GAME trade-in...price-matching with CEX

senileturtle

Credit only, and if the manual is missing they take a £1 off - which was news to me last time I traded in in GAME.

I only trade in if I cannot sell the items elsewhere. CEX are cheeky though. Claim they don't take scratched discs - funny, they sell scratched discs!

Crazy_Jamie

senileturtle wrote: »

Credit only, and if the manual is missing they take a £1 off - which was news to me last time I traded in in GAME.

I think that's perfectly understandable. Games without manuals are worth less, after all. I'm actually surprised it is only £1. With lower value games that they only give a few pounds for that makes sense, but with higher value newer games I'm amazed they would only take £1 off.

Flyonthewall

This has been around years. Sadly I have no other games shop nearby for my local GAME to price match I always go to Grainger Games instead as they do the same offer (and with no 1 mile radius only terms), plus last time I went they were happy to price match and add a £1 for cash or credit. Not sure they still do it with cash though.

Something that hasn't been mentioned though is that they will not give you more than what they sell a game for. So if a game is £15, for example, and cex will give £17 trade-in GAME won't match it. They may up their offer but not to the same amount.

senileturtle

Crazy_Jamie wrote: »

I think that's perfectly understandable. Games without manuals are worth less, after all. I'm actually surprised it is only £1. With lower value games that they only give a few pounds for that makes sense, but with higher value newer games I'm amazed they would only take £1 off.

The thing is, they won't mark down the price when selling without manual. CEX also don't mark down price when selling without manual. So it's pretty cheeky.

Crazy_Jamie

senileturtle wrote: »

The thing is, they won't mark down the price when selling without manual. CEX also don't mark down price when selling without manual. So it's pretty cheeky.

I was under the impression that GAME did, or at least I have certainly seen 'missing instructions' on pre owned cases before and a lower price as a result. Couldn't tell you with CEX, though given how awfully poor they are generally it wouldn't surprise me.

red_eye

barbiedoll wrote: »

Don't know if this has been mentioned before but my local GAME store is currently price-matching with CEX on trade-ins.

My son got an unbelievably good deal when swapping his XBox 360 and games for a PS3 and games yesterday, so much so that we have just been checking the receipt in case there were any errors.

The GAME trade-in price for the console was £60 but as they matched the CEX price, we got £97!

If you're thinking of trading anything, it may be worth a look.

Always print out what CEX is paying out because GAME WILL give you as little as possible. Game station was worst for this and they would accidentally on purpose forget to beat it by £1

Tyler_Du

I've had game refuse to do the price match a few times

senileturtle

Crazy_Jamie wrote: »

I was under the impression that GAME did, or at least I have certainly seen 'missing instructions' on pre owned cases before and a lower price as a result. Couldn't tell you with CEX, though given how awfully poor they are generally it wouldn't surprise me.

They do sometimes on those 'naked' games, but general pre-owned games do not come with a guarantee of a manual.

in_my_bumble_opinion

Traded in £130 worth of DS games yesterday at Game using the price match.....they couldn't have been nicer about it. All at £1 more than CEX. A real bargain as some of the games don't even fetch what they paid out on ebay. The only game they refused was a US import (I hadn't noticed, but the lady showed me how to spot the difference). There were two titles that Game actually gave a higher price for than CEX, so they automatically gave me the higher price.

As you can use the gift cards online, I went straight home and bought this:

http://www.game.co.uk/en/nintendo-3ds-xl-luigi-special-edition-with-luigis-mansion-2-dark-moon-eshop-download-276924

....the Luigi-themed special edition 3DSXL, complete with FREE download of Luigi's Mansion 2: Dark Moon for £169.99. Cracking deal IMO. Will sell the download code on ebay as I already have the game, so it should work out that I gt the special edition console for £140-£145. Cheers, Game!

in_my_bumble_opinion

Oh....and a couple of the games had no instruction booklet but they either never checked or weren't bothered (I didn't actually notice if they opened them all up as the process was done mostly in the back of the shop and I couldn't see).