[Snowed]

Has anyone had an experience with GameStop trade-ins on damaged or broken consoles?

I'm not looking for speculation. I have heard stories of positive and negative experiences before. I'm just looking to see if anyone has had a personal experience with trying to trade-in a broken or dysfunctional (in some form or another) console.

I'm not trying to trick or cheat anyone at GameStop. This also isn't a post for how to trick or scam the manager. I would prefer ONLY honest business transactions, please.

[Michael]

They check to see if it plays games they pop in a random game and play it for 5 minutes, If it works they will buy it.

Simple as that.

They don't check for anything else, Which is messed up because people trade in XBL console banned xbox's.

[ag0ny]

Originally Posted by Snowed

Has anyone had an experience with GameStop trade-ins on damaged or broken consoles?

I'm not looking for speculation. I have heard stories of positive and negative experiences before. I'm just looking to see if anyone has had a personal experience with trying to trade-in a broken or dysfunctional (in some form or another) console.

I'm not trying to trick or cheat anyone at GameStop. This also isn't a post for how to trick or scam the manager. I would prefer ONLY honest business transactions, please.

They will check if the Warranty sticker is located underneath the faceplate of the console. Im not sure if they turn it on though. But probably. And that would be it.

[Chris]

Mine never checks but people say they are suppose to.

[Snowed]

If the console doesn't work and the sticker has been removed, is anyone aware if they will offer a lesser price or just turn you away all together? I can call them sometime but I was just going to find out a little information beforehand.

[Michael]

Originally Posted by Snowed

If the console doesn't work and the sticker has been removed, is anyone aware if they will offer a lesser price or just turn you away all together? I can call them sometime but I was just going to find out a little information beforehand.

If it doesnt work or if it doesnt have the sticker they won't buy it.

Atleast at my local gamestop.

[ag0ny]

Originally Posted by Snowed

If the console doesn't work and the sticker has been removed, is anyone aware if they will offer a lesser price or just turn you away all together? I can call them sometime but I was just going to find out a little information beforehand.

If the console doesn't have the sticker they will decline right away, Im guessing that if it doesn't work they would also.

[Snowed]

To update for those who may ask this in the future, I called GameStop and they told me they don't accept broken consoles of any kind. (My local area store anyway)

[drugamer]

As far as know, I was rejected from Gamestop when I tried to sell my old console when I was upgrading due to a missing warranty sticker. Which is BS in my opinion cause it can be banned from live and they'll still buy it. I sold it to someone on Craigslist for like $100 ($20 more than what Gamestop would have offered me)

[Snowed]

Alright, thank you. I'll look into that.