Advertisement

Register for free to remove this ad

Originally Posted by neocisco USPS media mail with delivery confirmation. If you do it at the PO it will roughly cost $3.50-3.75, depending on where it's being sent. You definitely want to use a bubble mailer.

Don't forget a piece of cardboard on at least one side. Although I've also put guides into a plastic bag from GS/BB/TRU before and reused one of the larger Amazon cardboard mailers and then put that whole mess into the bubble mailer. Either that or I put cardboard on BOTH sides after putting the guide into a reused bag from a retail chain and then taping the whole thing together.

It may add a bit to the weight, but it's better than just tossing the guide into the mailer without adding any sort of rigidity and water seepage protection to the package.

That was a lesson I learned the hard way when trading someone on CAG a buttload of guides for an old school Xbox and a bunch of extra controllers a while ago.

Originally Posted by neocisco USPS media mail with delivery confirmation. If you do it at the PO it will roughly cost $3.50-3.75, depending on where it's being sent. You definitely want to use a bubble mailer.

Originally Posted by IAmTheCheapestGamer Don't forget a piece of cardboard on at least one side. Although I've also put guides into a plastic bag from GS/BB/TRU before and reused one of the larger Amazon cardboard mailers and then put that whole mess into the bubble mailer. Either that or I put cardboard on BOTH sides after putting the guide into a reused bag from a retail chain and then taping the whole thing together. It may add a bit to the weight, but it's better than just tossing the guide into the mailer without adding any sort of rigidity and water seepage protection to the package. That was a lesson I learned the hard way when trading someone on CAG a buttload of guides for an old school Xbox and a bunch of extra controllers a while ago.

I'll keep both of these in mind, thanks guys.

Found 2 Mario Kart guides at my Gamestop but was denied. That's the second time I've denied now... I hope it doesn't continue. I also saw a stack of what I assume to be pulled guides as there was a Ninja Gaiden 3 on top of a bunch of Mass Effect 3 softcover guides. Maybe the ME3 softcover is also pennied.

Originally Posted by IndelibleSin Found 2 Mario Kart guides at my Gamestop but was denied. That's the second time I've denied now... I hope it doesn't continue. I also saw a stack of what I assume to be pulled guides as there was a Ninja Gaiden 3 on top of a bunch of Mass Effect 3 softcover guides. Maybe the ME3 softcover is also pennied.

NG3 yes. ME3 hardcover yes. ME3 softcover no.

Sorry I haven't updated the OP yet. Going to do that now.

Here are the guides that dropped.

Mario Kart 7
Mario Party 9
Mass Effect 3 CE
Ninja Gaiden 3
Saints Row The Third
UFC 3
WWE 12

Updated.

Today i got

3x saints row
1x ninja gaiden 3
1x ufc 3

No luck with Gamestop, but I did pick up a copy of Halo 3 ODST guide from TRU today for a penny.

Blame Campbell's for giving them money back to throw out the soup.

Been wanting Mass Effect 3 CE for a while. Ordered from goHastings before, but they sent it to CA instead of PA and haven't gotten one back in stock that I've seen.

Picked up a $5 Dark Souls guide today at Gamestop. I saw the new Pokemon guide at Gamestop and Best Buy. The CE looks awesome. I'll use my 50% strategy guide coupon that I got from Best Buy to get it.

I had a vanilla edition of the older version Skyrim guide scanned today at BB. It came up cover price. I thought I read from lox that those were on a pull order a lil while ago?

WoW Cataclysm is "pennied" at Best Buy, but of course, the SKU's been deleted.

I'm shocked I didn't buy those all up when my local BB stores had them in stock still.

i got lucky and bought one a at best buy a few months ago. unfortunately i had already used my 50% off coupon from my gamer's club welcome letter (on a skyrim guide which is now outdated). but i guess i was lucky finding the borderlands GOTY guide anyway...

I wonder if it will be possible to ever get pennied guides from Best Buy ever again.

Originally Posted by Fukurou I wonder if it will be possible to ever get pennied guides from Best Buy ever again.

I can live without them.

Seems kinda pointless, to me, since you can look up videos guides, GameFAQs, and guides for basically anything on a smart phone or tablet.

Originally Posted by HaLLuZiNaTiOnZ I can live without them. Seems kinda pointless, to me, since you can look up videos guides, GameFAQs, and guides for basically anything on a smart phone or tablet.

The only problem with that is many of those guides don't have the full color maps that some of the manufactured ones do. Not to mention if you're actually <gasp> somewhere without internet access.

Then again at that point you would have to do what we gamers back in the stone ages of gaming had to do: try to figure it out ourselves.

I don't really care about using the guides. I just like collecting them.

Originally Posted by Fukurou I don't really care about using the guides. I just like collecting them.

But the thing is, BB/GS/TRU/etc all like collecting something too. It's called money. They get credits from the publishers for the stock they eliminate by destroying. No record of the pulls or destruction or a bunch of sales of these guides for $.01 each and those credits go away.

Yeah, the companies get credit. But from who? Of course, it's from the publishers. The publishers lose money. I don't have a problem with Best Buy, but I'd be more than happy with Gamestop and TRU losing money over the publishers.

Got Darkness 2 for a penny at best buy earlier today. Actually it was just free, they deleted the sku and so she just gave it to me.