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NEW THREAD: http://www.cheapassgamer.com/topic/334650-gamestop-trade-in-values-xxvi-values-available-on-ios-app-upcoming-50-bonus-with-coupon/

WHEN REPORTING TRADE-IN VALUES PLEASE POST BASE VALUES & SYSTEM IT IS FOR.

First post contains promo information & useful information and frequently asked questions. Second post has the values for games/hardware for Microsoft devices. Third post has the values for games/hardware for Nintendo consoles and the fourth post has the values for Nintendo handhelds. Fifth post has the values for games/hardware for Sony consoles and the sixth post has the values for Sony handhelds.

Instructions on finding games in the database and inputting the values from different sections can be found in my blog post here: http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/blog.php?b=14143. I would put the entire post in the thread but this is already kind of a large post.

WHEN POSTING VALUES:

Please try to follow the example below if possible. If you feel the need to use the system icons, please only use them once at and at the top of the list. Also always post the system it's for even if it's only on one system or the value will not get updated. I don't always know it and I'm doing these updates from work to keep them as updated as often as possible so I can't spend time searching for that info.

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Current Promotions/Information:

From GameStop employees on CAG:

GameStop.com Information (will post it when they update it)

None Currently.

FAQ
These trade-in values are really low!
While that may be true, if you combine the games with the right promotion they can work to your advantage. There are knowledgeable people in this thread that are normally willing to help.

Is there any way to look at what the previous values reported on a game?
You can search through this thread and previous ones to see what a game has been reported in the past. With the TIV Tracker you can sort by date and then go through the list of past updated values through that as well. Here are the previous GS TIV Threads: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,22,23,,

Can I trade-in sealed games?
No. You might come across the rare GameStop that would let you do it, but they are going to open them anyway.

I don't want to get hassled about the values I post, how can I get the information out there?
If you do not feel comfortable or willing to put the values in the thread you have two options available. You can input them in the TIV tracker or you can send them to me via PM. Either way the database and these lists will be updated. Putting them into the TIV tracker does save me some time later on.

Do trade-ins have to have their original case, insert and manual?
No, however it will be YMMV on if they charge you a refurbish fee for them in that condition. Most GameStops wont charge a fee but there are some that charge for incomplete games.

Will they accept my game if it is really beat up?
YMMV. It really all depends upon the employee you get. Some will charge refurbish fees, some wont, some wont accept the game and others just take them without a second glance.

What are the refurb fees on games?
There appears to be set prices for set value ranges. We aren't 100% certain on the splits just yet. Here is what we have currently:
$0.25-$2 Value: $0.75 Refurb Fee
$2.01-$4 Value: $1 Refurb Fee
$4.01-$7 Value: $2 Refurb Fee
$7.01-$10 Value: $3 Refurb Fee
$10.01 & Higher Value: $4 Refurb Fee
This information isn't guaranteed by any mean and we are still working on nailing it down.

What are the refurb fees on consoles?
They are listed in the hardware TIV section, highlight in red.

I have a Collector's/Limited/Special edition of a game, do I have to trade-in all of the extras?
No, but there are a handful of games that their variations have separate listings at GameStop: Madden 09 Anniversary Edition, Battlefield: Bad Company Gold Edition, and a few others.

Why didn't the percent bonus go for my accessory for a system that was included?
Unless stated otherwise, and they are rarely included, the bonuses never apply to accessories. Except the PowerUp Rewards card of course.

I traded in a bunch of games for the "Trade X, get $X bonus" promo and it gave me the percentage bonus instead?
I can't give concretes on why this happens. GameStop computers are normally pretty good at giving you the better promo. In the case of a percentage bonus being run at the same time as a "Trade X, get $X" promo, things can get messy. The system appears to only give one promo on games per transaction so if you had a few games that you want to go to the percentage bonus and a stack for the "Trade X, Get $X" it will regularly apply the percentage to all of the games. Your best bet is to do all "Trade X, Get $X" games in one transaction on their own. The GameStop clerk may say that the system will figure it all out, tell them you want a separate transaction anyway. As always, check your receipt before you leave the store.

Can I trade in multiple copies of the same game?
YMMV. The official policy is no, but there are some GameStops that overlook that rule.

