Reduced Price Game Guides: Thread XII(Stock locator trick FAQ added to OP)

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First off, let me welcome you all to the new guide thread. Second, I'd like to ask you all to please keep conversations not pertaining to guide drops to a minimum to avoid cluttering the thread. It's not that I don't enjoy the chit chat, but that it may stop others from locating information on the newest drops.

That being said, let me thank Cheapy for creating this site, without which I would've spent probably 10 times what I HAVE spent on games and guides. Moreover, let me thank each and every one of my fellow CAGs for continuing to contribute to making this site a great place to find out about sales and clearances of the items we as gamers use most. Without a great community, NONE of this would be possible.

Now, with that out of the way(and before I get to rambling), let's get on to making this new thread.

Useful Information(and links):

Game Guide Trade Thread(KEEP ALL TRADE REQUESTS HERE OR IN PM'S):

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175548

PLEASE keep ALL trade requests in there or PM's. Thank you.

Reduced Price Guide Discussion Thread(KEEP ALL DISCUSSION NOT RELATED TO GUIDE DROPS HERE!!!):

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169252

What is the purpose of this thread?

The purpose of this thread is to let our fellow CAGs know when a guide has dropped to a low price(it's NOT ALWAYS A PENNY), so they can go out and grab guides for themselves and for trading with other CAGs.

Anytime you have guide drops to report, post them here. Please specify at which store you found them and which guides you found and list them in alphabetical order. Thank you. Please, whenever possible, use RED font to make the drop info stand out. Thanks again.

What are penny guides?

Penny guides are guides which have been on the market for a while and the publisher(or store chain) decide that the remaining stock of these guides have little to no chance of selling, so they issue an order to pull them from the shelves and destroy them. At that time, they are also marked as .01 in their inventory system, except in the case of BBV, which marks them .01 only AFTER pulling them.

Most stores have an agreement with the publisher that states that if they destroy the remaining stock of those items, they will receive a credit for their value from the publisher. This is why many stores are usually annoyed when we CAGs come in and buy the guides AT the penny price, since otherwise they would've received a credit for those items.

According to an employee at a local BB, they also have a recycling program for the pennied stock, so as to not clutter landfill space with the guides. As to how true it is, I cannot confirm, but I would hope that the paper is at least recycled instead of just dumpstered.


Prior Reduced price game guide threads:

Guide Three:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...ighlight=guide
Guide Four:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/....php?p=1496376
Guide Five:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...ad.php?t=85976
Guide Six:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...d.php?t=116918
Guide Seven:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...d.php?t=131717
Guide Seven and a half:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...d.php?t=142400
Guide Eight:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...d.php?t=167157
Guide Nine:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...d.php?t=187222
Guide Ten:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=219547

Finally, below is a list of website links, each of which goes to their respective guide page. Whenever possible, I will update the links with better ones(if available).

Amazon
Barnes&Noble
BestBuy
Gamestop
Overstock
Strategyguides.net
ToysRUs

Thanks to floormat, Guinaevere and anyone else who has created and maintained the guide thread before, as well as to all of those who find out either advance information on drops or provide a list of which ones dropped when we do have a drop.

The post below this one contains a list going back at LEAST six months of the more current guide drops, which stores they occured at and which ones dropped. Note that sometimes(Oblivion guide, Quake Wars: Enemy Territory)there are multiple versions of a guide, be it that there are Prima versions, Brady versions and the occasional Nintendo and Doublejump guides.

Please specify WHICH version has dropped when mentioning possible guide drops. Thank you.

Common Guide Drop Related Questions(FAQ):

FAQ - If you are new (or a vet with a few questions) look here SECOND! (After reading the above!)

Q: What Are Penny Guides?
A: Penny guides are guides which have been on the market for a while and the publisher(or store chain) decide that the remaining stock of these guides have little to no chance of selling, so they issue an order to pull them from the shelves and destroy them. At that time, they are also marked as .01 in their inventory system, except in the case of BBV, which marks them .01 only AFTER pulling them.

Most stores have an agreement with the publisher that states that if they destroy the remaining stock of those items, they will receive a credit for their value from the publisher. This is why many stores are usually annoyed when we CAGs come in and buy the guides AT the penny price, since otherwise they would've received a full credit for those items.

