Got Pokemon Black/White 2 pokedex for $9, pretty good deal.

Originally Posted by Vigilante I apparently threw out the receipt for the RE6 guide I bought at $9.99 a month or so ago, so that's $5.50 I won't be getting back.

Did you buy it using your PUR account? If so, they can look it up.

Waiting for 007 Legends to go $20 or less.

I got the hG/Ss one for $5 at a used bookstore, but at $10 for the Pokedex is still a good deal.

Originally Posted by bob330i Did you buy it using your PUR account? If so, they can look it up.

Yeah, I did; I guess I'll look back through GS's weekly ads until I find when they had that guide "on sale" and hope that's enough info to look up the transaction. Thanks.

EDIT: Found it--the weekly ad for 11/28-12/4 had it at $9.99.

Originally Posted by ajh2298 Anybody have an opinion on that $19.99 Skylanders case? It seems like that the case it holds the most guys but is a case really necessary? Cant you get away with a smaller Rubbermaid type tub or something like that.

Yes, don't buy the overpriced cases. My son keeps all of his in a small fishing bag I wasn't using. There are better options out there through. I can't remember off hand what people use though

I'm glad I had forgotten that a local GS had the Dark Souls guide in stock. I just picked it up for $2.49.

I went to see if I can pick up a Kingdom Hearts 3DS guide. Guy said he didn't have any even though he kept referring to the game as something else (kept saying Dreamcast oddly enough). He was totally out of it though. He must of been really tired from the way he was moving around and yawning. I have no time to check other stores so I'm trying Online pick up. I do feel they have the guide.

Well I got lucky. I stopped at the GS I go to the most and they had 3 huge stacks of guides from making a walkway over the Holiday shopping time. I find 4 copies of KoA:Reckoning. One is open a beat up but the other three were sealed and in great condition. I take 2 up front and I ask him to price them. Sure enough they were $0.01 but he says they are not allowed to sell them. He asks the manager what to do and the guy says they are not allowed to sell them (I guess they are to be returned or destroyed?) but he tells the other guy to put both in a trash bag and leave it on the floor for me. He said I am in all the time so he was cool with me taking them.

Also got Borderlands 2 LE for $15.75.

Originally Posted by dragonjud Had the same issue. I know they're trying to deter penny guide pick-ups, but how do they expect to move any of this merchandise if it's not on the floor? He even went through the trouble of telling me: 'Anything that's a penny, we don't have'. Yeah, right...got you. Would anybody who knows anything about this nonsense care to chime in?

He isn't trying to cheat you. Merchandise that doesn't sell is "pennied out" in the system: inventory drops the item's price to a penny, which is a way of telling whether or not a certain product has been discontinued. Gamestop has an agreement with most publishers that dictates they'll get a credit for destroying those items.

You know how books have a message on one of the first couple of pages about it being stolen if it has a torn cover? A book is stripped in order to mark it as unsellable. That's what penny guides are, essentially: everything that's "pennied out" is reported as "unsold and destroyed," so Gamestop has to throw it out to keep up its end of the bargain.

Picked up Borderlands 2 and Hitman:Absolution CE. Awesome!

Grabbed a MP3, ME3 and RE6 guide for about $16.xx. Not bad considering I never have any luck when guides are pennied in my area.

Thanks OP; used a $10 off PUR coupon and got AC3, Borderlands 2, and Soul Calibur 5 guides for about $32 out of pocket. All hardbound CE guides as well (the only kinds I like).

Originally Posted by coopscohen Grabbed a MP3, ME3 and RE6 guide for about $16.xx. Not bad considering I never have any luck when guides are pennied in my area.

Are the guides actually more than 50% off? I thought those three were all $20 MSRP (i.e. $10 each at 50% off)?

Damn, got RE6 SG 31 days ago. $5 back missed. (DOA5 still possible)

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Originally Posted by knight19 Are the guides actually more than 50% off? I thought those three were all $20 MSRP (i.e. $10 each at 50% off)?

GS is selling them right now below MSRP. Before discount:

MP3 $9.99
RE6 $9.99
ME3 $14.99

And you get an extra 10% off the price after the 50% discount if you have a PUR card.

Originally Posted by coopscohen GS is selling them right now below MSRP. Before discount: MP3 $9.99 RE6 $9.99 ME3 $14.99 And you get an extra 10% off the price after the 50% discount if you have a PUR card.

Ok - thanks for the clarification!

Originally Posted by Ceol_CAG He isn't trying to cheat you. Merchandise that doesn't sell is "pennied out" in the system: inventory drops the item's price to a penny, which is a way of telling whether or not a certain product has been discontinued. Gamestop has an agreement with most publishers that dictates they'll get a credit for destroying those items. You know how books have a message on one of the first couple of pages about it being stolen if it has a torn cover? A book is stripped in order to mark it as unsellable. That's what penny guides are, essentially: everything that's "pennied out" is reported as "unsold and destroyed," so Gamestop has to throw it out to keep up its end of the bargain.

Thanks. Been doing penny guides for quite a while now, so didn't need the whole explanation. My point was that it's useless for GS to keep guides in the back. You may detract penny transactions, but you will not sell any at retail price either.

Most stores have them on the floor (as it should be), but a few keep 'all' of them in the back room.

You can also tell me that all GS destroy all penny guides the minute they're pennied, but I also know that's not true. It all depends on the employees, and given how shady they can be (at times), I know there're many back rooms full of them.

Is there a physical ad anywhere? I want to PM this at Walmart.

Got Pokemon Black 2 Guide Volume 1 for $9. The book is huge.

I preordered anarchy reigns for next tuesday but a coworker of mine was telling me about how good wwe 13 is. My question is, do I get anarchy reigns or go for wwe 13? I know very little of anarchy reigns other than a trailer that Ive seen.