$125 worth of Nintendo eshop Cards + Free $15 Gift Card for $100 @ Best Buy until 12/28

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Nintendo eshop cards are on-sale for 20% off at Best Buy until 12/28/2013. And the following deal recently started as well!

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1 In store only from 12/26/13–12/28/13. Gift card good toward future purchase. Limit one $15 Best Buy gift card for this offer per person per day. Valid only at Best Buy stores in the U.S.A.; gift card offer not valid on any BestBuy.com order, including store pickup. Offer not available in Puerto Rican stores, at Best Buy Express kiosks and for items sold in Pacific Sales/Pacific Kitchen & Home or Magnolia Design Centers inside Best Buy stores. The $100 total purchase to receive the $15 Best Buy gift card requires the customers receipt to show a subtotal of $100.00 or greater prior to tax and excludes purchase of Best Buy gift cards, and prior purchases. Valid 12/26/13–12/28/13.
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You can also do it online and a get $15 discount code, but I would not recommend it because 1. You have to do in-store pick up anyways. And 2, the discount code can only be used during a certain period in January.

The best way to do this deal is ...

Buy 3 $35 gift cards for $28 each and a $20 gift card for $16. (Add all four up and it will total $100.) And you'll get a $15 gift card!

This is the best possible deal you will get for eshop cards in a long time, I presume. So do this deal, and stock up!!! If you've bought cards previously, return those and rebuy them with this deal!
 
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I'm not ready to go all in on digital Nintendo stuff with their tied-to-hardware nonsense, so it's hard to swallow sitting on that much eShop credit.  Good deal all the same.

 
radioactivez0r said:
I'm not ready to go all in on digital Nintendo stuff with their tied-to-hardware nonsense, so it's hard to swallow sitting on that much eShop credit. Good deal all the same.
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I upgraded from basic to deluxe and called Nintendo since network IDs are linked to consoles. Opened a case and like 4 days later they asked me to call this special number. They de-linked my original account over the phone allowing me to log in through my new Wii u and I was able to simply redownload all my games on my new console for free through my download history.
 
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I would only buy eShop games when they are exclusive and I truly want the games. 

My friend decided to go digital for a while on the WiiU. He got Wind Waker HD the day it came out b/c it was a week before launch and he really wanted to play it. End up paying $60 for it. The day the physical disk came out, I could have got it for $47.99 or $30 (GCU or B2G1, sell the other two). Yeah it requires more work but I rather work to save $30 than spend more money.

My point, digital games are "convenient" but cost more almost all the time for consoles.

 
miyamotorola said:
I upgraded from basic to deluxe and called Nintendo since network IDs are linked to consoles. Opened a case and like 4 days later they asked me to call this special number. They de-linked my original account over the phone allowing me to log in through my new Wii u and I was able to simply redownload all my games on my new console for free through my download history.
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I feel like you just proved my point for me :\

 
I had a feeling there was a better combination than my buy 2 $50 cards and 1 $35 card to get the $15 gift card.  ($108 for $135 worth of eShop credit.)

 
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Yigytugd said:
I would only buy eShop games when they are exclusive and I truly want the games.

My friend decided to go digital for a while on the WiiU. He got Wind Waker HD the day it came out b/c it was a week before launch and he really wanted to play it. End up paying $60 for it. The day the physical disk came out, I could have got it for $47.99 or $30 (GCU or B2G1, sell the other two). Yeah it requires more work but I rather work to save $30 than spend more money.

My point, digital games are "convenient" but cost more almost all the time for consoles.
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Yigytugd said:
I would only buy eShop games when they are exclusive and I truly want the games.

My friend decided to go digital for a while on the WiiU. He got Wind Waker HD the day it came out b/c it was a week before launch and he really wanted to play it. End up paying $60 for it. The day the physical disk came out, I could have got it for $47.99 or $30 (GCU or B2G1, sell the other two). Yeah it requires more work but I rather work to save $30 than spend more money.

My point, digital games are "convenient" but cost more almost all the time for consoles.
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It was 60 in the digital store I could've sworn it was 50. I only got 50 reward points in the digital deluxe program.

 
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Yigytugd said:
I would only buy eShop games when they are exclusive and I truly want the games.

My friend decided to go digital for a while on the WiiU. He got Wind Waker HD the day it came out b/c it was a week before launch and he really wanted to play it. End up paying $60 for it. The day the physical disk came out, I could have got it for $47.99 or $30 (GCU or B2G1, sell the other two). Yeah it requires more work but I rather work to save $30 than spend more money.

My point, digital games are "convenient" but cost more almost all the time for consoles.
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Wind Waker was $49.99 on release day, DIGITALLY, through the Nintendo eShop. I purchased it mere minutes after it became available.

