Toys R Us and Trade-ins

MasterOfPupets

So, has anyone taken up TrU on their new trade-in offer? THe prices they give seam to be a hell of alot better than places like gamestop, and they let you mail them in or drop them off. They even pay shipping if you mail them in.

Anyone have any success/horror stories from it. Looking to trade in a pile of old games and goozex is just too damn slow to get new ones. I'd rather get Gift Cards. Add in the deals TrU has been running with all major game releases (free $20 GC with the game) and you run into a great deal.

CarolinaBBQ

I tried em out last week. Got rid of some games I hated and came up with some nice loot. $20 for mario strikers made me want to jump on it. Plus having $240 in credit should get me through the holidays very nicely.
Do they price match?

MasterOfPupets

I've got roughly $170 to trade in. Deciding whether I should take them to the store or just ship them in.

HyperAquaBlast

The neat thing about his compared to Gamestop is that you can check the actual prices first.

http://www.toysrustradeincenter.com/

I really want to get rid of Ghostbusters for $25. One of those games I forced myself to like. It wasn't bad but I don't want to go through it again.

Bionic Monkey

Meh, everything I want to get rid of still only goes between the $0.50 - $5.25 range. I'd rather just sell it on ebay at that rate.

projectmayhem

Whoa whoa. I can mail in my trades? This is the best service ever.

Edit.

Holy crap, 22$ for last years Fifa? Yeah sorry gamestop you just lost.

Lunker

Some of the trade-in values are nice, but others are lower than what you'd get through Amazon's trade-in. Still, it's a good deal for certain games, and it's awesome that you can check the price before mailing in.

MasterOfPupets

I did a trade in today and it was awesome. $160 for a pile of games I'll never play again.

The only problem I ran into is that they can't take any games without the cases in the store, you have to have a scannable UPC.

HyperAquaBlast

How do people even lose their cases and manuals? Wierdos.


I traded in Ghostbusters and Killzone 2. Super smooth too. Just said here you go and they asked my b-day and then handed me a card for $50. I then went over to go get ODST that came with a $20 giftcard.

I hardly ever trade in games in anymore since I like having a collection but those two games I don't ever want to touch again.

baudattitude

Thanks to this thread, I now have a lot fewer GBA, Gamecube and Xbox games taking up room, and $128 on a gift card - which should help considerably with holiday spending.

I also had the weird experience of being treated like an honest customer; the manager opened the first couple of games and checked the contents, then rang the rest up as complete games without taking the time to check each and every one.

They were all complete, of course - I take care to hang on to manuals and keep discs in good shape - but it was unusual to feel, well, trusted.

troublebrewing

I got $20 for Halo 3 today when I got ODST, then I got a $20 gift certificate just for buying ODST. They were however out of the action figures the fucks.

MasterOfPupets

HyperAquaBlast wrote: »

How do people even lose their cases and manuals? Wierdos.


I traded in Ghostbusters and Killzone 2. Super smooth too. Just said here you go and they asked my b-day and then handed me a card for $50. I then went over to go get ODST that came with a $20 giftcard.

I hardly ever trade in games in anymore since I like having a collection but those two games I don't ever want to touch again.

I don't have cases/manuals to 2 o my games because I bought them used (1 being Xenosaga Ep3, which is impossible to find at all, let alone complete) all games I've had myself are complete and in good shape.

I picked up ODST too. PLayed a few hours of firefight tonight.

My plan, trade in ODST come november, use the $20 GC and the other GCs to get MW2, which will undoubtably come with another $20 card, which I will use along with my money left over for Assassin's Creed 2. After that, ehh we'll see.

Mechanical

troublebrewing wrote: »

I got $20 for Halo 3 today when I got ODST, then I got a $20 gift certificate just for buying ODST. They were however out of the action figures the fucks.

About the same, though my Rookie figure was apparently a little badly made. Hand fell off.

langfor6

I've bought used games without manuals. Being able to check trade-in prices online is nice, and they pay for shipping if you trade in more than $10, which speaks to the sloth in me.

SkutSkut

Gamestop seems to give more trade in for stuff, and Toys R Us TIVs vary for package completeness. Some of the stuff I have gets less at Toys R Us, weird. Nice that they let you search though.

Vegan

HyperAquaBlast wrote: »

How do people even lose their cases and manuals? Wierdos.

A lot of people keep their games in CD wallets for space-saving and/or portability and just toss the case and manual. Barbaric, I know.

cooljammer00

Wow, so I just checked it out. What a rip! N64 games top out at 50 cents, as do most GC games. Doesn't the rarity of certain games affect the price?

SkutSkut

cooljammer00 wrote: »

Wow, so I just checked it out. What a rip! N64 games top out at 50 cents, as do most GC games. Doesn't the rarity of certain games affect the price?

Nah, N64 and under gen are set prices, granted you could buy like, a dozen old football games for a dollar and get $13. According to CAG YMMV on old trade ins too, some people said they needed the box even for NES games and the like.

Vegan

cooljammer00 wrote: »

Wow, so I just checked it out. What a rip! N64 games top out at 50 cents, as do most GC games. Doesn't the rarity of certain games affect the price?

Depends on what they're doing with the games they're buying. But it's pretty standard practice just about everywhere to pay only 25 to 50 cents for retro games.

Spectral Swallow

I actually work as a manager at Toys R us and I've only had two people come in to do the game trade, but both times we beat Gamestop and Blockbuster by about $10 (they were both PS3 games).
As for the prices on classic games, it depends on if it's complete or not. We HAVE to have the box for any of the old games(NES, Atari, SNES) to scan it and get a price, otherwise we have a generic bar code which gives usually $.50.
I haven't check on any of the GOOD classic games, but I do have my SNES Chrono Trigger I may write the UPC down from and check when I go back in.

langfor6

I went through my collection but the games I want to get rid of are only worth about $40 total. I can probably get more mileage out of Goozex, although that actually requires patience.