[quote name='tmlfan2529']If you live in Vaughan ontario...dont bother going to these "trade-free" deals...apparently there is a by-law in this stupid city that bans these deals...not enough that we pay almost 4 bucks for a bus ride but they ban any deals that will save us money...hate this city![/QUOTE]
The deals themselves aren't banned. Trade-ins are governed by a local pawn shop bi-law. As opposed to in Toronto (and most other cities), where if a store wants to accept trade-ins only the store itself requires a pawn shop license, in Vaughan each individual employee has to have one (all of them, not just the ones handling trades). That's why Best Buy, Future Shop, etc don't accept trades, because each store employs dozens of people. EB Games does now (they didn't used to), because they make so much money from trades it was worth it to them to license all their employees (which there are far fewer of).
Smart move on EB's part, imo. They've set themselves up as the only big retailer in the city you can do trade-ins at, and they've long since recouped their investment.