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NEW THREAD: http://www.cheapassgamer.com/topic/334650-gamestop-trade-in-values-xxvi-values-available-on-ios-app-upcoming-50-bonus-with-coupon/

WHEN REPORTING TRADE-IN VALUES PLEASE POST BASE VALUES & SYSTEM IT IS FOR.

First post contains promo information & useful information and frequently asked questions. Second post has the values for games/hardware for Microsoft devices. Third post has the values for games/hardware for Nintendo consoles and the fourth post has the values for Nintendo handhelds. Fifth post has the values for games/hardware for Sony consoles and the sixth post has the values for Sony handhelds.

Instructions on finding games in the database and inputting the values from different sections can be found in my blog post here: http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/blog.php?b=14143. I would put the entire post in the thread but this is already kind of a large post.

WHEN POSTING VALUES:

Please try to follow the example below if possible. If you feel the need to use the system icons, please only use them once at and at the top of the list. Also always post the system it's for even if it's only on one system or the value will not get updated. I don't always know it and I'm doing these updates from work to keep them as updated as often as possible so I can't spend time searching for that info.

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360

Game1

Game2

Game3

PS3

Game1

Game2

Game3

Current Promotions/Information:

From GameStop employees on CAG:

GameStop.com Information (will post it when they update it)

None Currently.

FAQ
These trade-in values are really low!
While that may be true, if you combine the games with the right promotion they can work to your advantage. There are knowledgeable people in this thread that are normally willing to help.

Is there any way to look at what the previous values reported on a game?
You can search through this thread and previous ones to see what a game has been reported in the past. With the TIV Tracker you can sort by date and then go through the list of past updated values through that as well. Here are the previous GS TIV Threads: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,22,23,,

Can I trade-in sealed games?
No. You might come across the rare GameStop that would let you do it, but they are going to open them anyway.

I don't want to get hassled about the values I post, how can I get the information out there?
If you do not feel comfortable or willing to put the values in the thread you have two options available. You can input them in the TIV tracker or you can send them to me via PM. Either way the database and these lists will be updated. Putting them into the TIV tracker does save me some time later on.

Do trade-ins have to have their original case, insert and manual?
No, however it will be YMMV on if they charge you a refurbish fee for them in that condition. Most GameStops wont charge a fee but there are some that charge for incomplete games.

Will they accept my game if it is really beat up?
YMMV. It really all depends upon the employee you get. Some will charge refurbish fees, some wont, some wont accept the game and others just take them without a second glance.

What are the refurb fees on games?
There appears to be set prices for set value ranges. We aren't 100% certain on the splits just yet. Here is what we have currently:
$0.25-$2 Value: $0.75 Refurb Fee
$2.01-$4 Value: $1 Refurb Fee
$4.01-$7 Value: $2 Refurb Fee
$7.01-$10 Value: $3 Refurb Fee
$10.01 & Higher Value: $4 Refurb Fee
This information isn't guaranteed by any mean and we are still working on nailing it down.

What are the refurb fees on consoles?
They are listed in the hardware TIV section, highlight in red.

I have a Collector's/Limited/Special edition of a game, do I have to trade-in all of the extras?
No, but there are a handful of games that their variations have separate listings at GameStop: Madden 09 Anniversary Edition, Battlefield: Bad Company Gold Edition, and a few others.

Why didn't the percent bonus go for my accessory for a system that was included?
Unless stated otherwise, and they are rarely included, the bonuses never apply to accessories. Except the PowerUp Rewards card of course.

I traded in a bunch of games for the "Trade X, get $X bonus" promo and it gave me the percentage bonus instead?
I can't give concretes on why this happens. GameStop computers are normally pretty good at giving you the better promo. In the case of a percentage bonus being run at the same time as a "Trade X, get $X" promo, things can get messy. The system appears to only give one promo on games per transaction so if you had a few games that you want to go to the percentage bonus and a stack for the "Trade X, Get $X" it will regularly apply the percentage to all of the games. Your best bet is to do all "Trade X, Get $X" games in one transaction on their own. The GameStop clerk may say that the system will figure it all out, tell them you want a separate transaction anyway. As always, check your receipt before you leave the store.

Can I trade in multiple copies of the same game?
YMMV. The official policy is no, but there are some GameStops that overlook that rule.

