Physical $10 Best Buy GC with Agents of Mayhem preorders

Sonicyogurt

Sonicyogurt

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:ps4: PS4

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Unlike the usual reward certificate bonuses, bestbuy.com is mailing physical gift cards for preorders of Agents of Mayhem.  Shipping is required; you can use in-store pickup on the game, but the GC requires a mailing address.

I was surprised that the gift card was mailed off immediately, even though Agents of Mayhem doesn't come out for another month and change.  (I pre-ordered on Sunday and had a tracking number for the GC on Monday.)  The great thing here is that the GC doesn't expire, and there's not a brief delay like there is for reward certificates to be added to your account.  

Be nice!  Don't exploit.

 
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Sonicyogurt said:
:ps4: PS4
:xb1: Xbox One

Unlike the usual reward certificate bonuses, bestbuy.com is mailing physical gift cards for preorders of Agents of Mayhem. Shipping is required; you can use in-store pickup on the game, but the GC requires a mailing address.

I was surprised that the gift card was mailed off immediately, even though Agents of Mayhem doesn't come out for another month and change. (I pre-ordered on Sunday and had a tracking number for the GC on Monday.) The great thing here is that the GC doesn't expire, and there's not a brief delay like there is for reward certificates to be added to your account.

Be nice! Don't exploit.
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They do this so that if you cancel your pre-order you'll still be charged $10 for the gift card
 
This game just has "dropping to $20 on black friday" all over it.  Its single player (maybe co-op?) too which is just weird for a game that looks like overwatch / battleborn / etc

 
$10 certificates are better value, though, imo. Since it takes $10 off subtotal, you also get to skip the taxes on that $10 (if your state charges sales tax)

 
Best buy offers the gift card on games that tend to be garbage.

I expect this to be in the battleborn bargain bin quickly enough I won't need to buy it at 30, i'll wait until 15, lol.

 
tearsintherain said:
This game just has "dropping to $20 on black friday" all over it. Its single player (maybe co-op?) too which is just weird for a game that looks like overwatch / battleborn / etc
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Yeah. (...and it's completely single player. No co-op.) Hardly anyone even seems to be talking about it on the forums I read, and when they do, it's mostly to take a jab at Crackdown 3 looking even worse. :p A bunch of the E3 hands-on previews seemed positive, though, and I'm enough of a sucker for the Saints Row franchise to be onboard anyway. But, absolutely, I'm expecting the price to plummet the same way Dead Rising 4 did in December.

 
I've been interested in this game for a while now, but I've been debating either pre-ordering from Gamestop to get the Johnny Gat pre-order bonus, or just waiting a couple of months for the price to drop during some sale. But with this, I'm open to pre-ordering if Best Buy has another VC offer in the next month.

 
Richard B. Riddick said:
Remember that Homefront the revolution had this, it hit the $9.99 price point at some sales a few months after release
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That was definitely my biggest gaming regret last year. Not only could I have waited for the price to drop and saved some money, but I would have also saved so much time since that game was broken as hell at launch.

 
dennisb407 said:
Certificates once earned have a time limit to redeem them, the gift cards dont
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True, but it's also not hard to find something to spend a $10 certificate on really quick. Even if you don't particularly want any of the products sold in Best Buy, you can always buy a gas card, movie card, restaurant card, etc with one. That's how I typically use mine that way anyway.

 
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