Recent content by IamCaleb

Yeah I was that dude, but I never traded more than 30 of a single title and I never locked in values on bestbuy.com so the hundreds of people buying gamefly games and locking in the values are more to blame.

Only 1 copy of NBA 2k11 left.

The main reason why I wanted to share my experience with getting banned was to help others avoid the same outcome, especially since I recently had posted that I've had no problems trading more than 3 games. I'm actually looking forward to spending less time looking for flip deals and...

When I was at the store today they said that Max Payne dropped to 40% this week, so it looks like there aren't any 50% pre-orders this week. I wouldn't be suprised if they stop the 50% bonus and stick to 40% going forward, since most of the big releases are now out.

I can tell you for certain that Best Buy has much more accurate and detailed metrics then what are being discussed here. I think discussion related to this topic can be insightful and help prevent people from having the same issue I did. I'm by no means bragging I just wanted to find out if...

Asset Protection is indeed the name of a department within the store, which used to be named Loss Prevention (LP) . I worked over 9 years at Best Buy Corporate in Inventory Control, and I can tell you for certain that Asset Protection is also a department at Corporate with many sub-divisions...

So you were banned from buying the Visa cards. Can you still trade in games?

I've only purchased kindle cards not BBY cards with the gift cards I receive from my trades. Has anyone else purchased over $4000 in kindle cards within a month? I can understand Best Buy not wanting you to take your trade in credit and spend it outside the store, but I honestly have only...

I think I probably recently went over $10,000 of Trade-Ins within a month so that may have been the trigger to investigate.

It could have been the store but I doubt it, since I've only been trading at 2 stores the past couple of weeks and they both encourage me to bring in as many games as I want and allow for more than 3 just not same day. Here is the message that showed up on their screen at the store. Cannot...

I actually traded in 793 games which cost me $9,400, and I traded in for a profit of $4,600. I still have about 400 games that I haven't traded in (no more than 30 copies of 1 title), which I spent about $2300 to make $1200.

It's crazy but I have traded in about 800 total games in the last month. I know this was probably foolish, but I did have the okay from the managers at the strores, and I thouht the 50% boost might end after October.

This sound exactly like my experience as well.

Sorry for not giving more details earlier. I only had a moment to post. I was definently trading in more than 3 of a game but never at one time. All of the stores that I was trading at were aware of this and gave me the okay before I started buying more than 3 of a game. In fact one time I...

Well it was fun while it lasted. I just tried to do a trade in and when he entered my driver's license info it showed that I have been banned from trading in used merchandise. There was a phone number to call and speak with Asset Protection and I tried calling but it was busy. Maybe I'm not...