Post your CEX experiences boys

>Fly in to Ireland, been awake for 23 hours at this point and couldn't sleep a wink on the plane
>Need to get a cheap burner phone to call family and possibly use emergency services
>Get used to driving on the left side of the road until I manage to get into a mall parking lot
>Mall is dirty as FUCK except for this one place selling the typical Irish breakfast, a Tesco and a CEX
>Even the new games look used, tons of Funko Pop shit all over the place
>It's just Gamestop but somehow with less advertising

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have cex

Smells of piss and B.O.

Every fucking one of them

Name one time you've been in to cex and there hasn't been either a smelly lardarse who can't dress himself, a chav trying to sell a probably stolen phone, a mum with an annoying child too big for a pushchair running around making noise but still has the pushchair, or someone with special needs buying old dvds

I didn't even look THAT young certainly above fucking 12.
i had a baby face though which I make up for with since facial hair grows too fucking quick for me after my balls dropped

>Even the new games look used
because they are.

>go in
>look over PS2 games to see if there's anything worth picking up
>Ace Combat 4, Ace Combat 5, Ace Combat Zero each for £2
Best shopping trip ever to be honest lads.

>CEX
>New games
What

>mall
fuck off yank

Nope that's exactly right. Oh and add tards too. For mine at least we always have one.
Damn a CEX with funkos? That's depressing
What is it with that fucking smell? It's awful
They always get new games in I'm pretty sure alongside the pre owned shit.

>Found a game I was looking for
>Buy it
>Leave the store
>Repeat on a loop
Never had a problem with them, apart from the fact that they occasionally print badly done fake covers for games.

>Horrendous shit metal core playing on blast
>Walk 0.345335cm past the door, get hit with wave of ingrained sweat stank
>Look at PS4 games
>Half are almost valueless, and the other half are £50 some reason
>More and more Skylanders/Amiibos amass in the fucking window

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Big up Romford CEX. Fucking stinks in here like every CEX

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Pretty sure my CEX still has a Marth amiibo on display for like £30 or something ridiculous even though the amiibo scalping days are over

The price of stuff is pretty much the same as buying it new, the store lost the whole thing it was worth going in for. Why buy it used for the same price when you could just buy it new?

What’s bothering me more is how you dine out on this story but you’ve never played punch out! since?

Same here honestly. I've been pretty lucky with them even if they smell and look awful.
The one in St Helens has an amazing PS2 collection I always peep at.

CEX in big cities are fucking disgusting shitheaps while CEX in more rural areas are generally pretty decent but still attract chavs and tards.

I still need to play it, that and NMH1/2 and Mad World, all of which I was gonna get but that shop fucked me up a bit

Post your cex

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they all still smell awful though

What did he, she, it but lads? Also, google your local cex and find photos of the type of people who go there

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>cheap second hand shit
>attracts chavs and tards
Pretty much a given.

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From the old location, but yeah, the chubby bloke with his arse almost falling out his straight cut jeans, staple
Then the fat chav mum with the stick insect 12 year old trying to buy ancient version of cod, like 4 or some shit and a shit dvd like Shark Tale

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Filled the void of "scabby game shop for students and minks with permanent kerrang playlist" that Gamestation left behind. Their markup is insane and whenever I've bought anything online from them it's been in fucking rank condition. I don't even like walking past the shop, never mind going in it.

>buy anything from CeX
>look at the bottom of the reciept
>'Have a CeXy day!'

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>How much is that used controller in the window?
>£65

>Covered in a thick oily grease and the X button is borderline mashed in
>Wireless receiver thingy is missing

>tfw you see someone trading in a stack of games and knowing cex will get £11.60 for them

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Let's not forget the £780 iphone which is probably stolen and blocked a week after you buy it

Why does EVERY CEX store have a horrible smell of sweat and garbage?

Even when the shop has just opened in the morning and is empty, the moment you walk in this smell is overwhelming.

Is it something to do with the old vidya boxes decomposing and being eaten by bacteria?

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>tfw traded in my nes mini and it's still there

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maybe i'm tripping balls or some shit but i sorta remember seeing a cex in nyc

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Nah it doesn't say this
Right?

It does, I swear it. At least from the Cex in Walthamstow market.

>walk into CEX
>there's literally a crate 4 feet high filled with old copies of FIFA and PES

Mine said Have Cex. Written by the manager.

>Tfw you purposefully only trade in games you know that will never be bought so CEX actually loses money
I CAN’T BE CONTAINED

>We sell for £2
>We buy for £0.20 credit
>We buy for £0.10

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I don't know what I'm looking at here.

Based and CeXpilled

The cex mascot, called The Cex Wizard. And two cosplayers

They are in America now
Also South America

You are now aware that Charlie Brooker designed the cex logo.

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>game case on the shelf is dirty, case art looks like it was drenched in piss for a week
>assume it's just a show model and that they'll hand me a clean case from the back
>all they do is put the game cartridge in the shitty case and hand it to me

Ended up printing out fresh boxart and using the game case of an old game I had laying around.

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>he bought the piss copy

Pretty cool that they've still got the Toby mascot kicking about.

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>You will never be embraced by the Cex wizard’s big strong arms
Just fucking kill me already

Well done, user. You summed it up perfectly.

>You will never have sex with an inflatable cex wizard.

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Cex is breddy based for selling shit exclusives in exchange for old shit

Press F to pay respects to this comfy shop

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>tfw grainger games and cex are exactly opposite on your highstreet
>tfw the manager at grainger games ends up working as a regular employee at cex

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Where they only a North East thing? I never saw them in the North West, only when I went to Jarrow

I live in a shitty rural village with the only CEX near me being in a town half a hour away. There use to be a xtravision in town but it's gone now.
>tfw when I was a kid mom worked there
>tfw I use to get to rent games for free because of it

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>2012
>Recently got into Skies of Arcadia after finding it for £10 CIB
>Learn about Legends a few weeks later and wish I could find it
>Walk into local cex
>See Skies of Arcadia: Legends going for £22, also CIB
>Holy fuck what luck
>Grab it and get to the counter to pay
>Guy on the counter looks at the game, sighs as he scans it and then loudly says "you guys were meant to tell me when something rare got in"

Lucky I was able to get some decent Gamecube games before they became stupidly expensive, I also got Twin Snakes for £32. Kinda wish I had more disposable income around 8 years ago when I could tell GC games were going to skyrocket in value.

Although in recent finds, Snagged Rhythm Paradise for £2 CIB. I was very surprised it goes for literally nothing since the game is fucking fantastic.

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Yep started in Newcastle and got down to the midlands

I'm not proud of myself, but it was the only copy

>>tfw when I was a kid mom

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>Grainger Games were the main sponsor for the Games Media Awards in 2011, however, its attendees were criticised for their behaviour during the event, which included heckling the compere and award winners' acceptance speeches. The company hired dwarves and booth models to present the awards, as well as littering the dinner tables with orange condoms.

Fucking based.

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>It’s been 3 years since xtravision went bankrupt
I want to go back bros, I don’t want the shitty redbox clones anymore.

You know what I meant faggot.

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Congrats on the treasure, fellow blue rogue.

>buy game from CeX online
>game disc is perfect, arrives on time
>in the wrong case though
At first I was just "meh, as long as the game works" but now I realize that I can't sell it myself unless I take a hit on the price or buy a proper case for it

I've been into ones in Liverpool and Bury about 5 years ago.

Which one?

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>why is murder illegal?
This Toby bloke's alright

the red head or the black one 2bh

>mom
why do americans larp as bongs?

I dont fucking know, these retards are standing in front of the games.
Nothing visible seems that great though.

>tfw I got fire emblem PoR for £20 from there back in the early 2000s
Easily one of my happiest purchasing experiences - especially when you look at the price of PoR now.

Would it be worth buying any of the consoles from CeX? There's a £40 PS2 slim at my local. Always suspect those things will just break down as soon as you get them home but unsure what better options there are.

cont.
>What does Grainger Games do, exactly? They're a national games retail chain. Given that we’ve never heard of them before, sponsoring an industry event is a pretty savvy move, right? Everyone will have heard of them after this little affair.
>Walking around the Humvee we saw that the boot was open, where a flat-screen TV and home entertainment system had been installed. How very Pimp My Ride. Also tumbling out of the boot were two booth babes and two dwarves, dressed in orange hot-pants and orange shorts, respectively.
>It’s October. It’s bloody freezing. Scantily dressed booth babes with chattering teeth is heart-rending enough. But scantily-dressed dwarves as well? That’s downright cruel.
>But it gets better (or worse, depending on your viewpoint). Inside the venue, everyone checked in their coats, found out where they were sitting, and grabbed a beer for a bit of hobnobbing before the main event. Some nominees were visibly excited, some downplayed their chances. I was hopeful that someone would reenact Jack Palance’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar acceptance from 1992 and do press-ups on the stage, but alas.
>A gong was sounded, curtains were drawn, and we were directed to our seats. There, the second warning klaxon went off. Condoms had been scattered all over the table, emblazoned with the same hateful orange hue from the Humvee and the hot-pants. It’s Grainger Games again, making their presence felt in the best way they know how.
>Even the journalist from Zoo magazine was puzzled as to why condoms should be distributed prior to a fancy sit-down meal.

