>Buys a game from CEX

Depends, they sold some decent comics before they shutdown but the prices they gave you for returning vidya was cheap as fuck. It would literally be at best 1/3 of what it acutally was worth.

>Worked in CEX last year
>Had a discreet porn section hidden away in the corner
>Guy walks in, pants halfway down so you can literally see that he's shit his pants and it's stinking up the store.
>Actually buys the fucking porn we have and leaves.
Honestly I was impressed he did this at 12pm on a fucking Weekday without any shame.

>walk into CEX
>doesn't smell like BO & Sweat for once
>nic-
>suddenly the strongest smell of nearly gone off cucumber sandwiches

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This but GAME

what is this, bong gamestop?

>See SNES Classic for £20 in store window
>Huge line
>Chavs really want Fifa
>Get to till
>"Can I have the SNES Classic please"
>bull dyke at the till types on keyboard
>"Sorry. We're all out."
>"There's one right by the window"
>"It's a show model."

after that I just left because I couldn't deal with all the chavs screaming and the smells. Fuck CeX.

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>”hello can I help you?”
>hand him game
>”alright that’ll be X”
>hand him money, take game
Wooooow

Second hand games store, also sells second hand laptops/graphics cards/phones

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It's more like a 2nd Hand Only Best Buy

after exhausting all the dialogues

>Uh.. that is 19.99 dollars total
>Okay, I'll pay with credit card.
>Can I have your telephone and address please?
>No

it almosts makes me aperage and walk out of the store if only he wasn't holding my card. Do those drones get paid bonus with subscribers or what

No. They get fired if they don't shill.

have cex

There is ONE of these in America that I've seen. Basically a pawn shop instead of a game store.

Is that how they are there too?

Banbury reporting in

luv ingerland
simple 'as

why is england such a depressingly shit place to live despite the constant rising cost of living?

Hello fellow bongs, who else /giant thunderstorms/ here?

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>buying stuff widely available for free

We got our 3 days of summer, now it's time to pay the price.

Because the United Kingdom has been dead for decades.

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>buy psp from cex
>get home and see a tiny little part is chipped
>realize I got the wrong psp since it was the version you couldn't do LAN play with
>go to return it the next week
>sorry sir we can't take this, it's chipped right here
I felt like chucking the thing at the guy's head.

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>nothing to do
>nothing to see
>everything is expensive
>can't live anywhere decent without being a multimillionaire
>stuck in shitty areas where there's nothing to do but be a good boy and get a copypasted brick house and do nothing but go to work and return to your shitty copypasted brick house
i'm getting more and more tired of this place each day

Obligatory for any CEX thread

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>Go to target
>buy literally 1 item
>"do you have a credit card?"
>Yeah
>"Well would you like to save 5% on every purchase?"
>No
>"It's only 1 minute to sign up for our Target Red Card!"
>No
>"But sir think of all the savings!"
>No
>"Well we could do a quick credit check and see if your eligible!"
>No
>"Okay sir! have a great day"

Why do companies fucking do this, it's annoying to the consumer

one day I traveled to London, England and got a cheap psvita from a CEX near Camden market. I still have the membership card.

got cheaper games from flea markets in Brixton tho.

It's basic retail even in the US, I worked a holiday season at Best Buy to get some money for vidya and if we didn't try selling the warranty or the rewards program you get sent home and if you do it enough you're out.
Happened to a few of my friends until we all got let off after the season.

Why go to CEX when they're the same price as GAME, but with less variety?

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the experience.

GAME doesn't have FIFA 2014 for £0.10

>i'm getting more and more tired of this place each day
I feel the exact same way, but most English speaking nations are the same

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Used games literally cease to mater the second you get even the lowest of part time jobs.

>make a watch list of 200 or so games
>compare their prices with eBay
>buy game, sell on ebay
Cex has been an absolute gem to me. Especially years ago when they didn't know how to price some of their rarer games.
I remember buying dozens copies of Mario 64 ds for €6, Chrono Trigger ds for €15, Advance wars for €3 and even a DS game and watch club Nintendo, rare af game for €4. Good times. Seems they have wised up somewhat.
It's what a imagine a game store would look like if Yea Forums was in charge of management and staff.
Anyone here ever work for cex?

Papa says I need to spend more time with the working classes or else he won't pay for my theorbo lessons any more.

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i recently travelled and stayed at a friend's place in a different country, they live in the very middle of the city and it felt so fucking refreshing to be able to just step outside and have so much to see and do, even if it was just walking down the road for a few minutes to a nice square filled with affordable outdoor cafes and such

i definitely have post travel depression since that experience made me realise how fucking shit this place is in comparison, you can't experience that without being rich as fuck in london

Yup, can confirm. Worked in gamestop and I always had to shill game insurance and 2nd hand shit. If you're not meeting your quotas you get a talking to and if manager notices you're not shilling them r shit you could be let go.

I had a friend who worked at CEX, he tells me the elite strat is to buy brand new consoles or phones and sell them straight to CEX as they'll pay you more than you paid

Welcome to hell goyim.
Now you truly realise why people drink.

>go to game
>new release is 45
>walk 2 shops down
>same game is 40
This was how it went for the entire time grainger existed in my town. RIP you orange bastards.

