With Gamestop having their 50% trade in special starting tomorrow, many games will trump Best Buy's values, including Madden 13

Originally Posted by Confidance With Gamestop having their 50% trade in special starting tomorrow, many games will trump Best Buy's values, including Madden 13

Except that just like BB nerfed a whole mess of values before this 100% promo kicked in, you can fully expect GS to tank a bunch of the better ones.

But how exactly will the Madden 13 value trump BB? Isn't the value currently $20 for /? Right now, the only thing I see for Madden at GS is a guaranteed $30 tiv there. As most people know by now, promos DO NOT stack. So at most you'd get $30 from the guaranteed promo plus 10% of whatever the regular base value is, assuming they go off of that for the PUR bump still.

Although their current 30% bump promo when pre-ordering a bunch of select new games says it INCLUDES hardware and iPods, iPads and so on. Weird. Especially since usually the only thing that applied to hardware was the PUR if there wasn't a specific console trade promo going.

Unless I misread, which could easily happen, Madden base is 30. I don't know of any stacking or such but the 50% is by the promo wizard.

Maybe, maybe not? *shrugs*

Originally Posted by IAmTheCheapestGamer Except that just like BB nerfed a whole mess of values before this 100% promo kicked in, you can fully expect GS to tank a bunch of the better ones. But how exactly will the Madden 13 value trump BB? Isn't the value currently $20 for /? Right now, the only thing I see for Madden at GS is a guaranteed $30 tiv there. As most people know by now, promos DO NOT stack. So at most you'd get $30 from the guaranteed promo plus 10% of whatever the regular base value is, assuming they go off of that for the PUR bump still. Although their current 30% bump promo when pre-ordering a bunch of select new games says it INCLUDES hardware and iPods, iPads and so on. Weird. Especially since usually the only thing that applied to hardware was the PUR if there wasn't a specific console trade promo going.

Gamestop is doing a 50% promo starting tomorrow when you buy used and the base on Madden is $25, making it 37.50 for non PUR members, $40 for PUR members, Best Buy is $40 with promo, $42 for unlocked members.

Now that I have two copies of Uncharted 3 (Standard and Collector's) I might trade my standard in but the fanboy in me wants to keep both. Choices...

Originally Posted by HakurenKyo06 Gamestop is doing a 50% promo starting tomorrow when you buy used and the base on Madden is $25, making it 37.50 for non PUR members, $40 for PUR members, Best Buy is $40 with promo, $42 for unlocked members.

But is that base guaranteed? And if so, that usually is considered a "promo" and doesn't stack.

And if it isn't a guaranteed promo TIV, then as IATCG is saying, they might nerf it just in time for the 50%.

(obviously that's the smart thing to do and I'm not mad at them for it. I'm not one of those unreasonable people who expect to get $55 for a $60 game.)

Quick question...if I trade in Red Dead Redemption GOTY for Xbox...what would I get?
Just $6 + bonus or do I get $6+6+ bonus cause I'm technically trading RDR and Undead Nightmare.

Debating on trading into Best Buy or GS.

I'm pretty sure it's counted as one game.

Originally Posted by iduncurr Quick question...if I trade in Red Dead Redemption GOTY for Xbox...what would I get? Just $6 + bonus or do I get $6+6+ bonus cause I'm technically trading RDR and Undead Nightmare. Debating on trading into Best Buy or GS.

it will count as two games. since there isn't a listing for the GOTY edition. just to be safe in you can bring them both in with separate cases with no artwork.

edit: that's if it comes two disc, like i think it does.

Xbox version has 2-disc.

Guess I'll find out on Saturday then.

Thanks

Originally Posted by ScottBigGame Bought a $50 Amazon card.

We can buy an amazon gift card with our best buy gift card??? If so I'll do that.

Originally Posted by iduncurr Xbox version has 2-disc. Guess I'll find out on Saturday then. Thanks

is it two discs in the sense that Pure / Lego Batman is two discs? Or is it two discs in the sense that Dragon Age UE is two discs. Cause if it's the latter, you will not get it.

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I've been trying to wake up one of the mods on the BB forums to get them to realize that GOTY editions don't have seperate trade-in values in the system versus the vanilla versions for a while now. I think the response I received was basically an 'oh well'.

The only example of a GOTY edition having a seperate listing that I can see is Resident Evil 5 Gold Edition. Although weren't all of the copies of that essentially vanilla copies of RE5 with a different cover art and a downloadable content card in the package? Or were there different versions like Borderlands GOTY where they had one with a DLC card, one with a DLC card AND the content on the disc and finally one with just the content on the disc?

Originally Posted by crunchewy We can buy an amazon gift card with our best buy gift card??? If so I'll do that.

They're in the Kindle section. They're Kindle gift cards, but can be used for anything that Amazon sells.

Originally Posted by confoosious But is that base guaranteed? And if so, that usually is considered a "promo" and doesn't stack. And if it isn't a guaranteed promo TIV, then as IATCG is saying, they might nerf it just in time for the 50%. (obviously that's the smart thing to do and I'm not mad at them for it. I'm not one of those unreasonable people who expect to get $55 for a $60 game.)

Just called the base on Madden stayed the same, its $25, so its Darksiders 2.

Originally Posted by IAmTheCheapestGamer I've been trying to wake up one of the mods on the BB forums to get them to realize that GOTY editions don't have seperate trade-in values in the system versus the vanilla versions for a while now. I think the response I received was basically an 'oh well'.

Probably because I don't think BB is in charge of what shows up on the trade ins. They could probably tell the people in charge, but probably won't make a difference sadly.

So I've asked this before and I don't think it was answered. If a buy a BBY prepaid Visa, say like a $100 one, do I get RZ points in the equivalent of $100?

Originally Posted by therealdanhill So I've asked this before and I don't think it was answered. If a buy a BBY prepaid Visa, say like a $100 one, do I get RZ points in the equivalent of $100?

And it's been answered before as well too. You don't get RZ points when using gaming credit to purchase stuff usually. For some reason though they may give you some RZ points for some transactions, but don't expect to get full RZ points for everything.

Although you MAY get RZ point if you use the Visa at BB.

Originally Posted by eugaet They're in the Kindle section. They're Kindle gift cards, but can be used for anything that Amazon sells.

Do they charge tax on giftcards?

Well I wasn't talking about gaming stuff necessarily, just buying a prepaid visa with cash and using it for like grocery shopping, would I get the RZ points for the 100 I spent for the card at Best Buy, but the way you phrased it I'm guessing no.

If that was the case, that would be crazy awesome, but I can see how they wouldn't want to do that