I only call her that online. I always call her mam. Also a paddy, not a britbong.

i'd probably suck off the lad in the green shirt, provided they definitely have a shower first

>Dinner was quickly served and wolfed down (along with copious amounts of booze), and before we knew it, we were on to the main event. Our compere for the evening was Greg Davies, who played the scary teacher from The Inbetweeners. He’s pretty funny, in a working men’s club kind of fashion. Jokes about oral sex were the order of the day, natch.
>What really got everyone's attention though was the table down at the front. Everyone on this table was pissed out of their heads, repeatedly interrupting Greg’s routine for their own amusement. Someone shouts out “BUSTOP WANKER!”, in reference to a gag from The Inbetweeners. Who are these tossers? Why, it’s none other than the folks from Grainger Games.
>Greg got on with his act though, and slipped in a few digs at Grainger Games while he was at it. This only seemed to encourage them, unfortunately. When Greg was about to start dishing out the awards they started chanting “TOON ARMY, TOON ARMY” for no discernible reason.
>The awards were given out. The awards were given out by the dwarves. Speeches were uncharacteristically short, for games journalists. This was their moment in the spotlight, but no one spoke for longer than 30 seconds. Perhaps it was something to do with the jokers from Grainger Games, who at one point had invaded the stage to do a silly 'dance' just as someone was receiving an award. Did they think they were Jarvis Cocker, taking on the gaming equivalent of Michael Jackson?

Post a pic of your ma, lad

Why not the basedboi man-child on the left? [spoilers]that's me[/spoilers]

>The pinnacle, or nadir, of the evening, came as Patrick Garrett stepped up to present a Games Media Legend Award for Colin Campbell. His speech, designed to honour and celebrate his colleague’s achievements, was slow-clapped and booed by the drunken morons from Grainger Games.
>End of the ceremony reached, everyone broke off for photo-ops with their trophies, or to commiserate at the bar. And, oh yes, to openly discuss how ridiculous the behaviour of Grainger Games had been. The general consensus was not good. Not good at all.
>After they sensed that they were no longer welcome, the offending party hurriedly left in two cabs, their boorish antics continuing in some other venue elsewhere in London. I watched in disbelief as they made gang-signs to each other from their respective cars.
>What they had left behind was an absolute shambles. They’d sabotaged months of planning by the event organisers, they’d pissed off the entire games media community, and they’d wasted their own sponsorship money in painting themselves as a gang of selfish arseholes. Well done, Grainger Games. We didn’t know who you were before, but we do now.

TL;DR- vidya journalists can't cope with the banter at an Awards show sponsored by Grainger Games

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face is too round tbqh. maybe if he has a really nice cock.

No. And you wouldn't want it anyway.

Just checked the prices of these thanks to this post. Time to get selling mine on Ebay

I honestly have no idea what people are on about when they mention this 'characteristic CeX smell'. I've never once felt that a CeX has been notably filthy, and I've only really ever had good experiences.

CEX is unironically based. I found Drakengard 3 and Katamari Forever for under a tenner each

Have a shower

>he doesn't realise

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>Fly in to Ireland
Why would anyone chose to come here? this place fucking sucks.

it's you user

This, I can't wait to get the fuck out of this shithole

Fuck off, cunts, I am extremely conscious of my personal hygiene

I bought a game from their website and it arrived like this. How the fuck does anyone get a game in that condition. You'd have to go out of your way to do it

I was in Dublin for four days last week.

I liked:
>Trinity College seems like a comfy place
>place feels pretty safe even after dark.
>some cool bars and pubs if you walk away out of the city centre.
>it was sunny for four days straight, which from what I hear is basically a miracle in Ireland.

I disliked:
>surprisingly high number of ethnics, Eastern Europeans, and homeless drunkards.
>loads of shitty tourist trap shops and bars.
>public transport system seems a bit poor. No rail link between the capital city and the airport is hard to fathom.
>busy traffic in the city centre.

Christ I could murder a bru right now

SCRUBBERS

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I live between Bromley and Croydon but here's the former.
Both are shitholes, as you'd expect, Bromley is worse though.
I walked into the Croydon branch and found an old asshole classmate working there. Accidentally burst out laughing and left - haven't been back since.

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The only CeX in America was the one in Boston which appeared to be as much of a piss stained shithole as the bong ones

There were some good deals there if you could put up with the staff spamming meme music or metal at all hours of the day

The Boston one closed so idk where the fuck you're finding another American one

>That one autist who keeps trying to move close to you to talk to you about games

Catherine's right fucking there, lad.
So is New Vegas, and Zumba Fitness for the Wii.

>want 2 move dildos and the cam for better sculpting in Dreams
>moves are £45 each in CEX

fuck me even GAME has them cheaper

I already have Vegas and Cath though.
Good shout on Zumba Fitness though, I didn't spot it.

Went to my closest CEX and bought Bayo 1/2 and House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return. Was in and out in minutes, although the place reeked of sweat. I didn't believe the memes at first but god damn.

Based Bromley Boy

This, both shops are way too expensive.

has anyone else gotten weird looks from the cashier when buying porn dvds from them
why are they acting so lofty when they're the ones selling the stuff?

speaking of GAME, anyone know if their pc shit is any good for the price? thinking of buying a monitor from them.

Yeah, I was planning on going to Australia for a bit like my older brother did. He went there for about two years working on a farm in the outback, either that or to America for a few months, that same brother and another one are living over there now.

I frequent Derby & Sutton in Ashfield.
Derby sire has always been pretty based, Sutton kinda smol.

Ilkeston is ok too.

>Buying used porn dvds
You know some dude has probably rubbed his dick and came all over the box, right?
I know because I cum all over my games before selling them to cex

They dont care that you're buying *porn*, they care that you're *buying* porn.
Who does that these days.

nice.

My local cex has protected cex and unprotected cex as it's wifi networks

Games are usually reasonably priced in CEX (just their hardware is overpriced) but game is extortionate all round

fuck no

I noticed even my local HMV started selling porn DVDs in the international section, kek

I only use CEX to buy cheap PS2 games. Their prices are ridiculous for newer games. I once saw them sell Persona 5 for £80.

I'd still rather go there than GAME though. Half of GAME is taken up by fucking Funko Pops and merch.

>That mum holding up the line trying to sell her kids console but can't understand why they won't buy it without any of the cables or controllers and stands there looking dumbfounded as they try explaining cables to her

Cant really blame them.
They went broke selling just games - selling tshirts and funko pops and all that other garbage keeps them afloat becuase normies love that shit.

Cex are terrible for recent games, but stuff about a year old reaches a sweet spot. Unless it's particularly special or rare.

I only found out about those a month ago, no Supervalu near me so havent been in one for years.

Even worse, the store where XV used to be was taken over by a euro store (not even a brand one, just Discount Store) but never took down the posters! So still posters for Season 5 of GoT and Arkham Knight up, alongside the little late night return slot they never took down.

Ilkeston guys are based. Beeston are ok. Notts city centre are cunts.

>They went broke selling just games
Are you are retard? You know they don't just sell games but also most PC accessories/components including VR shit.

Yeah, now.

Just fuckin take the bus to Ilford mate

user, they had to close quite a few stores a few years back, including my local one. pretty sure they only started branching into pc shit like this relatively recently.

I've never seen a game selling pc stuff.

HMV are supposedly rebranding back to just CD's Movies & Vinyl soon, concentrating on the point of the store rather than endless extra shite.

youtube.com/watch?v=SH3pOt_H3Rc

Ever heard of patreon, brother? Paying for porn is back in style

Why is it only weird goth kids work in these places.

