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CEX on Upper Liffey Street (Dublin) - Now Open

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  • #102
    Gandalph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    were is upper liffey street lads? wouldnt mind checking this place out next time Im around dub


  • #103
    War Machine 539
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭War Machine 539


    Its across from H&M on Henry street! Go past Hickeys and Turn left. It has a big red sign, you cant miss it!


  • #104
    RedXIV
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,460 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    Easiest way to find it is cross the ha'penny bridge onto the north side, go straight through lower liffey street and then basically go straight. the streets aren't exactly alligned correctly but if you're heading straight from the ha'penny bridge, you can't miss it


  • #105
    Gandalph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,792 ✭✭✭Gandalph


    War Machine 539 wrote: »
    Its across from H&M on Henry street! Go past Hickeys and Turn left. It has a big red sign, you cant miss it!

    I bloody well have! walk that way every now and then...guess thats what I get for not wearing my glasses/contacts :(


  • #106
    War Machine 539
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,372 ✭✭✭War Machine 539


    Do you remember Hector Greys? Its near where that used to be! Across from the side entrance to marks and sparks!


  • #107
    tonydude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭tonydude


    Heading to the capital tomorrow and might pop in if I can find the place. I dont know dublin bar grafton street, some help would be nice


  • #108
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    tonydude wrote: »
    Heading to the capital tomorrow and might pop in if I can find the place. I dont know dublin bar grafton street, some help would be nice

    From O O'Connell St Find the GPO and head down the street to it's rigth if facing the GPO this is Henry St.

    Take the 1st left a ways down, and C.E.X is a red shop on the left a little bit down the street, it'll have phones and things in the window.


  • #109
    Jelle1880
    Registered Users Posts: 9,839 ✭✭✭Jelle1880


    Wohoo, fantastic news.


  • #110
    Skerries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,551 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Jelle1880 wrote: »
    Wohoo, fantastic news.

    what is?
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  • #111
    Jelle1880
    Registered Users Posts: 9,839 ✭✭✭Jelle1880


    That I only now found this thread, I like CEX for the reasons stated in here.
    A lot more than GAME and Gamestop, who always seem to have the same games for second hand prices.


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  • #112
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,716 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    TBH, it's gone radically downhill since it opened :( Previous gen shelves are now full of shovelware. If you didn't grab a rarity / bargain in the first few weeks, you'd be very lucky indeed to find one now.

    As for the current gen prices, they always seem a bit high to me. Have seen a number of games previously played in CEX for much more than new copies are going for elsewhere.

    On the plus side, they have damn good Wii and DS sections for some reason. Shame the rest don't measure up.


  • #113
    Jelle1880
    Registered Users Posts: 9,839 ✭✭✭Jelle1880


    Tbh, DS are the only games I buy these days, as I've only been playing my backlog of 360 and PC games at the moment, without buying anything new.


  • #114
    iamgod2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭iamgod2011


    War Machine 539 wrote: »
    Was that the american girl? :P

    yes ...... yes it was her!!!! :eek:
    no clue what she is doing and talking to people like your her child made me feel uncomfortable while i shopped ... she kept talking to me as if i was interested in what she was saying and i clearly was not!!! :mad:


  • #115
    iamgod2011
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭iamgod2011


    Nevore wrote: »
    I'm sorry you had a bad experience sweetcheeks. :(

    haha nice!!!!!!


  • #116
    Zatoichi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭Zatoichi


    Scoured HMV/GAME/GAMESTATION for Arma 2, and it's expansion, with nothing but despair at the miniscule selection they had. Walked into CEX... both games right there. :D

    The PC section might not be great, but compared to their competitors it's a shrine of awesomeness.


  • #117
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    TBH, it's gone radically downhill since it opened :( Previous gen shelves are now full of shovelware. If you didn't grab a rarity / bargain in the first few weeks, you'd be very lucky indeed to find one now.

    As for the current gen prices, they always seem a bit high to me. Have seen a number of games previously played in CEX for much more than new copies are going for elsewhere.

    Yeah, kinda sad to see. Even for the more common titles their prices are
    alrightish, but they've really got to put a suspension on the buying of
    yearly EA/PES/WWE et al installments, anyone with a half a loaf can see
    these pieces of tripe aren't selling beyond the odd enthusiast and the
    ignorant parent thinking they're getting a bargain.

    Their PSP section was pretty decentish recently, dunno what it's like
    now.


  • #118
    Healium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭Healium


    In fairness, their stock is dependent purely on what people trade in. Not been in the Dublin store since it opened, but it sounds like people are just trading in shovelware...

    Should be lots of DVD and electronics bargains, though


  • #119
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    What ever about CEX going downhill, their stock is still better than what HMV's is at the moment, was in 3 different ones this week and the xbox selection seems to have shrunk massively compared to what it was only a few months ago.

