CAGer's Best/Worst List of 2007 !!

[phear3d]

2007 is almost done! alot of great deals, and unfortunately alot of bad deals as well. i thought it'd be fun to share or recap what we've bought throughout the year! i know alot of thought could be put on posting your own list.. but i guess thats just part of the fun :D. this is just another bragging rights thread i suppose..

Best Deal(s) of the Year:

Got these during the extra 33% off clearance sale at CC
-Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth $5.xx
-Final Fantasy XI w/ HDD bundle (x4!) $11.82
-FF Chocobo Tales (free, she forgot to ring it up :)

DDR Mario Mix - $21.97 @ Sears

Blockbuster coupon glitch, 5 games for $25!

Best B&M store:

Kmart - without a doubt again! i have bought so many cheap ass games at that store than all the other stores combined this year!

Best Online store:

amazon.com - they really came through very strong this year for me before christmas.. so many great deals, so little money to spend :(

im broke, thanks kmart and amazon!

Best trade-in deal:

Micro Center - their trade 9 random games and get $25 was awesome. i was able to get rid of really crappy, disc only games!

Game Crazy - the extra 40% bump earlier this year was THE BEST trade in deal i've gotten this year so far. they paid me $44 for a used Trauma Center Wii!

Best CAG Trade:

DDS 1 Deluxe & Growlanser Deluxe - both new, sealed!

Worst Deal(s) of the Year:

i forgot about this, but KHOLS.COM's B2G1 free. ZOMG prices makes you want to burn their store to the ground. f'kin $89.99 for Madden 08? no thanks!

Gamestop - they sell the Wii Zapper $5 more than retail. day after christmas sale: $5 off Wii Zapper, bringing it down to $19.99 which is the retail price!

kmart in nyc - my brother tells me that one store sells the Wii Zapper for a whopping $44.99.

ebay - I bought a bunch of promo items from a guy on ebay and didnt realize i paid so much for them until i received the items. Oh well..

Worst B&M store:

Gamestop - 1 store wanted me to preorder 5 games to get a penny guide. shame.

Sears - for their unfriendly employees at their electronic departments.. they either turn/walk away when you wanted something to be price checked, or they are never there for them to open the cases.

Worst Online store:

Kmart.com - as much as i love the deals at their B&M stores, the website has few deals. and when they do and they make a mistake, they dont fix them. Their policy: no exchages, just returns.

GameQuestDirect.com - i have never ordered anything from their site. but their supposed "deals" were only temporary to win back cags.

Worst trade-in deal:

Odama @ Game Crazy for $4.94, paid $12 at Kmart :cry:
Advent Rising - .89 paid $4.99 at CC (its not too bad actually)

Worst CAG Trade:

Grandia III sealed for a few promo items, i initiated the trade :cry:

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Best Deal(s) of the Year:

Best B&M store:

Best Online store:

Best trade-in deal:

Best CAG trade:


Worst Deal(s) of the Year:

Worst B&M store:

Worst Online store:

Worst trade-in deal:

Worst CAG trade:

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[Scorch]

vGame Crazy - the extra 40% bump earlier this year was THE BEST trade in deal i've gotten this year so far. they paid me $44 for a used Trauma Center Wii!
You must've missed the 50% bump

//will edit with my own list

[Segasonic01]

Best Deal(s) of the Year:
35% off at GS
DDR Mario Mix x3 9.97 @ Sears
B2G1 Wii agmes @ TRU

Best B&M store:
Blockbuster for giving great trade-in values for Beowulf, MM, R6 Vegas, etc.

Best Online store:
Amazon.com. Got Yakuza & Locoroco for $30 in January

Best trade-in deal:
Beowulf @ BB/GR for $36 ;)

Best CAG trade:
Splinter Cell: PT, Jet Grind Radio (game only) & REmake for FFVII (GH)


Worst Deal(s) of the Year:
Kohl's B2G1, Compusa's 10% off sale

Worst B&M store:
Gamestop for being asshole douchebags, CompUSA

Worst Online store:
DeepDiscount.com

Worst trade-in deal:
Anything GS offers

Worst CAG trade:
Silent Hill 3 for MML 1 & 2 (disc only). I initiated it as well, then realized those games suck.

