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Best Buy 400 pt deal is dead ;(

Originally Posted by A Very CAG Best Buy 400 pt deal is dead ;(

Yeah, sad, right? I caught that, hence the strikethru over the deal. (does that showup for everyone else? I'm running Chrome, and I've checked it in IE.)

The deals on points are so few-and-far-between that I don't "archive" the deal once it's dead until a new deal shows up, or else there'd be a big empty spot saying "No current deal" for weeks and months at a time.

Damn, I missed out. Now I have to pay full price for all these games on sale.

I should have picked up two of them, but I thought I would spend less than 30 during the sale, not 60.

OOOoooookay.

Today, I finally got around to all of these crazy-complicated deals going on. I guess that's what I get for trying to spend my free-time with my "other gf," Lara, instead of keeping up with the deals.

We've got the "v.Me by Visa" (a competitor to Paypal, created by Visa) discounts off of already low-priced NewEgg Gold Cards, the 15%-off 1200 pts codes (that code won't stack with other items btw, but you can purchase multiple 1200 codes and still get the discount on each), and then the less-than stellar 1600 points for $18.xx sale. They're going nuts over there at NewEgg this week!

Then, we've also had a deal emerge from GameStop on the Gears of War: Judgement pass with bonus points (I would love it if someone could confirm this from an actual store btw).

Did I miss any other deals, kids? Does anyone happen to find end-dates on any of the ones where I didn't post them? It feels so good to see a bunch of end-dates instead of just guessing if the deal is still going to be valid in a few days. (Someday I'll get around to making a disclaimer right-at-the-top about what the "spotted deal" dates mean and when an end-date isn't given--like over at the DoTW thread. Someday.)

Originally Posted by Sanges99 OOOoooookay. Today, I finally got around to all of these crazy-complicated deals going on. I guess that's what I get for trying to spend my free-time with my "other gf," Lara, instead of keeping up with the deals. We've got the "v.Me by Visa" (a competitor to Paypal, created by Visa) discounts off of already low-priced NewEgg Gold Cards, the 15%-off 1200 pts codes (that code won't stack with other items btw, but you can purchase multiple 1200 codes and still get the discount on each), and then the less-than stellar 1600 points for $18.xx sale. They're going nuts over there at NewEgg this week! Then, we've also had a deal emerge from GameStop on the Gears of War: Judgement pass with bonus points (I would love it if someone could confirm this from an actual store btw). Did I miss any other deals, kids? Does anyone happen to find end-dates on any of the ones where I didn't post them? It feels so good to see a bunch of end-dates instead of just guessing if the deal is still going to be valid in a few days. (Someday I'll get around to making a disclaimer right-at-the-top about what the "spotted deal" dates mean and when an end-date isn't given--like over at the DoTW thread. Someday.)

That GOW thing is weird, when I asked the guy yesterday he seemed to think it was really a MS promotion specific to rebates for buying season passes. I couldn't find anything online about it, and the link on the sales add has no information at all.

Originally Posted by stoned99 That GOW thing is weird, when I asked the guy yesterday he seemed to think it was really a MS promotion specific to rebates for buying season passes. I couldn't find anything online about it, and the link on the sales add has no information at all.

So the guy at the store doesn't even have any idea? Sheesh.

Looking at it (on page 2 of that sales ad), seeing as it says it's "Available Now, Only at GameStop", my assumption is that, if you buy it, it's going to printout a 400pt code on the receipt. Personally I rarely step-foot into a GS, but I've read of such on other threads with this kind of promo. I would think that SOMEONE would know legitimately SOMEWHERE though. Maybe no one has bothered to buy one since this promo started to know for sure, that's my only guess.

Originally Posted by stoned99 That GOW thing is weird, when I asked the guy yesterday he seemed to think it was really a MS promotion specific to rebates for buying season passes. I couldn't find anything online about it, and the link on the sales add has no information at all.

