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[Mike Double U]

Well GAF I'm standing in line right now and they have no idea about the Target trade in program, let alone the promotion...

 

[CrackPebbles]

id lose $20.46

Not that bad, but its the principle that matters, would rather not give them my games.

 

[Fried Food]

NCAA 2K3 is an extremely rare title on Gamecube. The promotion gives you $30 back while you can get ~$60 selling on Ebay or Amazon

Yeah he said he say it going for 500 online

 

[Einbroch]

I don't understand how the employees don't know how to activate the triple trade-in.

It does it automatically. I literally watched the guy click "Trade-In Program", then click on the console, then the game, then answer the questions about the quality of the game. He then got my information, put it in, and printed out the paper. I mean, it seemed super straightforward, so much so that I don't even work there and I could do it.

 

[duessano]

Well GAF I'm standing in line right now and they have no idea about the Target trade in program, let alone the promotion...

It has to be a Target with a Target Mobile "kiosk" in Electronics.

 

[Meier]

Are the prices from the search with the value tripled already? A lot of the prices are not necessarily particularly great but I see at least one or two where I might just take the hit to not have to ship a game, etc.

 

[BFIB]

Big drop in prices from yesterday. Still will unload my copy of Wind waker for 30 today. Tomb raider went from 54 to 30, same with infamous, diablo, and South Park.

 

[Trigonx]

I don't understand how the employees don't know how to activate the triple trade-in.

It does it automatically. I literally watched the guy click "Trade-In Program", then click on the console, then the game, then answer the questions about the quality of the game. He then got my information, put it in, and printed out the paper. I mean, it seemed super straightforward, so much so that I don't even work there and I could do it.

Exactly, so simple a caveman could do it.

 

[Mike Double U]

It has to be a Target with a Target Mobile "kiosk" in Electronics.

It is! They still have no idea.

 

[Aesius]

Big drop in prices from yesterday. Still will unload my copy of Wind waker for 30 today. Tomb raider went from 54 to 30, same with infamous, diablo, and South Park.

I will keep my copy of Infamous and work on the platinum. Good thing it was the only game I planned on trading in. If I had lost out on several games, I would be very pissed.

 

[No Love]

So glad I traded in a bunch of my games yesterday. Weeeeeee. Thanks Target! Shame they fixed the absurd prices... they must've noticed the massive influx of trade-ins.

 

[Vigilant Gambit]

Just got back from the Target on Alafaya by UCF in Orlando. Got a gift card for my 3 games, and was told to go to another store to trade in the rest.

Fucking ridiculous. I just spent 20 minutes at Target with a Mobile employee who didn't know what the fuck he was doing. I had to walk him through every step, and it didn't end up tripling the values. Now I have to go back after work and see if the assistant manager can help. What a fucking joke.

There's a banner with a drop down at the top of the page he has to click to manually enable the triple trade-in promo.

 

[RedAssedApe]

It is! They still have no idea.

tell them to look under promotions when they are futzing around on the computer

 

[Aesius]

I don't understand how the employees don't know how to activate the triple trade-in.

It does it automatically. I literally watched the guy click "Trade-In Program", then click on the console, then the game, then answer the questions about the quality of the game. He then got my information, put it in, and printed out the paper. I mean, it seemed super straightforward, so much so that I don't even work there and I could do it.

The woman at the kiosk that I went to yesterday had no idea what she was doing. She kept scanning the games for the people in front of me and getting an error. So instead of trying something else, she would just scan it again and get the same error. Finally she called a regular Target employee over to help her, but he couldn't do it either.

I eventually got fed up and left.

 

[newsguy]

Fuck me I knew it. Went from 154 for 3 games to 110

 

[SheHateMe]

TIV for Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition dropped to $11.00. I'll keep my copy.

Still traded in AC:IV.

 

[Vigilant Gambit]

The woman at the kiosk that I went to yesterday had no idea what she was doing. She kept scanning the games for the people in front of me and getting an error. So instead of trying something else, she would just scan it again and get the same error. Finally she called a regular Target employee over to help her, but he couldn't do it either.

