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Originally Posted by io
OA few days ago when I traded one for base $25 + 50% bonus + Edge I got $40 for it. Are you saying that now, with this "$25 guaranteed" promo they either dropped the base of NSMB or are making this promo apply to it anyway even if it is still $25, thus negating the 50% bonus (since, as you say, promos never  ing stack)? Or is their computer smart enough to try both the 50% and "$25 guaranteed" promos and pick the best one? I guess that is theoretically what it should do, but I know, for example, it isn't doing the best thing when mixing the $10/3 and 50% promos... |
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The portion of this that is about how the $25/50% promos play together I talk about a little lower. Their computer does actually try to do both, and in the case of a game that has a base of $22, it has used the 50% promo instead. Where we run into problems with the $50 and the trade 3 get $10 promo is when there is a higher value game, like NSMB Wii, and the computer sees that and says that has to be the better promo and just applies it to the entire trade-in and skips the ones that would be better suited for trade 3 get $10. It doesn't go through and apply what is better per game because it will normally only allow one promo per trade-in transaction on games. This is why the console trade-in promos will work on the same transaction as trading in games, it picks them up separately.
We had a similar promo problem with a trade 2 get $10 and a 30% extra on everything traded toward a Wii. I actually ran into it myself. This was about a year or so ago. I had them separated into 2 transactions but the employee swore it would pick up both promos properly. I knew better but I let him do it but I made him do them in the order of the promo sets I had so it would be easy to redo. Low and behold it didn't work right. I had to keep mine separated into how I wanted the promos to apply. My general rule of thumb anymore is that if there is a trade X get $X promo, I do that trade by itself and don't include anything else with it. We only seem to have these computer problems when there is a percentage base promo and a trade X get $X going on at the same time, for the most part. I actually meant to address these things last night with my last update message, after you had mentioned wanting an explanation on how the two did/didn't work together, but totally spaced it. Sorry about that.
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Originally Posted by guinaevere
Because the $25 guarantee isn't so much a promotion that adjusts after ringing in, it simply is the current trade in value on specific games.
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Originally Posted by io
I don't think that is right because then they'd all qualify for the 50% promo and they don't (people aren't getting $40 for Demon's Souls for example). In this case it actually is a promo and not an adjustment to the base value. It just so happens that NSMB Wii has a base value of $25 anyway, so its inclusion in the promo is superfluous.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think people trading other games like Demon's Souls are getting an actual promo code number that bumps it to $25 (+ Edge off the base of $12 or whatever it is), thus no other promo would apply in addition to that. It somewhat surprises me that GS is doing it this way based on the way they've done this sort of thing in the past, but it makes sense and is the smart way for them to do it. Otherwise everything on that "guaranteed $25" list would actually be $40 after the 50% + Edge and if that's the case I'd be beinging in a ton of stuff  . I guess what happens in the case of NSMB is the natural base value + 50% promo is better than the "guaranteed $25" one so it just uses that instead. |
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It is pretty much what you wrote. The guaranteed $25 does not stack unless the game has a normal base of $25, ie. New Super Mario Bros. Wii. In that case it isn't really stacking it's just doing one promo on it. Depending upon how GameStop has it coded in their computer they could just have that entire list of games in there saying if less than $25, bump to $25. This method would catch NSMB Wii automatically if they changed the base value. They could also just have it saying these games bump to $25 from any lower value and haven't included New Super Mario Bros. Wii because it's base is $25 and they don't plan on changing. I doubt the second one is the way they are doing it, but it is possible. Since the $25 promo lasts for 3 weeks I would expect that New Super Mario Bros. is on that list to auto-correct, they just haven't dropped the base value yet to enact it.
I'll condense that down for a post on the first page with the guaranteed $25 promo portion. I also put a piece in the FAQ about best operating procedure for trade X, get $X promos.
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Originally Posted by Gamer SDP
according to the OP, Super Mario Galaxy has a tiv of $12. so with the 50% and edge that would be $12*1.5*1.1 = $19.80. If I can get the $25 promo and 50% bonus to stack it would be $41.25 (which makes me wonder why some are saying $40 for NSMBW when it should be $41.25). or just $25*1.1 = $27.50. if I can't get the promos stacked then eBay it goes.
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Just correcting your math here. With the current 50% promo Super Mario Galaxy would actually get $19.20. The proper way of doing the EDGE stacking with the 50% is $12*1.6, because both the EDGE and the 50% promo are based off the base value. With your way you were getting an EDGE bonus off the promo value, which isn't how it goes. $12*1.6 = $19.20, $12*1.5 = $18, $18*1.1 = $19.80. It's not much of a difference but it does add up.
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06-10-2010, 01:40 AM
when they answer you "yes", ask them why they are not very curious when someone buy 2 of the same game. 
