Original KMART Clearance Thread Resurrected!! A few NEW TITLES ADDED! Updated 1/31/07

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I've taken the FAQ from the other thread & pretty much just pasted it here without any changes made to it. You can find this FAQ at the bottom of this thread past the game list. The first list is the current game list. The second list is the original clearance list.

Consider yourself lucky if you find any titles from the second list, also most everything on the second list should be a big YMMV as most of those titles are now out of the system &/or have been pretty much bought up by everyone by now.

Alrighty then, here is the new and improved Kmart Clearance list. All titles are in alphabetical order according to their platform. The listings will be as follows: UPC - Game Title - Price.

Any game title that I've put in BOLD is missing the full 12 digit UPC & is represented with zeros. Any missing info you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Most of the prices will be listed according to info I get from inventories. However, if 3 people can confirm the same price on a certain game, then I'll change the listed price to reflect it. I'll try my best to keep this updated as much as possible.

All updates on pricing will be done as I find them and/or posts from you guys/gals.:cool: I just updated some prices for select games that I found recently. Any price that I just changed has a v next to the price. There may still be a few prices out of whack, but for the most part they're current.

Remember if you have a UPC that we need please PM me so I may update the zeroed UPC's. Thank you to everyone contributing info in this thread!

New games added 1/29/07 More games added 1/31/07

UPC link with thanks to Slash:applause:: http://kmart.slashbunny.com/ & the Value link: http://wiki.cheapassgamer.com/index....rade_in_values

Nintendo DS
045496735869 Advance Wars Dual Strike $9 YMMV
045496735920 Animal Crossing WW $9
008888162193 Asphalt Urban $2 ($14.99 w/generic sku)
 742725264182 Atari Retro $10
 008888162858 Battles Prince Of Persia $10
014633151398 Burnout Legends $14
 083717241065 Castlevania Dawn Of Sorrow $9
010086670004 Feel The Magic $3
 785138361079 Incredibles, The: Rise Of The Underminer $7
014633148664 Madden NFL 2005 $3
 014633151015 Marvel Nemesis $10
013388320035 Mega Man Battle Network 5 Double Team DS $10
045496735883 Metroid Pinball $3.50
014633151435 Need For Speed Most Wanted $14
014633149227 Need For Speed Underground 2 $15
785138361086 Nicktoons Unite $14
045496735234 Polarium $3 YMMV
008888160403 Rayman DS $2
722674700016 Ridge Racer $2
047875808430 Spiderman 2 $2
 020626723381 Spyro Shadow Legacy $14
014633148824 The Urbz: Sims In The City $10
014633149166 Tiger Woods PGA Tour $3
 045496735777 Trace Memory $15
045496736767 True Swing Golf $3.50
047875810518 Ultimate Spiderman $14
083717241027 Yu Gi OH Nightmare Troubadour $15
785138361055 Zoo Tycoon DS $15
Sony PSP
711719861928 Ape Escape Academy $10
013388270019 Darkstalkers Chronicles $4 YMMV
083717260011 Death Jr. $14
040198001397 Dynasty Warriors $5 YMMV
014633148350 FIFA Soccer $15
 045557188047 Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex $10
711719860426 Gretzky NHL $3
014633149883 Harry Potter Goblet Of Fire $14
096427014119 Infected $10 YMMV
711719862321 Kingdom Of Paradise $10 YMMV
014633149906 LOTR Tactics $15 YMMV
014633151008 Marvel Nemesis $14
711719862024 Medievil Resurrection $4 YMMV
 752919480205 MX Vs. ATV On The Edge $15
722674150040 Namco Battle Collection $14
711719860723 NBA $3
711719862222 Neopets $4
014633148800 NFL Street 2 Unleashed $14
008888331988 Prince Of Persia Revelations $14
083717260042 Rengoku $15 YMMV
 722674150019 Ridge Racer DS $4 YMMV
 014633149951 SSX On Tour $10
711719862123 The Con $4
014633151312 The Sims 2 $14
014633148381 Tiger Woods PGA Tour $15
711719861324 World Tour Soccer $3
711719852209 PSP AC Adapter $24

Nintendo GBA
728658000158 Gameshark GBA/GBA SP $29.99 & $2.25 YMMV
785138321554 Banjo Pilot $6
 785138321820 Bionicle: Maze Of Shadows $10/$14 YMMV
045496734176 Bomberman NES Classic $3
 083717500711 Castlevania Double Pack $15
802068100308 Chicken Shoot $7/$5 YMMV
020626723954 Crash/Spyro Superpack $14
 045496735357 DK King Of Swing $15
045496733971 Donkey Kong Country 2 $7
 045496735852 Donkey Kong Country 3 $15 YMMV
742725270091 DBZ The Legacy Of Goku I & II $14
742725256361 DBZ Supersonic Warriors $12
045496736897 Drill Dozer $3
722242519323 Dungeons & Dragons Eye Of The Beholder $3
045496735715 Dynasty Warriors $3
045496734923 Final Fantasy I & II $8
 045496736873 Final Fantasy IV $15
785138321301 Finding Nemo $3.50
785138321653 Finding Nemo 2 $6
 000000000000 Golden Nugget/Texas Hold 'Em 2 pack $10
010086600292 Gunstar Heroes $9
785138321608 Hot Wheels Stunt $3.50
045496734046 Ice Climber NES Classic $4
 785138321721 Incredibles, The $12.50 YMMV
 785138321943 Incredibles, The: Rise Of The Underminer $14
785138321707 Jimmy Neutron Attack Of The Twonkies $3.50
045496734190 Kirby & Amazing Mirror $7 YMMV
045496734909 Legend Of Zelda Minish Cap $7
014633148510 LOTR The 3rd Age $2
014633145137 LOTR The Two Towers $1/$.01 YMMV
014633145144 LOTR Return Of The King $3/.01 YMMV
045496734381 Mario Pinball Land $8
 013388280278 Mega Man Zero 4 $14
013388280261 Mega Man Battle Network 5 $14
045496734862 Metroid NES Classic $4
 780332079256 Metroid Zero Mission/Spyro Orange Double Pack $12 YMMV
096427013723 Monster Trucks $3.50/$10 YMMV
722674500029 Ms. Pac-man Maze Madness $6
722674500210 Pac Man World 2 $14
785138321028 Pinball Of The Dead $3
045496732530 Pokemon Ruby $17/$3.50 YMMV
045496732547 Pokemon Sapphire $17/$3.50 YMMV
785138321660 Power Ranger DT $5
 898529000010 Racing Gears $10/$14 YMMV
008888142348 Rayman Hoodlums Revenge $10
802068100018 Snood $4
785138321585 Sonic Advance 3 $2
047875811836 Spiderman Mysterio's Menace/Wolverine's Revenge $14
 785138321882 Spongebob Lights, Camera, Pants! $14
020626724241 Spyro Superpack Season Of Ice/Flame $14
785138321837 Tak The Great Juju Challenge $10
 785138321646 Tak 2: Staff Of Dreams $8
096427013716 Texas Hold 'Em $2
650008899061 World Championship Poker $1
742725250673 Yu Yu Hakusho Spirit Detective $10
742725256286 Yu Yu Hakusho Tournament Tactics $3
045496734893 Zelda II Adventure Of Link NES Classic $2.50
743840807001 Nyko Worm Light for GBA $.70
045496720377 GBA e-Reader $4