Thanks for the heads up. I'll check out their prices for the new switch or iPhone when that drops.
They do great cash prices for new shit. Like you could buy the latest hot game for £60, play it hard and bring it in for £45 cash.
I could imagine how they would buy the newest, sold out, craze like SNES mini for above asking price since they can just control supply and demand then and mark up the prices even more.
I just keep my eyes peeled for sweet deals. Wish I had retrospect and bought up their stock of SoulSilver/Heartgold when it was around £30.

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I loved Grainger. I remember my nan buying me JSRF from there when I was like 7 or 8. Trade in prices were absolutely dogshit - but to be fair prices on new games were reasonably competitive as far as brick and mortar stores go. Obviously their move to selling overpriced Pop-Vinyls didn't work out. Who would've thought!

have cex

>CEX
I WISH

>Same price as GAME

They're really not though, why lie? I go into both when searching for a game and CeX is almost always cheaper.

Also GAME don't sell N64 or GameCube games, CeX does, although if I could find somewhere cheaper selling them i'd buy from there

What do you actually get from the membership?

Cheap Fifas remind me of the time I ate like a king for a month.
Remember they had an offer where you could trade an xbox one/ps4 game for a medium pizzahut pizza. Bought up the cheapest fifas and traded them for pizza vouchers. Each pie cost me about €1.50.
They did the same thing for Xmas, except you could trade 2 games for a shirt. Bought a pile of star wars shirts, cause that was hot at the time, flipped them on ebay, got my mother a Samsung tablet for Xmas with the money I made.

Because they sell sixth gen games and GAME is nothing but funko pops and assorted merchandise nowadays.

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GAME
>Selling brand new games for £50
>overcharge on everything
>Gets rid if price match trade-ins
>Threw GameStation under the bus
Fuck em

Has anyone got any good experience in selling at CEX?

I want to get rid of all my guitar hero kit and that fucking Wii fit board - do you reckon I can get any money for it or should I scrap em entirely?

Check the website it should give you a price

>>Threw GameStation under the bus
i'll never forgive them for this.
i'll also never forget the cutie who sold me halo 3 while being a year or so under

>work in a garden centre
>mfw the sun is finally fucking off

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>GameStation

Based.

>making blanket statements about the quality of the whole country based on fucking London
Fuck aye, Nige.

there's literally no other place worth living in, everywhere else is even worse because of decades of government neglect

>GForce shut down

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How did you manage to type that with an acid-soaked machete lodged in your brain? I genuinely feel sorry for your ignorance, user. Everyone outside the south-east knows the truth.

>"in for a bit of nice weather this week!"
>mfw thursday rolls around and it's 30 degrees and 80% humidity in the middle of the night

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Fuck that user, feel for you

>He buys video games from a secondhand shop like a poor person

ah yeah, because there's so much to do and so much opportunity in the places that have been decaying for decades, full of nothing but one high street to walk down and endless streets of the same copypasted houses

i've even lived in the north and that was even more depressing

theres no point going to cex since everything in there has ebay tier prices, unless they're completely unaware of the value of something but thats rare as fuck

This does not happen.

Thursday was dreadful.
I just wanted to die over and over again.

Taking out the game and sealing the case back on GAME pre owned games was the shit when I was like 16.

>CEX in Mexico
>overpriced used consoles
>used consoles priced the same as brand new ones
>game selection is not so bad but is way cheaper to wait for sales for brand new copies
>Selling games is also very annoying, they ask for way too much stuff and time just to get rid of a single game

I also couldn't sell my Smash Bros 3DS because the guy said that there was something loose inside the cart when it has always worked flawlessly. I have never gone since then, is just not worth the hassle.

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>buy ps4
>plug it in, doesnt work properly, put it straight back in the box
>take it back the next day
>”sorry sir, we cant take this because you have opened the case as indicated by this sticker”

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Anyone remember gamestation?

Yeah.
I always went to Gamestation over GAME because they had better prices and shit.

>ordered cheap PS3 games online
>cases were disgusting and I'm pretty sure they sent me a biohazard

>buys ps4
>not working properly
Just ps4 things. Actually you bought a properly working one

Fuck right in the feels, you Leeds lad?

indeed

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I never remember them pushing membership crap, got my original xbox from there pre owend

>would have friends over friday night
>order pizza/take away
>play vidya together all night
>some sleep on the floor others cramped in the bed
>would talk shit for hours before we fell asleep
>wake up early and go to the town center
>first stop was always gamestation to check out what new games got traded in
>so regular there the employees would keep "rarer" games behind the counter so we could buy them because they were just as obsessed with games as we were

Man I miss this place until Game finally ruined it

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PlayTime in Derby / Notts fucking owned

they were based
FUCK GAME

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This also, staff always felt like Yea Forumsirgins and not sales men

Not that user but also Leedsfren

The CEX basement is a deathtrap - there is absolutely zero ventilation down there

>go to pick up marvel ultimate alliance
>not in M
>not in U
>not in A
>Its in S
wat

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>They did the same thing for Xmas, except you could trade 2 games for a shirt. Bought a pile of star wars shirts, cause that was hot at the time, flipped them on ebay, got my mother a Samsung tablet for Xmas with the money I made.

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NO INCOME TAX
NO VEE-AYY-TEE

Oh shit I live in Leam. This is an old picture

>trying to greentext in the subject field
>using the subject field whatsoever
newfag

CEX more like SEX hehehe :))

Havent been to CEX since the first moved years ago, one look at prices and i fucked off. Unironicly cash-converters are better for prices

>tfw I work at CeX

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I'm so sorry user

How many lassies with fruity hair work in your store, lad?