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Most goth kids reek so maybe the smell attracts them

>used to work at a cex
>made some really good friends
>we all hung out after work, played smash bros, smoked weed
>fucked my manager and coworkers
>quit

good times

>Go to sell a laptop after just upgrading to a new one
>Wipe it a couple times to clear the data thoroughly before going
>Morbidly obese goth girl at the counter
>Takes the laptop and say itll take an hour to test
>Figure that's fine, I'll go run my other errands while I'm in town
>Come back an hour later to get my money
>Still hasn't been tested
>Manager comes out to test it because the ham beast is clueless
>Manager is unironically a tranny in dog ears and a tail butt plug
>Spend ten minutes trying to figure out what's going on with the laptop at factory initialisation because I've already formatted it
>Manager has a legitimate autistic meltdown and runs to the back while the queue continues to grow
>Take my laptop back and just sell it on Ebay

Wank that CEX is lad. Didn't even get shit half as bad at gamestop when I lived in the states.

IF I HAD THE WINGS OF A SPARROW
IF I HAD THE ARSE OF A CROW
ID FLY OVER GRIMSBY TOMORROW
AND SHIT ON THE BASTARDS BELLOW
YOUUUUUUU IMPS

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This one isn't that bad in Liverpool but the second floor is legitimately terrifying with the people it attracts.

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Sorry, I don't have CEX.

>CEX Oldham

>pros
Staff are alright
It's in Oldham

>cons
Smells like corn
It's in Oldham

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The cex in wood green is beyond disgusting

Catering to a niche is the only way physical stores can survive these days. I'd go into physical stores more often if they had a larger selection of games.

Almost all of them are uni students.

Elaborate why, I'm planning to move on there.

>York
Seems alright to me. Staff are average student-types, but that's what you're gonna get in a place like this. Only ever been helpful. Prices have never seemed exorbitant to me. Nothing to really complain about.

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Why would you want to live here? Go somewhere sunny.

Have CeX

It's poor, depressing, and rains all the time. Unless you're moving from somewhere even worse, like eastern europe, don't bother

I'm going to wager it's an American with deluded fantasies of MUH HERITAGE

My town doesn't have one, but I used to live in Hereford and the CeX there was pretty decent. Or at least it was, about a decade ago.

>What is it with that fucking smell? It's awful
It's artificial, they pump it through the ac's sorta like what they do with the cookie smell in open houses and that new car smell spray

For what purpose?

But like...why?

It's something to do with brand identity or some shit, if people go into a store that smells clean and new and they try selling them used stuff that's unboxed and not in pristine condition they get confused and start thinking they are being scammed, if they go into a store that smells like a piss soaked alley you'd come to associate with flea markets and stuff then they know what to expec and don't start complaining.

Rains too much and is too sunny, often in less than 15 minutes between. So you'll be walking around with a fucking heavy coat since it gets cold as fuck at times randomly when it rains, while at the same time boiling yourself alive since terrible humid weather.
No air conditioning in most of the houses/apartments. Meaning for about two months a year, you'll be boiled alive at home or outside.

Dublin is literally the only decent place for internet speeds, most of the rural places don't have fucking wifi. Dublin is also a shithole filled with junkies and generally a great place for foreigners to beg on the streets. Junkies are everywhere in the city centre. Public transport might as well be non-existent outside of the trains. And even then the trains are still shit and overpriced. Who the fuck expects to pay 10 euro for a fucking train daily to get yourself to work?
Buses are hit or miss, rarely on schedule within the 15 minute mark. Luas (tram) is basically either: over filled (usually) or else not over filled in one segment because some junkie is shitting himself in that compartment.

Prices are overpriced for almost everything with the average wage being lower than most other countries. Rent in dublin (where the jobs are) is insanely high compared to most countries.
Imagine getting a €2000 a month and 1200 of that goes on your shitty one bedroom, tiny room with a shared kitchen and maybe an eating area that's also shared. Or you can shack up with the poor as fuck foreigners who live in a tiny bedroom with 4 beds each for only a mere €800 a month with maybe a working washing machine, maybe,

DESU, I'd be completely fucked if I didn't live at home. Thank fuck my mother was a stupid cunt who never tried to work for a living and has a council flat so I pay only 130 rent and then have to pay for the utilities on top of that.

Oh and the job market is complete shit since it's a month plus for a response

I've been in piss soaked alleys that smell better than my local CEX

This sounds like bs but the local city centre stinks of piss anyway

jesus that looks depressing as fuck
are all cex like this?

yeah, the interior of cexes are pretty standardised. but how does it look depressing to you?

only britain could turn game shops into something dreary, scabby, and universally hated

Not that user but yes, out of the 10 or so I visited over the years, most of them are designed to be dark and gloomy.
You pretty much have people in there that unironically go for the "I'm quirky" look but aren't social enough to work in actual "nerd" areas, like comic shops or artist stores.

user, walk in there and talk to them some time. Outside of the girl who just started there two days ago and hasn't dropped into the pit of despair yet, the rest of the employees are literally just going through motions. Pretty much it's just a place used by junkies to sell their shit they stole or else parents who are selling their kids shit as "punishment".

Kek I live in Croydon too.

>The Good:
I picked up a new Witcher 2 boxed copy from them for $8. I'm not exactly positive what edition it is, but it contains maps, papercrafting..? and letters. Discs haven't even been removed from their sleeves (little tape stickers intact). Intend to sell it if I ever get around to it
>The Bad:
I sold a near new peripheral that retailed at $180 to them for $12. Absolute BS- though the situation I was in I needed any cash I could get
>The Ugly:
Patrons really do smell like swamp ass

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My nearest CEX literally has a big tiddy goth girl staffing the front desk

well for a start i'm 99% sure that one is in Leeds

fair enough

A bunch of faggot chavs as per usual, but I don't have a problem with them.

Had to travel to a bunch of different CeX's in Peckham and Brixton to get a pro controller and a dock. The Pro Controller was absolutely abysmal at the price of £52 so I returned it for much less and sacrificed a bit more money for a better quality one at Amazon. I hate CeX but I need them if I ever want to sell my games.

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I live just outside a rural village that has okay internet. That said I hate the idea of living here for the rest of my life. Applied for the gradai and to be a prison officer and honestly kind of hope I don't get them as a excuse to go travelling and leave this place.

Hey if any cex workers see this, look out for a degenerate manlet wearing tie dyes and with eyes redder than Satan's sack at the next cexfest. That'll be me and you should tell my your vidya recommendations.

>can no longer go into local CeX due to having band breakup with one of the staff members who I now am unable to talk to

feels bad man

>What is it with that fucking smell? It's awful
You ever get a look at the type of people who are selling stuff to cex? That's why.

Don't know why you'd want to be a Garda, desu. Even a screw is still a bad option. Especially with stress from working as a prison guard.

Hopefully you'll get to fuck off soon overseas to get a good job. Even England or Scotland would be an improvement

Sold some old wii games for about £25 there. Pretty good.

No clue how much this is all worth
hoping more than $8 I guess

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Story time.

>Working part time in CeX Norwich.
>Excited to work with games, film, music and media.
>Coworkers are depressing, smelly assholes (save a couple nice guys).
>Manager is a bald fat cunt who does nothing but sit in the managers office playing his PS3.
>Gets angry if he has to do any actual work.
>Treats part time workers like morons despite many being new to retail.
>Has a cynical right hand cunt with glasses, who clearly looks down on others.
>Store smells abysmal.
>Atmosphere is downright depressive and it’s clear that the core group of staff shun part time workers, treating them like dirt.
>Customers constantly complaining about quality of service and absolutely no action taken to improve it.
>Often witness/overhear staff talking shit about new staff saying downright disgusting things such as: “I wouldn’t care if he dropped dead.”

Got through my time there without getting in trouble with anyone, but witnessed the way other newbies made mistakes and the absolute horrendous way they were reprimanded. I’ve never seen a group of people so miserable and I avoid returning to that particular CeX like the plague.

The experience also put me off going to that chain ever again really.

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You sound like a retard who has never gone beyond the M50. Move out of Dublin you stupid cunt.

My local CEX hasn't had a copy of Asura's Wrath or any of the PS3 Armored Core games in forever, and they're the only things I want to buy

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I always get mobile ads for cex here, on Yea Forums.
They're always trying to sell me RDR2 and for some reason, Senran Kagura.

I've lived in different counties. They are all, for various reasons, shitholes that are worse than Dublin for one reason: outside of dead end jobs and manual labour jobs designed to fuck your body up by the time you're 40, there's no future.

Now you can insult me some more but that doesn't make the places outside of Dublin any more likely to spawn good jobs

cex almost sounds like it's run like a front for a criminal enterprise

shame the nice independent shops have gone under, replaced by bully boy chains

>call CEX
>ask if they have JUDGEMENT FOR PS4
>"Yes sire, few copies"
>"Noice, I will pick it up after work, reserve a copy"
>go into CEX
>ask for my game
>dude brings this

I laughed but also wanted to kill him.
Thank god they HAD Judhement for PS4 anyway.

