ONLY 19% of People Do This in CEX
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Working at one of the busiest CEX’s in the country and honestly I paid out more cash buy ins than I did exchange. It was the Leeds branch and I think it all depends on your region. Low economic area will attract more people who take the cash and higher economic areas will go for the voucher.
When I worked at CeX many many moons ago I would say it was a 50/50 split of people taking cash to taking vouchers. Cash was usually any hardware that would be worth £50+ or brand new games, vouchers tended to be when they were just trading in lots of lower value items like old games and dvds. However, this was before the 3 item rule and before they started taking retro game stock as well.
What's the 3 item rule?
I've started taking cash recently as I'm out of work on longterm sick. I bought 3 games recently at a charity shop for 50p each and sold to cex for cash to the some of £8. I know it's only £8 but cash is king currently. I'm heading to car boots this weekend seeing whats about to do the same. If its something I want to play i'll keep it otherwise its CEX cash.
if you need cash quick then I can see why it would be appealing. Especially if you're in town and find a few things to sell off while you're there. Hope everything works out for you though 👍
@@TVMReviews I always sell at cex good way to get money just last week I payed 10 pound at a Carboot for ps4 games bundle got 40 pound for it all but love cex always get bargains and good money there so much better than cash converters or game
You don’t understand why someone would take the cash, but you just explained you took cash before. Pointless video for content. Quality over quantity. Other videos are good 💪🏽 stay blessed
I used to take cash when I was skint as a teenager. Now I just utilise credit solely for the most part. The way I see it, I get eBay prices a lot of the time for vouchers and I'd buy the games anyways. Love Gentleman of Game's videos, great to see a shout out for his channel 🙂
I split it.
If the item trades for £5 but they offer me £3 in cash, I’ll take the cash.
But if it trades for £7 and they offer me £3 cash, I’ll take the trade value.
It’s all about the % of cash to trade for me.
like you said some people don't want the hassle dealing with time wasters on Facebook , and the fees of eBay , and CEX don't stock the latest game you might want, so sell the stuff you don't want and buy it from the other game shops that don't trade in
I can see why people would take cash over ebay if they've had issues with it before. Sometimes though the cash price in CEX is so bad, I wonder how people can do it
Good to see you giving the Gentleman of Games a shout out, good guy!
Agree with your points on the cash, think I’ve done it twice in the last 15 years when for for a bill payment needed asap.
I actually saw someone the other day sell some stuff for cash, then by the time I’d had a look round they were back in the queue and bought stuff with said cash (not sure if they used it all!) 🤯
If they did not use it all, then they may need some for something else
I've subscribed for that guy now too. Interesting subject this one, I used to trade for the cash when I was skint, now I've got some extra income coming through through selling on ebay so I take the trade credit. Be interesting to see how The Gentleman does his version of the free game collection series tho 😊
As someone who used to have an unhealthy gambling addiction I used to get desperate and sell my games and consoles to the point where all my classic games are now no longer with me and CeX was the bulk of it, quick easy cash. Now I never get cash, I always go for vouchers. I have learned to appreciate money much more these days.
I took cash once. When Wiis were spiked after the first lockdown I took £50 cash instead of £75 voucher as I didn’t particularly want or need anything from cex at the time.
The "regularly" dubbed over you saying "never" did make me laugh 😂
I was going to spend a long time fixing that and then thought against it. Better that way haha
About 1 months ago in cex i sold my boxed gba player for the gamecube and broadband adapter and a pile of gamecube games for £328.00 cash and i also tried to sell them a sealed (red seal) resident evil for the n64 for mint price. Cex refused to pay mint price for this game as they said they had to open up the box to check the cartridge and instructions so i refused to let them have it. I recently sold resident evil for £400.00 because i was desperate for the cash to pay some bills, and regretted doing it because i think it was worth a lot more than £400.00
Ill take cash for eBay items that haven't sold in roughly 3 months. For example, if I have a DS Lite listed on eBay at £40, I'd only get about £30 after fees and postage. If CEX offers £28 for the same item, I'd be inclined to go with CEX for a cash offer since it's less hassle.
Off topic to this video but im so glad i found your channel got me use vinted and found some awesome deals for personal use and its amazing.
Haven't done it yet. I get the voucher and use it immediately. That receipt wears out on purpose. They give you a card they could put credit on the account.
I take cash as most of the times when I see a game I want, it’s usually cheaper elsewhere then CeX so trading doesn’t do much justice.