    Gamestop still have the same old tat at the same old inflated prices.

    2 xtra visions I visited where the same as HMV they seemed to have downsized the selection too.

    Long gone are the days where I could wake up and say to myself, " I fancy getting the rest of the achievements in that 2 year old game, I'll nip into town for it used or new at a reasonable cost"

    Last 10 games I've bought have been online, and they have not been worth what I paid for them new or used.

    With CEX i think they have now hit a plateau so to speak , all the stock from other stores they brought over when they opened is now gone and they are like the others relying on what is traded in to replenish the stock, but to be honest I would rather throw my copy of Lost Odyssey in the bin that trade it for the 90c to €1.50 any of these places offer , hence the difficulty in getting older stuff in the shops now.

    How does it work for print runs on games anyway, I mean I assume they are printed in a batch at time of launch and that's it what's there is there????

    /End of off topic rant lol


  • #120
    iMuse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,975 ✭✭✭iMuse


    Cex deliver to Ireland for anyone interested Link


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  • #121
    Jazzkamiden
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Jazzkamiden


    I was in there yesterday for the first time after being told for a long time that it's a great shop from someone I talk to who lives in Northern Ireland. I've been looking for a place like this for ages now and I gotta say, it's great! Some of the stuff is really cheap! Like €1.50 cheap. My biggest disappointment was that there was absolutely no Gamecube/SNES/GBA games there. There were also no Dreamcast or PS1 games there. They are supposed to be there aren't they? Although I don't see where they would put them as it's such a small shop. I guess I just have to get lucky and end up there on the right day, do I?


  • #122
    Healium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭Healium


    Jazzkamiden wrote: »
    I was in there yesterday for the first time after being told for a long time that it's a great shop from someone I talk to who lives in Northern Ireland. I've been looking for a place like this for ages now and I gotta say, it's great! Some of the stuff is really cheap! Like €1.50 cheap. My biggest disappointment was that there was absolutely no Gamecube/SNES/GBA games there. There were also no Dreamcast or PS1 games there. They are supposed to be there aren't they? Although I don't see where they would put them as it's such a small shop. I guess I just have to get lucky and end up there on the right day, do I?
    According to the website, they do sell Gamecube games (but not PS1, Dreamcast, GBA or SNES). I thought they did have a Gamecube section at first, perhaps the stock ran low and they closed it? Or, as you said, it's quite a small shop, so maybe they never had a section

    You could always buy the Gamecube games off them online, although I've heard that the online store is hit-and-miss. Maybe you could ask the store to order in certain games for you?


  • #123
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    There's a few, very few, Gamecube titles in there today, on the top left corner of the Wii shelf. There's a controller and a memory card in the window too.


  • #124
    Jazzkamiden
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Jazzkamiden


    I'm not able to buy online by the way, which is why I was excited to see the shop.
    Mr.Saturn wrote: »
    There's a few, very few, Gamecube titles in there today, on the top left corner of the Wii shelf. There's a controller and a memory card in the window too.
    Didn't see them even though I was looking at the wii section. Any worth noting? Mario, Zelda, Metroid?

    Also did you see the price of the controller? Because I need one so bad. My controller broke as I was just about to defeat Gannondorf in The Wind Waker


  • #125
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Jazzkamiden wrote: »


    Didn't see them even though I was looking at the wii section. Any worth noting? Mario, Zelda, Metroid?

    Also did you see the price of the controller? Because I need one so bad. My controller broke as I was just about to defeat Gannondorf in The Wind Waker

    The controller is 75 cents. Yes, 75 cents, it's 3rd party. The GCN selection isn't that great, there's a Sonic Mega Collection, some Sonic Heroes, Mario Tennis and Day of Reckoning 2, which is a good series of games, regardless
    of one's fondness of wrestling. I think there's more, but they escape me now. Say, about a selection of 10-15, if that.


  • #126
    Jazzkamiden
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Jazzkamiden


    Jesus Christ, 75c? That's amazing, I'm really sorry I didn't see it in the window yesterday...Doubt it will be there the next time I get to town as it will probably be a while before I do...

    Did you see the price of the games? :)


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  • #127
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,962 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Not especially good. The first party and the retro Sonic comps fetch over a tenner. The rest is pretty manageable, 4-8 euro. On par with a decent PS2 used title.


  • #128
    Jazzkamiden
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭Jazzkamiden


    Ah okay, thanks for the info :D


  • #129
    Andy!!
    Site Banned Posts: 1,678 ✭✭✭Andy!!


