B&M Deal/Sale of the Year

[CheapyD]

Polls are open!

Nominees:

Circuit City $5 Blow Out (July 2004) (http://cheapassgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21337)
Circuit City $5 Screw Up (December 2004) (http://cheapassgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41805)
EBgames 75% Off Used PC Game Clearance (http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39282&highlight=)
Toys R Us Green Tag/$10 Off Coupon Sale

[CaseyRyback]

75 percent off PC games at EB.

For like 30 bucks I got close to 20 games.

[BigDirty]

$5 Sale at Sears. (Ace Combat 5, Armed & Dangerous, Unreal Champ.)

[SneakyPenguin]

75 percent off PC games at EB.

For like 30 bucks I got close to 20 games.

I'll put a ditto on this.

Also, the TRU 50% deal was incredibly generous to me, and many others. not the best prices, but still great deals.

[Ledhed]

$5 CC sale. Hands down IMO.

[Trakan]

I was able to get the most out of the TRU 50% off sale.

[evilmax17]

$5 CC sale. Hands down IMO.

*sigh* I would agree, even though i missed it :cry:

[punqsux]

the free games coupon at tru around december ^^

[Derwood43]

Gamerush's trade 3 get an extra $5 per game was a really sweet deal for me.

[slidecage]

loved the 10 bucks off 2 games at TRU got around 80 games free

[Strider Turbulence]

The $10 off any two games $19.99 or less coupon!


Oh, and would I get a virtual kick in the nuts for mentioning the $5 Best Buy sale?

[ananag112]

I nominate BestBuy $5 games and the always trusty GGC.

[ukhoops]

The $5 CC sale in June.
Cleaned up at that one, not so much at the others

[jrutz]

$5 Circuit City Blow Out (June 2004)

That was the shizznit.

Jeremy

[dracula]

i have go with the gamerush trade in 2, get ANY used game for $10, also the trade 3 get ANY used for $10 was good as well. Got halo 2 for $10, kotor 2 for $10, ninja gaiden for $10, star wars battlefront for $10, burnout 3 for $10, time crisis 3 for $10, vampire night for $10, skies arcadia for $10, and many, many more.

The circuit city $5 sale was nice as well. With games like marvel v capcom 2, disgaea rez and gitaroo man all going for $10, you cant argue wtih that.

But imo it is no contest, the gamerush sale applied to the hot new releases that are damn near impossible to get for cheap any other way.

The ebgames sale on the PC games was only applicable for games marked $15 and under, so while it was good, none of the top games were available like at the gamerush sale or the cc $5 sale.

And what about the mtv store summer sale? it had stackable coupons that let me get growlanser deluxe for $60 shipped. some VERY nice deals on that sale.

IMO the top sales were these:

1) gamerush
2) tru clearances
3) cc $5 clearance
4) mtv store sale.

cant go wrong on any of those

[cdeener]

My choice would have to be the Gamerush trade 3 for $10 deal becuase this was the first Cheap Ass Deal I got to be apart of.

[Archaic]

Game Rush, trade 2 get a used for $10, especially since the value of the 2 was subtracted from the $10...

It made for many "free" games, especially since they took PS1 games for the trade.

[Xtreme331]

75% off EBgames clearance. no contest

[cleaver]

I vote the July on purpose $5 CC sale.

[sying]

CC love right here

[Han Solo]

CC Sale June 2004.

[dennis_t]

$5 CC sale. Hands down IMO.

Agreed.

[vrs1650]

CC! Represent.

[DOMINATOR912]

I say the $5 CC screw-up. I got a better haul that time.

[FriskyTanuki]

$5 CC sale. Hands down IMO.

I agree for obvious reasons. Also Cheapy, it was in July, not June, unless you're refering to something else.

[dwsscs]

Anyone mention the Sears screw up of Ace Combat 5 for $5. Its like $45 off a hot new game.

[Zenithian Legend]

The $5 CC sale was pretty crazy, and of course happened while Cheapy was off honeymooning ;)

I'd say that over the $5 screw up since I don't think as many people got in on that deal.

I'd also say pricematching the BB $5 deal at CC was pretty good to me, but that was YMMV so ya can't really count it.

