(Back!) Metroid Prime 2: Echoes (NEW) $14.99 at ebgames.com

Thanks OP and for the update! Finally got one at $14.99!!!!! :D Picked it up with Vampire Night w/GunCon2. Hopefully I'll get lucky like some others and get a "new" VN. :pray:
 
[quote name='ThePlatinumStag']I didn't get that special bonus thing at the end though - it seemed fishy...[/QUOTE]

Lots of us have done it. It's an easy $10 off.
 
[quote name='Pookymeister1234']got a good printout and gonna PM at CC now. Still ordered a copy for backup though =][/QUOTE]

Ditto
 
[quote name='Zombie']Lots of us have done it. It's an easy $10 off.[/QUOTE]

I'm anticipating an easy $20 off (unless they try to tell me both offers only result in one valid voucher), which will fund Skies of Arcadia for GC whenever it comes back in stock.
 
Qty Product Name Each Total
1 F-Zero GX - Pre-Played $9.99
1 Metroid Prime 2: Echoes $14.99
Total Discount -$1.50
Subtotal $23.48
S & H FREE
Sales Tax $1.57
Total $25.05


Another great day to be a CAG ^_^
 
I've never had a vendetta against a store employee, until now... the Sears manager strikes again.

botticus: "Hi, I'd like to price match this [Metroid 2]"
Associate: "who would buy this used for $34.99 when it's $14.99, how dumb."
A: [does price match]
A: "Okay, just waiting for the manager to approve this"
[ten minutes later]
Manager: "Oh, we don't price match this. It was an error in the system, I looked at it last week when someone tried it [me]."
b: "Can you look at it again?"
M: "No, I just looked at it."
b: "Look at it again"
M: [looks] Oh, well it's an error. I'll PM the $34.99"
b: "Excuse me? Why?"
M: "It's a .com price, we don't do that. We only do B&M"
b: "Your policy says you match competitor's websites"
m: "no it doesn't"
b: "Go look at it"
[half hour passes]
M: "Our policy does say we match online prices. But I clicked on the link [MP2 in the 'Best Sellers'] and now it says unavailable [just sold out!!!]. So I called the number and they said it was a limited quantity, our policy says we don't match special pricing"
b: [dumbfounded that a manager could procrastinate long enough for an item to sell out and thereby say they don't have to match it, using a different excuse each time]
b: "So last week you would have said it was a limited quantity, even though they have more limited quantity?"
M: "Last week was an error..."
b: [more dumbfoundedness]

Needless to say I will be calling EB corp. tonight to find out exactly what their explanation is for this pricing, and if I can find someone who says it's just a price drop, Sears manager is getting a call and a big "fuck you"

... That's why I ordered online first.
 
[quote name='botticus']I've never had a vendetta against a store employee, until now... the Sears manager strikes again.

botticus: "Hi, I'd like to price match this [Metroid 2]"
Associate: "who would buy this used for $34.99 when it's $14.99, how dumb."
A: [does price match]
A: "Okay, just waiting for the manager to approve this"
[ten minutes later]
Manager: "Oh, we don't price match this. It was an error in the system, I looked at it last week when someone tried it [me]."
b: "Can you look at it again?"
M: "No, I just looked at it."
b: "Look at it again"
M: [looks] Oh, well it's an error. I'll PM the $34.99"
b: "Excuse me? Why?"
M: "It's a .com price, we don't do that. We only do B&M"
b: "Your policy says you match competitor's websites"
m: "no it doesn't"
b: "Go look at it"
[half hour passes]
M: "Our policy does say we match online prices. But I clicked on the link [MP2 in the 'Best Sellers'] and now it says unavailable [just sold out!!!]. So I called the number and they said it was a limited quantity, our policy says we don't match special pricing"
b: [dumbfounded that a manager could procrastinate long enough for an item to sell out and thereby say they don't have to match it, using a different excuse each time]
b: "So last week you would have said it was a limited quantity, even though they have more limited quantity?"
M: "Last week was an error..."
b: [more dumbfoundedness]

Needless to say I will be calling EB corp. tonight to find out exactly what their explanation is for this pricing, and if I can find someone who says it's just a price drop, Sears manager is getting a call and a big "fuck you"

... That's why I ordered online first.[/QUOTE]

Don't waste your time with calling EBgames. It's most likely a marketing technique to draw people to their website daily and stir up excitement.
 
