[Dead] EBGames $10 Bonus for ANY 2 Non-Sports Titles 01/30-02/27

[quote name='Sancho']you guys do realize that many people will get ripped off by this right?

Say if I take 2 games to them that I would receive 10 dollars each for if this promo wasn't going on.With this promo, you only get the "extra" 10 dollars from the two games combined, thus Eb ripping you off by 10 dollars worth of credit.

Strangely nobody has thought of this and won't bother to think about how much their games are actually worth used. :roll:
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Dude, that is amazingly wrong. It is "bonus" credit, thus, it is added to what you would be getting otherwise. So.... if you take 2 games that would get ten each normally, you now get 10 + 10 + 10(bonus) = 30

Did you seriously not understand that?
 
[quote name='Machikunas'][quote name='Sancho']you guys do realize that many people will get ripped off by this right?

Say if I take 2 games to them that I would receive 10 dollars each for if this promo wasn't going on.With this promo, you only get the "extra" 10 dollars from the two games combined, thus Eb ripping you off by 10 dollars worth of credit.

Strangely nobody has thought of this and won't bother to think about how much their games are actually worth used. :roll:
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Dude, that is amazingly wrong. It is "bonus" credit, thus, it is added to what you would be getting otherwise. So.... if you take 2 games that would get ten each normally, you now get 10 + 10 + 10(bonus) = 30

Did you seriously not understand that?[/quote]

he is right. it $10 bonus for 2 non-excluded games. and oh yes, MANY discovered that you can use cheap games to do this. I guess this means you didnt get in on the deal since you were unsure how it worked. sorry you missed out. im going to go for a swim in my vat of edge cards. just kidding.
 
[quote name='Timothyx']yeah, the guy at EB told me the deal will end on the 28th. but with some changes to the trade in list, its half dead already. oh well, i got enough for a psp. thank you CAG!

P.S. The guys at EB need a quota of psp preorders. since i know i wont need some of the credit so I am preordering 2 psps and just getting my $ back after they launch. I already have my first preorder paid in full at another eb, but i though it would be nice since these guys were nice to me. if you had nice people help you out at eb, use $20 of misc. credit to preorder a psp. you can get it back after it launches. its like a store credit bank! (uhh...banks have interest and free toasters, though)[/quote]

yea i was in one of the eb last night and was told that there are now tons of games that wont add 5 bucks too (seems they knew people would be runing in and buying 3 4.99 games and trading them back in for 10 bucks so you got a free game)

i got a 20 buck gift cert instore from the P brave rebate. Might run and see if they got any good games. Wouldnt mind picking up WILD ARMS 3, and 2 other rpgs for around 20
 
[quote name='Timothyx'][quote name='Machikunas'][quote name='Sancho']you guys do realize that many people will get ripped off by this right?

Say if I take 2 games to them that I would receive 10 dollars each for if this promo wasn't going on.With this promo, you only get the "extra" 10 dollars from the two games combined, thus Eb ripping you off by 10 dollars worth of credit.

Strangely nobody has thought of this and won't bother to think about how much their games are actually worth used. :roll:
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Dude, that is amazingly wrong. It is "bonus" credit, thus, it is added to what you would be getting otherwise. So.... if you take 2 games that would get ten each normally, you now get 10 + 10 + 10(bonus) = 30

Did you seriously not understand that?[/quote]

he is right. it $10 bonus for 2 non-excluded games. and oh yes, MANY discovered that you can use cheap games to do this. I guess this means you didnt get in on the deal since you were unsure how it worked. sorry you missed out. im going to go for a swim in my vat of edge cards. just kidding.[/quote]

I guess he has some point though. With this $10 promotion, you are most likely to get $11 to $12 dollars most since they give most games 50 cents to a buck. So each game is worth about 5-7 dollars. Before all these trade-in deals, does anyone remember how much EB gives per game in average? I would think they give much higher per game before?
 
[quote name='slidecage']yea i was in one of the eb last night and was told that there are now tons of games that wont add 5 bucks too (seems they knew people would be runing in and buying 3 4.99 games and trading them back in for 10 bucks so you got a free game) [/quote]

Well, you can thank hoarders who abused the system like slidecage and CAG1000 for ruining it for everyone. . . Sorry, you can thank yourself! It's the slidecage/CAG1000 rule that officially states that all good deals must come to an end (thanks to abusers racking up $1000+ of ill-gotten credit).
 