According to an employee at a local BB, they also have a recycling program for the pennied stock, so as to not clutter landfill space with the guides. As to how true it is, I cannot confirm, but I would hope that the paper is at least recycled instead of just dumpstered.

Q: Do all guides from all stores drop at the same time?
A: No. While most chains have nationwide drops within their own store (as in every BB will have the same drops coast to coast), not every different chain drops at the same time (what drops at BB is NOT necessarily dropped at GS). When in doubt, check post TWO for drop info.

Q: I found a penny guide and a clerk denied me! I'ma report 'em!
A: Whoa, hold your horses there, pardner! First of all, not a question. Second, just because something is on the shelf, the clerk does NOT have to sell you that item. Most stores are PRIVATE property and as such can deny you just about anything they want - including a sale. The best advice is to not be rude, not be arrogant, and just try hard to get them to have pity on you.

Q: Why don't the clerks want to sell me their penny guides? Aren't they just throwing them away?
A: As stated above, the stores are ordered by the publisher to trash the guides, and are then given credit for those guides. If they don't do this, the publisher won't give them the credit - it's like losing a sale. On the employee level, selling a penny guide can sometimes get them in trouble (or even fired!) I know it seems silly, but this is their job we're talking about! Respect the man (or woman) behind the counter and you'll get a lot more guides than otherwise!

To expand on this, if you come off as DEMANDING, then you'll likely be barred from the store and possibly banned from ALL of their stores entirely. Moreover, you may be charged with trespassing if you continue to press this, as retail stores are PRIVATE PROPERTY.

The penny price is NOT an actual price that the stores HAVE to sell the merchandise for, it is a 'marker' in their system to the employees to pull/destroy those items. The fact that we as CAG's get ANY of these means that employees are not doing their jobs correctly and we are very lucky to even get them in the first place.

So don't press your luck and ruin it for everyone by being an asshole to a manager/cashier who just wants to keep their job by doing what they're supposed to.

Q: Should I just ask if the store has penny guides then?
A: No, since that denotes that you have some insider information as to the runnings of these businesses.

Q: What if the clerk wants to know how I know so much about guide drops?
A: If asked where you got your info about guides that pennied, simply say either 'the internet' or 'a friend of mine told me they're on clearance'.

Q: But clerks will know what a penny guide is, right? I can talk to them like anyone else here...
A: Never use the word pennied to ANY store clerks unless you have built up a good rapport with them. Even then, it may seem a little fishy if you know more about their shop than they do.

Q: Are guides labeled as a penny on the shelf?
A: Sometimes. Most times, no. GS seems to label everything that gets a price drop, so often times guides will be stickered. But even so, they most likely won't sell them to you. A sticker does not mean 'have to sell'.

Q: I tried to buy a guide that this thread said was pennied and it didn't ring up as such! What gives?
A: Either 1) Our source was wrong (this rarely happens and is usually verified a FEW times within maybe an hour of posting), or 2) The clerk changed the price or 3) There are multiple versions of the guide and the one you grabbed is a newer version that has NOT pennied as of yet. Some examples of this are: The Godfather and Oblivion.

Q: What's the easiest way to get penny guides? This sounds like TONS of work!
A: Best Buy is probably the best place to get guides, followed by GameStop, GameCrazy, Toys R Us and then Blockbuster. From what I've seen though, probably 95% of guides that people get are snagged at BB - the rest come from the other stores. But it never hurts to try!

Q: Has there been a drop recently?
A: If you are asking this question you didn't fully understand the OP - go back and read it once more. When a drop happens, it will be posted, and then placed in the second post - trust us.

Q: How do you guys know so much about penny guides?
A: We sometimes have inside sources with the information from the stores themselves; other times, fellow CAGS just like you or me simply take suspected guides to the register and ask them to ring them up, to check their prices. Feel free to do this yourself, and help give back to the community by telling us what you find! However, DON'T ask "Has anyone checked XXX lately?", unless you are in the right thread (discussion area).

