Nameless
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I was going to try and do this with my credit. But A. I didn't want to see the inside of a Gamestop for a very long time. B. My take pretty much totaled what I would've spent on gaming over the next 6-8 months anyway.
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GameStop has a 70% trade in deal right now..
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I was going to try and do this with my credit. But A. I didn't want to see the inside of a Gamestop for a very long time. B. My take pretty much totaled what I would've spent on gaming over the next 6-8 months anyway.
Merchandise
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Why am I getting a sour taste from seeing everyone try to cash out of the GS credit into other avenues?
lmao. I feel like we all had such a great time doing this, and it's like watching people part ways after graduating high school or something.
lmao. I feel like we all had such a great time doing this, and it's like watching people part ways after graduating high school or something.
I'm not cashing out
Step one compete.
Converted trade credit to gs gift card. Walked in and asked for a $450 gift card, when I swiped my trade card the guy asked what I was doing and I said I was doing split payment. Went through no problem. 434 trade credit, $16 debit.
Might help some people if they get a gift card for more than their credit and just pay a couple bucks difference. Didn't get shut down and didn't mention anything about wanting to convert. So just go in with a plan and be confident, there's nothing preventing the system from taking the trade card.
Converted trade credit to gs gift card. Walked in and asked for a $450 gift card, when I swiped my trade card the guy asked what I was doing and I said I was doing split payment. Went through no problem. 434 trade credit, $16 debit.
Might help some people if they get a gift card for more than their credit and just pay a couple bucks difference. Didn't get shut down and didn't mention anything about wanting to convert. So just go in with a plan and be confident, there's nothing preventing the system from taking the trade card.
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
I'm keeping my credit as credit for now. Since I'm going to buy the XBOX One X, I'd rather pay using trade credit because it eliminated tax. Did the same for Digital version of Forza 7 and an XBOX Live Gold 12m card to save tax.
May or may not change the balance out to a Gift Card at some point and buy an Visa Gift Card with that if it remains possible somehow down the line to buy games at Best Buy with the 20% discount.
CGriffiths86
Member
I traded in some of my wife's old 360 games as we no longer have the console:
Beautiful Katamari
The Simpsons Game
Lego Star Wars
Kung Fu Panda
Lego Batman
Shrek
I got $50! My mind was blown. I got $19 for The Simpsons Game alone. That was converted into a steam gift card and I promptly bought Nier: Automata and Hollow Knight.
Beautiful Katamari
The Simpsons Game
Lego Star Wars
Kung Fu Panda
Lego Batman
Shrek
I got $50! My mind was blown. I got $19 for The Simpsons Game alone. That was converted into a steam gift card and I promptly bought Nier: Automata and Hollow Knight.
Its like the party was fun when your drinking and people are doing drugs but when that wears off you realize everyone is kinda shitty and the party is in a bad neighborhood and it's time to get the hell out of there
The real tip is don't mention the credit when buying the gift card. Then don't mention the gift card when converting it to amazon. Once you mention those things it seems the game stop employees a. think they cant do it or b. freak out.
Dreams-Visions
Member
*takes notes*
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
Yup this guy has got it.
Exactly. If you know what you're doing, they just roll with it. Now, step 2 will be changing it to Amazon. They only have $25 cards on their site so I'll need to drop in at the GS by my house. I imagine they have different values actually in store.
Worst case I buy 18 $25 ones online and do store pickup, say they're for a giveaway at work if questioned. Ezpz!
Thats awesome. too bad they don't take a lot of xbox 360 games anymore (If it shows N/A on the trade calc, it means 0 right?). I have so many to get rid of...
Google amazon cash. it will give you a bar code they scan and the money goes directly to your amazon account each transaction can be up to $400 or you can get a physical gift card from them up to $400
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
It is money laundering though. Legal money laundering
Yeah time to call the cops
May just do this instead! I'll need two transactions though, which should be no problem.
CGriffiths86
Member
My friend had some that said $0 online that they still took. I would take them with you just in case.
MikeE21286
Member
None of my online orders have shipped. Placed one yesterday and two Monday (technically Tuesday at 12am)
Darklor01
Might need to stop sniffing glue
Perhaps there might be a need for one or two business days to process?
Taliban Stan
Member
I've been thinking of trading in my XB1 for a PS4 for a while now. FOr the first time ever, I regret buying games digitally because I probably could have got a PS4 and Nier for all my games and the system.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
No it isn't, unless there's something corrupt about GameStop's credit.
OK, maybe the GameStop clerk is onto something.
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
It lowkey is, we just doing it through gamestop. Its like that one guy that uses gamestop as his bank. Technically what hes doing is not unlike using a bank
edit: Wait until gamestop gets a credit card that you can use outside of gamestop lol. Shit is going to be happening lol
MikeE21286
Member
Yeah they say one business day for handling.
Not pressing panic button on anything on my end. Their website seems slower than most retail websites.
I think they already have this? I get "pre-approval" emails from them all the time.
Rodney McKay
Member
Yeah, I've used that before with a Nordstroms card and it worked well.
Not a bad charge for the conversion, if I remember right.
I'm set for games atm. Looking to grab some other things Gamestop doesn't carry.
I just walked up and asked for a gift card, said amount, swiped my trade card. I bought a gs card for more than my store credit and just paid the difference. No denials on my end.
Did you ask if you could do it first?
No but the card was in my hand
I said I want 2 gift cards and I am going to put $400 on each. I then swiped my card with the trade in credit. I never asked if I could do it or told the employee my payment method
Mihael Mello Keehl
Banned
I thought you could only use them in gamestops?
I ordered on Monday at 5pm PT. Guess I'll call and see what's up. There is a temporary charge on my credit card but no movement since.
Maybe keep it in your wallet until it's time to swipe at the next one. Literally nothing in their system blocks it.
Try getting a card for whatever the nearest rounded up $10 is and pay the difference. Ex a $230 GS for $223 trade credit. That's what I did and when I was asked I just said I'm doing split payment.
tbh, i never actually read the e-mails XD You are probably right.
phantasmic_glaive
Member
I know.. I had a lot of fun with y'all this past weekend.. but we all move on, man. Hopefully we can pull together to make our lives better again sometime soon.
Peotical Injection
Member
Whack, their TIV went down lol
Arms was like $38 two days ago. You guys fucked them up too hard lol
Arms was like $38 two days ago. You guys fucked them up too hard lol
How bow dat
Damn, sucks I went in a day too late. It's $24 now.
blame space
Banned
yeah i went too late too. kind of kicking myself. oh well, got two iPhones without paying anything.
PerfectFlaw
Member
"You want Amazon credit, you say?"
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Allonym
There should be more tampons in gaming
I "cashed out" today. I converted the gamestop gift card into Amazon gift cards. I'm assuming that once you hit $500 you can't do another Amazon gift card at the same location because once I did my initial $500 one, the employee tried to do the second $220 one but he kept getting error message on his monitor and immediately thereafter he received a call from someone saying that customers have to go to another GS if they intend to exceed the $500 limit, even in multiple transactions. So yea, I had to go to another GS and get the last gift card but I was in and out in like a minute. It was a really pleasant experience. Hope everyone made out ok.
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