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Just stopped into a Best Buy for the first time in a long while. Man does this chain have the vibe of a place that's about to go out of business. Store was practically empty. Not much on the shelves. Most of it full price. The door security guy was spitting time at the customer service desk...

Appreciate the list as always, but I'm going to call it: Black Friday 2021 suuuuuuucks. Went to a Walmart, a couple Targets and then headed home empty-handed. Inflation must really be hurting them because I'm not seeing much in the way of deals. Also going to predict that Q4 will be a major bust...

Is his manager Robinson Crusoe?

Asked around in a Walmart forum and was told they are receiving credit on condition the games not be sold. Now as to why the sudden about face one can only speculate. My hunch is that with the new consoles out the publishers do not want to lose pricing power by having a huge supply of current...

Me neither. They'll be the next Circuit City. Only a matter of time.

Can't remember where I heard it, but someone once told me that Walmart got its pricing edge by asking for discounts up front and agreeing not to return for credit. If true it would explain why some stores still have stacks of obsolete titles. Seems most likely that it varies on a case by case...

I don't have the space for it either, but I also like to have the physical media because you never know what will happen to digital services down the line. So I bought a few of those portable DVD binders that hold ~150 discs, put all the game discs in them and chucked out the cases, manuals...

I appreciate the spreadsheet. Black Friday deals are getting a little less spectacular every year. Most of the stores I went to had no lines. Many of the "doorbuster" TVs and consoles were hardly touched. Walmart and Target have racks full of overpriced games nobody is buying. The first-party...

If you have recently ordered a video game from Amazon.com (US site) and received an EU version, or other foreign version instead of the US version, I would like to hear about it. If possible, please include the title of the game, the name of the seller, any other details that are relevant such...

Canada is region 1, same as US, so you should be fine as regards DLC. Only issue I know would be possibility of different artwork or other details that a collector may care about. (Zelda Ocarina of Time, for instance, Canadian version has multicolor cover art with a horse running instead of the...

Shoot. That was the link that was provided for such issues in the past. If it's not functioning then people should just use regular customer service and be sure to explain WHY the product was unacceptable. Just to elaborate on what I said before, the volume of sales on Amazon is so high that...

That's why I posted the link where people can make the proper complaint. There are a few things about Amazon that the public doesn't understand. First, Amazon is huge, doing so much volume, that half the time they don't know there is a problem until enough people complain about it. The negative...

If you ordered from an Amazon seller other than Amazon itself and received a foreign version you can use this link to file a complaint: https://www.cheapassgamer.com/topic/358934-if-you-order-a-video-game-from-amazon-and-receive-a-foreign-version-use-this-link-to-file-a-complaint/?p=13502588

Awhile back Amazon had a sale on Doom (ps4) and some people were receiving UK versions. If you make a general complaint against a seller Amazon replies asking for specifics. So it will be more effective if people who have received a bait-and-switch will make a specific complaint including their...

From a collector/value point of view, is it time to start picking up some of the harder to find amiibos or do we expect Nintendo to continually re-release past figures? If this has been covered elsewhere I'd appreciate a link.