Best Buy Stock Locator FAQ to find stock for deleted SKU's(works for games and guides):

Here's a good little trick that some of you may already know. If you want to find out if your local Best Buy has stock of an item, but the page(and SKU) for it has been deleted you can STILL find/create a stock locator page for it.

Here's how to do it:

Google the item you're looking for the SKU for. Once you find it, take that SKU and copy/paste it into the URL for another item's stock locator page on BestBuy.com after where it says skuID=(example: blahblahblahblahskuID=2085453), then hit enter to reload the page with the new SKU in place of the old one and search away.:D

Unfortunately no such method exists for Gamestop at this time.

Thanks to GrilledWitOnions for creating the above FAQ, which should eliminate the need for such questions popping up in the thread from this point on out.

PLEASE USE THE THREAD TOOLS DROP DOWN MENU TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW THREAD, RATHER THAN WASTING A POST TO POST 'TAGGED'. THANKS!!
 
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[quote name='bgame2']Is no one making the connection between IATCG being unusually nice and this thread becoming cluttered with non-drop related posts?[/QUOTE]

It started long before that.
 
[quote name='bgame2']Is no one making the connection between IATCG being unusually nice and this thread becoming cluttered with non-drop related posts?[/QUOTE]
I'm not being nice by choice, that's for damn sure.:whistle2:#
 
[quote name='bgame2']Is no one making the connection between IATCG being unusually nice and this thread becoming cluttered with non-drop related posts?[/QUOTE]
It's not by choice that I'm being unusually nice.:whistle2:#
 
There is simply no way this thread will NOT be filled up with useless spamming chatter, unless it is moderated.

There should be a way to check how many posts everyone has in these threads, to prove how much useless chatter people contribute to the Reduced Price Guide threads.
 
i snagged a stray ssf4 guide today at bb


i saw it on the shelf and went to a girl working the floor and was like, hey do you guys have the ssf4 guide for sale? she went and found it and when it was a penny she was like, i dont think i can sell you this and i was like, 'um you went and found it yourself so why cant i just buy it?' and she was like whatever and let me have it.
 
I wanted to say I appreciate the work you guys put into keeping these game guide threads going. I have been lucky enough on a few occasions to pick up some guides I liked, without being greedy and grabbing them all (I think I have only picked up 2 of one guide before: Dragon Age Origins because my bro has a copy too).

It confounds me when I read these threads that people will actually pick up a BUNCH of the same copy of the guide ... seriously? How many do people really need? If you guys are like me, you will realize that this is for fun, and how many of those guides do you actually USE? I have used maybe the Assassin's Creed guide when I was stuck, but that was it. The rest are for collecting and for fun; people should remember that. Do what you like, but really, any more than that is being greedy, and at the same time will fill your shelves and be a nuisance. Trust me.

I guess I was lucky enough to never have a problem getting the guides (EXCEPT this one time, maybe it was a manager, who like followed me out, staring directly at me the whole time during checkout, and kept following me and my brother even after we left the store, all the way to my car! That was freaky). The thing is, I never just head up to the counter with like 10 guides or something; I usually only pick up, max, 4 or so. But I never go to the store (BB) without getting something else anyway, so I guess that's the reason they don't care they're selling me some penny guides along with the rest.

I just wanted to quickly (that didn't work though, did it) say thanks guys for your hard work. It's appreciated.
 
[quote name='Darksied']

It confounds me when I read these threads that people will actually pick up a BUNCH of the same copy of the guide ... seriously? How many do people really need? If you guys are like me, you will realize that this is for fun, and how many of those guides do you actually USE? I have used maybe the Assassin's Creed guide when I was stuck, but that was it. The rest are for collecting and for fun; people should remember that. Do what you like, but really, any more than that is being greedy, and at the same time will fill your shelves and be a nuisance. Trust me.
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Simple - I get extras to trade. Usually I can get guides from bestbuy but not gamestop so i trade my extra's for guides I was unable to get.
 
