CEX THREAD

Dumb but pretty fun, spent a bunch of hours playing it when I was young despite being a bit barebones.

>finish line is the train station
>you have to park the train, if you overshoot it you have to reverse like a retard

can't think of a single other racing game that does this

cool shit

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I got the Bloodborne steelbook for £12 late last year.

I have worked at cash converters for over 3 years.

Ask me anything lads

my local CEX is pretty shit but i did manage to find a PC copy of JPOG on sale so that was pretty good

is it as bad as it sounds

Good riddance.

Any game shop that sells mobile phones, ipads, protein powder and funko pops deserves to go under.

>Worked in CEX for 4 months last year
I swear to god the amount of people who walked in and said "Got a bag of goodies here for you" was enough to make me murder someone.
Or just anyone who had a bag with them.

Fuck is that Kingston upon Thames?

In what way?

Durham.

I'm guessing you get a load of scum?

Nope I can tell you because I'm and I worked in the Kingston Store.

EDIN-BRUH LADS WW@

Smelly/dirty customers are a minority.
People don't usually bother trying to flog stolen shit because we take photo ID, proof of address and snap a photo of the customer to create their 'account' to sell the shit to us.
There have been a few 'incidents' in the shop which involved the police getting called but these are rare because the team I work with are pretty chill and we know how to talk our way around confrontation with dole scum.

>buy old game from CEX
>faggot behind the counter puts disc in case but no manual
>ask if there's a manual there
>"nah lmao left stick moves right stick shoots lool what you need the manual for?"

Fucking bellend

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>"nah lmao left stick moves right stick shoots lool what you need the manual for?"

Pretty sick burn that m8 not gonna lie.

Ever try ordering a 'mint' grade retro game from them online? Don't fucking bother. I paid £60 for pokemon blue and the box arrived full of creases and wear with an old retail sticker welded to the front of it.

I've worked at Cash Converters for over 4 years.

Don't listen to this guy They'll say something reasonable like "not all areas are bad" but the BuyBack customers are almost always pitiful and don't wash. They are stuck in an vortex and they will always spend their money on things that aren't soap, water, tooth brushes and tooth paste. We also get the local "homeless" bringing in stolen shit from Wilkos and WHSmith as "Christmas Presents" as late as March.
Rarely get any good games, it's always FIFA and FOTM AAA kusoge.

What I live for, are the moments when people bring in interesting things.

>want to buy used ps3 controller
>35 fucking euros
They can go fuck themselves for all I care. Hardware overpriced, games overpriced, and that for used garbo

Nice one mate, been waiting for another of these threads to pop up.
I bet nobody knows my local.

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That's one crazy taxi

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH

have cex

based wakefield CEX, the only one I've ever seen without staff with wacky hair dyes

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comfy thread, here's me local

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There was one in San Antonio I went to. It was 90% used sports games and a couple of imported JRPGs they kept behind the glass case.

underrated post

>I paid £60 for pokemon blue and the box arrived full of creases and wear with an old retail sticker welded to the front of it.
jesus christ why

Came here just for this, thank you.

HELLO DURHAM

The one I had closed down and got replaced with a smoke shop.

King's Lynn.

Correct.

>They'll say something reasonable like "not all areas are bad"
It is literally based on store/area man.

>but the BuyBack customers are almost always pitiful and don't wash
Most of my customers have jobs, they're just bad with money. One of my regulars is a regional manager on 40k but always puts his ipad pro in when he's skint because he likes to drink/gamble.
>They are stuck in an vortex and they will always spend their money on things that aren't soap, water, tooth brushes and tooth paste.
Again, depends on the area. There will always be trampy customers as the shop seems to attract those kinds of people more than other retailers but loads of people love to come for the variety of stock.
>Rarely get any good games, it's always FIFA and FOTM AAA kusoge
That's because all of the good games are scooped up by me :^)

Wtf cex is in other countries? I thought it was one random game shop in my city

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I'm in the process of opening a CEX shop from their franchising branch. I'll ensure that it smells nice and that the staff don't have multicoloured hair. Any other suggestions?

Same. I thought it was some cringy tiny shop in a city I go to study

Don't hire pakkis/indians. I am dubious of anywhere that sells technology when they're involved.

>when you see a shitty phone repair shop ran by a paki

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>I am dubious of anywhere that sells technology when they're involved.

Why?

I've found their prices beat amazon and ebay consistently, so unless you want to fuck around with other second hand places that might not have online stores then it's generally a good bet to get shit.

>Corner shop doubles as a tech repair shop
Never again

>gameboy and plastic jewel iphone cases

I've literally never seen someone who isn't white working in CEX. But I do see their stalls on the high street when I pass through Bristol

Why does every second hand console u get from their reek of fags

That's a first

>PHONE UNLOCKING DONE HERE

>guy i know had to refund 3 PS4 pro's for overheating
nice ''quality'' control they got there
>the actual comfy vidya store died for this

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Because they're dishonest and rip off merchants.

Funny story about one of the local phone repair shops actually.
A lady brought in her iphone to have the screen replaced, the pakki took £50 from her and fitted a new one. It was a shitty 3rd party screen from china which died within a few days. She went back to get a refund, the pakki refused, until she told him she was a police officer, he dropped his arse and fixed her phone properly and gave her the £50 back.

Oh and they buy £3.99 unlock codes from ebay and charge £20-30 for 'phone unlocking services'.

did he actually try opening them up and cleaning them though, fuck knows where they came from

Ya know they don't actually make the consoles right? If the guy had 3 go dead on him that's either really shitty luck or his house has a dust/ventilation problem.