It's not actually too bad all things considering. My colleagues are a decent bunch but as you can imagine the customers are scum of the highest order. Also OP is a giant faggot, the whole reason for the membership is to back up the warranty, without it all you have is the receipt that everyone inevitably loses.
None, everyone is normie as fuck.

Why don't you shower

you're*

It does, I worked at a Sears years ago and that was basically the script they trained us with. I got fired after a couple months solely for not pushing their shitty credit card.

dead country

why are underage twitter niggers so afraid of writing fuck

Walk into cex used games cost more than new on amazon, never come back

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>Didn't believe every CEX stinks
>Walk in to local CEX since they had Mario Maker going cheap
>Second I'm through the door it's a full of nasal assault
I thought it was just a meme, god damn.

Because I have ligma.

it's deliberate

>>>/twitter/

epic

ligma balls

Gaming PC got taken away by Bailifs for unpaid rents when I got eviced so I had to go Cex and buy a playstation.

The guy didn't even scan it when I bought it or put cash in the register...Did he sell a stolen playstation to me?

Every piece of hardware bought in is scanned into a system called mobicode to check if it has been reported lost or stolen.

Why does the store smell so weird?

love me a good brit thread

The customers, I'd say 75% smell like either weed, booze or concentrated BO.

>Do you have your membership card?
yeah but I forgot it
>okay
wow, that was difficult you dumb nigger.

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>planet bong
what

>Oh, if you tell me the name it's under then I can look it up in the system
Checkmate.

So do the same stinkers come in every day? Does it smell okay before opening?

Portsmouth? I remember seeing a copy of Snoop Dogg's Doggy style on the porn shelf downstairs

>Knows nothing of retail
Just tell us your name and address and we'll look it up, it'll only take an extra minute :)

'ate GAME
'ate CEX
luv Gamestation
luv greggs
simple as

Goin to the shop you lads want something ?

How do you reply to this without sounding mad?

Holy shit this, I work at a Garden Machinery company, all this sun has made us incredibly busy

Get me some Fanta Fruit Twist and a cone of chips

Well I can't really get Brand New Gamecube games for reasonable prices

cornetto

Haggisland here. It's back to gloomy as fuck but the air has been really thick the last few days. I'm expecting thunder any day now.
Fuckin love a good storm.

So do the same stinkers come in every day?
Pretty much, we have two guys that come in every day without fail as we're about to close. They've been told numerous times that we close at 5:30 yet they still come in at 5:28 every fucking day to buy a single 50p dvd. I'm not even allowed to ban them because they "spend money at the store" the management is a fucking joke. They both absolutely stink of BO and unwashed balls, I've taken to calling one of them Parallax cause he looks like Hector Hammond from that shitty Green Lantern movie.

Shit on the floor.

>Go to EBgames
>There's no games
>Only those bugeyed bobbleheads and other vaguely vidya related merch

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>Do you have your membership card?
Uh, no thanks. *Glares at cashier for a momemnt*

That's all you have to do to skip that entire conversation saves about 10 seconds if you're lucky.

Anyone have any problems working at Brixton with youths going to their stores in bikies and stealing stuff?

I'm I quit in December, I couldn't stand the job

Any other people's CEX selling retro games? I got a boxed Sonic the Hedgehog 1 for Mega Drive for like £3. What a snatch.

>case is a 2 cd case
>dole monkey only puts 1 cd in
>politely point out that there are 2 cd slots and the box clearly states 2 cds on it
>get told im wrong
>point out the cd fore mentioned nematode employee issued says "Disc 2" on it in bold font
>calls security to remove me because holding up the conga line of smelly council estate addicts
>call bank outside store to cancel the card payment

My experience of instigating a goods and services transaction to procure video games at this establishment have been less than satisfactory.

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Post great deals you got in CEX.
>FFX FFX-2 FFXII all for £4
>Star Wars PC collection for £5
>mfw thats it

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You don't just say no to every question about memebership
Or wear headphones holding the cash and ignore them like an autistic asshole if you're buying a single item but they might be an asshole and refuse to scan shit until you answer their questions

Kingston.
It was in a literal dark corner of the Store on the highest shelf above the International DVDs

Its always annoyed me how self aware brits are. when I was there theres "british culture shit" everwhere place is like a carnival makes me sick

>Go to CEX
>My ex works there
>Last time I interacted with her was getting broken up with by text and then unfriended on facebook
>She genuinely doesn't recognize me
It honestly hurt to know she can't even remember my face.

>December
I hear the Christmas period is hellish, luckily I haven't had to work one yet.
>security in CeX
What kind of shithole do you live in?

This doesn't work. They start interrogating you on the spot and there's nothing you can do about it.

Mine has a copy of Sega Ages volume.1 for the Saturn. It had Mischief Maker too at one point, shoulda bought it

shoulda went back sameday numbnuts and said you sold me shit. or are brits too polite to demand a refund like ameribros

PLANET BONG

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security is required on all stores no matter what they are due to the council being retarded and thinking some muzzie is going to bomb a city who population is 50% cabbage and 50% polish

Not a Leeds, lad but I go there often to see friends and yeah the basement there is a fucking hell pit. You seen the wall of Twilight DVDs they have there (might not've been Twilight)

Well if that doesn't work then just say 'no bag' while he's talking preferably after he's used the word 'and'. Saves about 4 seconds if things go your way.