Nintendo Gamecube
014633147162 007 Everything Or Nothing $2/$10 YMMV
650008599107 Bad Boys Miami Takedown $5/$7 YMMV
045496962999 Batallion Wars $10
014633149081 Batman Begins $10
045496963408 Chibi Robo $10
712725001711 Chronicles Of Narnia $14
045496961299 Donkey Konga w/Bongos $5
045496962807 Donkey Konga 2 w/Bongos $25 (as of 12/13)
 004549696274 Donkey Konga 2 w/o bongos $3.50
045496962784 Donkey Konga Jungle Beat $ 27/$5 YMMV
742725262539 Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 $3
045496961275 Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles $8
785138380179 Finding Nemo $2
045496962760 Fire Emblem POR $10
 045496961992 Geist $10
014633151756 Harry Potter & The Goblet Of Fire $10
014633147834 Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban $2
 020626723152 Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction $10
 013388200139 Killer 7 $10 YMMV
 045496960469 Legend Of Zelda Windwaker $8 (Still as of 1/29)
014633148503 LOTR The 3rd Age $8
014633146868 LOTR Return Of The King $2
045496960018 Luigi's Mansion $8
014633147674 Madden 2005 $4
045496960933 Mario Golf Toadstool Tour $8 (Still as of 1/29)
045496962012 Mario Party 6 w/Microphone $20
045496960421 Metroid Prime $2
722674021227 Namco Museum $8
722674300100 Namco 50th Anniversary $14
014633148077 NBA Live 2005 $3
014633146219 NBA Street 2 $8
014633147742 NCAA Football 2005 $3
014633147049 Need For Speed Underground $5
014633148237 Need For Speed Most Wanted $5
045496963422 Odama $12
045496961220 Pikmin 2 $2
 045496961367 Pokemon Colloseum $5
008888152057 Rainbow Six Lockdown $2
785138380230 Spongebob Battle Bikini Bottom $8
014633149364 SSX On Tour $14
010086610123 Super Monkey Ball 2 $2
 696055115174 Super Monkey Ball Double Pack $15
 045496960070 Super Smash Bros. Melee $15
014633148558 The Urbz: Sims In The City $8
 047875808973 Ultimate Spiderman $14
 785138380315 WWE Day Of Reckoning $8
785138380452 WWE Day Of Reckoning 2 $14
047875810419 X-Men Legends II $14
 045496961978 Zelda 4 Swords $2

Xbox
014633147155 007: Everything Or Nothing $2
014633151077 007 From Russia With Love $10
722674200028 Breakdown $5.99
008888512615 Brothers In Arms Earned In Blood $14
014633151022 Burnout Revenge $14
 712725001735 Chronicles Of Narnia $15
008888512240 Clancy Triple Pack $4
788687200226 Crash 'N Burn $9.99
 020626723138 Crash Tag Team Racing $32
 047875810730 Doom 3 Limited Collectors Edition $10
742725262553 Dragon Ball Z Sagas $4 YMMV
710425296178 ESPN NBA 2K5 $1.50
710425296116 ESPN NFL 2K5 $2
 047875805811 Fantastic 4 $10
008888511618 Far Cry Instincts $14
014633148992 FIFA Street $14
 752919520154 Finding Nemo $2
 020626723428 Flatout $10
031719300594 Gauntlet 7 Sorrows $14
 008888510048 Ghost Recon $2
008888511649 Ghost Recon 2 $2
008888512646 Ghost Recon 2 Summit Strike $14
014633148695 Goldeneye Rogue Agent $2
014633151596 Half Life 2 $14
882224053884 Halo Triple Pack $12
014633147827 Harry Potter: Prisoner Of Azkaban $3
014633149890 Harry Potter: Goblet Of Fire $10
008888512868 Heroes Of The Pacific $14
 020626723176 Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction $10
752919520352 Incredibles, The $2
752919520475 Incredibles, The Rise Of The Underminer $14
742725265479 Indigo Prophecy $4 YMMV
805529974951 Jade Empire $10
031719300709 LA Rush $14
788687200332 Lego Star Wars $14
 014633148497 LOTR: 3rd Age $2
014633146851 LOTR: Return Of The King $2/$10 YMMV
014633147667 Madden 2005 $3
014633148176 March Madness 05 $3
742725267510 Mark Ecko's Getting Up $4
014633149555 Marvel Nemesis $14
 805529974982 Mech Assault 2 $2
023272663759 Mercenaries $2
805529097711 Midtown Madness 3 $6
008888511632 Myst IV Revelation $14
722674021340 Namco Museum $2
014633146202 NBA Street Vol. 2 $2
014633147735 NCAA Football 2005 $2
014633149210 NCAA Football 2006 $21
014633148176 NCAA March Madness 2005 $3
014633147032 Need For Speed Underground $2
014633147384 NFL Street $2
014633148787 NFL Street 2 $2
712725002053 Nightmare Before Christmas $3
018946010427 Ninja Gaiden Black $15
014633148862 Oddworld Stranger's Wrath $3
710425294471 Outlaw Golf 2 $6 (Some stores Back up to $20)
076714525696 Outlaw Volleyball $9.99
722674021388 Pac-man World 2 $2
788687200233 Project Snowblind $1
096427013983 Psychonauts $3
008888512059 Rainbow 6 Lockdown $2
741648008125 Rogue Ops $5.99
014633143867 Simpsons Road Rage $2
722674021449 Soul Calibur II $2
047875805873 Spiderman 2 $2
752919520437 Spongebob Lights, Camera, Pants $3
023272319755 Star Wars Knights Of Old Republic $2
013388290130 Street Fighter Anniversary Collection $2
014633148541 The Urbz: Sims In The City $2
014633147988 Tiger Woods 05 $3
014633148633 Timesplitters $10
788687200097 Timesplitters 2 $9.99
712725001445 Tron Killer App $4
047875804432 True Crime $6
 710425292590 Warriors, The $10
650008499124 World Championship Poker $1
 710425299216 Zathura $10
805529465213 XBOX RF Adapter $2
 805529402553 XBOX Controller $24

Sony Playstation 2
722674021104 Ace Combat 4 $2
722674100168 Ace Combat 5 $5
711719750123 Ape Escape 3 $4
711719740520 ATV Offroad Fury 3 $5
752919460733 Bratz Rock Angelz $14
 047875750012 Cabela's Big Game Hunter $4
 047875751439 Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2 $14
 083717201359 Castlevania Curse Of Darkness $14
814582405821 Champions Return To Arms $15
 710425278228 College Hoops 2K6 $14
083717201281 DDR Extreme 2 (Game Only) $10
083717250425 DDR Extreme 2 Bundle $15
742725256316 Dragon Ball Z Sagas $24 & $4 YMMV
742725243910 Enter The Matrix $2
710425276187 ESPN Hoops 2K5 $1.50
710425276163 ESPN NBA 2K5 $1.50
711719703600 Eye Toy Camera $3
711719749721 Eye Toy Kinetic w/Camera $5
711719741428 Eye Toy Antigrav w/Camera $5
711719740025 Eye Toy Groove w/Camera $3
711719752325 Eye Toy Operation Spy $3
711719749523 Eye Toy Play 2 w/Camera $12
014633148985 FIFA Street $10
014633147520 Fight Night 2004 $4
662248904092 Full Metal Alchemist $3
662248905037 Full Metal Alchemist 2 $14
 031719269129 Gauntlet 7 Sorrows $14
 711719747123 Genji Dawn Of The Samurai $15
711719746621 Gretzky NHL 06 $15
014633147810 Harry Potter Prisoner Of Azkaban $6
 719593080084 Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life $15 YMMV
711719740124 Hot Shots Golf: Fore $4
 020626723169 Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction $10
742725265486 Indigo Prophecy $4
013388260393 Killer 7 $7
031719269259 LA Rush $14
031719268214 Legion The Legend Of Excalibur $5
014633146844 LOTR Return Of The King $4
047875809116 Madagascar $10
014633147650 Madden 2005 $3
014633148169 March Madness 05 $9
742725260733 Mark Ecko's Getting Up $4
711719720126 Mark Of Kri $21 (still :roll:)
[SIZE=-1]023272663353 Mercenaries $5
083717200734 Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater $9.99
 828862200112 Metal Slug 4/5 $10
 [/SIZE] 031719269150 Midway Arcade Treasures 3 $2 YMMV
 711719750024 MLB 06 The Show $19
662248904054 Musashi: Samurai Legend $3 YMMV
014633151534 MVP 06 NCAA Baseball $14
 752919460450 MX Unleashed $10
722674021098 Namco Museum 2002 $4
014633147759 Nascar 2005 $6
014633148053 NBA Live 2005 $3
014633147728 NCAA Football 2005 $3
711719736721 Neopets Darkest Faerie $10
014633147377 NFL Street $4
722674021203 Pac-man World 2 $4
008888321590 Prince Of Persia Sands Of Time $6
008888321989 Prince Of Persia Warrior Within $2
031719268856 Psi Ops Mind $10
 096427013990 Psychonauts $15
662248905099 Radiata Stories $14
008888322054 Rainbow 6 Lockdown $2
711719726821 Ratchet & Clank Going Commando $4
719593080046 Reel Fishing III $2
682384620120 Reign Of Fire $5
741648008101 Rogue Ops $6
 662248905051 Romancing Saga $15
711719751922 Sly 2 Band Of Thieves $4
752919460351 Sphinx & The Cursed Mummy $3
722674100120 SRS Street Racing Syndicate $.01 & $3
014633149340 SSX On Tour $14
722674100236 Taiko Drum Master w/Drum $5
 010086630817 Tenchu Fatal Shadows $12
722674100151 Time Crisis: Crisis Zone w/Guncon 2 $6
722674100007 Time Crisis 3 w/Guncon $6
711719740827 The Getaway: Black Monday $3
739069615121 The Haunted Mansion $9.99
021481232735 Turok Evolution $5
 047875812390 Ultimate Spiderman Limited Edition $14
047875809291 Ultimate Spiderman $14
650008399264 World Championship Poker $2
 650008399301 World Championship Poker 2 $10
711719746324 World Tour Soccer 06 $15
047875810334 Xmen Legends II $14
 083717201175 Ys Ark Of Napishtim $10 YMMV
710425279225 Zathura $10
 097855020932 Logitech Wireless Controller $4 (If you get lucky & find one)
743840805304 Nyko Airflow Controller $2
711719704300 Network Adapter $32
711719703105 Multitap $21
850006000029 Action Replay $21
Sony Playstation 1
650008199215 Beyblade $.01
711719419426 Gran Turismo $.01
711719740629 Jampack Vol. 10 $.01
014633148657 Madden 2005 $.01
711719468929 MLB 2004 $9.99
711719469520 NFL Gameday 2005 $9.99
711719455028 NHL Faceoff 97 $.01
682384510070 Pooh Kindergarten $.01
682384510063 Pooh Preschool $.01
752919470565 Spongebob Squarepants $9.99
711719445128 Syphon Filter 2 $2.99
093992072209 Tennis $.01