[quote name='MaxBiaggi3'][quote name='slidecage']yea i was in one of the eb last night and was told that there are now tons of games that wont add 5 bucks too (seems they knew people would be runing in and buying 3 4.99 games and trading them back in for 10 bucks so you got a free game) [/quote]

Well, you can thank hoarders who abused the system like slidecage and CAG1000 for ruining it for everyone. . . Sorry, you can thank yourself! It's the slidecage/CAG1000 rule that officially states that all good deals must come to an end (thanks to abusers racking up $1000+ of ill-gotten credit).[/quote]

, least i dont take 5 games in to get a game free then take it back and DEMAND i get 50 bucks credit for the game though the 5 games i traded in would never total 50 bucks

seems the people who want to blame hoarders So this all the time and dont see anything wrong with it.

O i got The Steel game for the xbox for 20 buck Cause i Went and traded in 5 Junk games and a 50 buck game and returned them to get this game Cheap. Eventhough i Knew for a fact I wouldnt keep the game i traded in 5 Old games to get . I still have the right to Take back the 50 buck game and rip off eb games ... ANd I know for a FACT these are some of the longer CAG members here who do this and ACT like its no big deal but they are the first in line to point fingers at people hogging games

they dont care the trade 2 in get an extra 10 is gone cause they are still trading in 5 junk games to get a 50 buck game and taking it back for 50 bucks credit
 
[quote name='slidecage']they dont care the trade 2 in get an extra 10 is gone cause they are still trading in 5 junk games to get a 50 buck game and taking it back for 50 bucks credit[/quote]

What's the big deal about returning a new $50 game for credit? It's still $50 credit either way, right? EB isn't going to give you back $50 cash, are they? If you later spend that same $50 credit on something else in the store (new or used) anyway, I don't see what the big issue is.
 
[quote name='MaxBiaggi3'][quote name='slidecage']they dont care the trade 2 in get an extra 10 is gone cause they are still trading in 5 junk games to get a 50 buck game and taking it back for 50 bucks credit[/quote]

What's the big deal about returning a new $50 game for credit? It's still $50 credit either way, right? EB isn't going to give you back $50 cash, are they? If you later spend that same $50 credit on something else in the store (new or used) anyway, I don't see what the big issue is.[/quote]

As much as I agree with you, just let it go. If not slidecage, then it would be someone else (maybe someone who doesn't even post but just registered to see the deals or some FW'er). It just happens. When TRU had that sale, even I expected the promotion to crap down the hole soon. But I feel for you too.
 
[quote name='Strider Turbulence']Jam packs excluded for me. I dunno where I can dump them now. [/quote]

I've been thinking of just passing them out at random to students in the class that I TA for (along with penny guides). Would it be too odd to give away games & guides as prizes for participation in a college-level math class?
 
[quote name='pinkkirby'][quote name='Timothyx'][quote name='Machikunas'][quote name='Sancho']you guys do realize that many people will get ripped off by this right?

Say if I take 2 games to them that I would receive 10 dollars each for if this promo wasn't going on.With this promo, you only get the "extra" 10 dollars from the two games combined, thus Eb ripping you off by 10 dollars worth of credit.

Strangely nobody has thought of this and won't bother to think about how much their games are actually worth used. :roll:
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Dude, that is amazingly wrong. It is "bonus" credit, thus, it is added to what you would be getting otherwise. So.... if you take 2 games that would get ten each normally, you now get 10 + 10 + 10(bonus) = 30

Did you seriously not understand that?[/quote]

he is right. it $10 bonus for 2 non-excluded games. and oh yes, MANY discovered that you can use cheap games to do this. I guess this means you didnt get in on the deal since you were unsure how it worked. sorry you missed out. im going to go for a swim in my vat of edge cards. just kidding.[/quote]

I guess he has some point though. With this $10 promotion, you are most likely to get $11 to $12 dollars most since they give most games 50 cents to a buck. So each game is worth about 5-7 dollars. Before all these trade-in deals, does anyone remember how much EB gives per game in average? I would think they give much higher per game before?[/quote]

The bottom line is, that no matter what kind of promotion EB is running, they will always come out ahead when you trade in your games.
 