[swinte]

This has already been posted ad nauseum, but it's worth posting again: the TRU free game sale in December is the single greatest B&M sale CAG has ever seen. I picked up a giant stack of games for zero dollars and was able to hook up my friends and myself with a bunch of generally good free stuff. Cheap is good, but free is best!

[supermariomelee]

The $5 CC games get my vote

[secretvampire]

$5 CC Blow Out, on purpose sale. No question. Maybe the TRU green tag sale as a runner-up.

[Ugamer_X]

I nominate the Target rainchecks...I got so many brand new games for over half off with those.

Don't forget the Ace Combat 5 for $5 at Sears.

[Zenithian Legend]

oh and not sure where it fits in but the DDD 20% off sale was orgasmic

[PhrostByte]

I didn't get in the first or second $5 CC sale so I say TRU free games sale. That was just sweet.

[Reality's Fringe]

TRU for me, easily. From several copies of REZ, to my ARC the Lad collection, Front Mission 3, Bust a Move 3000 and others, to the $10 coupon, to 25% more off already discounted games, to games that were just pretty cheap for some reason (Manhuint, ICO, XIII, Gladius). It gave me the bet deals of the year. Easily.

[HOTSHIET]

Toys R Us 50% off sale but only coupled with the $5 off two $19.99 games and under coupon. The amount of free or relatively cheap games I got from this deal was amazing.

[aarif1]

i'll second, or third, or whatever Gamerush's trade 2 get any used for $10.

[Backlash]

Definitely TRU 70% off coupled with the $10 off two under $20. That led to SO many free games! Why pay $5 when they can be free? :)

[BABETOOTH]

CC Sale June 2004.

A B S O L U T E L Y :!: :!: :!:

[notoriousxbox]

$5 dollar CC sale June 04

[Rig]

I vote for the overstock $2 game "sale." I cleaned up on that one. But since that isn't a choice...

$5 Circuit City Blow Out (June 2004)

I didn't really end up with much, as my CC put out crap titles mostly...

[Jaxcomet]

The 50% off sale at Toys R Us was a joke in my area. Most of the games had jacked up prices to offset the sale....

[M3wThr33]

It's not really 50% anymore. It would be better off labeled as "Green Tag" because some went to 70% and then it got crazy!
My first inclination is to vote for the Circuit City glitch, but then I have to consider how much stuff I've bought at TRU in the last 3 months.

My vote: Circuit City Glitch. I got many more quality games.

[Pancake Rabbit]

$5 Circuit City Blow Out (June 2004)

if that doesnt win...i dont know what ill do

[MM3_XBOX]

Trade 3, get one for 10 at Blockbuster/Gamerush. I missed out on all the other deals :(

[flybrione]

$5 Circuit City Blow Out (June 2004)

Got the most stuff during that sale for me and my buddies.
I still have games from the sale sealed :D

[thatstoobad]

although i think my favorite sale of the year was the $5 circuit city clearance over the summer, i think we should include the "trade three games get any preowned game for $9.99" from gamerush in the nominations. i was able to pick some great games with that deal. another contender could be the "$10 off any two games 19.99 or less" coupon from TRU, especially when it was combined with the green tag and clearance sales.

[Dok Diamond]

$5 CC deal

[ScottysMom]

$5 Circuit City blowout. That was probably the best sale ever, and I missed out on it. :( :( :(

Scotty's Mom

[spoo]

What about the $10 Beyond Good & Evil @ CC.

[maxflight]

$5 CC summer sale, it was crazy

[TimTucker]

It's really hard for me to pick between these two:

- Toys R US Clearance + $10 off 2 games $19.99 or less coupon
- Blockbuster Gamerush "Trade 3, get 1 Used Game for $10"

Both were great deals on their own, but together they were incredible! (Especially with things like Mojo! for XBOX free at TRU and trading in at $8 at BB)

I would say that the two deals combined (or 3 if you include the coupon as a separate deal from the clearance) were the best deal of the year.

[x0thedeadzone0x]

5$ CC deal, no contest imo...

[DaleNixon]

50% off sale at Toys R Us and the 70% off one! TRU owns my spine!

[DenisDFat]

The Circuit City summer sale

[guessed]

The Circuit City summer sale

Really? Are you sure it didn't suck?

