GameStop Trade & Promos XXVII: Values available on the website and on Android/iOS app.

[JP]

WELCOME TO THE NEW GAMESTOP TRADE-IN THREAD.

The new thread format will be a work in progress but this first post will be the promos that are active and useful information, but also wikified. The second post will currently be frequently asked questions but may move it into the first post. Post three will be historical trade-in values from before the list.

Trade-in Values Available at: http://www.gamestop.com/trade

Also on GameStop app on iOS and Android

Upcoming Promotions/Information:

From GameStop employees on CAG:

GameStop.com Information (will post it when they update it)

Guaranteed $30/$40 on select games (Varying End Dates)

Rotating promo list found at http://www.gamestop.com/collection/trade-in

 

[saberdragon]

I cancelled my Switch game preorder but they're still on my Gamestop app. How do I get rid of them?

 

[josekortez]

Dead in here, I guess people are actually gaming. Crazy

Or sleeping.

 

[dgwillia006]

My Walmart had a buttload of Pro Controllers, had to resist the urge to spend cash on it opposed to credit.

 

[charlie3000k]

Saw some great midnight release videos. Like one video where they had a raffle and the prize was titanfall 2 guide and mafia 3 guide.
I imagine the gwent decks in my area I was denied went to some sort of office pool where the guy who sells the most pre orders wins the gwent deck and what ever else the manager hoarded.
Pretty weak of game stop giving away those guides as prizes when they had swag bags from Nintendo. The employees kept those and gave away the guides.....lol
You are here for the Nintendo switch launch so here's a titanfall 2 guide and a mafia 3 guide, would you like to pre order something?

 

[BlackRockWaifu]

Saw some great midnight release videos. Like one video where they had a raffle and the prize was titanfall 2 guide and mafia 3 guide.
I imagine the gwent decks in my area I was denied went to some sort of office pool where the guy who sells the most pre orders wins the gwent deck and what ever else the manager hoarded.
Pretty weak of game stop giving away those guides as prizes when they had swag bags from Nintendo. The employees kept those and gave away the guides.....lol
You are here for the Nintendo switch launch so here's a titanfall 2 guide and a mafia 3 guide, would you like to pre order something?

LOL! Wtf!? Are you serious? Like you said, they obviously kept the raffle rewards to themselves and replaced it with the most worthless thing in the store, both guides being like $10 at one point. Plus, Titanfall 2 and Mafia 3 aren't even Switch/Wii U games, in fact, they are probably the last games Nintendo would want for their system. And its the guide too, that is just hilarious! I can't wait until they raffle off NBA 2K6 for the PS3 as a prize. Or dog shit. Actually I prefer dog shit, at least I can laugh at that.

And please link the video if possible. Thanks!

 

[bengi15]

what is inside those swag bag??

nvm i think this is it https://www.reddit.com/r/casualnintendo/comments/5x3lqr/contents_of_a_launch_day_switch_swag_bag/

i want that bottle and a trump hat plz.

 

[ariel.rosales3]

I cancelled my Switch game preorder but they're still on my Gamestop app. How do I get rid of them?

As far as I know, there is no way to get rid of it. It takes a few days before it leaves on its own.

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[NoOtherOptions]

They seem to be hitting $450 on average. Couple weird ones sold for way more. It's only day 1. They'll run out soon enough.

What, you're saying they'll go up or down?

 

[charlie3000k]

LOL! Wtf!? Are you serious? Like you said, they obviously kept the raffle rewards to themselves and replaced it with the most worthless thing in the store, both guides being like $10 at one point. Plus, Titanfall 2 and Mafia 3 aren't even Switch/Wii U games, in fact, they are probably the last games Nintendo would want for their system. And its the guide too, that is just hilarious! I can't wait until they raffle off NBA 2K6 for the PS3 as a prize. Or dog shit. Actually I prefer dog shit, at least I can laugh at that.

And please link the video if possible. Thanks!

GameStop giving away trash, those guides got .01 a month ago, someone probably asked for that guide from this store last week and was told the field destroyed them.....
And here's a link for your viewing pleasure
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJUud0SMYHA

3:20 the raffle starts....lol
Side note these kids catch a little bit of a switch kiosk @ 2:48
4:42 you can see it is the soft cover titanfall 2 and a hard cover mafia 3

 

[RetroXcellence]

I thought about getting it but couldn't justify the $50 price tag. Anyone try Snipperclips yet?

