EB Games $60 Trade-In Credit for select Nintendo Switch games July 9th-11th

chemicalxv wrote: ↑ Holy.

Hell.

Eligible Titles
Super Mario Maker 2
Pokemon Snap
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Super Mario Party
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
Mario Golf
Super Smash Bros
Pokemon Shield
Pokemon Sword

Yep. Always, always buy first party Nintendo games in physical format.

There's literally multiple games on this list that have sold for $50 or $55 BNIB multiple times. This is insane.

They sent out a survey to complete about a week ago and this (and the fact they've run an EDGE Double Discount promo two straight weeks) leads me to believe they're actually listening to it.

Nice! I have a game or two I can trade in. But damn, no Luigi's Mansion on the list.

chemicalxv wrote: ↑ There's literally multiple games on this list that have sold for $50 or $55 BNIB multiple times. This is insane.

They sent out a survey to complete about a week ago and this (and the fact they've run an EDGE Double Discount promo two straight weeks) leads me to believe they're actually listening to it.

They also had a massive cash infusion due to the Gamestop short squeeze. The parent company can finally afford to do things.

You can sell any of these games on marketplace for $60 anytime. I just sold BOTW for $60 the other week, took about 15 minutes.

Bummer. I would have traded botw and immediately bought the digital copy a few weeks ago when it was on for $55

S0lidus wrote: ↑ You can sell any of these games on marketplace for $60 anytime. I just sold BOTW for $60 the other week, took about 15 minutes.

Trading for $60 might be more lucrative because you can actually make it worth about $68 if you use it towards a new purchase.

Pretty hot if you're unloading a Switch. $280 TIV for console + $60 for each of those games means you could get $400 pretty easily. Way more than Kijiji or FB here (especially for those like me with an older Switch but not old enough to mod).

Forristal wrote: ↑ Trading for $60 might be more lucrative because you can actually make it worth about $68 if you use it towards a new purchase.

Exactly.

Plus, you don’t have to deal with low-ballers, etc. I had my copy of Mario Golf up for sale last week, asking $70, and I had several people offer me $50.

Great post. Thx

Not giving up any of those games. Good trade in value though.

I wish the let's go pokemon games were on the list. Only BOTW and mario party for me. The rest I still wanna keep.

daddyho24 wrote: ↑ Exactly.

Plus, you don’t have to deal with low-ballers, etc. I had my copy of Mario Golf up for sale last week, asking $70, and I had several people offer me $50.

lol I put mine up for $80 because I wanted $70 and two of the first 3 people that messaged me offered me $50 "cash today". Like stop embarrassing yourselves.

Forristal wrote: ↑ Trading for $60 might be more lucrative because you can actually make it worth about $68 if you use it towards a new purchase.

What does that mean? If you use the credit they give you, you don't need pay taxes?

light2 wrote: ↑ What does that mean? If you use the credit they give you, you don't need pay taxes?

If you put it towards a purchase or pre-order, EB treats it as a credit and applies it before applying taxes. This doesn't work if you put it on an edge/gift card though.

light2 wrote: ↑ What does that mean? If you use the credit they give you, you don't need pay taxes?

(note my replay is based on 2019 since i havent traded a game since covid lol)

Anyways in the past, if you buy something at the same time as trading something in, EB will actually reduce the total off the subtotal (before taxes). That means you save the tax as well when doing the trade in. Of course this has to be done on the spot. Before that, they used to give edge cards for trade in. Those are different than gift cards and again would reduce the subtotal (pre tax) instead of the total. Obviously that practice has stopped and gamestop was fined for doing it (cheating taxes) but the trade in on the spot was still being done in 2019 (and i assume its still being done now since i havent heard otherwise).

Paigne wrote: ↑ (note my replay is based on 2019 since i havent traded a game since covid lol)

Anyways in the past, if you buy something at the same time as trading something in, EB will actually reduce the total off the subtotal (before taxes). That means you save the tax as well when doing the trade in. Of course this has to be done on the spot. Before that, they used to give edge cards for trade in. Those are different than gift cards and again would reduce the subtotal (pre tax) instead of the total. Obviously that practice has stopped and gamestop was fined for doing it (cheating taxes) but the trade in on the spot was still being done in 2019 (and i assume its still being done now since i havent heard otherwise).

This is not quite correct. You can put the credit towards a pre-order. Later on, you can cancel the pre-order and it'll still let you use it towards another purchase without paying taxes.

Bummer, no luigi's mansion.

unshavenyak wrote: ↑ Yep. Always, always buy first party Nintendo games in physical format.

And considering that unlike Sony and MS, Nintendo basically never puts their games on sale even on eshop. So that makes even less sense and less incentive to buy Nintendo games digital.

I just traded in two of these games for $40 each! Huge bummer.