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the only local independent games shop in my city shut down last year after a CEX opened up round the corner, the cunts
they'd been going 20+ years before that, as long as I can remember

the recession has been extremely good for big business

I've been in a ton of CeX's, both in the North and south, and I've never seen one that sells funkos.

That's still better than
>see game on shelf at a reasonable price
>stand in the mile long queue to pay for it
>cashier spends 5-10 mins scouring the back wall for the disc/cartridge
>'sorry I can't find the disc/cartridge, it must be out of stock'
This shit has happened to me 2-3 times now and it's infuriating. Why even have the case on the shelf if you don't have the disc/cartridge to go with it?

This, I don't care where but I'm fucking out as soon as I get the finish my Computer Science course.

how do they even have the case if they don't have the cartridge?

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It's a goldmine for anything older than like 2 years, they often have better prices on like PS2/GC games than anywhere else.

>buy new ps4 controller to replace old one
>try to sell old one to CeX
>they take it despite it being faulty
>buy cyber sleuth with the money
If they had black controllers at argos I would have tried the old controller swap first but other than that all was well.

nothing like a few pints at spoons then popping next door for a mooch around cex

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Went to the Croydon one once and they were playing old Fall Out Boy songs and had some really good DS games, absolutely kino.

I forgot to write shit before pressing enter, It's not bad for a CEX, doesn't smell like piss and B.O just like damp and rotting wood, I sold a copy of CoD 3 for the ps2 there a few years ago and it was still there last week.
I don't think there going to make their £1.20 back on that sale.

why does everything in britain look like it's rotting

>sells a 10 year old 20th hand game for £20
>buys the same game from you for £0.23
fuck cex

The humidity rots everything

HAVANT (MERIDIAN CENTRE) CEX REPRESENT

Yea Forums isn't letting me upload images on my 4G for some reason so here you go: imgur.com/a/pHgqvLm

Because it is

Because the majority of our town centre buildings are older than some countries and all levels of government are retarded and completely unable to take care of the history of these towns.

Extensive history but not enough money to keep it looking nice.

Yeah you should never sell anything to them, ever. You will get better money on eBay basically 100% of the time.

But for buying used games, CEX is pretty great, and often cheaper than eBay or anywhere else. Always best to shop around though because sometimes other places are cheaper than CEX, but not often. They're usually the cheapest I can find.

I recently got Halo CE and Halo 2 for OG Xbox from CEX for 75p each. And Halo 3 is only 50p. You can't get them online at those prices especially when you factor in shipping.

I once got so frustrated and fed up with uni that I walked out half way through a lecture and went to CeX instead. I spent about an hour just re-evaluating my entire life. I also bought Apocalypse Now on bluray. I felt free, but I also needed to throw up really badly.
I'd like to say that that was the beginning of some new path in life, but I carried on down the doomed path I was on.

Pretty cool. Sold my XboneS 2TB for XboneX 1TB with some minor bux. Also bought some hard to find X360 games. Shit was cash.

There's a 2 year warranty on everything there I'm pretty sure, they're probably the best place to buy old consoles just in case it does die.

Tbh I'll likely fuck up the interviews either way, I'm absolutely terrible at them. I did it without really thinking because I had to apply for something and being a cop was something that always appealed to me. I'm still not sure what the fuck I want out of my life.

>go into shop looking for a copy of Tekken 4
>some decent looking but slighly trashy girl working there is stocking shelves
>stands really close to me while doing it
>comes back a few minutes later and asks if I'm aware of their extended warranty program or some shit
>n-no
>explains the whole thing and hands me a cex sticker that my friend and I drunkenly make pic related with while playing Tekken 4

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>Bought ps3 from CeX to play some exclusives I never got to play
>Try to sell it back to them two months later, don't care about the money
>They wont take it becuase a sticker is missing or some shit
It's in the same condition they sold it to me, fucking cunts.

It's weird how much cleaner this one looks, compared to the one in central

>Don't know why you'd want to be a Garda, desu.
Not him but why?

>go in
>it smells like piss and weed
>leave

Where my /DraperyCEX/ boys at?

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Garda seems like it be pretty easy, at least compared to being PSNI up north.
Whats the problem with it?

>wanted to buy a Wii U to hack
>went to Gamestop first
>check out their consoles
>all scratched to absolute shit, covered in DEEP DEEP gouges that look like someone took a bowie knife to
>go down the street to CEX
>dude there is super helpful
>hooks me up with a cheaper Wii U than gamestop that is in mint condition, plus a pro controller
>wipes it over with alcohol while I browse some other stuff
>gives me extra warranty
Dude was fucking based. Bought a 256gb USB and downloaded practically every Nintendo game I wanted.

i only sold shit to them because i was on hardship and i couldn't afford netflix.
>found a game on the pavement a few metres away from cex
>walked in and sold it
lol get dabbed on random dickhead with a hole in his bag

They almost definitely put the game in the case for something that someone else bought, leaving them with a useless case.

Why the fuck would you come to Derby, user?
It's awful here. Sure, there are worse places, but you could do so much better.

Unless you get a cushy office job, it's pretty stressful depending on where you're at.

Remember, there's literally an entire fucking law punishing them for being "rough" with the little shits that beat up old people for money.

If you want a cushy government job go for the clerical officer or some shit. Being a Garda isn't easy

always pee after Cex

The one in Nottingham is disgusting. Probably the only CEX where it's cleaner on the inside than the outside.

In a smelly alleyway of junkies shooting up and shitting in the street mixed with the fatty smells of mcdonalds.

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Your 4G might be like mine with o2, they haven't blocked 4channel but after the shooting in New Zealand o2 blocked Yea Forums and I'm not sure if there's a way to access it, and since images are hosted on a Yea Forums domain I can't open or upload images when on data.

Same on EE. Yea Forums is blocked, 4channel works but image download and upload fails

Bizarre how rough the one in central looks considering it's in a major train station.
The Lord street one in the pic looks fancy as fuck now.

Because It's the closest CEX to based Heanor.

>went there with 2 friends one wanted to sell some shit the other just tagged arround
>friend brought with him the Dj hero controller, guitar hero Gene Simmons controller and the whatch dogs stutue
>67 cents total
never laughed so hard in my life
>i ended up buying gears 2 limited edition, Halo ce for the pc and Crysis 1 for about 25€

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I'd probably try working in a Cex if it meant a chance at getting to know and spend time with a cute goth gf, big titties as a bonus.

Not like I have any other goals in life

have you actually ever been in a CEX?

Who /triangle/ here

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You a skinhead, lad?

Sounds like your speaking from experience user.

This or Swansgate.

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Worked heavily with them in different social work areas.
It's pretty fucking disgusting at how little power they really have and the kids know it

Based and Belfast-pilled
Usually hit up the Ballymena one myself.

Aw mate thats the one i go to that or the Lisburn one which is fuckin rare to be in place is fuckin stinkin

police are just social workers now

Holy fuck that's belfast.

Lad, I buy so many £1 games from there. I got John Woo's stranglehold LIMITED EDITION for 50 fucking P. I always walk out with a stack of shite xbox 360 games but damn if it only cost a few pennies.

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Nah
>Go in to buy overwatch
>Despite being 2 weeks after releaseits somehow Sold out
>as i'm leaving the guy behind the counter makes the most austic sounding scream i've ever had the displeasure of hearing
>'THIS IS WHY WE TELL YOU TO PRE ORDER'
>Give him a weird look and leave
>Go in Game and pick it with zero hassle for the exact same price i would of paid anyway

Everything is cramped together and miserable to look at.

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What do you think corn sellers power level is

>want to apply for a job at CEX for 3-4 months over summer
>apply using their online application
>fill it out once
>error
>change a bunch of shit and submit
>error
>change a bunch of shit again and made it more condensed
>error
>write whole new application
>error
>write literally 1 liners for everything in case its some shitty field character limit
>error
>gave up

cunts can't even make a proper website.

>Oldham
i'm so sorry lad, no one should have to live in those conditions

It's a typical one. I've only really gone there to get rid of a bunch of old PS3 games.
I did pick up Armored Cores 4 and For Answer from there years back though.

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Living in belfast on literal autism bucks and damn is life comfy.

