EB B&M - Trade in 3 DVD's, get $10 bonus credit
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Hmm, I might go down today. I have all four volumes of Real Bout High School that I got from the Bestbuy.com deal for $8 each. However, I found the complete set with music CD for a better price. I have been wanting to unload those individual DVD's for awhile now. Hopefully I can come close to breaking even with this deal.
[quote name='help1'][quote name='Kuros']I actually did this with a bunch of 1 dollar DVDs and got a good amount of credit. DVDs that I know work are Scrooge and Four Deuces. On top of that, both of those get 3 dollars each.[/quote]
Do you remember anymore? Do you have the reciept? List all of the dvd's. Thank You.[/quote]
I threw away what I wrote down. Easiest thing to do is call with a couple of titles and ask.
Do you remember anymore? Do you have the reciept? List all of the dvd's. Thank You.[/quote]
I threw away what I wrote down. Easiest thing to do is call with a couple of titles and ask.
[quote name='Kuros'][quote name='help1'][quote name='Kuros']I actually did this with a bunch of 1 dollar DVDs and got a good amount of credit. DVDs that I know work are Scrooge and Four Deuces. On top of that, both of those get 3 dollars each.[/quote]
Do you remember anymore? Do you have the reciept? List all of the dvd's. Thank You.[/quote]
I threw away what I wrote down. Easiest thing to do is call with a couple of titles and ask.[/quote]
They normally don't tell you that kind of information over the phone. Its their way of getting you into the store.
Do you remember anymore? Do you have the reciept? List all of the dvd's. Thank You.[/quote]
I threw away what I wrote down. Easiest thing to do is call with a couple of titles and ask.[/quote]
They normally don't tell you that kind of information over the phone. Its their way of getting you into the store.
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Hmm, I might go down today. I have all four volumes of Real Bout High School that I got from the Bestbuy.com deal for $8 each. However, I found the complete set with music CD for a better price. I have been wanting to unload those individual DVD's for awhile now. Hopefully I can come close to breaking even with this deal.[/quote]
anime are excluded
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[quote name='hvhant'][quote name='GuilewasNK']Hmm, I might go down today. I have all four volumes of Real Bout High School that I got from the Bestbuy.com deal for $8 each. However, I found the complete set with music CD for a better price. I have been wanting to unload those individual DVD's for awhile now. Hopefully I can come close to breaking even with this deal.[/quote]
anime are excluded[/quote]
What a load of crap! I had three boring anime DVDs I was going to trade in in case these cheapo DVDs I found today don't work. So much for getting rid of Tenchi Forever, Pokemon 2000, and X: The Movie.
Tomorrow I'm going to EB and taking these three cheap DVDs with me. I found them at Pathmark, and they were less than a dollar each. They all came in fold over paper sleeves. They were all published by Double D. They're all region-free, and they proudly say so right on the front of the packaging. They all have the same UPC, too. (1 8864-90001-2 1) Strange. If one works, all of them should work.
A Walk in the Sun
Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941
The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues
There were more titles at Pathmark, but I picked up these three. I'd imagine they all had the same UPCs, but I can't say for sure.
If these three DVDs work, I'll trek back to Pathmark and get a buttload more to trade in. Wish me luck, guys!
[quote name='hvhant'][quote name='GuilewasNK']Hmm, I might go down today. I have all four volumes of Real Bout High School that I got from the Bestbuy.com deal for $8 each. However, I found the complete set with music CD for a better price. I have been wanting to unload those individual DVD's for awhile now. Hopefully I can come close to breaking even with this deal.[/quote]
anime are excluded[/quote]
What a load of crap! I had three boring anime DVDs I was going to trade in in case these cheapo DVDs I found today don't work. So much for getting rid of Tenchi Forever, Pokemon 2000, and X: The Movie.
Tomorrow I'm going to EB and taking these three cheap DVDs with me. I found them at Pathmark, and they were less than a dollar each. They all came in fold over paper sleeves. They were all published by Double D. They're all region-free, and they proudly say so right on the front of the packaging. They all have the same UPC, too. (1 8864-90001-2 1) Strange. If one works, all of them should work.
A Walk in the Sun
Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941
The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues
There were more titles at Pathmark, but I picked up these three. I'd imagine they all had the same UPCs, but I can't say for sure.
