{"id":464,"date":"2025-03-17T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:44:40","slug":"retailer-eb-games-new-retro-service-offers-some-unsurprisingly-rough-trade-in-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/retailer-eb-games-new-retro-service-offers-some-unsurprisingly-rough-trade-in-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Retailer EB Games&#039; New Retro Service Offers Some Unsurprisingly Rough Trade-In Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For Mario Land 2 that&#8217;ll be&#8230; six golden coins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australian retailer EB Games announced last week that it would be expanding its trade-in service to include retro games and consoles. It sounds like a good concept on paper (we retro game fans relish the idea of seeing more classics out in the wild), but in practice, the prices offered by the retailer are <em>rough<\/em> (thanks for the heads up, <a href=\"https:\/\/press-start.com.au\/news\/2025\/03\/15\/eb-games-new-retro-game-trade-in-prices-are-about-as-good-as-youd-expect\/\">Press Start<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebgames.com.au\/retro\">EB Games website<\/a>, the new retro service offers the company&#8217;s &#8220;trade value guarantee&#8221;, meaning you&#8217;ll get &#8220;top coins&#8221; for anything you choose to trade from NES to Wii U. <em>Hmm<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/03\/retailer-eb-games-new-retro-service-offers-some-unsurprisingly-rough-trade-in-prices\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Mario Land 2 that&#8217;ll be&#8230; six golden coins. Australian retailer EB Games announced last week that it would be expanding its trade-in service to include retro games and consoles. It sounds like a good concept on paper (we retro game fans relish the idea of seeing more classics out in the wild), but in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}