[quote name='Strider Turbulence']Jam packs excluded for me. I dunno where I can dump them now.

Oh well.[/quote]

I though some worked on trade 5 get new game free?!

Keep em for the next time.
 
The manager at EB told me they (the company as a whole) had 'an incident' with Jam Packs being put an infinite credit loop and they took action against them being traded in.
 
[quote name='Strider Turbulence']The manager at EB told me they (the company as a whole) had 'an incident' with Jam Packs being put an infinite credit loop and they took action against them being traded in.[/quote]

I have few left. I'll keep them for the cases.

6 month ago they accepted them on trade 3 + $10, 4+$15, 5+$20 This 'an incident' didn't stop them from doing it again this time. I'm sure they screw up next time. They don't like to be raped by Cags? on well..with their trade in values and endless exclusions lists THEY CAN KISS MY ASS!

:beer:
 
[quote name='Sancho']you guys do realize that many people will get ripped off by this right?

Say if I take 2 games to them that I would receive 10 dollars each for if this promo wasn't going on.With this promo, you only get the "extra" 10 dollars from the two games combined, thus Eb ripping you off by 10 dollars worth of credit.

Strangely nobody has thought of this and won't bother to think about how much their games are actually worth used. :roll:


now if you're smart and you acknowledge how the deal works, then you can utilize it to your advantage by trading in 2 games worth less than 5 dollars trade in each.

EB marketing managers will find ways to completely rip off customers at every turn, while making them think that they are scoring a sweet deal.While it may benefit some, it usually swindles easy money from unsuspecting consumers :roll:[/quote]

you have a point normally sancho but he reason this works well is because the games everyone is turning in are a couple years old and i've priced most of the games at TRU and CC that are on clearance over at gamestop just to see the difference is trade in value they trade in mostly 2 dollars a piece so you can either trade them in for $2 or trade them in at eb for the $.25-$1 + $5 credit its up to you
 
I had no problems trading in today, manager gladly took my games.

After all that was done though I checked the game section and they had, buy this game (selected psp games) and get $10 for each game you trade in (ps2/xbox/gc).

I'm kind of kicking myself now because I traded in quite a few games that weren't POX and that I could have gotten $10 a piece for towards the psp games I bought.
 
Most of the problems are probably coming from EB s that are experiencing high returns of multiple copies of the same game (ex - primal) and jam packs. I am sure this is YMMV as with anything.
 
slidecage's nearly incoherent rant is about me . . . I traded in 4 (not 5) non POX games (Xenosaga, Mafia, Hitman, etc) to get a "free" $50 game. Then returned the game for $52.50 in store credit (they gave me the sale's tax as well). I did it 5 times, so I was over $250 in credit. The Promo was with EA, so maybe they got screwed as well. Because it was only 20 games at a couple different stores, I wasn't exactly dumping games. It was sweet deal!

Today, my JPs didn't get bumped up . . . oh well, 10 Jampacks brought in $50 and I only have 2 left over . . . extra cases for games, I guess.
 
[quote name='Strider Turbulence']The manager at EB told me they (the company as a whole) had 'an incident' with Jam Packs being put an infinite credit loop and they took action against them being traded in.[/quote]

Indeed, it was a group of idiot managers in the LA area that have all been fired. Ironic that all the people bitching about hoarders and fatwalleters and slidecages, and it was idiot EB employees that made the deal less sweet.

Dave
 
[quote name='darkje']I had no problems trading in today, manager gladly took my games.

After all that was done though I checked the game section and they had, buy this game (selected psp games) and get $10 for each game you trade in (ps2/xbox/gc).

I'm kind of kicking myself now because I traded in quite a few games that weren't POX and that I could have gotten $10 a piece for towards the psp games I bought.[/quote]

Hmm, I didn't see this at my EBs, did this deal just start? Anybody have the exact details? I have a few POs that I could put towards this...
 
I went today, traded in Primal, RE:CVX, Tekken 4, Gladius, Sphinx, and XIII and got $40 in credit. I'm taking PaRappa the Rapper 2, Primal, DOA2 Hardcore, and Dark Cloud in tomorrow. I might use the credit to pre-order GT4 for when it comes out Monday or Tuesday.
 