I know, I know, don't tease the bears. \:D/

[scdoanintendo]

$5 CC sale. Hands down IMO.

Same here.

[sj41]

Several GameRush deals were better than many of the things listed, but sadly they weren't avaliable everywhere, which will probally make this not a contender. :(

The trade 2 games get any used game for $10 was by far, the greatest deal this year for those that could get it. Amazing deal, since you could trade in any games from this generation plus PS1 games and you still got the fantastic credit for the games, too. Everybody loves GameRush! :D

[Vinny]

I think TRU deserves a nod for their $10 off any two games under $20 coupon. Combined with green tag items or the two $20 games for $30, many people got some great deals.

Also, BB's RE4 as a PC title was great. :P

[cougartai]

I'd have to say the $5 CC blowout sale in June.

The $5 screw up came in at a very close second, but it didn't have me in as much of a frenzy as the June sale.

[Xevious]

my vote goes for the Circuit City $5 sale which occured in the summer.

[onikage]

The TRU 50% off was best for me, and I actually got most of the games I bought there for 70% off.

[dragonfireflys]

What about the 70% deal at TRU

And
the bestbuy 5 dollar blowout.

[Ebraum]

I vote the July on purpose $5 CC sale.

That's right, it was the 4th of July. Best sale ever. Was able to get RE2 for the cube for a 5 spot.

[MorbidAngel4Life]

Gamerush's trade 3 get an extra $5 per game was a really sweet deal for me.

Agreed.

[lordopus99]

Best deal IMO was the trade 3 get one PO for 10 deal at Gamerush. I made off like a bandit there by only using 10 of my own games and plenty of PS1 games I bought at my EB.

[SevereTireDamage]

Tough call between this and TRU, but:

$5 Circuit City Blow Out (June 2004)

Disgaea for $5. 'Nuff said.

[Drakken]

I'd say the $5 Circuit City sale in June.

[Squirms]

$5 CC Sale in June by far, I was able to get 26 games off that sale. Good times

[cousinlump]

Gotta be the Gamerush deal. I did so much playing and trading with them over the summer, I still have $20 credit left on my gift card. It is not often you find a deal where you can make money and get the latest games and it is completely legit.

[MadFlava]

Toys R Us 70% Green Tag games, Buy 2 $19.99 for $30, plus the stackable magic coupon that took $10 any two games under $19.99 got me $250 worth of games for $35. Some of the highlignts I got in that deal where Castlevania LOI, Metal Gear Solid Substance, La Pucelle Tactics, Midway Arcade Treasure 2. Plus a slew of free games like Primal, Resident Evil Code Veronica, P.N.03, Blood Rayne, a bunch of sports games, a bunch of PS1 games. This was the best deal of the year even though it came at the end of 2004. A close second will have to be the $5 CC sale because it was B&M and Online. And third would be the Tower Records Clearance.

[MorPhiend]

TRU Green Tag (50% off) combined with "$10 off two games $19.99 or less" coupon.

That was insanity.

EDIT: (I wasn't near a TRU after Christmas to take advantage of the 70% off... :cry: )
Oh well.

[-Never4ever-]

I nominate the Jan 04 CC sale. Because I got the nmost out that one, and it was during that sale that I found CAg and was forever changed :)

[defiance_17]

I nominate the Jan 04 CC sale. Because I got the nmost out that one, and it was during that sale that I found CAg and was forever changed :)

I agree. I've never been more excited in my life than to find out that, indeed, Circuit City was selling a shit-ton of games for $4.99. And better still, I was the first on at my store to cash in on it. I'll never forget the attention I got when I walked out with 21 brand new games for a touch over $100.
It's a tough call, though, considering I've spend close to $700 at TRU since the start of this Green Tag madness...

[Gycot]

$5 Circuit City Blow Out (June 2004)
I am still only about 3/4 of the way through all the gems i picked up at this sale

[FriskyTanuki]

I vote the July on purpose $5 CC sale.

That's right, it was the 4th of July. Best sale ever. Was able to get RE2 for the cube for a 5 spot.

3rd of July, I would know.

[shrike4242]

I have to go with the first thing that brought me to CAG, the July CC $5 dale.