[djkunai]

Best Deal(s) of the Year:
Blockbuster coupon- 5 games for $25.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v26/djkunai/IMG_7407.jpg
Total cost: $244 after tax.


Best B&M store:
GameRush, though I know most people will disagree. I figure this is the most subjective category, since shopping experiences are YMMV.


Best Online store:
Amazon.com - They're always reliable.


Best trade-in deal:
Blockbuster's $5 bonus. It just adds up (after several hundred games).


Worst Deal(s) of the Year:
GameStop's Wii raincheck program. It would have been great if they started at least six months earlier.


Worst B&M store:
Circuit City - The Speedy Incident, not honoring their giftcard promises, 1 person on register at any given time... just terrible.


Worst Online store:
GameQuestDirect.com - I know they tried winning us back, but it doesn't seem like they really changed...


Worst trade-in deal:
GameStop's hardware trade in bonus coupons (extra $20 for trading in a Wii? Yeah, that sounds great...)

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

Best Deal(s) of the Year: God Of War II, Spyro A New Beginning, 3 other PS2 games and a bunch of PC games for $34 shipped from shopgoodwill.com

Best B&M store: Circuit City for letting me PM a God Of War II guide for .01 with just a receipt

Best Online store: Actually, I'm going to rescind my KB TOYS statement from before and go with Buy.com, who got me my copy of Fire Pro Wrestling Returns soon after release and apparently ahead of some who even pre-ordered. Sorry bout that.

Best trade-in deal: HAHAHA!!! WHO TRADES GAMES IN?!?!?!?!

Best CAG trade: Shadow Hearts From The New World guide for Silent Hill PS1 guide(Prima)


Worst Deal(s) of the Year: anything from Gamestop....those '10 days of December' Amazon deals.

Worst B&M store: GAMESTOP!!!!

Worst Online store: Gamestop!!

Worst trade-in deal:

Worst CAG trade:

CAG Villian Of The Year: billg, no doubt, call the whaaaaabulance for his Circuit City performance.

[Switchblade232]

[QUOTE=djkunai;3762086]Best Deal(s) of the Year:
Blockbuster coupon- 5 games for $25.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v26/djkunai/IMG_7407.jpg
Total cost: $244 after tax.


wow, you got all those newer games for $5 each.

My list:
Best Deal(s) of the Year: RE4+ Mortal Kombat Armageddon for $30 and Splinter Cell Double Agent for $10.

Best B&M store: Circuit City for the clearance sales

Best Online store: buy.com for the 10 wii games

Best trade-in deal: 30% gamestop

Best CAG trade: n/a


Worst Deal(s) of the Year: kohls b2g1

Worst B&M store: kmart; were very stupid about the 20% off anything coupon

Worst Online store: kohls.com

Worst trade-in deal: trading in a wii for $180 when everywhere else its 250+

Worst CAG trade: n/a

[blueshinra]

Best Deal(s) of the Year: Hmm... probably getting DDR SuperNOVA (used, complete) for $17.90 shipped on eBay. A close second: getting Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (used, complete) for $7.99.

Best B&M store: Nintendo World for throwing in those extra goodies with my Super Mario Galaxy preorder (not just the coin)! Also, a certain GameStop in Western Mass for (still) having a great used game selection. Both stores also have great employees.

Best Online store: Play-Asia, mainly for their wicked-fast shipping. Also, not game-related, but I must give a shoutout to Right Stuf, from whom I got the best deals, period, this year.

Worst B&M store: Most all other GameStops.

[cdeener]

Best Deal(s) of the Year:
5 Free Blu-Ray Movies with Purchase of PS3
Getting a 60 GB PS3 for $350 with discount when they first dropped to $500 @ Meijer

Best B&M store: Meijer since they always have nice deals when you least expect them.

Best Online store: Amazon.com just because of all the great deals.

Best trade-in deal: 50% bump at Gamecrazy.

Best CAG trade: Bought a Wii Console from dmes since he was nice enough to sell it to me cause he got an extra from his Wal-Mart in early February which was suppose to be a Birthday gift for myself that ended up going to my girlfriend.


Worst Deal(s) of the Year: Circuit City's Buy Call of Duty 4 Xbox 360 and get Call of Duty 3 Xbox 360 free because most stores only had a few copies of Call of Duty 3 so that pissed me off also because when I tried to buy it early they wouldn't let me because the ad stated it would be there by 2 p.m. but the stores would sell Call of Duty 4 until 2 p.m.