[quote name='SeanTM22']How many people actually are going to go through the hassle to get them shipped? probably not many[/QUOTE]
people trade guides and pay for shipping all the time in the cag trading forum also sometimes you will find a guide that has a good tiv @ amazon which = free amazon credit so if you find lots of a guide grab them all
 
[quote name='bredbu']people trade guides and pay for shipping all the time in the cag trading forum also sometimes you will find a guide that has a good tiv @ amazon which = free amazon credit so if you find lots of a guide grab them all[/QUOTE]

This goes back to exactly what I was saying earlier. For the life of me I can't see how it's ethical at all to possibly ruin a great pickup for someone else that will actually use the thing just so you can make a quick flip to amazon. And 1-2 extra copies of a guide I can see for trading but when people come out with hauls of 4-8 of the same guide it boils down to greed.

But this kind of behavior isn't shunned on this site, it seems as though its encouraged with some deal threads created solely with flipping in mind. I just don't see how anyone can jump on that guy that took a penny guide list in when there are 100's of CAG's ruining potential deals for others in a given day. If you ask me someone ruining a deal by ignorance is a lot better than someone motivated by greed.
 
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[quote name='exileinoblivion']This goes back to exactly what I was saying earlier. For the life of me I can't see how it's ethical at all to possibly ruin a great pickup for someone else that will actually use the thing just so you can make a quick flip to amazon. And 1-2 extra copies of a guide I can see for trading but when people come out with hauls of 4-8 of the same guide it boils down to greed.

But this kind of behavior isn't shunned on this site, it seems as though its encouraged with some deal threads created solely with flipping in mind. I just don't see how anyone can jump on that guy that took a penny guide list in when there are 100's of CAG's ruining potential deals for others in a given day. If you ask me someone ruining a deal by ignorance is a lot better than someone motivated by greed.[/QUOTE]

I like free money more than i like other people....

also bb and gamestop usually pull these guides pretty quick and most likely if you leave them nobody will get them
 
[quote name='exileinoblivion']This goes back to exactly what I was saying earlier. For the life of me I can't see how it's ethical at all to possibly ruin a great pickup for someone else that will actually use the thing just so you can make a quick flip to amazon. And 1-2 extra copies of a guide I can see for trading but when people come out with hauls of 4-8 of the same guide it boils down to greed.

[/QUOTE]


I left 5 (count 'em... 5!!!) Dragon Age CE Guides during that drop. You know who got them???? The fucking store. They pulled them after I walked out. Would they have been better in my hands or in the back of BB, getting destroyed? You tell me.
 
[quote name='crazedracerguy']I left 5 (count 'em... 5!!!) Dragon Age CE Guides during that drop. You know who got them???? The fucking store. They pulled them after I walked out. Would they have been better in my hands or in the back of BB, getting destroyed? You tell me.[/QUOTE]

exactly I left a lost planet 2 guide at a gamestop thinking i would leave it for someone else I went back to the store a few hours later and saw it behind the counter getting ready to be chucked. I would rather get some use out of it (whether it be financial gain or trade for other ones i want.) then have it go sit in a landfill
 
I'm talking about the CAG mentality in general. I really don't see penny guide hoarding as that big of an offence but I'm just using it as an example since it's the topic at hand.
 
[quote name='neocisco']There are 2 mods who come in this thread regularly and a third who occasionally wanders in. Barring information I might not be privy to, I don't see a reason why unnecessary posts can't be deleted on a regular (at least daily) basis. Regular enforcement of this would cut down on the posts, thus also lowering the number of posts that need deleting, making the task easier over time.[/QUOTE]
Off-topic nonsense and overt hostility I'll delete without hesitation. But people are allowed to ask the same questions over and over, there's no rule against that.


[quote name='reapersaurus']There is simply no way this thread will NOT be filled up with useless spamming chatter, unless it is moderated.
[/QUOTE]That was my reason in suggesting the Reduced Price Guide Discussion Thread. But no one uses that.


As for stupid questions being asked over and over. Sorry folks, this is the internet.

Think of it as a road you've been driving on forever. You know the rules, you know where the blind turns are, you know it intimately. But that doesn't stop new folks getting on all the time, some are intelligent and savvy and don't slow you down. They merge on seamlessly, no problems. They even prove to be worthwhile to have around, as you draft off each other. Others seem to cut you right off for no reason and then keep hitting the breaks for absolutely no reason, they look like they're about to crash and burn owing to their own behavior, and you're just stuck behind them shaking your head. It's frustrating, but they have as much right to be there as you do and there isn't a dang thing you can do about it.

