2009 Videogame Holiday Dump Bins at BestBuy B&M

[FatBoyInside]

It's that time of the year where Best Buy stores re-tag and bury their overstocked games into large dump bins for holiday shoppers to shift around. These games will have their original UPC masked by a generic barcode and will be stickered with a fixed price, either $9.99 or $14.99. I think it might be cool and useful to keep an organized thread concerning any possible prized booty (preferably less than msrp). I will update the OP with any new inputs from fellow CAG scavengers. Cheers!


$9.99

Command & Conquer : Red Alert 3
N+


$14.99

MySims Kingdom
Viva Pinata : Pocket Paradise
Coraline
Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars
Monster Hunter Freedom 2
Namco Museum Virtual Arcade

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[Josef]

[quote name='gantt']Not sure about the difference between "holiday" dump bins and everyday dump bins. My store has a bin near the registers, and I found:

Last Remnant $9.99

Not sure if this is a deal (game got very mediocre reviews) but on a $/lb. basis it would seem to be (it's heavy).

I've seen Namco Museum but $10 or less is my price point for that, especially since already have it for PS2.

There are also still plenty of Rock Revolutions (360) floating around :lol:

PS Is there a way to insert system icons (360, PS3, etc.) without pulling up the full Smiles page? If not, it would be great to have add a drop-down button for that above the reply field.[/QUOTE]

The holiday dump bins I believe are labeled as some sort of Holiday bin. Also, all the games that are part of it are either priced $9.99 or $14.99, have a generic UPC over the regular barcode, and ring up at the price they are supposed to (no manual overrides). The receipt shows the game as being "holiday dump bin" or something like that.

 

[sleepydumbdude]

I bought 3 copies of Red Alert 3 1 for me and going to give the others away as gifts so maybe someone will play with me. All ready had Namco Museum from the gamestop sale awhile back.

 

[WhiteLens]

Last time I was at Best Buy I do recall seeing:

Mega Man Maverick Hunter X - $14.99

I really should get it since Mega Man X is my favorite Mega Man game.

 

[gantt]

[quote name='token2k6']just put 'colon :' ps3 'colon :' do not use the word and apostrophes and you should be fine. so like : ps3 : - but with no spaces. [/QUOTE]

Thanks!

[quote name='Josef']The holiday dump bins I believe are labeled as some sort of Holiday bin. Also, all the games that are part of it are either priced $9.99 or $14.99, have a generic UPC over the regular barcode, and ring up at the price they are supposed to (no manual overrides). The receipt shows the game as being "holiday dump bin" or something like that.[/QUOTE]

Then the bin I saw The Last Remnant in was NOT a holiday bin.

 

[cheeseburgerz]

Saw the following at my local BB:

Viva Pinata for 14.99
Kuropoto Cool Cool Stars 14.99
Rocket Slime 14.99 (in a different spot)
Mercury Meltdown Revolution 14.99
ATV Off Road Fury 4 14.99

 

[slidecage]

[quote name='arcane93']I grabbed Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles for $14.99 the other day. Saw Brothers in Arms DS for that price as well, but wasn't convinced that I need it. Other than that, the bins haven't been too interesting around here.[/QUOTE]


i got creed for the ds fewmonths back for 4.99 too many bugs to pay more then 5....

saw ncaa football 2009 for the psp for 10... if it was for the ps2 maybe (cant see playing sports games on small screens)

i had about 4 games in hand last night and tossed them all back.. i need to stop buying .... and with black friday amazon coming in 10 days i told myslef .... I will not buy nothing unti then (unless an wicked deal comes along)

just today (hopefully i should get)

Adventures to go psp (paid 13 for it sealed ebay)
Phantasy star zero Ds (got it via gamefly)
and 3 games i won off an lowball here)

now times that with 25+ back log or if youreally want to count 129 ds games nad 99 psp games i still need to really play i relaly need to stop buying LOL


What is insane is the games i got off amazon last black friday

5 of the 7 are still sealed and never opened... even some of the games i picked up in store are still sealed.

gamecrazy picked up chrono trigger to get heroes of mana free... Mana is still sealed

on the amazon side off top of head

tecmo football
teenage zombies
Pokemon mysterys DOT DOD
baseball allstars 2008
and cooking
all still sealed

 

[arcane93]

That was a really long and rambling post for having barely anything to do with the thread topic.

 

[robbyH]

At the BB in St. Mathews Louisville, there were several copies of PS2s Activision Anthology for $9.99. Had a good 80s soundtrack too.

 

[BlueSwim]

If anyone is interested in Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise, try Big Lots first. I saw it in a special $10 Holiday bin the last time I went there.

 

[arcane93]

[quote name='robbyH']At the BB in St. Mathews Louisville, there were several copies of PS2s Activision Anthology for $9.99. Had a good 80s soundtrack too.[/QUOTE]

It's a good set overall (picked it up at FYE in the B1G1 PS2 sale a while back), but I was disappointed to find that Kaboom! (one of my favorite Activision Atari 2600 games from back in the day) is practically unplayable with the way the controls are set up. Still, I'd recommend grabbing it for all of the other titles.

 

[slidecage]

[quote name='arcane93']That was a really long and rambling post for having barely anything to do with the thread topic.[/QUOTE]

if you look very very closely you will see i found NCAA 2009 football for the psp in the bins : ) I like to ramble

 

[Josef]

It looks like a lot of the $7 games at Wal-Mart on Black Friday are BB Holiday dump bin titles for $9.99 or $14.99. Just throwing it out there in case you don't want to brave the hordes at Wal-Mart at BF and spend a couple extra bucks.