This is my local one kinda small.

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Not all paki shops are bad. A paki run independent game shop near me always breaks street date a week early if u ask at the counter, nice guy

>he went back to get a refund, the pakki refused, until she told him she was a police officer, he dropped his arse and fixed her phone properly and gave her the £50 back.
fucking lol

they literally open the consoles and take them in for ''testing'' for some time then you can sell them

HAHA OMG
TELEFOONS

Wow how funny

Seriously though, why the fuck are these always filled with wannabe emos

been to 3 seperate cexs, all of them were shit and the one currently closest to me is tiny as fuck, only thing worth getting in cex is ps2 games, everything else is just shitty ebay tier prices.

Cash converters user here.
We only offer 6 month warranty and sometimes our consoles don't even last that long.
There is no way to check for faults that may occur after the item has left the shop.
You plug the thing in, make sure it reads a disc, make sure the controller doesn't have stick drift and charges properly, and you're done.
You really think Cex spends literally hours testing every single console they get?

cex will never be as comfy as gamestation

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they have nowhere else to congregate

i bought smt nocturne from mine for £15

yeah, nah
only if you're paying for the service. Otherwise they just turn it on to make sure it boots and then stick it on sale

The ones in Dublin are usually filed with trash games and scummers trying to sell whatever DVDs they've just nicked. I'm so glad I cleared out whatever DVDs I had like 5 years ago before they became worthless, they can't even shift them for €1. Not sure how any Cex keeps going when they're unable to sell any DVDs but conversely selling second hand games for more than they are new elsewhere.

>gamestation died 7 years ago
digitalspy.com/videogames/a373196/game-and-gamestation-stores-cease-trading-half-expected-to-close/

On a related note, I went in GAME in Darlington recently. I felt depressed by it for some reason.

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Cex took on the mantle of 'edgy marketing'.

Look at that bitch's hair jesus christ

They're okay. Bought a HTC One M9 last year and it still works. Want to get a Wii U Pro controller soon.

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Is that the Stratford one?

I wish they'd clean their stock before putting it out for sale

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Weirdly the UK Cex website is a pretty good spot to get second hand CPU's. I got an i7 for £100 cheaper than new and it was perfect. Their returns policy is decent enough to try it out at least.

Didn't even know they'd shut down. I've been going to the same one in Benton since I was like 10.

Happened last March: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-43588365

I guess they have to be more competitive online
If you walk into one of their stores to buy hardware they already know you're a chump

heathway

Shame. They were a bit shit but, nostalgia. Got a 3DS there for about 25 squid.

There was a girl (possibly male) singing this outside the Inverness CEX when I went there about a year ago. It was hilarious.
youtube.com/watch?v=oY9m2sHQwLs

Their closing was a disaster.

Still taking pre-orders and trade-ins for store vouchers the week before they folded.

holy fuck that's ridiculous

There was this cute half-japanese girl who worked the counter here years ago. If I wasn't such a lazy cunt, I would've applied to work here

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that looks pretty fucking fun

I know of a guy who traded his iPhone X in for almost £1000 worth of credit just before they folded.

Apparently some of the staff found out they were out of a job via email the night before the big shutdown.

This one or...

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>I know of a guy who traded his iPhone X in for almost £1000 worth of credit just before they folded.
I would not have liked to have been that guy. Christ.

Even the Cex store looks depressing here.

I kinda feel bad because I bought dq11 at Cex (there was only one copy), and I kind of wanted to suck SE’s dick harder because I want more DQ stuff released in the west.

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This one, depending on if I want software or hardware.

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The same one as you OP, Durham England.

Yeah the closure was a disaster for staff, I knew someone working in one and they had a feeling things weren't great when they were selling shit like protein powder. Eurogamer reported one day that 21 of the stores were closing, his store wasnt on the list then went into work the next day to find out all of them were actually closing and he had 3/4 days left in the job. Had to pack up the entire store then was fired.

The one by me had a Monster Hunter Generations Nu3DS model in the window for so long. I should've bought. Especially since now I want to upgrade my 3DS and Nu3DS XL's are seemingly rare now

A new challenger approaches
Never seen a place harbour so many greasy neckbeards and pseudo-nerd normies.

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Fuck this is the most British picture ever. Run down CEX with a lad smoking out the front.

An old family friend owns this branch

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Does anybody remember Future zone?

They were around in the early to mid 90's & were the first to do the edgy videogame store thing, their shops were decorated like the set of Gamesmaster lel
They got bought out by EB games and then later on turned into Game, and the soul was lost

I can't even find a pic of one, so here's an old EB games instead

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Forbidden Planet Dublin is mostly filled with the most normie tier Bazinga! people. I can't say much though as I get weekly comics there quite a bit.

Only been in once or twice but it felt quite upscale as CEXs go.

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Is it supposed to be pronounced like "sex"?

I miss it lads. It was great when there was both a GAME and a Gamestation nearby to each other.

>forbidden planet
that place must fucking stink

I wonder when it was taken, it looks proper mid-90s

the CEX up here in telford is fuckin terrible

I still have an Electronics Boutique PS1 games holder. Remember getting Carma II from it as well many years back.

K-ex

should I got to my local store to see if a ps3 is cheap there? I wanna play demon souls and metal gear 4

>Overwatch and Star Wars
It's rare to see an image so perfectly illustrate a post's message.