So "your friend" (your story indicates you would have purchased the title?) would have saved $2 dollars and waited 2 additional weeks. No one forced your friends hand to purchase the title digitally, but the 2 week incentive is probably what did it. i could have waited on buying a Wii U a year and saved $100, but didn't. I could have mined Bitcoins 4 years ago but didn't. I could have bought stock on Apple ten years ago but didn't.

It's the ONLY full release game I;ve bought digitally and i only did it because of the 2 week early incentive. I won't argue that paying the same for digital vs physical is a great idea, but it is what it is.

 
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You need a manager override to do a return on any gift cards, points, videogame cards, etc.... as I just did one yesterday. They need a special exception as a regular customer service representatives cannot do it and the return gets denied when they try to scan the bar code on the card after they scan the receipt. The manager needs to do a special exception and you MUST ensure the last 4 of the card are identical to the receipt and you CANNOT have the code scratched. Once the code is scratched off exposing the number, they will deny it every time. Even if a code does not work, they will forward you to the game company about the code if it is scratched off.

The reason why I did this was that I bought two $50 MS and two $50 PS cards when Best Buy had their one day 10% off those cards on Christmas Day that was only for store pickup. They did not have the spend $100 to get the $15 gift card deal at the time of my order and I placed those two orders on two separate transactions. Unfortunately, that brought my two purchases short of the $100 as they both rang up as $90 with the 10% off. I would have simply gotten two $20 Nintendo eShop cards with the 20% off to get both of my orders to over $100 for the two separate $15 gift cards. So I had to do the return and repurchase and they still honored the 10% off on those gift cards from Christmas promotion deal. It was a pain doing this the day after Christmas, but it was worth it.

 
Wind waker hd is $50. If you use Delaware zip no tax. People pay for convenience. I do agree pretty much only Nintendo exclusives I feel good about buying digitally. Got Mario World 3D this way. That said I bought $100 worth of cards but on Xmas day and picked up yesterday. Sad haha.
 
My Wii U disc drive is so damn loud when a disc is inside I sorta wish I had the option of going digital for everything.

 
wilflare said:
was thinking whether this will work with the eShop credit. this sure is tempting
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It does. Works on Steam cards (5% off) and other digital cards, as well. eShop cards just have the best base discount currently, though. Did this last night on eShop and other cards. :)

 
GizmoGC said:
Wind Waker was $49.99 on release day, DIGITALLY, through the Nintendo eShop. I purchased it mere minutes after it became available.

So "your friend" (your story indicates you would have purchased the title?) would have saved $2 dollars and waited 2 additional weeks. No one forced your friends hand to purchase the title digitally, but the 2 week incentive is probably what did it. i could have waited on buying a Wii U a year and saved $100, but didn't. I could have mined Bitcoins 4 years ago but didn't. I could have bought stock on Apple ten years ago but didn't.

It's the ONLY full release game I;ve bought digitally and i only did it because of the 2 week early incentive. I won't argue that paying the same for digital vs physical is a great idea, but it is what it is.
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Forgot it was $50, not $60. I would have got it for $40 with GCU and $30 with B2G1. And yes I would have loved to save $10 on any game. Why spend more money when you can simply wait a week.

No one said he was forced to get it nor did I imply that. I said he wanted to go digital. What did it was both him wanting it early and him wanting to have his games digitally, which he regretted shortly afterwards when I showed him how much I could get it for him.

You misunderstand my point. I could have got the game the same day (though it came out 1 week later physically) for $10 less or more on a physical disk. Even for older games I (and many others here) can get them much cheaper physically. Heck, Sly Cooper Vita is $10 at Gamestop but $27 digitally there.

I'm not sure what you're arguing this at me for though. So paying to get something earlier is better than waiting a week+ to get it $10+ less. Regardless my point is digital games will be great on consoles when they are cheaper than physical titles. So far, they aren't.


kilenem said:
It was 60 in the digital store I could've sworn it was 50. I only got 50 reward points in the digital deluxe program.
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It was, that was my mistake.

 
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miyamotorola said:
I upgraded from basic to deluxe and called Nintendo since network IDs are linked to consoles. Opened a case and like 4 days later they asked me to call this special number. They de-linked my original account over the phone allowing me to log in through my new Wii u and I was able to simply redownload all my games on my new console for free through my download history
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radioactivez0r said:
I feel like you just proved my point for me :\
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That comment didn't prove your point. Not in the way you stated it. Sounds like you were thinking of their idiotic way of sending the old console and new console in and having them do the transfer.

