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Originally Posted by TheCollegeGamer Hit up a K-Mart but no Portal 2's for either system. All the Blockbusters near me are closed. Figure I'll just do AC3, Black Ops 2, SSBB, and 2K13. Need to figure out if I should spend points on that 50% coupon for FarCry 3 or if I'll just get some pre-owned game since there's a 50% extra toward purchase of a pre-owned running. Not sure how much longer that lasts though.

Where did you see this? I just looked and couldn't find it.

Originally Posted by ttocshsoj I discovered that my local blockbuster had Just Dance 3 for the wii for $10 and madden 12 for the wii also for $10. So i bought 2 copies of just dance and the last copy of madden and took them to gamestop to trade. Tried to go back to blockbuster to buy more and was informed by the guy working there that he couldn't sell me anymore copies of just dance because there is a limit of 2 copies per customer. Tried calling corporate and they said there is no such policy but there was nothing that they could do.

Sounds like someone needs a fake mustache!

EDIT: Traded in 9 games for a total of $220. Thanks GameStop!

Originally Posted by Romeo Black Friday I was at my local best buy at around 3am. I watched a guy with a small hand basket standing in the aisle, grabbing games by the handful like he was on Supermarket Sweep. I confronted him asking what the hell he was doing... he tells me he owns a pawn shop/game store and the BF prices at best buy are better than his cost so he drove to every BB in my area and bought up EVERY copy of their games on sale. That's exactly what people are doing here today with Portal 2. Screwing dozens of people out of a game on sale to make a few bucks.

I agree 100%. I hate hoarders like this that only think about making a quick buck.

Originally Posted by SInX4Lyfe First come first serve

I am pretty sure that's not what Best Buy will say and I don't think they want customers like this one.

Originally Posted by anarchyoblivion I'm pretty sure that most people that legitimately wanted the game for $10 would have gotten it by now - they had the entire week to do so.

How do you know? There are casual gamers that may want to jump on a deal when they see it on the store and don't read the weekly ad.

Originally Posted by strait edge follower All of the portal 2 copys i brought were on the shelf the whole week so nobody seemed to want them. I just did kmart a favor and cleared them out for them.

You are not doing K-Mart any favors

Originally Posted by mtxbass1 Welcome to Capitalism. If you can buy something somewhere at X and resell it for Y, then you're certainly entitled to do that. The guy was being a smart businessman.

That is capitalism but... I am pretty confident that Best Buy doesn't want one person to buy their entire stock of games. This is not ing Costco where you can buy in bulk. If you used your brain you would think how hoarders negatively impact Best Buy.

If I were to go show up 5 minutes later and then the game is sold out, I would walk out the store and run to Wal-Mart or somewhere else to find it. Assume, the hoarder didn't clean the games and I bought a copy, then I may stay and roam around the store and buy some more stuff. I just don't see how Best Buy benefits from one person buying the entire stock of one game. Just because you do this shit, doesn't mean it is ok.

Hoarding is hoarding, period. Spare me the bullshit of you snooze you lose.

I'm sure this has been asked a million times. But the kindle giftcards are the same as a regular amazon giftcard correct? You can use it to buy anything? (360 games, DVDs, lamps, cat food, ect?)

Originally Posted by KingofOldSchool The only Kindle giftcards they have are the ones bundled with the new Kindle Fires for the promotion they are running.

Same here, couldn't find kindle gc on display in any of the 3 local GS stores. I asked one employee and sure enough, he says that they only have them for the promotion and has no idea if they will get more of them to sell or the batch they received for the promotion is the end of them. He also said that they may not get anymore kindles as well, if that matters to anyone. I do hope that they will carry kindle gc in the future though.

On another note, I finally got rid of my BBV credit that was hanging around for almost 9 months now and bough some copies of Madden 12 Wii, JD3 Wii and Alice for PS3. Also made use of the buy $25 BBV GC and get $5 extra to sweeten the deal. Mind you, one of the GS had no problem taking multiple copies ( the employee said how many copies the hell I want ) but took off a refurb fee of $3 each, for 2 copies. If any of you guys to get some games from BBV to trade in to GS, make sure to get good clean discs because the ones I got were really scratched to hell.( I couldn't argue about the refurb fee looking at all those scratches. )

Holy shit that 50% extra coupon (from power up )works with this offer? So I could trade portal in for 30$???

Originally Posted by Wallshay I'm sure this has been asked a million times. But the kindle giftcards are the same as a regular amazon giftcard correct? You can use it to buy anything? (360 games, DVDs, lamps, cat food, ect?)

AFAIK, you can buy anything that is sold from Amazon, as long as the seller is amazon. I could be wrong and you may be able to use them with 3rd party sellers though.

Originally Posted by Wallshay I'm sure this has been asked a million times. But the kindle giftcards are the same as a regular amazon giftcard correct? You can use it to buy anything? (360 games, DVDs, lamps, cat food, ect?)

correct

Originally Posted by SInX4Lyfe Again, for the millionth time you need to be PUR member , doesn't have to be the pro one. The basic free membership. You can just sign up b4 you trade.