Hello brother
I prefer the Poole one myself though

Never going to find an another place to post this story
>Go to the Trinity College because of our teacher won a trip to it
>Go to the bathroom to take a shit
>See these things written on the bathroom door
>See nigger written like 20 times
>some shitty Steven universe sticker
>Some lgbt shit about how to use pro nouns
>A number to call for a good time
>Someone wrote about some girls was a whore and gave him a std
Yeah it was pretty comfy

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Basically
>Decaying infrastructure
>Old buildings repeatedly remolded instead of being knocked down and rebuilt
>Nearly all of our systems in place are a fucked mess of old elitist systems and new hip ones that really slows down any sort of progress and cancels each other out
>Literally nothing of worth has been passed to help fix this as our political system has an Herod after years upon years of failing to catch up leading to shit-show you see today
>Brexit wasn't the cause it was the final bullet
>Everything in towns, city's and suburbs is so tightly packed in due to the lack of land compared to america that everything looks a dystopia

Happened to me with Paper Mario: The thousand Year door. Was pure ragin, sir yes lad class craic dungiven

>£40 for a PS2
Nigga I got mine last year for a fiver, they're worth 20 MAX

The smell, I cannot legit explain.
There is this very clean and nice looking CEX not far from me, but it still smells so weird.

None of my local game shops who also are full of plastic cases smell like this.

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So that's the smell!

The smell is because all their stock is from dirty unwashed houses, full of dogs and smokers and shit.
Unless they bleach everything they buy it's always going to be like that.

>see they have a tale of hearts r in stock for 15€, although it involves a 10km trip
>go there anyway, browse through the shelves but can't find it
>ask the clerk if they don't have it anymore
>"yeah we do, however it isn't on display because the box was stolen"
>ask if the price drops in those cases
>"yeah no, it's the same price"

Probably the weirdest experience I had regarding videogames, especially considering that jrpg's aren't popular at all in my country. Probably some local collector.
They still have another in stock, although it involves a 80km trip or paying a 5€ fee for delivery. Also they upped the price to 25, so fuck that, I only liked one tales of game anyway.

Glad I didn't get it then. Where'd you get yours for a fiver? eBay?

Gumtree actually, I was quite lucky though. You should be able to get one under 20 on eBay easy enough.

Ilford is an even bigger shithole though

huh, maybe i just don't notice the smell because i was raised in a household where squalor was the norm.

holy shit why did this thread die so suddenly

it's fucking tiny, there's barely room for two people on the same row

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I got Melee, Pikmin and Sonic Adventure 2 from the Croydon branch in 2005

there was one in widnes

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Got any crazy priced retro in your local? £190 copy of symphony of the night has been sat in mine for months now.

>Bought NG2+NG3 for 20 bongs

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>burgerland
>CEX

I honestly kind of miss them. they were the place i went to pick up obscure 6-7th gen stuff and trade in my garbage for better prices than Gamestop did. Also met one of my ex's there. She saved me a copy of Rule Of Rose when some idiot traded it in. CEX only had for 60 dollars on their system when it was 200+ online at the time.

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not exactly retro but mine had Pokemon Soulsilver for £88

>they are in america now

FUCKING WHERE? They shut down burger division in 2016

I've literally only ever entered a CEX to use their bitcoin ATM so I could buy drugs

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>>Guy on the counter looks at the game, sighs as he scans it and then loudly says "you guys were meant to tell me when something rare got in"

good fucking job pulling the wool over these faggots. I swear they had shit like Juon, Haunting Ground, and Rule Of Rose for waaaaaaay cheaper than they went online.

>bought game
>game didn't work
>brought game back
>refused to give me a refund
never visited again

I'm aCEXual.

>Cex mascot looks ugly and smelly as fuck
about right

Never understand the crazy prices they have for older Pokémon games. Surely they sold billions, so not rare.

I haven't been in there for nearly a decade ever since i started pirating films and such. It's still basically where you go to hawk stolen phones, right?

I've only gone to CEX to buy 50p Godfrey Ho movies

i don't mind them overpricing shit because that meant the trade in values were way higher too.

When I was at school me and my friends used to flood their website with fake reviews

>find shadow of the colossus collectors edition for ps2 on sale for 20 euro
>don't really want the game but the paper case and enclosed artwork looks neat
>buy it, print out a bootleg cover, put it in a spare ps2 case and return the game in that
pretty slick move I must say

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HG/SS have massively inflated prices thanks to their reputation of being 'the best Pokémon games'. Price goes up even more if they come with the Pokéwalker accessory.

Andover was a nice town once, but it's fucking scummy as hell. I'd honestly prefer to live in Salisbury but it's cheaper here and i get into the camp quicker than I would from the city.

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I used to live near Biggin Hill; Bromley's much better than Croyden.

Both are shit though.

snagged a chipped PS1 for £20 to go with the CRT TV I found on the side of the road
proper nostalgia lads

Town centers used to be kept nice looking by stupid rich people doing their "civic duty" and made themselves feel important by making everything look nice. Then they all died off and now it's run by councils who couldn't care less other than ramping up their own salaries and slamming horrible concrete monstrosities down everywhere.

There's been a £300 Panzer Dragoon Saga in my local for months.

>fuck a CEX employee to get access to rare PS2 and Gamecube games for cheap

based and collectorpilled

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>go to cex
>see a 2nd hand pokemon heartgold
>costs 50 euros
>leave cex without buying anything

>fuck a CEX employee
sounds disgusting

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a filthy shag is good for you once in a while

Even when all the shops in Spindles have shut down, he'll still be sat there.

>visit the store for years
>everyone you meet calls it keks because "Computer EXchange"
>Gets a TV advert with C being S sound. Somputer huh.

Before it moved location a few years back the place was great
>managed to get shit like chrono trigger and arc the lad that wasn't released in EU through old CEX
>even in 2005 the place had shelves of second hand anime DVDs
>current store has only generic shit
>current store has a wall of literally over 1000 fifa games at the price of a blank CD.
feels bad man.

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original poster here. yeah she wasn't above a 6/10 but she had fat pale tits, she was only about 170 lbs so comfortably in "slagpig" territory and daddy issues so i put up with it. She had no experience in vidya either so i had to literally give her s list of shit to look out for. Relationship ended when she moved out of state.

CEX buy import games?

someone get me the fuck out of somerset, i hate this humid, swampy hellhole.

who /saafeast/ here
I fucking hate it

Started out as a couple of really good stores which sold new, import, niche and everything between vidyavwise. Now it's a glorified pawnshop.

The guy who created the business disappeared while on holiday years ago and there's been no trace since. He'd probably be pissed at the ruination of his dream.

Olrigh there my loverh. Can I borrow your combine arvesterh

Bought a 2nd hand dualshock 4 in there and later realized i paid the same price as a brand new one

>sold my entire childhood games collection to CeX so I could buy a Nintendo DS, which I didn't really like all that much
Fucks sake what a cretin I was.

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A guy once asked me for ID to get an 18 rated game

we all do that dumb shit when we were a kid but please don't badmouth the DS library.

That one did back when I used to visit it regular 2000~2010 as a kid. Imagine going into a store and seeing games you'd only heard about on shit like gameFAQs for sale that no other store sold. They sold chipped playstations second hand and always made you aware you needed it modified to play the imports.
Practice started dying off then they moved the store from the dingey hole it was in to right on the street and it's not been the same since.

It's kinda shitty now. There's a smaller one a few miles away but since it's not in the major city less normies use it so there's a better selection of games

I was in a full latex suit and sleepsack while geting edged for 5 hours or more, then we fucked in the end.
Also some pup play and furry stuff I won't go into

I know that CEX in Ann Street its so depressing inside and extremely overpriced for preowned games.

>Romford
>Ilford
So it's either getting stabbed by blacks, or paks

Just go to Stratford lads

Maybe I didn't give it credit but I headed straight into my edgy teen phase almost straight after and I got almost nothing out of the DS at that time.

I went in recently after a period of not going to there. Holy shit it smelt of pure shit and BO.

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Wood green or dalston

no more in america

>Bring in N64 games
>Have paper mario in original box
>£50 straight cash
>Cashier eyes widen, not sure for a second if its true
>Get over £100 cash for some old games
>Check a few years later
>Would only get around £30 total now

CEX fell for the same meme that Gamestop did and accepted counterfeit retro carts so they had to lower the price for trade ins on certain cart only tiles to discourage fraud.

Yeah, bunch of retro stuff dropped in value, at least regarding the CEX price. Some kind of aggressive stock acquiring thing would be my guess.

I bought New Vegas for 360 2 years ago for £20, and that was literally the cheapest you could buy it anywhere

They've removed the upstairs for some reason.

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Based

Got heavy rain from CEX one time
meanwhile this guy has alot of xbox 360 games he was trying to trade in, not sure what happened after that.

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Yeah, at the time it would have been extremely easy to get amazing cash by just slapping a sticker on any old cart. But it seemed to me at the time, they really didn't think it through on the trade in value

It's weird, their prices for PS4 and Xbox games usually always beats ebay etc, except for some games where they're priced way too fucking high for no apparent reason.
Like on their site right now, they have RDR2 priced at £22, which is pretty competitive against ebay etc, but GTA V is £20, which is way too high.

