>had a 970
>upgrade to a 2060
>CeX website says they will give me £49 for the 970
>take the 970 to CeX in the 2060 box
>plainly say "I've got a 970 I want to trade in"
>the dude says he's new and to bear with him
>he scans the barcode of the 2060 box
>says he can give me £182
>"o-okay that sounds good"
>you'll have to come back in one hour once we've tested it
>they are definitely going to tell it's a 970 once they plug it in
>come back an hour later
>hands me £182
>"th-thanks"
fuck cex lmao
sneed
>his boss's face when
As someone who's worked at CEX, I can tell you that guy is FUCKED new or not.
My store went into meltdown when we were out £40 on a Saturday night and threatened everyone who didn't allow themselves to be searched with being fired.
You're fucked if you trade anything in again though. There's a reason they take your name/ID etc.
True but they wouldn't know they are down, on the tills it would say they have a 2060 right?
Honestly I think now it's going straight on the shelf and now the only person that is going to find out is whoever eventually buys it and realises it's a 970, not a 2060.
Whoever tested it (it wasn't the new guy, it was one of the older employees) should have done actual tests (looked at speccy, done a stress test) and realised it was a 970.
>"I don't know mate, I had this lying around and took it in and he said he's give me £182 for it, I don't even know what kind of graphics card it was."
have cex
>buy a couple of used games that I was never able to get
>all the fucking discs look like they've been keyed
>none work
thanks cex
Traded in my pokemon N64 there a couple of years back, just the one with a big pikachu on front, worth about £50 I think? but the guy at the till mistook it for one worth over double. Thanks foreign man for being bad at your job
Mother fucker, u don't need no tests for that
There's a fucking 970 label on pcb and/or sticker. Any real test would be to prove it was a 970 VS 770.
>go to Book Off
>buy CIB Famicom and Super Famicom for ¥500
>have to buy a second suit case just to bring everything home
Seriously fuck western stores its cheaper to get a plane ticket to Japan and buy everything there
That's just a normal Pikachu console, nothing special about it but £50 seems cheap, I've never seen it for less than $150 in Canada
>Few years back
>Work for CeX
>Buy in an Nvidia Titan Black
>Gets transferred to another store
>Week or so later it arrives back at ours
>Check the note to see why it came back
>"It's silver not black"
There are some real retards working in some of those stores.
That's the one, but that one is in a worse condition than mine. I'm sure I could've gotten more if I wanted to go to ebay with it, but I was unemployed at the time and needed money fast. I regret it in hindsight, I'd rather just have amy N64 collection again, but replacing it seems expensive
Meant for
*in town see cex
*walk past
*through a thick green smog of body odor and piss I see trogs scallies chavs and sjws buying and selling garbage
*the haze is like a wall of pits and dried urine drizzled in vape juice
N64 games are cheap as chips, I picked up a CIB Pokemon stadium 2 and custom Robo from Bookoff for ¥1,000 each
>Be me a few years ago getting a ps4 bundle with newest fifa in black friday deal
>immediately take fifa to cex as i can feel its trade value dropping by the second
>pick up bloodborne, take it to the counter
>trade in game, guy puts goty edition disc in the box
>poker face, thank him, do a 360 and walk out of there
Thanks m8.
Addendum: when mw2 was made backwards compatible its trade in value spiked, so i went around the charity shops and other places picking up copies for almost nothing and getting £10 each. Now they're back down to less than that.
On the 3DS's launch day they were buying them for £230 (Amazon and Tesco were selling for £195) because they were absolutely convinced that 3DS would be a hit and would sell out instantly everywhere.
Then it completely flopped until about a year after launch...
I got the £35 profit but I regret not doing several.
Post your local. I haven't been in years, but I hope the based Asian dude still works there.
>might walk into cex after work tomorrow and buy DmC:DE for my xbone for shits and giggles
post cex horror stories
Yeah in Japan. Shits like candy over there. Everything here is inflated as fuck because of the nerd boom.