Need to stick to the first love here.

The rest are very close second, third, etc.

[craven_fiend]

the $5 CC sale is hands down the greatest sale of last year. all i have to say is RE2, RE3, and Disgaea(sp), among others, for ridiculously cheap. thats tops everything in my book.


a close 2nd is the 10 off 2 games 20 or less at tru.

[Medium_Pimpin]

I got the most at the Best Buy $5 clearance and the $5 CC screwup. The PC sale was the best deal though IMO.

[Buzz Beer]

$5 CC sale. Bought about 35 games.... if not more.

[gwaki]

circuit city $5 screw up

[johnnyoski]

Nominations are closed guys...just vote and move on.

[MM3_XBOX]

Best deal IMO was the trade 3 get one PO for 10 deal at Gamerush. I made off like a bandit there by only using 10 of my own games and plenty of PS1 games I bought at my EB.

I agree with ya there. Many a 1996 ps1 sports games were traded in :P

But out of the list, i'd go with the CC $5 Blowout.

[Lord Draconus777]

People who don't vote for the CC screw up are people who didn't get good games at it.

[pimp tyranny]

CC $5 blowout was the god damn shit

[master_xtreme]

I'm going to go with CC $5 blowout, though I really wish there had been another EA Games stackable coupon deal this year. I really cleaned up on the last one.

[Zenithian Legend]

and the CC sale has won it would seem

[IndyDad]

I'm sure the CC deal must have been great, but having missed that I'm not sure I'll ever be able to top getting a holiday edition xbox, slimline PS2, gameboy sp, about 50 PO games and still have a couple hundred credit at GR thanks to the TRU coupon and trade 3 deal.

Yes, I know I have a problem.

[joshofstl]

The CC sale was cool, only it was awfully hard to get in on it, everything sold so fast.

[esmifh]

Circuit city 5 buck sales :!:

[FaintDeftone]

CC's deal was too good to be true, and it was true. There for it gets my vote.

[coltarmadillo]

I would go with the $5.00 Circuit City deal (the one in July). I bought a dozen games and used about half of them for birthday and Christmas presents. I shared the love and saved some cash.

[EvildeadRob]

CC's $5 blowout! I picked up 5 choice titles.

[acrimonious1]

TRU Green Tag, because I still have the games and accessories. CC screw-up real close second, as there weren't many good games left. Almost all of those went towards trade-ins ad Game Rush which I used for a DS.

[ryanflucas]

EBgames 75% Off Used PC Game Clearance

[LoganDX]

CC's $5 blow out...

[SqueeMK2]

75% off, I'd say.

[Espionag3]

EBgames 75% Off Used PC Game Clearance

[GuilewasNK]

The EBgames 75% Off Used PC Game Clearance was amazing (especially considering it worked with the Edge card too.) I got several titltes under $1 in great condition.

[Kaijufan]

People who don't vote for the CC screw up are people who didn't get good games at it.
Or people like me who don't live within 100 miles of a CC.

[Si1veR]

Circuit City $5 Screw Up

Voted for this because I got in on this "deal."

[Mr.Answer]

cc blow out

[DeviantBoi]

Toys R Us Green Tag/$10 Off Coupon Sale

[jcain87]

the tru greentag deal

[WebScud]

Considering I work at Toys R Us I was able to clean up quite nicely. $0.40 games anyone?

[Nirvanaguy777]

CC sale, by far.

[Nephets]

Circuit City Blow Out, definitely, loved all the games I got. Second would be the EB Games 75 (85 with Edge card) percent off PC games, got a great haul for less than 10 dollars, including Syberia! :D

[GSJaia]

The TRU sale was fricken awesome even without the 10 buck coupons.

[me2evil13]

Toys R Us Green Tag/$10 Off Coupon Sale

[gavv]

hands down, 75% off PC games 14.99 or lower at EB. Managed to pick up maybe 2 dozen games i wouldn't have otherwise bought, and enjoyed (MOHAA,TW2004,JediOutcast,C&CGenerals,GrimFandango , etc among many others)

gavv

[Darkflight]

The EB sale for me since with the Edge card, it was just insanely cheap. The CC sales while great, I was out of luck getting all the really 'hot' titles and mainly got second tier... :(

[MaxBiaggi3]

The TRU clearance sale and $10 off coupon was great, but its slim number of clearance games simply couldn't compete with the volume and variety of $5 games at Circuit City, especially if you got in on it early enough to truly take advantage of it.