What all do I have to trade in for a console trade-in?
Xbox 360: Console Unit, power brick, A/V Cables, Controller (wired/wireless)
Wii: Console Unit, Power Cable, A/V Cables, Wiimote, Nunchuck, Sensor Bar
Playstation 3: Console Unit, Power Cable, A/V Cable, Controller, USB Cable
PSP: Handheld, A/C Adapter
Nintendo DS/DSLite/DSi: Handheld, A/C Adapter, Stylus

Can I trade in a defective/broken console?
For the most part yes. If it powers on but doesn't play games, they will take the console as a refurb unit and put a refurb fee on the console. The refurb fee on the console will vary on the price of the console so those numbers will change. You are still required to trade in everything required listed in the question directly above.

What is the difference between PowerUp Rewards and PowerUp Rewards Pro?
The basic card is free and only allows you to acrew points when spending money. The Pro card costs $14.99 and is basically the same as the previous EDGE program.

How much does a PowerUp Rewards Pro subscription cost?
It costs $14.99 and is good for a year. It also comes with a 1-year subscription to Game Informer magazine.

What bonuses come with having an PowerUp Rewards Pro card?
You will get an extra 10% trade-in credit on the base value of the game, extra 10% off the purchase of pre-owned games and 10% off new strategy guides.

Does the Power Up Rewards Card give me a bonus on hardware trade-ins?
No. You will only get the bonus for games and accessories.

What if I want cash instead of credit, what do they deduct?
If you decide that you want cash instead of credit, they will take 20% off the base values and promos will not apply.

Does promo "....." have a minimum trade-in value?
If the promo has a minimum trade-in value requirement, it will be listed in the promo. If it isn't there, then there is no limit. However, as with all trades, they are subject to manager approval so the manager could have setup his own little rule-set requiring a minimum of whatever.

I used a Power Trade promo for a pre-order, can I cancel that pre-order and get the credit or move it to another game I want?
Yes on both accounts. However, if you do a bunch of the power trades and just straight drop the pre-order you could create some ill-will between yourself and the employees you cancel on. However, if you look at the wordings on promos, they can remove the bonus trade-in value if they decide to.

I just tried to use a promo that has a select list of games eligible, but they say my game isn't eligible anymore, what gives?
Basically they have the right to change the eligible games at any time. They tend to update these frequently so as to lock out any easy/cheap games. It's best to check the eligible list the day of your trade.

Can I stack two different trade-in promos?
No. The only thing that will stack with trade-ins is your PowerUp Rewards card. Some will report success, but this requires a manual override and is very YMMV.

If I pay for an item using all credit on my card, do I have to pay sales tax?
This varies depending upon the state you live in.

If I buy a used copy of a game that requires an online pass for multiplayer, will it come with an online pass?
If you purchase a used title published by either Sony or WB you get an online pass from GS on your receipt. That's also why the used copies are $55 instead of $48 when the MSRP is $60. No GS issued passes of games published by EA, THQ, etc. On those titles you're totally dependent on the previous owner not using the code.

What states charge sales tax on purchases paid in full with credit and which ones don't?
Charge Sales Tax on Credit Purchases: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia
Does Not Charge Sales Tax on Credit Purchases: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming
May or May Not Charge, Depending Upon County: Florida,

My state doesn't charge sales tax on purchases made by credit, why is gamestop.com charging me tax?
It is just the way they have designed their system. The best theory we have seen is that since you are only inputting the number off of the back of the card, it isn't going to pick up the programming from the specially tagged EDGE cards. Some kind of programming that gets input from their system that wont show up when only inputting the number off the back of the card.


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tearsintherain said:
the vita and all games will be off shelves by end of the year, every store around me is shrinking its sell area. Even still when I visited 3 Best Buys yesterday they all had the BL2 vita bundles, one had 5+ but they are all still $199. I hope sometime soon BB decides to clearance out all the vita stuff (some stores have apparently been clearing out vita games), although at this point there really aren't a whole lot I'd want anymore, I tried finding a vita game to buy at Target with the $15 promo but came up blank.

the two biggest things hurting the vita now are lack of new games, and that is not going to change anytime soon, and the idiotic proprietary memory card. I'd buy more digital games but every one has that agonizing decision of "ok... well, I'd have to delete a game I already own to play this one... nah, its not worth it."
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You should flip those Borderlands bundles. Amazon's selling Good units through AWD for over MSRP and they were commanding a decent premium on eBay last time I checked.
 
I have a friend who wants to trade in his ps4 towards a xbox one. When would be the best time to do this? I know they have had the 50% extra on consoles but with the new standard 20% more will those come around anymore?
 
