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Originally Posted by HisDivineShadow Clicking buttons takes vital seconds. Seconds during which some guy who probably won't ever play Crysis 2 or even think of selling it clicked, "Complete Order." Even now, his Crysis 2 makes its way through some delivery guy's hands to this hapless gamer. Even now, he's laughing and palming his Crysis 2 that could have been yours. Even now, he is walking--think of it in slow-mo if you must--toward the closet of forgotten games. Even now, the shrinkwrap of that Crysis 2 remains firmly attached. The closet opens. Unopened copies of Kingdom of Amalur, Halo Anniversary Edition, Battlefield 3 Limited Edition, and Dead Space 2 Limited Edition with the PS3 Move Dead Space game all look up hopefully with dirty, dusty shrinkwrap. Oh, Crysis 2 is in the air. It's spinning, twisting, swirling... touchdown. It has landed on top of Dead Space 2 Limited edition. Everyone holds their breath... The closet is closed. Hapless gamer can be heard scratching somewhere sordid as he wanders off to return to a captivating game of Farmville. If only those couple of clicks hadn't delayed you from getting the sixth and final copy of Crysis 2 that Best Buy had allocated for this deal. If only.

Bravo!

Originally Posted by HisDivineShadow Clicking buttons takes vital seconds. Seconds during which some guy who probably won't ever play Crysis 2 or even think of selling it clicked, "Complete Order." Even now, his Crysis 2 makes its way through some delivery guy's hands to this hapless gamer. Even now, he's laughing and palming his Crysis 2 that could have been yours. Even now, he is walking--think of it in slow-mo if you must--toward the closet of forgotten games. Even now, the shrinkwrap of that Crysis 2 remains firmly attached. The closet opens. Unopened copies of Kingdom of Amalur, Halo Anniversary Edition, Battlefield 3 Limited Edition, and Dead Space 2 Limited Edition with the PS3 Move Dead Space game all look up hopefully with dirty, dusty shrinkwrap. Oh, Crysis 2 is in the air. It's spinning, twisting, swirling... touchdown. It has landed on top of Dead Space 2 Limited edition. Everyone holds their breath... The closet is closed. Hapless gamer can be heard scratching somewhere sordid as he wanders off to return to a captivating game of Farmville. If only those couple of clicks hadn't delayed you from getting the sixth and final copy of Crysis 2 that Best Buy had allocated for this deal. If only.

Originally Posted by sherlock2g Has anyone PM these at Target or Walmart yet? No Rhythm Heaven Fever at any stores in Chicago. Nothing online either.

Walmart is a gamble. It all depends on the type of manager you get when you try to price match. Some are cool and will price match (with proof, obviously), others will be giant tools refusing to price match out of stubbornness.

Pretty slim pickens for me, found a copy of Rayman Origins for PS3 and another for Wii, and a couple copies of Rhythem Heaven (SSFIV, DQIX, and Bulletstorm. I was able to get the copy of Crysis 2 I had set aside Sunday (thankfully) and they had added several other games to the sale. Most of it was movie tie in junk on DS knocked down to $10 but I did score Dream Trigger 3D for $6. Never did find Rhythem Heaven Fever, oh well...

Originally Posted by HisDivineShadow Clicking buttons takes...

That, my friend, is borderline brilliance...

Came back from my local BB. Was only expecting to pick up SF4 3DS, but I asked if they had DR2 OTR PS3 in stock and they said there was one. After looking around for a while, I found it in the bargain bin.

On my way out, I thought what the heck, might as well check if they somehow have Kingdoms of Amalur in stock. Sure enough there was one, so I bought the gamer unlocked membership and got KoA for $10. Since I now have gamer unlocked, I preordered some of the $20 preorder bonus games:
Borderlands 2
Dishonored
Far Cry 3
CoD BO2

It was a good trip ^_^ Only thing is I don't think I got charged for gamer unlocked. For those of you that have it, did you get charged immediately for it? Is there a way to check online if you have it?

picked up Final Fantasy IV PSP for 10 bucks... online it said they didn't have it... but i figured i'd check since i was at best buy to get the Jaws digibook.

Originally Posted by lilman It was a good trip ^_^ Only thing is I don't think I got charged for gamer unlocked. For those of you that have it, did you get charged immediately for it? Is there a way to check online if you have it?

I got charged immediately. You can check in your RZ account. I think mine took about a month before it updated from saying I was a regular Gamer Club member to an Unlocked member.