I tried some sniper clips last night during a gaming night at a friends house. It's a pretty fun two player co op puzzle game. We didn't play through too many puzzles but it was a good 20 minutes of fun. If you don't like puzzle games , you probably won't like it

 

[WNYX585AM]

Does the 40% trade bonus towards new games apply to pre-orders also?  Sorry if this has already been asked.

 

[ShockandAww]

I want the Breath Of The Wild Strategy Guide. Would the 50% bonus count toward a strategy guide?

 

[eulogywerd21]

I'm sure the answer to my question is probably general knowledge to regulars, but:

Now that the Switch has released, and in the hopefully likely scenario that it's unavailable at my GS, would anything I trade towards in for the bonus be kept in limbo until a Switch was available or would I have to pay the difference for bonus to apply? I don't want the console, just the extra 50%.

 

[ariel.rosales3]

Does the 40% trade bonus towards new games apply to pre-orders also? Sorry if this has already been asked.

Yes.

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[blackbeard4886]

GameStop giving away trash, those guides got .01 a month ago, someone probably asked for that guide from this store last week and was told the field destroyed them.....
And here's a link for your viewing pleasure
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YJUud0SMYHA

3:20 the raffle starts....lol
Side note these kids catch a little bit of a switch kiosk @ 2:48
4:42 you can see it is the soft cover titanfall 2 and a hard cover mafia 3

I now kinda feel lucky I even got that Zelda BOTW card when I went.

 

[ariel.rosales3]

I'm sure the answer to my question is probably general knowledge to regulars, but:

Now that the Switch has released, and in the hopefully likely scenario that it's unavailable at my GS, would anything I trade towards in for the bonus be kept in limbo until a Switch was available or would I have to pay the difference for bonus to apply? I don't want the console, just the extra 50%.

You get the bonus for Switch games and accessories purchases. This includes pre-orders. You can just put $5 as a minimum toward your purchase/pre-order and the rest on a trade card.

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[Cnstntidnty]

Hmmm according to the sheets, today there's a Switch console at the local store that I called yesterday.

Wonder when the employee thats hoarding it gets paid.
So they can go pick it up.

 

[godofwar7]

I am legitimately shocked that the 3 gba games I bought from GameStop were all legit

 

[ZeroGame]

Went to go pickup my preordered case from a store and do another trade in at pickup. But they didn't have it. This is normally a cags wet dream where you don't even have to cancel they did it for me. Unfortunately I needed and wanted the case. Lol

I ended up going to the least desireable location to get that case and finish up my trades.

 

[Kyle1022]

The front page of the app is saying that you can preorder Switch consoles from their next shipment in store. Glad I didn't try to get a second one of these with credit to sell at cost for cash

 

[YawnAmuroYawn]

I am legitimately shocked that the 3 gba games I bought from GameStop were all legit

Yeah. I wanted to make some gba purchases but am hesitant due to the history. Also I'm from NYC too. The store manager at 14th is an asshole. HIs name is John the asshole. He has been working at Gamestop since at least 2001. I don't think he is going anywhere anytime soon.

 

[ritchardf]

Hmmm according to the sheets, today there's a Switch console at the local store that I called yesterday.

Wonder when the employee thats hoarding it gets paid.
So they can go pick it up.

its funny, because the spreadsheet said there was one near me and they swore up and down at the store that they didnt have any more. today it no longer shows up on the list, so i guess the employee must have gone to work last night and picked up his switch that he couldnt bother to preorder.

 

[pjmomo]

just came back from picking up my switch accessories (from the 50% bonus trade-ins), i tried yesterday but there was a long line of people picking up their switch and what not... didn't want to be that person that wait in line to pick up a wrist strap.

my gs still had a stack of the zelda posters, so they gave me two.

Spoiler

 

[godofwar7]

Yeah. I wanted to make some gba purchases but am hesitant due to the history. Also I'm from NYC too. The store manager at 14th is an asshole. HIs name is John the asshole. He has been working at Gamestop since at least 2001. I don't think he is going anywhere anytime soon.