It isn't a perfect analogy, as there are no licenses needed. No tests have to be passed to get online. If you have a computer and internet, you're on.

But the fact remains new people get on CAG every day. Some have been CAG vets for years and yet they still haven't read X or Y thread till yesterday. Others stumbled onto this road through who-knows-what on-ramp. It doesn't make a difference how or why they're there; just at it didn't make a difference when YOU came here.

The fact remains, new people are always coming to CAG and they always will. So the same questions will be asked over and over, the same answers will be given over and over, the same anecdotes will be given over and over.
 
[quote name='guinaevere']Off-topic nonsense and overt hostility I'll delete without hesitation. But people are allowed to ask the same questions over and over, there's no rule against that.


That was my reason in suggesting the Reduced Price Guide Discussion Thread. But no one uses that.


As for stupid questions being asked over and over. Sorry folks, this is the internet.

Think of it as a road you've been driving on forever. You know the rules, you know where the blind turns are, you know it intimately. But that doesn't stop new folks getting on all the time, some are intelligent and savvy and don't slow you down. They merge on seamlessly, no problems. They even prove to be worthwhile to have around, as you draft off each other. Others seem to cut you right off for no reason and then keep hitting the breaks for absolutely no reason, they look like they're about to crash and burn owing to their own behavior, and you're just stuck behind them shaking your head. It's frustrating, but they have as much right to be there as you do and there isn't a dang thing you can do about it.

It isn't a perfect analogy, as there are no licenses needed. No tests have to be passed to get online. If you have a computer and internet, you're on.

But the fact remains new people get on CAG every day. Some have been CAG vets for years and yet they still haven't read X or Y thread till yesterday. Others stumbled onto this road through who-knows-what on-ramp. It doesn't make a difference how or why they're there; just at it didn't make a difference when YOU came here.

The fact remains, new people are always coming to CAG and they always will. So the same questions will be asked over and over, the same answers will be given over and over, the same anecdotes will be given over and over.[/QUOTE]

:applause: im with you here if people just answer questions and be helpful the thread wont get so cluttered with all those "read the op" obnoxious post... And i dont mind answering questions if i know the answer.
 
[quote name='exileinoblivion']I'm talking about the CAG mentality in general. I really don't see penny guide hoarding as that big of an offence but I'm just using it as an example since it's the topic at hand.[/QUOTE]
CAG is not FW or SD, hoarding is not looked so highly upon here. As Casey said in a post in the mod forum the other day, CAGs were here to look out for each other, to help each other, to cover each others' back when someone missed out or needed help.


There is NO rule against hoarding. The only relative rule is that against Trolling. So boasting of your hoards in a thread where others missed out on a deal because of hoarders and/or those who exploited some deal to the Nth degree... those posts are classic examples of trolling and those will be deleted when reported, or stumbled upon by a moderator.

So be sensitive to what you're posting and where.
 
Actually people have been using the discussion thread, just very sporadically, so it's not a complete and total waste as of yet.

As for hoarding being akin to trolling, I can understand the posts saying 'i got 20 of this and im gonna trade them all into X or Y place', since it does rub salt in the wound for those who couldn't get the deal. But yet on the flip side of that are the folks who know about a deal but don't go to the store until Saturday of that sale period expecting there to miraculously be some of X or Y item left just for them.

Just going by all of the other shoppers I've seen on a Monday morning when I've gone to grab pennied guides at BB, I can tell you that it's not always other CAG's grabbing everything as far as deals go. So go early if you want a deal, otherwise you only have yourself to blame when you can't find it.

But as others have said, if it's a choice between a guide going to the dumpster or the back seat of my car if I grab them all, then I'd rather save every last one from going into a landfill.

At least if BB/GS had some sort of actual recycling program where they took all of their pennied/junk out stock and did like Target does(donate it to Goodwill) or at least do something altruistic with it rather than chuck it in the dumpster after destroying it, then it wouldn't be so bad.