 
Why am I not surprise that this thread specifically about BB and eshop pts turn to shit while we can discuss how to maximize this in the BB thread. sigh, same old same old.

 
hmm, get an extra $5 back by ordering online with shopdiscover but have to use GC in Jan, or get a GC that has no expiration by buying in store ...

And off topic, but does anyone know why the wii u fit meter has a release date of Jan 10?  I thought it was already out.  Want to get it for the free wii fit u offer.

 
wii fit meter is out, I have it. ordered from amazon.

the jan 10 is for the board/meter/wii fit u bundle.

if you aalready have the board, (or get used, apparently only $20 from gamestop?) just download wii fit u and buy the meter, all work well.

 
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wasabi5858 said:
wii fit meter is out, I have it. ordered from amazon.

the jan 10 is for the board/meter/wii fit u bundle.

if you aalready have the board, (or get used, apparently only $20 from gamestop?) just download wii fit u and buy the meter, all work well.
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Yeah, that's what I thought, but bestbuy is showing preorder Jan 10 even for just the meter. I think they just messed up.

 
fuck, I ordered several cards via site to store on the 24th but never went to the store to pick them up.  If I let them sit a week, they will be canceled and I'll be refunded right?

 
This is what I posted in another thread about this

yup, $101 for $145 eshop value so you are working with almost 30% sales everything in wiiu/3ds eshop already.

even if they don't run sales, that's good enough for me if there are no other physical sale going on.

$60 game = $42 money out of pocket and get $6 back from DDP. (if you front the $6 since you get the promotion after the fact, it is essentially $36 ...)  (obviously tax factor in but I am not bothering with that her e:) )

so for day 1 $60 game that you are ok with digital, that's 40% off on some day 1 purchase. 

now assume a game go on sale, 

$15 game go on 33% sale for $10.  A lot of ppl probably think, blah, only 33%.  but for that $10 eshop you only paid $7 and will get $1 ddp back. so that's essentially $6 paid.    now that 33% sale is now 60% sale, pretty attractive now...

but of course, we will all forget when that 33% sale do come that we paid less than face value and will still think the sale sucks :)

 
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You can also buy $50 + $35 + $20 + $20 to reach $100 for anyone who might want different valued cards.  Gotta collect em all!

 
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So if I were to get $125 worth of eShop credit for $100 and got a $15 GC, I could use that GC and pay an extra dollar to get a grand total of $145 eShop credit for $101?

That sounds pretty awesome! That's almost 3 Wii U games PLUS the $10 ($15 if you spend an extra $5) you'd get back from spending all the credit.
 
Mikeyjl87 said:
So if I were to get $125 worth of eShop credit for $100 and got a $15 GC, I could use that GC and pay an extra dollar to get a grand total of $145 eShop credit for $101?

That sounds pretty awesome! That's almost 3 Wii U games PLUS the $10 ($15 if you spend an extra $5) you'd get back from spending all the credit.
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That's correct.

 
hoping someone can help me with this! international CAG here. will PayPal you the 101 and cover fees. you can earn the BBY points. PM me please
 
Did this twice in two seperate orders for in-store pick up. Picked up my cards after the 29th or 30th. Recieved two e-mails earlier this afternoon with promotional codes and pins for two $15 credits. Used them just now on a $30 Best Buy GC shipped, since there's really nothing interesting right now to buy. Awsome! :D

So for anyone that did orders this way for in-store pick up, those e-mails are definitely on the way! Such an amazing deal at 20% off + $15 back. Man... had I'd known they were gonna do this the following week I wouldn't have bought some eShop cards the previous week or two before it! lol! :rofl:

 
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Got mine today too.  Probably use it on a wii u pro controller while it's on sale.

I'd be careful using it on a GC.  Not sure if this one says not to, but I think people in the past that got those $10 per $100 codes had their orders for GC cancelled.  But in this case they even gave out real GC instead of these codes instore, so maybe they don't care.  I don't know why they had to put an expiration on instore pickups GC but not instore purchases GC.

 
scottman said:
Got mine today too. Probably use it on a wii u pro controller while it's on sale.

I'd be careful using it on a GC. Not sure if this one says not to, but I think people in the past that got those $10 per $100 codes had their orders for GC cancelled. But in this case they even gave out real GC instead of these codes instore, so maybe they don't care. I don't know why they had to put an expiration on instore pickups GC but not instore purchases GC.
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Sorry for the late reply. My $30 Best Buy GC already shipped out on the 10th with an estimated delivery on the 15th. You absolutlely CAN use your $15 e-credit(s) on the purchase of Best Buy GC's.

This is a great alternative to getting Best Buy GC's that don't expire if you weren't actually able to make it to the store by the 28th. I wanted to but was busy with family and couldn't make it in. Glad they extended the offer to in-store pick up orders! :)

 
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