Christmas Period is shitty merely because they keep the store open later then it needs to be, Until 9pm and the Store is dead by 7pm because they make no effort to make it clear we are still open and beforehand it's like the shittiness of working there on saturday but every single day of the week

>be 2015
>buy game from 365games for £30, comes before launch
>finish game in a week
>trade in at game for £33.50 credit
>spend on psn credit and sell to others for £30
Game are shit now though, where's a good place to sell games these days?

Whats your local CEX lads?

Mine is Tooting, though I go to Wimbledon if I am trying to sell something as they rip you off in Tooting

also anyone else always have to wait in line for fucking ages as some paki at the front is asking a million questions about a phone?

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>moaning about getting 2 hours pay for doing literally nothing but listening to music
count your blessings son. i have to work from the 25th to the new year every year even though everyone else is closed and i have zero reason to even be at my job during that week. new owner is a cunt.

Midna. Yes or no?

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Yeah the one where I live has all their retro games in the glass cabinets on the side of the shop. They used to keep PS1 games next to the Wii games but they changed that a while back iirc

Well you never know when those dune coons are going to get uppity I suppose.
Fuck I hate working Saturdays, my store is a tiny franchise one and we have absolutely no room whatsoever for when someone clears out their entire house and brings in 1000 dvds covered in a suspicious sticky substance.

>I'm upset because I went to Britain and it was full of British things

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I have literally never been asked this at CEX and I go there all the time.
Usually I don't buy anything, okay, but the times I have bought stuff they still have never asked.

>Boxing day
>Our store shutters are broken so we're locked out for an hour waiting for someone to come and sort it out
>People lining up, asking us if we're open and if they can get in
I don't know what it is about the christmas period but god damn, people drop to sub 50 IQ.

Used to be Donny now it's York.

>lying to people

Ha, you played yourself, liar!

What are you even trying to complain about?

Same here mate, people trying to get through the doors at 7:00 even know we close at 5:30. It's always poles or pakis, every single fucking time.

lucozade pink lemonade an mint conetto, lad

It's the anglo curse, most other English speaking countries suffer from this too but are a bit better, but we're still all shitter than Europe, I hate it here too.

Not even doing that europe comparison in a brexity way, just I went there and it's cleaner, nicer, cheaper, more efficient, and has made me despondent

50lbs of lard and a tarp lad

Any employees of that place have any experience stories? Kinda think about getting a job there for a few quid but I wanna know what I'm getting myself into first.

>CEX
Good times, good times.

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Same, sup York user. What do you think of all the Chinese tourists

>Selling preowned copies of games at a higher price than brand new copies at launch

Yeah, I'm thinking they deserve bankruptcy.

Don't work there, they management is a complete joke. They expect you to stay hours after your shift without paying you and you'll get no hours whatsoever if your supervisor doesn't like you. You will be assaulted day in day out by the worst possible smells imaginable and will be forced to smile at the scummiest of people whilst they try and stab you.

>temps in the 30s whole week last month
>need to do some work in my garden, try to wait it out
>temp drops to like 14C one day
>go to do some work
>humidity at one fucking milion percent
>30 minutes into working i'm literally covered in sweat
not in bongland but fucking hell i hate this weather

I mean they're just folks innit having a good time. I don't see any problems with people on holiday

4 Stella some tips and a mars bar cock.

is game any better

there was one in Brighton which was pretty allright, there was GAME and CeX right next to it too.

Affirmative.

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How the fuck would I know?

>WTF why is there British culture in Britain?
Whoa...

I got Dragons Dogma second hand from grainger games in that one shopping center with Morrisons and the Range in it. Good game.

>is working with customers good
no mate, no. it's shit.

I didn't even see the chip when I got it cos it was absolutely tiny and barely visible. Only noticed at home while looking for where to put a memory card in.
I've also bought a controller from cex, it had a wonky analog so I took it back the next day and they said they can't refund it cos it has a wonky analog. Fuck that shop. Selling me broken shit and pretending it was my fault.

>GG in my town closed recently
>had an ENTIRE ROW of shelves dedicated to funkopops prior to closing

fuck grainger games

I worked at GAME for a bit. Customers can be shitters just like any other retail job, it really depends on the people you're working with if you'll enjoy it. The people I was working with were all massive MGS fans so we would just speculate about the Phantom Pain trailers during our shifts. Store manager was a chill guy too but would always get first dibs on music at the start of each shift. I swear to god I've heard Sam's Town more times than I care to admit.

>CEX right next to bus stop that takes me to/from the beach
>Go there at the end of a beach day with bros
>Sometimes buy shitty games/movies because they're cheap
Never had any problems and it was pretty comfy, but then again this wasn't in Britain-

Gamestation was based, I used to love their trade-in credit cards cause they had a bunch of different themed ones for different games n shit, there’s a hunk of a GS literally next door to the CEX in my town, shit sucks

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It is always raining on the uk? Feel like its gloomy and depressing down there. Like myself.

dunno mate that sounds kinda comfy having co workers that like what you like, seems like the only problem are the cunts that think they're top shit for buying games and not wanting to talk to you at all

>all three bionicle movies on DVD for 75p each

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Have any of you lads found some decent gaming stuff in charity shops?
>mfw got a gba sp and pokemon fire red for £15

Found a pristine copy of Ape Escape at a pawn shop for a tenner

>FFX and FFX2 for a quid each in perfect condition
>Cex were trying to flog them for £10 each before the HD versions

>planet bong
Do they sell drug parapharnalia there or is it full of british stuff

lived in southern uk for 3 years and the weather is so bad i think it actually explains why britbongs are like that. weather in uk is legit like living in a house with a suicidal person, it's that depressing.