My town lost GAME about 10 years ago, grainger going under last year means Cex is the only place left in my town that sells games other than places like Asda, argos etc.

Cex seem to have taken this as a challenge to make their prices as ridiculous as possible.
Especially when it comes to trading in older games.
Pic related as an example. (look at cash given compared to what they sell it for)

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They say sex on the advert, but we all know it's keks

Is that grainger street?

That place is fucking cancer.
Funko pops, harry potter, star wars, a case full of hot toys and statues that nobody ever buys.

>when you see shit like this

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EDINBURGH GANG

I went on vacation to London and found one on Walworth Rd. Would've bought a bunch of cheap DS games but then I realized I can't play them on my amerifuck DS. Damn.

Nah. You can pick one up on facebook for £20-30.
Just make sure it's not a fat model cause they are prone to dying randomly.

see ee ecks

DS is region free ya fackin' yank!

In all its glory

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Haven't been to an FP in years. I used to visit the one in London every so often in my teens and look at the back of anime DVDs, the go home and download them off kazaa

Yes it is. Its incredibly dumb. Their WiFi networks in every store are "Unprotected CeX" for the public, "Protected CeX" for staff.

>X-Treme Express
Holy shit, an hour and half later, and I find someone else who knows of the game. It's fucking rad and the music is stellar.

Found my copy for like, £3 but I'll be buggered if I can remember where from

They had a copy of Symphony of the Night in my local a few months ago. It was £170 but then got bumped up to £190, it's gone now so some madman must have bought it.

youtube.com/watch?v=q0ffff0hNkM

>Their WiFi networks in every store are "Unprotected CeX" for the public, "Protected CeX" for staff.
Don't think I've seen something that could be summed up with this image for a while.

Seriously, how childish.

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Its recent. Its the original CeX on Tottenham Court Road in London and still looks like that.

fuck off, shill

My local CeX had a boxed copy of Super Metroid in the window for over a year for £150. The box was battered, worn and faded but eventually it disappeared so someone parted with their £150

my local cex had one of those limited edition 20th anniversary PS4s for more than 2 grand in the window

some madman actually bought it

The one in southampton is quite nice desu, I always pop in when I'm in the new forest area

Also I thought that picture was a random one from Google but it's the actual one they put up themselves on their website for the store. Imagine giving that little of a shit about the OG store.

uk.webuy.com/site/storeDetail/?branchId=1

What do you even buy at brick and mortar stores? Everything CEX has you can buy it cheaper online, it's literally redundant.

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CeX will sell online as well so if you bought one that Super Metroid or 20th Anniversary PS4 online they just pick it off the shelf of whatever store has it in stock and ship it out to you. 100% guaranteed if it was battered the buyer didn't know

Here is the other one close by, I actually bought dq11 from this one rather than my main one.

One time some random black girl started to dance in the middle of the store out of nowhere to the music in Cex, she danced for a while. Another time some underage kids started to talk to me for no reason while I was browsing games.

Managed to get a pretty cool box set of Herzog’s films at my main one once though, I watched FLCL because I brought the first DVD at Cex.

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>go to CEX
>some guy has 100 or mor DVDs to sell
>in the que behind him
>er sir we will have to inspect all of these
>guy grunts and says guonn then
>30 minuets later
>CEX faggot finally finishers
>sorry it took so long sir just need to scan em all now
>faggot says k
>10 mins later
>ok sir we can offer you £2.50 for the lot
>faggot says nahh stuff tha
>grabs his DVDs back and walks out
>mfw

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Yeah, their own store pictures are shite.

slick paint job on my local

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>Imagine giving that little of a shit about the OG store
suits the brand

I've played this and it's great. I really should play it again.

The reality is not everyone is as online as we are. For the bulk of console gamers the local store is as far as they'll go looking for something, esp if it's parents buying something for kids.

Literally have Cex

I was planning on hiring physically fit blonde/brunette girls that currently work in shops like New Look/M&S/Hollister or some other clothing shop.

I'm well aware that physically attractive staff can have an impact.

Stuff comes with a 2 year warranty, so it's not really a problem if your guy brings it back in.

They're supposed to. Your one might just have lazy workers.

I buy consoles, phones and accessories. Easier to see the damage they have instead of worrying what they look like during delivery

Have a CEX in Plymouth that I always go to if I'm in town.
Pretty good.
Usually just wander about looking for the very cheap shit.

>I'm well aware that physically attractive staff can have an impact.

That brings a whole heap of problems that aren't worth the hassle my dude.

>queen bee syndrome
>women are lazy/useless
>attracts lonely virgins who will hang around your store just to stare at them

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if not CEX then where's the best place to actually sell games you don't play anymore?
i'm too paranoid about ebay because i don't want people knowing my name/address and having to deal with refunding people

Any independent games shops near you?

Just a reminder to everyone that Charlie Brooker is partly responsible for the plague of CeX (he worked at the first one and is credited as a founder) before going into gaming journalism for PC Zone

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This is my local branch
Good luck getting any rares here though

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I only ever had one issue with Ebay and that was when I sold a digital PSN code, bastard said I didn't send him the code when I did. He ended up getting a refund and the code. All the physical stuff I ever sold was fine

Depends on how long you're willing to wait. CeX will pay you pennies but will take all your shit off your hands, good if you're moving or need to clear out.

You'll get more money on eBay even after fees, but takes ages and you need to go to the post office often depending on how many games you're selling.

Unironically facebook gaming groups.