E.g. Dead Space on the PS5 was on sale recently in Argos and Amazon for £45 whilst CeX still sells it for £55 so I used the cash for the game I sold to CeX to buy dead space for cheaper and brand new sealed copy.
I usually exchange cheap games from flea markets or thrift stores for a CEX voucher, usually these are games with some scratches or without booklets, but they are simply accepted
Then I buy games again with the voucher, usually to supplement my own collection 😁
Honestly I take cash, sometimes I don’t have enough money for lunch and sometimes I’ll take the cash to buy a few cds from a charity shop as they don’t do cds in my cex
that buying from cash converters and selling to cex is really smart
If you look at their homepage, in a number of cases you aren’t being offered that much more for a trade in as opposed to cash. Resident Evil 4 PS5 say £35 cash, £41 voucher. At the lower end Call of Duty WW2 XBox £1 cash £2 voucher. Some games there is a fair discrepancy like say double voucher value to cash. There is a great variability in game prices across stores these days and CEX is most certainly not the cheapest so cash can make sense as opposed to voucher depending upon what you are intending to buy next.
I have offered to buy games off someone in CEX for there voucher price I was asked to leave and was banned lol
Yeah it's something I'd like to try but I don't think it's worth the hassle
There are apparently forums where you can sell your cex vouchers for near to their value
For me I got a cash budget and I gotta replace the cash before getting the voucher so I basically always got the same amount of cash, keep what ever I want from bundles and stuff and the rest gets turned into vouchers and it has almost no complication 👍
I’ve taken cash a few times because CeX were buying amiibo for really high prices because they were selling then really high, so I would buy then from the My Nintendo Store and sell them ti get £10 instantly, once I paid off the price to buy the amiibos with the cash I would take the vouchers.
So I’d only take cash if the prices are really high.
I've taken cash a good few times, for me it keeps a cash pot at the ready for deals to be had rather than dipping into the bank account when you only have vouchers. Plans my change if I start ebay, market place selling etc.. but as of now that's the reason I take cash half the time to recoup what I've spent then the rest in voucher.
I would say I regularly take or would take the cash from CEX & the biggest reason is I find the games overpriced so might get £2 less in cash then credit but when I can pick up same game from Vinted etc for 5+ cheaper makes more sense in my eyes, great videos btw
It depends on the difference between the cash and voucher. For my own challenge I took cash and voucher. I need some cash but also wanted the voucher. I never take cash on consoles
My cex is in my town center, so when i take cash, it's mainly when i'm meeting up with a friend, so we can have a shop around for a bit, i just grab stuff i'm not bothered about anymore and just sell for cash
I could have seen myself doing that when I was younger but I think I'm just too tight nowadays
I always do, in the small times I sell games or accessories. Purely because I live an hour or more away from CEX so I barely ever go there as often as I would like or to make vouchers worthwhile. I'd just lose them in the interim lol
Voted sometimes, for me it just convenience, my collection as it’s ups and down and when I am not looking collect, cash is the option
It all depends if I go buy a new game and I complete it in a week it’s logical to take the cash as you can recoup a lot of your doe and you’ve played the game!
For beer money mainly, if CEX had a deal with Weatherspoons so I could spend my voucher with them I would be taking the voucher. Plus the real skill is making cash not a reciept that only lasts a month then fades away.
As a note if you are an avid gamer then getting the voucher makes sense but if you do this for money...we'll then cash is the way ofc.
Love the Venezia shirt
a guy once approached me in cex saying i could buy a game with his voucher and give him the cash, the game was more than i had so i was like hell yeah :D good times
When quickly completed God of war i traded it for cash. Because it no game I wanted at the time , and then recently I trading all my old Gameboy stuff , to go towards a Nintendo switch cash was like £100 difference to store credit .
I often take cash to buy the games CEX doesn't sell and I take cash to recoup my investment and whatever is left I let them pay out in credit.
