[YMMV] Ebgames New trade in Rules (found out today) 1 per person ONLY

I think the restriction of only one game ever is QUITE too harsh. One game per deal is more fair. But I do see why they would want to do this. People are abusing the deals and getting away with tons for nothing.

TRU wanted to get rid of tons of junk and it just happened to be during the times when EB had GREAT deals. Coincidence? Probably but it is a bit weird. Not that TRU is trying to ruin EB but it is a bit odd.

I did buy around 30 games. But I am keeping like 15 for myself. The deal got me some extra money and got me to trade in some of my old crap that is on the restricted list for some credit that I wouldn't have otherwise.

I hadn't played most of the games in over a year and trading them in was a good deal. It is EB's fault for running a deal like this. They know tons of crap will come through the doors. But they also have the right to refuse multiples copies or service or anything they wish to.

I agree that the hoarders need to be stopped. This should hurt them bad enough if it is in effect soon enough. Maybe they will think twice about buying tons of games.

Friday I went and traded some of the games I got. OMFG they had tons of games to shelve. Piles of games were sitting on the floor waiting for the poor clerk to rack em. Crappy games a plenty. Great for the people that want the deal but horrible for EB and people loooking for games to actually play.

Forgot to add: What the hell does FYE mean? And why don't they add it to the underlined mouse over terms?
 
are they really tracking through computers? because as far as i knew they would take your info after the transaction was complete because they wrote your info on the copy of the receipt they kept. so unless they are taking info and putting it into the computer before the transaction is complete then i think it's bogus.
 
I'm calling bullshit or extreme YMMV.

1 - Just got off the phone with my EB peeps, who have heard nothing about this.

2 - You fill out the little slip of paper with your personal info AFTER all the games are rung up. How exactly are they gonna know you are trading in more than 1 game if they don't get your personal info until AFTER THE TRANSACTION IS FINISHED?

3 - They haven't even been talking about putting in a tracking system. THis isn't something they can just magically implement overnight. What would make more sense, if this really is TRU spurred is just change the promotion terms, or just end the promotion early.

The more likely case is that the manager of your EB got way too many POS games and doesn't want anymore, hence the explanation.

Dave
 
[quote name='thetshell']Fye is just a company name:

www.fye.com[/quote]

FYE actually stands for "For Your Entertainment," according to the in-store signs.

[quote name='Nirvanaguy777'][quote name='evilmax17']How do they know who is trading in the games? Do they take your phone number or something?[/quote]

I do recall having to fill in my phone number, name and address. Ahh I see now.[/quote]

The EB stores in my area write down your driver's license number as well.
 
Yes, everytime you trade in something they are going to put a computer chip in your arm and have Predator drones following you whenever you go to shop for games. :twisted:
 
Thanks Dave (MightySlacker) :p


I knew someone out there had to have some EB contacts. I figured it must be a local store thing.. A nationwide POS/Tracking system is NOT easy to implement and from my past trips I remeber that they had to call another EB store to check if they had a particular game since they could only check so much in the POS system.

Kevin
 
[quote name='MightySlacker']I'm calling bullshit or extreme YMMV.

1 - Just got off the phone with my EB peeps, who have heard nothing about this.

2 - You fill out the little slip of paper with your personal info AFTER all the games are rung up. How exactly are they gonna know you are trading in more than 1 game if they don't get your personal info until AFTER THE TRANSACTION IS FINISHED?

3 - They haven't even been talking about putting in a tracking system. THis isn't something they can just magically implement overnight. What would make more sense, if this really is TRU spurred is just change the promotion terms, or just end the promotion early.

The more likely case is that the manager of your EB got way too many POS games and doesn't want anymore, hence the explanation.

Dave[/quote]

I think this should know be known as the "CAG1000 rule" or the "slidecage rule", since it seems like it doesn't apply unless you're them.
 
there is a 12 game limit in effect at my EBGames. The rep said someone tried to trade in 30 games the day before.

Still a no go with the demos/Jampacks.
 