Below you will find another game list. This is the original clearance list that should mostly be YMMV by now. All prices below are the last known prices reported, but many are out of the system and will now depend on the employee you get, the tag on the game and your own negotiating skills.
I've not included UPC's, but I do have most of them & can add them later if there is enough demand for them. Good luck finding anything on this list!;)

Ok so here are the more recent .01 games from the above list. Transferred below 12/17/06

Nintendo DS
 785138361000 Ping Pals $0.01

Nintendo GBA
 045496733988 F Zero GP Legend $.01
 802068100117 Wing Commander $.01
045496734169 Xevious NES Classic $.01

Nintendo Gamecube
 045496960926 F Zero GX $.01
 014633146059 Medal Of Honor: Frontline $.01
 020626721103 Simpson's Hit & Run $.01
 045496960063 Star Fox Adventures $.01
 014633147995 Tiger Woods 2005 $.01

Xbox
 014633144857 007 Agent Under Fire $.01
096427012894 Advent Rising $.01
 018946010359 Dead Or Alive 3 $.01
 014633147490 MVP Baseball 2004 $.01
 047875803299 Spiderman $.01

Sony Playstation 2
 711719737926 Athens 2004 $.01
 710425273742 Destruction Derby Arenas $.01
 711719734529 Eye Toy Groove wo/Camera $.01
 752919460573 Fairly Odd Parents Shadow Showdown $.01
 093155125001 High Rollers Casino $.01
 711719726524 Jak II $.01
711719740629 Jampack Vol. 10 $.01
 828862200037 KOF Maximum Impact (Non Deluxe) $.01
 014633144710 LOTR Two Towers $.01
 014633147858 NHL 2005 $.01
710425274466 Outlaw Golf 2 $.01
 711719735526 Siren $.01
722674021432 Soul Calibur II $.01
008888320425 Splinter Cell $.01
 711719736523 World Tour Soccer 2005 $.01

XBox
007: Agent Under Fire $2
Backyard Wrestling 2 $1.50
Blinx $2
Blinx 2 $2
Conflict: Vietnam $2
Crash Twinsanity $2
Dead or Alive 3 $2
Driv3r $2
Enter the Matrix $2
ESPN NHL 2K5 $1.50
Fight Night 2004 $2
Full Spectrum Warrior $1.50
Hitman: 2 & Contracts $6
Kill Switch $2
Lemony Snicket $2
Medal of Honor Frontline $2
Men of Valor $2
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 $2
Moto GP $5
NF Speed 2 Hot Pursuit 2 $2
Outrun 2 $2
Rainbow Six 3 $3
Rainbow Six Black Arrow $2
Red Dead Revolver $2
Riddick $2
Robotech Invasion $2
Spiderman $2
Splinter Cell $2
Spyro: Hero's Tale $2
Star Wars Obi Wan $4
Street Racing Syndicate $3
SSX 3 $2
Test Drive $.80
Thief $3
Tony Hawk Underground $2

Nintendo DS
Zoo Keeper $2 (dropped to .01)
Sprung $2

Nintendo Gamecube
Army Men RTS $1.50
Army Men Sarge's War $3
Baten Kaitos $3
Beyblade V Force $6
Bomberman Jetters $10
Custom Robo $4
F-Zero GX $2
Killer 7 $15
Lemony Snicket $1
Medal of Honor Rising Sun $2
Medal of Honor Frontline $2
Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes $3
Mario Party 4/Wavebird $7
Metroid/Wavebird Combo $20
Mega Man Ann. Collection $2
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 $2
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 $2
Prince of Persia:Warrior Within $2
NFL Street $2
Shark Tale $2
Sims $2
Spyro: Hero's Tale $2
Starsky & Hutch $1
Star Fox Adventures $2
Street Racing Syndicate $3
SSX 3 $2
Tak (which one?) $2
Tiger Woods 2005 $3
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2 $2
Soul Calibur 2 $2
Viewtiful Joe 2 $1.50
Wario Ware Inc $3
Winnie the Pooh $2

Sony Playstation 1
PSOne/LCD Combo $10
PSOne LCD Screen $13 (dropped to .01)
PS1 Car Adapter $4
PS1 Multitap $18
Beyblade $1
Disney Kitchen $2
Final Fantasy Origins $10
Namco Museum 3 $3
Spyro Ripto's Rage $3
Spyro Year of the Dragon $3
Syphon Filter 2 $3
Twisted Metal Small Brawl $2
Winnie the Pooh Preschool $1
Winnie the Pooh Kindergarten $1

Sony Playstation 2
Nyko Airflow Controller $2
Logitech Wireless Controller $4
Eye Toy Camera ONLY $3
Eye Toy Groove (no cam) $3
Amplitude $10
Alias $8
Athens 2004 $3 (dropped to .01)
Backyard Wrestling 2 $1.50
Beyond Good & Evil $10
BloodRayne 2 $3
Conflict Desert Storm II $5
Conflict Vietnam $2
Dark Cloud $6
Dark Cloud 2 $3
Des. Derby Arena $4 (dropped to .01)
Devil May Cry $6 (dropped to .01)
Driv3r $2
Duel Masters $3.50
DBZ Budokai $2
FFXI w/HDD $10
FF X $2
Full Metal Alchemist $3
Gran Turismo 3 $2
Hitman Contracts$6
Hobbit $6
Jak II $2
Jet Li $5
Jimmy Neutron Twonkies $2
Karaoke Revolution 2 $2
Kill Switch $2
KOF Max Impact $8
Lemony Snicket $2
Lord Of The Rings 2 Towers $5
Mark of Kri $21
Medal Of Honor Frontline $2
Mega Man Anniversary Collection $2
Mega Man X Command Mission $2
Mega Man X8 $2
Midway Arcade Treasures 2 $1
MLB 2005 $3
Monster Hunter $4
Monsters Inc. $2
NBA Ballers $2
Onimusha 3 $2
Outlaw Golf 2 $2 (Dropped to .01)
Power Rangers Dino Thunder $1.50
Resident Evil Code: Veronica X (Dropped to .01)
Rumble Roses $1.50
Shadow Hearts: Covenant $4
Shaman King $2
Silent Hill 2 $10
Silent Hill 3 $10
Sims $2
Soul Calibur 2 $2 (Dropped to .01)
Sphinx $3
Splinter Cell $2
Spyro Hero’s Tale $2 (Dropped to .01)
SSX3 $2
Starsky & Hutch $1
Star Wars Jedi Starfighter $4
Street Fighter Anniversary $2
Tekken 4 $2
Terminator 3 $4
The Thing $3
TMNT 2 Battle Nexus $2
Vietcong Purple Haze $2
Viewtiful Joe $10
Winnie the Pooh $2
World Soccer Tour 2005 $3 (Dropped to .01)
X Games Skate $15
X Games Snowboarding $15