I'm assuming drugs since nobody in the UK calls themselves Bongs
t. Brit

Looks like incredibles outfit.

Profit from physical media is dying and soon all games will be digital. Game stores push memberships to make extra dollars off of the public.

It's a generic knick-knack shop. Basically a bunch of useless clutter that you'll throw out in a year.

>walk into CEX
>a thick blanket of odour folds over your entire
>sweat, semen, urine, feces and fear are all here
>Linkin Park blares from the speakers
>a small herd of neckbeards crowd the video games, squabbling over a £75 copy of Pokémon SoulSilver
>hold breath until you reach the DVDs, your life may depend on it
> lightheaded, you bump into a jagged metal shelf tied to the wall with fast food straw wrappers
>get crushed under the weight of half a tonne of copies of The Matrix, now selling for 3 and 6 a pound
>head to discreet porn section in the corner
>a fellow customer, pants halfway down so you can see the stains his undies suffer, is stood breathing heavily in front of the single thin shelf
>decide to let him buy his porn first
>see SNES Classic for £20 in cabinet
>track down singlular bull dyke staff member visible, vaping by the door
>"Can I have the SNES Classic please"
>bull dyke huffs and stomps to till, types on keyboard
>"Sorry. We're all out."
>"There's one right in the.."
>"It's a show model."
>”O-ok.. Thank you..”
>on the way out, spot all three bionicle movies on DVD for 75p each
>huge line at the till out of nowhere
>around 30 chavs are all counting their coins out on the counter to buy a copy of the latest fifa for a mere 140% of RRP
>get to till
>”that is 19.99 dollars total”
>”w-wait.. shouldn't it be-”
>bull dyke snorts thick purple vape steam in your face daring you to challenge her
>”okay, I'll pay by card”
>supply bulldyke with my home adress, landline and mobile telephone numbers, national insurance number, blood type, inside leg measurement, passport and first three lines of genetic code
>get home, only two of the DVDs are scratched beyond use. Result.

Shit man this real?

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Why have GAME not gone under?

They can't be turning a profit on all that garbage merch, can they?

The funko side of the merchandise is a pathway to many profits some consider to be unnatural.

Everytime I go there I see shitty chinese tier memetastic merchandise that genuinely makes me embarrassed to be there. There must be some fortnight playing 13 year old sperg with whale parents market that GAME has tapped as I thought it was going into administration a few years ago

Lads. Why does every CEX shop look the same both on the outside and on the inside?.. It's really creepy.

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>bring some games and dvds to cex to sell
>'you need a membership card to sell do you have one?'
>'yep'
>'sorry this card is for (other cex in same city) can i get your details to make another membership card?'

Fucking why?

my ex used to work there. They made a huge push for useless cheap merch, carry cases, warranty bullshit etc. it was all target based so if you didn't try to fuck over customers with warranty, you wouldn't last long there.

Kings Heath, one of the better ones i've seen desu rarely smells too bad and staff are alright

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Unironically found Vagrant Story for £1.50 in Cash Generator.

Was Gamestation better?

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Why are stores in England set like this? In America almost all stores like this are in malls/strip malls

American here, I read this entire thread in a cheeky accent and enjoyed it.
Your threads are significantly better than ours, I'm sorry.

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There are shops like that in America.
Besides, you have massive shopping centres in places like Manchester's Arndale Centre but also just normal high-street shopping zones.
Like Spindles or the Tommyfield Marker in Oldham.
>inb4 Oldham.
Fuck you.

Based yank, you safe seppo lad

>strip malls
literally what

It was until game made it have to be exactly the sameas the game stores, then killed the brand as people still liked it more than game

Timesplitters 2 for £8, Eternal Darkness for a similar price

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Undeniably. The people who worked there knew their shit.

>Posting the store in Welwyn
You local, or was that the first from google?

Just to the left there is a small "mall", with some shops and the train station in

Quotas are a bitch and it's like this in basically every corporate service job.
t. worked at DHL Express and despite my job being only accepting orders for courier from people I also had to shill extra shit AND do it in a shady way such as not even asking them, merely mention it for example "Alright so that will be an insured parcel for a cost of treefiddy" and if the customer is too retarded to notice you said this, that actually passes.

You can find rare odd shit in CeX. I got a bunch of Silent Hill shit for £20.

I think they were brought out in some capacity by sports direct, at least what the Wikipedia implies

Hey fellow Manc

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Did you anons know that Charlie Brooker was one of the founders of CeX?

Are there any other shops that do preowned games left besides CEX? I went to game and hmv for the first time in years and there was fuck all selection.

They need to burn for what they did to Gamestation.

Got a GBA SP for £25

found a gamecube with wires and controller for a fiver

I honestly don't know what people are on about when they complain about CeX. They've never seemed extortionate to me, people behind the tills have always been normal and I've never noticed any particular odour in any of the stores.
yes, i do take showers

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Who /mad fer it/ here

>Enfield
Poor sod, I was born there

I bought Crysis in Marie Curie for £1.50 back in 2010 and struggled to run it on my 9400

I took her to the local CeX
I don't know why, but I had to start it somewhere
So it started
there
I said, "Pretend you've got no money."
And she just laughed and said, "Oh, you're so funny."
I said "Yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here.