I did witness some nitwit trying to trade in a dozen copies of one game at my local store, but he too was rebuffed. Of course, this was the same idiot who was running his mouth off at both local TRU and EB locations about how he'd gotten them all so cheap and wanted to trade them in for way more than he'd paid. I guess this moron didn't care or realize what a positive effect he was having on the situation for everyone involved.
 
Great... and I planned to go out today to trade in my games.

Someone report back as soon as they can, please.
 
I talked to someone I know that works at EB, he says this 1 per person situation is very unlikely. Normally when I trade stuff in, I have to fill out a paper form with name and phone number and whatnot. But its never put in the computer. I dont know about ID checks, since I only trade stuff in when he's working.
 
[quote name='masha']slidecage, mods have to ban you for a week for this. :twisted:

I'm sure your EB wants you dead. :twoguns:[/quote]

:rofl:

[quote name='shrike4242'][quote name='MightySlacker']I'm calling bullshit or extreme YMMV.

1 - Just got off the phone with my EB peeps, who have heard nothing about this.

2 - You fill out the little slip of paper with your personal info AFTER all the games are rung up. How exactly are they gonna know you are trading in more than 1 game if they don't get your personal info until AFTER THE TRANSACTION IS FINISHED?

3 - They haven't even been talking about putting in a tracking system. THis isn't something they can just magically implement overnight. What would make more sense, if this really is TRU spurred is just change the promotion terms, or just end the promotion early.

The more likely case is that the manager of your EB got way too many POS games and doesn't want anymore, hence the explanation.

Dave[/quote]

I think this should know be known as the "CAG1000 rule" or the "slidecage rule", since it seems like it doesn't apply unless you're them.[/quote]

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[quote name='atreyue']HAHAHA

Hoarders deserve what they get, and no one should even bother trying to justify their actions.[/quote]

I'm getting a PSP and games for 25% of their SRP.

So I guess you're right.
 
[quote name='PsyClerk'][quote name='onikage'][quote name='scsg75'][quote name='iheartmetal']

i think the collective CAG community has been raping EB for more than two weeks.....[/quote]

I think EB has been raping consumers for more than 10 years on trade in value...so what's two weeks of the consumer doing it to them?[/quote]

I know EB has been doing so.[/quote]

It's not rape when both parties consent. :wink:

When they offer you $.50 for Mister Mosquito, you have every right to say "To hell with that!" and walk away.[/quote]

Besides, wearing that little barely there skirt over a thong, and offering a $10 bonus? You know EB wants it. Wants it bad. Hard and rough. Oh yeah...
 
[quote name='mmn'][quote name='bil4l']Gotta love the idiots who use good deals dozens of times in a short time span to set off alarms and in turn ruin that deal for those you use them occasionally, like they should. Thanks assholes (you know who you are).[/quote]

Oh screw that. It's been TWO WEEKS since this deal was announced. That's YOUR problem if you couldn't find a couple of free hours in a two week period to go down to EB and get the deal done.

Someone call the waaaaaaahmbulance for this guy.[/quote].

Ummm hey douchebag, I haven't traded ANYTHING in at EB since I traded in my PS2 in for a PSTwo about 3 months ago. So before you make yourself look like a complete ass figure out what's really going on. I was speaking for the good CAG's as a whole. I rarely trade games in and if I do it's a game I'm no longer interested in that I purchased at full price, the last one being NFSU2 at Gamestop. Douche....
 
i'm just glad that I haven't had any duplicates that i've needed to trade in. However, EBGames is getting absolutely fucked with this whole $10 thing and I know that they're not going to do it again, so might as well go to TRU, grab some ghetto-ass games, and get all I can considering that this will probably be the first and last time that I bother trading stuff into EBGames.
 