[quote name='schultzed']slidecage's nearly incoherent rant is about me . . . I traded in 4 (not 5) non POX games (Xenosaga, Mafia, Hitman, etc) to get a "free" $50 game. Then returned the game for $52.50 in store credit (they gave me the sale's tax as well). I did it 5 times, so I was over $250 in credit. The Promo was with EA, so maybe they got screwed as well. Because it was only 20 games at a couple different stores, I wasn't exactly dumping games. It was sweet deal!
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Do all stores allow this? and did you show your receipt when returning, did they know that you used a trade in deal to get the game in the first place?

I would love to trade in 5 non POX games now for say Splinter Cell and then return it and use the credit for God of War or hold it for Kingdom Hearts 2 later in the year.
 
[quote name='jngx80'][quote name='schultzed']slidecage's nearly incoherent rant is about me . . . I traded in 4 (not 5) non POX games (Xenosaga, Mafia, Hitman, etc) to get a "free" $50 game. Then returned the game for $52.50 in store credit (they gave me the sale's tax as well). I did it 5 times, so I was over $250 in credit. The Promo was with EA, so maybe they got screwed as well. Because it was only 20 games at a couple different stores, I wasn't exactly dumping games. It was sweet deal!
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Do all stores allow this? and did you show your receipt when returning, did they know that you used a trade in deal to get the game in the first place?

I would love to trade in 5 non POX games now for say Splinter Cell and then return it and use the credit for God of War or hold it for Kingdom Hearts 2 later in the year.[/quote]

Your credit just goes down on preorder. Everytime they've done something like this I've been able to walk in a week or so and just change the preorder to another upcoming title if I decided i didn't want that title.
 
[quote name='postaboy']I want to trade these 2 games:
primal
virtual fighter 4

Will they take it?

thanks[/quote]

Those should be okay.
 
You might want to still trade at FYE if you have one near you. I traded back 12 games to FYE(alot of which I paid $5 for) and got $110 for them. I had the girl at FYE scan them 1st and then I told her I was going to see what I would get at EB because of the $10 bonus. I took the same games and even with the bonus, I would have got $65. There are alot of games that FYE gives you $7.50 for that EB gives you a $1 or so.
 
[quote name='Duo_Maxwell'][quote name='jngx80'][quote name='schultzed']slidecage's nearly incoherent rant is about me . . . I traded in 4 (not 5) non POX games (Xenosaga, Mafia, Hitman, etc) to get a "free" $50 game. Then returned the game for $52.50 in store credit (they gave me the sale's tax as well). I did it 5 times, so I was over $250 in credit. The Promo was with EA, so maybe they got screwed as well. Because it was only 20 games at a couple different stores, I wasn't exactly dumping games. It was sweet deal!
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Do all stores allow this? and did you show your receipt when returning, did they know that you used a trade in deal to get the game in the first place?

I would love to trade in 5 non POX games now for say Splinter Cell and then return it and use the credit for God of War or hold it for Kingdom Hearts 2 later in the year.[/quote]

Your credit just goes down on preorder. Everytime they've done something like this I've been able to walk in a week or so and just change the preorder to another upcoming title if I decided i didn't want that title.[/quote]

Yeah, you can do this 2 different ways . . . a long expanation to hit all the details:

Preorders are easy to cancel and transfer the credit (has anyone been turned down on this?). Like last summer I traded in two cheap games to get $20 off Pikmin 2 (but then bought it for $28.77 at Target with a raincheck). I directly swapped the $20 credit slip onto Katamari Damacy (got it tax free that way).

I found that returning a purchased game is a little trickier . . . 2 regional EBs wouldn't do it (or wanted to remove the promo "bump up" that I had gotten :puke: )

2 other stores just gave me the credit without question.

As I'm always trying to squeeze out every penny, these tradeins were the best I've had. 4 games for $50 (had to be non-POX games) plus I got taxes I never paid back.

If you cancel a preorder or just do a tradein, you get a tax-free advantage but in my experience only if you keep it on your edge card (instore credit) if you want to put that on a giftcard, you lose that advantage (to get a pin# to buy online). With these deals, they gave me $52.54 (5.1% state taxes) on a giftcard for each game I returned.