If these three DVDs work, I'll trek back to Pathmark and get a buttload more to trade in. Wish me luck, guys!
ing awesome. I'm gonna grab like 20 dollar DVDs and then work my way to a PSP.[quote name='mmn'][quote name='Kuros'][quote name='help1'][quote name='Kuros']I actually did this with a bunch of 1 dollar DVDs and got a good amount of credit. DVDs that I know work are Scrooge and Four Deuces. On top of that, both of those get 3 dollars each.[/quote]
Do you remember anymore? Do you have the reciept? List all of the dvd's. Thank You.[/quote]
I threw away what I wrote down. Easiest thing to do is call with a couple of titles and ask.[/quote]
They normally don't tell you that kind of information over the phone. Its their way of getting you into the store.[/quote]
The guy was nice enough to tell me for a couple of titles. I guess thats YMMV.
Anyway, I used my credit and got a used Midway Arcade Treasures 2 and SFAC both for XBOX.
Do you remember anymore? Do you have the reciept? List all of the dvd's. Thank You.[/quote]
I threw away what I wrote down. Easiest thing to do is call with a couple of titles and ask.[/quote]
They normally don't tell you that kind of information over the phone. Its their way of getting you into the store.[/quote]
The guy was nice enough to tell me for a couple of titles. I guess thats YMMV.
Anyway, I used my credit and got a used Midway Arcade Treasures 2 and SFAC both for XBOX.
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[quote name='suko_32']I remember seeing a bootleg Hong Kong anime dvd at Gamestop once. It's those that you get off ebay. I was very surprised. This is off topic...[/quote]
I saw a movie at Gamestop (I think it was Ghostbusters) with a printed cover from online. It looked terrible and clearly unoriginal.
I saw a movie at Gamestop (I think it was Ghostbusters) with a printed cover from online. It looked terrible and clearly unoriginal.
They give terrible trade in values. I went in to trade 3 dvd's that I had better versions of (Spiderman, Predator and Schindler's List)
Without the $10 extra I got
Spider-man ~$3.00
Schindler's List ~$1.60
Predator ~2.15
So ~16 with the $10 extra. I only traded them because I wanted a pc game and wanted to get rid of them. Otherwise I would have gone to blockbuster, they give decent trade in values.
Without the $10 extra I got
Spider-man ~$3.00
Schindler's List ~$1.60
Predator ~2.15
So ~16 with the $10 extra. I only traded them because I wanted a pc game and wanted to get rid of them. Otherwise I would have gone to blockbuster, they give decent trade in values.
were those dollar dvd's in plastic cases?
also, i don't think four deuces is from a major movie studio, but i suppose it worked? anyone else confirm?
[quote name='Kuros'][quote name='help1'][quote name='Kuros']I actually did this with a bunch of 1 dollar DVDs and got a good amount of credit. DVDs that I know work are Scrooge and Four Deuces. On top of that, both of those get 3 dollars each.[/quote]
Do you remember anymore? Do you have the reciept? List all of the dvd's. Thank You.[/quote]
I threw away what I wrote down. Easiest thing to do is call with a couple of titles and ask.[/quote]
also, i don't think four deuces is from a major movie studio, but i suppose it worked? anyone else confirm?
[quote name='Kuros'][quote name='help1'][quote name='Kuros']I actually did this with a bunch of 1 dollar DVDs and got a good amount of credit. DVDs that I know work are Scrooge and Four Deuces. On top of that, both of those get 3 dollars each.[/quote]
Do you remember anymore? Do you have the reciept? List all of the dvd's. Thank You.[/quote]
I threw away what I wrote down. Easiest thing to do is call with a couple of titles and ask.[/quote]
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Those three cheapo DVDs didn't work. So, don't try them. That totally killed my "DS for $36" scheme.
I did trade in six more DVDs as per my backup plan, but only four of them were good for the bonus $10 deal. So, I got about $20.
X: The Movie $6.33
Pokemon 2000 $1.00
Tenchi Forever $5.34 (all anime movies worked. go figure.)
+$10
Star Wars Episode 2 Full Screen $5.33
These two didn't count, but I traded them in anyway.
Grand Master of Shao-Lin Kung Fu 75 cents
Evel Knievel/C.C. and Company double feature 75 cents
Going off-topic right about now.
Then I went to the games and got F'd in the A.
Viewtiful Joe GCN $4.00 (okay)
Silent Scope PS2 75 cents (grr...)