[quote name='E-Z-B']Don't waste your time with calling EBgames. It's most likely a marketing technique to draw people to their website daily and stir up excitement.[/QUOTE]

I am certainly excitable right now, so I guess it worked. I'll just have to figure out if 6 bucks is worth a 20 minute drive to my other CC. And I think we all know the answer will be yes...
 
Haha, it stirs a lot of excitement for me alright. Just watching the stock count go from 100+ to OOS. It's rather fun watching from the outside while people scramble and claw on the inside to get that item they want. :twisted:
 
EB is RULE! compare to GS = never see any deal. Glad pickup all the games i wanted.

Lord of the Rings: 3rd Ages (holding for while and get it today)
Metroid Prime 2 (Missed last time but get it today)
Zelda: 4 swords (Trade-in my Previous copy and pickup new version w/ Cable)
Ping Pals (DS Junkie but i have plan to use it )...
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1st......Circuit City sale, TRU 30% off Sales, Ebgames Maddness..............what's next "BARD TALE for $10 :)
 
i tried PMing at Circuit City, and they gave me a 30 min runaround.
First went online and verified the price. The guy looked at shipping prices, and was gonna tabulate that into the PM.....ok then. Then he decides to call EBgames mortar. THey says its only 14.99 online. So the guy comes back and says they dont match web prices.
Of course, it doesn't make sense why he checked it online and was going to count shipping if its only B&M stores......nubs.
Im debating whether or not its worth my time to complain to CC corp...
 
I've missed this TWICE. Damnation. At least I got the printout scan to pricematch at CC. And, since I luckily work there, they won't deny me if I have proof.
 
[quote name='Pookymeister1234']i tried PMing at Circuit City, and they gave me a 30 min runaround.
First went online and verified the price. The guy looked at shipping prices, and was gonna tabulate that into the PM.....ok then. Then he decides to call EBgames mortar. THey says its only 14.99 online. So the guy comes back and says they dont match web prices.
Of course, it doesn't make sense why he checked it online and was going to count shipping if its only B&M stores......nubs.
Im debating whether or not its worth my time to complain to CC corp...[/QUOTE]

Ugh... at that rate, I don't think I'm gonna drive 20 minutes to get rejected again - with my luck, they'll give me the same treatment. I have mine ordered, so I guess if the price drops again within 30 days, I'll see about going over there at some point to save the extra dough. Or I might just go talk to my friend the Sears manager again, see what he thinks of another "limited quantity"
 
[quote name='Pookymeister1234']i tried PMing at Circuit City, and they gave me a 30 min runaround.
First went online and verified the price. The guy looked at shipping prices, and was gonna tabulate that into the PM.....ok then. Then he decides to call EBgames mortar. THey says its only 14.99 online. So the guy comes back and says they dont match web prices.
Of course, it doesn't make sense why he checked it online and was going to count shipping if its only B&M stores......nubs.
Im debating whether or not its worth my time to complain to CC corp...[/QUOTE]

It would be because they DO match website prices.

Did this happen at the cash register? Usually there is only one cashier working at CC, and they don't have time to do all that because they want to just get the customers their stuff and get them out of there.

I've never had a problem PM'ing at the cashier... I don't even bother asking anyone else.
 
Same here, took the printout to CC in NYC (87th and 2nd ave store SUCKS, boycott that store) and the stupid girl at the cust service area takes like 5 minutes to go "talk to her supervisor" and comes back with a stupid reason. The whole time I see her reflection off a soda machine behind the desk and she was just behind a wall looking it up online and it was there in stock but I guess she just wanted to be a fucking b!$%# and waste my time. She comes back after looking it up online and says "Sorry but my supervisor says that we're a chain store and EBGames is only online and they're not a direct competitor". I was like "WTF?!!? They have over a dozen stores in NYC alone! It even SHOWS the locations on THAT printout and their website!". So she says "sorry but my supervisor said we can't pm that". I was half tempted to dropkick her in the face. CC is starting to be like BB, they should both face a class action law suit for their (lack of) pricematch policy. I know it's not my right to say anything since they have all the right in the world to refuse, but what's the point in having a pricematch policy if the only store you will pm is the circular from the "other" (BB to CC or CC to BB) store??
 
[quote name='Masterkyo']EB is RULE! compare to GS = never see any deal. Glad pickup all the games i wanted.

