I'm looking to trade in some stuff to upgrade to a new 4Gb slim 360, and they seem to be offering decent prices on trade ins - in particular about £80 for a 2/3rd gen iPod touch in mint condition which mine is. I've never used them before and I'm looking for some background info. I would be going to the Edinburgh store.
CEX? Ok or should they be avoided?
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Are you thinking of actually getting the 360 from there?
Trading in I guess they are fine, they will tell you the value of your stuff and then make a decision from there. As for purchasing/part exing for hardware, personally I have never done it so wouldn't know.
Don't Gamestation etc offer a price match on trade ins with CEX? and do they still take iPods? I know they used to do both.
I don't know if Gamestation take ipod touch's. I'll give them a call. I have an original 360 20Gb unit and HMV seem to offer £50 for this.
Depending on whether it bothers you or not, you might want to think about the fact that they're cunts. When the Wii was just released and in high demand, for example, they would send staff round all the other shops buying up all the units they could so they could sell them for higher than the RRP.
Personally, I wouldn't trust hardware from them not to break down; how long is the warranty they give you?
I wouldn't buy second-hand hardware off them, mostly because this gens hardware hasn't been that reliable from the big boys and I think that is all the hardware they sell.
I do use them constantly for trading in games and getting second-hand software though and they are about the best value on the high street.
You can trade your stuff in for cash if you want, though you do tend to get less for it and whether they will actually take it off your hands for cash depends on whether or not they have had much cash into the shop that day or not.
This is the case in my local one, a busier Edinburgh shop might have cash all the time.
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Cheers for the responses. It would be a new 360 I would be going for.
Then you'll have to go elsewhere than CEX, the whole point of their business is that they only trade in used stuff.
You mean they don't sell new equipment at all???? Fu.ck that then.
Plus they smell awful. Each and every one.
Also Pranky will enter your abode, Eugene Tooms-like, while you sleep to lick you
The smell is a problem, yeah.
The only thing worth doing is seeing how much cash they'd give you for your stuff and see if that compares well with the trade-in somewhere that'd actually do part exchange for a new console.
Or ebay everything and just buy one.
I can't be arsed with ebay. My existing box works fine and it has a 250gb drive in it, but I just fancied a new box to open and that would be quieter. No major reason for the upgrade I suppose. The thought of disconnecting it from my amp and putting the original 20Gb drive back in does make me think twice about it.
I seem to recall that teir warranty is shite as well. Pretty much it can be described as 'yeah, shit can break, tough luck."
The smell is nationwide then? The one in Nottingham nearly always has a huge queue and is always far too hot. Awful.
I'm so glad I've saved myself the hassle of a drive into Edinburgh.
Their prices fluctuate according to demand. So just before Christmas, stock was cheap (with lower trade-in prices). At the moment, the prices are high but it's a good time to trade-in with them. Good place to get games - I wouldn't get hardware from them though.
The smell is universal. As are the tatooed, spiky-haired shop assistants and token purple-haired girl.
Is the death metal music universal too or is Birmingham just special?
It's also accessed by a subway which stinks of piss.
The only hardware I've seen that I'd actually pay for is 60GB PS3s. Those seem reasonalnly priced. Everything else has a thin film of cum and is overpriced.
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Yup smell, death metal, cum film, sounds like every CEX Ive been in.
Except Milton Keynes, which doesn't have the death metal, pressumably because the shopping centre won't allow it.
What are peoples thoughts on picking up iPods from there? need a new classic.
Yeah, that's universal.
So is pretty much everything in Birmingham.
Again, this will've been Pranko's doing.
He's a spitter.
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I've never been too keen on how my local one is run. I know that they were selling copies of Black Ops a few days before it came out and charged accordingly. Obviously they had no qualms about taking copies people got early from internet sellers or lorry loads.
Also: sticky floors. I now know why.
On a not totally unrelated topic - the University of St. Andrews has a sign up in their library asking students not to masturbate on the premises. Apparently, the librarians find it difficult to unstick the pages without tearing them.
They have got rid of almost every other underpass in the city but they seem to have saved one just for cex so it can remain in its proper place.