Star Wars Starfighter PS2 50 cents (WTF?)
Top Gear Dare Devil PS2 50 cents (WTF?)
X-Men Legends XBOX $15.00 (better)
Rainbow Six 3 XBOX $2.00 (come on, that's at least 5 bucks)
So, that's about another 20 bucks, bringing my trade-in values to around $40. But I didn't stop there. I was going for a cheap Nintendo DS, and I intended to get it. I then pulled out a Ziploc bag with a GBA and four games. They're having that $50 off a DS deal when you bring in a regular GBA and four games or an SP and two games, so I got 50$ off on top of the other discounts. I hated my GBA anyway. I traded in two games I owned, F-Zero Maximum Velocity and King of Fighters EX, and two other cheap games, Iridion 3D at $2.99 and Fire Pro Wrestling at $4.99, I got at Gamestop just a half hour earlier just for this deal. (BTW, the only GBA game I own now is Sonic Advance, and I have to say, it's awesome on the DS. I can actually see what I'm playing!) That brought my DS down to about $60!
Then there was the dreaded extended warranty. Every customer hates it. The person was telling me fantastical stories of touch-screens getting literally impaled by styluses which were obviously not true. I was just about to forego the whole warranty thing and get Mario 64DS when I thought up something the attendant hadn't said: dead pixels. That was something I absolutely did NOT want to deal with by sending the system to Nintendo and waiting for a replacement that would probably just have as many dead pixels as it did when I sent it in. Actually, that's sort of unfair. Nintendo's excellent with defective hardware. A few months after I got my GBA, it inexplicably died. They sent me a new one absolutely free. But anyway, I remembered the dead pixel issues and made up my mind. I was immediately like, "I think you're right. Put back Mario DS and give me the warranty." I didn't have enough money for both the game and the warranty, but I could always get the game later. I had to get the warranty at that time. It was $15. So I got the warranty that was likely worthless and the whole purchase ended up being around $75.
So here I am with the Metroid Prime Hunters demo and Sonic Advance. Am I happy? Heck yeah. I'll get a real DS game somewhere down the road.
I did trade in six more DVDs as per my backup plan, but only four of them were good for the bonus $10 deal. So, I got about $20.
X: The Movie $6.33
Pokemon 2000 $1.00
Tenchi Forever $5.34 (all anime movies worked. go figure.)
+$10
Star Wars Episode 2 Full Screen $5.33
These two didn't count, but I traded them in anyway.
Grand Master of Shao-Lin Kung Fu 75 cents
Evel Knievel/C.C. and Company double feature 75 cents
Going off-topic right about now.
Then I went to the games and got F'd in the A.
Viewtiful Joe GCN $4.00 (okay)
Silent Scope PS2 75 cents (grr...)
Star Wars Starfighter PS2 50 cents (WTF?)
Top Gear Dare Devil PS2 50 cents (WTF?)
X-Men Legends XBOX $15.00 (better)
Rainbow Six 3 XBOX $2.00 (come on, that's at least 5 bucks)
So, that's about another 20 bucks, bringing my trade-in values to around $40. But I didn't stop there. I was going for a cheap Nintendo DS, and I intended to get it. I then pulled out a Ziploc bag with a GBA and four games. They're having that $50 off a DS deal when you bring in a regular GBA and four games or an SP and two games, so I got 50$ off on top of the other discounts. I hated my GBA anyway. I traded in two games I owned, F-Zero Maximum Velocity and King of Fighters EX, and two other cheap games, Iridion 3D at $2.99 and Fire Pro Wrestling at $4.99, I got at Gamestop just a half hour earlier just for this deal. (BTW, the only GBA game I own now is Sonic Advance, and I have to say, it's awesome on the DS. I can actually see what I'm playing!) That brought my DS down to about $60!
Then there was the dreaded extended warranty. Every customer hates it. The person was telling me fantastical stories of touch-screens getting literally impaled by styluses which were obviously not true. I was just about to forego the whole warranty thing and get Mario 64DS when I thought up something the attendant hadn't said: dead pixels. That was something I absolutely did NOT want to deal with by sending the system to Nintendo and waiting for a replacement that would probably just have as many dead pixels as it did when I sent it in. Actually, that's sort of unfair. Nintendo's excellent with defective hardware. A few months after I got my GBA, it inexplicably died. They sent me a new one absolutely free. But anyway, I remembered the dead pixel issues and made up my mind. I was immediately like, "I think you're right. Put back Mario DS and give me the warranty." I didn't have enough money for both the game and the warranty, but I could always get the game later. I had to get the warranty at that time. It was $15. So I got the warranty that was likely worthless and the whole purchase ended up being around $75.
