Comments on: Feeling Stupid? Trade Your 60GB PS3 For An 80GB At EB Games

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:07:37 +0000

Man I’m soooo pissed I just sold my 60Gb for $1000. I would have jumped at this.

By: EB's step son

EB's step son — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 10:46:48 +0000

Dude that is awesome!! all you EB haters need to see this deal for what it is. All those " extra bits " like backward compatibility and usb stuff was all a marketing plan by Pepsi to take over your minds. YOU DON'T NEED IT plus it makes your PS3 sooooo heavy. Go and trade in now!! Consider yourself lucky we didn't get the 180 gig then you would really be complaining,

*flame suit activated*

By: Rap72

Rap72 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:17:10 +0000

I also work for EB and I have to admit this deal is way off.

On the other hand though, I can also say that I am 99% sure that every single EB salesperson will be telling anyone that wants to trade in their old 60gb machine about the downfalls of such a deal.

If they dont, then they shouldnt be working for EB.

By: Seoman

Seoman — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:30:06 +0000

The deal isn’t as bad as you say, as you do get a Dualshock 3 ($100 at EB) for your (assumed) Sixaxis. Please note the deal is still ridiculously, unbelievably bad, at ~$104 worth of stuff for ~$600, but that is loads better than $600 for $4 of stuff.

By: phinn

phinn — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:52:33 +0000

Yea, that is a BAD freaking deal. Especially when you can put any notebook hard drive in a PS3. You can get 120-160gb hard drive from Newegg for like $65

By: ed

ed — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:42:13 +0000

$100 buys you a 160 gb hd and its only one screw to swap out your old drive. they will likely sell those 60 gb ps3’s at a premium since they are the ones to own. ill sell mine but not for such a paltry price. maybe you give me the 80 gb, 4 games and a hundred bucks. then we are in business.

By: Griffin

Griffin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:10:12 +0000

Yeah, but you know there are some people who’ll be trading in and paying the $172 to get this deal. (It’s $199AUS = $172USD).

By: PurpleSfinx\Lord Adam

PurpleSfinx\Lord Adam — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:43:16 +0000

Damn, I was about to submit this. I mean I've seen some crappy deals at EB before, but man, this is a new low. I sure hope they tell people that the 'better' ps3 is missing some very useful features that their PS3 was advertised as having.

...But I somewhat doubt it.

This is why I can't work at EB. I just couldn't bring myself to do this to people. What a joke.

This really doesn't help Australia's cause: Not getting fucked over by being ignorant and easily rapable by large multinational companies.

By: LionSun

LionSun — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:29:30 +0000

"as long as you don't mind losing backwards-compatibility, some USB slots and the card reader."

You forgot to mention the SACD (Super Audio CD) support - for those who enjoy the best quality audio CD technology can give - between other "hidden" bits between the 2 PS3 versions.

Shame...

By: EB Whore

EB Whore — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:48:36 +0000

I work for EB Games and I can safely say, I am even more ashamed of our marketing department.

Someone fed the monkeys.