Post by MightySage on Mar 28, 2008 12:53:51 GMT -5
:DFound this on Neoseeker. This guy is brilliant.
The nerd on the left is actually myself (opening myself up to ridicule in this contest was only fair I think). My friend and I found one of those liquidation stands at the local shopping center that sells cheap DVDs that nobody wants and unpopular last-gen Playstation and Xbox games but we noticed they were selling a few copies of Oblivion for $20 each.
After giving it some thought I called up EB Games (Gamestop here in America) and asked for the price on trade-ins. Much to my delight EB had a special and were giving $28. You do the math. I bought all 4 copies and made a little profit.
Shortly after my mum (mom here in America) suggested I asked the liquidation stand if they had any more copies and behold, they did. I called up my friend who worked at EB and asked if they would accept 10 copies for trade-in. No problem, my profit grew.
I asked my EB employee friend if there was a limit on how many copies they would accept and he checked his policies and it seemed there wasn't a limit. My mind went to work ...
I went back to the liquidation stand and asked for more and they had a box sent up from their supplier. It was then that I enlisted 'Snake-Bite kid' to help me out cause I couldn't afford to buy an entire box. So, we both put in to buy 20 copies and traded them in and slowly went back and forth trading in more each time.
Pretty soon EB head office caught on and called us up (you have to leave a cell phone number when trading in games) and asked us what was happening. They insisted we stopped even though they could not provide me with a policy that stated so. We tried another EB games and they had received word not to take any more Oblivions and immediately dropped the price.
It was OK because at this point we had each made $800 and were left with a few copies of the game that we sold on ebay. We snapped the photo during the adventure for keepsake. The stupid grins we have are self-explanitory.
That is the story of how 2 tragic nerds came to be holding a handful of Oblivions and smiling stupidly.
PS. If you live in Australia and are wondering why EB Games has a 5 game (of the same type) trade in, it's because of us. Sorry.
Also, the funny thing is, my friend and I had become friends with the ladies running the liquidation stand and we later on found out that the Oblivions they bought were from EB. So we were selling their own copies back to them. It's typical of big business to liquidate a large amount of games and simultaneously raise the buy back price.
After giving it some thought I called up EB Games (Gamestop here in America) and asked for the price on trade-ins. Much to my delight EB had a special and were giving $28. You do the math. I bought all 4 copies and made a little profit.
Shortly after my mum (mom here in America) suggested I asked the liquidation stand if they had any more copies and behold, they did. I called up my friend who worked at EB and asked if they would accept 10 copies for trade-in. No problem, my profit grew.
I asked my EB employee friend if there was a limit on how many copies they would accept and he checked his policies and it seemed there wasn't a limit. My mind went to work ...
I went back to the liquidation stand and asked for more and they had a box sent up from their supplier. It was then that I enlisted 'Snake-Bite kid' to help me out cause I couldn't afford to buy an entire box. So, we both put in to buy 20 copies and traded them in and slowly went back and forth trading in more each time.
Pretty soon EB head office caught on and called us up (you have to leave a cell phone number when trading in games) and asked us what was happening. They insisted we stopped even though they could not provide me with a policy that stated so. We tried another EB games and they had received word not to take any more Oblivions and immediately dropped the price.
It was OK because at this point we had each made $800 and were left with a few copies of the game that we sold on ebay. We snapped the photo during the adventure for keepsake. The stupid grins we have are self-explanitory.
That is the story of how 2 tragic nerds came to be holding a handful of Oblivions and smiling stupidly.
PS. If you live in Australia and are wondering why EB Games has a 5 game (of the same type) trade in, it's because of us. Sorry.
Also, the funny thing is, my friend and I had become friends with the ladies running the liquidation stand and we later on found out that the Oblivions they bought were from EB. So we were selling their own copies back to them. It's typical of big business to liquidate a large amount of games and simultaneously raise the buy back price.
