[quote name='MrSneis']Well, I am done with this business... for anyone new to this post or anybody wanting to experiment at wherehouse or whatever please read my story:
I live in Arizona where there is only 1 wherehouse store and I think there's an FYE around somewhere but it's probably about 2 hours away.
Yesterday upon reading this thread a light clicked in my head and I drove down to EB and picked up 4 room zooms, out of my list of the "cheap at EB but high trade in prices at wherehouse" it was the only one available in decent shape. Total spent: ~ 43 dollars.
Drove immediately to wherehouse with the stack, manager rang me up and realized I had 4 sealed copies of the same game and looked at me like I stole them or something ~ in the end I could only trade in 1 of the games @ 26$... I picked up MGS3 and Underworld Extended version while there for about 67 dollars, after I left I realized what a horrible purchase I made (price! not of the items themselves)
Drove back to another EB near home and returned the 3 room zooms, bought 1080 avalanche and malice, used the rest of the credit on a wireless controller I really wanted.
Went back to wherehouse that same night brought with me my Underworld regular ed. and ps2 frequency along with 1080 and malice, underworld fetched my 5$ and frequency $7.50, as I mentioned earlier Malice "wasn't in the system" and 1080 came up $.01.
Today I brought 1080 and Malice to Gamecrazy, I got 22 dollars trade in credit for the games so I picked up a pstwo stand (15 freaking dollars!!!) and Room Zoom because I figured I could sneak past the manager and get another 26 bucks for it... cost to me: another 10 dollars because room zoom is 15 bucks and the stand was another 15.
Drove down to wherehouse, manager wasn't around so a girl rings me up and says she can only give me $15 in credit, looking at the receipt I see that the game came up as "DC racing" I let her know and she tells me that it's "one of those games" that rings up wrong and there is nothing she can do. I want to be able to tell her I got 26 dollars just yesterday for it and it rang up RIGHT but alas I can't so I instead mention that the website has 26 dollars are the trade in value, she doesn't budge and I walk out with the 15 in cash...
I am done with this business, it's way too much work and it doesn't seem to be yielding me awesome amounts of money like everyone else ~ that and the stress it puts on my conscience sucks too.
Don't mean to scare you guys away, just wanted to let you know that not every store is an easy score, it's not worth it expecially when there is only one TWEC store nearby.[/quote]
So wait...you go into the store with 4 sealed copies of a relatively unknown game, and then have a problem when they reject taking your four sealed copies? Boo Freaking Hoo. Use some common sense and take one game in at a time and make sure you open it before trading it in. And the reason why 1080 came up as only a penny is because they have too many copies in stock. This happens frequently especially when people abuse the system.