Retro realm, gaming paradise, game trader, or whatever group is local to you.
Just follow their rules or the cunty admins will kick you out.
But this can also work for you as there's no price bashing allowed, scammers get kicked out, and all deals are done in public view on the page, the only private messaging done between buyer and seller is to exchange paypal info and shipping address.

car boot sale
or sell to a market trader, find the guy selling games (if there is one) and often you can get a few more quid than cex would, especially for a job lot

Well what do you suggest then? There are problems regardless of who I get. They seem to do okay when they work in other shops such as River Island, so if I hire carefully, I should be okay no?

does your town have a mcdonalds?

>Win 60 quid in some school competition
>not sure what to do with it
>aimlessly walk into CEX on the way home
>pick up a Wacom tab, Dragon's Dogma, Dead Space and DMC collection
I love CEX sometimes

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That actually makes sense. I swore to never order online from CeX again. They'll have what you're looking for for sure but the condition it's in is a total gamble. I've had games with damaged inlays and inlays that looked like the game had gone through a washing machine. But the one that really fucked me off was when I bought the Metroid Prime Trilogy for £50 and it was just the original case and disc, no instruction book, and no artbook

Try using a PO Box for returns? Really no one gives a shit though, them having your address isn't going to do anything.

>i don't want people knowing my name/address
never understood this meme, people literally see you go in and out of your place everyday, they all know where you live, they don't give a shit, nobody gives a shit

Have you guys seen this video

youtu.be/1g1drZ1j-C0

Kill self

For a start, hire people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about when it comes to games/consoles/phones, not just someone who can vomit spec sheets and buzzwords.

Don't hire any pakkis, LGBT degenerates (including anyone with dyed 'alternative' haircuts) or gamer grrrrls.

Mine is just full of chavs and crackhead couples trying to sell stolen phones

R8 my local cex

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CEX
E
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There was a few in my city but they closed them all.

>people actually miss these horrible stores
The game cases were covered in nerd grease and sticky shit, and they always had weird smells inside. The only thing they had going for them was the fact that they're less awful than CEX.

That's a common ruse, some cunt buys something off you and says it never arrived or was broken and demands a refund. It's really hard to disprove them as well, even if you use signed delivery there's still a risk someone could say you sent them a box of rocks.

>>grabs his DVDs back and walks out
Oh you poor soul. You think it's that simple?
You end up having to put every single sisc you took out back into the boxes.
Also spare a thought when they have to actually label the boxes when the trade in is done.

Well I never knew that.

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Yeah Ebay is garbage now, I'm not sure how it used to be but sellers barely get any protection, I honestly don't know how people still manage to make a living from it any more

play magazine in the early 00's had the best reader letters section, the bants were hilarious. They'd print literally anything and ripped into anybody that wrote in

All the original writers left and it limped on as a shell of it's former self before folding

Southend?

I'm tempted lads

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I completely agree with you, that would be ideal.

That being said, such staff would cost money that I may not be able to afford. The CEX staff salary is comparable to what the other high street shop staff get. This sort of means that you've got to hope you happen to come across such staff.

I bought Heavenly Sword there about 3 years ago for €3.

The game froze when I started it up.
Never again.

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My local, though in my experience they're all utter dumps.

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That's a decent price. It will likely not come with a controller though.

I miss that stuff, all the cheeky lad bantz and blatant softcore. Things used to be so fun I know the whinging about SJWs goes on and on but it is depressing to see how fun things once were before Mary Whitehouses took over everything

I stopped buying those magazines once CVG died in 2000-something.

>Any other suggestions?
A free game for everyone in this thread

That's okay, I have a few spare ps3 and ps4 controllers. The biggest thing I'm worried about is the memory card, I never had the vita but I always heard how expensive the cards were

People are so desperate for jobs nowadays that you can afford to be picky even if you're only paying minimum wage.

Don't settle for retards who will make your life a pain and potentially ruin your business in the long run. Trust me, my company seems to think the answer to making budget is hiring absolute bottom of the barrel 18 year olds on 'apprenticeships', most of them don't last 3 months before quitting.

If you're hacking it you can use an external USB drive as memory card instead. Much handier than the still insane prices of Vita memory cards. Even the CeX price for a 64gb is £70.

>when my workplace hired a drunk who got sacked for harassing another member of staff 3 months after she started

I wish! I couldn't possibly afford that.

Based deebro.

He didn't specify what game, make it Fifa 08 for Xbox 360 :^)

Could be worse, it could be pic related
Went in once & holy shit, the stink & the autism was something else.
Travelling Man is pretty good though.

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Old FIFA games can't even be worth 1p nowadays.

I can already feel the autism.

I don't know if these all just look the same...but do you live in Rugby?

They aren’t small shops or anything, it’s just a quite large hobby store which has a lot of people flowing in 24/7

fuck, I forgot how big forbidden planet's stores are

can't say I've been in one for years

Fifa 19 is currently worth £15-20.
Fifa 18 is a few quid.
Fifa 17 £1 if you're lucky
Anything prior 50p down to 1p

I think the only game that devalues faster is Fallout 76

Went in one of these and the walls were almost entirely lined with funko pops.

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fucking funko pops, I swear to god

HMV has a load of them for whatever reason

I just want a comfy place to meet people with similar interests to me.
Geek Retreat made me realise that most people with similar interests to me are fucking horrid.

Full of sperglords, from giant hambeasts to literal skeletons

>when you see a geek cafe and it's full of those people

Where's it opening?

I'm currently working out the details for a place in either Angel or Ealing London.

