Originally Posted by MillerTime2523 I was posting to anyone in general, just quoted you because we're pretty much in the same position. I compared the TIVs of my games from Gamestop to Amazon. Even after the 50% trade in bonus at GS, the totals were $61 to $71 in favor of amazon. That's insane. $30 base value for my games at GS? Yeah right. Looks like I'll be going to Amazon from now on, promotion or not.

I recently did the same and got $18 more from gamestop.

Newer titles or older? Most of my comparisons were like Resistance 2, Grand Theft Auto 4, Warhawk, etc. GS was about $3 each and amazon was about $10. But for new releases with the 50% it's kind of hard for them to match of course.

Originally Posted by MillerTime2523 Newer titles or older? Most of my comparisons were like Resistance 2, Grand Theft Auto 4, Warhawk, etc. GS was about $3 each and amazon was about $10. But for new releases with the 50% it's kind of hard for them to match of course.

I just compared my trade in to the GameStop thread (I let my EDGE membership run out, so I was at 40% bonus). If the trade in values are accuracte in the GameStop thread I was at like $150 vs $136 at Amazon. Now, the other caveat is I can buy ANYTHING at Amazon, versus only games at GAmeStop. My gameplaying has been slowing up as of late, so I want the new games, but I barely play what I have. Thus, I think Amazon may win....plus, xmas is coming up and I may be able to get presents or something for people.

Most of my titles were older titles.

Originally Posted by doubledown I just compared my trade in to the GameStop thread (I let my EDGE membership run out, so I was at 40% bonus). If the trade in values are accuracte in the GameStop thread I was at like $150 vs $136 at Amazon. Now, the other caveat is I can buy ANYTHING at Amazon, versus only games at GAmeStop. My gameplaying has been slowing up as of late, so I want the new games, but I barely play what I have. Thus, I think Amazon may win....plus, xmas is coming up and I may be able to get presents or something for people.

What does it for me too that even if you are buying games but getting less at amazon, amazon beats gamestop's new prices anyway. 111$ if you ordered AC2 and MW2 from amazon this month with 30 credit back for a later video game purchase, or 120 at gamestop. I don't pay tax at amazon, I do at gs regardless if it's credit or cash but this can definitely tip the scales for one or the other depending.

Originally Posted by Vortextk What does it for me too that even if you are buying games but getting less at amazon, amazon beats gamestop's new prices anyway. 111$ if you ordered AC2 and MW2 from amazon this month with 30 credit back for a later video game purchase, or 120 at gamestop. I don't pay tax at amazon, I do at gs regardless if it's credit or cash but this can definitely tip the scales for one or the other depending.

good point on not just looking on the credits

After a 2 week fiasco I finally got my credit (x2) for MS:PR (Total credit = $54)

Quick story: Game was received on the 15th. Got a contradicting email (email title said it was received and then in the contents was not received). Waited a few days and called. Throughout the week has numerous emails/calls and ended up getting a $27 courtesy credit (value of the trade) and that I will still get the Trade. Let it ride another week and emailed them about it and they game me another $27 and moved from pending to "expired". So I got $54 for MR:MR....awesome.

On average how long does it take to get your credit once they get the game? My games are due to them on wed, and hope to get my credit in my account by thursday afternoon so I can order DJ hero and have it for the weekend.

usually within one business day for the amazon credit and then an additional two to three business days for any promotion to show up (some folks have reported that the latter may take up to 10 days).

Originally Posted by basketb usually within one business day for the amazon credit and then an additional two to three business days for any promotion to show up (some folks have reported that the latter may take up to 10 days).

Thanks

ok so tell me if im wrong, they won't provide us with free shipping from USPS, but i'm able to send it through them out of pocket if i please?

Originally Posted by minimafiaaj ok so tell me if im wrong, they won't provide us with free shipping from USPS, but i'm able to send it through them out of pocket if i please?

You can if you choose to do so but you can't send it via Media Mail. That's why Amazon doesn't offer USPS for videogames any more.

Personally, there are so many UPS drop boxes around, I'll just continue to let Amazon foot the bill for shipping plus tracking.

Well, a couple games in my trade-in cart actually jumped UP in value. I may wait a few more days to see if there is any trade in deal soon.

When did the usps media mail not accepting video games anymore thing happen? I sent in trades using media mail on the 28th and now they are not going to accept it? And the package hasn't moved either, it's still at the post office.

Will it still go through? How come amazon gave us the option of shipping usps?

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Originally Posted by Agnutter You can if you choose to do so but you can't send it via Media Mail. That's why Amazon doesn't offer USPS for videogames any more. Personally, there are so many UPS drop boxes around, I'll just continue to let Amazon foot the bill for shipping plus tracking.

yeah i get free shipping tho, well kinda lol my moms work just pays for the shipping and they use priority mail 2-3 days so it cost me nothing

Today is the deadline to ship my games. I went to edit my order and print my shipping label. Amazon is telling me that the deadline has passed, which it hasn't. So I went into my history and printed out a shipping label. The problem is that it says three copies of the game instead of one. I'm only shipping one copy of the game now. Is this okay? Will they still accept it? I'm planning on leaving within the hour so help would be appreciated.

I shipped one order missing a game, where I had 2 listed I only put that 1(and some others) in the shipment. Also read of a few other people doing that. So far, it always seems to work out fine, they just hold onto it another day or two before they credit you. But I doubt this is guaranteed.

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Yea I'm going to just go for it. I'm really pissed that Amazon tried to cut me a day short.

Originally Posted by speedrunner17 Today is the deadline to ship my games. I went to edit my order and print my shipping label. Amazon is telling me that the deadline has passed, which it hasn't. So I went into my history and printed out a shipping label. The problem is that it says three copies of the game instead of one. I'm only shipping one copy of the game now. Is this okay? Will they still accept it? I'm planning on leaving within the hour so help would be appreciated.

Yeah, I've done this a couple of times and it has been no problem. You'll get an annoying email once a day for like 3 weeks telling you that your order was accepted but has missing items. Eventually they will stop though . It is really just the same email you normally get once they accept your stuff but for whatever reason they regenerate it every day if something is missing until it expires I guess.