What all do I have to trade in for a console trade-in?
Xbox 360: Console Unit, power brick, A/V Cables, Controller (wired/wireless)
Wii: Console Unit, Power Cable, A/V Cables, Wiimote, Nunchuck, Sensor Bar
Playstation 3: Console Unit, Power Cable, A/V Cable, Controller, USB Cable
PSP: Handheld, A/C Adapter
Nintendo DS/DSLite/DSi: Handheld, A/C Adapter, Stylus

Can I trade in a defective/broken console?
For the most part yes. If it powers on but doesn't play games, they will take the console as a refurb unit and put a refurb fee on the console. The refurb fee on the console will vary on the price of the console so those numbers will change. You are still required to trade in everything required listed in the question directly above.

What is the difference between PowerUp Rewards and PowerUp Rewards Pro?
The basic card is free and only allows you to acrew points when spending money. The Pro card costs $14.99 and is basically the same as the previous EDGE program.

How much does a PowerUp Rewards Pro subscription cost?
It costs $14.99 and is good for a year. It also comes with a 1-year subscription to Game Informer magazine.

What bonuses come with having an PowerUp Rewards Pro card?
You will get an extra 10% trade-in credit on the base value of the game, extra 10% off the purchase of pre-owned games and 10% off new strategy guides.

Does the Power Up Rewards Card give me a bonus on hardware trade-ins?
No. You will only get the bonus for games and accessories.

What if I want cash instead of credit, what do they deduct?
If you decide that you want cash instead of credit, they will take 20% off the base values and promos will not apply.

Does promo "....." have a minimum trade-in value?
If the promo has a minimum trade-in value requirement, it will be listed in the promo. If it isn't there, then there is no limit. However, as with all trades, they are subject to manager approval so the manager could have setup his own little rule-set requiring a minimum of whatever.

I used a Power Trade promo for a pre-order, can I cancel that pre-order and get the credit or move it to another game I want?
Yes on both accounts. However, if you do a bunch of the power trades and just straight drop the pre-order you could create some ill-will between yourself and the employees you cancel on. However, if you look at the wordings on promos, they can remove the bonus trade-in value if they decide to.

I just tried to use a promo that has a select list of games eligible, but they say my game isn't eligible anymore, what gives?
Basically they have the right to change the eligible games at any time. They tend to update these frequently so as to lock out any easy/cheap games. It's best to check the eligible list the day of your trade.

Can I stack two different trade-in promos?
No. The only thing that will stack with trade-ins is your PowerUp Rewards card. Some will report success, but this requires a manual override and is very YMMV.

If I pay for an item using all credit on my card, do I have to pay sales tax?
This varies depending upon the state you live in.

If I buy a used copy of a game that requires an online pass for multiplayer, will it come with an online pass?
If you purchase a used title published by either Sony or WB you get an online pass from GS on your receipt. That's also why the used copies are $55 instead of $48 when the MSRP is $60. No GS issued passes of games published by EA, THQ, etc. On those titles you're totally dependent on the previous owner not using the code.

What states charge sales tax on purchases paid in full with credit and which ones don't?
Charge Sales Tax on Credit Purchases: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia
Does Not Charge Sales Tax on Credit Purchases: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming
May or May Not Charge, Depending Upon County: Florida,

My state doesn't charge sales tax on purchases made by credit, why is gamestop.com charging me tax?
It is just the way they have designed their system. The best theory we have seen is that since you are only inputting the number off of the back of the card, it isn't going to pick up the programming from the specially tagged EDGE cards. Some kind of programming that gets input from their system that wont show up when only inputting the number off the back of the card.


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I got the 50% bump with the 3+1-month XBL card (which also printed a $5 Microsoft credit on the receipt).

:360:
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - $13 (not sure why Uso said $8 yesterday)
Call of Duty: Ghosts - $12

:wiiu:
Rayman Legends - $12

:3ds:
Mario Golf: World Tour - $15 [phone quote]

:ds:
Pokemon: White Version 2 - $13

:ps3:
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - $10
Call of Duty: Ghosts - $15
Diablo III - $14
Drakengard 3 - $18
Injustice: Gods Among Us - $11
Little Big Planet 2 Special Edition - $6

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MLB 14: The Show - $14
 
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Vigilante said:
I got the 50% bump with the 3+1-month XBL card (which also printed a $5 Microsoft credit on the receipt).