    Haha so funny you guys mention that 75c controller... I bought it, just for in case, cause I have a wavebird meself; then went to the cinema and left it behind by accident :D So if any y'all are passing through Cineworld, check out screen 4, middle of fourth aisle maybe? Free GC controller :D


  • #130
    TheTosh
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭TheTosh


    Andy!! wrote: »
    Haha so funny you guys mention that 75c controller... I bought it, just for in case, cause I have a wavebird meself; then went to the cinema and left it behind by accident :D So if any y'all are passing through Cineworld, check out screen 4, middle of fourth aisle maybe? Free GC controller :D

    What a coincidence I was just about to put a GC controller on adverts that I acquired by chance:D


  • #131
    Healium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭Healium


    I'm starting a job with one of their UK branches. Much bigger than the Dublin store, and even that isn't a massively big store compared to some of the other UK ones.

    Fun :)


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  • #132
    md23040
    Registered Users Posts: 505 ✭✭✭md23040


    Jazzkamiden wrote: »
    Some of the stuff is really cheap! Like €1.50 cheap.

    Cheap possibly by Irish standards. But this is a franchise from the UK coming here, and as usual doing the ripping-off Irish thing.

    Was going to buy the Wire Season 1 eventhough the box was dreadful condition for €15.

    But as all Cex stores give free WiFi, checked UK price at £9 or €10.40 - 31% more.

    Wiill buy in the UK as only in Dublin until Friday.


  • #133
    PlayGirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,400 ✭✭✭PlayGirl


    Any contact number?


  • #134
    Healium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,586 ✭✭✭Healium


    None here ie.webuy.com/stores/store_details.php?id=1500 If it's like our store, they don't give out the number and just use it for CeXy management purposes and calling customers when their requested item comes in


  • #135
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Haha, search for cex, telephone and dublin and you get a load of sex websites.


  • #136
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I'm in two minds about this. I'm from liverpool, and I've been within distance of 3 Cex's (two in liverpool, one in birkenhead) for years and years, and they were better, better prices, better staff, blah blah. And the Irish store is a bit rubbish by comparison. On the other hand, at least they have one. I find the staff to be very hit and miss. Some are super helpful, some are like, sullen. Not to make comparisons(again) but maybe just because I was shopping at the ones in Liverpool for so long, they were quite friendly, better stock, etc. I think they should open another store, see how that goes.


  • #137
    Coriolanus
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    Apparently they don't even give a cursory glance at DVDs that they take for trade in. Bought one today, got home and found it to be covered in what I'll presume is food and a load of scratches.

    Not a big deal. I work on Abbey St anyway so can return it easily. Interesting though. Handy to be able to offload a load of scratched/fscked DVDs though. :rolleyes:


  • #138
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I think they've got worse as times gone by. Ive been there a few times this week, half the stocks gone off the shelves, and the staff are... some are good, say, 2 of them. The rest of them are rude and abrasive. I'm just gonna start trading in at HMV again.


  • #139
    Healium
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    Nevore wrote: »
    Apparently they don't even give a cursory glance at DVDs that they take for trade in. Bought one today, got home and found it to be covered in what I'll presume is food and a load of scratches.

    Not a big deal. I work on Abbey St anyway so can return it easily. Interesting though. Handy to be able to offload a load of scratched/fscked DVDs though. :rolleyes:
    I guess it depends from store to store, and person to person, but I'm a hard-ass when I get trade-ins. If it's got a few scratches, we knock £1 off the value to get it cleaned - not sure if it's the same situation in the Dublin store. I'm also baffled at how often I get DVDs with food on them. WHY.
    cloud493 wrote: »
    I think they've got worse as times gone by. Ive been there a few times this week, half the stocks gone off the shelves, and the staff are... some are good, say, 2 of them. The rest of them are rude and abrasive. I'm just gonna start trading in at HMV again.
    In terms of stock, most stores are barren after Christmas, and only building up stock now. Supply and demand. Lots of people beginning to trade in unwanted gifts, though. In terms of staff, don't be afraid to mention it to the manager, dude. He seems like a cool guy. In the store I work in, we've had people both compliment our staff, and say "Everyone here is usually very helpful, but the sales assistant didn't feel very interested/helpful/whatever today". Normally it's just someone having a bad day (sometimes you can get a lot of flak from customers), but at least if the manager is aware of it, it can be dealt with if it needs to be. Obviously I don't represent CeX in any official manner whatsoever, but we do our best to offer great service, so don't be afraid to let the manager know if you had a less-than-satisfactory experience.


  • #140
    aceofwands
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭aceofwands


    cloud493 wrote: »
    I think they've got worse as times gone by. Ive been there a few times this week, half the stocks gone off the shelves, and the staff are... some are good, say, 2 of them. The rest of them are rude and abrasive. I'm just gonna start trading in at HMV again.