There's one here too. Bought a Star Wars Black/Rebellion bag for £15 3 years ago.
Preferred that it was Black/Empire but all they had was White/Empire
Haven't been back in since. There flavor of the month displays in the outside windows is decent though

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Just give me a nice coffee shop with board games.

Anyone remember Chips?

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nice thats a huge one, the one here in Croydon is tiny/shit

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Where do the non-disgusting, well-socialised gamers hang out? They must exist.

CEX is a massive scam.
>Those overpriced, pre-owned PS2 games

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One recently opened in Angel

Do we actually have any other options in uk for stuff older than current Gen?

I only try Charity shops & cex, and it sucks 99% of the time

You haven't got any independent stores near you?

kys dust head

Any of you lot read NGamer back in the day? It was an independent Nintendo magazine that seemed to have some of the more joyful, witty spirit that seems to have been prevalent in the past.

I'm more of a psychedelics man meself.

I saw. That whole Angel,Highbury, Holloway, Archway area would have been ideal for me. As a franchise it seems to be doing really well. That's what made me decide to put aside some funds over the past few years and get into it. I wanted to do Holloway, but someone has already done there.
I'm quite surprised Ealing broadway hasn't been done yet.

The RAGE in Dublin can post if you can buy online.

We have 'heart of gaming' which has some okay stuff. They also purchased all the old machines from truckadero in central. So they have an weird arcade here, £10 for unlimited play

Nice to see another Croydonfag

The local indie game shop near mine had to split into a barbershop to stay afloat.

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Impossible everyones on monkey dust in that godforsaken hell hole

i want to leave, at least 5guys doesn't have queues here

last time I stepped into a gamestation they had 5 copies of house of the dead for saturn bought one copy but should have bought them all as they now go for a pretty penny

any other leicesterfags? the people working here are such miserable sods, like fucking cheer up mate ya bringing me down

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Ouch.

Never been in there because those fucking prices in there are retarded. The Taco Bell round the corner is good though

>"What style do you want, mate?"
>"You know Cloud from Fi-"
>"Say no more"

fuckin hell that's saddening

Really? Every time I go in there its all shitty nu star wars and funko pops.

t. never actually been to God's country

Big up to the granby street massive!
I prefer Loughborough desu, not the cex mind just the town itself. I miss gamestation on that road, and another world before it was taken over by forbidden planet.

I get PS4 games there cheap, which is all I need.

You been to that yellow game store near taco bell? its so shit. most overpriced stuff i've ever seen

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>Middle Eastern men walking out with anime AF hairstyles
Would shout terrorist so hard

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Good luck to you mate. If you need a manager and can pay £35k~ hit me up

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FUCK leeds and FUCK huddersfield

>buy dvd from cex
>turns out it was supposed to be a 2 disc set
>only have 1 disc
>it's the fucking special features

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yeah loughborough is a lot nicer, im currently living in braunstone gate would like to move out but i work in city center and i don't want to have to buy a car

This one's a decent independent shop near me: youtube.com/watch?v=9a_uVY5RvQ8

Not my channel by the way.

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>manager
>35k

Hahaha good one m8.
I'm a grunt and I'm barely on 15k, and my store manager gets about £100 a month more than me after tax, I've seen his wage slips.
Most managers these days are just king of the monkeys, they still get paid peanuts.

My store manager at a fucking coop is on like 36k mate.

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>walk into the Bolton CEX a few years back
>hear a song that sounds out of place
>know I recognise it very well and it's just not meant to be there though
>but can't tell why due to ambient noise and the vocals being really subdued
>suddenly very clearly hear
>MY WISHES OVER THEIR AIRSPACE
>it's fucking Daybreak's Bell by L'Arc en Ciel

youtube.com/watch?v=SS2oabSacls

>mfw

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There are a few in my company who are on 25-30k but only because they've worked here for literally 20 years or they're a relative of someone very high up.

The company was founded by a pajeet. Adds up.

Anyone know any good car boots in London? I fancy one tomorrow morning. Haven't been to one in years

Got one in GameStop for seven euros back in 2006 I think

I was a postie for a couple years, got my p60 through the door yesterday and I'd earned £30k last year with overtime here and there.

Was made manager last month and I get £35k for not doing a whole lot, and because I cover managers annual leave, have no real long term responsibility.

I thought London was all concrete and misery, where the fuck would it have a car boot

School playgrounds mostly.

Great for birds and nights out that way though! I live near Leicester but work near Loughborough, so spoilt for choice.

Been to ones at schools, fields, carparks. Pretty depressing but they exist

This place is a fucking joke, how its still in business is beyond me

I remember at one point a few years back they were selling second hand PS4's for more than they were brand new, also went in to get rid of some old games and the fucks offered me virtually nothing for them and wanted identification too, just walked out of the place and never went back since.

I rather do business with gamestop and we all know whats happening to them soon.

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The only reason I stay in my job is because the banter is top notch, the hours are easy and there's loads of fiddle on the side to make up for the shitty wage.

As soon as any of these cease I'm gone.

>I get £35k for not doing a whole lot

Management and HR in a nutshell

I'm a postie, and was a manager for a while several years ago... The doing nothing won't last, at least if your area is anything like mine (Leicestershire).

The difference in money wasn't worth it for me.

When the 360 came out for some reason they were SCARCE as fuck. They had the shitty arcade model for £450 and I think retail was £250 or less. I had to end up buying it and the fucker red ringed after 6 months.