The games I was using for trade were TRU clearance or green tag titles but in Dec. we were getting the extra $5 off per game in pairs with the "magic coupon" ( :notworth: RIP) My ave. game cost about $2 . . . so basically my $40ish became $260 in EB credit. And I didn't have to ransack TRU to do . . . I left games behind for others.
 
[quote name='rarebucky']I know a lot of people feel this way, but I'd rather have $6 at EB ($1+$5 bonus) than $7.50 at FYE. Just my view.[/quote]

so true, i had $300 credit at fye that i tried to swap over to EB by getting good fodder to trade in. yea i took a major loss but i would much rather have the credit at eb than fye.
 
Sadly, Mark of Kri garnered a whopping .75 cents and Beyond Good and Evil a little over double that. Fortunately, what I spent on them new (20 total for both), and the extra 10 bucks, I came out only about 7 dollars less than what I paid, or 65% back.
Ended up paying about 22 for FF Tactics Advance for the trade in. Not too shabby. (still, I would have been happy to get 2 bucks a piece for each of them.)
Que ceras ceras.
 
[quote name='CrashSpyro123']I went today, traded in Primal, RE:CVX, Tekken 4, Gladius, Sphinx, and XIII and got $40 in credit. I'm taking PaRappa the Rapper 2, Primal, DOA2 Hardcore, and Dark Cloud in tomorrow. I might use the credit to pre-order GT4 for when it comes out Monday or Tuesday.[/quote]

Ok, back from my second round of trading. Traded in Dark Cloud, Primal, PtR 2, and DOA2 for $25.25 total credit. I ended paying in full pre-orders for GT4 and MVP Baseball 2004 with the credit and some extra b-day cash. Great week for me on CAG.
 
By the way, if anyone gives you crap about trading non-sport titles, (though I didn't have any problems) referring to their excluded trade-in titles, also print out a copy off their site about this particular one:
$10 bonus trade-in for 2 non-sport PS2/XB/GC Active: Now - 2/27/2005
Trade-in 2 pre-played PS2/XB/GC non-sport video games and receive $5.00 dollars bonus trade-in value for each game. Game boxes and instructions are required. No non-sport titles excluded from trade. May not be combined with any other offer or discount. No substitutions will be made. Typographical errors are not the responsibility of EB Games. Offer not valid on EBGames.com. See sales associate for complete details. No rain checks will be issued. Not valid on previous purchases. Sport themes not valid in offer: Basketball, Football, Baseball, Hockey, and Wrestling. Trade-in items must be submitted in "2"s to receive bonus dollars. Bonus will not be given to a 3rd game.

Fight back with their own amendments! :twoguns:
 
[quote name='Watchman']By the way, if anyone gives you crap about trading non-sport titles, (though I didn't have any problems) referring to their excluded trade-in titles, also print out a copy off their site about this particular one:
$10 bonus trade-in for 2 non-sport PS2/XB/GC Active: Now - 2/27/2005
Trade-in 2 pre-played PS2/XB/GC non-sport video games and receive $5.00 dollars bonus trade-in value for each game. Game boxes and instructions are required. No non-sport titles excluded from trade. May not be combined with any other offer or discount. No substitutions will be made. Typographical errors are not the responsibility of EB Games. Offer not valid on EBGames.com. See sales associate for complete details. No rain checks will be issued. Not valid on previous purchases. Sport themes not valid in offer: Basketball, Football, Baseball, Hockey, and Wrestling. Trade-in items must be submitted in "2"s to receive bonus dollars. Bonus will not be given to a 3rd game.

Fight back with their own amendments! :twoguns:[/quote]

Where can I find a print out for that "no games excluded" add?
I ask because its time for a rant:

I went to EB games for my third time yesterday, with Taiko drum master and a few other games. The SOB at my EB wouldn't take it without the drum. Also, he wouldn't take any jampacks, primal, or Exibtion discs I had, claiming they were on an "exclusion list". When I tried explaining that I had had no problems last Sunday, he said that I should have, and just got lucky, and then pulled a "Well I'm the store manager, so blah blah blah". OK, whatever, so I started looking around for anything to get with the buy 2 get 1 sale, which there was nothing good in stock, but while I was doing this, I heard the prick telling another employee "yeah, these guys come in all the time, trying to trade in shit they got for real cheap and get 10 bucks for it". THE SOB WAS TALKING ABOUT ME! I am NEVER going back to that EB.
 