>I wanna live like northern people.

Same here lad, kingsmead for life

I live in MK now which is unironically worse.

This is a /spice/ neighbourhood, Blur, Oasis, and Pulpfags keep moving

Brand identity.

More like CUX haha

Aldi does it too, you got your cereal.

worse, but at least you can afford a house there easier.

CeX is usually the only major shop I care about nowadays because they're the only one that sells retro vidya and animu and for decent prices at that, managed to get Alisia Dragoon complete in box for £8.

>Afford house
KEK

I bought shared ownership because MK is in high demand and I quickly got priced out. £95k got 50% share.
It’s in such high demand round here that people are charging cash premium on shared ownership.
£20k cash to be handed over at signing on top of your mortgage

I don't mind hearing more from you bong anons

I never expected a thread on CeX to be so accurate

>Sam's Town
That manager sounds pretty based to me.

I love buying trash anime I've never heard of and gems I didn't realise had a release and Cex is perfect for that. Shelves are slowly being overtaken by big three boxsets though

Pretend you have a membership card but you forgot it.
If they search you through database just say bullshit and complain they don't find you
You may try to ask for a discount because lost your account and your advantages with it

Ask to see the manager when they insist too much. Then tell him you won't buy here again because they're forced to ask this shit everytime

>try to buy fire emblem at FUCKING gamestop italy at launch
>did you pre order user ;^)
>user if you do not pre order we have no copies ;^)
>hey user purchase the level 3 card you have a lot of points already wouldn't want to waste them only need to spend 30'000$ yearly in games and it will auto renovate for free ;^))))))

Saw this in a Cex once (Underworld's Dubnobasswithmyheadman) and decided to get it.

The fat glasses wearing neckbeard behind the counter almost put in one of U2's CDs in the case instead. I had to kindly point out it was the wrong CD.

Still doesn't beat the time I bought Los Campesinos!'s Hold On Now Youngster... from HMV and inside was Nickelback's All The Right Reasons.

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>Used to be a store manager for CeX Burgerland
>Made sure to have a great team that was so efficient, there was always time to play vidya when it was dead

It was a fun ride while it lasted. I left some something with better pay, but the company went to shit after I left and US branch shut down. Too much big box and gamestop competition and americans not being as thrifty and just seeing us as an ATM to most clientele dumping their shitty DVD collections.

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That carpet muncher lied to you and probably bought it for herself, or realized it was not in the system and varianced out. If it's in the window and has a price, it's for sale.

>Kingston.
What the fook lad, I've lived near all my life and had no idea. Granted I rarely go anywhere near CEX.

Used to work in Three, they're honestly the fucking worst. They want to know literally every spec 3 times over and will even ask if you give them a spec sheet.

I've got so many fucking more stories about them but I feel like everyone will know them already.

same

is that near a cash converters in walthem cross.

Who /carboot/ here?

Got a PS4 Pro for £80 off some pink faced dad who had enough of his lad playing games all day lol

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>Walk into CeX
>Nose instantly assaulted by a melange of smells
>B.O
>Piss
>Deodorant
>Weed
>Hold my breath and take a look around
>All of the PS2 games are hilariously overpriced
every time

I go to ford market car boot every weekend and in the week in the hope of finding some good shit, I never do.

THEY'RE PRACTICALLY GIVING THE GAMES AWAY LADS!!!!

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>50p
still overpriced

I'm a burger, and our local pawn shop used to have 30 copies of various Madden games for the snes for a quarter.

CEX is from Bongland? Interesting.
There is one near me in Poland
Games are super cheap, but hardware and consoles? Only a boomer could think he wasn't getting fucked in the ass while buying these.

>go into to pick up MUA3 cause I can get it for £16 instead of games £50
>guy had rang up 30minutes before I went in and asked them to hold the last copy they had
>I got there 5 minutes before him and they sold it to me
Feel bad for the guy but fuck him

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>go to Gamestop
>buy new game and 1 used game
>come home
>open case of used game
>its empty
>return to the store to tell them they forgot to put the game in
>they check the inventory and say it checks out and there's no extra game
>ask him if the sleeve is still around so I know at least that he took it out of the drawer and didnt just forget it while he got the new game
>says it makes no sense since the sticker is already crumpled up and in the trash
>can't even complain to HQ because its my word against his and technically it looks like I just bought a game, took the cartridge out and then pretended it was never in
mfw I got legitimately scammed by FUCKING GAMESTOP

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skyrims down to £1.50

My local one tooting too what the fuck?

I also get the same feeling when i want to buy a game but some dickhead is asking someone for their life story for a £40 phone

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Lol you're poor

So do I, user. It's a hard life.

>the user lives in the same town as me.
A scary thought.

fuck CEX
useless retards who scam you for old stuff

>Secrets about CeX from an employee.

Our pricing department is in India.
Any store can handle refunds for your shit.
The piss/BO smell comes from the low class cunt customers who'll sell a shitty old Nokia for crack money.
Majority of our customers are cunts which is why we in turn are cunts.
Thieves love our store.
Internal workings tend to screw us over too.
All stores should have the same prices for everything and offer the same prices for everything.