Picked up my copy of Rhythm Heaven Fever yesterday, and out of curiosity I checked a few of the other Wii titles on sale. I saw plenty of copies of the Wii version of Rayman Origins, which I was tempted to get, but seeing as it's still well in stock around my area, the cheapy in me is holding off on getting it this sale, gambling that it may go even cheaper in an DotD or future blow out sale. Anyone else seeing a surplus of the Wii version of Rayman and thinking the same thing?

I also grabbed a copy of de Blob 2 on clearance for $4.50, been meaning to get that game for some time. Ironically with the 50% used game trade-in bonus I could get $6.00 in a gift card if I wanted to by trading it back in...

Originally Posted by io Crap - I just checked my one online/shipping order. It was for a controller and 2 games and both games got backordered. I put the order in right when the sale started. It's no big deal except that I used one of the $10 gift cards (for a $50 store pickup order) and now I know these games will just end up getting canceled and I will have to call CS to deal with getting my $5 back. Man I hate that kind of stuff. I specifically didn't use the $10 GC on a store pickup order in case they couldn't find stuff - but that would have been better than using it on the online order .

shipping is totally random. i don't think it matters how early you put in your order. i placed orders within seconds in the past and had stuff backordered. i placed order hours after sales are live and had stuff sent to me.

I picked up Rage, Rayman Origins, and Singularity all on 360 - pretty happy with my haul, not happy with my backlog (especially after the Steam Sale)

Success! If you look at the AD on page 17, it says Available on all platform! Only the picture on the AD will honor that price. The manager approved over the register. I got Rayman Origins PSVita for $9.99 instead of $39.99. I also snagged the last Jaws Blu-ray Digibook for $21.99 after $3 coupon.

If I preordered a game through best buy a while back, think its ac3, how hard of a time will i have to cancel that and get my 5 dollars back to use on one of the sale games?

Or did I even have to pay 5 dollars? Sorry, I just never deal with best buy

Got:

Dirt 3
Family Game Night 4
Crysis 2

Rayman Origins
DR OTA
Child of Eden
Tekken Hybrid
All PS3

Having a number of the games I'd consider good, the only one I was interested in was Driver: San Francisco (enjoyed the car shifting in the demo). Alas, it was wiped out at my local Best Buy.

Oh well....

would like to thank everyone who got the info/prices out so early.

I got a couple of items for myself, but I work in a hospital and I was able to get several titles for our pediatric unit, as well as the family rooms. snagged 2 copies of rayman origins for each system, 2 copies of driver for ps3 & 360. then a lot of the wii titles, since those are what tend to be the most popular here. they all have gone over well, espeically rayman. the kids are really digging on that one.

Did anyone get Mayhem 3D PS3 for $5 or was it only 360? I picked up the last PS3 copy my store had before the sale went live and went back today to price match but they could only find it as $39 in their system. The store has 360 copies on sale for $5.

Was going to call customer service but thought I'd ask here first cause when I go to the game blowout link on BB.com it no longer shows Mayhem at all.

I actually wanted this game but $39 is too much. Please don't crucify me if this has been answered already. I kept up with the thread for a long time but got to be too much.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by juubei1i Did anyone get Mayhem 3D PS3 for $5 or was it only 360? I picked up the last PS3 copy my store had before the sale went live and went back today to price match but they could only find it as $39 in their system. The store has 360 copies on sale for $5. Was going to call customer service but thought I'd ask here first cause when I go to the game blowout link on BB.com it no longer shows Mayhem at all. I actually wanted this game but $39 is too much. Please don't crucify me if this has been answered already. I kept up with the thread for a long time but got to be too much. Thanks.

Only the 360 version rings up at $4.99. Very YMMV if the store will match that price for PS3. Although I've heard it's not even worth that much.

Managed to get all I wanted in this clearance: got UFC Trainer, Tetris Axis, Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock, & Rhythm Heaven Fever for my fiancee.

Though I wouldn't mind getting Crysis 2 for $10... props to lucky bastard who got Rayman Origins Vita for $10.

Originally Posted by ChunLiBarbie Ummm... I don't see a date on this pass. So far, all I did was redeem it and it redeemed fine.

Cool. Thanks for sharing.

Originally Posted by VyseArcad1a Only the 360 version rings up at $4.99. Very YMMV if the store will match that price for PS3. Although I've heard it's not even worth that much.

Bummer. Thanks for the quick response VyseArcadia!