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i went to my local TRU and they were redoing their entire game section (brand new store btw) so nothing was out but the Wii games

Originally Posted by CheapAssHustla I feel like I saw this happen, lol. What store was this?

I was at the Best Buy in Novi Michigan

Had no problem getting them to price match two copies of D3 and one of Skyrim at Best Buy in Southfield, MI.

Originally Posted by UnicornBang I was at the Best Buy in Novi Michigan

Hello, fellow SE Michigan CAG!

Originally Posted by Rehykja Had no problem getting them to price match two copies of D3 and one of Skyrim at Best Buy in Southfield, MI. Hello, fellow SE Michigan CAG!

Can I join in on this MI fun? Flint/Rochester

Originally Posted by Rehykja Had no problem getting them to price match two copies of D3 and one of Skyrim at Best Buy in Southfield, MI. Hello, fellow SE Michigan CAG!

Go Tigers!

I just got Skyrim and Starcraft 2 with price match from the Belmar best buy in Lakewood CO with printouts of the webpages. Manager was awesome and it took literally 2 seconds. They still have a lot of the other games just not Diablo 3. I am going back out later to look for Diablo 3 at other stores as they were out at the store because someone was in before me. If anyone wants me to post receipts to help with your talks with managers to showe that other store are price matching this let me know and I will. Also the walmart at first and wadsworth was no go for price matches with a very bad attitude and grumpy managers . Hope this helps any Colorado CAGS out there and I will post later tonight with other finds and my luck.

If I get up the motivation, I may try pm'ING at my local best buy. Called the toys r us and they didn't have anything really.

tried to PM at Pleasant Hill, CA BB store and no luck...tried again at Emeryville, CA BB and they pm'd D3 & SCII w/o asking anything!

Originally Posted by Cloulien I just got Skyrim and Starcraft 2 with price match from the Belmar best buy in Lakewood CO with printouts of the webpages. Manager was awesome and it took literally 2 seconds. They still have a lot of the other games just not Diablo 3. I am going back out later to look for Diablo 3 at other stores as they were out at the store because someone was in before me. If anyone wants me to post receipts to help with your talks with managers to showe that other store are price matching this let me know and I will. Also the walmart at first and wadsworth was no go for price matches with a very bad attitude and grumpy managers . Hope this helps any Colorado CAGS out there and I will post later tonight with other finds and my luck.

I did practically the same thing! I had BB pricematch Skyrim and Starcraft II.

The woman working there called the it "Too good to be true."

Went to three Best Buys in the Raleigh area and was turned down each time. Oh well, I don't really need Diablo 3 or SC2 anyway.

Finally got a Skyrim, although it took more than cleavage. All went well until they had to call a second manager over to approve the PM and he said no and that brought my fiance's inner-bitch out. I walked away and let her do her thing, so I missed the whole ordeal (the cleavage mind trick works best when the lady is alone), but from what she told me, it was an ordeal that went all the way to the store manager.

But I got Skyrim for $10, so I'm a happy boy now.

BTW - this was at Walmart.

Originally Posted by sp00ge Finally got a Skyrim, although it took more than cleavage. All went well until they had to call a second manager over to approve the PM and he said no and that brought my fiance's inner-bitch out. I walked away and let her do her thing, so I missed the whole ordeal (the cleavage mind trick works best when the lady is alone), but from what she told me, it was an ordeal that went all the way to the store manager. But I got Skyrim for $10, so I'm a happy boy now. BTW - this was at Walmart.

That's awesome.

Went to my local Toys R Us and they told me they didn't even carry PC games. I am wondering if they had already sold out of what they did carry if they ever did. I could try chancing a price match for Skyrim somewhere but my backlog is so big I might just keep waiting for it to drop in price

Went today to my local best Buy and PM'd for 2 copies of Diablo 3, 3 copies of Skyrim and a copy of SC2. I already have D3 and SC2 so I used the link provided to offer everything up in the trade thread for $15 (key) and $20(boxed) and it went so feakin fast. Might go back tomorrow to try and help out some more people, and may actually grab MW3 for myself

Just got back from BB in Natomas, CA. Successfuly PM MW3 and Skyrim. After traveling to 2 Toys r us this feels great.