No CEX here but we have EB Games
>go in to buy RE on gamecube
>tell me I have to be 18, was still in high school
>ask a black guy to buy it for me
>hey this is my son I'm getting him this game
>I'm white as snow with bright blue eyes
>they sell it to me
>walk into CEX
>buy a Maschine MK1 (basically a midi controller)
>never use it
>go back to CEX months later
>'I'm selling this maschine'
>'Have you checked the price for it already?'
>'Yeah, I saw about 30-40 quid for it'
>'mmkay'
>Yeah we can give you 60, we just have to test it
>lolokay.jpg
>Come back after test
>Hands me receipt
>'Maschine MK2'
ggwp
could be a comedy sketch
I pop in every now and then to see if they have any cheap joycons
Now a days it probably happens all the time, but back then I thought it was hilarious
They once refused to sell me a 15-rated game but in the same transaction allowed me to buy a 16-rated game (at the time UK had two different age rating boards which had slightly different limits)
So apparently I looked like I was 16 years old but not 15 years old yet.
New 3ds, white with red yellow etc colored buttons. "Did you change the buttons by yourself?" NO IT IS THE LAUNCH LIMITED EDITION YOU DUMBASS
exact same thing happened but with a friend
>decided to have a quick look in EB Games
>he wants to get something rated 18+ (Yes, Australia)
>he was 17 at the time and the person there wouldn't let him get it
>they call me over because I was 18 at the time and and use my ID
>he pays
>we leave
I forget the game though
Is it usual for that to happen? In Canada they never question you for a T rated game, we used to go to EB Games after school even when I was on only grade 7. It was only M rated games
It annoyed me that the box says M 17+ but they still asked you if you're 18 it was easier to buy cigarettes and beer than video games in high school
coffee that
>go into CeX to get my SMT Lucifer's Call disc cleaned
>get a free disc clean because it was a copy I bought from them
>game still freezes up
I'm not buying anymore PS2 games from these faggots again
Here's my secret to cleaning discs, it works every time I've ever done it but don't do it often.
Find some cologne. It could be anything even the shitty Axe body sprays your aunt keeps buying you for Christmas
Just spray that shit all over the back
Let it sit for a couple of minutes
Rinse the disc under the sink wash all that shit off
Wipe the disc clean and let it dry
I've done it every time there was a disc that refused to work and every single time it works. I've tried every method I read online from the light bulb, toilet and even toothpaste nothing works for me except that.
>have a 970
>it breaks after 1 year
>send it in for replacement
>1 year later
>it breaks 1 week after warranty expires
>ask manufacturer to get a replacement anyway
>they say its ok, but they dont have any 970s so theyll have to give me a 1060 gb instead
did I get an upgrade?
Have Cex
have cex
The 970s had the 3.5GB problem, the 1060 is roughly the same in power but can use all it's VRAM without spilling it's spaghetti. So yeah, good deal.
yes.
I once saw a rather obese man bent over and looking at Wii games cough, and subsequently loudly shart himself in the Liverpool one.
That was my cue to leave the store, myself and about five other people nearly sprinted out as he went red in the face, and just looked at the staff like a lost puppy.
Unfortunately, I had to pass him on the way out, he stank of BO and rotting sewage. It was disgusting.
How the fuck, had mine from new for 3 years with no issue. Do you even cool bro.
I made bigger mistakes than this at CEX and all I had to do was sign a sheet saying Oops My Bad
Cheltenham chads represent
Someday these shops will be a thing of the past. That makes me sad
That guy is probably getting fired
Burgerlander here, what exactly is a CEX?
Basically a pawn shop that specialises in computers, games, DVD's, phones etc
Anyone remember when some bongs got butthurt over CEX printing their own covers for older games?
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You also forgot to tell him to set the disc on fire for got measured and do the jabadaba dance.
Thats nothing, they were begging people to bring them pre-release games/hardware despite the only way people would have had those things would be if they were stolen. The police investigated them iirc
This is bullshit though and it's why I don't trust western eBay sellers
Repro carts, missing manuals, damaged boxes or replacement CD cases and printed covers, its fucking bullshit.
My local retro doesn't do any of that shit, if a CD is brought in without a case they sell it loose for cheap