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Originally Posted by Shuino People who are complaining about how PM at BestBuy does not work are just wrong. Take the game walk up to the service desk and say. "Hey GameStop has this for $20 dollars can you price match it?" The employee then rings it up as $19.99 and you leave. Anyone saying that it does not work did not try and is talking out their ass. P.S. I am also sure this will work at Wal-Mart.

I agree. I have PM'd Gamestop sales at five different Best Buy locations here in Los Angeles over the past few months and not even had a moment of hesitation from the customer service person in any of the situations. It's all about going up and saying "I'd like a price match, please." and handing them the price print-out. There is no room for interpretation. The price applies in Gamestop local stores and therefore Best Buy's policy is to match it. If you get a customer service person or manager who doesn't know the policy, ask to speak to their district manager. Trust me, there will be no problem getting them to do the match.

Originally Posted by CaoPi right about that, as soon as they confirm and pick up the phone to verify it's in stock the story ends there

Bingo...especially if it's a Manager...

I would go to BB and tell them the price, and ask them to call up GS to verify. They might have to make multiple calls if one store is OOS.

I remember PM'ing Beowulf at BB for $20 when GS suddenly dropped the price from $60 to $20 without an ad. Huge drop indeed.

Wouldn't Sears be better: pricematch plus 10% of the difference

BB will price match it, I have done so with Valkyrie Chronicles and a few other games. Hell had them price match the Hulk Blu Ray from another store in Philadelphia when I live in Cali. They are a direct competitor to Gamestop when it comes to gaming, the same with Target, Walmart, and Sears. Its a lot of money they fear losing business to us finicky gamers if they don't honor our demands, especially when it comes to a policy they wrote and promised to consumers.

Originally Posted by mrrepoman Hell had them price match the Hulk Blu Ray from another store in Philadelphia when I live in Cali.

That is a win.

I can't believe I just read this whole thread. I can't believe I am posting.

You can always TRY to PM any deal. I have had success PMing things that most would not even bother trying.

This is completely YMMV as said before. I worked at Circuit City, and no matter what you thought of the company (not important) the price match policy was exactly the same as BB. They say they'll match a local retail competitor, and it basically depends on the manager exactly who counts as one of them. They also say you need to bring in an ad to price match. Sure you can get many associates and managers to just do it (its just a video game, who cares? that was my attitude at least), but they don't have to do it (how some of my managers felt at times).

The policy is worded so that they can get away with not doing a price match if they don't feel like it.

As long as your local GameStop has the item in stock, and the associate does call to check stock, this is not YMMV. Very simple to do as long as you present yourself well. Bringing a printout of the advertisement from GameStop (which shows which stores locally have it in stock as of 8AM, the day of the printout,) and a copy of the Best Buy Pricing Policy is a great way to make the transaction go smoothly. They cannot deny their own policy.

Mine didn't match it, because the fine print on gamestop's website is that the $20 price tag is only valid online and not in stores. Even though it actually is valid in stores.