Originally Posted by MrshllJcb Went today to my local best Buy and PM'd for 2 copies of Diablo 3, 3 copies of Skyrim and a copy of SC2. I already have D3 and SC2 so I used the link provided to offer everything up in the trade thread for $15 (key) and $20(boxed) and it went so feakin fast. Might go back tomorrow to try and help out some more people, and may actually grab MW3 for myself

Did it require an override? I went to one best and picked up skyrim and diablo 3 just fine, went to another and tried Starcraft diablo and skyrim and the girl said it required a manager and he shot me down. The kid at the first bb was familiar with the deal though and didn't call a manager or anything.

Went to my local TRU and they told me they do not sell any PC games. So, I tried to PM at my local Best Buy. I had Skyrim in my hands, was in the check out line, and the cashier was all ready to give me the PM. When suddenly the guy from the gaming department runs up to the check out line and shouts at the cashier and told her, "DONT GIVE HER THE DEAL." Can they even do that? Ugh.

I tried to argue with him to giving me the PM but in the end he called up TRU and gave me the whole spew on "not in stock/no deal" ordeal. I even called up the other TRU around my area. They do not carry PC games either.

I first went to TRU tonight, they only had Rage, some Sims games, AC, and probably some other game but it was nothing I was looking for. So went to Best Buy, they of course had a ton of D3 and SC3 games. I picked up 2 copies of each normally priced at $59.99 (D3) and $39.99 (SC2). Went up to the front registers, where I should of probably not bothered going to, guy that normally rings me up was busy with a customer.

The employee had rung it all up, being over 200 dollars of course, so they said I have to ask their manager since it's over so much. Employee went to ask, came back said that they had to call TRU (which I know I didn't see any of those two games left, their video games section was a disaster anyways, although I could of missed them in a different area easily, and didn't ask an employee there if they had any available in the store).

So the employee is on the phone, first asks if the price was right, then asked if they could check in store for the games, which is where I thought yeah if they look and come back and say no, then I'm out of luck. So the first person they talked to didn't answer their question, so they ask for someone in the video game department, which not sure what happened but the best buy employee gave up waiting on the phone, hung up, came back to the register and started overriding the prices for me. So $43.71 ($39.92 before tax) was my total for 2 D3 , 2 SC2 games. Of course the employee says, "that's a really good deal", I said yup, and left.

I went to a far away BB and was able to pm D3 and SC2. I also picked up the last 2 ME3CEs they had in stock, since they were closing in 15 minutes. I had to buy 2 mags, but they are still worth it at $15 each.

I went to my local Best Buy with the page loaded on my Nexus, picked up a copy of Skyrim and Diablo III and asked the guy working in the video games section whether they'd be able to do a price-match. I wasn't expecting that they would do it and I certainly wasn't going to fight anybody over it. The PM policy seems pretty clear: no PM unless there's a store in town that carries the item in question. So if they hadn't gone for it, I'd have just said, "Okay" and walked out.

However everybody there was really cool about it. The first blue shirt I spoke with asked me where the PM was and how much. When I told him it was Toys R Us, he started to pull up the site on his computer and I said, "I should have it right here" and showed him the two product pages on my Nexus. He said they shouldn't have a problem, put it in the computer, called over a manager to authorize the overrides and I walked out with two $60 games $21.78 poorer.

The manager actually asked incredulously about Skyrim being on sale and when the blue shirt said yes, he said he was getting a copy for himself, thanked me for coming in, and grabbed one off the shelf.

It was a very pleasant and painless experience, quite the opposite of what I anticipated. I may try price-matching more often after this.

EDIT: I didn't even bother checking the stock at my one local TRU; the store rarely has much of anything in the way of PC games, hardly ever has clearance or sale items in-store, and it's much farther from my house than this Best Buy location. I figured if I couldn't get a PM, then I'd take the trouble to drive over to the TRU and find out they didn't have anything I was looking for.