Worst B&M store: Gamestop because they sell accessories for $5 more than MSRP.

Worst Online store: Gamestop.com for selling used games without cases & manuals.

Worst trade-in deal: Gamestop for giving so little like 3 for 10%, 4 for 20%, and 5 for 30% extra credit.

Worst CAG trade: Can't say I've ever had one.

[Tirade]

Best Deal(s) of the Year:
Buy a PS3 and get 15 Blu-Ray DVD's (10 at time of purchase + 5 more after rebate). - WalMart Secret Sale on Saturday after Black Friday

Buy SMG for $45 and get a collectors coin, wii glove and $25 GC - Toys R Us on SMG release day

Kmart 30% off clearance sale plus $10 off $50 coupon - Kmart back in Oct.

Buy GH2 360 for $45 and get a 2nd copy for $22.50 - Toys R Us 2 weeks before Christmas

Selling a Wii on Ebay for $520

Best B&M store:
Kmart - Despite the lack of customer service at times, I always manage to clean house there.

Best Online store:
Amazon - I almost choose Toys R Us, but Im still waiting to see if I get my pre-ordered copy of SSBB that I got during the B2G1 free sale.

Best trade-in deal:
Taking all the $3 360 games from Kmart and trading them at GS during the $10 bonus for 2 360 games deal (combined with my edge card). Ended up with almost $700 in gift cards for a total out of pocket of about $144

Best CAG trade:
Amazon prime membership for $12 (my CAG trade initiation)



Worst Deal(s) of the Year:
Rock Band SE Bundle purchase from GS. The down strum didnt work after 2 days and the red drum was faulty. GS didnt want to let me exchange it and EA wanted my CC # in order to give me an express replacement which still would have taken a few weeks.

Worst B&M store:
GAMESTOP - Bold text was intentional!

Worst Online store:
GAMESTOP - The apple doesnt fall far from the tree.

Worst trade-in deal:
I try to avoid bad trade-in deals.

Worst CAG trade:
Hopefully I don't get any of these.

[heatdolphins45]

Best Deal(s) of the Year:
Reduced Price Game Guides
$30 Time Crisis 4 with Guncon at Amazon
Helio Heat with $50 Gift Card at FYE
Alot more I can't remember

Best B&M store:
Best Buy(excellent customer service, smart employees, and they sell me guides that drop!)

Best Online store:
Amazon.com- The reason I am broke. Deal After Deal.

Best trade-in deal:
Anything Blockbuster/Gamerush had or has. ($32 Monster Madness, $32 Darkness, etc)

Best CAG trade:
My Ipod Nano 2nd Gen 4GB Silver, $50 FYE Gift Card(see my deals of the year), and $60 for a Nintendo Wii with 4 VC Games, Classic Controller, as well as the basics.(Wii-mote, nunchuck, Wii Sports)

Worst Deal(s) of the Year:
Halo 3 Legendary Edition $129.99:lol:(what do they go for now, like $60?)


Worst B&M store:
Circuit City- Horrible Customer Service, Speedy Incident, Lack of Video Game Stock

Worst Online store:
ebgames.com

Worst trade-in deal:
Anything EB/GS offers.

Worst CAG trade:
None. All my trades have been wonderful!

[Vinny]

Best Deal(s) of the Year:
-TRU:

About 7x copies of Lumines flipped on eBay for $15 profit each
The 3 or 4 Buy 2, get 1 free sales.
Mario Galaxy w/ $25 giftcard and promo coin

-Circuit City:

The numerous clearance games year round
2x copies of Lumines flipped on eBay for $20 profit each


Best B&M store:
-Circuit City for their clearance games and because they're the best B&M store we got

Best Online store:

-Amazon because they let me return two Guitar Hero II bundles (that I got for free from those online offer sites) for $97 credit each.

[B]Best trade-in deal:
-... This is a joke, right?

Best CAG trade:
-Complete and excellent shape Tactics Ogre: Knight of Lodis and Electroplankton for $68. Maybe not a deal but I was happy with it.

Worst Deal(s) of the Year:
-KB Toys' numerous 'clearances'.

Worst B&M store:
-Wal-Mart... this needs to explanation.