[quote name='Zmonkay'][quote name='Watchman']By the way, if anyone gives you crap about trading non-sport titles, (though I didn't have any problems) referring to their excluded trade-in titles, also print out a copy off their site about this particular one:
$10 bonus trade-in for 2 non-sport PS2/XB/GC Active: Now - 2/27/2005
Trade-in 2 pre-played PS2/XB/GC non-sport video games and receive $5.00 dollars bonus trade-in value for each game. Game boxes and instructions are required. No non-sport titles excluded from trade. May not be combined with any other offer or discount. No substitutions will be made. Typographical errors are not the responsibility of EB Games. Offer not valid on EBGames.com. See sales associate for complete details. No rain checks will be issued. Not valid on previous purchases. Sport themes not valid in offer: Basketball, Football, Baseball, Hockey, and Wrestling. Trade-in items must be submitted in "2"s to receive bonus dollars. Bonus will not be given to a 3rd game.

Fight back with their own amendments! :twoguns:[/quote]

Where can I find a print out for that "no games excluded" add?
I ask because its time for a rant:

I went to EB games for my third time yesterday, with Taiko drum master and a few other games. The SOB at my EB wouldn't take it without the drum. Also, he wouldn't take any jampacks, primal, or Exibtion discs I had, claiming they were on an "exclusion list". When I tried explaining that I had had no problems last Sunday, he said that I should have, and just got lucky, and then pulled a "Well I'm the store manager, so blah blah blah". OK, whatever, so I started looking around for anything to get with the buy 2 get 1 sale, which there was nothing good in stock, but while I was doing this, I heard the prick telling another employee "yeah, these guys come in all the time, trying to trade in shit they got for real cheap and get 10 bucks for it". THE SOB WAS TALKING ABOUT ME! I am NEVER going back to that EB.[/quote]
Dude, you seriously need to call their corporate office and report that S.O.B. You do not have to put up with that.
In fairness, as I used to work in a game store, I'd talk sh-t about customers- but only after the store was empty or well out of earshot. Even then I'd triple check- people have a way of sneaking back up on you when you have your back turned. :shock:

As to where the amendment is, use the address I provided and delete the /exclusions tag in the address.
 
I just got back yesterday from trading in Otogi 2, Drake, Metroid Prime, and Ghost Recon and came out with a $32 credit...not great but not bad either.

I am sure everyone is aware of this, but I thought I'd post it anyway in case someone missed it throughout the past 27 pages...

I tried to trade in Sword of Mana, and the guy said GBA games do not work because they aren't in the current generation. Again, I'm sure this was posted already, but I figure a reminder would be nice so nobody makes the trip expecting them to work for this deal.
 
[quote name='bapti2529']I just got back yesterday from trading in Otogi 2, Drake, Metroid Prime, and Ghost Recon and came out with a $32 credit...not great but not bad either.

I am sure everyone is aware of this, but I thought I'd post it anyway in case someone missed it throughout the past 27 pages...

I tried to trade in Sword of Mana, and the guy said GBA games do not work because they aren't in the current generation. Again, I'm sure this was posted already, but I figure a reminder would be nice so nobody makes the trip expecting them to work for this deal.[/quote]

The deal is only for PS2/Xbox/GC games. GBA stuff isn't included.
 
[quote name='schultzed']Yeah, you can do this 2 different ways . . . a long expanation to hit all the details:

Preorders are easy to cancel and transfer the credit (has anyone been turned down on this?). Like last summer I traded in two cheap games to get $20 off Pikmin 2 (but then bought it for $28.77 at Target with a raincheck). I directly swapped the $20 credit slip onto Katamari Damacy (got it tax free that way).

...