At my store only a few PS2 games are overpriced.
Stuff like KH2, Silent Hill 2, Bully and Yakuza 2.
Yakuza 2 is a funny situation actually because before they put it up behind the counter selling for 40€ I literally bought the exact same game from them for 2,50 couple months prior.

Dont go Cex

This store I go to for all kinds of retro games and in general. Found some really good stuff in there, old big box PC games in mint condition. This one heres in Leicester

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this looks like some fake generic game store from a cartoon

I'm in a multi manager unit in London at the moment, so as the lowest ranking manager nothing major gets put on me, for now. Loved being a postie though.

lel

the shit-tier sign really sells it

that's why you always check beforehand, innit

I brought a new copy of Okami Wii for like £15 2 years ago, its not too bad if you apply a little common sense but nowadays its crap. It went downhill the moment half turned into a phone store

>remember Yea Forumsbongs saying this was the most disgusting place ever
>it was true, it stank, the people were weird, everything was dirty

have cex

i worked there for a while :o

Yea the fonts a bit shit but its quite nice inside

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>bring in old ipads i found in the attic to CEX #1 to trade them in
>"oh sorry m8 don't have time to test 'em before closing, should be grand if you come another time though and you don't need chargers either"
>bring them to CEX #2 later that week
>"oh sorry m8 you need the chargers for these"
>slend €20 on chargers+shipping and go to CEX #1 again
>"oh sorry m8 these are too old so we won't buy them from you, give you €7.50 for the chargers though"

And I've never been to one since

nobody posted the Newcastle one, though desu I havent been into town in fucking years, no idea if its even still there.

Oh another one from before this
>Go in CEX and buy a flashdrive for school since my old one was lost
>It doesn't work
>Bring it back to get a replacement
>"oh sorry m8 can't take that"
>ask if they think I'm lying about not breaking it myself
>"no m8 we just don't sell generic USBs like that so I know it's not one of ours"

Quit that one in particular long before the brand as a whole

Is that Northside shopping centre

Westmoreland Street?

>expecting to get a decent amount of dosh from cex for anything
it's literally just a place to get rid of all the unwanted dvd's taking up to much space when you don't have time for ebay or car boot, the most you will ever get is enough for a few pints down wetherspoons

BONGS GET YE GONE

I posted it here m8

>"Hmm no scratches on your phone"
>"no dents"
>basically brand new
>guy marks it down as a B condition

U fokin wot mate

Same shit happened with a keyboard I went to sell. Guy gave me B grade because "IT DONT HAVE TEH BOX" like motherfuckers I've seen you sell grade A items without the box.

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Saw this in a London one today

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Their site said I'd get €100~ store credit at the time, I wasn't expecting a huge payday or anything but I thought I could pick up some stuff for it.

lyl

shit man, i just checked on googlemaps and the old CEX shop is gone - the one that was just up from maplin where the old odeon used to be. Googlemaps shows that the entire thing has been fucking flattened tho. Guess it really has been ages since i've been into town.

Doncaster is a shithole.

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The blue high viz makes it all worthwhile!
I was a SPDO manager and a DOM. Do not recommend either, but good luck to you, you may find it easier, you may have a better managerial structure, and you might not be asked to cut hours by 15% year on year.

>that bin

I bought this for 85 quid about 10 years ago

who here /lanc/

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why tf is there wildlide growing out of that window

Only good thing I ever found was the yakuza 4 steel book for £12

Nope it's in amsterdam

Forgot my image

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Explain. This looks like a normal sports game to me?

One of the local chav spawn probably spunked his ooze all over it I dunno man I try not to go outside if I can help it.

2008 there was a naked guy with his trainers on fire outside our house.

I went to Doncaster once. Was so fucking depressing. How do you cope? Are you employed?

based st.helens poster, the amount of drama caused by kids in that maccies next door is unreal

I don't know why it's so overpriced. I saved it from a facebook group

Nah been NEET since 2007 and been on bennies since 2010. Don't go outside almost ever due to avoidance behaviours I developed when I dropped out of school at 15.

It's fared better than most post-industrial northern towns desu. We have a lot of shops and rail link but it's still an ex mining town full of junkies.

How can you afford video games?

Aye that one shut down quite a while ago.

Anyone remember Cex selling porn dvds?

Its a pretty rare game for a PAL version. Its one of those games that are shit but for anyone collecting a full set of a region they're really hard to find.

The one in Darlington used to before it got rid of its top floor.

100 bong a week bennies. Don't buy a lot of video games though especially since Epic is forcing me back to piracy.

Not to minimize your issues but I'd probably develop the same if I lived in Doncaster. Sorry man, hope you can work through the issues.

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Thanks man. I'm glad I had parents that gave half a shit and I didn't end up like the rest of the people live here even if I am a total loser. At least I'm not on spice or robbing old ladies purses.

I had a quick deeks upstairs in the newcastle grainger street one a few weeks ago, was totally empty. Suppose there's not many normal people buying physical music and films these days.

Hell yeah dude, I remember the one in Partick of Glasgow, had a big stand for F-Zero GX, good shit. rip.

Anyone know how much I'd get for an Xbone?

Sucky's one is better.

>Nah been NEET since 2007 and been on bennies since 2010. Don't go outside almost ever due to avoidance behaviours I developed when I dropped out of school at 15.
Do you have a gf?

Lmao no lad. I had 1 gf in 2008 for a few months. Then I was single for 9 years till I met a lady on okcupid that lasted a few months.