:360:
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - $13 (not sure why Uso said $8 yesterday)
Call of Duty: Ghosts - $12

:wiiu:
Rayman Legends - $12

:ds:
Pokemon: White Version 2 - $13

:ps3:
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - $10
Call of Duty: Ghosts - $15
Diablo III - $14
Drakengard 3 - $18
Injustice: Gods Among Us - $11
Little Big Planet 2 Special Edition - $6

:vita:
MLB 14: The Show - $14
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That double post :3
 
Base Values:

Pokemon Pearl $15 ($22.40 After 50%)

Murdered: Soul Suspect $25 Xbox One ($40 After 50%)

Xbox 360 Wireless Controller $10 ($16 After 50%)

Xbox One Controller $22.25 ($35.59 After 50%)

PS Vita 4GB Memory Card $3.75 ($6.01 After 50%)

Ended up pre-ordering and paying off COD and Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox One with some left over. 

Manager was at Register while someone was ringing me up and they gave me the 40% after scanning their book, so I told them it should be 50% then got slightly argued with saying it wasn't right and the Flyer was only talking about the poster. Ended up telling him what I saw on here that he wasn't supposed to scan the coupon and it would be done automatically. Afterwards the Manager walked back towards the back room for awhile until I was done.

 
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TwistedShade said:
Base Values:
Pokemon Pearl $15 ($22.40 After 50%)
Murdered: Soul Suspect $25 ($40 After 50%)
Xbox 360 Wireless Controller $10 ($16 After 50%)
Xbox One Controller $22.25 ($35.59 After 50%)
PS Vita 4GB Memory Card $3.75 ($6.01 After 50%)

Ended up pre-ordering and paying off COD and Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox One with some left over.

Manager was at Register while someone was ringing me up and they gave me the 40% after scanning the book, so I told them it should be 50% then got slightly argued with saying it wasn't right and the Flyer was only talking about the poster. Ended up telling him what I saw he that he wasn't supposed to scan the coupon and it would be done automatically. Afterwards the Manager walked back towards the back room for awhile until I was done.
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You forgot to mention the platform for Murdered: SS, though I assume it was PS4.
 
Derrick1979 said:
Why are they doing a pre order for the kinectless XB1? Are people really going to buy these out like crazy?
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Most stores got a limited amount for tomorrow. The store I shop at got 8 units & already has 1 preordered.

That is also less than the amount of PS4's they keep on hand & they told me GS is no longer carry the Kinect bundle new as it's under their "delisted" category.
 
Went just now, did not apply automatically and was not in the ads for me. Sadface. Though still traded it in since I was surprised that I got unbanned woo.

Base Values:

PS3

COD: Ghosts  $15

360

Fallout New Vegas $7

AC Slim $24

A/V Cable $1

PS4

Headset $2.50

3DS

Final Fantasy Theatrythm $7

 
6/8

Wii:

Wii System - $25.00

Wii Remote Controller - $3.50

Nunchuk Controller - $2.50

Wii Zapper - $0.50

Wii Balance Board - n/a (no value, no longer accept)

Rayman Raving Rabbids TV - $0.50

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - $8.00

360:

Fallout 3 GOTY - $4.00

Left 4 Dead - $3.00

Left 4 Dead 2 - $8.00

Metro: Last Light - $5.00

Borderlands GOTY - $5.00

 
So after going to Gamestop, I did manage to get the X1 refurbed and Titanfall used to give the X1 a trial run. If E3 is great, I will return it and get a brand new X1 w/ a new copy of Forza and get Titanfall new. If it doesn't look good, I will go back to the PS4 w/ the PS4 & PS Vita bundle perhaps (if it is announced.) Either way, I sold the farm to get a package. I do like the X1 a lot so far. 

 
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Then I guess I was banned for a cumulative total of games or credit, or perhaps too many PS4s. I think this was my sixth PS4 today since February (all from AWD) and only one Xbox One in that time.

I really appreciated the guy letting me use my other PUR account though, so I didn't miss out on today's 50%.

 
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QSilverTwo said:
Then I guess I was banned for a cumulative total of games or credit, or perhaps too many PS4s. I think this was my sixth PS4 today since February (all from AWD) and only one Xbox One in that time.

I really appreciated the guy letting me use my other PUR account though, so I didn't miss out on today's 50%.
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The ban hammer hurts.
 
QSilverTwo said:
Then I guess I was banned for a cumulative total of games or credit, or perhaps too many PS4s. I think this was my sixth PS4 today since February (all from AWD) and only one Xbox One in that time.