I eventually got fed up and left.

The guy doing it for me went to a help page, and found instructions on how to enable the promo. I'm sorry your employee was dumb.

One thing I noted is that I traded in Killzone for $43 and change. A brand new copy of the game was on sale for $39.99.

 

[RelentlessRolento]

Anyone have info on prices for non-listed titles?

 

[CornDogg]

Welp, there goes my plan to flip South Park. Bought it yesterday evening on sale for $40, with the plan to finish it, and take it back for trade in for $55. It took me longer to finish it than I thought it would, and now the value is down to $30.

$10 is expensive for a one-night rental...lol.

 

[ILoveBish]

All of the games I'm taking still same price. GC, ps3 and PSP.

 

[Einbroch]

The woman at the kiosk that I went to yesterday had no idea what she was doing. She kept scanning the games for the people in front of me and getting an error. So instead of trying something else, she would just scan it again and get the same error. Finally she called a regular Target employee over to help her, but he couldn't do it either.

I eventually got fed up and left.

Scan?

My guy didn't scan anything but the gift card that he gave me. He just selected the games from a drop down menu at the mobile kiosk. I used to work at Target 10+ years ago, so I can understand people not knwoing how to do anything. Their training module sucked. But still, it looks incredibly straightforward. Like I said, I could do it, and I had just seen the system for the first time.

 

[TheVisualizer]

Are the prices from the search with the value tripled already? A lot of the prices are not necessarily particularly great but I see at least one or two where I might just take the hit to not have to ship a game, etc.

Prices from the search you have access to are before the 3x

In the store their console shows the 3x added when they add then to cart. They have to remember to toggle the promotion on at the top of their page first tho

 

[Dragoshi1]

So wait, for Floridians, we have to spend all of the credit in store that day? Can't put it on a card?

 

[UnholySpectacle]

I'm glad I traded yesterday since a lot of prices dropped after this morning. Many of the games that were showing a base value of $18 yesterday are now down to $11 or $9.

 

[ds8k]

So wait, for Floridians, we have to spend all of the credit in store that day? Can't put it on a card?

I said earlier that I was able to walk out with two gift cards. I live in Orlando.

 

[RedAssedApe]

Still some decent TIV to be had though...albeit no longer amazing like before. Saw these for $39:

BF4, Killzone SF, Dead Rising 3, The Show ($42)

Most of the other games dropped to $33ish like Infamous, Titanfall, Tomb Raider, NFS, NBA2k14, AC4

Anyone have info on prices for non-listed titles?

no. b/c you can't trade them in

 

[Drey1082]

Bought Titanfall(360) for 39 on Amazon, Traded in at Target for 45! Not a bad deal.

 

[Phire Phox]

Fuck. OoT dropped in price.

 

[Veive257]

That worked shockingly well..

https://twitter.com/Veive257/status/468425652157161472

especially considering TF is selling *new* for $40. I'd expect Target to make an adjustment to their values soon.

The guy in front of me did two 3-game transactions in a row, even though they were checking ID and entering customer information, it worked for him and he got over $200 for six games.

 

[bumpkin]

By the looks of it, I'm going to be shit out of luck on the values by the time I get out of work. They seem to be dropping like flies for the 3DS and PS3 games I was going to offload. Oh well.

 

[Ghost23]

Man, I was going to go later today, too. I mean I can still get $42 for GTA V, $21 for AC, and $33 for AC4, but I am not sure if I want to give them away. There is a good chance I will never play them again (I haven't finished AC4 yet), but still I always regretted trading in Melee back in the day.

 

[Milennia]

so the places in my area don't accept trade ins and have told me that i must go to the state over (NJ).

not a big deal since I'm close, but am just curious if they have nuked the trade in values yet?


looking to sell south park, TLOU, pokemon x.

 

[Dragoshi1]

I said earlier that I was able to walk out with two gift cards. I live in Orlando.

Ah, that's good, then.


So Pawn Laws don't apply unless the specific Target/employees enforce it.