I'm a low status male with nothing to offer, thus I have no worth as a man. Almost all women instantly ghost or block me when they find out im unemployed.

Depends on the model but the cheapest I can find is they'll buy the first 500gb model for £56 cash.

Check their website m8.

Literally £58 for an unboxed original black 500gb model assuming you haven't got the box anymore.

What do you think user

Sorry to hear it, lad.

>I'm a low status male with nothing to offer, thus I have no worth as a man
Got to ask, mate, what do you live for? What's keeping you going? What are you getting out of life?

Life is the only thing there is and I'm far too scared of death to ever entertain any kind of thoughts like that. I live to have a laugh, chat to my mates, play video games and jerk off to fat anime tits.

This thread reminded me of this beauty from a fair few years back. Me and my cousin bought it, played it for less than an hour (he likes sports games) and then it went to the back of the drawer for x years.

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Why does every CEX branch smell so bad lads?

lol

yoooooooooooooo same tho

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Living the dream user.

Life is fucking terrifying.
I've got a job, and house with my girlfriend of 9 years, and I still don't have a clue what I'm doing with my life.
Sometimes I wish I could go back to beating my meat and staying up until 4am playing vidya, like the good old days..

>I live to have a laugh, chat to my mates, play video games and jerk off to fat anime tits.
That's pretty based.

Which shit town are you from then?

kek

I'll always love cex for buying my copy of RDR2 for 40 quid when I bought the game for 50.

i aint gettin that specific but let's just say it's one of the worse ones

I see you pottery heads still post here. I agree Hanley is a shithole.

I often seen retro things like N64 games and consoles that are sometimes cheaper there.

>all these geordies
what the fuck lads
i bought wipeout omega collection from CEX a few months ago for 15 quid, good fun desu

You can do that with literally any new release game if you complete it fast enough.

I paid £50 for Spiderman last year and traded it in for £42.

Forbidden Planet Dublin is so much smaller than the ones in every major British city. The cool thing about visiting a forbidden planet is they're meant to have this overwhelming selection of comics, but the Dublin one has a comics selection smaller than some particularly large normal bookshops.

You aren't from Bentilee are you?

>wipeout omega collection

That was the last thing I bought from grainger games before they went under. £25 for the special edition with the PS1 style sleeve.

Good game. You tried it in VR? Fucking bonkers m8.

christ no

nah dont have a headset but i can imagine its absolutely wild
>ywn tear around a track at 734km/h, get hit by plasma and die in an inferno to the tune of Exceeder
no point really is there lads

I'll always be here. Yea Forums is as inescapable as Stoke is.

Nottingham city centre here, just off old market square
I bought sleeping dogs special edition which came with an artbook as part of the case, so it's not that bad. They had the original dmc 3 upstairs too, but I didn't buy it.

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not sure why but that made me lol

Could be worse, you could live in Crewe.

I hate going into newcastle now.

Full of tramps begging, big issue sellers, preachers, and the metro service is a fucking joke so once you're there you're trapped until the service is resumed.

Barely ever been outside of working there a couple of times. It does seem desolate though. It feels like one of those seaside towns where old people retire to die only its landlocked.

Who Henry St. here?

They expanded their store space recently, when were you last in?

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I thought Crewe was literally just a place people switched trains.

one nearest to me had persona 3 fes and the og yakuza 2 up for like 80 quid

Imagine that but with Chavs and polish people fighting in the streets every weekend.
It was a different town when i was young. Go to it now and half the town is now coffee shops and boarded up windows. The town is dying a very slow death.

>but with Chavs and polish people fighting in the streets every weekend
Sounds like a good laugh desu mate.

Tally Ho just opened up a CEX like a few weeks ago, so that's now my new local after Barnet
Can't wait to smell that shit from the pub two doors down

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Wow I actually go there for the YGO tournaments. Only started playing the game IRL recently and it's the store closest to me. Some people there are chill, but yeah there's a lot of weird dudes hanging around. Dunno where else to play though.

Oh it is, Whats funny is the lame street gangs.
They tried to pull the whole crips V bloods shit.
It was funny as fuck. The Alton Army v the Coppenhall boys.
Most of the more inteligent people had a bet on about who would get raided first. Then the polish arrived and it turned in to a 3 way beef.

Yugioh is literally the most autism of the card games. They're the weirdos that regular weirdos avoid.

My local had a boxed copy of Conkers bad fur day for something ridiculous like £250

Box was fucking battered and had a big rip on the front where an old sticker had been torn off.

I was hoping to see the CeX in Derry

Fucking state of it. Its all fun and games until the Poles turn up.

Oldham?

I like the game a lot but yeah, can't deny that. First time I entered the Geek Retreat I heard MTG players shit on YGO players and say that they should play in the "peasant cave" (basement) of the building. Also while some of the people I've played against are chill, I've also encountered some other creeps like one dude who got angry when I refused to trade him my game mat. Still, I'm not sure where else to play the game. I just want to have fun playing children's card games, but everyone at my uni plays MTG.

>83% of metros are on time
THAT JUST MEANS 1 IN 6 ARE LATE YOU FUCKING INBREDS, WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO BOAST ABOUT IT?

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>north shields branch
>fit goth bird works there
>super chill and seems pretty in the know when it comes to retro stuff
>every time she serves me her spazzy colleague butts in to show off his 'gamer knowledge'
>get a hearty dose of cringe with every visit

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I think whats more funny is that when they are given houses in my town they have to be put in the "Polish getto".
Stops them from fucking up the streets fighting with the Chavs next door. Cross 2 streets and it is like you walked in to Poland. Walk back and you are on set for the Ali Gee movie.