    I find two members of staff of CEX in particular to be terrible; one is a bulky guy with a goatee who always seems to be in a pisser of a mood about something. The other is the pink-haired troll who can't even manage a smile, or to acknowledge the customer. What a misery guts. If she doesn't like her job, then she needs to go. She's awful, she really is. She knows nothing about anything except trying desperately to come across as youthful and hip, which she is anything BUT.

    Two staff members stand out as being the best; one is a guy with long hair in a ponytail, and the other is a guy with glasses. At least they care about doing a good job, and aren't pre-occupied with looking like some candy-flossed pensioner. I'm sorry, but she needs to go back to the CEX in Southampton, and put someone else in there who doesn't act like a total cow.


  • #141
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    aceofwands wrote: »
    I find two members of staff of CEX in particular to be terrible; one is a bulky guy with a goatee who always seems to be in a pisser of a mood about something. The other is the pink-haired troll who can't even manage a smile, or to acknowledge the customer. What a misery guts. If she doesn't like her job, then she needs to go. She's awful, she really is. She knows nothing about anything except trying desperately to come across as youthful and hip, which she is anything BUT.

    Two staff members stand out as being the best; one is a guy with long hair in a ponytail, and the other is a guy with glasses. At least they care about doing a good job, and aren't pre-occupied with looking like some candy-flossed pensioner. I'm sorry, but she needs to go back to the CEX in Southampton, and put someone else in there who doesn't act like a total cow.

    I know exactly who you mean? Girl with American accent?


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  • #142
    Coriolanus
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    She was actually chirpy and sh1t to begin with. Maybe you fúcks are the one getting her down? :P


  • #143
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,348 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Nevore wrote: »
    She was actually chirpy and sh1t to begin with. Maybe you fúcks are the one getting her down? :P

    Was just thinking the same thing. First few times I went in she was all happy and smiley, now she just scowls.


  • #144
    aceofwands
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭aceofwands


    I don't think it's got anything to do with the customers as to why she's as horrible as she is (her name is <SNIP> btw). She's just got a ****ty work ethic, and a bad attitude towards customers. For a short period she was okay, but now she's sour enough to turn anyone away. She sold a DVD box set to a friend of mine, who later wanted to trade it. She told him they don't accept Region 1 DVDs, even though their price tag was still on the cover, and when he pointed this out, she got stroppy about it. Unbelievable.


  • #145
    aceofwands
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭aceofwands


    cloud493 wrote: »
    I know exactly who you mean? Girl with American accent?

    Yes and no. She's American, but not a girl.


  • #146
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    aceofwands wrote: »
    I don't think it's got anything to do with the customers as to why she's as horrible as she is (her name is XXXXX btw). She's just got a ****ty work ethic, and a bad attitude towards customers. For a short period she was okay, but now she's sour enough to turn anyone away. She sold a DVD box set to a friend of mine, who later wanted to trade it. She told him they don't accept Region 1 DVDs, even though their price tag was still on the cover, and when he pointed this out, she got stroppy about it. Unbelievable.

    does she really need her name published?


  • #147
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,827 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Please don't go naming staff. Next person that does it is getting banned.
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  • #148
    Ross_Mahon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Ross_Mahon


    I've had a number of problems in the shop, went to buy Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City, he wouldn't sell it to me because by their mistake it had the price tag for the standard Grand Theft Auto IV, i tried my best to convince him that i was entitled to that price, but to no avail.

    I also had a few incidents of staff standing behind the counters chatting away and ignoring customers, customer service is very important, especially in such a competitive area like Dublin city.


  • #149
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,253 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Ross_Mahon wrote: »
    i tried my best to convince him that i was entitled to that price, but to no avail.

    .

    A lot of people get this one wrong.

    If they price something incorrectly you are not automatically entitled to it. A shop does not have to sell anything to you.


  • #150
    Ross_Mahon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Ross_Mahon


    o1s1n wrote: »
    A lot of people get this one wrong.

    If they price something incorrectly you are not automatically entitled to it. A shop does not have to sell anything to you.

    I understand that, i work in retail myself, we usually give it to customers for the incorrect price to keep them happy, was worth chancing my arm in the same circumstances.


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  • #151
    aceofwands
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭aceofwands


    Ross_Mahon wrote: »
    I understand that, i work in retail myself, we usually give it to customers for the incorrect price to keep them happy, was worth chancing my arm in the same circumstances.

    I have to say that in circumstances like this, it's the customer I feel bad for. It's not their fault that the staff members messed up. I worked in retail for more than 10 years and I know I'd rather give the sale to the customer for that price and have them come back again and again, as opposed to losing a sale (and reputation). But it's par for the course for game stores (especially CEX and GAME) to cop an attitude about things that really don't dip into their wages. Some counter staff are horribly rude to the public.


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