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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...

Yeah I had the same thing happen. The record at the time was $800 and I think I had $960. I didn't piss of COD players since I saw about 8 of them in line at the gaming desk and decided to just buy kindle cards instead of trading in games that day.

I flip games regularly at 2 or 3 stores and none of the employees have a problem with it. Recently I've been bring in about 20 titles in multiples of 3 and I get weird looks from customers and a random BBY employee walking by but the general manager and gaming employees all know what I'm doing...

I just got back from BBY and had no problem trading in my 45 games. All the gaming employees know me by name now, so they bumped me up to the front of the line and did my trade. I don't think people were pissed since they hadn't started processing other customer orders. There were probably 10...

I'm heading to BBY for Skyrim tonight. I don't usually go to these midnight releases but I'm super excited for this game. Will the store be open prior to midnight so I can trade in some games? I have about 40 games to flip and I don't want to inconvenience other people waiting for the game or...

I have a good relationship with the gaming staff at "my" Best Buy, and they have told me that they get rewarded with a free copy of a game if they sell enough pre orders. I think this is a major reason why they don't like seeing returns.