E-Reader
E-Reader $4
Animal Crossing Series 1-3 $.75
Ballon Fight $1
Donkey Kong $1
Donkey Kong 3 - $.39
Donkey Kong Jr. $1
Golf $.39
Mario Bros - $.39
Mario Party E Cards - $2
Pinball $.39
Pokemon Ancient Ruins - $1.50
Pokemon Freezing Ray - $.60
Pokemon Iron Defense - $.60
Super Mario Series 1 & 2 - $.60

Gameboy Advance
Battlebots $3
Beyblade G Rev $2
Beyblade V Force .80
Bionicle $2
Boktai $8
Bookworm $5
Bubble Bobble $2
Castlevania NES Classic $3
Circle of the Moon $8
Contra Advance $10
DBZ Taiketsu $2
Dora Super Spies $8
Dragonball GT $1.50
Duel Masters Kaijudo $1.50
D&D Eye Of The Beholder $3
Excite bike $3
F1 2002 $2
F-Zero GP $3
FF Tactics Adv. $9
Final Fight One $10
Galidor $3
Gradius Galaxies $8
Golden Nugget $1.50
Hamtaro $.50
Kim Possible 2 $2
Lemony Snicket $2
Lilo and Stitch 2 $2
Lord of the Rings ROTK $3
Mario Golf $3
Mega Man Battle Network 4 Red/Blue $4
Metal Slug Adv. $10
Metroid Zero Mission $3
Midnight Club Street Racing $.80
Midway Arcades Gr. Hits $.01
Oddworld Munch’s Oddysee $3
Operation Armored Liberty $3
Pokemon Pinball $7
Powerpuff Girls $10
Prince of Persia $6
Reign of Fire $2
Rugrats GU: Express Yourself $2
Samurai Jack $15
Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed $3 -Recently Re-released in a $14.99 shipper, no longer $3
Shaman King Master Of Spirits $1.50
Sonic Adventure 2 $3
Sonic Battle $3
Super Hornet FA-18 $1.50
Sword of Mana $3
Tak & the Power Of Juju $2
Top Gear Rally $3
Wing Commander $3
Winnie the Pooh $2
Xevious $1


FAQ

Q: Why was this thread created?
A: Because there are multiple threads floating around, and its useful to consolidate. THis one will have the OP constantly updates so you don't have to go digging.

Q: Are these prices YMMV?
A: No, they shouldn't be. I currently have 10 K-Marts in my shopping radius, and they've all been consistent. At one time it was thought that they were YMMV, but I'm pretty sure it was instead employee incompetence at keeping prices updated.

EDIT: Some people are reporting prices that are YMMV, but I am hesitant to mark the deal as such. If you get a different price, it seems to be the exception to the rule, not a true YMMV where it is hit or miss. I'd say these prices are 90% accurate.

Q: An employee said the price was higher than what's on the list.
A: Get the game scanned at the register.

Q: The employee got that price gun and said it was higher than what's on the list.
A: GET THE GAME SCANNED AT THE REGISTER. The gun is incorrect sometimes.

Q: Can I use the price checker thingies?
A: YES! Brilliant idea! They will give you an accurate price. Also, if you have the problem of useless employees not opening the cases for you, you can print off the UPC codes and check them at the price checker.

Q: How can I help?
A: Multiple ways:
- Get a job at K-Mart so we have an inside man
- Post the prices of the games you get
- Write down the prices of games you do not get, then post those too

Q: When are items marked down?
A: Once a month, near the middle of the month.

Q: Does this have anything to do with the weekend 50% off sales K-Mart usually runs?
A: No. While some of these games used to be on the list, this is completely seperate. None of these games are on the 50% list anymore and will not be reduced during these sales.

Q: What if I bought a game at a higher price and it gets reduced? Can I get a price adjustment or a return/rebuy?
A: Chances are VERY SLIM. K-Mart does not do price adjustments on clearance items. A return/rebuy might be possible, but most Kmarts do not employee people with the mental capacity to fully understand this concept.

Q:Can I price check the games without getting into the cases?
A: Yes, thanks to this UPC document from TimTucker. You can scan these at self scanners located in most K-Marts, but note that sometimes prices may not be accurate
Old Link: http://www.timtucker.com/games/kmart_upcs.doc
New Current Link http://www.timtucker.com/games/kmart_upcs_2.doc

Q: What if the price is higher than what's on the list?
A: Then your store has not done markdowns left. Ask them if they have any pending PCLs and perhaps they can do it for you, or just wait it out. Also, you could try a return/rebuy if you have another local store that did the drops. Use the UPC sheet to check this

Q: What if a price doesn't come up? It says "Check shelf tag for pricing".
A: This means that the game was at 90% off, and for some reason it was scheduled to be marked down further. If you have a cool employee, you can get games for cheap. If you have a game with outdated tags, you could be in for a hassle. This is similiar when Target marks things down for salvage.

Q: Are these markdowns YMMV?
A: NO. These are universal nationwide prices. If you arent getting them, its your stores problem and doesnt indicate a larger problem as a whole.

Q: How are things marked down?
A: AFAIK, it can be done manually via gun, or it can be done en masse at the register. If you want further details, we are currently looking for a CAG to take one for the team and get a job at K-Mart to infiltrate and learn their secret methods.

Q: What games will drop further?
A: As a GENERAL RULE, games at 1.00, 1.50, 2.00, 3.00, 4.00 are at 90% off AND WILL NOT DROP FURTHER. Games ending in .99 will drop 2 bucks at a time in random intervals.

Q: What do I do with all these games?
A: http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...ad.php?t=95481
 
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[quote name='ThatDamnDave']Paddle: What version of the Urbz was ringing up $4? It came out for GC/PS2/DS.

I have an unopened Polarium I'd like to trade for a Half Life 2. It rang up full price at mine, must have had a new UPC sticker on it, guy wouldn't let me touch it.[/quote]

Sorry, it's I haven't looked at this thread in a while. It was the PS2 version
 
Yeah. I got the $5 off $35 off coupon, too. I'm going again, since a lot of games are still there and using the coupon. It's actually a print out that was handed to customers as they were coming in. Anyone need a scan of it?

As for games having a sticker over the original UPC, if you can get at least ONE game like it w/o the sticker, you can get a cashier to ring all the other ones for the same price. This is very YMMV, b/c the cashier had done it for me and another time, the manager OK'ed it.
 
Just to give my report in case anyone else is searching the forums:

Advance War Dual Strike was $9 (bought)
Polarium was $24 (passed)

Had my bro check the Kmart in a neighboring town and they had
Polarium $3 (bought both of the remaining copies)
True Swing Golf $3.50 (bought 1).
 
[quote name='konmai']Yeah. I got the $5 off $35 off coupon, too. I'm going again, since a lot of games are still there and using the coupon. It's actually a print out that was handed to customers as they were coming in. Anyone need a scan of it?

As for games having a sticker over the original UPC, if you can at least ONE game like it w/o the sticker, you can get a cashier to ring all the other ones for the same price. This is very YMMV, b/c the cashier had done it for me and another time, the manager OK'ed it.[/QUOTE]

Please post a scan of the coupon. Thanks.
 
i don't have a KMart around here. used to have one before buy it closed. the last KMart i went to was in NY and i saw Devil May Cry for $50. the first one. lol.
 
same here, I'm also looking for Animal Crossing: WW [DS]!