If you cancel a preorder or just do a tradein, you get a tax-free advantage but in my experience only if you keep it on your edge card (instore credit) if you want to put that on a giftcard, you lose that advantage (to get a pin# to buy online). With these deals, they gave me $52.54 (5.1% state taxes) on a giftcard for each game I returned.
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Wait, I'm a little confused. Is there no tax on items you preorder and pay in full beforehand? Or do you only get the zero tax break by cancelling a preorder and using the credit on something else?
 
[quote name='salmonaxxx']Wait, I'm a little confused. Is there no tax on items you preorder and pay in full beforehand? Or do you only get the zero tax break by cancelling a preorder and using the credit on something else?[/quote]

Here's an example based on what I've been able to figure out based on trades I've done w/ the trade 2, get $10 deal (based on 6% sales tax):

Method A:
Transaction 1:
- Trade in 4 games, get $20 credit.
- Have credit put on edge card.
- Total Credit: $20

Transaction 2:
- Buy $20 in stuff
- Total: $20 + 6% tax = $21.20
- Amount left on edge card: $0.00
- Amount to pay: $1.20

Method B:
(All on 1 transaction)
- Trade in 4 games, get $20 credit
- Buy $20 in stuff
- Total = $20 stuff - $20 credit = $0.00
- Amount on edge card: $0.00
- Amount to pay $0.00

(Method B is pretty much the same as when you're doing the preorders w/ bonus credit -- you get $50 in credit and immediately apply that towards a $50 game, at which point you have a $0.00 total and no tax applies)
 
[quote name='Wario64']Anyone have success in bringing 2 copies of the same game?[/quote]

Nope, they wouldn't let me trade in my doubles at all.

Oh well, got 24 dollars for 4 games that I spent 15 or so on, and used it to get Star Fox Assault, good deal for me I suppose.
 
[quote name='Nephets'][quote name='Wario64']Anyone have success in bringing 2 copies of the same game?[/quote]

Nope, they wouldn't let me trade in my doubles at all.

Oh well, got 24 dollars for 4 games that I spent 15 or so on, and used it to get Star Fox Assault, good deal for me I suppose.[/quote]

what games did you trade in?

I was thinking about doing the same for Star Fox Assualt... but most of my games are from the TRU sale, like Primal, New Legend, Mojo, Wipeout, Black and Bruised, etc.... not sure if games like that will work.
 
[quote name='sabin23'][quote name='Nephets'][quote name='Wario64']Anyone have success in bringing 2 copies of the same game?[/quote]

Nope, they wouldn't let me trade in my doubles at all.

Oh well, got 24 dollars for 4 games that I spent 15 or so on, and used it to get Star Fox Assault, good deal for me I suppose.[/quote]

what games did you trade in?

I was thinking about doing the same for Star Fox Assualt... but most of my games are from the TRU sale, like Primal, New Legend, Mojo, Wipeout, Black and Bruised, etc.... not sure if games like that will work.[/quote]


All of my TRU games worked like a charm including:

Primal
Ejay Clubworld
Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX
UFC Tapout
Mad Maestro

The computer recognizes the games and the discounts automatically so you don't have to worry about a cashier being stupid. The amounts show up at $.25 and then they hit Total, and everything gets the $5. As long as they are not sports games that have a new version every year, you should be good to go.
 
I have 4 games that I can trade in...

- Outlaw Golf 2
- Tiger Woods 2004
- Devil May Cry 2
- Silent Hill 2

What will hurt me is the fact that the two golf games are considered sports games and therefore not included in the deal. However, I think I could use Devil May Cry 2 and Silent Hill 2 in the deal.... Right?

Anybody trade in any of those games yet? I'm trying to get Gran Turismo 4 on Tuesday. If EBGames doesn't give me some good credit, then should I take it to FYE?
 
DMC2 and SH2 will work, I had SH2 scanned and it worked.

I'm thinking Outlaw golf may work since it's not really a hardcore sports game. I would give it a shot, just pair it with some other cheap game.
 
[quote name='Wario64']Anyone have success in bringing 2 copies of the same game?[/quote]

They had no problem with me doing it. I had 3 extra Metroid Primes from the Kmart Wavebird bundles and traded them all in with Bloody Roar 4 (PS2).

I got $31 in credit.
 
[quote name='Wario64']Anyone have success in bringing 2 copies of the same game?[/quote]yea the let me trade in 3 xbox Bloodraynes
 
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