Cex are good for games

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I had a load of old PC games and console games I didnt play anymore. Most of the PC Games I now have on Steam and all of them apart from one could be sold on second hand as they didnt have one-time activation serials. You can check on their website, search for the game and if it has an (S) after the title then it cannot be traded in as this means it must be Sealed.

I was pleasantly suprised when I traded them all in at my local Cex for a credit voucher as you get more value with a credit voucher than you do cash.

You can use your voucher instore or buy games online and then post off your credit voucher with a copy of your dispatch email and they refund your card. I ordered a bunch of Steamworks games from their website and had my card refunded with the credit voucher. Well pleased. All games arrived sealed and activated fine.

Word of advice though, dont 100% trust their store stock levels on their website, its not accurate, as I found out when I drove to a store to buy a game that was out of stock for mail order online.

Prices are quite good too, Saints Row The Third is £12 mail order and its a Steamworks game.

Just my mini review of Cex.
 
Well i got MW2 from CeX and when i tried to install it i had to use steam and it said the code had already been used on another account. They refused a refund. So from now on CeX is the last place id buy a game
 
I bought Tenchu from Cex about to years ago for £1. That is Tenchu on the PSX.

Aside from that, their deals are crap and it seems a terrible place to purchase used games. Also I would never buy a graphics card or hard drive or phone from there. It seems the perfect place to sell broken hardware.
 
OpenToSuggestions said:
I bought Tenchu from Cex about to years ago for £1. That is Tenchu on the PSX.

Aside from that, their deals are crap and it seems a terrible place to purchase used games. Also I would never buy a graphics card or hard drive or phone from there. It seems the perfect place to sell broken hardware.
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Ive sold loads of GFX cards and phones to them. They test them before they buy them as well.
 
MeatLoaf said:
Well i got MW2 from CeX and when i tried to install it i had to use steam and it said the code had already been used on another account. They refused a refund. So from now on CeX is the last place id buy a game
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They only sell used games..
 
cex wouldnt take my age old copy of Grim Fandango because the little pillar the cds fit onto said '3' but there was only 2 disks on it. There was only ever 2 disks on it. :confused:
The guy was a numpty, but he probably did me a favor. I think ill stash it in the loft.

I only ever get cash for stuff i no longer need, have not bought anything from them in years.
 
I suppose you could say CeX are good for games, but to be honest they only sell used like somebody else mentioned here. If you want pre-owned games in-store I'd recommend GAME or something, They're pretty good. And the quality of some of the disks from CeX (from personal experience) are really poor.
 
They used to be very good, they've started to take the **** though as much as anyone with their valuations and prices as they've got bigger.

I do still use them occasionally I must admit, more for a quick sale than anything else.
 
I use them to sell things too, but that's about it. Since I bought a -BROKEN- gears of war disk from them that they wouldn't return, I haven't bought from them since and have no intention of doing for a considerable amount of time unless they choose to up their game with disk quality..
 
You can get a lot of old cheap pc games there, but I too have got a game (Dead space) and the code had already been used. As there was no phone number to ring I had to drive back to town pay for parking again. I went back to the shop the staff could not get there heads around the fact, I needed a code to get the game working on a PC. So after 15 mins they got me a new code off a new dead space disc "sorry to the guy who got that copy". After that i have not got any more pc games off them but my son trades his dsi game in from time to time.
 
Everyone in CEX seem to be college drop outs who spent all their time gaming and dress like they are going to a rave each night.
 
Ive tried to take old consoles there and they just come up with random excuses not to give you the full price and say that its lower quality, when its in tip top condition. happened twice and ill never go in again. all i see in there is chavs trying buy/swap mobile phones nowadays
 
Unless you're trading stuff in there, CEX is pointless. They're ridiculously expensive considering all they sell is pre-owned stuff.
 
MeatLoaf said:
Well i got MW2 from CeX and when i tried to install it i had to use steam and it said the code had already been used on another account. They refused a refund. So from now on CeX is the last place id buy a game
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Soon it'd be the only place to buy a GAME :p Check that ;)
 
I definitely wouldn't buy a PC game from them. Use PC games don't work too well. They seem a bit pricey too. They do have some decent console games sometimes, though.

They give you nothing for hardware, either. I tried to trade in a processor (Athlon x4) just to see how much they gave for it. They offered me £15, which was pretty pathetic, especially considering they were trying to sell them, used, for £75 on their site, which was almost what I bought it for 2 years prior.
 
Purchased a sony memory stick pro duo 16gb over a year ago from them.. looked like a real one and was infact a fake one that had like 1mb of real storage on it and it fakes the rest. Paid £70 for it from them because I had some vouchers from them I wanted rid off for other things I sold them. Of course the time I realised there was something up with it was Xmas time when taking the xmas pictures of the family only to find 90% of the images didnt get on the card and the ones that did started to go bad.

Was so mad that I snapped the card in half and will never buy anything from them again without them checking it infront of me (Yes I had a reciept and could have returned it, but they would say I gave them a fake or worst they will take it and stick it back on stock to sell to someone else, that is why I snapped it in half). It was the CEX on Tottenham court road London I purchased the memory card from and they are real clowns in that store I gave them a Q6600 to test for me because I was not sure if it was my motherboard or CPU that had died at the time and he "tested" the CPU and said "dead CPU" and he was about to take it and stick it in the bin and I said 1 sec can I have that back because I want to test it myself in another store, he replied to me it's rubbish and was upset to give me it back by looks of him, even my partner at the time said she thinks he's trying to pull a fast one. Walk down to another store on tottenham court road and they test my CPU in a new motherboard I liked and it worked and was 100% fine and I went back to CEX told him this and he said must have tested it wrong .. I said no you tried to steal a working part for yourself and then a guy behind me said he just binned my cpu as faulty too and then he asked for it back and we walked down to the same place I tested the CPU as working and they tested his CPU and wow guess what it worked too. Either stupid or crooks in that store so becareful with the CEX on Tottenham court road in London.


I now live in Leeds and the CEX here are great but I will always ask to test things like memory cards from now.
 
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