Worst Online store:
-GameQuestDirect, because of their talk of changing and how they're different now and want to get into bed with CAG... but it was all lies (as I figured it would be).
-DeepDiscount, they had too many glitches for their own good- great way to draw customers to their site though bet.

Worst trade-in deal:
-All of them.

Worst CAG trade:
-Why would I agree to a bad trade?:-|

[ITDEFX]

Best Deal(s) of the Year:

Best Buy's 360 HD-DVD drive (with HD Kong) with Heroes Season 1 HD Boxset and 2 HD-DVD's of your choice + 5 in the mail for 180+tax!! Ended up getting Planet Earth and Transformers HD as my free in store picks.

Microcenter's 360's premium refurb with 2 years of UNLIMITED EXCHANGES


http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n26/ITDEFX101/microcenter360b.jpg



Microcenter's Trade 9 for an extra $25 bonus credit. Traded a bunch of games I don't play anymore and dozens of crappy sports titles and ended up with enough credit and bonus credit to buy this:


http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n26/ITDEFX101/scan0002.jpg

Yep that's Metroid Prime 3, svideo cables, extra wii-mote, powestation (should have not picked this one as it's bad), and yep... that's a Nintendo Wii...for a grand total of 5 cents!!!


Target's Colico (sega) 20 games in a handheld (basically 20 SMS games) for 10 bucks (normal price 50)!


Best B&M store:

Best Buy...since they have been sending out more coupons this year!

Best Online store:

None for me this year

Best trade-in deal:

GS: Extra 10 dollars when you trade in 2 360 games. Got more trade in value then I actually paid for them because of the extra credit.

Best CAG trade:

Nothing really big.

Worst Deal(s) of the Year:

Anything that was buy 3 get one free at TRU.

Found FF:ROTS for 2.54 for the 360 on clearance at Target. Computer screen indicated that is it not to be sold. Management did not want to sell it to me. However another copy of the game was found with new UPC sticker ontop of it ringing up 19.99. Manager (Collin) said the game was being recalled on all systems (including the gamecube :rofl: )and he couldn't sell any of it. I then said "So your willing to sell me the game for 19.99 but not for 2.54 on clearance?". He then realized he fucked up trying to scam me and gave it to me at 2.54. Checked a week later and found that the "recalled" games were still on the sales floor at 19.99. Left more pissed then happy.


http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n26/ITDEFX101/ROTSSNOSALE.jpg



Worst B&M store:

Circuit City for their well know bait and switch tactics and pissing me off during the CoD4 with free CoD3 promo week by not having CoD3 in stock at all for the promo and not doing shit about it.


Worst Online store:

Bestbuy.com

Worst trade-in deal:

A few games traded in to Microcenter that ended up being resold higher then normal. To this day I still see my old games on the shelf unsold :-(

Worst CAG trade:

Never had a bad trade.

[davo1224]

-Amazon because they let me return two Guitar Hero II bundles (that I got for free from those online offer sites) for $97 credit each.
Isn't that return fraud?

[ITDEFX]

Worst Deal(s) of the Year:[/b] Circuit City's Buy Call of Duty 4 Xbox 360 and get Call of Duty 3 Xbox 360 free because most stores only had a few copies of Call of Duty 3 so that pissed me off also because when I tried to buy it early they wouldn't let me because the ad stated it would be there by 2 p.m. but the stores would sell Call of Duty 4 until 2 p.m.


Some cags reported that complaining to HQ got them not only CoD3, but a few other games for free (like PGR4!) :-O. That whole deal was a sloppy mess. When I talked to a manager about this, she compared the deal to the Wii situation. WTF!?!? Plus when I called HQ, they stated that no supervisor was on duty.. another WTF!??!!?

[Apossum]

Best retail deal:
--BOGO 1600 Point cards

Best personal deals:
--Intelligent Qube - $19
--Intelligent Qube - $3.99
--Ogre Battle 64 like new, complete - $4.99
--13 (?) copies of RE:CVX for the gamecube - all new and sealed - $9 each
--LUMINES. MADNESS.

[dinovelvet]

[B]Best Deal(s) of the Year:

K-Mart 30% off clearance games - many 360 titles for $4.90 each

Best B&M store:

Gamerush/Blockbuster (see Best trade-in deal)

Best Online store:

Amazon, got a Wii for $250, no tax, no shipping!

