Just a word of warning about CEX

Yeah these places have no clue whatsoever.

Once took an old laptop to my local cash converters, dude wasn't buying it because they cant buy anything with the battery not at 100%. I wanted to test him and asked for £1 and explained it was better than throwing it in the bin and he still flat out refused to take it at all. I was literally begging him and I told him they can put it on sale for £2 and it could really help someone out. Still no.

Took it to the next cash converters about a mile away and got £45 for it no questions asked :D
 
I use the local CEX all the time, we get a few free DVD's and blurays from work every month or two and i'm straight in. The last few blu rays I took in I got about £10 each for...as cash. More than i'd get on ebay or even in MM after I take into account P&P.

Granted older stuff is worth peanuts, any DVD that's more than about a year old you get about a quid.

My point is, get in there while your release is new and you get a decent price.

I haven't bought anything from there in over 5 years though.
 
I buy and sell PS2 and old PC games from them fairly regularly. They're much cheaper than ebay and as long as you know what to look out for (i.e. not buying games that have 5 online activations, GFWL, steam etc) it's aright. But my god the clientèle in there in both Southampton and Fareham...

I've bought one C2D from them for £3 which I still haven't been able to test but I would never, ever sell hardware to those guys though.
 
CEX sell Xbox one consoles for more then you can get them for brand new and so do Game to be honest.
 
It's because they offer a lot for trade. Usually more then anyone else.

It's not like you have to buy from there, don't like their prices? Go elsewhere
 
Since when did GD start to pretty much be Tumblr?

I wouldn't attribute these sorts of errors to malice, I mean it's a dead-end retail job so you can't blame people for not giving a single toss about it.
 
fatiain said:
Nearly all the alleged/suspected burglars we book in to the containment boutique have a CEX card on their keyring...
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Whenever I walk past any of the local CEXs or Cash Converters around here there's always a cop or two either inside the store or sitting, parked up in a car outside.

I posted this earlier this year, and since then I've heard of other people having the same experience with CEX stores.

Malevolence said:
My Brother-in-Law had his golf bats stolen from his garage early last year. A few weeks later he was walking past the local Cash Converters and spotted them sitting in the window. They're more of a legalised fencing operation than a pawn shop.
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Malevolence said:
Whenever I walk past any of the local CEXs or Cash Converters around here there's always a cop or two either inside the store or sitting, parked up in a car outside.

I posted this earlier this year, and since then I've heard of other people having the same experience with CEX stores.
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The number of them that get brought in from the store getting caught trying to fence stuff in there is unreal!
 
I worked at Game for a large number of years and my partner used to work there too. She now works as a manager of a relatively big CeX store so I have a good knowledge about them, both as a competitor and now inside mole.

High street as we all know being technical folk, is dead for us, we buy and sell often and use online services. However there is still a large portion of the population that don't look after their finances too well, or still use high street retailers. Both Game and Cex take advantge of this, they're a business after all. However, operating costs and staff costs obviously bump prices up.

Now cex uses a franchise model so as with any company you're going to have different experiences in different stores, that's just common sense. To judge an entire company based on one experience is idiotic, and I'm sure you get a receipt telling your the specs of the product you just sold, and you don't have to sell it if you feel its worth more? Combine this with trying to recruit technical minded staff on minimum wage and you've got yourself a catch 22, unless you get lucky and get a student who just needs the money.

I'd also like to add that last year the owner of cex passed away, so the upper management has changed hands and is now approaching the business in a more corporate cash cow vision.
 
I'd rather use scambay than go to CEX.. They always seem to massively undervalue.. Which I suppose they are a business and that is their model.
 
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