[quote name='What']I have inside scoop as I know a couple guys managing EB stores and according to them, the company was losing money from last months T2+$10 promo so they were forced to tighten it up. And chances are we might never see that same promo ever again.
And yes like the previous poster mentioned, all those RFD scumbags trading in crappy $8 titles and them having overstock on them also helped cause this. So you can thank all those RFD noobs.[/quote]
No, I think you can thank the policy makers at EB for deciding to run the promo. No one held a gun to anyone's head and said "accept this game in trade". Instead, they saw that they make craptons of money from selling the same used game over and over, and went "omg if we have lots of used games we have lots of money".
They came up with this promo for the complete and total purpose of gaining a large stock of used games. If they only wanted premium games, then they could have easily made it "trade 2 with value of $15 or more for a new game".
If they were expecting only top notch games-- well, even the stupidest of stupids knows that trading 2 $30 games to get $50 is not worth it.
The truth is, EB has always been hyper aggressive with getting people to do trade-ins. For the most part, the values are suboptimal and EB comes out on top. This time maybe they got too aggressive, and it backfired. Having two of these Trade X deals in a row-- across two months were there were a massive amount of hot hot hot titles-- that might have been a contributing factor.
Personally, I have no sympathy for a company that whines about their own policies. These types of promos don't just happen overnight. They take several months of planning, studying and logistics, go through tons of oversight and review, and are risk/reward ratio'd to death. They had may more information about how this would all go down than you can imagine. At the end of it all, the formulas said that it was good move, a bunch of people put their stamp on it, and off it went.
They made the offer, and they can either honor it, retract it, or shut up about it. If it isn't working, then exercise the "conditions apply" clause and kill it. But don't whine or treat your customers like crap for taking you up on an offer. This is just as bad as the restaraunts that treat the Summerlicious customers like crap.
If they didn't want a lot of used games, then why did they ask people to trade in used games?
Now, as to why BBV is always out of stock of games, THAT you can blame on RFD.