Best trade-in deal:

Anything at Gamerush, making brand new $60 games around $20 in "real" money

Best CAG trade: n/a

Worst Deal(s) of the Year: That Best Buy sale at the beginning of the year where tons of good games were listed as $1.99, and nobody got anything.

Worst B&M store: Gamestop/EB, for gutted games, unreliable 'in stock' checker, and, jeez, its Gamestop, nuff said.

Worst Online store: Hmm nothing really sticks out.

Worst trade-in deal: About the "worst" deal I got was $15 from Gamerush for 360 Fantastic Four, I only profited $5 on it :)

Worst CAG trade: n/a

[whitedeath]

Best Deal(s) of the Year: unopened dvds for 3 bucks @ local flea market.

Best B&M store: local store called waynes world

Best Online store: amazon

Best trade-in deal: blockbuster

Best CAG trade: i have a few no issues on either end here


Worst Deal(s) of the Year: rockband for ps2 that should be liek 50 new not 150 lol

Worst B&M store: gamestop. enough, said

Worst Online store:gamestop. bought there once and got a game that looked liek some one was playing frisbee on rocks

Worst trade-in deal: gamestop. seriosuly if GS gives under a dollar for old sports titles sell them to me or goozex them

Worst CAG trade: see best trade same respoinse

[rmb]

So, did everyone forget about the Best Buy clearance sale where the games were $2-$10 way back in jan or feb if I remember correct. This was one of the best deals for all cags as bb is everywhere. Whether you were buying to play or to flip this sale rocked.

And I know this 1 goes against most cags opinions but at the end of the year gs was pretty good on the e-mail coupons. I mean I picked up 5 free gamecube games off the buy a cube get a game free deal. And actually made a couple bucks selling the cubes via craigslist to some very uninformed people.

[phear3d]

So, did everyone forget about the Best Buy clearance sale where the games were $2-$10 way back in jan or feb if I remember correct. This was one of the best deals for all cags as bb is everywhere. Whether you were buying to play or to flip this sale rocked.

someone mentioned it ^^^. the problem with this sale was it leaked EVERYWHERE. so cags had very little to grab if not none at all.. some reporting that there were campers before the store was even opened.. and some stated they spoke to employees and they all had first dibs on all of the games being cleared out. it was pure luck to get anything.

And I know this 1 goes against most cags opinions but at the end of the year gs was pretty good on the e-mail coupons. I mean I picked up 5 free gamecube games off the buy a cube get a game free deal. And actually made a couple bucks selling the cubes via craigslist to some very uninformed people.
they also did give some people hell for those coupons. i mean if a company sends out coupons, local stores should get a notice about them and be aware of their use. alot of people got denied because they didnt think the 30% coupon was real. they always make their policy on-the-fly.. its more interesting that way.

[guyinga]

Best Deal(s) of the Year: Best Buy's clearance sale at the beginning of the year (I got Sukioden V for $1.99 among others!), followed by Blockbuster's clearance sale (ex: Capcom Collection Vol. 1 & 2 for 50% off), the various 60% Off/clearance sales at Best Buy (Okami, Excite Truck & Trauma Center for next to nothing prices!), Gamestop's coupon for "Buy 3 at 25% off" (got Crackdown, Sonic & The Secret Rings & Zelda: Twilight Princess Wii for less than $100), the recent Circuit City clearance prices (Project Sylpheed, Metal Slug Anthology Wii, Elebits and other Wii games for $16.96? OK!!)

Best B&M store: Best Buy, hands down. You can walk into any store and find a good deal. HH Gregg is great too for TV's/DVD (got a DTV for less than $200 the other day!)

Best Online store: Amazon.com. Although their "10 Deals of Christmas" was very disappointing

Best trade-in deal: Not sure if this would count, but I did get a Sega Saturn with games (including Guardian Heroes) for $20 during my yard sale adventures

Best CAG trade: I don't trade on here, sorry


Worst Deal(s) of the Year: Gamestop "Game Days" sale (when is a deal not a deal? When you buy crap games), their recent "B2G1F" sale (Jesus, don't these dumb-ass kids have HOMES??? Why are they wanting fuckin' High School Musical? Why is everything nearly gone?), the Blockbuster "5 for $25" deal (especially when you rudely get told the coupon's a fake and one of the associates seem to take great joy in that), Circuit City Black Friday for their LONG-ASS lines & the speedy incident

Worst B&M store: Blockbuster followed by Gamestop and Circuit City on general principle

Worst Online store: KB Toys. Too much for shipping

Worst trade-in deal: Having to haggle with a woman & her clipboard of Gamecube prices to get Metroid Prime 1 & 2 for $17 during my yard sale adventures

Worst CAG trade: I don't trade on here, sorry

[JJSP]

Best Deal(s) of the Year: Monster Madness 360 PM'd at Sears for $3.90...

