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Pancakes R Us
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Are you a goth, and did it stink?
I would buy one of these IMMEDIATELY!!!
i would buy these
And you're an atrocious person, in my eyes
That's what happens when you type discreetly during class. <_<......>_>
dapperbandit
Banned
CEX...
On the one hand, a lot of nice stuff there goes cheap. Since Blu Rays are difficult to damage, I've picked up many a cheap PS3 game in good as new condition for a great price.
On the other hand, every CEX I've been to is the same: the shop is dirty, the music is terribad, the BO is nauseating, half the customers are acne riddled reprobates with 80 PS2 games in a JD Sports drawstring bag and the staff are all 20 somethings in metal band t-shirts two sizes two small with ugly ear plugs and facial piercings.
On the one hand, a lot of nice stuff there goes cheap. Since Blu Rays are difficult to damage, I've picked up many a cheap PS3 game in good as new condition for a great price.
On the other hand, every CEX I've been to is the same: the shop is dirty, the music is terribad, the BO is nauseating, half the customers are acne riddled reprobates with 80 PS2 games in a JD Sports drawstring bag and the staff are all 20 somethings in metal band t-shirts two sizes two small with ugly ear plugs and facial piercings.
Only when parents start doing it. It was nice when Joey and Shu did it, but...if my dad does it, the fun's over.
I'm not a goth, but it did stink. My memories of stories that happened there are finally starting to fade, but cex is basically a fence shop for stolen electronics. 70% of everything that passed through there was stolen.
WHAT? NO! IWATA GIF'S WITH HYPETRAINS WITH EVERY AVATAR ON IT OR BUST!
GrizzleBoy
Banned
specifically the .gif one.
sixteen-bit
Member
Did Joe/Shu even do it? Banderas brings his hand to his mouth, not forehead.
Callibretto
Member
I wonder if he can sue Sony....
sephiroth7x
Member
THIS
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
Does the Neogaf T-shirt store still exist?
MemoryHumanity
Member
Last time I was in CeX, their Wi-Fi was called 'Unprotected CeX'. Genius.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
I miss CeX back when it was the best retro/import game chain in the uk
before the dark days
before dvd
before the dark days
before dvd
And if you used it, your phone DEFINITELY got a virus.
Truckondo2.0
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kevcampbell
Member
I want a neogaf t shirt
peanutbutterlatte
Member
Everything smells so bad in there
Starwolf_UK
Member
Nah man it was the mobile fones that did it...also internet meant you did not need to pay CeX £110 for US Ocarina of Time (I think it was that much, European copies were in short supply due to NCL stabbing NOE in the back by giving them 1/3 of the initial shipment they asked for) and then there was NOE getting real ratty about people selling imported games (CeX seemed to give up with new entirely in about 2003).
They give much better trade value then Crime Converters or Crack Generator. Of course their instore prices tend to be higher (but sometimes not, it pays to have a keen eye) and they inexplicably do not have cash a lot of the time.
I used to rely on them heavily during the N64 days because I only had a SNES thus needed to buy most games second hand.
I haven't bought much from them since.
MemoryHumanity
Member
The big fat guy that works in Bournemouth CEX is probably the most miserable fucker in existence. Shame that the shop basically has a monopoly on the town's game trade, like you say they buy high and sell high so if you're clever you can do well from them. LOL at the prices of their preowned MacBook airs being more expensive then new, should be hilarious to see their PS4 prices.
Well, I usually go to Poole - havent been to the Bournemouth branch since it opened.
You're a wise man.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
Well Rathbone Place at least gave up its entire retro section to make way for dvd's around about 2006ish, which is when I stopped going there - they had barely any phones at the time, though I think the tottenham court road branch did.
Still remember getting my first memory stick from the TCR branch in 2005, was about £40 for 32MB.
It was sad really, I'd been going there since the mid nineties, and I have a lot of good memories of it - like when I picked up an immaculate copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for £20 a few months after it came out.
Poole's branch has this one girl who's hot as fuck, if I remember right. No fat blokes either.
sublimit
Banned
Banderas.
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