Originally Posted by GLOCKGLOCK Well the coupon card is supposed to be given out as an incentive to Pre-Order NCAA (at the time of the pre-order). If they accept scans then anyone can print one out here and go in and get $15 extra trade credit without pre-ordering the game. That said, I have printed out some copies and will try it out today and lunch . Seems like its big time YMMV, but if it doesn't work I'll just take the $10 deal (and push for the extra $20% to reserve NCAA) That actually will make up for part of the $5 difference in some cases.

I know the manager at the Gamestop I went to, so he let me do it.
Make sure they don't read where it says no print outs.

Just got back and my printout worked like a charm. The Assistant Manager even read the entire coupon before scanning it. I couldn't get the 20% bonus for putting a pre-order down on Madden/NCAA though. I'm sure I could have made a stink about it but I was happy with the $15 bonus! Thanks again OP.

Also there is another cardboard gift card going around that gives you $40 trade in credit on NCAA 09 if you preorder/purchase Madden 09. This is for the 360 & PS3 versions. The Wii version gives you $30 credit. I probably won't take advantage of this offer, but if you are the type of gamer that buys NCAA just to hold you over until Madden gets out, $44 ($40+edge) in credit isn't a bad deal. I'll try to get a scan up.

I used this successfully at 3 of 4 GameStops I stopped at yesterday. The only one that shut me down was actually sort of a fluke because the person I went to trade in the games to was a new employee and told me it had to be 2 games from the same system (which I know is not correct). So instead of making a stink I just ran out to the car and grabbed 2 of the same system and when I came in the noob was gone and this guy who is normally pretty cool was ther. He looked at the print out and said he needed the actual card to do the $15. Oh well. It is actualy funny because that specific store is usually the worst run of the local stores. I can't believe they were actualy up on things.

Seems most people are cool about this. One guy almost shot me down, some old dude working! he read the part where it said they have to be in full working condition, one of my games were pretty scratched up so I swaped in out with another copy in the car

Originally Posted by CaoPi Seems most people are cool about this. One guy almost shot me down, some old dude working! he read the part where it said they have to be in full working condition, one of my games were pretty scratched up so I swaped in out with another copy in the car

Yea, I have only had problems at one store. The first time the guy shut me down on using a copy but the second time the manager was standing there while I was trading in and he said "do you have the original card, because we can't send in copies". I told him I didn't have it on me and he took one from the stack of cards they had sitting behind the counter for me to use! This is the deal of the year so far for me.

Not sure why this isn't getting the attention the $10 bonus is. This deal is almost as automatic.

Originally Posted by GLOCKGLOCK Not sure why this isn't getting the attention the $10 bonus is. This deal is almost as automatic.

Yeah, but it isn't nearly as automatic. Sure, I've done it plenty of times. But in recent days I've been shot down because of various reasons. One place said I needed the original, and another said just 1 per day per customer (I was trying to do it twice). I just went ahead and traded the second set without it anyway as it is a pain to drive all the way back there just for 2 games. The guy even said "Are you sure? You could come back tomorrow?". Yeah, like a 30 mile round trip is worth $5 in GS credit .

At my closest GS they did it several days ago but insisted on taking my other (non-qualifying) trades at the same time. Of course this hosed up the coupon and they had to manually adjust it. Then when I went in there a few days later they remembered that and said it didn't work because it wasn't the "real" NCAA coupon. What is hilarious about this is that they are implying the computer knew it was a scan and not the real one and that's why it didn't work. WTF? It didn't work because they scanned other games at the same time. Oh well - no big deal, I've gotten plenty of extra mileage out of this coupon on trades that I'd be making anyway with the $10 promo. I'm just using it less now than I was earlier - will probably only try it on one pair at each store I go to and just do the rest regular... I'll lose out on some credit but it will be less hassle. I did give 3 preorders to stores that were more lenient with taking the coupon - so there's a little something in it for them as well .

$4 value or more...it says on the coupn

Originally Posted by auburntigersfan4life $4 value or more...it says on the coupn

Is this in response to anything in particular or something you just thought needed to be said? I don't think that bit of info changes anything anyone has said in the last several posts.

Even with >$4 games it is YMMV as to the use of this coupon (when it is a printout that is). It's more about getting them to accept it in the first place.

Originally Posted by io Yeah, but it isn't nearly as automatic. Sure, I've done it plenty of times. But in recent days I've been shot down because of various reasons. One place said I needed the original, and another said just 1 per day per customer (I was trying to do it twice). I just went ahead and traded the second set without it anyway as it is a pain to drive all the way back there just for 2 games. The guy even said "Are you sure? You could come back tomorrow?". Yeah, like a 30 mile round trip is worth $5 in GS credit .

LOL, that is funny that they even suggested that. Yea, you are right that it isn't nearly as automatic as the $10 bonus. That promo automatically comes up when you trade in two games that meet the criteria. The $15 has some YMMV to it, and like you said, if you do anything other than trade in the two games for the $15 credit on that transaction, the system doesn't seem to like it.

I guess I have just had great success so far, being that I'm 9/10 when using the $15 coupon. Obviously some luck and skill has been involved. Discussing the games you have pre-ordered at the store helps out. Putting down a pre-order for a upcoming game really helps too. Renewing your edge card would probably be a slam dunk!

I just think more CAGs should try it out, if you print it out and they say they need the actual card you just tell them you don't have it and take the $10 bonus. Or just pre-order a copy of NCAA and get a new $15 card to use. You can always cancel the pre-order next time you are in the store.

EDIT: Just got shut down at lunch when trying to trade in. Used my last actual $15 card to get the deal though. Maybe they are getting wise to this? Oh well, I don't have much left to trade so I'll probably still try the copy a couple more times, but this has served me very well.

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I'm trading in 6 games tomorrow and will give this a shot, I do believe the base value is higher than 4 on all of them so I'll report back when I've done so. This does work when you have more than two games, right?

Originally Posted by dg7md I'm trading in 6 games tomorrow and will give this a shot, I do believe the base value is higher than 4 on all of them so I'll report back when I've done so. This does work when you have more than two games, right?

No. Not unless you do separate transactions for each pair and I doubt you get the manager to do that. So you would have to go other gamestops for each pair.

Originally Posted by Lamplitersniper No. Not unless you do separate transactions for each pair and I doubt you get the manager to do that. So you would have to go other gamestops for each pair.

Thanks for letting me know that. I'd rather just take the loss of the additional credit over driving around and using gas up like that, if they didn't have the bonus 10 going on now though I'd definitely do them in pairs at other stores or times.

so what about using it on the same cashier? any luck?

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