I'm not doubting your experience, but I just got back from a Gamestop in MA, and the correct trade in values didn't show up until they added the Pro membership to the transaction.

I was trading in ~120 worth of stuff, so I wasn't going to make a scene over the couple of bucks I lost, but it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Edit: I suppose it could have been the employee messing with me to sell a pro account.

Originally Posted by Wallshay I'm sure this has been asked a million times. But the kindle giftcards are the same as a regular amazon giftcard correct? You can use it to buy anything? (360 games, DVDs, lamps, cat food, ect?)

I had the same question, so I looked it up on Amazon. they said,

"In addition to Kindle devices, books, and accessories, your gift card can be used to purchase other products on Amazon.com, but cannot be used to purchase Kindle subscriptions, such as magazines, newspapers, or blogs. "

Source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000306401

Originally Posted by Fabs Holy shit that 50% extra coupon (from power up )works with this offer? So I could trade portal in for 30$???

Someone else confirm this? About to head out and I've got a huge stack of stuff and I'd like to get the max amount here.

Originally Posted by Aughiskie I had the same question, so I looked it up on Amazon. they said, "In addition to Kindle devices, books, and accessories, your gift card can be used to purchase other products on Amazon.com, but cannot be used to purchase Kindle subscriptions, such as magazines, newspapers, or blogs. " Source: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000306401

Originally Posted by tribalnoise correct

Originally Posted by karekano126 AFAIK, you can buy anything that is sold from Amazon, as long as the seller is amazon. I could be wrong and you may be able to use them with 3rd party sellers though.

Alright, Thanks guys. Just wanted to make sure before I bought over $100 worth of them.

Originally Posted by Jack_Frost So many redundant questions

#truth

Maybe we should ask Scorch to add in his OP the FAQ's with Gamestop trades and the current promo. This thread gets too crazy to keep up with.

Originally Posted by elcheapo2 I'm not doubting your experience, but I just got back from a Gamestop in MA, and the correct trade in values didn't show up until they added the Pro membership to the transaction.

Think about that for a second. You just said the values didn't show up until your card was scanned. Obviously that has to happen regardless of it being a PRO or free membership for the offer to work. You can't just go in there and trade stuff in without the membership and expect those values.

Got my Wii-U last night for free from trading in my old games (more or less... in the grand scheme of things with all the math, not really free). Then today I ran and bought 5x copies of Just Dance 3 at blockbuster (I just smiled saying what a great gift they make at that price) and a copy of Rock Band 3 for the 360 ($5 after promo, traded for $15!). Then went to walmart and PM'd a Portal 2. Ran to a few GSs in the area and traded it all in, bought New Super Mario Wii-U, a $20 PSN card, and saved the $50 for a future use. HOORAY

Originally Posted by aircobra Think about that for a second. You just said the values didn't show up until your card was scanned. Obviously that has to happen regardless of it being a PRO or free membership for the offer to work. You can't just go in there and trade stuff in without the membership and expect those values.

He pretty much said what i was going to say but better.

My wife walked in with me, said "I want the free membership and to trade this Just Dance 3 and put it all on a giftcard". One transaction, she walks out with a $20 gift card. Anyone saying you have to have the PRO membership is wrong or being cheated.

Originally Posted by elcheapo2 I'm not doubting your experience, but I just got back from a Gamestop in MA, and the correct trade in values didn't show up until they added the Pro membership to the transaction. I was trading in ~120 worth of stuff, so I wasn't going to make a scene over the couple of bucks I lost, but it left a bad taste in my mouth. Edit: I suppose it could have been the employee messing with me to sell a pro account.

Originally Posted by aircobra Think about that for a second. You just said the values didn't show up until your card was scanned. Obviously that has to happen regardless of it being a PRO or free membership for the offer to work. You can't just go in there and trade stuff in without the membership and expect those values.

That's not what said. He said the correct values didn't show up until they added the Pro membership to the transaction. Meaning they made him upgrade to Pro.

Originally Posted by klimb22 That's not what said. He said the correct values didn't show up until they added the Pro membership to the transaction. Meaning they made him upgrade to Pro.

Yeah, he edited and said the employee got him to buy a pro so dam lol sucks for him

Originally Posted by aircobra Think about that for a second. You just said the values didn't show up until your card was scanned. Obviously that has to happen regardless of it being a PRO or free membership for the offer to work. You can't just go in there and trade stuff in without the membership and expect those values.

I had a membership, though. It just wasn't the pro membership. Sorry if that was unclear. I gave the clerk my email address, he found the account, and then scanned in the games.

He was all set to ring it up, when I asked him what the trade in values were. I balked at what I was being offered, and pulled up the website on my phone. He then asked his manager "Do you think these would show up with a pro account?", so they give it a shot, and the correct trade in values showed up.

So it has to be one of three things:
1) There was some miscommunication in how they were receiving their trade in values.
2) One needs to have a pro account to get the special trade in values
3) The clerk was trying to push a pro account on me when I didn't need one.

Given what folks have said, I doubt #2 is the case.