I did trade in my Ape Escape 3 + Neo Pets for $30.00 credit today & will most likely return tomorrow with more trade-ins.
 
[quote name='Melatonin']JJSP, my Circuit City has about 6-7 copies of Bomberman DS on the clearance rack for $15. Have you checked there?[/QUOTE]
I nabbed it at Fry's for $10. Not exactly clearance, but better than nothing.
 
[quote name='konmai']Save $5 on any purchase $35 or more. Offer valid Tue., Dec. 6- Sat., Jan. 13, 2007.

Hope this works at all Kmarts as this was one given out at mine to customers coming in one day. It does say void if copied in the back but looks like a copy itself that Kmart employees had cut up to give to customers.

front: http://download.yousendit.com/607C51DD285A6FDD
back: http://download.yousendit.com/10011A6A1EFB5944[/QUOTE]

Aw, man, I could have used that the other day ;).

[quote name='speedy05']
same here, I'm also looking for Animal Crossing: WW [DS]!

I did trade in my Ape Escape 3 + Neo Pets for $30.00 credit today & will most likely return tomorrow with more trade-ins.
[/quote]

Hopefully I'm not pointing out the obvious here, but you spent $8 at Kmart to get $30 in credit at GC. You could just buy AC:WW from GC for $35 (after getting a bit more credit as you say you will) and it will end up costing you about the same ($9). Now, sure, it would be nice to find an AC:WW for $9 and save the GC credit for something else. But if you are going to pay $9 + tax + shipping + extra from a CAG you would be better off just using your GC credit. I'm just sayin'...
 
I'm sure this is going to come off as a stupid question, but as a K-Mart electronics employee, is there anyway I can help you guys out?

I had 2 customers come in with a list of clearance games that I had not had time over the holiday season to markdown yet. I think I only had about 30% of the games on their list, but I least I knew what games they were talking about, although even I didn't know some of them were on clearance yet.

So, how can I help you guys? If none of you were aware, K-Mart sends every store a PLC (Price List Correct) once a month, both for normal priced items and another for clearance items. That's when we get the scoop on what new stuff has been reduced more (or reduced for the first time).

As for why some K-Marts have completely different prices for games, it all depends on both the UPC number and also HOW the game was put into the system. For instance, one of the games the 2 guys were interested in was Dynasty Warriors for PSP. It was supposed to to be under 5 bucks, but it was 40 in my system, down from it's starting price of 49.99. In this case, the game had to be hand-entered into the system rather than scanning in as normal, so it's clearancing was completely thrown off. Also, games that ring up as "Video Game" or something else other than the game's title can throw off the price of the game as well, even though it's SUPPOSE to be by UPC only.

So anyway, if I can help you guys in any way compile the list, let me know.

P.S. To the gentlemen who came in a few days ago (Cabot, AR K-Mart), I found a few X-Box games that had been knocked off:

Tom Clancy Classic Trilogy (X-Box)(GR, SC, RS) - 4.00
Hots Shots Golf FORE! (PS2)(customer return, unopened) - 4.00
World Championship Poker (X-Box)(did you get this?) - 1.00


One more I can't think of right now. I'll have to wait until Monday to get back there and see.
 
Let me add on to what I posted, then I'll PM the original poster of this thread and see what we can work out.

What I meant by "scanning into the system" is when we enter an item into our inventory, not when it is scanned at the register. The way we enter things into inventory completely controls what the register reads. So, when I say something was "hand-entered" into the system, I meant it was improperly added into our inventory, which can mess up clearance pricing.

I assume the price differences come up either when the KSN is different or wasn't entered into the system if it had to be hand-entered, which may also affect its pricing. FYI, the KSN number is just K-Mart's personal number for items (it can be for multiple items with multiple UPCs, whereas a UPC is specific to one item).

While I'd rather not read nearly 90 pages of replies to this topic, I guess I can address 2 issues that seem to be recurring about K-Mart:
  1. All K-Mart employees are generally assholes and don't help people.
  2. Most K-Mart game sections look like a bomb went off in each case.
1. I personally can't disagree with this statement. While I like some of my fellow employees, I'm not fond of the rest, and every other K-Mart employee who I've called or has called me are unknowledgeable, unfriendly, and generally dicks who seem like it's not their job to look up something for me, check on an item, etc. The last retard they sent back to my department came to work high one night, got fired before we closed, then came back to work the next day like NOTHING HAPPENED. Needless to say, he was chewed out and disposed of in a not-so-nice manner.

As for myself, I do what I can. In regards to the 2 gentlemen I mentioned earlier, I finally looked at their list and virtually told them what games I had and didn't have, checked on some others I thought might be cheap, and found a few not on their list. Let's put it this way: I've gotten "rewards" for what my managers considered to be "above and beyond" what I was expected to do for my customers, which blew my mind for some time, until you realize how little they expect out of everyone, then it makes a bit more sense, but it's still completely messed up.

2. I know for sure my game sections look like crap. I've reorganized them twice, but it only takes one day off and somebody thumbing through them looking for a game (despite the fact that I put them in aphlabetical order each time) to bring me back to square one, which is why I know so much about what games I have, don't have, how much they are, etc.: because otherwise everyone would mess them up in no time.

This happens simply because I don't have enough room for all of the games. I am mandated to keep all of my games in locked cases, which the intelligent people who assembled them messed up and shorted me one shelf for each case. I have about 300+ :ps2: games stuck in the bottom of its case that hardly ever see the light of day (granted that does help games drop down to the more "manageable" prices).

The other thing that helps this is the fact that, well, I'm it back there. I get so pissed when I see 5 guys at Wal-Mart chatting about irrelevant topics and doing nothing while I'm alone at K-Mart helping customers, doing my own product stocking, pricing, organizing, new release items, getting TVs from upstairs (who the hell decided to put TVs on the second floor anyway?), helping customers not in my department when another employee won't or is MIA, and, well, you get the picture. Then they have the nerve to whine at me when I leave my department to help someone else.

Anyway, I'll see what I can do this thread.

P.S. - Although my hand scanner indicates that some games are one penny, I have been told that I'm no longer allowed to sell games for a penny and must now sell games for a minimum of one dollar. This stems from a man who came in and purchased nearly all the one cent games I had and decided to resell them in his store across the overpass from me. It's one thing to make a profit, it's another to be a dick and do something like that ( I don't have a problems with individuals buying and then reselling games for profit, but not when it's for his own business). He's getting a visit from me in the near future.
 
to help both you and your customers out at your kmart Country4687, you should spine them. a couple k-marts i've been to certainly do a lot better than the two other k-marts i've been to that are just crap everywhere. i hate those weird displays where they face out and things just get stuck behind or fall behind other things. spining makes it easier for everyone, since you see everything. not sure if you have the authority to do stuff like that, but i'd mention it to your manager.
 
[quote name='hopeunknown']to help both you and your customers out at your kmart Country4687, you should spine them. a couple k-marts i've been to certainly do a lot better than the two other k-marts i've been to that are just crap everywhere. i hate those weird displays where they face out and things just get stuck behind or fall behind other things. spining makes it easier for everyone, since you see everything. not sure if you have the authority to do stuff like that, but i'd mention it to your manager.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. The DS and GBA cases were full of Ice Age games on the front and god knows what on the back.
 
[quote name='hopeunknown']to help both you and your customers out at your kmart Country4687, you should spine them. a couple k-marts i've been to certainly do a lot better than the two other k-marts i've been to that are just crap everywhere. i hate those weird displays where they face out and things just get stuck behind or fall behind other things. spining makes it easier for everyone, since you see everything. not sure if you have the authority to do stuff like that, but i'd mention it to your manager.[/quote]

I would agree with this, but we've asked and they (as in the district managers, not my store managers) said no. The games on the display shelves must be face-forward (which you see at all the other stores). The games at the bottom of each case are fair game, so I do spine those, but as with the PS2 games, when I've got that many in a small case, it's virtually four rows deep to fit them all in, which of course makes only the fourth row visible without raking through each row (the bottom of each of my cases is just big enough to stand each game up to spine them, which is why I have to have four rows of them). It's also a problem with the PSP games/videos (I've got a huge amount of UMD videos that still aren't on clearance) and the GBA games to a lesser degree. It'll be interesting when they send me a new layout that says where the Wii and PS3 games are "suppose" to go. I say "suppose to go" because I don't follow the layout anyway since they screwed me on my shelves and everything else.
 