But they don't and the amount of waste these companies make in the name of doing business is sickening at times.

Either way, that's my piece on this topic, right or wrong.
 
i do the same thing iatcg. first thing i do is share the guides with my sister then the leftovers i have i trade on here and gametz. after that whatever is left(that i didnt keep for myself first of course) i trade in the crappo ones to amazon and the rest i basically just sit on for further trades down the road.
 
[quote name='bredbu']:applause: im with you here if people just answer questions and be helpful the thread wont get so cluttered with all those "read the op" obnoxious post... And i dont mind answering questions if i know the answer.[/QUOTE]

Saying "Read the OP is obnoxious?" No. Asking a question because you're too goddamn lazy to read anything is obnoxious.

Hoarding every single guide and using the "well, the store is gonna trash em anyway" excuse is obnoxious.
 
[quote name='confoosious']Saying "Read the OP is obnoxious?" No. Asking a question because you're too goddamn lazy to read anything is obnoxious.

Hoarding every single guide and using the "well, the store is gonna trash em anyway" excuse is obnoxious.[/QUOTE]
:whistle2:# no comment
 
[quote name='OregonDealz']cant we all just get along?....[/QUOTE]

Sure. To use Guin's analogy, the sunday drivers and kids who just got their license are here to stay. They will keep showing up. And we will have to share the road.

But that doesn't mean we have to pat em on the back when they cause a huge traffic delay by rear ending the car in front of them because they can't be bothered to read the road signs.

If you make it harder for other folks to get guides at GS because you demand to talk to the district manager, you're just making a mess for others. And if you go on a rant because you go into Best Buy looking for drops from the GS list and cause a stir, you deserve to get flamed.
 
[quote name='confoosious']Sure. To use Guin's analogy, the sunday drivers and kids who just got their license are here to stay. They will keep showing up. And we will have to share the road.

But that doesn't mean we have to pat em on the back when they cause a huge traffic delay by rear ending the car in front of them because they can't be bothered to read the road signs.

If you make it harder for other folks to get guides at GS because you demand to talk to the district manager, you're just making a mess for others. And if you go on a rant because you go into Best Buy looking for drops from the GS list and cause a stir, you deserve to get flamed.[/QUOTE]

This is kind of what I was going to say. No offense to guinaevere, but I mod on a forum that has thousands of active members, too. And the only way new and/or lazy members are motivated to get better is through punishment. The people slamming on their brakes or speeding along should get traffic tickets, if the cops are doing their jobs. Which decreases that behavior in the future. No such consequence here. Laziness is tolerated and often encouraged via spoon-fed answers. :drool:
 
Ha, over 600 posts and not all pertaining to an actual price drop and I get pulled over by an overly obsessed wannabe moderator. If you dedicated as much time and energy to lets say "pumping iron" as you do here pointing out wrong posts and what not, you'd be one badas mothatrucker. I'm just saying.

Also, I suggest a thread that's ongoing like this rather than a one time deal should be stickied. I'm just saying. ;)
Mods sticky this. The savings potential of this thread is huge and that's what CAG is about, savings.

Anyway I can confirm that Legends of Zelda Spirit Tracks (hard cover) is a .01 at GameStop. However, I don't think the guy would have given me the guide if I had not purchased the used Zelda game. It didnt have a UPC on it and when he looked it up on the computer he was "oh you can just have this.".
 
[quote name='confoosious']If you make it harder for other folks to get guides at GS because you demand to talk to the district manager, you're just making a mess for others. And if you go on a rant because you go into Best Buy looking for drops from the GS list and cause a stir, you deserve to get flamed.[/QUOTE]

This one GS is ruined....no more free guides because this one guy decided to tell everyone in the store that these guides were free after the GS employee hooked him up with some.

The employee told me that 3 customers came up with 10-15 guides each and told him that they should be free because that guy got his for free.
Some of the guides weren't even pennied out. :bomb:

Due to this fiasco...no more free guides and they now have to rip the guides.
 
I just want to say thank you for creating this topic. I was skeptical at first, and I personally didn't want to go out to attempt this as I am under the assumption that employees may get in trouble. But I just came back from a Best Buy and had an enjoyable experience with one of their employees, a manager, and an other customer.
 