There shouldn't be any downside to ordering them since it would be an easy return. Just have to keep the purchase amounts lower so that in the off chance that everything you bought is fake you don't have your account flagged for excessive returns. Now that those 3 I bought are confirmed, I'll buy 6 more and maybe more after I confirm those are legit and if the b2g1 is still running.

Saving grace is I don't give a shit if I'm banned from johns store. I avoided his previous store in the first place before it had shut down. I simply didn't know he had transferred to the 14th street store until I did those boomerangs.

 

[Nathan_Sama]

The front page of the app is saying that you can preorder Switch consoles from their next shipment in store. Glad I didn't try to get a second one of these with credit to sell at cost for cash

I called and asked about this for my local store, its for a $600 bundle not a base unit.

 

[aircobra]

So it was confirmed that Gamestop will not take back defective units?

 

[westcoaststyle]

I have two PUR certificates: $25 and $15 off any pre-owned item. Can I stack those and use it with the B2G1 promo going on?

 

[Bobby's World]

I have two PUR certificates: $25 and $15 off any pre-owned item. Can I stack those and use it with the B2G1 promo going on?

I wouldn't use those coupons unless you were buying a $54.99 game and some $17.99 games lol I'm pretty sure that those $40 will apply to the most expensive game making it free

 

[westcoaststyle]

Alright cool thanks for the tip, my dumbass redeemed the wrong coupons lol, just trying to turn it back into points.

 

[skateraXVIII]

So it was confirmed that Gamestop will not take back defective units?

Defective Switch consoles?

On a related note, did I make a mistake buying the 1 year replacement plan for the Switch? Was $30. Never bought one before, but of all the consoles that have been released, I feel like this one might have a higher failure rate...

 

[shrike4242]

So it was confirmed that Gamestop will not take back defective units?

As long as they're OK with BBB complaints and complaints to their corporate office if they don't take them back.

 

[ramuk]

Yeah. I wanted to make some gba purchases but am hesitant due to the history. Also I'm from NYC too. The store manager at 14th is an asshole. HIs name is John the asshole. He has been working at Gamestop since at least 2001. I don't think he is going anywhere anytime soon.

Thought I was the only who had the opinion about 14th st. manager - didnt know his name.... (he was the mgr at the now-closed location on 14th st in front of walgreens)

 

[blackbeard4886]

Defective Switch consoles?

On a related note, did I make a mistake buying the 1 year replacement plan for the Switch? Was $30. Never bought one before, but of all the consoles that have been released, I feel like this one might have a higher failure rate...

My experience with these and my son's 2DS is they will not honor it unless it is a natural component failure. Anything that happens because of human error is not covered and renders the warranty useless. However they will tell you otherwise just to get you to buy it and boost their numbers (which they did to me when I got my son his 2DS)

 

[blackbeard4886]

Surprised more SE locations popped up. Also I think tonight around closing all the not up picked up pre-orders should turn to available status.

 

[josekortez]

How long until we get a spreadsheet of GameStop stores with asshole managers?

 

[ariel.rosales3]

How long until we get a spreadsheet of GameStop stores with asshole managers?

Blackbeard is working on it now.

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[saberdragon]

How long until we get a spreadsheet of GameStop stores with asshole managers?

I know the gamestop managers pretty well. I avoid a certain store because of him. I don't like doing returns there because he gives me an attitude and asks questions. I'll only return there if it's a different guy. The other employees are cool.

 

[Jeff Jr.]

Has anybody traded in 1 2 Switch or any other switch games? 

1 2 Switch is pretty bad and obviously not worth $50. I bought it with VC and GCU and it is a waste of money.

I remember Blackbeard posted a list of future trade in values of Switch Games.

Wii Sports is way better than 1 2 Switch even though, 1 2 Switch has more games but they only last for 1 to 4 mins depending on each game.

There were some games that were good like 

Beach Flag 

Safe Crack (Mario Party type Mini game)

Sneaky Dice (Longest Game depending whose playing and psychological)

Signal Flags (Reminds me of the Mario Party 1 mini game Shy Guy Says"

but they all last under 5 mins. I remember playing tennis, bowling, and golf, and spend at least 20 mins in each in Wii Sports.  

