CEX- what a waste of time
04 June 2010, 06:22 PM
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CEX- what a waste of time
Took my Nintendo Wii to CEX as I don't use it, have an Xbox 360 which takes all my spare time, they offered me £103 cash for the Wii, additional controllers, nunchucks and classic controllers and a Wii fit board and software. Not a great ammount but I can't be bothered with Ebay.
Anyway took it in Tuesday morning, and they had to test it all before doing the deal, fair enough I can accept that, so I go back the following morning, it's been checked and all good but they have no cash in the till to pay me! seemed a bit strange but I thought ok, i'll come back the next day, so I go in Thursday morning and same story, no cash in the till to pay me! Starting to get a bit annoyed, the guy said I should wait for them to make some sales so come back during an afternoon. I go back today (friday)) at 2pm as told by the staff, clearly the shop was busy, both people queuing to buy and sell, so get to the counter the woman behind the counter says "we are not giving any money out today try another day or take it back" She said this to a few other customers too.
So now i'm going back tomorrow and if it's the same I guess i'm taking it back and on ebay it goes after all.
CEX is a complete waste of time and I recommend absolutely no one uses the store.
Anyway took it in Tuesday morning, and they had to test it all before doing the deal, fair enough I can accept that, so I go back the following morning, it's been checked and all good but they have no cash in the till to pay me! seemed a bit strange but I thought ok, i'll come back the next day, so I go in Thursday morning and same story, no cash in the till to pay me! Starting to get a bit annoyed, the guy said I should wait for them to make some sales so come back during an afternoon. I go back today (friday)) at 2pm as told by the staff, clearly the shop was busy, both people queuing to buy and sell, so get to the counter the woman behind the counter says "we are not giving any money out today try another day or take it back" She said this to a few other customers too.
So now i'm going back tomorrow and if it's the same I guess i'm taking it back and on ebay it goes after all.
CEX is a complete waste of time and I recommend absolutely no one uses the store.
04 June 2010, 08:09 PM
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Took my Nintendo Wii to CEX as I don't use it, have an Xbox 360 which takes all my spare time, they offered me £103 cash for the Wii, additional controllers, nunchucks and classic controllers and a Wii fit board and software. Not a great ammount but I can't be bothered with Ebay.
Anyway took it in Tuesday morning, and they had to test it all before doing the deal, fair enough I can accept that, so I go back the following morning, it's been checked and all good but they have no cash in the till to pay me! seemed a bit strange but I thought ok, i'll come back the next day, so I go in Thursday morning and same story, no cash in the till to pay me! Starting to get a bit annoyed, the guy said I should wait for them to make some sales so come back during an afternoon. I go back today (friday)) at 2pm as told by the staff, clearly the shop was busy, both people queuing to buy and sell, so get to the counter the woman behind the counter says "we are not giving any money out today try another day or take it back" She said this to a few other customers too.
So now i'm going back tomorrow and if it's the same I guess i'm taking it back and on ebay it goes after all.
CEX is a complete waste of time and I recommend absolutely no one uses the store.
Anyway took it in Tuesday morning, and they had to test it all before doing the deal, fair enough I can accept that, so I go back the following morning, it's been checked and all good but they have no cash in the till to pay me! seemed a bit strange but I thought ok, i'll come back the next day, so I go in Thursday morning and same story, no cash in the till to pay me! Starting to get a bit annoyed, the guy said I should wait for them to make some sales so come back during an afternoon. I go back today (friday)) at 2pm as told by the staff, clearly the shop was busy, both people queuing to buy and sell, so get to the counter the woman behind the counter says "we are not giving any money out today try another day or take it back" She said this to a few other customers too.
So now i'm going back tomorrow and if it's the same I guess i'm taking it back and on ebay it goes after all.
CEX is a complete waste of time and I recommend absolutely no one uses the store.
Example being the iPhone. Was a 16gb 3GS in my local one the other day - £460 second hand
WTF, my brothers cost him £480 brand new nearly a year ago 
Saying that, he's just applied for a job there - out of desperation.