It depends what I'm trading in, if there is a big enough difference between cash and voucher then I'll take the voucher. If the difference is minimal I'll take cash. If I'm trading cheaper items I always take the voucher. I normally have a look to see if there's anything there that I want in which case I'll take the voucher and take whatever I'm interested in
I very rarely see things that don't have huge gaps in the cash to voucher. Everything I've traded has been miles from the ebay prices. I think I'll start looking a little more often though, see if I can make it work now and then
@TVMReviews I don't mean the difference between ebay and cex, I meant the difference between taking cash or voucher. I sell on ebay, gumtree and shpock aswell. Your right usually the price difference between ebay and cex is too much for me to take the hit on but if its not I'll take it to cex. I'd rather lose out on £10 trading to cex than having to put up with parasites on ebay. Someone opened up a claim against me 2 days ago saying the blu ray I'd sold them wasn't real when it clearly was. It was sealed and I also reduced it for the buyer before they bought it
Im a regular cash trader. I only take store credit if I need to buy games or controllers to test consoles im repairing that i will eventually sell for cash. Its instant and allows me to reinvest sooner
I think it’s convenience, some people don’t want to sell single items online waiting for there money to be released, secondly I for example once sold games not because I was desperate I just wanted quick easy cash for Lego.
I bought something from amazon France for £50 on my credit card, and traded a bunch of stuff in for the cash to pay it off, that's only time I did it. Cash return is shit compared to vouchers for me
I'll tell why I always take cash but not everyone can be in my situation. In my country, which isn't the UK, retro games can be relatively cheaper compared to the UK when you use the exchange rate, so what I used to do is bring a few games back with me which would have cost me around £100 and easily make a £300 profit by selling to CEX and other game shops.
The issue with taking credit is as your series points out CEX sell games for far more money than other shops, websites etc so I’d just take the money and spend it on the same game for cheaper
i use the cash based on the profit margin of what i paid in total for consoles etc if i come across something at boot fair or charity shop for say £1 if it trade s in for £3-£5 cash pound and i have a good amount of the same items in cash value it saves the aggro off trying to sell on eBay as the difference is not much more than than after fees so if profit with out the aggro of posting is quicker then yes cash is fair depending if i want to have vouchers or cash to add to my collecting fun/voucher build up some times its just easier than bother with hassle of waiting for it to sit around online if its a very conman game/games good video though.
touching on the asking about people selling in items and asking to buy them my cex and a few others i go to don't mind and they even step out side of the shop and ask to buy them selves for there collection its happened a few times were all in the same boat cheaper the better for collecting no one wants to spend the top price if not needed try it next time if you want to, you don't ask you never no the answer 🤔😀
Alot of people grow out of games, as theyre toys.
For modern games sometimes id take cash for a game/games ive finished with little replay value as id prefer mostly digital games usually id trade in if i cant see dlc coming out for e.g. God Of War games, or story based horror games
Having this exact dilemma now with a load of consoles Iv pulled out of storage. Wondering best way to handle them CEX cash/ trade in or hit other sites
I always take cash, I buy broken on eBay, fix and resell to cex. Better than eBay, no fees and no chance of it coming back once it’s gone.
Nice vid also that shirt is a beauty
As a reseller, if i take the voucher... What am i spending it on? Are certian games from cex worth more on ebay?
If I get something from the carboot for example I’ll take it to cex to get cash and then make sure I make back what I pay and once I do with getting cash the rest of the stuff I get goes to voucher
I sell for cash when I can. If I can buy a game for a “less than cex price” and trade it in for that cash back, that’s perfect for me. Means I can recycle the cash around doing exactly that. My cex is in the city centre, a solid 8 miles away Id guess, and im disabled, so constantly recycling vouchers and games through cex just isn’t possible for me. If cex didn’t charge delivery per item online, I’d do it more. Cash being a breaking even after completion or even profit means that money can recycle through Vinted, eBay, wherever. It’s better for me for those reasons, I’m sure other people have other reasons too. Also worth noting that trading in for cash by sending games to them in the post via free Royal Mail collection and post is doable, whereas using a voucher and buying from them online incurs the extra fees
Definitely something I hadn't taken into consideration. Especially as you can get a free collection if you're unable to get to the store.
I sometimes take a cash and voucher mix so I can get some new games and have some Cash for other things 😊
iv never taken cash but i see people doing it all the time . on some of the retro pages im on iv sold the odd voucher for 80% which is more than cex give in cash
i do wonder how CEX feels if you hear the offer, and you offer the person selling slightly more cash. The other day someone traded triangle strategy CE in front of me to them for £36 cash and i really wish i said i'd give you £45. cos i ended up having to pay £70 for it anyways.
i take cash most times, unless there is something in there that i want on the day
POV: YOU GO TO CEX TO GO GET RED DEAD 1 FOR SWITCH AND YOU SEE THIS DUDE
Sometimes it's just easier to take cash than faffing about with eBay. Or if the game is a bit beaten up you know you can definitely get the money still.