Although the switch in general, is perfect for Wario Ware game. 

 

[blackbeard4886]

Has anybody traded in 1 2 Switch or any other switch games?

1 2 Switch is pretty bad and obviously not worth $50. I bought it with VC and GCU and it is a waste of money.

I remember Blackbeard posted a list of future trade in values of Switch Games.

Wii Sports is way better than 1 2 Switch even though, 1 2 Switch has more games but they only last for 1 to 4 mins depending on each game.

There were some games that were good like

Beach Flag

Safe Crack (Mario Party type Mini game)

Sneaky Dice (Longest Game depending whose playing and psychological)

Signal Flags (Reminds me of the Mario Party 1 mini game Shy Guy Says"

but they all last under 5 mins. I remember playing tennis, bowling, and golf, and spend at least 20 mins in each in Wii Sports.

Although the switch in general, is perfect for Wario Ware game.

They had TIV for Breath of the Wild for the Wii U and Has Been Heroes for the PS4 and Xbox for over a month now but so far they haven't added the Switch pre-owned skus into the database I am looking at. I am guessing the very latest they will be their Wednesday.

 

[Cnstntidnty]

How long until we get a spreadsheet of GameStop stores with asshole managers?

That'd just be a list of every store in America.

Imagine having to work at that place for several years straight.

 

[chrome3333]

I disagree I found some good ones and some bad ones. I would list the ones I know are Junior Detectives if need be.

 

[blackbeard4886]

Yeah. I wanted to make some gba purchases but am hesitant due to the history. Also I'm from NYC too. The store manager at 14th is an asshole. HIs name is John the asshole. He has been working at Gamestop since at least 2001. I don't think he is going anywhere anytime soon.

That'd just be a list of every store in America.

Imagine having to work at that place for several years straight.

I imagine John has transformed through the years to look like this:

 

[ritchardf]

That'd just be a list of every store in America.

Imagine having to work at that place for several years straight.

yeah, imagine having all these huge preorder numbers for switch games and accessories and then only 3 or 4 people pick them up, everybody else cancels. i can imagine that would get old fast.

 

[Nightman04]

To anyone who got this case
http://m.gamestop.com/product/accessories/nintendo-switch-game-traveler-deluxe-travel-case/141876
Have you tried putting the joy con straps in that little slot at the bottom of the case? It looks like it's made for them, but I just want to be sure.


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[Cnstntidnty]

yeah, imagine having all these huge preorder numbers for switch games and accessories and then only 3 or 4 people pick them up, everybody else cancels. i can imagine that would get old fast.

I'd agree with that, but they don't make any $ on new products so...

 

[ariel.rosales3]

To anyone who got this case
http://m.gamestop.com/product/accessories/nintendo-switch-game-traveler-deluxe-travel-case/141876
Have you tried putting the joy con straps in that little slot at the bottom of the case? It looks like it's made for them, but I just want to be sure.


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I tried and only one fits comfortably so I do not think it was made for that. Perhaps it was for headphones.


Edit: They do fit in the pouch that is attached to the case.
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[alucardus]

To anyone who got this casehttp://m.gamestop.com/product/accessories/nintendo-switch-game-traveler-deluxe-travel-case/141876
Have you tried putting the joy con straps in that little slot at the bottom of the case? It looks like it's made for them, but I just want to be sure.
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I bought this case and it's pretty good for the Switch and smaller accessories. You could put the straps in the pouch on top. I like That they give you two game cases, and a microsd case in the shape of the Switch game. Everything fits fine.

 

[Nightman04]

Ok. So they don't fit in that long grove behind the console at the bottom? Then what is it for?


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[Nightman04]

I tried and only one fits comfortably so I do not think it was made for that. Perhaps it was for headphones.


Edit: They do fit in the pouch that is attached to the case.
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Ok. I guess that'll work. Thanks! Do you think I could fit a USB charging cable in there with the straps as well?


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[Keen314]

FYI Zelda fanatics: GS and BB gave out different Zelda posters. GS gave me one with an action shot of Link aiming his bow. BB had a sweeping landscape shot. They both had the same cover art on the other side.

I hit up both stores, so I ended up with one of each.