[quote name='epobirs'][quote name='PsyClerk'][quote name='onikage'][quote name='scsg75'][quote name='iheartmetal']

i think the collective CAG community has been raping EB for more than two weeks.....[/quote]

I think EB has been raping consumers for more than 10 years on trade in value...so what's two weeks of the consumer doing it to them?[/quote]

I know EB has been doing so.[/quote]

It's not rape when both parties consent. :wink:

When they offer you $.50 for Mister Mosquito, you have every right to say "To hell with that!" and walk away.[/quote]

Besides, wearing that little barely there skirt over a thong, and offering a $10 bonus? You know EB wants it. Wants it bad. Hard and rough. Oh yeah...[/quote]

About 20 CAGers probably got a boner from that last part. Kinda sad.
 
[quote name='thabizzle']there is a 12 game limit in effect at my EBGames. The rep said someone tried to trade in 30 games the day before.

Still a no go with the demos/Jampacks.[/quote]

Yep, there's a 12 game limit because that's combining the 6-game, 4-game, and 2-game deals. However, if the cashier is cool, they'll just take the games you have after the 12 game limit and just make that a seperate transaction. At least, that's what my guy did when I was there.
 
Having been down this road many times in the past fifteen years, my advice in these situations is to act with the utmost speed. If you buy a dozen $1 games at TRU, your very next destination should be the closest EB. You have to act fast because even if you use discretion there is always some other idiot who won't that leaves a trail of pissed off store managers.

Being in Southern California I have it easier than a lot of you. TRUs and EBs are all over the place in this region. If you live in a similar region it is worth the investment in a bit of gas to drive around and spread out your trade-ins.

I have little worry about any of the local stores refusing the few items I surprisedly found yesterday in the local TRU after so many previous visits. (In the late afternoon, no less.) The only limitation I've run into was when I brought in fourteen games to one store where the manager didn't care and notice that four items on the receipt didn't have the $5 bonus. After some discussion someone remembered there was a limit of ten in the system and they couldn't override it. But that limit was just per transaction. They just voided the first transaction did the whole lot again as two transactions.

I wonder if Best Buy's system still has a limit of 50 items per receipt. I discovered this during the great Saturn blowout years ago.
 
I actually hope this is true, better chance for other people to get games instead of people trading them in for EB's crappy ass prices.
 
So it did come to a stop.. oh well I only made a $3.00 profit towards my preorder and I still gotta finish the payment =T. At least I kept one of the games.. (even though I don't own Xbox).

Also did people's trade in with their duplicates happen near the beginning? Because I remember I traded mine in Friday.. or Saturday and my EB just told me straight out I couldn't trade in duplicates again.. I don't know if they're bsing me off (since they already hate me or so) or had EB already established that rule?
 
It sounds like I'm lucky to have done my trade today of 6 Jampacks (vol. 10) today. I only brought in 2 at first and asked if there were any limitations with trading 4 more in. He said no problem, bring 'em in so of course, I did. By the way, this was at the San Bernardino Ca. store. It's also my first time trading there and I had to show ID to get my Edge card.
 
i went to an eb that i already traded a pile of games in to.
many of the games i traded in today were already traded in by me at this store.
there were 3 dupe titles in this stack.
everything went flawlessly.
 
Are you guys trading in the games sealed or unsealed at EB? It seems to me EB would prefer them sealed (easier to sell). I know my GR has to have them opened though.
 
[quote name='hotwls13']Are you guys trading in the games sealed or unsealed at EB? It seems to me EB would prefer them sealed (easier to sell). I know my GR has to have them opened though.[/quote]
Wondering same thing---do you guys remove the stickers only, or also take them out of the sealing and open the game?
 
[quote name='punqsux']oh and i edited the title so people stop worrying...everyone else seems to be having no problems[/quote]

Thank you, PunqSux-Wan Kenobi. :D
 
[quote name='zewone']I never believe anything that slidcage posts anyways, but thanks for the clarifaction punq.[/quote]

thats what i couldnt figure out, why everyone was freaking out about something slidecage said.

i decided it'd be good to go check it out, especially since i planned on doing an eb run yesterday and ended up not...

only one more big run and then im retired from this sale (aside from maybe trading in 2-4 games if im in the area.)
 
