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[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

Admittedly, I've been guilty of making superfluous posts in the past(aka RAMBLING, as I've called it). So, to cut down on such further posts in the main Reduced Price Guide thread, I've created THIS thread(which I will link to in the first post of the guide thread).

Please keep ALL discussions not related to actual guide drops(which guides are worth more than a penny, which ones are worth crap, etc) HERE.

But also, please continue to list dropped guides, which store they dropped at and when they dropped in the main thread.

Thanks in advance and I hope we can keep the clutter to a minimum from here on out.

[rarebucky]

You guys will like this. I go to my local GC tonight and ask about the guides. The guy says "oh, some guy came in yesterday and took almost the entire box, but I have these left" and hands me a stack of about 8-10 guides, but in that guide stack were MINT guides of Suikoden V and Tales of the Abyss! LOL! What the hell did that guy take then? I thought that was hilarious!

[eugaet]

LOL! What the hell did that guy take then? I thought that was hilarious!

He probably took all the copies of Resident Evil Archives.

[Friend of Sonic]

What's the chances of scoring at GC? Do they usually trash their guides right away, or are they YMMV like everyone else?

[eugaet]

Pretty sure it's YMMV. I got lucky and found that mine still had some of the guides from previous drops. Well, they used to have them. Before I showed up.

[rarebucky]

He probably took all the copies of Resident Evil Archives.

Nah, I asked about that and this GC hasn't had that book for years. Maybe he took all of their copies of POTC...

[Burchamj]

went to my bestbuy yesterday and they now have free stickers in fron of some guides. the guides were gone however, they have super paper mario and some 2007 codes book. They had some gears of war, but it wasnt labeled and i was not aware it was pennied out. I might have to go back in today.

[onikage]

I found an EB with several copies of FFX and a few other $.01 guides, but they had new UPC stickers covering the original ones and rang up at full price. Has anyone else ever encountered that?

[Josef]

I found an EB with several copies of FFX and a few other $.01 guides, but they had new UPC stickers covering the original ones and rang up at full price. Has anyone else ever encountered that?

I haven't encountered that yet. Did the UPC's indicate the actual product name or were they a generic guide UPC?

[onikage]

I haven't encountered that yet. Did the UPC's indicate the actual product name or were they a generic guide UPC?

I'm not 100% certain, but I'm pretty sure that the FFX sticker UPC was different from the UPC on the guide.

[jgamezcua]

I found an EB with several copies of FFX and a few other $.01 guides, but they had new UPC stickers covering the original ones and rang up at full price. Has anyone else ever encountered that?

I've encountered that before. Usually at the same stores that also override the 0.01 price to regular price if a penny guide is brought up.

The first time I encountered this I took the guide up to scan and it came up with the correct product name at regular price. The guy told me they usual spiel of not being allowed to sell 0.01 guides and how they had repriced/relabeled several others a few nights earlier. I assumed he meant the new UPC sticker codes when he said "relabeled".

[shrike4242]

I haven't encountered that yet. Did the UPC's indicate the actual product name or were they a generic guide UPC?

I've seen generic guide UPC's before, though not in a long while. They're also SKU's that never get pennied out, so they're always some measure of full price.

[Josef]

I've seen generic guide UPC's before, though not in a long while. They're also SKU's that never get pennied out, so they're always some measure of full price.

I think when GS first converted over EB's inventory they used some generic guide UPC's for guides that GS no longer carried (but I could be wrong about that).

[62t]

I seen some stores have genetic upc for pennied out guides. Of course all thats left are crappy sport guides.

[Zmonkay]

weird thing yesterday - I went and found 2 RE4 Wii guides at a gamestop I frequent, and they were marked at $5 in the system, should I still grab them?

See, if they would do this BEFORE PENNYING/DESTROYING THEM I'd actually pick up a guide now and then. As many have said, the 15-20 (if not MORE for the LE guides) is just utter bullshit for most of them. I mean, c'mon, who paid 15 bucks for the Guitar Hero 2 guide?

[heatdolphins45]

I'm hoping for a huge BB drop tomorrow. as the guide section is packed to the brim. the guides are overflowing.

[lawdood]

I'm hoping for a huge BB drop tomorrow. as the guide section is packed to the brim. the guides are overflowing.

That WOULD be quite nice, as there's a ton of current guides they have that I would love to pick up.

[Rocko]

I'm hoping for a huge BB drop tomorrow. as the guide section is packed to the brim. the guides are overflowing.

Truth. I always straighten it up since, hey, they'll be mine eventually.

