember the rest) given by the register. Of course, that person was not at all helpful and could not provide any information as to why I was banned, but I wouldn't take that for an answer, so she said she would forward it to a supervisor for review. Well finally heard back today and the official reason why I was banned is because in a 6-month period I traded in over $2000 in video games, which "Far exceeds the average customer" and although they don't have an official limit, because of that and on one game in particular, I traded in a total of 4 copies, at two different stores though.

Kinda shitty customer service imo.....I'm a silver member + rewardzone mastercard member for several years, and also a gamers unlocked. I' probably spent over $1000 in video games sales alone in that 6 month period, and yes have traded in prolly close to 90-95% of those games back to bestbuy (most times at a profit since I only buy when on sale or other promotions). I do flip occasionally, but always try to stay under the 3 (even though i've been told by repeated employees the restriction is only 3 of the same per trade in).

Originally Posted by jdb230 I was recently banned, so I had called the 1-877 (dont remember the rest) given by the register. Of course, that person was not at all helpful and could not provide any information as to why I was banned, but I wouldn't take that for an answer, so she said she would forward it to a supervisor for review. Well finally heard back today and the official reason why I was banned is because in a 6-month period I traded in over $2000 in video games, which "Far exceeds the average customer" and although they don't have an official limit, because of that and on one game in particular, I traded in a total of 4 copies, at two different stores though. Kinda shitty customer service imo.....I'm a silver member + rewardzone mastercard member for several years, and also a gamers unlocked. I' probably spent over $1000 in video games sales alone in that 6 month period, and yes have traded in prolly close to 90-95% of those games back to bestbuy (most times at a profit since I only buy when on sale or other promotions). I do flip occasionally, but always try to stay under the 3 (even though i've been told by repeated employees the restriction is only 3 of the same per trade in).

I'd really like to see some way to figure out what their profit is on some of these games. I think we can all agree that the stuff like the "giant spindle of ps2 games" probably lost them money, but I'd like to see if stuff like flipping a bunch of copies of MK9 actually made them money or something. I could totally see it making them some money (as well as costing them money), so it would be neat to see some kind of breakdown, but BB is so disorganized sometimes I'm not even sure they have those numbers.

Originally Posted by jdb230 I was recently banned, so I had called the 1-877 (dont remember the rest) given by the register. Of course, that person was not at all helpful and could not provide any information as to why I was banned, but I wouldn't take that for an answer, so she said she would forward it to a supervisor for review. Well finally heard back today and the official reason why I was banned is because in a 6-month period I traded in over $2000 in video games, which "Far exceeds the average customer" and although they don't have an official limit, because of that and on one game in particular, I traded in a total of 4 copies, at two different stores though. Kinda shitty customer service imo.....I'm a silver member + rewardzone mastercard member for several years, and also a gamers unlocked. I' probably spent over $1000 in video games sales alone in that 6 month period, and yes have traded in prolly close to 90-95% of those games back to bestbuy (most times at a profit since I only buy when on sale or other promotions). I do flip occasionally, but always try to stay under the 3 (even though i've been told by repeated employees the restriction is only 3 of the same per trade in).

I wear my badge of trading in over $15k in games as an honor.

Then being promptly banned during the black Friday sweep.

Badge of honor?

Lol

Traded in two copies of MW3 (X360), and one copy of MW3 (PS3) today. Also traded in two copies of White Knight Chronicles II. This was all in a single transaction, and the girl didn't say anything.

She probably didn't read the new rules; but I'm just passing along my experience so we can figure things out.

Originally Posted by DudeImGodly I wear my badge of trading in over $15k in games as an honor. Then being promptly banned during the black Friday sweep.

lmao, im jealous now....and kinda pissed that i got banned for only doing $2k in a 6 month period (most wasn't even just flipping, just trading in games after playing them) when I know someone got away with 15k in flipping in a much shorter period of time.....

thats ok....if the ban ever goes away, I know wat I'll be doing

matt, your inbox is full

Originally Posted by sninh matt, your inbox is full

Yup, just saw I got an email about that. Thanks for the heads up!

It should be good to go now

Sorry if this question was asked already, but do you only need to place $5 down on a preorder to get the 40% bump (50% with GCU) on the whole transaction?

Yep

They only let you put $5 down per title

So if I were trade in say 3 games, I would only need to place $5 down on one preorder and all 3 games would get the 40% bump?

Edit: nevermind, got my answer from the first post.