RoytheRobot said:
well, it has alot more (and great) games than the vita plus its way cheaper. Right now psp>vita. Its sad that Sony doesn't care for the vita at all. They are like "we just don't want to games for this thing anymore, so we'll use it as a second screen for the ps4."
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Wonder why they're abandoning the device; it has a lot of potential but it is getting outsold by the 3DS. Even Forbes magazine affirms what you say: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2014/01/10/why-the-3ds-is-killing-it-and-the-ps-vita-is-still-struggling/

pittsnoggle said:
the vita section at my gs is on the other side of the shelf with boxed ds games. There isnt many boxed ds games
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Every Phoenix store I've been to seem to have small sections for Vita games. Most DS games don't have boxes so they're inside the front counter's glass case. About 60% 3DS games still have packaging though.

 
poorgamer01 said:
Are ppl actually buy it over msrp? That's crazy
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It's settled down some on Amazon. Listings are starting around $200 so after shipping and fees you're in the hole. The time to buy was a few weeks ago. I got one bundle from Target for $180 using a Cartwheel coupon and it sold for $280 on Amazon.
 
Eternal Session said:
Top two posts of this page.

Though it might not be if you have a different 'posts per page' count than mine. In that case, posts 6241 and 6242.
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Those posts are:

Josh West said:
Can i trade in ps vita and get the 40% extra
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Abeja said:
the 30% is for everything. You get to 40% cause of PUR membership which is for games and accessories
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Sadly that doesn't illuminate how people are getting an extra 30% on a system. The only promotion I see in the OP or at the GS website is the summer sale one and that only applies to games and accessories. Maybe it's right in front of my face but I'm not seeing it. I would happily take $130 for my OLED model if I could get it.

 
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EldritchOnRye said:
Those posts are:


Sadly that doesn't illuminate how people are getting an extra 30% on a system. The only promotion I see in the OP or at the GS website is the summer sale one and that only applies to games and accessories. Maybe it's right in front of my face but I'm not seeing it. I would happily take $130 for my OLED model if I could get it.
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I believe it's ymmv. A couple months ago I was turned down trading in a 3ds because the said it didn't apply to consoles. Tried the next day with someone different and he said let's try it. And the computer accepted it with the bonus
 
EldritchOnRye said:
Those posts are:

Sadly that doesn't illuminate how people are getting an extra 30% on a system. The only promotion I see in the OP or at the GS website is the summer sale one and that only applies to games and accessories. Maybe it's right in front of my face but I'm not seeing it. I would happily take $130 for my OLED model if I could get it.
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I like my Crystal White Vita too much to trade it in, but I admit that's a tempting offer. :joystick:

 
Heads up for employees of GameStop, on the 13th, certain trade ins will increase for us. I saw a list including mario kart 8 and super mario 3dland trading for $45 and the pokemon x/y games for $30 trade in credit. I believe it's until the 18th but I only had a glimpse of the paper since the employee I was visiting let me saw it while the manager was in the back. I'm sure others will see it and report here.
 
BryanDGAF said:
Heads up for employees of GameStop, on the 13th, certain trade ins will increase for us. I saw a list including mario kart 8 and super mario 3dland trading for $45 and the pokemon x/y games for $30 trade in credit. I believe it's until the 18th but I only had a glimpse of the paper since the employee I was visiting let me saw it while the manager was in the back. I'm sure others will see it and report here.
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Interesting, veeeeery interesting... :whistle2:k

 
BryanDGAF said:
Heads up for employees of GameStop, on the 13th, certain trade ins will increase for us. I saw a list including mario kart 8 and super mario 3dland trading for $45 and the pokemon x/y games for $30 trade in credit. I believe it's until the 18th but I only had a glimpse of the paper since the employee I was visiting let me saw it while the manager was in the back. I'm sure others will see it and report here.
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Do you remember seeing any other titles?
 
BryanDGAF said:
Heads up for employees of GameStop, on the 13th, certain trade ins will increase for us. I saw a list including mario kart 8 and super mario 3dland trading for $45 and the pokemon x/y games for $30 trade in credit. I believe it's until the 18th but I only had a glimpse of the paper since the employee I was visiting let me saw it while the manager was in the back. I'm sure others will see it and report here.
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I'm assuming if this deal is true it wouldn't stack with the 40% trade in bonus, right? Because that would be ridiculous, getting $63 for Mario Kart 8

 
What's the TIV for KZ, Battlefield 4, Ghosts (All PS4). THanks It would be my first trade at Gamestop if I can get the $15 extra, unless another place has better offer.