[Falcnuts]

I never entered Circuit City until this awesome deal hit.

[opportunity777]

$5 screw up was pretty good :)

[psychobrawler]

Circuit City $5 Blow Out (July 2004)

[dj_stretch]

$5 CC Sale, even though I missed it.

[Scatterbrain]

The CC sale in July had me scrambling all over Austin for games. I came back with a stack of 'em.

[erika1209]

$5 CC sale. Hands down IMO

[The Shiznit]

$5 CC Blowout.

[darkJester]

CC's $5 Blowout was awesome! Too bad my local CC was totally cleaned out.

[M3wThr33]

A lot of CC $5 sale. I wonder if the anonymous votes will put the screwup in the lead, as some are ashamed of it.
Personally I got 10 games from it.

[Taros Icestrike]

EBgames because its my favorite store ...

[accameron]

ebgames- I bought like 15 kick ass games, including return to wolfenstein, soldier of fortune 2, jedi knight 2, max payne 2, etc for like $25. Sure $5 console games is great, but this $25 expenditure will last me months.

[Revenantae]

Circuit City $5 Blow Out (July 2004)

[sameer]

july 2004 CC

[oldmanstauf]

Circuit City $5 Screw Up (December 2004)

[Shin Asura]

Circuit City $5 Blow Out (July 2004)

[Tricky]

I vote for the TRU green tag sale. I went the other day to see what they had left. I bought three Sega Sports games for $0.90. They were shrink wrapped together and the casheir took 70% off the green tag. I also bought several games when the sale first started.

[BlueStorm781]

The Circuit City thing pissed me off. They screwed up the date of the markdowns, and that was a time where I couldn't leave the house because I was watching after my brother and sister while my mom was in Vegas, so I totally missed out the first time around. When the other clearance came around, I did find a few $5 refugees, and picked up some $10 games. The Best Buy one came by suprise, and I was actually in the store that day not knowing there was a clearance going on. To my luck, though, I did pick up two $5 games. Of course, it seemed like there were hardly any of the markdown games at both Best Buy and Circuit City stores near me anyway, as the selection really doesn't compare to how some members here say what those stores have in stock.

[gaelan]

CC screw up for sure even though my CC caught it before the raping began.

[PsovazHunter]

EBgames 75% Off Used PC Games Clearance

[peteyrose]

I didn't get in on any of these, but I'll vote the $5 CC games for its notoriety.

[videokidandrew]

Any time a store screws up in my favor they got my vote

[TyGeR]

The CC Screw Up! I got 14 games for $70. Most of those games were in the $20 range. Good stuff.

[Darth Dorn]

The Circuit City $5 blowout sale.

[crewser]

CC Blowout sale I got a ton of games from this

[megashock5]

CC $5 sale

[narutofan]

75 percent off PC games at EB.

[schu]

EBgames 75% Off Used PC Game Clearance

[Zennousha]

Voted TRU/Coupon.
I only got a few games from the July CC deal though all but Ephemeral Phantasia and Disgaea I have the ones I want now from the sale though I had tons of fun driving around with my friend looking for CCs and whatnot but I had even more fun doing the same with the TRU+Coupon deal. The TRU deal also allowed me to get into the Gamerush deals with the just amazing amount of games there was until they stopped taking Clubworld at the closest GRs. ;) Thanks to the TRU deal I had enough to get credit at GR and pick up most of the older PSX games I wanted as well as most PS2 games I wanted(which included the games from the CC deal I missed aside from the two mentioned), more than doubling my collection. Plus it was so amazingly fun traversing NE Ohio on the 31st cleaning up any left overs before the coupon died. So yeah, go TRU.

[KodeKid]

lol my vote goes to that 75% EB sale

[Royle]

Circuit City $5 Blow Out (July 2004)

[62t]

Toys R Us Green Tag/$10 Off Coupon Sale. I Got about 40 free games and trade off many for store credit at EB.