In what's bound to be one of the most bizarre trade-in deals ever, EB Games in Canada is offering a unique deal for customers who pre-order the PS3 FPS Haze: they can return it a week later for a full refund.
The deal, as seen on their website, states that customers who pre-order the Ubisoft game will be able to pick it up on the release date and play it for a full week, then be able to sell the used game back to EB for full retail price. The deal only applies if the game, case and manual are kept in good condition, and if the game is returned within a week of purchase.
If we were Sony or Ubisoft, we would be less than thrilled with this promotion, which seems to suggest that Haze is only worth a week's investment of time. Then again, a sale is a sale, and maybe more Canadians will be tempted to purchase the title, if they know ahead of time that they don't have to keep it.
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Think about it...first you give them your preorder money, then you return the game for "store credit", then they take your game which is "game, case and manual kept in good condition" and then they sell it for new to someone else. What a scam.
There's some really good back and forth on the source webpage and you should check it out.
Wow, EB is straight up getting shady now. First they sell us opened games as "new" because it was the display copy.
Now they're just going ahead and owning it. Yeah, return the new game within a week so we can sell it as new again!
This is just...weird. Some of the people didn't realize that you don't actually get your money back, you get in store credit, which means you have to trade it in for something of equal or cheaper than the original price of the game. I wasn't aware of them selling opened games as new though. Was that a single incident or has it happened many times.
I believe it the selling opened items as new happens more often then anyone would like to believe. Reading over some of the comments at the source site, it sounds like this isn't the first time EB games has offered a "deal" like this.
Lol weird...but I think it's a really good deal if there's another game instore that you want for the same price.
I've never had any intention of preordering this game (mainly because the EB game stores are always packed with people), but I think I'll just wait and read the reviews, rent the game, and go from there.
I bet ya theres going to be amny cases of stealing...
back in the day, when ebgames used to be called electronic boutique, they did this all the time. the only difference this time is that it's a game specific promotion and you only get in-store credit. before, you could play and return games. i think the max was 5 times(varied per store) per a specific time period (im thinking maybe 6 months). they werent making money doing that so they got rid of it completely. it was more a loophole than anything.
whether the game is good or not, this promotion is gonna give it poor/skewed sales.