Who /Leicester/ here?

thieves love cex?
is it easy to sell stolen goods

And it's easy to lift from it.

Do any of ur Cex's have very distinct smells, the One in oldham just smell like corn

Be honest, have you guys ever bought anything with bitcoin at CEX?

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Why are they taking so long to die, Gamestop in YANK land is dying off quicker

>Do you have your membership card?
Yes.

>That scary period of time (after Game fucked over gamestation) where there were 2 GAME's in the Manc arndale

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Normies flock to it, Clueless parents and fifa fags will never switch to digital stores

How the fuck do we keep having cex threads AND also keep getting hundreds of replies?

decaying infrastructure in all sections of life, with an incompetent government that doesn't have the will to fix it

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>Fellow welwynfags on Yea Forums
I just moved away from there
This is strange

haven for britlads

I'm a southfag by my grandparents live right below the Scottish border and when I visited them every summor I'd always go to the Graingers in their town and thought it was super cool. I remember I got FF4 and 6 for GBA there.

Was sad when I went back up a couple of years ago to see it gone.

I'm surprised (and glad) there's that many of us

>funkopops
Who actually funds this invasive cancer?

Mongs who think they'll be the new Beanie Babies.

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Not bad. I got the complete boxset of Hellsing Ult ovas for a tenner and Akira bluray for £3

The great Debate

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Fuck man. Used to go to every carboot with my grandparents as a kid cause they sold antiques. They would give me fair bit of pocket money and almost every toy or game i got was from a carboot.

Bong gamestop is literally just called GAME

I've never even seen the one on the right.

It's the shit Atlantic weather combined with the resident mentality.

Fuck gamestation, bastards made me lose my dsi ware games when 3ds came out, I was trading in my dsi xl and they said all I had to do was move the sd card but I think I had to do a transfer as well, which they never mentioned, but obviously by the time I realised they already had my dsi xl and it was too late.

Our thread may be better but our life style is depressing

I got all my chipped PS1 games from the guy on the carboot who had a folder full of bootleg copies. I must have had hundreds of new release games that I got for three quid each.

I live in the south and living costs is cheap, not sure about you northern fags but I do know that property prices up there is waaaaaaaaaaay cheaper.

Its basically our version of /brit/

haha cex more like sex

bong Radioshack but very very worse

i remember the one time Game gave me "stocks" which i could cash in or keep them so i cashed that in for £150 in credit

You could have just taken the new games out from blockbuster and cloned them for the same price.

what the fuck is pound bakery?either i have not seen one or have ignored them all this time not knowing it was a chain.

Seems to be a mainly Lancashire thing.

I was 8 bro I wasn't that smart

I have seen 1 or 2 around too, Derbyshire here.

>going into a gamestore
Why would you ever do that. Just buy your crap online if you need something physical.

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Did anyone else call it 'c-e-ex' rather than sex for years? I only recently picked up on a radio advert at work and it blew my fucking mind, I could swear even the employes called it the former.

>he doesn't like physical browsing

We have three in the city centre alone

THREE

At one point my town had four GAMEs. We never even had a Gamestation that was converted.

BRING BACK GRAINGERRRRR

Unironically nostalgia
I know i can get better deals online but whenever I'm in town I'll always wander into a store if there is one and perhaps pick up a game
>also tfw you'll never go into one of the big cities around Christmas time with your mates and wander around all the big electronic/vidya/music stores again

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There it is.

GAME doesn't do graphics cards, except for very few stores

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I love England (and it’s people) but this place is fucking horrible and most of us are literally stuck here.

You know GAME and Gamestation were owned by the same parent company right?
They were artifitially creating competition by changing prices and then killed off Gamestation to make GAME the only place to get your stuff from, since GS had much lower sales.

No competition, no one on the highstreet sells games games and if they do it's the same high prices. Last time they were down the shitter they killed GameStation so they could and ultimately jew the market. The only force to fight them are independent stores and websites like simplygames and gamecollection.

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Northern thing slowly making it's way down south though

>went to cex in bologna once
>look at the main case display
>4 copies of rule of rose for 170€ each
Wew

Nah GAME were on the brink of administration EA was also refusing to send them games because they loads of money to them. So they decided to kill GameStation to keep GAME afloat. GameStation was doing really well though

Their everywhere in Manchester

It’s still there in the city. Just empty.
>2 years and still empty

There was at one point two GAMEs and a Gamestation at the Telford shopping center. The GAMEs were pretty shit but Gamestation had a big ass Link statue and shit tons of pre-owned stuff.

It's a pretty OK Store, fairly large and has a good selection of shit with a pretty constant stream of Retro and New Games and Consoles coming.
It's right by the Rotunda, if you ever been to Kingston's Odeon.

Can't post an image because I'm on o2 mobile data but it's the Derry one, it's always a little odd being an NIanon in these threads.

CeX employee here, do not shop there. They're one of the scummiest businesses and worst employers I've ever worked for.

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CEX won’t take my copy of some game due to a slight scratch but they’ll sell the .hack trilogy for the price total of nearly a new PS4 even though the boxes look like it’s been shredded by a combine harvester.

Gamestation was the shit.
>3 PS1 games for less than a tenner
GAME refuses to price-match with CEX by a quid cus otherwise no one will buy anything full priced.

Not surprising in the slightest.

