Gamesh!t, and EBGames

+1 for buying but not trading in stuff at GS/EB. The trade-in values on most things are a joke. But you have to realize that for many things they sell used the prices can be a lot lower than those that are new. So you can't blame them for wanting to give you a small amount for something they can only make a bit more off of when they sell it to someone else. On the other hand I have also seen them buying things for cheap and jacking the price up to almost that of the new item. But that's business... Unload stuff on ebay, a pawn shop, CraigsList, or a friend if you don't feel like you're going to get a fair deal from a gamestore. I don't have any disdain for them since I don't feel ripped off by trading things in for cheap to them. I might be partial to them though because I recently found a bunch of PS2 net adapters that I sold for over twice what I bought them for on ebay.

I'd generally agree with a lot of what is said in this topic, if the people who work at the EB I frequent weren't such awesome people.

I buy things from them because I like quality service, and also because I get a little bit of special treatment sometimes . One example of this is when someone traded in Paper Mario for the N64 and I was in the store at the time, someone else was looking to buy it and had the money to get it then. I asked the manager no less than a minute before if I could have it, and they put it away for 3 days until I managed to get the money to pay for it. I mean, they could have sold it right then and there, but instead, they kept it for me.

Also, I have a list of games I'm looking for, like 2 pages long, and whenever they get any of the games in that are on the list, they put them away for me and give me a call telling me they have them.

the Manager gave me a birthday present 2 days ago too. Zack and Wiki for the Wii.

I actually had quite a nice experience with EB Games recently;

I had three broken DS's one Phat DS that wouldn't turn on, one DS lite fitted with a transparent casing from DX but had a broken touch screen socket from a failed repair attempt and another DS lite the same as the previous except was in a light blue replacement case. Since all three were broken and i didn't supply a charger for any of them i thought i would get little over $100 for all of them.

This was not the case, because one of the DS lites was transparent the clerk flipped out showed all the other clerks and decided because it was so 'unique' he would give me $100 for the each DS lite and $50 for the Phat DS (these are the prices of working DS's with chargers). But, for undisclosed reasons we decided to purchase 3 new DS lites and because of that he helped us out even more by pretending we had one of those 'edge' which increase trade-in value by 10% for both of the DS lites.

In the end instead of getting about $125 i got $270 for three broken DS's that were near un-repairable. Even after saying this EB Games are still a rip off and so are all other electronics in Australia, for example; I recently went into a Big W (similar to kmart, walmart, etc) and a 1gb MSPD was something like $34! Prices compared to N.A. amaze me.

P.S. There are probably a lot of grammatical and spelling mistakes because i've typed this in quite a rush so please excuse me

Whenever I'm selling stuff on craigslist, ebay, or here, I phone up EBgames to get a quote, then usually add $5 to their price as my listing price.

Usually even after that extra $5 and shipping, the price seems attractive enough; I find a buyer in like a day.

[quote name='SpikeyNDS' post='1260221' date='Jul 8 2008, 05:52 AM']If you buy the discount card you'll save hundreds in a year(assuming you buy games often).[/quote]
Damn sales tax. Turns 10% off into 2% off.

Oh, man... these places should burn!! HOW DARE THEY TRY TO MAKE MONEY!!! DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!

/sarcasm

As stated before, they make their money on USED items... When you buy a NEW game, you pay $50. They paid $35-$45 for that same game (in major bulk)...

If you take 2 games to trade in, as long as they are new (no more than 5 months old) you can get a NEW game free. They take those 2 games (which you probably bought there anyway) and sell them for $5-$15 off the new price to keep in business.

If all of a sudden EBGames/GameStop just disappeared, you all would notice, and would cry out "WHY?!?!?"

So, if you don't like the trade in idea, don't do it. Just don't complain when a company tried to make money!

[quote name='myuusmeow' post='1264022' date='Jul 10 2008, 05:56 AM'][quote name='SpikeyNDS' post='1260221' date='Jul 8 2008, 05:52 AM']If you buy the discount card you'll save hundreds in a year(assuming you buy games often).[/quote]
Damn sales tax. Turns 10% off into 2% off.
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Actually 10% off before tax = 10% + the sales tax on whatever the 10% would have been.

[quote name='zidane_genome' post='1264044' date='Jul 10 2008, 06:13 AM']Oh, man... these places should burn!! HOW DARE THEY TRY TO MAKE MONEY!!! DAMN THEM ALL TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!

/sarcasm

As stated before, they make their money on USED items... When you buy a NEW game, you pay $50. They paid $35-$45 for that same game (in major bulk)...

If you take 2 games to trade in, as long as they are new (no more than 5 months old) you can get a NEW game free. They take those 2 games (which you probably bought there anyway) and sell them for $5-$15 off the new price to keep in business.

If all of a sudden EBGames/GameStop just disappeared, you all would notice, and would cry out "WHY?!?!?"

So, if you don't like the trade in idea, don't do it. Just don't complain when a company tried to make money![/quote]

I read a manifesto of sorts by a manager of a GS and he said that they pretty much break even on new games and that many times they will have to take a hit on games because all the copies won't sell and they get stuck with them and are forced to reduce the prices.

Spikey probably knows which one of these scenarios holds more truth.

in france, we still have independants shops, and prices there are honest. the one near me does around 10 euros per game. I tend to keep some games and sell others. I did a lot of this reselling with my ps3.

I bought devil may cry 50 euros. ditched it for dark sector, paid 10. ditched it for army of two, paid 10, and so on, till I got mgs4 for 30 euros (brand new games are 70 f***ing euros in france, we're so rich !)

[quote name='cracker' post='1264258' date='Jul 10 2008, 03:05 AM']Actually 10% off before tax = 10% + the sales tax on whatever the 10% would have been. [/quote]
It's after sales tax. And I've got the receipts to prove that.

[quote name='myuusmeow' post='1265534' date='Jul 11 2008, 12:23 AM'][quote name='cracker' post='1264258' date='Jul 10 2008, 03:05 AM']Actually 10% off before tax = 10% + the sales tax on whatever the 10% would have been. [/quote]
It's after sales tax. And I've got the receipts to prove that.
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Hmmm... Well I've gotten a few things at GS with my Edge card and it always deducts it before it is taxed. Like the PS2 net adapters were supposed to be $14.99 and they rang up as $13.49. And a GC Gameboy Player rang up as $17.99 when it was marked $19.99.