Bestbuy/Futureshop TIVs are also listed on that site I linked earlier, for easy comparison.
[quote name='diskdocx']Trade in values are different, and probably lower. [/QUOTE]
Actually from what I've heard a reasonable portion of our values are higher. But a lot of our purchase prices are higher too, so I'm sure on average we get screwed more.
But the point is to pick out the regional aberrations that make for a deal.
[quote name='diskdocx']There could also be an issue if the games you are trading are English only, as all products sold in Canada must contain English and French on the outside. I believe this might apply to in store used games (although not to private sales). I'm not sure if the US retail games have French language packaging. The SKU may be different and not accepted in their system. I am not 100% sure.[/QUOTE]
No EB is going to complain about trading in a US version, it happens all the time. Just skim over their pre-owned stuff looking for them and you'll see. I've never noticed any SKU differences between US/Canadian versions. If by some miracle there is a variation that isn't in their system, they just need to manually search the title. They take disc only games, and those come in without any handy barcodes...
[quote name='diskdocx']I know I tried to do a trade of an imported European retail game, and couldn't do it.[/QUOTE]
That's YMMV, but they do in fact take European games. You need a CSR that isn't dumb though. The game needs to be playable in this region obviously so it'll work for the next guy, and the CSR just needs to search it's title/sku because it obviously has a different barcode than our releases.