You are my hero

I found that if you ask the staff, and they are not rushed off their feet, they will go and use the store computer to check the CeX prices for you. It’s worth keeping in mind, that almost every Gamestation store can do this, it’s simply down to the staff as to whether they can be bothered!

It varies from store to store. Some won’t phone other shops.

Yeah, it seems pretty crazy that they wouldn’t accept the app as evidence. My branch have been happy too, so I guess it’s managers discretion?

Glad you got it sorted in the end though.

Although regarding “Car wot goes fast 2: Off-Road”; we’ll only beat it by £1 if they were offering more than us in the first place, so if HMV and we are both offering £8, £8 is what you’ll get for it. There can also be a situation where we can’t even match their trade price either and that’s if their trade price is less than £2 from our selling price of a game; so say that CEX are offering £14 for your “Explore and level up 4: Stats everywhere” and it’s being sold here for £14.99, we’ll only be able to give you £13, but we may be able to make up that £2 you were expecting from offering more on other traded games. So for this (uncommon) reason it’s generally better to have a few titles with you because overall you’ll get the most from us, that is, if you can show us that a local store would give you more otherwise.

Also another thing not everyone knows about (most customers are surprised when I tell them) is that if you trade in 2 or more games to get a newly released title (within a week of its release date) in the same transaction, you’ll get an extra £5 for your trade. So even if you have two games that you only get £1 for each, instead of getting £2 knocked off your new release, you’ll get £7. Although this can’t be combined with trade-beating other stores, it’s one or the other, plus the deal has come and gone and changed plenty of times (one time it was on chart titles). As of now it’s been stable for quite a few weeks consecutively but I can’t guarantee that it’ll be on when the game you’re waiting for comes out.

Thanks for the info!

i agree, i would not have bought bulletstorm if i could not trade it in! and in turn if i could not have bought bulletstorm i would not of gotten dragon age 2 (£10 + bulletstorm) not bad considering the online pass ^^

New game sales would be massively reduced if people weren’t able to trade them in after playing them.

One thing I found in the past is that I was looking at trade in for points, rather than cash, but unfortunately neglected to print off the superior trade-in price at CEX/HMV before heading into town. However CEX were offering substantially more than Gamestation. Couldn’t get a receipt from either but Gamestation offered me a better trade in price anyway, although it was still short of HMV/CEX prices, as I was looking at store credit, it still worked out better due to the fact Gamestation is substantially cheaper fro most games. So it doesn’t hurt to enquire.

As it turned out, I could have saved more money by taking cash from CEX, waiting two days, and buying the game I picked up a couple of days later online when it was substantially reduced by zavvi. Of course, I would then have needed to wait three weeks to actually recieve it…

I felt the open world “off-road” gimmick was a misstep myself. What is the point of single a vast drive anywhere map if you don’t put in the content to match it and half the races feel broken because the AI can’t cope with the landscape and will always just follow a set route and you just need to find one decent shortcut to win easily. It was fun for a few hours as a sandbox but didn’t hold any long term appeal for me. I’ve got to agree with Megadyptes, I was glad to see Car Wot Goes Fast 3 get the series back on track, so to speak.

It pales in comparison to Car Wot Goes Fast 3: Car Faster, though.

Your mileage may vary, but I’ve always been able to use printouts from CEX.