I'm just wondering why anyone would even bother to look out for ebgames or gamestop..like has been said before they have been fucking people over since they opened..you buy a game today for 50 and next week after you beat it they give you 30 for it and then sell it for 45..you're right no one is MAKING you give it to them but for some youngsters or those with not a lot of income ..that might be the only way to get new games.
 
I traded in a bunch today including 2 primals, no problem at all.

I specifically asked the manager if he wanted me to open them...he said he loves them sealed because they get sold fast (I guess people think they are getting a good deal).

In fact, alot of the sealed games I traded in last week were already sold by them.

So I don't get the problem...they still sell the games I trade in for double what they paid me, that's a decent turnover.
 
I might of said this wrong . What i mean is Go in today and trade the games Go back tomorrow (or in a few days ) and Trade to trade in those same games.

Say if you trade primal in today you probally wont be able to trade it in again.

90% of the games i trade in are sealed so that might be the problem as well

I traded R Racing for the gamecube yesterday and Was refused today . You might be able to trade in more then 1 copy in that single day but im talking about Going back ever few days and trading in the same game. here in fort wayne all 3 stores will only take one of each game and they said once you traded in that game you wont be able to again... ( i got a few R RAcers left for the gamecube i might give it a week and try then) It might just been me cause i was doing a lot of trading (Not the same game but alots of different games to get the 5 buck bouns)

Again this just might be locally but how it sounds its going to go chainwide

and the dude i talked to said it just came down over the weekend so it might be new and its not chainwide yet or it might just be locally. Just saying before you go buy 50 primals thinking your going to get a CHEAP PSP you might want to think again
 
[quote name='slidecage']
Again this just might be locally but how it sounds its going to go chainwide[/quote]

well seeing as how eb has no actual way to track what games youve traded in, it definetly dosent sound like its going to go nation wide...
 
Just got back from my Ebgames. I had no problems trading in six games including 2 Jampacks though my ebgames is definitely on the lenient side.

I would think that trading them unsealed would be better just so it doesn't make it so blantantly obvious. I hope at least you remove the price tags.

Also made my first FYE trade in, unloading a Drake for $15 which I used to buy KOF: Crusaders. Wish I had known about that earlier!
 
[quote name='punqsux'][quote name='slidecage']
Again this just might be locally but how it sounds its going to go chainwide[/quote]

well seeing as how eb has no actual way to track what games youve traded in, it definetly dosent sound like its going to go nation wide...[/quote]


all im doing is passing the info on what the dude told me that they were told they are no longer allow to take more then 1 copy per game per person . Now FRiday i had no problems trading in 3 of the same game to one ebgames but the one in the mall had LIMIT 1 per game right then. i had a lot of different games and i was like i got some to trade and they said Well if those are the same ones you traded in before we will not take them. So unless im misunderstanding them there has to be a way to know what i traded in cause how would they know what games to accept and what ones didnt. And why did my R racing refuse to ring up??

sorry for making people worry but how that guy sound at ebgames is that this is new will be going to all stores/
 
[quote name='slidecage'][quote name='punqsux'][quote name='slidecage']
Again this just might be locally but how it sounds its going to go chainwide[/quote]

well seeing as how eb has no actual way to track what games youve traded in, it definetly dosent sound like its going to go nation wide...[/quote]


all im doing is passing the info on what the dude told me that they were told they are no longer allow to take more then 1 copy per game per person . Now FRiday i had no problems trading in 3 of the same game to one ebgames but the one in the mall had LIMIT 1 per game right then. i had a lot of different games and i was like i got some to trade and they said Well if those are the same ones you traded in before we will not take them. So unless im misunderstanding them there has to be a way to know what i traded in cause how would they know what games to accept and what ones didnt. And why did my R racing refuse to ring up??

sorry for making people worry but how that guy sound at ebgames is that this is new will be going to all stores/[/quote]

As someone astutely noted before, I really don't see how they could enforce this since during the transaction, they only ask for your ID at the very end after they tally up the credit into your balance. So unless they go by personal recognizance (which is certainly possible depending how frequently you go), I don't see how they could tell which games you've traded in the past unless they start doing what FYE does now and takes your ID before the transaction.
 