Might go people watching in Crewe next weekend. Sounds like it should be a fucking mess on a Saturday night.

I was waiting for you, fellow Nottsfag.

Anyone here visit the ice bar this winter? I couldn't get in because it was booked up.

>'gamer knowledge'
probably the sort of faggot who unironically shares GAMERS RISE UP memes on Facebook

Nah this was Newcastle, northumberland street.

They also have a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for sega saturn with a pretty worn looking box for £300.

>that'll be £5.20 for a daysaver
>this train terminates at Pelaw
>replacement bus number 900 and the 27 will be accepting metro tickets

Someone please just fucking blow the cunt up already

>have to drive 2 miles to get my newshit and retroshit
its in tempe but its worth the drive
every 3-4 months i take a drive down and buy at least 2-4k worth if vidya

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>tfw used to steal ds games from Game (they kept the ds games inside the boxes) and then sell them to CEX for weed money

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I scored a near mint copy of Pokemon Yellow there a while ago.
She was just trying to give me my change and put the thing in a bag, the guy started ranting and raving 'did you know you can actually catch mew in Red, Blue and Yellow blah blah'.

How the autistic fuck managed to get a job in the first place I'll never know

Just make sure you put on a uniform.
Nike joggers, Trainers , bubble coat and a gold ring.
Blend in, they will think you are one of them.
Also try to project an air of pure meathead. Crewe people are simple and will sniff out if you are not one of them.

i thought Crewe was like, a bit more pompous than the way you describe it desu. only went once and all I remember of it is it had a fuck-off big spoons

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I have tried to escape from the place 3 times but i have to keep coming back to this shithole. So if i have to suffer this town i am going to make sure everyone knows how much of a shithole it is. I would call it the shithole of shitholes.

should just put the cunt on stocktake duty

ah Peckham, you absolute shithole
haven't checked their GPU section in a while

Lewisham is shit

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didn't even post the image because I'm retarded

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How do they 'test' graphics cards?

Do they just have a gaming PC out back to whack it in at any time? I wouldn't trust buying a second hand 1080 from them.
The 2 year warranty is bullshit after the first 6 months good luck getting them to replace shit for you.

Friend once made me go watch a movie in a Peckham cinema.
Never again.

the "Peckamplex"? I keep getting tempted by the 5 quid entry but then I remember it's Peckam and immediately decide not to go

Bought a Vive VR full kit from CEX at £340 last year, good thing I could actually inspect it a bit in store.

Still washed the soft bits when I came home, but shit worked so I'm fine with it.

True that. True that.

Yep.
These days I'd rather spend 11 quids but get a decent experience, even if I'd rather not go to the movies at all, I've got a 60 incher at home, a stop button and a fucking couch who needs cinema.

>implying I wont knock about with a claw hammer just in case

>"Could you please break the law, sir?"
>"Of course! I'm brown! Here you go!"

>60 incher, a stop button and a fucking couch
not to mention nobody loudly eating their snacks next to you
just avoid spoilers for a few months and you get the best experience possible

>when you find a PS2 game in a charity shop for 99p and it still has the original receipt inside

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Saw they had Persona 3 & 4 in there recently. Not touching them at their prices though

It's a fucking dump

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looks like this thread is dead

ah well, it had its run

see you again whenever lads

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Have a good weekend m8.

See you's in the next one.

what a shithole my town is

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It's pricey but I like to go to the cineworld up at the O2, seats are comfy and since it's consistent

Didn't realise there was a Cex in Chernobyl

well it is bolton

>tfw literally the most middle class cex in the country

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fuck, read the area code wrong on the sign

>dover
basically the same

why do all british store buildings look so ugly

Is that Chester or perhaps Shrewbury?

Is that fat one in the gray shirt next to the door barefoot?

Checking in. Closest one to me, staffed nearly entirely by emos last time I went in.

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Because most of them were built during a time when people thought pic related looked good and remain largely unchanged since they were built.

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>Dover
>Bolton
>basically the same
the fuck

Granger Games by me was pretty good. Always had new games cheaper than most online places, and GAME.

Also the only place I ever found Demon's Souls for sale. Shame it stank of piss like, constantly.

they're both shitholes

damn I didn't even notice, damn my town is fucking shit

we're bolton we're barmy we're on the piss tonight

You can try to hire physically fit blondes user, but it's not likely many of them will apply to work at CEX. Guarantee it'll be tumblrites, neckbeards and emos.

>TFW Liverpool one used to have a fat dude who'd blast old wrestling themes over the speakers

Kinda based, DESU.

you think one day your country will like redisgn most of your buildings?

I think shes wearing sandles

FP in Liverpool doesn't cover vidya, I think? It's super fucking normie now though, so many funko pops and shit related to the godawful DC tv series'.

I live near Scunthorpe, that place is way worse than Doncaster.

>Scunthorpe
Jesus it even SOUNDS fucking grotty

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It has Cunt in the name.

Amusing, it's less than a dollar in the US. Is it because it's baseball?

Nah, not Chester. That one's in an older building with big ol' pillars.

Also the only CEX where I've witnessed the overflow of old FIFA games with my own eyes. Ridiculous amount of them on the shelves.

They have it in Spain

It actually has a thing named after it called the "Scunthorpe problem" where words are unintentionally blocked by filters trying to filter out obscene words.

I always save up to go there, I call it the Five Guys and Cineworld budget

Based croydon anons