I really appreciated the guy letting me use my other PUR account though, so I didn't miss out on today's 50%.
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How you space things out matters. I've traded in double digit PS4's and a few XB1's, but never more than 3 within a rolling 31 day period. That seems to be enough to keep from getting caught up in automated bans.

Was the ban permanent or temporary? If it's for going over quantity you'll probably be unlocked in a few weeks. If it's from a manual loss prevention review, though, you'll be SOL.

 
Well my PUR expires in a few days. Time to open a different account since this one has a ton of abuse on it the past year, birthday coupon, trade2 get new game for $10 deal, ipad 50% trade in bumps done about 20 times. Ps4 flips. Time to reset and begin the abuse from scratch again.

Here's hoping for continued deals that can be abused :)

I made sure to cash out my points for dollar off coupons and went and spent them this weekend. Almost zeroed it out , have about 200 points left in the account.

I'm pretty sure I just need to make up a name to use, and different address, phone number, and email address for this new account. This way they don't link it to me in any way. Probable go to a gamestop that is way out of town as well to sign up.
 
bostonfrontier said:
Well my PUR expires in a few days. Time to open a different account since this one has a ton of abuse on it the past year, birthday coupon, trade2 get new game for $10 deal, ipad 50% trade in bumps done about 20 times. Ps4 flips. Time to reset and begin the abuse from scratch again.

Here's hoping for continued deals that can be abused :)

I made sure to cash out my points for dollar off coupons and went and spent them this weekend. Almost zeroed it out , have about 200 points left in the account.

I'm pretty sure I just need to make up a name to use, and different address, phone number, and email address for this new account. This way they don't link it to me in any way. Probable go to a gamestop that is way out of town as well to sign up.
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what were your $ saved and lifetime points, etc on that account, lol

 
bostonfrontier said:
Well my PUR expires in a few days. Time to open a different account since this one has a ton of abuse on it the past year, birthday coupon, trade2 get new game for $10 deal, ipad 50% trade in bumps done about 20 times. Ps4 flips. Time to reset and begin the abuse from scratch again.

Here's hoping for continued deals that can be abused :)

I made sure to cash out my points for dollar off coupons and went and spent them this weekend. Almost zeroed it out , have about 200 points left in the account.

I'm pretty sure I just need to make up a name to use, and different address, phone number, and email address for this new account. This way they don't link it to me in any way. Probable go to a gamestop that is way out of town as well to sign up.
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I need to clear out points too. What was the best way for you?

 
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How you space things out matters. I've traded in double digit PS4's and a few XB1's, but never more than 3 within a rolling 31 day period. That seems to be enough to keep from getting caught up in automated bans.

Was the ban permanent or temporary? If it's for going over quantity you'll probably be unlocked in a few weeks. If it's from a manual loss prevention review, though, you'll be SOL.
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Not sure about it being temporary or not as it didn't say so I guess I'll see in a month. I was actually prettty surprised as I know others have safely done more than I have and it's not exactly easy for me to go overboard with only two stores in town. I definitely haven't gone over the 5 per item in 31 days limit nor have I ever done more than 3 systems in 31 days. Only thing I can think of is I did my fifth Titanfall for the 360 today along with a couple Xbox One copies.

Now I guess there could have been an employee who took it upon themselves to report my account to be reviewed but I can only think of one who would do that. To be honest, I really don't think I have traded an excessive amount of games either in the last few months. Mostly just multiple copies of a few games from the BBY B1G1 half off glitch. I know it's been less than 40 games total.

After all, I'm just thankful my stores don't require ID so my other account should be free of association to the banned one, for now.

 
So tempted to trade in my 2nd PS4 for something else. Wish I could get a bundle deal from a cag. 

 
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I really hate how the lifetime savings is on the receipt now...it makes it really awkward.  Their math is off on mine tho because I have well over a million lifetime points and only 6609 in lifetime savings.

Values for 6/9

NDS:

Pokemon Soulsilver - 20

Pokemon Heartgold - 18

Wii:

Major league Baseball 2k12 - 6

Mario Kart Wii - 12

Xbox 360:

Destroy All Humans Path of the Furon - 8

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 - 12

Incredible Hulk - 10

Also noticed they did a cart only reprint of Cave Story unless my stores all threw away the case/manual...anyone else notice this?

 
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