 
BryanDGAF said:
Heads up for employees of GameStop, on the 13th, certain trade ins will increase for us. I saw a list including mario kart 8 and super mario 3dland trading for $45 and the pokemon x/y games for $30 trade in credit. I believe it's until the 18th but I only had a glimpse of the paper since the employee I was visiting let me saw it while the manager was in the back. I'm sure others will see it and report here.
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Now that I read this more closely, you mean that these would be employee-only TIVs? Has that been done before?

 
Shadownite said:
What's the TIV for KZ, Battlefield 4, Ghosts (All PS4). THanks It would be my first trade at Gamestop if I can get the $15 extra, unless another place has better offer.
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KZ - $7
B4 - $17
Ghosts - $18

You might wanna pair KZ with another PS4 game to maximize the promo.
 
EldritchOnRye said:
Those posts are:

Sadly that doesn't illuminate how people are getting an extra 30% on a system. The only promotion I see in the OP or at the GS website is the summer sale one and that only applies to games and accessories. Maybe it's right in front of my face but I'm not seeing it. I would happily take $130 for my OLED model if I could get it.
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Well, the GS website might be wrong. It might be valid for systems. It wouldn't hurt to give it a try, would it? I'd usggest going into the store and trying to trade it in like normal, and if you don't get the bonus, just refuse the trade-in, saying you thought you would get a bonus, and since you didn't, you don't want to trade in. Most employees know that a bonus is the only incentive to trade in since the values are otherwise so low, so they'll understand.

 
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victoryroadrage said:
I'm assuming if this deal is true it wouldn't stack with the 40% trade in bonus, right? Because that would be ridiculous, getting $63 for Mario Kart 8
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I know you can pull one over on Gamestop every so often by buying games with a promo and then flipping them right back for more money, but there is no way Gamestop is going to let this slide. Yeah, probably won't stack.

 
Eternal Session said:
Well, the GS website might be wrong. It might be valid for systems. It wouldn't hurt to give it a try, would it? I'd usggest going into the store and trying to trade it in like normal, and if you don't get the bonus, just refuse the trade-in, saying you thought you would get a bonus, and since you didn't, you don't want to trade in. Most employees know that a bonus is the only incentive to trade in since the values are otherwise so low, so they'll understand.
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I still think you people are just making this entire thing up and no one's ever actually had it happen.

 
Vigilante said:
Now that I read this more closely, you mean that these would be employee-only TIVs? Has that been done before?
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Yes. Usually twice a year, employee gets either 60% trade in bonus or something like this. Sorry for posting employee tiv only but if you know someone who works that's willing to do it in your behalf than I thought it'd be a good idea to mention it. Sorry again.
 
BryanDGAF said:
Yes. Usually twice a year, employee gets either 60% trade in bonus or something like this. Sorry for posting employee tiv only but if you know someone who works that's willing to do it in your behalf than I thought it'd be a good idea to mention it. Sorry again.
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Aw, that's a shame. Thanks for clearing it up.

 
BryanDGAF said:
Yes. Usually twice a year, employee gets either 60% trade in bonus or something like this. Sorry for posting employee tiv only but if you know someone who works that's willing to do it in your behalf than I thought it'd be a good idea to mention it. Sorry again.
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Ah, that makes more sense. I guess the real question is can an employee get trade banned? ;)

 
if those kinda TIVs hold it'll be crazy during the 50% bonus week

i wonder if anyone at gamestop is even thinking about that or will it be a total mad panic on 8/25

 
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So has anyone other than that one new guy actually got the 30% bonus on a Vita?  It poured all day and the streets were flooded so I couldn't try.

 
EldritchOnRye said:
So has anyone other than that one new guy actually got the 30% bonus on a Vita? It poured all day and the streets were flooded so I couldn't try.
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The 30% for preordering Game X promos have worked on consoles for as long as I can remember. The 40% that's advertised for games is because of the PUR bump. Consoles get the same bonus for members and non-members.
 
No because it more than likely didn't actually happen and it says pretty clearly it doesn't apply to consoles. Only games and accessories. 

I'd love to be proven wrong though.

 
knorman19 said:
I believe it's ymmv. A couple months ago I was turned down trading in a 3ds because the said it didn't apply to consoles. Tried the next day with someone different and he said let's try it. And the computer accepted it with the bonus
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This worked for me when I put a 3ds towards a destiny ps4 bundle. Iirc I got 97.50 for it with the bonus
 
@FIF said:
The 30% for preordering Game X promos have worked on consoles for as long as I can remember. The 40% that's advertised for games is because of the PUR bump. Consoles get the same bonus for members and non-members.
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This. The part at the end where it excludes consoles is only for PUR's extra 10%.
 
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