[/QUOTE]

This is the truth . . . I have a $20 code from GS (Phantom Dust rebate) and I have not seen one clearance deal posted for months with GS online.
 
[quote name='schultzed']This is the truth . . . I have a $20 code from GS (Phantom Dust rebate) and I have not seen one clearance deal posted for months with GS online.[/QUOTE]

Collosseum: Road To Freedom was 9.99 preorder, when the game has an MSRP of 39.99.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']It would be because they DO match website prices.

Did this happen at the cash register? Usually there is only one cashier working at CC, and they don't have time to do all that because they want to just get the customers their stuff and get them out of there.

I've never had a problem PM'ing at the cashier... I don't even bother asking anyone else.[/QUOTE]

I was price checking at CC when BB had the misprint of RE4 2/$30. The chashier rang them up no problem and was about to take my card and then a manager came by and bent my wookie! :evil:
 
[quote name='Kayden']I was price checking at CC when BB had the misprint of RE4 2/$30. The chashier rang them up no problem and was about to take my card and then a manager came by and bent my wookie! :evil:[/QUOTE]

Damn... that totally sucks. I would have gone back later and tried again.

I must go to the most lazy CC in the US then... I've never had a manager stop by the cash register, or a cashier never refuse anything. Like I said earlier, there is usually one cashier, a line of about four people, and they would rather give me the price match then hold up the line and deal with angry customers.

So far I pricematched Rumble Roses from EB's website, GTA: San Andreas for PC from CompUSA's website, and the EB ad that had Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal for $20.

Not sure why the people on here are trying to price match at customer service... they are always dicks.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']
Not sure why the people on here are trying to price match at customer service... they are always dicks.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately at Sears, they have to unlock the case with the game for you, so they do it in electronics. If I do head out to the next closest CC, I'll definitely be avoiding customer service.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']Damn... that totally sucks. I would have gone back later and tried again.

I must go to the most lazy CC in the US then... I've never had a manager stop by the cash register, or a cashier never refuse anything. Like I said earlier, there is usually one cashier, a line of about four people, and they would rather give me the price match then hold up the line and deal with angry customers.

So far I pricematched Rumble Roses from EB's website, GTA: San Andreas for PC from CompUSA's website, and the EB ad that had Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal for $20.

Not sure why the people on here are trying to price match at customer service... they are always dicks.[/QUOTE]

Last time I was at CC they only had 1 person at the CS desk and no cashiers.
 
For a deal like this that lasts only an hour, don't bother trying to PM. By the time you get over there, the deal will be over, then you'll get hassled at customer service. Then you just wasted gas and time trying to save a few more bucks. Wait until tomorrow or the next day and try again from ebgames.
 
I did not read all 12 pages of this thread, but are you people trying to price match at Circuit City and Best Buy so you can get it slightly cheaper (no shipping? extra 10% off?). Is $15 for Metroid 2 not low enough?! I paid $50 and $15 for the guide and I am happy as a clam.
 
[quote name='b3b0p']I did not read all 12 pages of this thread, but are you people trying to price match at Circuit City and Best Buy so you can get it slightly cheaper (no shipping? extra 10% off?). Is $15 for Metroid 2 not low enough?! I paid $50 and $15 for the guide and I am happy as a clam.[/QUOTE]

Sure, it's low enough, but why not get it lower if you can? :p I'm perfectly happy, I just don't like paying shipping if I don't have to, or waiting for shipments. But I will just have to deal with it and be happy.
 
[quote name='Masterkyo']EB is RULE! compare to GS = never see any deal. Glad pickup all the games i wanted. [/QUOTE]

Enjoy them while they're here since Gamestop swallowed them whole & will be phasing them out in the next year.
 
They honoured it?! Are they fucking dumb?!

I'm going to take several games I want and just photoshop a $9.99 price tag.
 
FYI, it looks like MP2 may or may not be returning to $14.99. It's up when you search for it, but gives you the out of stock message when you click on it. Be prepared.
 
I must have a magical browser then... that and Zelda (as referenced in the EB deals thread) are both showing up in searches for me at $14.99. Just no stock. Could just be another stock glitch, we'll see.

Edit: And gone.
 
Yeah, once they sell out of the $14.99 copies, it goes back up to $49.99 for the regular stock (no clue how they differentiate the two). It'll drop again within a few days, I'm sure.
 
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