[quote name='Country4687']
P.S. - Although my hand scanner indicates that some games are one penny, I have been told that I'm no longer allowed to sell games for a penny and must now sell games for a minimum of one dollar. This stems from a man who came in and purchased nearly all the one cent games I had and decided to resell them in his store across the overpass from me. It's one thing to make a profit, it's another to be a dick and do something like that ( I don't have a problems with individuals buying and then reselling games for profit, but not when it's for his own business). He's getting a visit from me in the near future.[/QUOTE]

Damn, I think very few people here have ever actually gotten a penny game for a penny from Kmart. They usually do 1 of 3 things: 1) Say they can't sell it. 2) Sell it for the tagged price ($10 or $49.99 or whatever) 3) Look up the last retail price and discount it 90%. I've had a few very nice Electronics employees (one in particular who knows me and helps me look for stuff - very nice) who do the latter. Thus I was able to get Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban for Xbox, just last week, for $2.99 (90% off the last MSRP of $29.99).

If they would sell them all for $1 I would be thrilled! I mean, hell, even I would feel bad walking out with games for a penny a piece :rofl:.
 
[quote name='Country4687']I'm sure this is going to come off as a stupid question, but as a K-Mart electronics employee, is there anyway I can help you guys out?

I had 2 customers come in with a list of clearance games that I had not had time over the holiday season to markdown yet. I think I only had about 30% of the games on their list, but I least I knew what games they were talking about, although even I didn't know some of them were on clearance yet.

So, how can I help you guys? If none of you were aware, K-Mart sends every store a PLC (Price List Correct) once a month, both for normal priced items and another for clearance items. That's when we get the scoop on what new stuff has been reduced more (or reduced for the first time).

As for why some K-Marts have completely different prices for games, it all depends on both the UPC number and also HOW the game was put into the system. For instance, one of the games the 2 guys were interested in was Dynasty Warriors for PSP. It was supposed to to be under 5 bucks, but it was 40 in my system, down from it's starting price of 49.99. In this case, the game had to be hand-entered into the system rather than scanning in as normal, so it's clearancing was completely thrown off. Also, games that ring up as "Video Game" or something else other than the game's title can throw off the price of the game as well, even though it's SUPPOSE to be by UPC only.

So anyway, if I can help you guys in any way compile the list, let me know.

P.S. To the gentlemen who came in a few days ago (Cabot, AR K-Mart), I found a few X-Box games that had been knocked off:

Tom Clancy Classic Trilogy (X-Box)(GR, SC, RS) - 4.00
Hots Shots Golf FORE! (PS2)(customer return, unopened) - 4.00
World Championship Poker (X-Box)(did you get this?) - 1.00


One more I can't think of right now. I'll have to wait until Monday to get back there and see.[/quote]

Haha, awesome man, I'm glad you checked out the site! Yes! I'm glad ya found a copy of Hot Shots Golf, I'll probably swing by to grab that in the morning.
 
wow.. so I went to my 3rd kmart in my area.. and they actually had all the "correct" sticker prices on the games... like games were ticketed as 3 bucks.. i was quite surprised to see this.

but yeah.. some store displays are a mess.. my main kmart has that out of case display which is nice for getting cheap games.. but my 2nd choice kmart has everything locked up.. very hard for browsing...ugh.. happy new year everyone!
 
My favorite KMART has just put up a cardboard bin and put stickers over alot of the UPCs. Went for Animal Crossing DS..Left with a classic controller for Wii :D
 
I went a week ago, hoping to score a lot of cheap games to trade in. But, I only ended up with Prince of Persia: WW, Madden 2005 DS, and one other game for like $8 total. Huge waste of trip. And I am never going in another K-Mart ever again. This was my first time since I was a little kid, and maybe it was just this store, but holy shit was this store like crap. Maybe I'm just used to Wal-Mart Supercenter and Target, etc. Where it's all super clean and nice. But this place was the ghetto of all retail establishments. Not just the game section, but clothes in the aisles and just, damn. This was the Little Rock, AR location.
 
While people are at kmart might as well look out for this too its a great deal and I got one of these this morning.

From lazyone at slickdeals

$22.00 marked down from $89.99
Western Digital 80GB USB 2.0 External HD 7200RPM
(UPC is: 718037105635)

General Information
Western Digital's USB 2.0 external hard drive makes it possible to add reliable, high-performance storage instantly to your PC or Macintosh. Simply plug into a USB port or USB PCI adapter card and within seconds back up your valuable data or store large multimedia files. Multiple drives stack together and can be routed through a hub, enabling you to further expand your storage capacity. Designed with Western Digital's WD Caviar 7200 RPM hard drive and a high-speed USB 2.0 bridge, this external hard drive provides maximum storage performance.
 
I just got back from my local K-mart, and the only game I found worth getting was Rebelstar - Tactical Command (GBA) for $9.99. Picked that one up and had the cashier open the cabinets so I could rummage through the mess of DS and GBA games they had. Unfortunatley, nothing good. I did find two copies of the new Castlevania game buried in the back of the cabinet. My heart skipped a beat because I thought it was Dawn of Sorrow.

Thanks OP!
 
[quote name='89']I went a week ago, hoping to score a lot of cheap games to trade in. But, I only ended up with Prince of Persia: WW, Madden 2005 DS, and one other game for like $8 total. Huge waste of trip. And I am never going in another K-Mart ever again. This was my first time since I was a little kid, and maybe it was just this store, but holy shit was this store like crap. Maybe I'm just used to Wal-Mart Supercenter and Target, etc. Where it's all super clean and nice. But this place was the ghetto of all retail establishments. Not just the game section, but clothes in the aisles and just, damn. This was the Little Rock, AR location.[/quote]

That Rodney Parham store (Little Rock, AR) is an absolute shithole IMO. I've been there once (before I got the job at mine) and swore to never go back. I agree that it might have been that we are familiar with the cleaniness of other stores, but I'm afraid it plagues most K-Marts, mine included. It's not as bad as that one, but it still amazes me how much crap gets left everywhere and nobody cares. For my store, it's caused by the lack of employees (most of us [cashiers excluded] are responsible for at least 2 departments[I freaking hate doing stationary stuff]) that can help clean up, whereas most other stores specify others to do nothing but clean up areas.

[quote name='io']Damn, I think very few people here have ever actually gotten a penny game for a penny from Kmart. They usually do 1 of 3 things: 1) Say they can't sell it. 2) Sell it for the tagged price ($10 or $49.99 or whatever) 3) Look up the last retail price and discount it 90%. I've had a few very nice Electronics employees (one in particular who knows me and helps me look for stuff - very nice) who do the latter. Thus I was able to get Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban for Xbox, just last week, for $2.99 (90% off the last MSRP of $29.99).

If they would sell them all for $1 I would be thrilled! I mean, hell, even I would feel bad walking out with games for a penny a piece :rofl:.[/quote]

1. They can't refuse to sell it to you. It's in your hands. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that an item gets to be so old it's taken out of the inventory and rings up as "Not on File". Even then, since you found it, they should re-enter it into the system and sell it to you.

2. There's the other possibility that the morons don't know what to do when they ring up a game at the register and it says "Price Required". If this is the case, the game has almost always been clearanced out to 3.00 dollars or less. If they pull some crap about entering the sticker price, DEMAND that they use an RMU (Remote Management Unit, one of those hand-scanners) to find out what price it should be. The RMUs show what the game was originally priced (as in it's starting price) and the price as it stands now.

3. This is something I've never heard of before. Do you happen to know how they check on the last retail price of the game? Do they also have to call a manager to approve the discounted price they give you?
 