The manager at my local GS today thought the exact same thing.

Originally Posted by CaptainJoel The manager at my local GS today thought the exact same thing.

Humph. Maybe I'll tweet to MS when I get home from work tonight and see what THEY have to say about it (unless someone beats me to it). I'm already picturing the he-sad, she-said line they'll give me back & forth.

Originally Posted by Sanges99 So the guy at the store doesn't even have any idea? Sheesh. Looking at it (on page 2 of that sales ad), seeing as it says it's "Available Now, Only at GameStop", my assumption is that, if you buy it, it's going to printout a 400pt code on the receipt. Personally I rarely step-foot into a GS, but I've read of such on other threads with this kind of promo. I would think that SOMEONE would know legitimately SOMEWHERE though. Maybe no one has bothered to buy one since this promo started to know for sure, that's my only guess.

Yes, and by making that assumption you would most likely be wrong. The picture specifically shows 1600 points, which raises a number of questions, all unanswered.

Originally Posted by stoned99 Yes, and by making that assumption you would most likely be wrong. The picture specifically shows 1600 points, which raises a number of questions, all unanswered.

I'm not sure we're looking at the same picture here. All season passes that I've seen display how many points it takes to purchase the DLC pass, in this case 1600. In the ad, it shows the card displaying 1600 and next to it--viola!--it says "get" an additional 400 point code with some fineprint that, although too shoddy to read on the site, I would assume someone at GS has an actual copy they can actually look at.

The ad says it's only available right now at GameStop, and you can't buy it on their site... and there's a promo for extra points that ends before the scheduled release of the Pass. This isn't an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, it's just typical Retail Miscommunication.

Speculation & retailer-backbiting aside... I posted a disclaimer in the OP about deal dates and what they mean.

Hooray.


Oh, and holycrap, didn't realize I was under 10k in points (pretty sure I was up around 30k+ just a few months ago ), picked up a couple NewEgg codes.

Here's the answer for the Gears season pass: The manager told me that you preorder it in store and when you pick it up you get the code for 400 pts. Just like preordering a game you can just put $5 on it if you want.

Originally Posted by chuckwagon Here's the answer for the Gears season pass: The manager told me that you preorder it in store and when you pick it up you get the code for 400 pts. Just like preordering a game you can just put $5 on it if you want.

Thanks for the confirmation, Chuck. I actually thought it was "a little late", since I was going to have to archive the deal... but it's not for another couple days, so hooray for us.

Originally Posted by chuckwagon Here's the answer for the Gears season pass: The manager told me that you preorder it in store and when you pick it up you get the code for 400 pts. Just like preordering a game you can just put $5 on it if you want.

so, you cant just pick it up in store once it releases and get the extra 400 MSP? Thats what I was thinking of doing this week.

Originally Posted by chuckwagon Here's the answer for the Gears season pass: The manager told me that you preorder it in store and when you pick it up you get the code for 400 pts. Just like preordering a game you can just put $5 on it if you want.

So the "Available Now" text in the ad only means it's available to pre-order now? What a bunch of BS, but I guess since it's GameStop I'm not really surprised.

If that's the case I'll just pass on this deal as I don't really have any faith of the 400 points actually showing up.

I think Gamestop just mistakenly put the Gears of War cards in this week's ad. In the online ad it now says the cards are Coming Soon. It doesn't say anything about preodering being a requirement. Though when I asked about the cards on Friday the clerk's best guess was it is a preorder offer.

Microsoft is not allowing renewals of family gold packs any longer. Snatch up those cheap subs while you can.

Originally Posted by VersionJ Microsoft is not allowing renewals of family gold packs any longer. Snatch up those cheap subs while you can.

What does that mean ? No 99$ for a year ?

Originally Posted by stoned99 What does that mean ? No 99$ for a year ?

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/03/08/go...box-live-nest/
http://www.geek.com/articles/games/m...rning-2013038/