So here I am with the Metroid Prime Hunters demo and Sonic Advance. Am I happy? Heck yeah. I'll get a real DS game somewhere down the road.
[quote name='Chuplayer']Those three cheapo DVDs didn't work. So, don't try them. That totally killed my "DS for $36" scheme.
I did trade in six more DVDs as per my backup plan, but only four of them were good for the bonus $10 deal. So, I got about $20.
X: The Movie $6.33
Pokemon 2000 $1.00
Tenchi Forever $5.34 (all anime movies worked. go figure.)
+$10
Star Wars Episode 2 Full Screen $5.33
These two didn't count, but I traded them in anyway.
Grand Master of Shao-Lin Kung Fu 75 cents
Evel Knievel/C.C. and Company double feature 75 cents
Going off-topic right about now.
Then I went to the games and got F'd in the A.
Viewtiful Joe GCN $4.00 (okay)
Silent Scope PS2 75 cents (grr...)
Star Wars Starfighter PS2 50 cents (WTF?)
Top Gear Dare Devil PS2 50 cents (WTF?)
X-Men Legends XBOX $15.00 (better)
Rainbow Six 3 XBOX $2.00 (come on, that's at least 5 bucks)
So, that's about another 20 bucks, bringing my trade-in values to around $40. But I didn't stop there. I was going for a cheap Nintendo DS, and I intended to get it. I then pulled out a Ziploc bag with a GBA and four games. They're having that $50 off a DS deal when you bring in a regular GBA and four games or an SP and two games, so I got 50$ off on top of the other discounts. I hated my GBA anyway. I traded in two games I owned, F-Zero Maximum Velocity and King of Fighters EX, and two other cheap games, Iridion 3D at $2.99 and Fire Pro Wrestling at $4.99, I got at Gamestop just a half hour earlier just for this deal. (BTW, the only GBA game I own now is Sonic Advance, and I have to say, it's awesome on the DS. I can actually see what I'm playing!) That brought my DS down to about $60!
Then there was the dreaded extended warranty. Every customer hates it. The person was telling me fantastical stories of touch-screens getting literally impaled by styluses which were obviously not true. I was just about to forego the whole warranty thing and get Mario 64DS when I thought up something the attendant hadn't said: dead pixels. That was something I absolutely did NOT want to deal with by sending the system to Nintendo and waiting for a replacement that would probably just have as many dead pixels as it did when I sent it in. Actually, that's sort of unfair. Nintendo's excellent with defective hardware. A few months after I got my GBA, it inexplicably died. They sent me a new one absolutely free. But anyway, I remembered the dead pixel issues and made up my mind. I was immediately like, "I think you're right. Put back Mario DS and give me the warranty." I didn't have enough money for both the game and the warranty, but I could always get the game later. I had to get the warranty at that time. It was $15. So I got the warranty that was likely worthless and the whole purchase ended up being around $75.
So here I am with the Metroid Prime Hunters demo and Sonic Advance. Am I happy? Heck yeah. I'll get a real DS game somewhere down the road.[/quote]
Wow, you got reamed. I would have given you $25 for X-Men Legends. As for the rest of the games, I would have sold them on eBay. 50 cents for a game you probably paid $30-$40 (at least) for is insane.
I did trade in six more DVDs as per my backup plan, but only four of them were good for the bonus $10 deal. So, I got about $20.
X: The Movie $6.33
Pokemon 2000 $1.00
Tenchi Forever $5.34 (all anime movies worked. go figure.)
+$10
Star Wars Episode 2 Full Screen $5.33
These two didn't count, but I traded them in anyway.
Grand Master of Shao-Lin Kung Fu 75 cents
Evel Knievel/C.C. and Company double feature 75 cents
Going off-topic right about now.
Then I went to the games and got F'd in the A.
Viewtiful Joe GCN $4.00 (okay)
Silent Scope PS2 75 cents (grr...)
Star Wars Starfighter PS2 50 cents (WTF?)
Top Gear Dare Devil PS2 50 cents (WTF?)