I more than most take cash, because of cost of living, seen things cheaper elsewhere, but it's mostly because shortage of money, and I'm not collecting games etc, only ever take credit when taking phone or electricals when there better price goes towards another item in store
Depends on what they offer and what I can get on for it on ebay after fees.
But usually I use ebay over cex because in the last few years cex has got pretty bad on there cash offers.
Do you enjoy using CEX for your trade in or just use it out of necessity?
I mean I don't hate it. I like that they offer what I would consider to be pretty decent prices on a lot of things. I do wish there was a little bit of competition for them though. GAME doesn't really count as they have terrible trade prices.
only when they were offering the same price for voucher and cash for switch consoles when they 1st came out
I used to take vouchers but now I just take cash and put it straight in the bank. When I sell to CEX now it's a case of I don't want to buy more from tgem and I really don't want to deal with eBay either.
I almost always take the cash if I ever need to trade anything, if I can't sell it personally without scammers and bad buyers and I am willing to take a small loss I will just sell for cash. I have done some trades for voucher if it's a game I do not want that I have played that I want for another game. I personally would just prefer the cash.
I've taken cash on high price items (for example my old soundbar) because the cash vs voucher amount is closer. With games it's just not worth it
I think I'd do it with things like that. Especially a soundbar where posting could get a little annoying
I have had to sell consoles, games, dvds and even phones just so I could eat
this message could have been delivered in about 30 seconds: but perhaps interesting therapy to walk through all viewpoints except for two other possibilities. These might be stolen goods (hence 2 copies of the same thing) OR they review gamse for a living (yes you shouldnt then sell these!) - and being ex CEX staff we did used to have an unspoken policy of "do a deal outside the shop" where you'd buy off the person selling but not in premesis. Bit dodgy but so long as you didnt take the pi$$ a blind eye was turned. This was all in early 90's mind, times have perhaps changed...
Cex hardly ever have anything I want so I nearly always take cash
This happened to me after Christmas. A young lad and his Dad was trading in so many PS4 games, some were special editions, some were sealed and CEX were opening them which made me cringe! I think they got between £35-£40 and I would have happily gave them more than that for the games they had. It was such a shame.
Also I wish CEX didn't open new games, especially special edition games and just kept them behind the till
I think it's very dependant on what people want. You know, I've traded somethings in for cash with my Nintendo wii and some blu rays. I traded in my ps5 for cash 6 weeks ago. Because I already have an Xbox. And I wanted to start a snes collection and my local cex didn't have what I wanted. They had the snes mini but not the original and no way did I want a 400 pound cex voucher. Wanted the cash so I could buy the snes I wanted and get the games I wanted when ready. So I bought the snes and a couple of games from a cex 20 miles away. And my cex, is rubbish for retro and most the staff and managers are rude. Except one dude, who used to work at the game where I live. Now, I'm building a very selective collection. I now have, Super castlevania 4, Mortal kombat 2 and ult MK3(which were my main reasons for getting a snes again), Mega Man X unboxed which was the last in the country at cex, wrestlemania, and today a game I've longed for Adventures of Batman and Robin. I managed to get a boxed version for £110 from a retro game store. Cex are now charging 95 for an unboxed version and it seems hard to get hold of. And thankfully some of the snes games I've bought have now gone up by £5-10 each from what I bought from cex only a month ago. But obviously, I am aware of why they've gone up.
I used to take cash but now I know where to sell cex voucher for cash @ 85%
we live in the cost of living crisis and i need to pay a huge gas bill and everything is being spent on that so if the gas bill wasnt at such a ridiculous level of cost i wouldnt need to regularly get money for my games and computers. i also love gaming but trying to buy games and then paying bills and keeping on top of them is next to impossible. i cant even afford a second hand game for £7.99 for my wii as i got paid wednesday and all of it except for food and toiletries went on gas,internet,council tax. its like a constant financial balancing act but i got no debt thank goodness!
I've sold LOADS to CEX but have never actually bought anything. I always look in while walking past, but their prices always seem pretty high so I'd rather buy new.
Games wise mine are pretty much all digital these days.
I have never bought from CEX, so I always take cash.
