A small tip for those of you that have a pitch in card and have been buying the prepaid credit cards. I usually end up with a card with like $2-3 left on it which is a pain in the ass. What I have been doing recently is contributing that amount back to my pitch-in card to avoid having a bunch of them lying around. Works pretty well.

Originally Posted by cancerman1120 A small tip for those of you that have a pitch in card and have been buying the prepaid credit cards. I usually end up with a card with like $2-3 left on it which is a pain in the ass. What I have been doing recently is contributing that amount back to my pitch-in card to avoid having a bunch of them lying around. Works pretty well.

I have been dumping my gift cards from trade ins and my $10 store pick up codes onto it so I could use it to preorder my games and all have it go back on 1 card if I pm or return.

I just went through all my games and looked up values and put them into a spreadsheet. Any value in me copy/pasting that list here under a spoiler for you guys to see?

Is there an update on the 10/6 end date? Can someone confirm that this date is NOT the actual end date?

I'd like to think that they will continue this through the entire month of October...

Originally Posted by masterd919 Is there an update on the 10/6 end date? Can someone confirm that this date is NOT the actual end date? I'd like to think that they will continue this through the entire month of October...

I saw the scan on a different website of next week's ad. It says 50% :(

Originally Posted by cancerman1120 I saw the scan on a different website of next week's ad. It says 50% :(

OUCH! I hope that isn't the case...That seems like what Gamestop is offering (at best) and BestBuy has had the upper hand here for some time with these trade-in prices....50% just doesn't do it for me considering that it's been 100% for quite some time. That's what I was afraid of...

Well, if that's the case (unless we have absolute confirmation) I'll have to run to BB this week and trade in all I can.

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Originally Posted by cancerman1120 I saw the scan on a different website of next week's ad. It says 50% :(

Did you happen to see any of the deals of said scan?

I take it you can still go Saturday then? Finally found a Best Buy in the DC area that doesn't need a receipt. That rule is ridiculous.

Originally Posted by Rafael122 I take it you can still go Saturday then? Finally found a Best Buy in the DC area that doesn't need a receipt. That rule is ridiculous.

Really. Which one? It seemed like all the DC and NoVa stores (except Baileys Crossroads) require receipts, but the MD locations don't.

Shit. I guess this means I gotta blow through Mass Effect 3 before weeks' end if I wanna make money on the game AND have played through it. I guess that also means I should rip open one of the two copies of ME2 I picked up during the $5 sale and play that first so I have a save file to continue from.

Although I really don't even care about the game or series for that matter. I only bought it cuz it was cheap.

Originally Posted by boogie4114 Did you happen to see any of the deals of said scan?

Only saw one page and it had $20 GC with 3DSXL. Otherwise is was PS3 MSRP, Dishonored and Just dance 4 MSRP, Pokemon Black and White 2 $34.99 each.

Originally Posted by masterd919 OUCH! I hope that isn't the case...That seems like what Gamestop is offering (at best) and BestBuy has had the upper hand here for some time with these trade-in prices....50% just doesn't do it for me considering that it's been 100% for quite some time. That's what I was afraid of... Well, if that's the case (unless we have absolute confirmation) I'll have to run to BB this week and trade in all I can.

Yep. It's definitely down to 50% bonus starting Sunday.

Originally Posted by masterd919 OUCH! I hope that isn't the case...That seems like what Gamestop is offering (at best) and BestBuy has had the upper hand here for some time with these trade-in prices....50% just doesn't do it for me considering that it's been 100% for quite some time. That's what I was afraid of... Well, if that's the case (unless we have absolute confirmation) I'll have to run to BB this week and trade in all I can.

I'm sure when you compare 50% to 100% its not going to be that big of a deal as TIV will raise.

Traded in 8 games today, for some reason the guy gave me credit for trading in Red Faction: Armageddon twice. Noticed this when I saw the receipt but didn't feel like mentioning it because it took 25 minutes and 2 computer systems to finally get the trades to go through, and even though I mentioned it and the guy said yes, I didn't get my extra 10% GCU.

Later I realized it now looks like I traded in 2 copies of RF:A for 360. Forgive my ignorance if this is a stupid question, but could this be enough to possibly get banned from trading? I'm a very casual trader and have just been cashing in on some of my older games, so I really don't know much about BB trade-ins, but I don't wanna get banned. I don't think I will but maybe someone with more knowledge can help out. Thanks.

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No banning if all you did was only 2x of 1 game. Even if you did more than 1 game, I doubt they will ban you for that

Originally Posted by BLAZETIGER Not too sure if that will help. I went to trade in a game yesterday and found out I was banned again. Note that I was banned before but then reinstated. After upgrading their systems I'm banned again? This time I adhered to all the rules so not sure what's up. So back to my story. After finding out I was banned I took my wife to a different Best Buy closer to home and had my wife do the trade in. System said she was banned too! The weird thing is that she's only done one other trade in for a handful of games and this was months ago! Either the new system tracks addresses too cuz that's the only way we were linked. She didn't use her Reward Zone or anything.

That weird. My wife ID wasn't ban after eher 2nd trade of 2x of 3 games couple of days ago. Her 1st trade was 2x of 10-13 games 3-4 months ago. Both time I used my GCU for the 10%. 2nd trade input a diff addr then mine whereas 1st trade same addr. So maybe address tie into banning. Did ur wife 1st trade involved more than 3 or more of the same game?

The ban hammer reviewers/arbiters must hate it when the 100% bonus rolls around

Originally Posted by tylerh1701 Traded in 8 games today, for some reason the guy gave me credit for trading in Red Faction: Armageddon twice. Noticed this when I saw the receipt but didn't feel like mentioning it because it took 25 minutes and 2 computer systems to finally get the trades to go through, and even though I mentioned it and the guy said yes, I didn't get my extra 10% GCU. Later I realized it now looks like I traded in 2 copies of RF:A for 360. Forgive my ignorance if this is a stupid question, but could this be enough to possibly get banned from trading? I'm a very casual trader and have just been cashing in on some of my older games, so I really don't know much about BB trade-ins, but I don't wanna get banned. I don't think I will but maybe someone with more knowledge can help out. Thanks.

That would be ironic.

Originally Posted by tepro That weird. My wife ID wasn't ban after eher 2nd trade of 2x of 3 games couple of days ago. Her 1st trade was 2x of 10-13 games 3-4 months ago. Both time I used my GCU for the 10%. 2nd trade input a diff addr then mine whereas 1st trade same addr. So maybe address tie into banning. Did ur wife 1st trade involved more than 3 or more of the same game?

No. The first trade didn't have more than 3 games. If I remember right they were all random games as as I didnt want to draw attention to her account.

As for the second address attempt we didn't get a chance to try as the employee didn't want to even attempt it.

ok i gotta ask i see they are giving $40 trade in on borderlands 2 would that screw up the 100%. i might have to bring some games in and see if i get lucky.

Originally Posted by Lonegunman718 ok i gotta ask i see they are giving $40 trade in on borderlands 2 would that screw up the 100%. i might have to bring some games in and see if i get lucky.

$40 is with the 100%, normal trade value is $20.