Best B&M store: Best Buy for DVD sales.

Best Online store: Buy.com or Amazon.com, depending on the purchase.

Best trade-in deal: ...Monster Madness 360 to GameRush for $28.

Best CAG trade: The Wii Secret Santa Project. Good times, great games.

Worst Deal(s) of the Year: Halo 3 Legendary. $129 for a game and plastic helmet?

Worst B&M store: Circuit City. Never any staff, never any stock.

Worst trade-in deal: Haven't had any in 2007. I've made the most of my trades.

Worst CAG trade: Again, haven't had any.

[ITDEFX]

We need a mod to sticky this.

[CheapyD]

We need a mod to sticky this.
Or you can wait a few days until I put up the 4th Annual Cheapy Awards forum and then post this all over again ;)

[Chitown021]

Does the BB coupon (5 for $25) actually count as a deal since it was more of a glitch than an actual deal?

[djkunai]

Or you can wait a few days until I put up the 4th Annual Cheapy Awards forum and then post this all over again ;)
Burned by Cheapy D himself... that's gotta sting.

Does the BB coupon (5 for $25) actually count as a deal since it was more of a glitch than an actual deal?

For the most part, glitches do count as deals for most CAGs (a lot will vouch for that CC PC game thing a year or two back). Also, it was a real coupon, but somehow corporate overlooked something called the internet and let the coupon remain valid nationwide. Not intentional, but not a glitch.

[ralph10]

Does the BB coupon (5 for $25) actually count as a deal since it was more of a glitch than an actual deal?Can someone fill me in on this? I can't believe i missed it! :bomb:

[djkunai]

Can someone fill me in on this? I can't believe i missed it! :bomb:

Took some digging, but here is where it all started:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=129314&page=113&highlight=gamerush

Check page 115 for the pic of my haul.

[Chitown021]

Can someone fill me in on this? I can't believe i missed it! :bomb:

There was a BB coupon leaked onto the internet that allowed a person to buy 5 used games for $25 (kinda like they do for used DVDs all the time). The barcode actually scanned and some lucky CAGs were able to use it to clean up on great deals. There was no limit on systems or titles.

The coupon worked for about half a day until corporate sent an e-mail to all of the stores not to accept it.

[magiic]

Best B&M store: Rogers Video

Best Online store: most online game deals suck in Canada so I didnt really get anything

Best trade-in deal: BBV, trading in games from Rogers for a new XBOX
Best CAG trade: trading a copy of Atelier Iris 3 for Katamari Damacy & We <3 Katamari


Worst Deal(s) of the Year: London Drugs "Clearance" sale, Stranglehold for $79.99 :O

Worst B&M store: EB Games

Worst Online store: GameQuest Direct, their shipping to Canada fails harder than anyone else. Amazon.com is a close second because they don't ship to Canada at all.

Worst trade-in deal: I don't trade stuff in unless I am severely hosing the trading place

Worst CAG trade: none

[phear3d]

Does the BB coupon (5 for $25) actually count as a deal since it was more of a glitch than an actual deal?
the barcode was valid, but the actual coupon is in question. it was a deal to me since i spent $50 on 10 games that i would most likely not purchase for another year until it hits my price point.

[ralph10]

Took some digging, but here is where it all started:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=129314&page=113&highlight=gamerush

Check page 115 for the pic of my haul. :hot: gah i can't believe i missed it!!!! You sir are my new idol. With all this kunaing and now this!!! I give you props man. :applause:

[Riyonuk]

God, where am I when these deals happen? I never even heard of that deal :(

[$hady]

Best Deal of the Year:
Blockbuster coupon glitch 5 games for $25 = Sucks I only got to use it once... Only "deal" this year that sent me out in a frenzy to try to hit a store before they closed. :D

Best B&M store:
Blockbuster/Gamerush stupid trade values/abuses = less than half price DS, Wii, PS3 pile of games and stuff sold this year.

