[quote name='cassidyarch']I had L4D and used the $10 coupon-- $40 after tax. I had $5 loyalty bucks, but they wouldn't let me combine coupons. Is there a trick to doing that?[/quote]
It should almost be telling you to stack them at checkout if it's an option.
As far as the Valkyria Chronicles comment.. believe me when I say that I'm a cheapass gamer and amongst those not willing to buy it at retail. It's just this game in particular it seems that almost no one is buying it but a large majority of PS3 owners want it. Did we tighten up even more over the holidays? I'm not sure. I had quite the stockpile of goozex points, enough to cover all 8 or 9 fall releases I wanted, but a few of them seem like they'll never come (COD5, Fallout 3, Valkyria Chronicles) not only because I'm not low in the queue, but because it seems no one is trading.
I've taken it into my own hands to grab some titles I am too impatient to wait on... for example I'm about 375 in line for Fallout 3 yet I found someone willing to trade Fallout 3 and UT3 for my LE copy of MGS4 (which was a disappointment to me... the LE package, not the game) and I'm just goozexing a copy of MGS4 to replace it at 950 points rather than 1000 points for F3 when it becomes available six-nine months from now. I was never really going to revisit the LE goodies so it was a wash for me to get what I want now.
As for VC, I'm almost 100 in the goozex queue and there have only been 3 trades since release. I figure I'll have to use my sony card reward points to buy a copy from a retail store and I'll have enough in a month or two to do so. I almost have a feeling this game will be hard to find later on.