The only reason I grab extra guides is to trade them on this forum. Also I only recently started and all the BB in my area had tons of guides. It is my assumption that no one in my area uses CAG when guides like Star Ocean The Last Hope is still sitting on the rack.
 
Damn. That was the ONLY guide I didn't grab from the last drop from BB, Krystal. If it's anything like the vanilla Last Hope guide, then it's worth a tidy sum by now.;)
 
[quote name='guinaevere']Off-topic nonsense and overt hostility I'll delete without hesitation. But people are allowed to ask the same questions over and over, there's no rule against that. [/QUOTE]

I wasn't referring to the repeat questions but I wasn't clear about that so no problem. It would be nice to see posts not relevant to specific drops redirected to the discussion thread. I know that means a little more work for the hard-working mods (which includes you, of course) but like I said earlier, enough of that will change behaviors and mean diminishing efforts necessary on the part of the mods (again, you). Just a thought.
 
[quote name='RabbitSuit']Regarding the above, I just wrote out my successful experience here if anybody wants to read about it.[/QUOTE]

This is a guy that gets it. He was polite, acted a little surprised when it happened, chatted up the cashier - and ended up getting some LE guides and a chance at some poon later. Any dumbass newbs who can't fucking read the op need to read his blog.
 
[quote name='RabbitSuit']Regarding the above, I just wrote out my successful experience here if anybody wants to read about it.[/QUOTE]

And you sir, have just won the IATCG award of the month! For both knowing what to do, how to act, and scoring a phone number too! Next blog has to be follow up with more about what happens next...its like a soap opera...im riveted!
 
Best Buy's "Ship to Store" could definitely use a little work. The same store that i've been waiting since the 50% off sale to get Borderlands GOTY in - I saw 2 more sitting on the shelf there. Was enough easy getting CS to give them to me for 50% off though.
 
[quote name='crazedracerguy']This is a guy that gets it. He was polite, acted a little surprised when it happened, chatted up the cashier - and ended up getting some LE guides and a chance at some poon later.[/QUOTE]

Do they stock that near the guides? Because I've been in a lot of Best Buys, and I swear I never see it.
 
nothing great but very odd the same best buy that i have gone to like once every other week. i got YET another pokemon explorers of the sky guide. i think thats my 4th or 5th one now =P. i was basically out for valentines with gf down the road and we stopped in.
 
[quote name='Richard Longfellow']Do they stock that near the guides? Because I've been in a lot of Best Buys, and I swear I never see it.[/QUOTE]

I've seen it in a very few Best Buys... Like the girl that dressed up as a ballerina one year for Halloween. Good God, she was hot... Sadly, it wasn't for sale. It probably could've been gotten with 6 or 7 dinners and a couple of trips to the movies, though.
 
Anyone thinking there may be a BB drop tomorrow? Lots of old guides that could drop.

I hope there's one so I can hoard as many possible. :D
 
[quote name='dabamus']Anyone thinking there may be a BB drop tomorrow? Lots of old guides that could drop.

I hope there's one so I can hoard as many possible. :D[/QUOTE]

If they do a drop on Valentines Day I won't be able to look for any until Tuesday anyway. So I really hope not.
 
[quote name='Ultragamer']If they do a drop on Valentines Day I won't be able to look for any until Tuesday anyway. So I really hope not.[/QUOTE]

True. I forgot that it's valentines day.
 
i swear do you make guide forts or something dabamus ive seen you post finds of 15+ of a single guide and its guides that no one in their right mind would even want not even amazon for credit.
 
[quote name='gauu']i swear do you make guide forts or something dabamus ive seen you post finds of 15+ of a single guide and its guides that no one in their right mind would even want not even amazon for credit.[/QUOTE]

First we have people on here hoarding guides and now, it appears, hoarding punctuation. It's really getting out of hand.
 
[quote name='gantt']First we have people on here hoarding guides and now, it appears, hoarding punctuation. It's really getting out of hand.[/QUOTE]

It is getting out of hand. It's one thing to collect and use it to help in the game, but to hoard? Wow. Maybe some people got some free time in their hands.
 
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