-
Welcome to Stafford Forum. Please or sign-up and start posting!
Cash Generator Closing
- Thread starter Sir BoD
- Start date
Prawn cocktail
Well-Known Forumite
The French did this. They refused to issue them a license to trade, when they tried to open there.
Feed The Goat
Well-Known Forumite
Just been to the CEX website, the new shop which has opened next to Superdrug.
They basically seem to offer you peanuts for your item, then mark it up by a factor of 3.
You would have to be desperate to accept their low offer unless of course you had not paid for the item in the first place.
They basically seem to offer you peanuts for your item, then mark it up by a factor of 3.
You would have to be desperate to accept their low offer unless of course you had not paid for the item in the first place.
My Name is URL
Well-Known Forumite
To be fair, I have sold a lot of my old mobile phones to CEX in the past. They don't offer the best rates, usually a bit less than the online recyclers, but the beauty is you can drop it off in person and get the cash straight away once they have checked the item over which usually takes an hour.
Ok they will try blagging you saying "we don't have enough cash, you can have store credit instead" which in turn will get you buying their overpriced goods, but if you stand firm, or just double check before you hand the phone in "you definitely have cash to buy this off me today" and it should be ok.
Carrying on from the point above though, I would never BUY anything from them though (except on a very odd occasion), they are so expensive in there it is unreal for what is essentially second hand crap. You can get the occasional bargain - I got a Sky HD box for £35 once as it was an old model - but the laptops and stuff they sell - you can usually get better online brand new for not much more money with coupons and cashback etc.
Ok they will try blagging you saying "we don't have enough cash, you can have store credit instead" which in turn will get you buying their overpriced goods, but if you stand firm, or just double check before you hand the phone in "you definitely have cash to buy this off me today" and it should be ok.
Carrying on from the point above though, I would never BUY anything from them though (except on a very odd occasion), they are so expensive in there it is unreal for what is essentially second hand crap. You can get the occasional bargain - I got a Sky HD box for £35 once as it was an old model - but the laptops and stuff they sell - you can usually get better online brand new for not much more money with coupons and cashback etc.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Not sure Kays ever got away with charging a 400% markup!
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Indeed not but the principle is the same.
The new breed are allowed to get away with extortionate rates due to deregulation of the finance industry buy whichever government it was.
Loan sharks are now legally allowed to prosper because of deregulation and the government wonder why people get into deeper debt and in the same way the betting industry has been deregulated and then the same government wonder why people are addicted to gambling.
Correction, sign in the windows pointing punters to Cash Generator, but as that's closing soon too...
Chann100590
A few posts under my belt
Yeah unfortunately my mate "worked" in cash generators and just been made redundant :-( sad times, I recon the new shopping centre supposedly meant to be built next year will eventually end up derelict even before it's been built!
kyoto49
Well-Known Forumite
Anyone use these type shops? Do they check much on if the property is actually yours? What's the legal position if you are burgled and find your stuff in there? Does the store get done for handling stolen goods?
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
About a million miles off..
That-Crazy-Rat-Lady
Well-Known Forumite
Up norf we have http://www.graingergames.co.uk/
They also sell games/ DVD's / Mobiles etc
My other half got a beautiful Nokia fancy somthing-or-another, pretty much brand new for £80 and it also comes with a 13 month warranty!
Very good second hand exchange shop!
They also sell games/ DVD's / Mobiles etc
My other half got a beautiful Nokia fancy somthing-or-another, pretty much brand new for £80 and it also comes with a 13 month warranty!
Very good second hand exchange shop!
db
#chaplife
They check and record ID but probably the standards of proof are very low
Probably you can have it back if you can prove its yours. But who can do that?
As long as the shop/staff don't believe it's stolen they're not breaking the law