X-Men Legends XBOX $15.00 (better)
Rainbow Six 3 XBOX $2.00 (come on, that's at least 5 bucks)
So, that's about another 20 bucks, bringing my trade-in values to around $40. But I didn't stop there. I was going for a cheap Nintendo DS, and I intended to get it. I then pulled out a Ziploc bag with a GBA and four games. They're having that $50 off a DS deal when you bring in a regular GBA and four games or an SP and two games, so I got 50$ off on top of the other discounts. I hated my GBA anyway. I traded in two games I owned, F-Zero Maximum Velocity and King of Fighters EX, and two other cheap games, Iridion 3D at $2.99 and Fire Pro Wrestling at $4.99, I got at Gamestop just a half hour earlier just for this deal. (BTW, the only GBA game I own now is Sonic Advance, and I have to say, it's awesome on the DS. I can actually see what I'm playing!) That brought my DS down to about $60!
Then there was the dreaded extended warranty. Every customer hates it. The person was telling me fantastical stories of touch-screens getting literally impaled by styluses which were obviously not true. I was just about to forego the whole warranty thing and get Mario 64DS when I thought up something the attendant hadn't said: dead pixels. That was something I absolutely did NOT want to deal with by sending the system to Nintendo and waiting for a replacement that would probably just have as many dead pixels as it did when I sent it in. Actually, that's sort of unfair. Nintendo's excellent with defective hardware. A few months after I got my GBA, it inexplicably died. They sent me a new one absolutely free. But anyway, I remembered the dead pixel issues and made up my mind. I was immediately like, "I think you're right. Put back Mario DS and give me the warranty." I didn't have enough money for both the game and the warranty, but I could always get the game later. I had to get the warranty at that time. It was $15. So I got the warranty that was likely worthless and the whole purchase ended up being around $75.
So here I am with the Metroid Prime Hunters demo and Sonic Advance. Am I happy? Heck yeah. I'll get a real DS game somewhere down the road.[/quote]
Wow, you got reamed. I would have given you $25 for X-Men Legends. As for the rest of the games, I would have sold them on eBay. 50 cents for a game you probably paid $30-$40 (at least) for is insane.
matrix revolutions 7.35 (i got the box set)
bourne identity 7.33 (i got a nicer version)
hamtaro 8.33 (already had a copy)
MEAN GIRLS 9.33 (sucked, great trade-in value)
Bugs Life 7.33 (got a nicer version)
The mummy 5.34 (got a nicer version)
Dead Alive 5.33 (saw it, probably wouldn't watch it again
Shrek Se 8.33 (got the box set)
bourne identity 7.33 (i got a nicer version)
hamtaro 8.33 (already had a copy)
MEAN GIRLS 9.33 (sucked, great trade-in value)
Bugs Life 7.33 (got a nicer version)
The mummy 5.34 (got a nicer version)
Dead Alive 5.33 (saw it, probably wouldn't watch it again
Shrek Se 8.33 (got the box set)
[quote name='msdmoney']They give terrible trade in values. I went in to trade 3 dvd's that I had better versions of (Spiderman, Predator and Schindler's List)
Without the $10 extra I got
Spider-man ~$3.00
Schindler's List ~$1.60
Predator ~2.15
So ~16 with the $10 extra. I only traded them because I wanted a pc game and wanted to get rid of them. Otherwise I would have gone to blockbuster, they give decent trade in values.[/quote]
Just traded in my copy of Schindler's List - mine was that slim case (non- amaray, one disc) it rang up as POX - but was worth $5.02.
Odd, because anything I've traded in there has always been a rounded number (or at least a .50) before the "bonus" credit is added. Odder because just as the Dodgeball mentioned before, if my Batman (which I could probably find for $3-4) isn't POX what's the philosophy behind this one being so?
When asked, friendly employee stated - "Dunno."
Without the $10 extra I got
Spider-man ~$3.00
Schindler's List ~$1.60
Predator ~2.15
So ~16 with the $10 extra. I only traded them because I wanted a pc game and wanted to get rid of them. Otherwise I would have gone to blockbuster, they give decent trade in values.[/quote]
Just traded in my copy of Schindler's List - mine was that slim case (non- amaray, one disc) it rang up as POX - but was worth $5.02.
Odd, because anything I've traded in there has always been a rounded number (or at least a .50) before the "bonus" credit is added. Odder because just as the Dodgeball mentioned before, if my Batman (which I could probably find for $3-4) isn't POX what's the philosophy behind this one being so?