I was at my K-mart today, and all they had was a bin that said $19.99 and under, and it was mostly $15-$20 games in there with ones like Killer 7 mixed in for $7. Are you guys saying that some of those might be $3? So if i went over to one of the scanners on the wall and scanned them, they would come up as $3. Our k-mart sucks, so i dont really want to go back there, but if this is true and seeing it is only like 5 mins away from me, i guess i could make the trip again.

Thanks
 
[quote name='Memorex']I was at my K-mart today, and all they had was a bin that said $19.99 and under, and it was mostly $15-$20 games in there with ones like Killer 7 mixed in for $7. Are you guys saying that some of those might be $3? So if i went over to one of the scanners on the wall and scanned them, they would come up as $3. Our k-mart sucks, so i dont really want to go back there, but if this is true and seeing it is only like 5 mins away from me, i guess i could make the trip again.

Thanks[/quote]

Yes and no. It's possible, but as everyone has said, it seems each K-Mart has it's own way to put out games. I will say that if you see any games with large red or black price tags in the top right corner for 14.99 or 9.99, those will NOT be on clearance. Each K-Mart was sent a corrugate (cardboard display case thingy) with about 200 of those pre-priced and with new UPC codes taped over the plastic.

Killer 7 is a clearance game and was marked down to 7.00 in November I believe. It's hard to spot what games would be on clearance. I only know because I've done enough of it at the store to pretty much have a general instinct of what's what. You're basically looking for slightly older games that you either don't recognize or haven't seen in a while. For instance, let's take the Ratchet and Clank series from the PS2. Should any stores still have them, the first one is now a one penny game, Going Commando is a 4.00 game (due to be reduced to 2.00 in January), and Up Your Arsenal/Deadlocked remain at the 19.99 price. Here's how prices generally drop, based on what the last retail price is before becoming part of the clearance items:

49.99 - Although it's very rare to go on clearance from this price, games should drop to 40.00 at first, then slowly go down by 5 dollars every month. On certain games, a drop in price may take 2 months in the beginning, then will begin to go down regularly month-by-month as the game doesn't sell.

39.99 - Fairly rare as well, but these games will drop to either 36.00 or 32.00 on their initial clearance, then decrease by another 4 dollars a month until they are gone.

29.99 - These games, like the others, drop by 10% each month. These games will go to 27.00 on the first clearance, then slowly build up after that. On occasion, games will get slashed to 15.00 on the very first clearance, but will then not be touched for some months afterwards.

19.99 - The general standard starting place for most clearance games. Some follow the same pattern, dropping 2.00 a month (18.00 on the first clearance) until it's they hit 10.00, then they go down to 5.00, 3.00 OR 2.00. Other games go down to 14.00 on the first clearance, then 7.00, 3.50, 2.00, etc., until gone.

I have no clue who came up with this clearance system, so I'm always a bit confused on how some games are clearanced down.
 
[quote name='Country4687']Yes and no. It's possible, but as everyone has said, it seems each K-Mart has it's own way to put out games. I will say that if you see any games with large red or black price tags in the top right corner for 14.99 or 9.99, those will NOT be on clearance. Each K-Mart was sent a corrugate (cardboard display case thingy) with about 200 of those pre-priced and with new UPC codes taped over the plastic.

Killer 7 is a clearance game and was marked down to 7.00 in November I believe. It's hard to spot what games would be on clearance. I only know because I've done enough of it at the store to pretty much have a general instinct of what's what. You're basically looking for slightly older games that you either don't recognize or haven't seen in a while. For instance, let's take the Ratchet and Clank series from the PS2. Should any stores still have them, the first one is now a one penny game, Going Commando is a 4.00 game (due to be reduced to 2.00 in January), and Up Your Arsenal/Deadlocked remain at the 19.99 price. Here's how prices generally drop, based on what the last retail price is before becoming part of the clearance items:

49.99 - Although it's very rare to go on clearance from this price, games should drop to 40.00 at first, then slowly go down by 5 dollars every month. On certain games, a drop in price may take 2 months in the beginning, then will begin to go down regularly month-by-month as the game doesn't sell.

39.99 - Fairly rare as well, but these games will drop to either 36.00 or 32.00 on their initial clearance, then decrease by another 4 dollars a month until they are gone.

29.99 - These games, like the others, drop by 10% each month. These games will go to 27.00 on the first clearance, then slowly build up after that. On occasion, games will get slashed to 15.00 on the very first clearance, but will then not be touched for some months afterwards.

19.99 - The general standard starting place for most clearance games. Some follow the same pattern, dropping 2.00 a month (18.00 on the first clearance) until it's they hit 10.00, then they go down to 5.00, 3.00 OR 2.00. Other games go down to 14.00 on the first clearance, then 7.00, 3.50, 2.00, etc., until gone.

I have no clue who came up with this clearance system, so I'm always a bit confused on how some games are clearanced down.[/quote]

Is there anyway you could get us a list of all of the cheap ass K-Mart games, or is that impossible??
 
[quote name='Memorex']Is there anyway you could get us a list of all of the cheap ass K-Mart games, or is that impossible??[/quote]

It's coming, at least what I can get my hands on. For the most part, it may have to be just what other people buy (like it has been for some time) plus what I have at my K-Mart. I will for sure be able to add in the Clearance PLC list each month I get it. The catch with that is that it only tells me what stuff got marked down again for that month, not an entire clearance list.

As far as a FULL list of clearance games goes, there is a small possiblity. If I can find a way to look up all clearance items in my department and print out that list, then it would be a great foundation for future updates. The problems with that would be actually printing out the list (the computer system they use is an ancient one that I barely know how to run), then, should I get said list printed, based on the way it categorizes items, I won't be able to separate the video games out, so I'd have to print an entire clearance list and then hand-sort the video games out and add them to some sort of database/list.
 
[quote name='Pelican']Where are the UPC scanners in Kmart? I couldn't find one at the one I went to.[/quote]

you just need to search... they are always one the support columns of the store... my #1 store has one the the toy department... but my #3 kmart has one in the clothing department.. you really just need to look around and find one... sometime you will see like a red flag on the column indicating there is one there..
 
Yesterday i made a new run to Kmart to see what they might have, this time i even thumbed through the cases and the stack because you can't see whats under alot of them. I mananged to get... :)


:psp: Ape Escape Academy X2
:psp: Neo PetPets The Wand of Wishing X2
:xbox: Rainbow Six:Lockdown
:ds: True Swing Golf
:ds: Polarium
:gba: Dynasty Warriors Advance

All that for $39.50 :)

Once again this thread is awsome, thanks OP and thanks for the handy game lookup search engine ;)
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']The Xbox version of Psychonauts rang up as $24.00 for me, not $3.00. Anyone else run into this?[/QUOTE]

Yep, that's one of the weird anomaly games, one store I got it for $3, another store had it for $24.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']The Xbox version of Psychonauts rang up as $24.00 for me, not $3.00. Anyone else run into this?[/QUOTE]

One store I got them for $3 and the other had them marked at $21 and it rang up at $24.
 
[quote name='Country4687']

1. They can't refuse to sell it to you. It's in your hands. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that an item gets to be so old it's taken out of the inventory and rings up as "Not on File". Even then, since you found it, they should re-enter it into the system and sell it to you.

2. There's the other possibility that the morons don't know what to do when they ring up a game at the register and it says "Price Required". If this is the case, the game has almost always been clearanced out to 3.00 dollars or less. If they pull some crap about entering the sticker price, DEMAND that they use an RMU (Remote Management Unit, one of those hand-scanners) to find out what price it should be. The RMUs show what the game was originally priced (as in it's starting price) and the price as it stands now.

3. This is something I've never heard of before. Do you happen to know how they check on the last retail price of the game? Do they also have to call a manager to approve the discounted price they give you?[/QUOTE]


Right - they nearly always sell it to you, but usually at the tagged price or they pull something out of their ass to price it ;). I was at a Kmart in VA last year and I pulled out some old crappy $2 game (forget what) that was barely worth buying at that price. They just repriced it at $49.99 since that was the tagged value :roll:. But I think others in this thread have reported that they were refused sales of "Price Reqd" games and told those had to be "sent back" or some such nonsense.