[erehwon]

So has anyone heard any news of a drop at BB?

[Caliburn]

I could tell they lied, since both clerks looked at one another and agreed(after a 2-3 second lapse) that both were full price still. Plus, they stashed the guides behind the counter, instead of asking me to put them back on the shelf if they're still full price.

I haven't had any incidents where GS/EB clerks lied about prices recently but if I know for sure I'm being lied to, and there isn't a visible price-output terminal for credit card usage confirming the price, I'd take up on their offer and buy it for full price. They'd have to go through some handy overriding to charge you full price since the system says its .01. Of course, nothing says you can't return it right on-spot if they do override the price.

[Slim Gatsby]

So, I'm guessing no one has checked BestBuy yet? I haven't seen anything drop on their site...

[Ubiiquitous]

I haven't had any incidents where GS/EB clerks lied about prices recently but if I know for sure I'm being lied to, and there isn't a visible price-output terminal for credit card usage confirming the price, I'd take up on their offer and buy it for full price. They'd have to go through some handy overriding to charge you full price since the system says its .01. Of course, nothing says you can't return it right on-spot if they do override the price.

You can return strategy guides? I would have to think that there is something in their policies that would prohibit that. Otherwise, people would buy a guide, use it to beat the game and then return it. But if there's no policy that's cool.

If they did override the price, I just wouldn't buy it in the first place, so a return is moot.

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

I haven't had any incidents where GS/EB clerks lied about prices recently but if I know for sure I'm being lied to, and there isn't a visible price-output terminal for credit card usage confirming the price, I'd take up on their offer and buy it for full price. They'd have to go through some handy overriding to charge you full price since the system says its .01. Of course, nothing says you can't return it right on-spot if they do override the price.

Yeah, you could always buy them and then return them on the spot, but I'm just too cheap to even be bothered to do that anymore. They had those credit card terminals, but they must have the price output shut off, since this isn't the first time I've tried this at that store and I tend to immediately say 'wow that's a great price', when it comes up .01 and demand it for that price if/when it shows up as such.

Most of the ones closer to me will just bluntly say 'this is a penny, we can't sell it to you, you know that', since those are the ones I've worn out my welcome at.

It's just a shame that they don't just keep these guides once they penny off to the side and give them with the game when people buy them. It's a waste to dumpster them, in more ways than one. Although, the guides at the store I tried getting Warhawk and Jericho from were mostly trashed anyway.

The rest of the guides were in various states of crap, from a copy of the Bioshock guide which had a LONG tear up the middle of the front cover to the other copies of Warhawk's guide which were victim to numerous bends and tears and folds. The guides at MANY of the local GS stores seem to be in deplorable condition by the time they penny them that it's almost a sin to even take them in such trashed condition.

[Rocko]

All the guides at my GS are always trashed as well.

Sad day if there's still no BB drop.

[mykee98]

Just got back from best buy and picked up pokemon mystery dungeon for free! The shelf that the guides where on had it marked for free and the guy at the counter scanned it it rang up 14.99 but he walked back there looked at the tag came back and adjusted the price.
Its a little beat up but free is free.

[heatdolphins45]

ah well another sad monday. next monday would be perfect for guide hunting as I have the day off in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

[guinaevere]

See, if they would do this BEFORE PENNYING/DESTROYING THEM I'd actually pick up a guide now and then.

It happens at GS every once in a while. Probably at other stores too, but I only recall it at GS.

Oh and FYI, I've seen copies of the Gears Of War guide for 360 marked @ both $4.99 and $19.99. Just in case any of you can't grab a copy and want one, they SHOULD ring up the $4.99 price.

Just make sure it's the 360 version, as you say. The new PC version was released more recently and is full price.

Sorry to hear about them lying to you, Iam. Hate when they do that.

Truth. I always straighten it up since, hey, they'll be mine eventually.

[yuy104]

I had trouble at my GC. The manager lied to me thinking i dunno anything!

[yamas]

Waiting for BB drop. I hid a Mass Effect LE Super Mario Galazy LE and two hardcover zelda guides behind some guitar hero guitars. Hoping they'll still be there.

[62t]

I was going to second Animal Crossing not being a penny at Game Crazy.

Its 14.99.

Has anyone else been having a lot of problems getting penny guides from Game Crazy all of a sudden? I've been rejected on large piles of guides 3 times now, and the rest of the stores I've been too have only had a few guides out, or already cleaned house.

my problem is the whole $0.0 thing. Before they had no problem with pennied out guide.