Best Online store:
Nothing really comes to mind.... I didn't buy alot online this year but Best Buy because they saved me from having to wait in line for all the BF dvd set deals....?

Best trade-in deal:
GR/BB trade values as a whole
Deal = GS 30% bonus coupon + 10% Edge bump on trades.


Best CAG Trade:
New Mass Effect and $10 for a sealed Halo 3 Legendary Edition set.
Mass Effect cost me MAYBE $25 at the time using guess what GR credit lol.

Worst Deal(s) of the Year:
Ummm? Wii Zapper at Gamestop, SAVE $5 sale making it MSRP!! I bought one though since I had GS credit. :D

Worst B&M store:
Circuit City, I f'n hate walking into this store. Nothing to do with Speedy it took a big deal to get me in even before that.

Worst Online store:
??? Gamestop from what I hear, I don't shop there since everything is probably gutted.

Worst trade-in deal:
I don't do bad trade-ins :D

Worst CAG trade:
Mailed out a few coupons to some people. Wasted stamps just to help out another CAG... lol ;)

Was a good Cheapass year.

[ITDEFX]

Or you can wait a few days until I put up the 4th Annual Cheapy Awards forum and then post this all over again ;)

Ok, whatever works best... not offended. ;)

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

Best Online store: Amazon.com. Although their "10 Deals of Christmas" was very disappointing

Agree, their idea of 'sales' really sucked imo.



Worst Deal(s) of the Year: Circuit City Black Friday for their LONG-ASS lines

I went to CC around here around 1pm and I had no problem getting in and out, though I had to wait for a manager to override the price on a PC guide to .99.


Worst Online store: KB Toys. Too much for shipping

See, that's weird because I ordered 4 games from their recent clearance sale and I paid only $4 something for shipping and I got my games in 3 days. Were some of your items out of stock at the time you ordered, since I know when I tried ordering Jak II from the clearance sale, it jacked my shipping up to $7-8 something from the $4 something.

Worst trade-in deal: Having to haggle with a woman & her clipboard of Gamecube prices to get Metroid Prime 1 & 2 for $17 during my yard sale adventures

:-# My thoughts on hagglers are too colorful for this board.

[dinovelvet]

So, did everyone forget about the Best Buy clearance sale where the games were $2-$10 way back in jan or feb if I remember correct. This was one of the best deals for all cags as bb is everywhere. Whether you were buying to play or to flip this sale rocked.


Nah I didn't forget it, you'll notice I listed it as Worst Deal of the year - the list of games was tremendous and jaw-dropping in the sheer amount of quality games for $1.99 - $4.99, but I, and many others, hit up several Best Buys and didn't find one single game.

[ITDEFX]

Nah I didn't forget it, you'll notice I listed it as Worst Deal of the year - the list of games was tremendous and jaw-dropping in the sheer amount of quality games for $1.99 - $4.99, but I, and many others, hit up several Best Buys and didn't find one single game.


I remembered that...but that day I had to work... by the time I got there, all the good shit was picked clean.

[mguiddy]

Best Deal(s) of the Year: Tie between CircuitCity.com $5 a piece glitch and -$30 webcam from Amazon.

Best B&M store: KMart with Circuit City a close second. Due to 30% off clearance prices.

Best Online store: CircuitCity.com for the above glitch and GoGamer for the cheap Halo 3/Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Unreal: Anthology.

Best trade-in deal: Bought a disc only Halo 2 at a pawn shop for $4 and traded in at GS for $15. Only trade in I've done... Ever.

Best CAG trade: I sent out Disgaea 2 for Odin Sphere.


Worst Deal(s) of the Year: Everything I bought full price.

Worst B&M store: Target, damn you and your incredibly YMMV clearances.

Worst Online store: ToysRUs.com for not honoring the -$60 glitch but still charging shipping. Gamestop.com for canceling the $0.01 guides but never notifying you that they've been canceled. Amazon.com for initially canceling my order of the -$30 webcam.

Worst trade-in deal: ...

Worst CAG trade: Traded Disgaea 2 and Valkyrie Profile 2 for SMT: Devil Summoner:RKvSA

Also... I can't believe I missed that 5 for $25 deal...