Choose your fighter

these wankers put the local independent game shop round the corner out of business

How come when a new fifa game comes out the last one goes down to like less than 50p.

fuck me I forgot the image

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i didnt realise there was so many bromley lads on here. moved out of that shithole a decade ago and never been back

no value in them any longer

Bottom row, second from left has given up on life.

>When Greg was about to start dishing out the awards they started chanting “TOON ARMY, TOON ARMY” for no discernible reason.

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>and for some reason, Senran Kagura.
They're actually pretty fun games. I can't imagine Burst Re:Newal goes for too much, give it a shot if you're curious.

El Shaddai

what a bunch of absolute mad men

Pricing is strange.
New games tend to be more exspensive than buying on Amazon, tesco etc.
But stuff a year or two old is great.

Metro Centre?

mfw cex near me had an n64 for £80 a few months ago kek

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The first time I went in here the speakers were blasting some bizarre freeform jazz bullshit, and there's another CEX not half an hour's walk from this one.

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that place is fucking depressing now

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god damn everything in england just looks so cramped, dirty, and fucking depressing. god bless america

better than driving 30 mins just to get the nearest store
suburbia was a mistake

sure, if you live in the deep country. otherwise you're full of shit.

I'm in London for a week, any actual good retro game shops?

This.

mfw this is CEX is actually pronounces sex

Every US city has the same problem, they were designed for cars. Everything is separated by miles and miles of soulless concrete car parks

yes, whats your point. that doesn't mean it takes half an hour to drive to the nearest store.

Anyone?

Really, how come? I don't live there anymore but absolutely loved it in the mid 2000s, parking in the red multistorey and walking alongside Debenhams down that quiet deserted corridor was kino for me!
Even now I don't mind visiting it when back up, it's a good day out but haven't been for a few years. Why's it all gone depressing?

Really, I can access just fine on EE

Last time I went was last summer. There's a load of closed shops and there's not really that much variety in the ones that are open: intu.co.uk/metrocentre/stores

Dude, is that the old Birmingham store
Not in my expereience

Glad I never bothered going in it now. There used to be a nice independent place down on St Benedicts Street, but I think that closed years ago.

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Because user is 1/128 Irish and therefore chimps out for St. Paddy's Day because much Irish heritage like all Amerimutts

God Nottingham is such a dump

Ayyeee Croydon

I don't have them in my country, but i happened to run into a couple of them when i had to travel to the UK. Very convenient prices (where i come from, the least amount you can spend for a used game is 10-12 bucks, so games at 1-2 bucks are super convenient even with the conversion rate applied to them), but the most recent time i've been there i got screwed up with a damaged PS3 copy of Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. I mean, i didn't waste that much money on it, barely 3 bucks, so no big loss, but it's still unfortunate.

The last time I went there I got the full series of Gundam Wing for €0.50

What a deal lads

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>selling a box for 18 quid
Absolute fucking state of your shop lad.

that's not even worth 18p

Stevenage CEX if anyone's interested

Non-Brit here

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Has anybody posted the Leamington Spa CEX store yet
Look it up

>not running DEX firmware
plebs

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Post it lad

>be me
>entered CEX Echange
>walk to employer
>my pronouns are she/her/xim/xer and I would like to have my sex change, please
>employer looked confused and said: "this isn't what you think it is, sir."
>IT'S MA'AM! i replied
>got upset threw all their dvds and videogames that were at arm each an walked away
not going over there ever again

That CCTV camera with a hanging basket on it sums up the UK to a T.

haha very funny post user, well worth the read, thanks for stopping by

Of all of the things in that image it's the hanging basket that you focus on?

>cctv camera outside a pub
not that unusual anywhere desu

I don't get it. Am I retarded?

>Bought mario and luigi dream team in 2015, £15
>completed it over 2 months, it was ok, a bit long but no regrets
>took it back and ended up getting £18 cash

Pirate fags can't tell me they've got it better

>that blue plaque over planet bong
Love seeing those. Now I know that the guy who invented ice cream scoops took a dump in that building 150 years ago.

Any experiences from the Glasgow CEX? I figured they'd probs have some memey stories

based dutchie.

bunch of smackheads flipping stolen phones for smack money, that's all you'll find in glasgow

I can't wait for CEX to kill off Game, fuck those stores.

i still miss gamestation ;_;

Looked it up and it's for a guy called Henry Jephson, whose main claim to fame was telling people to drink water, bathe and eat fresh vegetables.
Presumably then, he'd be seething at the store next door selling crummy pokemon creatures.

lel

>check out dvds since no good games exist
>fairly cute girl asks me what the title of this film is (I think it was Dude Where's My Car, some 00s stoner film anyway)
>apologizes and walks off embarrassed

What should I have done?

lol

You should have answered her question lad.

CEX is the closest thing we have, Gamestation felt a lot better to just be in though felt like an actual shop run by someone who gave a shit about videogames

>don’t really want the game

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£90 for Persona 3 FES

>goes to CEX
>asks for SSBU Collectors Edition
>they say that it has been discontinued and no one resold them a single copy so far
>goes to FNAC store near theirs
>sees 2 SSBU Collectors Edition copies right on the shelf
>buys SSBU Collectors Edition at FNAC
they just need to hire more competent people

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This. Gamestation just had that sort of staff who were knowledgeable but not urgently trying to shower you with that knowledge.

I sometimes go into thr Southampton branch but there's never anything I want in there. It's a goldmine for old console games though.

this desu lad.
>tfw ywn be a kid looking at the new games catalogue ever again
;_;

Which con is this, wtf?
Looks like london con last year.

Imagine the smell

representing. iykyk

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Oh shit Charlie Brooker did those comics? They were brilliant.

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>Go to Game
>Pick up Game
>Person who works at Game
>"Do you want to pay £1 for protection?"
>"No"
>"Do you have a points card"
>"No"
>"Do you want a points card?"
>"No

It's like a fucking interrogation.

Honestly FUCK Cex, they shouldn't be in business, got sold mutiple broken electronics, fucked games, they hire retards, they make their money off retards, I've returned everything I've ever bought off these hacks, honestly, if you ever get a chance to fuck them in anyway shape or form, do it.

Gamestation was run by outcasts for outcasts, the one near me was run by uni students just paying bills and playing vidya behind the counter when it was empty. Generally it was free of your normie buyers too, shit was so comfy to hang out in

>they'd pissed off the entire Games Media Community.
Absolutely based top quality bants. Who the fuck wrote this though? It reads like something The Guardian would write or it's Games Media equivalent Rock Paper Shotgun.

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Gizmodo: gizmodo.co.uk/2011/10/how-an-unknown-games-retailer-committed-suicide-at-a-gaming-awards-event/

The majority of their stock is now merch too, they undercut on trade-ins to avoid having to keep them in stock and just won't buy back anything too old to sell for their model. It feels like shit in their only last a week before it's replaced

Remember Electronics Boutique?

>What they had left behind was an absolute shambles. They’d sabotaged months of planning by the event organisers, they’d pissed off the entire games media community, and they’d wasted their own sponsorship money in painting themselves as a gang of selfish arseholes. Well done, Grainger Games. We didn’t know who you were before, but we do now.

Fucking brilliant.

>Persona 3 FES
You have to be fucking kidding me, I have that in my parents house somwhere. I bought it for like £20 around when it released.

Gamestation was a fucking godsend if you were a poorfag. There were no chavs around and you could get a 3 PS2 or PC games for under £20 and they were all absolute bangers.

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>Go on google to look for images of Gravesend CEX.
>The next result down is about a stabbing that happened outside the Burger King next door.
But hey, despite being a shithole Gravesend is the place Pocahontas died.

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>gravesend
I wonder if I've called you a cunt before.
That burger king is fucking shite though, never once had a good meal from there.

is that wakie?

I still have a PS1 game stand from there.

Any other NORFeast lads remember Chips?

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That's the one in Notts town, right?
>be me
>go to Ye Olde Corner House to watch film
>watch movie, was fun
>go outside, it's dark
>fucking winter
>go to bus stop
>standing there alone in the darkness
>keep hearing shuffling noises from that one dark as shit alley as I wait for the fucking bus to come already
Town is scary, boys.

Literally no one there speaks english. They look like they just wandered in off the street and put a uniform on. The deep fat fryer really befuddles them.