 

[Vigilant Gambit]

39 KZ SF
39 DR3
33 Ryse

All after they were tripled

Trade in values dropped today

All were 45 before

KI Uprising was $37 now $21
GT6 was $55 now $30

I got Killzone for $43 at 12:16, so... I was just in time!

 

[THEF3AR]

At Target right now MGS: Ground Zeroes is 24.99.

They were offering 7.85 yesterday and today they are offering 11.14 for TIV!

 

[KalBalboa]

Ground Zeroes PS4 nets roughly $24. Got it for $15.

 

[border]

Trade in values have been nerfed.

I got 42 for Titanfall and 33 for Ryse. Still a good deal but not quite the steal it was yesterday.

Got 30 for Wind Waker on GameCube. That trade in value stayed the same.

 

[Delio]

Sucks that the prices dropped. I couldn't get out yesterday to really take advantage of it. The three games I want to trade in ( Pokemon rumble Blast,Pokemon battle revolution and GTAV) netted me 90 before but it's down to 70. Debating if I should still head over there.

 

[THEF3AR]

Ground Zeroes PS4 nets roughly $24. Got it for $15.

The Xbox One version is at 11.14 TIV.

 

[RedAssedApe]

That worked shockingly well..

https://twitter.com/Veive257/status/468425652157161472

especially considering TF is selling *new* for $40. I'd expect Target to make an adjustment to their values soon.

The guy in front of me did two 3-game transactions in a row, even though they were checking ID and entering customer information, it worked for him and he got over $200 for six games.

This is dead unfortunately.

 

[Veive257]

Titanfall dropped from $54.96 to $42.00 in the last hour according to the online pricing gizmobot. Still $2 more than new ones sell for on amazon...

 

[RedAssedApe]

Titanfall dropped from $54.96 to $42.00 in the last hour according to the online pricing gizmobot. Still $2 more than new ones sell for on amazon...

makes sense as a lot of people on slickdeals and CAG sounded like they were buying two copies from Toy R US buy two fro $70 and flipping.

 

[iFootball]

As reported by others... Values have dropped:

GTA5 (PS3) down to $15 from ~$17 yesterday... Got $45 which is still good

 

[Veive257]

Sucks that the prices dropped. I couldn't get out yesterday to really take advantage of it. The three games I want to trade in ( Pokemon rumble Blast,Pokemon battle revolution and GTAV) netted me 90 before but it's down to 70. Debating if I should still head over there.

Pretty weak of Target to announce a triple value promotion then lower all the base values... but man they screwed up and were paying way more than stuff was worth when it kicked off. Someone needs a slap on the wrist and a calculator.

 

[Veive257]

makes sense as a lot of people on slickdeals and CAG sounded like they were buying two copies from Toy R US buy two fro $70 and flipping.

I was about to order three copies for $120 when I thought it would be a good idea to make sure the trade-in price hadn't changed.. arbitrage is always fun.

 

[slabrock]

Pretty weak of Target to announce a triple value promotion then lower all the base values... but man they screwed up and were paying way more than stuff was worth when it kicked off. Someone needs a slap on the wrist and a calculator.

the trade values were bound to drop as more people traded games in.

 

[Phire Phox]

51 for oot 3D and NSMBU. Not too bad, I think.

 

[RedAssedApe]

Pretty weak of Target to announce a triple value promotion then lower all the base values... but man they screwed up and were paying way more than stuff was worth when it kicked off. Someone needs a slap on the wrist and a calculator.

This is kind of par for the norm. For example, Best Buy often has 100% or 50% TIV promotions. Right before they do this they drop TIV so that the TIV are only slightly higher without the promotion.

Target was just being dumb lol

 

[Quote]

Killzone, Rivals and TLoU all worth around $30 now. The local kiosk here doesn't open till 3pm so I'm kind of screwed.

 

[twinturbo2]

Wow prices dropped like rocks! 20.00 less for infamous and need for speed.

Whelp, between that and the clerks at my store eating a big bowl of stupid and the black shirted mobile guy not showing up, Target lost a customer.

No wonder they're in deep shit.