September 2023 by Stephen Slater
Bought phone and asked for discount if I purchased a ps4 aswel, couldn't even reduce a 5ver,staff were still ok though,, visit longsight one now??
October 2022 by James McQuade
Visited the store yesterday, 1st time I've ever been in, and I was very impressed, bought a switch console with some games, the service from Angie and Lynne was exceptional, they went above and beyond to ensure i got what was needed. Highly recommend this shop
August 2022 by Chels Calladine
Nice friendly staff
December 2021 by Sonya Brown
Just been into store ..very clean great prices ..staff are do helpful
December 2021 by Mohammed Farhan Vasi
Piccadilly Staff here are absolutely amazing. Good attitude and very good to help customer needs.
December 2021 by istvan Ladanyi
Absolutely brilliant indeed ? ? ?
April 2021 by Ron
Avoid this store, poor service and then they try and offer you pennies for the items you bring in. I understand they have to make money but being fair wouldn't harm anyone.
April 2021 by Ali Sultan
Friendly staff has some good stuff little overpriced bur yeah good!
April 2019 by Aaron S.
Cash Generator is a big chain of used goods buying and selling retailers in the UK, this branch is the chain's only store in Manchester city centre (as I recall), located in the Northern Quarter, just a stone's throw away from Piccadilly Gardens and the Morrisons. I really don't like this store however which is a shame, I'd even class it down a level from CeX from the entire experience, the latter who have a branch nearby in Manchester Arndale and are the only similar store I'm aware of so throughout this review, I feel the need for comparison is in order. The prices Cash Generator give for items I'd say are nowhere near acceptable or even competitive, while CeX tends to buy items, Cash Generators seems to be more like a branded payday loan company, and they often offer a buyback of your goods. Most recently, I went into the store to trade in my old airpods and I was offered £50, this is compared to CeX who offer between 84-100 pounds, and around £100 can also be fair for resell value on online retailers such as eBay, so offering such a low price I found to be insulting by the less than friendly staff. The store its-self doesn't seem to be really inviting or well maintained and in its' own sense is quite poor, the only good thing about it is the location and in this case location alone doesn't save this poor store which does everything wrong: higher than average pricing, insulting (poor and low) offers for buying used goods in a store which feels old, dirty and just far from the place to be. 1*
November 2017 by Abdul S.
I ordered a camera for my holidays was due Sat 18th ,bought online on 7th Nov,today 20th November no item,I made series of calls to cash generators,no one knows what was going on,now I am told item had never left a depot ,I went to UK mail depot as no human answer s phone and they told me item is going back to the sender as ,(a)item Damaged,(b)wrong address ,so while in Spain I contacted Cash generator for a refund,they told me until they get the item back,what a joke,item never came to me now I can't get my refund ,they confirmed with UK Mail that item is on its way to them and was never delivered still can't issue my refund.Avoid in any case.
September 2013 by Qype User (oxygen?)
Bought a landline phone with base station, but it came without any power or phone cables whatsoever. Well packed and posted though, just could have been more honest about what they were selling.
August 2012 by David C.
ordered a phone which got lost in the post and store said as reimbursement and a good gesture they would reimburse the money and i could keep the phone when it arrives later found out from couriers item was lost phone Cash generators got a load of abuse on phone by someone the manages that i was trouble making and they never said about a good will gesture and that i was shouting got a sever breathing problem which makes shouting near impossible) .numerous emails and call back promises gone unanswered. i would never recommend shopping at the Manchester store .
February 2010 by Qype User (sarahf?)
The Shop is located on Oldham Street, in Manchester City Centre, a minutes walk from piccadilly gardens. The shop is small and quite dark when you go inside and there is not much room inside as the middle of the shop is taken up displaying over priced sencond hand TV's and Electrical goods. They sell a selction of PC and consol games and DVD's all second hand and quite over priced with all the offers around at the mo. Worth a look though as you can pick up some unusal and hard to get things.
February 2010 by Rebecca D.
I cannot explain the boyf's love of Cash Generator. I just can't. Every damn time we happen to be anywhere near the Northern Quarter, he drags me to "Cash Converters" (he love sit, but gets its name wrong every time), then spends a good twenty minutes looking at everything on offer (apart from the tellies, which I would have thought would be of most interest) before leaving without getting anything. I think he's looking for CDJs, to be honest, but given they retail at about £3k, I really doubt he'll find any here. What he did find, one day, though, was a VCR for his 'rents, for £6. Let me explain the boyf's 'rents to you. They are lovely people who dote on their only son, and spend a ridiculous amount of money on him. However, they never seem to want to spend anything on themselves. Hence they are still using a telly that is older than the boyf himself, and may indeed pre-date the discovery of television itself. Said relic only works when run through a VCR, or something. The boyf explained the particulars; I wondered if there was any nutritional gain in fur after finding a cat hair in my mouth. Anyway, to cut a long story short, their ancient telly broke, and the boyf 'fixed' it by buying them some other ancient relic from Cash Generator. Where was I? I've gotten confused. Hmmm. OK, we'll do a nice little summary here for all those who might have gotten bored when I started talking about old tellies. In short, CG sells pretty much everything you probably don't need, and does a decent line in tellies too. Don't expect to fiond professional-grade DJ equipment here, but don't be put off; there are always bits and bobs that might come in handy for the aspiring bedroom DJ. Oh, and once, I saw a Hannah Montana karaeoke machine here. It was only £12. Where else can you pick up a VCR, a broken turntable and a piece of pink, Disney branded, jailbait merch whilst also offloading your old DVD player and turning your GOLD into CASH, as they say?
September 2009 by Qype User (imumb?)
Like all Cash Generator stores, the Oldham outlet is no different it provides instant cash, through cheque cashing services, and loans, buy, sell or loan. It is very popular for selling electrical appliances like Disco equipment, digital cameras, Plasma and LCD TVs which can be paid off in weekly installments whilst the item is kept in their basement. They also buy items but this is the last place you would want to sell your item because they will rip you off you best using other mediums like ebay or gumtree.