As for #3, I don't know how the guy does it, but he fiddles around with the hand scanner for a bit and comes up with the original price, then takes 90% off. Though it sounds to me like he is just doing what you say in #2 above, so I'm not sure. He's a great Kmart employee - he'll go with me to the case and hand scan stuff as I pull it out. It is much faster than taking a huge pile to the cash register just for price checks. This way, also, I can just put things back where they were instead of him having to do it later, so it works out for both of us. Plus he's always curious as to what new items I've found out about. I also try to straighten up their piles when I'm looking through ;).
 
Finally found the elusive DS Advance Wars...and it rings up at $34.99. Is it likely that this will eventually drop to $9 and I just have to keep checking back, or if it hasn't been clearanced yet, then it probably never will be?
 
[quote name='dinovelvet']Finally found the elusive DS Advance Wars...and it rings up at $34.99. Is it likely that this will eventually drop to $9 and I just have to keep checking back, or if it hasn't been clearanced yet, then it probably never will be?[/quote]

Must be another anomaly. It was $9.99 at my K-Mart.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Must be another anomaly. It was $9.99 at my K-Mart.[/quote]

it's definitely another anomaly. i got most of the clearance games at the markdown price but Advance Wars still rings up at $34 and they have two copies at my local store (luckily i was able to get one from a friendly CAGer). the Donkey Konga 2 bongo pk still rings up at $40 there too.
 
[quote name='io']Right - they nearly always sell it to you, but usually at the tagged price or they pull something out of their ass to price it ;). I was at a Kmart in VA last year and I pulled out some old crappy $2 game (forget what) that was barely worth buying at that price. They just repriced it at $49.99 since that was the tagged value :roll:. But I think others in this thread have reported that they were refused sales of "Price Reqd" games and told those had to be "sent back" or some such nonsense.

As for #3, I don't know how the guy does it, but he fiddles around with the hand scanner for a bit and comes up with the original price, then takes 90% off. Though it sounds to me like he is just doing what you say in #2 above, so I'm not sure. He's a great Kmart employee - he'll go with me to the case and hand scan stuff as I pull it out. It is much faster than taking a huge pile to the cash register just for price checks. This way, also, I can just put things back where they were instead of him having to do it later, so it works out for both of us. Plus he's always curious as to what new items I've found out about. I also try to straighten up their piles when I'm looking through ;).[/quote]

It should mean that either the guy is a manager or has memorized a manager's override number, unless all of these games are ringing up under the "Price Required" label. Anything discounted 50% off or more of what it rings up at the register should require a manager override to go through.

I've also sat and gone through game cases with customers with my hand scanner, but I got back today from 2 days off to find out I'm gonna have to force my hand. I came back to find somebody managed to steal a PSP out of our game cases. An employee found the box on top of some CDs in the CD aisle. I've been pissed the entire day. I spent all of my time today rearranging the game cases (adding 2 more across from them), and tomorrow I'm gonna go through every damn game, reprice them, then spine them in the 2 new cases, probably separated between regular priced items and clearance priced items. This may give me the opportunity to get the biggest list of games that I can since I'm having to do this.

[quote name='dinovelvet']Finally found the elusive DS Advance Wars...and it rings up at $34.99. Is it likely that this will eventually drop to $9 and I just have to keep checking back, or if it hasn't been clearanced yet, then it probably never will be?[/quote]

I'm still baffled at how this kind of stuff keeps popping up at certain K-Marts. I've got 2 copies at my store and it rings up 9.00, as it should.
 
[quote name='Mjolnir']I checked Rayman DS at my local Kmart and it rang up at $10. Just a heads up.[/quote]

Yeah my store rang up $6 for Rayman. Dynasty Warriors rang up $40?
 
[quote name='Country4687']
I'm still baffled at how this kind of stuff keeps popping up at certain K-Marts. I've got 2 copies at my store and it rings up 9.00, as it should.[/quote]

I am curious about that as well.
 
Country4687, DO you think it is an inside job on the PSP??

I have come across 2 cases of theft in a particular kmart and one happened today. The first case was for mario tennis. I looked at 3 kmarts and finally saw one in the case, I get the guy to take it out for me and notice there is no plastic on it. Open it up and no disc. Keep in mind this was locked up in the case. Luckily the guy was with me the whole time or he would have probably thought I stole it. I can only think it was an employee who took it.
Today I went looking for the Western digital 80 gb hard drive that was posted about a couple pages back in this thread. At that same kmart, I see the box on the shelf. I pick it up and the box is empty. This means a person took off the plastic pulled it out of the box and stuffed it in their pocket and put the box back. All this without being seen. I find it hard to believe it was not an inside job. Maybe done in the back room.

Another question for you Country4687. Everytime I go in they have this generic anouncment of" security to zone 2" . At first I was paranoid it was about me since buying the games for so cheap always feels like I am stealing from them somehow. Is this just a recording to scare away potential shoplifters?? I am guessing yes since the whole store is being run by about 3 people, so I would think they do not have any security.
 
[quote name='Masco73']Country4687, DO you think it is an inside job on the PSP??

I have come across 2 cases of theft in a particular kmart and one happened today. The first case was for mario tennis. I looked at 3 kmarts and finally saw one in the case, I get the guy to take it out for me and notice there is no plastic on it. Open it up and no disc. Keep in mind this was locked up in the case. Luckily the guy was with me the whole time or he would have probably thought I stole it. I can only think it was an employee who took it.
Today I went looking for the Western digital 80 gb hard drive that was posted about a couple pages back in this thread. At that same kmart, I see the box on the shelf. I pick it up and the box is empty. This means a person took off the plastic pulled it out of the box and stuffed it in their pocket and put the box back. All this without being seen. I find it hard to believe it was not an inside job. Maybe done in the back room.

Another question for you Country4687. Everytime I go in they have this generic anouncment of" security to zone 2" . At first I was paranoid it was about me since buying the games for so cheap always feels like I am stealing from them somehow. Is this just a recording to scare away potential shoplifters?? I am guessing yes since the whole store is being run by about 3 people, so I would think they do not have any security.[/quote]

Bear in mind that I could answer all of these questions in detail, but elect not to since I consider some of this information to be sensitive (and I hate shoplifters with a passion after everything I've seen, and that's just in six months).

The "security to Zone ##" is not a recording, it is always a live announcement normally made by a manager with information about a potential shoplifter. By the time you hear it, security is either already on the way or on the scene and observing. It's really more of a scare tactic to see if someone trying something will drop and run, but it's also part of security protocol when something like that is seen and reported.

As far as the PSP goes, in this case, I doubt it was an employee. All of the, shall we say, "suspicious" employees were let go, so now all of the more experienced people are working as we get new people in for the slower season. My conclusion at this time is that the case was somehow accidently left open and the employee went away for a bit, allowing the theif to snag the PSP, a 1 GB memory stick for the PSP, and 2 games that were all in that case. It was a crime of opportunity, one of which employees who attempt this kind of thing don't have to do, as they have other ways of doing it. What I'm trying to find out now is HOW IN THE HELL did security not catch this.

In your 2 cases, I would say that the Mario Tennis game was probably a customer's doing (crime of opportunity again), as an employee would surely know better than to take the game but leave the friggin' case in the locked-up cabinet, but I've seen employees do dumber things. The hard drive is hard to say, but I would bank on a customer again since the case was left there once again, although it would be a bit hard to sneak out with an 80 GB hard drive. Granted, I've seen some interesting attempts at large items before. It should be worth noting that the hard drive came in 2 different packages, the first one without plastic in a blue/yellow box, and then the newer one came in a white box with plastic on it (is it sad that I remember that?).

If you want an example of an employee stealing stuff, try looking for a $300 camcorder for a customer and only seeing a box in the cabinet with "Display" written on it, then going to the backroom lock-up only to find ANOTHER box with "Display" on it as well. In this case, however, I remembered that camera being put out not long after I started and recognized the girl's handwriting who had put it out, so I knew the one in my case was the stolen one.

Customers who steal will always look for or even create the opportunity to steal items and will normally leave traces behind (torn wrappers, empty boxes/packages, etc.), but employees can bide time and normally get it from areas where only employees can go which, once discovered, pretty much points to who did it.

I've really got to stop typing so much per post.
 
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