Worst trading in experiences

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i don't think there's a thread on here about trading in experiences. Trading in at a game/DVD shops. Shops like Cex, GAME.uk, GameStop, Grainger Games etc.

But what is everybodies bad/worse trading in experience? Will share mine tomorrow.
 
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Will share mine tomorrow.
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Should have waited to start this until then, then.

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General rule, if you're trading anything in, you're going to get screwed on it.
 
*Buys $40 game from GameStop*
*Plays for literally 2 minutes than decides to trade it in*
*Gets $5 in return*

:grumpy:
 
Cashed in on about 12 cd albums when I was 18 and got just enough for a small bag of weed.
 
"Trading in"? Had to look it up because I didn't know what it is. I'm getting smarter by the minute. :D

It is save to say that I have not had a bad trading in experience. What I do, when I want to sell something, is put an add of the item I want to sell on the internet. If I can't sell it, I'll keep it. Simple.

Or write an description and a photo of the item I want to sell on a A4 and hang it up in my friend's compter store for every customer to see.
 
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Should have waited to start this until then, then.

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General rule, if you're trading anything in, you're going to get screwed on it.
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I would of forgot. It was the best idea I had in my mind last night to create this thread, probably would of forgotten to do it today.
And that's true, most places offer you under 50% now. Well around here they've changed most prices so you'll get £6 trade in price for a £15 game. :confused: There's probably worse aswell.

Anyway, this one time I went to Grainger Games & this new kid was serving. (Made a status about this before). Counted up all the money i would get on that Grainger games website and he would closely look at the disks for the tiniest light surface marks, or smudges and if they had one on, he wouldn't take it in. He scanned DiRT 3 complete edition and changed it to DiRT 3 standars aswell because he didn't know the DLC was on disk. Well it's in the trade in section so you should know. I counted up £32 for all of them but for all but 2 he offered me £25 :/ I asked him, "are you mad?" Then left the store.
I've never seen him since, good. I heard talks that he was an awful guy and turns out it's true. I've dealt with new guys in the past, experience this time was the worse! It's not that he was new, it was his attitude towards me & other customers it was bang out of order.

So then I went in the next day, he wasn't there thank god. I got offered £29 and 1 game that the new guy wouldn't take in got taken in & even the guy whose normally there said the disk doesn't look too bad. And I know it's only the sake of £4 but the new guy should of been fair with me and not a t:censored:t to his customers. People have probably complained about him, because I don't ever see him around in there no more. Or he's just quit. :bowdown:
 
If you're not being offered enough, then don't accept it. Seems simple enough to me.
 
GAME UK have some pretty bad trade in prices I find. Traded in 6 decent games a few weeks ago (COD AW, SR4, Battlefield 4, DRIVECLUB & 2 others I forget), but they were all current gen (PS4/XB1) AAA titles and got just £15 for them all, with in-store credit. Annoyingly, didn't even realise how bad that was until I left the store and saw how little I was getting for each game, didn't get more than £5 for anything, and I got less than £1 for Battlefield 4 & DRIVECLUB.

I generally try to go to CeX as their cash trade-in's are always better than GAME's credit. Probably should've went to CeX to trade those in, but I was nowhere near any of their stores that day and just wanted to get rid of those games as I hardly played them. GAME's buying prices aren't too bad (got SLR Evo that day for just £2 extra) but CeX's prices aren't far behind, although their in-store stock is a lot more limited (especially for sim racing games, took them several months to have a copy of AC in one of their stores after the PS4 release).
 
Honestly, after realizing just how little you'd get for trade-ins at major retailers, I stopped returning games while also limiting myself to buy only certain games because of budget concerns/space issues. That's why I have about 8 PS4 games compared to nearly 30 PS3 games, 60 bucks per game (normally) is a major check on how much gaming I actually do. Not saying it's a bad thing, it's actually helpful so I don't start impulse buying and wasting money on games I won't play.

Unfortunately, I found buying CDs is more fun, and generally cheaper (about $12 to $16 at my local record store) compared to $60 games.

Only recent game I returned to get a full refund was Assetto Corsa, and I later found out from the store manager that the specific copy in question was bugged (I bought it new) and gave other people trouble as well. Weird.
 

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