No problems on my trades today . . . some doubles.

I've done both sealed and unsealed. Sealed if I don't know for sure that the game is going to fly through the exclusion list.
 
[quote name='dopa345'][quote name='slidecage'][quote name='punqsux'][quote name='slidecage']
Again this just might be locally but how it sounds its going to go chainwide[/quote]

well seeing as how eb has no actual way to track what games youve traded in, it definetly dosent sound like its going to go nation wide...[/quote]


all im doing is passing the info on what the dude told me that they were told they are no longer allow to take more then 1 copy per game per person . Now FRiday i had no problems trading in 3 of the same game to one ebgames but the one in the mall had LIMIT 1 per game right then. i had a lot of different games and i was like i got some to trade and they said Well if those are the same ones you traded in before we will not take them. So unless im misunderstanding them there has to be a way to know what i traded in cause how would they know what games to accept and what ones didnt. And why did my R racing refuse to ring up??

sorry for making people worry but how that guy sound at ebgames is that this is new will be going to all stores/[/quote]

As someone astutely noted before, I really don't see how they could enforce this since during the transaction, they only ask for your ID at the very end after they tally up the credit into your balance. So unless they go by personal recognizance (which is certainly possible depending how frequently you go), I don't see how they could tell which games you've traded in the past unless they start doing what FYE does now and takes your ID before the transaction.[/quote]

the eb i went to tonight didnt even ID me (tonight and the first time i traded) the other 2 EBs i traded at ID me

slidecage, i understand youre just passing along information, however perhaps they didnt trade it for you because the remember you traded it in? did you give them your ID or edge card before they started scanning the games? if you didnt how would the computer even possibly know not to take it?
 
SlideCage- made some hollas around my area, and haven't heard a thing of this (down 'ere in Napls, FL). Word is, they'd LOVE to get my trades- any kind, anytime, and multiples (two at a time, of course). I dunoo, maybe they think you're shifty McShifty, eh ;p

Seriously, it's a YMMV affair, from I can tell down here. If you are seriously thinking no one will question 20 of the same game traded in a the same time, well, just og home- however, their hosing you for you just follwing their own rules isn't right. Ask whoever is on tomorrow. 20$ says you'll get a different reply. I love EB likne nuts (especially cashews!), but sometimes, some people aren't better than Space M0nkeys.

-The_K
 
[quote name='scsg75'][quote name='iheartmetal']

i think the collective CAG community has been raping EB for more than two weeks.....[/quote]

I think EB has been raping consumers for more than 10 years on trade in value...so what's two weeks of the consumer doing it to them?[/quote]

You got that right, I've been bent over at EBgames a few times.
Once I traded in a Wipeout Fusion and got $0.75 and those bastards one week later had my game on sale for $24.99 My fault for trading it in I guess but geez at least give some 3 or 4 bucks for a working game with case and instructions
 
this is totaly false, the store manager just knew what your were doing so he did not want to give you the deal. Also those games may have not worked sinse they may have been included as a sports title. Alos Ebgames does not remember customer trade ins in their cpu so this is just bull. My best friend is a employee at EB and he said this is crap.
 
[quote name='MrFriday18']this is totaly false, the store manager just knew what your were doing so he did not want to give you the deal. Also those games may have not worked sinse they may have been included as a sports title. Alos Ebgames does not remember customer trade ins in their cpu so this is just bull. My best friend is a employee at EB and he said this is crap.[/quote]

Yeah, they only store the info for the regular traders (at least, mine does- pro'lly since they know me by now)- to expedite the process some. Have had my info on file there for some time now, and had no probs with the TRU deal as well as when I heaved over half my collection of CAG specials garnered from the past months of CAG love.

-The_K
 
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