Give me your Discord id lad so I can talk to people in Gravesend who aren't Polish

Bloody right m8. At least the maccies is alright.
2061

My local Cex is in Wolverhampton, no stories really apart from some kids tried to get me to sell some stolen phones and I said I want 40% of the sale. I hate going in there and pity every single one of the customers, the smell, the desperation, the deperation...I also remember another guy selling all of his DVDs because he owed a drug dealer some money.

*depression

I can't find you with that. I'll just post mine and hope I don't get any whale porn.

BigMcMahon #0817

I used to live in Wolves. I hear it's really gone to shit in the past 10 years since I left. Which is strange considering it was already a shithole.

I know 3 out of the 4 people working at my local cex and they let me 'rent' games out for like a week and give them back. It's pretty nice but otherwise their prices suck. Switch games are way overpriced and PS4 games are always in shit condition in every aspect apart from the disc
At least they have fucking games and interesting hardware sometimes compared to FUCKING GAMESTOP

they don’t sell new games or funkos user why would you lie.. on the internet?

Yeah it's really rough now, a lot of the 'high profile' shops have closed down and replaced by rip of Poundlands. Paki vape shops are everywhere now as well as pawn shops. I'm getting out when my Grandad passed away, I could never raise a family here

i miss the £5 off vouchers you'd get in the sun/star
;_;

Rathbone Place?

I got two carrier bags full of PS1 games for 5p each when they finally wrote them all off. Most were junk sports game I had for the boxes, but there were some decent mid tier games like Medal of Honor and Worlds Scariest Police Chases.

*Whistles seductively*

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>Worlds Scariest Police Chases.
THE BOY

youtube.com/watch?v=Rn4Fu3KSoNM

What a banger it was.
Shame Police games don't seem to be so much of a thing now.

GTA is probably to blame for that.

Found a mint copy of WRC II on PS2 in a charity shop a few months ago for £2 with the original purchase receipt from 2002 in it. That was nice.

what was the original price?

God I love Charity Shop games.
So many times it's just 20 copies of FIFA, but over the years I've had a new sealed opy of Suikoden 2 for £1, DOOM 2016 for £1.49 a week after it came out and all sorts of other decent finds here and there.

Anyone bought any phones from CEX? I need a new one but don't really wanna go big on a brand new flagship right now. Most of the decent looking ones I see are condition B, how are they usually?

>chavs stinking of weed
>druggies who haven't bathed in days
>neckbeards
Take your pick

My local Cex alright. Found and bought an American copy of Pokemon Platinum there once.

>how are they usually?
Stolen, most likely.

£30. I only got it for £1 in fact. The branch of Dixons is now a branch of River Island.

Greatest find I've ever had in a charity shop was a CD single of the Aphex Twin side project Power-Pill for £1. The cheapest it's ever gone for on Discogs is £20: discogs.com/Power-Pill-Pac-Man/release/345

Posted with the correct image this time

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This is what I can't buy games from CEX. That copy of Freelancer for 50 p? Could have been part of an elaborate piss ritual. Parasite Eve for a quid? Someone's came on the cover.

that cex middlesbrough lad?

there's always a queue of chavs wanting to trade in their entire supply of old games and dvds for weed money

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My mate's brother used to work there

based.

>Worked in Kingston CEX
Ask me anything

Everything my cex has was stolen and sold for super low prices, I got 1 joycon, a shit ton of 23 cent ac cards, Godzilla movies, Dragon Quest VI, an Xbone controller for like $15, and a PS4 controller for $20. It was great honestly. I love stolen goods prices.

I've just moved from Dublin to London, and while it wasn't as bad as everyone was making it out to be, it really just isn't worth staying there any more.

Me and my partner got our apartment just outside the Liberties for €1000 a month (later €1075, the maximum increase after 2 years). The heating was shit and basically didn't work, which is fun when that snowstorm hit 2 years ago, and utilities would break fairly often, and it was an overall cheapo Celtic Tiger building that would get shut down if it was ever inspected, but it was alright.

The main reason I woudln't live there over here is that, while here is SLIGHTLY more expensive, I managed to get a job that pays twice what I was earning in my bottom rung retail job in Dublin that also uses my degree in about 2 months job hunting. That was after a bunch of interviews for other places, because they actually get back to you here when you send in applications.

Public transport works and runs all night, there's way more to do and see in terms of social life, you can get to the countryside plenty of different ways without spending a tonne of money, the weather is better/more stable, and the quality of living is better (my new apartment is nice and only costs an extra €100 per month).

Dublin (and most of Ireland) are okay places to live, but they just cost much more than they should. I could have stayed there for years to come, but work was shit and getting shitter.

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Any qt coworkers?

I went to the Boston one all the time. Fucking basement was in renovation forever and then it closed. Wtf

Absolutely not, The best looking person was our Manager but even she was a solid 5/10

Former trianglian, I miss the GameStation that used to be there, I remember playing Tomb Raider on the NGage in there years back

Suddenly I don't feel bad about about failing an interview at cex.

>grow up in Louth
>crash happens just as I leave secondary school
>no work in my town
>can't afford car
>public transport is shit and the only bus service south stops at 9
>train station has been closed for decades
>go to college in Dundalk
>spend 5 years studying graphic design and film
>do it mostly out of interest because I think there's no future in general, but can most likely swing a job in tv when it's over
>can't. Every tv or media job is tied up in this insane web of nepotism that leads to a cycle of shit no one watches
>spend close to 2 years on the dole, applying for every shit job I can
>get absolutely fucking nothing beyond the odd graphic design commission
>save up my pennies for years
>getting hardcore depressed. Parents who never finished school and had a house, car, and child by 23 from walking into factories can't understand why I'm still living with them
>everywhere they used to work doesn't even exist any more
>eventually meet my IT engineer gf, we move to Dublin together
>think that maybe now that I'm in Dublin, I have more chances at a media job
>itsfuckingnothing.jpg
>again, spend months living on my savings
>finally get a job
>it's retail, but they also needed me to be good with Photoshop and know a lot about cameras, which I did
>minimum wage, don't know my timetable until the week prior, often work weekends, on my feet all day in a windowless room in Tallaght
>get laid off just before Christmas because the business was run like shit and I was the newest/most expendable employee
>more months go by, jobless
>find out my bros friend runs a laundry business, work there
>part time hours, minimum wage, 5 days a week so I can't claim partial dole
>only make slightly more than the dole anyway, but at least it's keeping my spirits up
>eventually gives me fewer and fewer hours
>end up surviving, but have no savings
>have enough, make plan to move country
>have to get another job with more hours
>more retail
>save money
>move abroad

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have cex

In my time there I can't lie I turned off so many people from applying because the amount of work you do for the amount you're paid is absolute shit.

monster.co.uk/jobs/c-cex.aspx?jobid=209467486

>Salary: £6.15 - £8.21 an hour
wow
that's fucking awful

>April 2016
>See an i7-6700k priced for $150
>Oh shit
>Walk in there and ask for the product
>About to whip out credit card to snag it before other virgins do when I look at the box
>It's the processor cap from a motherboard
>Ask to open the box before I purchase
>Fucking nothing
>Spend 10 minutes explaining to the retards that the processor cap is not the processor and that they got scammed

A few months later it closed down. Fucking CEX

Irishfag here. I live in Croydon now. Didn't know there were so many Yea Forumsirgins in this town.

what a bunch of idiots

I fucking miss the days when CEX had no idea how valuable it's games were.

I got the director's cut of Silent Hill 2 in it's cardboard case, manual and all, for €12. And any blur ray or DVD that wasn't new was usually under €5. Got plenty of movies that weren't in print at the time for .50c

And god damn if I lament all the times I took that for granted. I passed many opportunities to get the first Nier and Folklore for under €10 because I thought it might go down in price. And by fuck have I never seen either game again. I keep checking random CEX's when I'm about on the off-chance I'll find something rare.

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One time I watched a guy trade in his DS and games for festival drug money and it still had the flash cart in it.
I like how the guy was like: "Sir. I have to give you the flash cart back. We don't take those"
Another time an entire queue was held up for an hour because this guy must have traded in like 100 DVDs all at once. (for basically peanuts too because it was all old shit)

>$150
>$

You can currently get OG Nier for £8 on CeX's website. On Xbox 360, for PS3 it's £28

>Nier under €10
How much is it worth? I bought it from GAME when I worked there a couple of years ago for £5~ after staff discount. I think it was £7.99

>someone with special needs buying old dvds
Hey man, my brother likes old obscure kids cartoons. He can't help being autistic.
It makes his day if he can score something like Gulliver's Travels or Double Dragon.

I guess I should add this was on PS3

Which is a worse experience:
Going to CEX
or
Going to FUCKING Gamestop?

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It's £20+ now. Price shot up when automata came out

Retro game section is growing in mass. Soon it will take over the store.