Have Cex

>it's been 7 years since they closed down

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>Cambridge
You're either a posh cunt or Asian

Im so fucking sorry

Is that motherfucking Grafton Centre? You live in Cambridge?

>posh cunt or Asian
Accurate. I'm Asian
Yeah

>Chester used to have Gamestation and GAME right across the road from each other
>Used to go into GAME, see what they had and how much I'd get for trading s few bits in, hop over to Gamestation who'd price match GAME's trade in value and sometimes offer more, compared what they had get some new games
Those were the good old days. I remember trading in fucking Crazy Frog Racing and for whaever bloody reason I got £35 trade in value for it at Gamestation.

>Have one
>Doesnt fucking do anything

Single-handedly the worst place I've ever worked
>shops are a mess because supervisors care more about getting through as many customers as possible, so they never assign people to shop floor
>HUGE amount of stock goes missing or is broken, multiple times a day I find myself having to apologise to customers because their items have simply disappeared from behind the counter
>they will literally hire anyone, so only half of my colleagues take their work seriously, the other half are brain-dead stoners and borderline alcoholics
>before customers are allowed a refund, we need to warranty test their item to replicate the fault - except most items aren't ever tested and customers are just denied a refund no matter what
>most stuff that gets brought in isn't even tested properly, if at all - computer parts are only visually inspected
I would have to argue with my supervisors, sometimes in front of customers, to try and stop them from being ripped off. And the worst part? When I called out my supervisors on these seedy practices, they took me into the back and threatened me for "questioning their authority".
Don't shop at CeX, ever.

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Hey, there, mate.
I love CeX. Everything is cheap there.
Arndale is so big that I got lost so often though.

The video game physical industry as a whole is in a rough place. My brother works in GAME and they're having major financial difficulty. They've implimented major new policies, including massive paperwork changes for incidents, i.e. if an employee does something wrong, you have to file out five bits of paperwork to log it and send it to head office instead of just fixing it, telling them and filing one bit of paper.

It's not a hard business, yet they just fuck it up non-stop.

I got one, don't know what it really does other than register in their database that I bought it, but it stops them from pestering me. I mainly go there to buy blurays for as low as 3 dollarydoos.

>most stuff that gets brought in isn't even tested properly, if at all - computer parts are only visually inspected
aah, this reminds me of my student days, buying suspiciously cheap Graphics cards from Chinese sellers and trading them into CEX for a profit.

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lol your stores don't have a/c

>brits think this is a bong only thread
>east coast australians are lurking

Fuck off, we're full.

hilarious and original

big up salford precinct

God Menkind used to be so based, Hawkins Bazzar too.

Yeah, not to mention the absolute bare-minimum conditions for employees. Shift lengths at CeX are 15 minutes below the legal requirement for a lunch break, and even when you do work enough hours to earn one, the supervisors act like they're doing you a favour. Absolutely ridiculous.
Keeps your ID on the system for when you sell to us, also keeps a copy of your purchase history in that particular store.
I'm the only person in my branch with industry experience in sysadmin. My supervisors let things like this slip through all the time. Apparently I'm "not qualified" to question their decisions in testing hardware, because I haven't worked there as long. It's a joke.

Bought a game from them online and it came in the wrong case.
It was an embarrassing anime titty game so I wasn't going to shame myself any further by demanding that this ill was put right, but I am still seething about it.

cex supervisors must have penises the size of jellybeans

If they don't, they certainly act like it. Mine are power-tripping autist neckbeards who have never done a hard day's work in their lives.

I suppose it's nostalgia. I moved to the UK around 2010 so I was able to shop there in their last years or so, good times.

>Mine are power-tripping autist neckbeards who have never done a hard day's work in their lives.
I know what you mean. Shitey blogpost coming up.

When I was about 11, I went into a branch of Chips (pic related; not the exact branch though) to return a copy of Sims Unleashed because one of the discs didn't work. I'd written "Disc 2" on the generic paper disc sleeve that contained the other disc so I knew what it was for, and the guy behind the counter had a right go at me for doing that. Just seemed utterly pointless.

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>customer came in to return a pair of faulty airpods
>they go in for a warranty test
>come back "no fault seen"
>therefore customer is not entitled to their £120 refund
>customer insists that they're faulty
>takes out their phone
>pairs up the airpods, gives them to me to listen
>the left one is completely dead
>pull my phone out of my pocket
>pair up the airpods to my phone, exact same issue
>call tester over
>"why did you sign these off as working"
>no answer, he probably didn't even look at them let alone test them
>profusely apologise to the customer and issue them their refund
>wait until out of earshot of colleagues and warn them against shopping here
>pulled aside by supervisor
>reprimanded for questioning the tester in front of a customer

I'm only a few minutes from a CEX and make sure to check in almost every morning for a good half hour, skimming the shelves for any new shit that came in, talking to the regulars and the staff. I find a new bargain every time I'm there, if I see a classic game getting promoted on Yea Forums, I'll pick it up the next day for a couple quid or a few pennies. If the place starts to get cluttered, I just sell some of my old games/movies/shows right back to CEX, so comfy.

should've lamped the cunt

>Traded in a broken N64
>Have to leave it there for a couple of hours to 'test'
>Lights turn on but games don't play
>Come back after two hours
>Everything is good user, here's your cash

I'm glad it's run by incompetent apes.

we all have regrets user
unless you're working for those incompetent apes