Depends, say I buy a bundle with console & games for the low. Catch a gem 💎. Cash the 💎. Back in my pocket. I find most of my grails on eBay tbf. If I want a game , I will always under pay the cex asking price. I try to pay what cex offer to cash tbh 😂. Sometimes I win . Mostly I don’t. When I do though. For example. I wanted a 2DS. Didnt rly want to spend much. Got a bundle £25. Console (faulty easy fix although , console always has sound on lmao) . Cash the Mario/ value ables quick a cex. Free console. Then some credit I’ll take with the third party games if they worth it & pick up an odd ps2/3/Xbox game for the collection. I do prefer the cash system. But I’ll admit it’s harder to find the deals & I see what you mean in this video cheers
Forgot to mention. Home brew TF outta the 2ds / console & maybe do some rom finding online 😮
So you don’t know why someone would take cash then go on to explain why someone would take cash and why you took cash. ………🤷♂️
When people are taking the Micheal with offers on eBay I lower the price so I clear the cash price on cex after fees and postage. If still no bites, I'll just send it to cex for the cash. I do it this way as I have no cex near me.
If I have something in mind I want then I’d go for voucher.
I’m not much of a gamer anymore so don’t buy games to play, haven’t played a game in years, I buy them to trade.
Hence I’d say sometimes but not because I’m desperate
i never trade inat cex only ever sell on ebay, more cause get issues around going in and trading things in sets my anxiety off but would take voucher.
First time i went there i took cash even though i wanted to buy stuff from there, my brother told me to take cash
Next time i go there i will take voucher
in my opinion. games are sold at a higher price in cex then ebay 99% of the time. i'd rather take cash if the game i am wanting to buy is at a much higher price then ebay. if £1-2 more i will take credit but if £5 or more higher then ebay i will take the cash. i prefer buying games with cash rather then credit as i will also forget i have the credit and half the time either lose it or accidentally bin it as i will just see it as a receipt. Also if a game i want is on ebay but not in stock in cex i will take the cash to put it towards getting said game.
I took cash when I sold my ps4 pro and Xbox one x when I wanted to buy my ps5 because they was no way I was going paying roundabout 650 for a preowned ps5 from cex when I could get a new one from smith toys with horizon, forbidden west bundled in it for retail price
I’ve only taken cash twice. Most recent is because I wanted the new 2k wrestling game so I thought I would get rid off games I don’t really play to get a game that I would be playing
Makes sense if you want to get the game quickly and you can't wait to bin off the old games online. I'm still not sure I could do it though haha
Can somebody buy few games for me and send it to EU? Ebay prices are higher than CEX and I used to live in UK and been in CEX many many times... I loved that store.
I did this in 2018 when I lost my job. I had PLENTY of money saved in my savings account... but I didn't wanna dip into that so took cash for my 3ds which was only worth £36 at the time 🤦🙄🥴 along with many dreamcast & my original pokemon games😭😭😱 now I have my house and am stable since then I only ever take voucher to put towards my retro games collection ✌️😎
Do you regret taking the cash now?
Nice Venezia shirt
Probably to buy drugs.. Regardless, I don’t get why you would think it’s uncommon to take cash. A voucher can’t buy groceries etc.
Only 19% of people do this in cex 💀
Only. 19%. Of. People do. This. On. CEX
I Often buy things on vinted , try to sell it on vinted or Facebook or any other way, and if no One buys it I Will sell it or trade it in , i Will always buy things in a way that if i sell it to cex i dont lose Money or even make small amounts of ir
There is also sometimes when I see that I can make double or triple in cex i Will just sell it there for Money 🤷
In my experience barely anyone takes the voucher. Stuff elsewhere costs money, cex vouchers can only be used in there and are WAY overpriced. Cex are just poor value if you buy games there.
I usually take cash if the value is close to Ebay prices.
Makes sense to do it then
Same here. And if you come behind me offering better in Cardiff I'll happily take your cash. Stuff cex
Is that in Hounslow
I always take cash me quick money
Bro doesn't understand why things are needed to be signed when selling goods. Almost like they get stolen stuff sold there and they'll need proof who sold it if it comes to it
selling online was so pain in the ass that i rahter get quick cash back to buy more then get the burns for selling online.
Yeah I guess so. I think I've been fortunate with selling video games online. I get the odd idiot but it's mostly straight forward
Mate why wouldn't you take cash and you can spend it on anything you want. Thats common sense. Store credit is limited and you can only buy it from CeX
Going tomorrow to take my Xbox series X they said I'll get £250 or £272 I am going to take Cash as I'm not working. Agency work is slow and need to pay bills used 5 days holiday so I get a weeks wage this Friday.
Cost of living most likely