When asked, friendly employee stated - "Dunno."
wal-mart dvd's are a no go. they don't even show up in the computer when they were scanned at the register. i tried at fye/wherehouse, too. i'm talking about the 88 cent ones. (e.g. david copperfield, magic sword, three musketeers.) i also tried other ones but they're all duds.
i kept em wrapped so now i can return em :lol:
i also tried the 5.50 bargain bin wal-mart dvd's, ya know, the ones with several feature films on each disc... about 1.25 for a set (they don't scan in singles).
so, this deal is a no go as far as dollar dvds are concerned...
where are these dollar dvd's from that actually work , e.g. four deuces and scrooge. i have a dollar tree and 99 cent store by me, but i haven't checked.
i kept em wrapped so now i can return em :lol:
i also tried the 5.50 bargain bin wal-mart dvd's, ya know, the ones with several feature films on each disc... about 1.25 for a set (they don't scan in singles).
so, this deal is a no go as far as dollar dvds are concerned...
where are these dollar dvd's from that actually work , e.g. four deuces and scrooge. i have a dollar tree and 99 cent store by me, but i haven't checked.
[quote name='mentos888']wal-mart dvd's are a no go. they don't even show up in the computer. i tried at fye/wherehouse, too. i'm talking about the 88 cent ones. (e.g. david copperfield, magic sword, three musketeers.) i also tried other ones but they're all duds.
i kept em wrapped so now i can return em :lol:
i also tried the 5.50 bargain bin wal-mart dvd's, ya know, the ones with several feature films on each disc... about 1.25 for a set (they don't scan in singles).
so, this deal is a no go as far as dollar dvds are concerned...
where are these dollar dvd's from that actually work , e.g. four deuces and scrooge. i have a dollar tree and 99 cent store by me, but i haven't checked.[/quote]
Did you have them look it up and not just try to scan them?
i kept em wrapped so now i can return em :lol:
i also tried the 5.50 bargain bin wal-mart dvd's, ya know, the ones with several feature films on each disc... about 1.25 for a set (they don't scan in singles).
so, this deal is a no go as far as dollar dvds are concerned...
where are these dollar dvd's from that actually work , e.g. four deuces and scrooge. i have a dollar tree and 99 cent store by me, but i haven't checked.[/quote]
Did you have them look it up and not just try to scan them?
hi kuros, i pm'd u. could u tell me where u got those four deuces and scrooge dvd's? i have a dollar tree and 99 cent store. couldn't find em at wal-mart.
look em up? how do ya do mean? i went into the store and had em scan each one.
he scanned em and then looked at the screen, said, "nope, these won't take..."
not sure about what he meant, but that's what he said.
what do i ask him, could u look em up for me? is there some sort of button he has to press or something on his terminal...?
look em up? how do ya do mean? i went into the store and had em scan each one.
he scanned em and then looked at the screen, said, "nope, these won't take..."
not sure about what he meant, but that's what he said.
what do i ask him, could u look em up for me? is there some sort of button he has to press or something on his terminal...?
Thanks to the OP! Since they didn't put up anything about this deal in the store, I just went up and asked and he said he thought they had something going on. The guy was fairly nice to us, I brought in 13 and he rang them all up to see what came up as PO and POX. I was suprised, only one didn't come up at all (Wild Ride, crappy Jack Nicholson movie that came with a game I bought). The other three that I didn't trade in were Dr. T & The Women (horrible movie... don't buy something just because it's cheap), The Simple Life and Double Whammy. One was PO, in retrospect I should have paid more attention and switched it out for Chill Factor (not too bad a movie and I didn't get much for it).
Anyway, here is the list of what I traded in and the value I got for them (in Mobile, Al prices include 3.33 bonus):
Desperate Hours: 4.08
Red Planet: 4.10
Boiler Room: 5.33
Chill Factor: 3.84
Last Castle: 4.08
Serpents Kiss: 4.83
Blade Runner: 5.33
Mona Lisa Smile: 5.33
The Pledge: 3.83=
40.75
I was somewhat amused that the ones I paid the least for, I got the most for. But, nothing there I paid over 6 for and a few I got for 3 or less so it evened out fairly well.
