Thor’king Hell – Thats A Great Deal!
Do you see what I did there? Made me giggle at least 
But for those of you starting to understand my riddler-riffic encrypted titles – yes – it’s a cash profit deal – and yes – its to do with that Hammer Wielding Marvel G — Thor!
Not sure how they’ve missed the price plummet in this one, but with the 3D version of Thor holding a steady £20 price point (well done you) the lesser required formats of Triple Play BluRay and in this instance, DVD, have all dropped.
I think the most expensive retailer for the DVD is rocking around the £9.95 range – but everyone else (Amazon etc) have sunk to a nifty £6.99.
But ASDA (yes you heard me right – ASDA) have taken it upon themselves to undercut the rest and throwing it out at £6 delivered – and even a nice 2% CashBack on top for going through “ASDA Direct”
Now, if you have an Amazon Prime Trial/Account, then at £6.99 for a guaranteed tomorrow – id be tempted to do 18x at that price – but for those of us who have burnt all their trials (doh) we will have to go with ASDA.
Now, their limit is 10 per order, so order however many you need in orders of no more than 10. For today’s example, and taking into account the “3-5 delivery” risk – we at LoopHoler are punching a reasonably risky 18x copies.
This will run us just over a ton – at £108.00 delivered.
CEX (are trying to) shift this for £12 a copy – but give £9 trade – and more intriguing – a generous £9 also on the cash side!
So for that £108 spend on 18x copies – you’ll be looking at £9×18=£162 return – and a nice £54 cash profit for your troubles.
Again, doing 18 will require a minimum of two bodies trading depending on your stores limits.
http://uk.webuy.com/product.php?sku=5014437144836
For those of you Amazon Primers, you’ll be shooting £2 profit per title, so the same numbers will return you £162 return on a £126 spend – so a slightly reduced pocket liner of £36.
But get an extra body involved and increase your outputs to 27x copies and the ASDA players can roll £243 for a £162 spend (£81 Cash Profit) and Primers can return £54.
Thanks Loopholer! I’ve been struggling to find good deals since my local GS closed down (I’ve still got ~£100 on a trade card)
Quick question, how can you be sure a DVD isn’t budget version before you order?
Budget, is the CEX term for “Ex Rental”.
It used to mean ’1 Disc’ edition, when they’d brought out a 2-disc etc, but it’s now 100% ex-rental. This *may* include discs with marker pen all over them – or even the ones with the LoveFilm stickers on the inner circle. (Which are sometimes on discs from boxes that aren’t labeled “Rental Copy”
But you know it’s going to be a ‘budget’ one you get in the post if you buy from anyone who is associated with ex-rentals, such as BlockBusters, ThatsEntertainment, etc, or ‘recycle’ style sites (that sell and buy)
So some of the £5.50 DVD deals at Blockbuster Marketplace that cash out for £7/8, but return a £5 on ‘Budget’, the it’s worth the risk, if you take the 10% CashBack into it (making the £5.50 DVD actually cost £4.95 *if* it tracks), meaning you’d make 5p profit on Budgets and £1.50/£2.50
Anywhere like HMV, ASDA, or what I’d describe as a Retail Website (inc non-highstreet websites like Play.com, Zavvi) will always be new copies, although only 90% of the time they are sealed (I assume because they’ll be returns that are put through the fillers again)
can i akss, when you take your copy into cex they need to see the receipt,
do you hide the prices? or dont they care
I’ve heard this rumour before that some CEXs require a receipt for multiple goods, or sometimes when they’re sealed…
Personally, I’ve probably used upwards of 10~20 CEX stores for various high volume ‘tings and never once have they required proof of purchase.
If they are funny about sealed stuff – unseal it (ensuring you don’t need to return it first!).
Update: just got off the phone with a CEX matey and he says that if ever an account is flagged as “hot goods” they can put restraints on it (I.e. proof going forward).
But if you’re sure you’re not handling stolen goods (lol) my mate says that it might just be them being difficult. He said he can imagine the sites doing it, if you’re making a killing on a load of rubbish they won’t be able to easily resell (Arcania 4 PC – lol!) but if it was a load of new release games – he doubts they’d ever give you trouble.
So it *could* be your account, the product you’re selling or even it’s condition (cellophane etc).
Theres definitely nothing in their terms about proving ownership/source.
Thank you, it explains it because the games were sealed. makes sense now. Just wondering if they did the same for unsealed too