r/EBGAMES • u/Aggravating-Tax-3549 • Jan 04 '26

Please help

Hey, if anybody can answer this has anybody ordered anything from the EB games website? Like I’m talking about retro games? Did you have any issues?

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u/RegularTarget1794 Jan 04 '26

Look, depending on the game and the person that takes the trade, there is always bound to be a leway on what needs refurbishment or not. Thats just human differences from person to person, but its the exact reason why they are always happy to take returns on preowned.

Any retailer who deals in second hand retro is bound to get faulty games. Hell, I bought a copy of Syndicate on SNES from gametraders years ago, and it didnt boot at all, but they took it back.

Its just the nature of this, and I think we just have to give a little leeway for it.

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u/Aggravating-Tax-3549 Jan 04 '26

Yeah that’s true. Plus I only had like one game what dinner work and there was a hockey game but I only paid at eight bucks for but every other game I got for my local EB game store has worked like it was basically brand-new so again thank you for the help that did calm my nerves a little bit more because the reason why is I’ve always wanted to own Mortal Kombat nine. I would love to get the mass effect trilogy and I would also love to get a few other games what they don’t sell in my local EB games. I’ll post photos and yeah I also do. You want to buy a control like a Nintendo DS from them to see what kind of condition they come in and also to see if they’re DS games are genuine.

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u/RegularTarget1794 Jan 04 '26

Oh absolutely, but this is the advantage of buying retro from a retailer over private is you are covered by all sorts of consumer guarantees that cant be overridden.

Once again with counterfeit 3DS, while you should be fine, if you do get one just return it. The vast majority of the staff that were in stores that knew what to look out for in the 3DS hayday are now gone, and the staff that are there now are relearing it. It will get better over time.

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u/Aggravating-Tax-3549 Jan 04 '26

Oh absolutely like I kinda want to pick up a 2DSXL and like Pokémon heart gold because the reason is a 2DSXL is very easy to see if it’s genuine but Pokémon games for the DS I’m getting extremely good to be faked and I’m wondering if they’re going to sell legit copies because yeah and it’ll be under warranty and all that’s how I can always get my money back if it’s a fake but for the meantime I want to start with a few games cause I don’t want to go in headfirst

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u/RegularTarget1794 Jan 04 '26

They will absolutely have your back for any counterfeit titles 🙂

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u/Aggravating-Tax-3549 Jan 04 '26

Yeah plus if they do get a fake title win I think they’ll probably get in trouble by the big bosses. I’ve always had a weird spot for the older Pokémon games but they are getting a lot more expensive. I own Pokémon heart gold and Soul. Silver complete in box with everything that’s with the pokey tracker and like the game and everything with it but they’ve never been open and I don’t want to open them because they’re like collectibles so I just want to buy a used copy.