Anyway, here is the list of what I traded in and the value I got for them (in Mobile, Al prices include 3.33 bonus):
Desperate Hours: 4.08
Red Planet: 4.10
Boiler Room: 5.33
Chill Factor: 3.84
Last Castle: 4.08
Serpents Kiss: 4.83
Blade Runner: 5.33
Mona Lisa Smile: 5.33
The Pledge: 3.83=
40.75
I was somewhat amused that the ones I paid the least for, I got the most for. But, nothing there I paid over 6 for and a few I got for 3 or less so it evened out fairly well.
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That would really piss me off if the deal ended on the 2nd. The jerk-ass manager of my local EB keeps claiming that there is no such deal and that the last one ended in February, even though I personally traded in DVDs multiple times with him. Does anyone have the promo code number so that I could call up EB corporate and check?
thanks!
thanks!
You guys need to try Half.com. I couldn't imagine trading in a DVD I bought for 8-20 bucks for .50 plus 3.33, then only be able to use that credit at that store.
Right now, for instance, someone is willing to pay [they've preordered it] 6.99 for Dragonslayer DVD. 6.99 - 15% commission = 5.94 + 1.89 shipping credit - 1.29 postage = 6.54 [knock otu an add'l 50 cents if you want to count your 'overhead' of bubblewrap, brown paper, and scotch tape.] No, you won't get rich, but that's cash in your wallet rather than a lower value of trade credit. And the average sell price for that DVD was 10.44, currently ranging from 5.49-19.50.
I just sold a music CD for 9.50 - commission + shipping credit, that I probably bought for 13.00 or so six years ago. SecondSpin gives 2 bucks credit for that same CD.
I'm not going to ream on EB, they can offer whatever prices they want that people will accept, I'm just saying there's better ways to make more money. The only way to not get totally screwed at tradeins is to max out one of these deals, and even then it's almost too much work.
Right now, for instance, someone is willing to pay [they've preordered it] 6.99 for Dragonslayer DVD. 6.99 - 15% commission = 5.94 + 1.89 shipping credit - 1.29 postage = 6.54 [knock otu an add'l 50 cents if you want to count your 'overhead' of bubblewrap, brown paper, and scotch tape.] No, you won't get rich, but that's cash in your wallet rather than a lower value of trade credit. And the average sell price for that DVD was 10.44, currently ranging from 5.49-19.50.
I just sold a music CD for 9.50 - commission + shipping credit, that I probably bought for 13.00 or so six years ago. SecondSpin gives 2 bucks credit for that same CD.
I'm not going to ream on EB, they can offer whatever prices they want that people will accept, I'm just saying there's better ways to make more money. The only way to not get totally screwed at tradeins is to max out one of these deals, and even then it's almost too much work.
Their trade-in values for DVDs are slightly more reasonable than for games (ie. a lot of older games seem to be 0.25 to 0.75, whereas a lot of DVDs are $1-$3 each.
The key is to check half.com and only trade-in DVDs to ebgames that won't sell for much on half.com, or are close to what you would get. For instance, I got $4.33 for creepshow, which is $2.40 `like new', or $4.08 for The Puppet Masters, which is $2.99 on half.com and even got $6.33 for Dragonslayer, which is pretty close to the Half.com price (although looking at it now, the lowest price is ~$9, which would have been better). However, you pay no sales tax if you buy something in store and I don't have to package it up and ship it out.
My last batch I was going to get rid of was Panic Room ($4 half.com), Rollerball ($4.50 half.com) and Dark City ($4.95 half.com). They're all likely only $1 before the bonus though, so it's a toss-up on these.
Anyway, the promo number is 3424 for 6, or 3411 for 3.
The key is to check half.com and only trade-in DVDs to ebgames that won't sell for much on half.com, or are close to what you would get. For instance, I got $4.33 for creepshow, which is $2.40 `like new', or $4.08 for The Puppet Masters, which is $2.99 on half.com and even got $6.33 for Dragonslayer, which is pretty close to the Half.com price (although looking at it now, the lowest price is ~$9, which would have been better). However, you pay no sales tax if you buy something in store and I don't have to package it up and ship it out.
My last batch I was going to get rid of was Panic Room ($4 half.com), Rollerball ($4.50 half.com) and Dark City ($4.95 half.com). They're all likely only $1 before the bonus though, so it's a toss-up on these.
Anyway, the promo number is 3424 for 6, or 3411 for 3.
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