05 June 2010, 01:40 PM
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Took my Nintendo Wii to CEX as I don't use it, have an Xbox 360 which takes all my spare time, they offered me £103 cash for the Wii, additional controllers, nunchucks and classic controllers and a Wii fit board and software. Not a great ammount but I can't be bothered with Ebay.
Anyway took it in Tuesday morning, and they had to test it all before doing the deal, fair enough I can accept that, so I go back the following morning, it's been checked and all good but they have no cash in the till to pay me! seemed a bit strange but I thought ok, i'll come back the next day, so I go in Thursday morning and same story, no cash in the till to pay me! Starting to get a bit annoyed, the guy said I should wait for them to make some sales so come back during an afternoon. I go back today (friday)) at 2pm as told by the staff, clearly the shop was busy, both people queuing to buy and sell, so get to the counter the woman behind the counter says "we are not giving any money out today try another day or take it back" She said this to a few other customers too.
So now i'm going back tomorrow and if it's the same I guess i'm taking it back and on ebay it goes after all.
CEX is a complete waste of time and I recommend absolutely no one uses the store.
Anyway took it in Tuesday morning, and they had to test it all before doing the deal, fair enough I can accept that, so I go back the following morning, it's been checked and all good but they have no cash in the till to pay me! seemed a bit strange but I thought ok, i'll come back the next day, so I go in Thursday morning and same story, no cash in the till to pay me! Starting to get a bit annoyed, the guy said I should wait for them to make some sales so come back during an afternoon. I go back today (friday)) at 2pm as told by the staff, clearly the shop was busy, both people queuing to buy and sell, so get to the counter the woman behind the counter says "we are not giving any money out today try another day or take it back" She said this to a few other customers too.
So now i'm going back tomorrow and if it's the same I guess i'm taking it back and on ebay it goes after all.
CEX is a complete waste of time and I recommend absolutely no one uses the store.
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05 June 2010, 01:49 PM
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Thing is they will mark it up horrendously in their favour. You will pay nearly as much for their second hand one as a new one
Example being the iPhone. Was a 16gb 3GS in my local one the other day - £460 second hand WTF, my brothers cost him £480 brand new nearly a year ago
Saying that, he's just applied for a job there - out of desperation.
Example being the iPhone. Was a 16gb 3GS in my local one the other day - £460 second hand
WTF, my brothers cost him £480 brand new nearly a year ago Saying that, he's just applied for a job there - out of desperation.
05 June 2010, 05:19 PM
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05 June 2010, 07:52 PM
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My CEX experience..
I had a drawer of old mobiles that I needed rid of. CEX offered the best prices, on a trade in basis. First batch I sent off was 5 phones, 1 of which they returned cause it had a broken volume switch (I knew this, thought they might miss it). They then sent me a voucher for £49 for the 4 phones - this was the agreed value before I sent the phones. The the next day, another voucher for £49 also arrived
I then sent off the last 3 phones (1 of which had a broken camera) They accepted all the phone and another voucher arrived for £69. Topped up my voucher with a few extra pounds and ordered an as new (it was new) Nokia X6.
So thanks to a CEX's incompetence, I had a new X6 for a bargain price
I had a drawer of old mobiles that I needed rid of. CEX offered the best prices, on a trade in basis. First batch I sent off was 5 phones, 1 of which they returned cause it had a broken volume switch (I knew this, thought they might miss it). They then sent me a voucher for £49 for the 4 phones - this was the agreed value before I sent the phones. The the next day, another voucher for £49 also arrived
I then sent off the last 3 phones (1 of which had a broken camera) They accepted all the phone
and another voucher arrived for £69. Topped up my voucher with a few extra pounds and ordered an as new (it was new) Nokia X6. So thanks to a CEX's incompetence, I had a new X6 for a bargain price
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06 June 2010, 11:02 AM
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Think I would have taken my chances with Ebay personally. You were patient enough to let them keep the thing that long. I could see them selling it on and still not having the money to pay you.
06 June 2010, 01:42 PM
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They keep the stuff to one side until you take the cash and sign it over, used to use Ebay laods but i'm sick of the ebay and paypal fees, and time wasters etc, could have prob got a bit more on ebay but it's the hassle, although CEX has made me rethink in future
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