Some of the bigger GAME stores have these "Belong Arenas" in them now: belong.gg/arenas/

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My CEX had a female Corrin in box for £25. Which was brillo because she's more expensive on ebay.

Why only PS3 though?
Even before Automata the prices on Amazon were a lot higher for it on PS3 than 360. I got pretty fucking lucky getting it for that price from game
I heard Liverpool was going to get one of these a few years ago but It doesn't seem to have happened

Shit yeah. I remember nabbing Panzer Dragoon Saga for £30, some time after the Saturn's demise. I think the only reason they thought to price it higher than the other games was that it came on 4 discs.

>tfw got mint N64 controller from Milton Keynes CEX for £15
That was a good day. Holiday season hits the MK CEX hard though. The stock is just gone. Every year. gone.

People who like Japanese games don't buy Xboxes.

This image has everything. I wonder what the blue plaque is actually for

>got demon's souls black phantom edition with all the trimmings for £20 in CEX cardiff
bless those retarded sheep shaggers and not knowing the value of their stock

Weirdly the tiny one in Plymouth has one of these. Takes up about half the shop, it's barely even a closet. There's a bigger GAME just up the road to be fair

>outside of dead end jobs and manual labour jobs designed to fuck your body up by the time you're 40, there's no future.

Says the unemployed waster living in his mother's council house in Dublin. You're a joke.

see

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>walk in
>guy comes over to me
>farts really loud
>stands there pretending to look at the shelf
wtf

>using a PC in a small room with kids around you screaming while they play fortnite
cant think of anything worse, logos are nice though.

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Aha. cheers

Yeah, they're pretty decent.

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at least they put a greggs next door

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>mcdonalds bro gives me £20 cex voucher from monopoly promo
>get ninja Gaiden black and the house of the dead collection for free

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I went to CeX once and it smelled like wee.

it's shit

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Don't forget
>Councils are obsessed with wasting money on "modern art" sculptures that are either abstract or kind of creepy.
In our new development they decided to have these faceless children statues all over the place that look straight from an episode of Dr.Who where they come to life and start attacking people.

>cex Cardiff

You mean the St David's one or the old one by Central station?

Central Station Cex was the comfiest and the staff were pretty neat. Also had my most memorable FUCKING CEX moments there

demon's souls was from st david's, although I did get a copy of shinobi for PS2 from the old one by central
I miss cardiff

>Also had my most memorable FUCKING CEX moments there
storytime lad

Which alley duck?

Assuming you live in London or close to it because you posted the Kingston Harriers logo, there are a few better gaming bars in London, Meltdown and Loading to name a couple

Posted it before in previous threads but always love sharing it

>sketchy looking guy in autism jeans at the front counter having some kind of extended altercation with the staff
>casually "browse" around the corner to listen in
>apparently his laptop """"broke""" for the third or fourth time since he bought it from there
>staff loudly explain to him with other customers around that it was his own fault for browsing the "websites" they found in his browsing history, even after they told him not to the previous three times
>told that if he came back they'd be reported to the police andhavethe contents of his hard drive forwarded over

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>>Councils are obsessed with wasting money on "modern art" sculptures that are either abstract or kind of creepy.
It could be worse. Our retarded council did 2 hugely retarded things last year.

1. Sell off the town hall (a huge building) for £500,000 to an evangelical "church" who you have to give 20% of your salary to if you want to be a member. It's a scam cult like scientology and it was found out that a high up member of the council is a member of this "church" - nothing happened about that and they own it now. And for context, you can't buy a house for £500,000 in that area, and this is a huge fuck off building. It is worth ten times that.

2. Paid some artist £8,000 to graffiti "town icons" on walls in the town center. Pic related. I have lived here my entire life and I have no clue who any of the 3 black guys are, and the one white guy is Richard Beckinsale...a tv actor from 40 years ago...who wasn't from our town...but apparently lived here once...

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Nah I live in the middle of nowhere, just posted the logo because it looked decent imo, thanks anyway user.

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Oh shit it's the guy from Porridge.
His daughter, Kate Beckinsale, was hot shit back in about 2003. You don't hear about her anymore though.

fucking kek

Just looked this up: broxtowe.gov.uk/news-events/news/press-releases-2018/october-2018/icons-of-beeston-in-street-art-tribute/

Left to right it's Beeston-born fashion designer Paul Smith, the aforementioned Beckinsale and rather bizarrely American Motown signer Edwin Starr. who apparently lived in the area in the 70s.

Our town tried to claim cultural ownership of David Bowie after he died.
I mean it's true he performed here very very early in his career but I'm sure if he saw his tributes he'd be like: "eh? I don't even remember being here".
The Ronnie statue sitting at the public bench is nice. When it was new cute grils would go up and hug him but now nobody even pays attention to him. It's likely a large portion of my town don't even know who Ronnie Barker is. (And there being no Corbett next to him in a pose trying to wind him up is sad too, because I'd bet he'd love that. He even posed with the statue at one point)

all councils are retarded, let me tell you about my local one;
>builds brand new council building for ~£53million
>apparently to save money as it would bring departments under one roof
>four months later has to sell it
>now is leasing it back

>demolishes old ugly as fuck bus station
>opens up newer, smaller one
>no one told whoever deals with the traffic lights to change them
>chaos in the area for a week

>loans £10 mil to local football club
>all the money goes missing
>apparently developers funneled money into the council and the MP to turn their back while they made off with the money

>goes bankrupt
>such a fuck up that Westminster has to send in their people to work out what the fuck to do
>such a big fuck up they have to redo the entire region including merging other councils because ours are such fuck ups

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almost forgot, not the council but the police this time;
>police decide to change from classic headgear to baseball caps
>to increase inclusivity for transgenders
>just over a year later there is a new chief constable
>immediately changes them back to the old style headgear because baseball caps 'don't portray the right image'

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Yeah someone tweeted to Kate Beckinsale photos of this "art" and she was like "omg I'm so proud" or some shit.

I just googled to see who the black guys were and you can't even make this up -

1. Robin Hood - So not a real person...and the artist made them black for some reason? Our area is not very black, so I have no idea. Also I'm pretty sure Robin Hood was not from Beeston...

2. Edwin Starr - An american singer from 40 years ago...who was here very briefly...ok?

3. Paul Smith - Some fashion guy who is actually white, but the artist is so shit I thought it was a black guy.

Yep. So of the four "town icons", only one is actually from here, two briefly stayed here, and one is fucking fictional and not from here or black.

At least David Bowie is awesome. Our town is trying to claim these bunch of no marks are from here. I bet if someone stood there and did a survey, 90% of people would only recognise "the guy from porridge" and 10% wouldn't recognise a single one of them. Did they expect people to walk past and go "oh look it's local heroes Edwin Starr and Paul Smith!"

kek. It just hurts knowing how incompetent/corrupt they are.

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>>to increase inclusivity for transgenders
What?

zabou.me/2019/04/01/clockwork-orange/

>the fucking state of this

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did they pick these two up from a local respite centre for the mentally challenged

Aye. Councils need to be held under more scrutiny. Sometimes they are allowed to be a little too automatous and they act in their own interests.
My council bungle. I think they have good intentions for growing the town, but they do silly things. Like for instance, multiple new housing estates but no new roads or change in infrastructure.
Being near to London we get a lot of traffic just passing through the town. Literally because there's only one direct route through the town unless you either go round or cut through all the maze of little old estates to rejoin else where with less traffic. Accidents freeze the entire town into deadlock at peak traffic.
Or not classing a housing development just outside the town as a part of the town, or just moving the damn sign back the road to the start of that estate so the people that live there aren't screwed over by taxi companies and delivery firms charging extra for being "out of town"
Or they expand the shopping center so we can have: a new bank. We get new shops and 90% of them are clothes shops. Or charity shops. Our town actually needs CEX, and god do they know it. Because Morrisons have dropped CD/DVDs and Games hard. GAME and HMV are long dead, and Tesco is the only other option. Sainsburys are a joke.
Amazon are a life saver for us here. If we didn't have them we'd have to rely on Royal Mail who are alright but inconsistent. Like the delivery guy will come whenever he feels like it. One day he was early at 9am, another he showed up at 6pm. They rarely leave anything in the shed either for you.

some shit about trans being forced to pick a gendered hat
>Having to choose gender-based headgear is a barrier to the non-binary transgender community joining the police service. By introducing this new hat we provide a single protective hat to all police officers, Special Constables and PCSOs for general duties.

This thread went off on some tangent, didn't it. Ah well, it's another Cex thread that's hit 500. See you in the next one, whenever that may be.

'artlepool reporting in

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