I've been shopping at Best Buy so much more the last two months. Their trade in prices and deals are often significantly better than Gamestop or Amazon, plus they sell more than games (unlike gamestop) and with recent changes to Amazon's trade in program it seems far less likely to get the actual price you lock in (now that it isn't trade or no trade with a 2nd tier level of "acceptable" games they seem to be far more picky). I've already bought two @Gamer magazines this summer for coupons so screw it, might as well just get the subscription. The writing has gotten much better in recent issues (compared to when it first started). Looking forward to that extra 10% bonus for trade-ins too (which will apparently go on top of other bonuses, such as the current 40% one!).
While the $10 for every $150 was nice, and I really hope they start some way of giving points for trade-ins, I'm still content.
[quote name='drduranduran']I bought one used (Two World 2, 360) game from a local BB and returned it within 10 seconds of purchasing it, since I opened the wrapper at the cashier's station and saw that they put a really sticky sticker (not meant to be removed !!) on the hub of the disc. Sorry, as a collector, I won't buy a single title used from a BB now.
It's bad enough Gamestops try to sell discs that looked like they have been ice skated on.
This whole @gamer mag and gamer club is a joke anyways. I bought Dragon Age 2 when they allowed me to use a coupon to purchase it at it's ON SALE price - then a few weeks later I tried another coupon on another on sale title and it was denied. The cashier apologized and told me it made no sense (which I didn't need to be told).
The day the HP Touchpads went on sale, I called another BB and asked if I could come over and buy one for $150 and they said they would start selling them at the new price 10am Sunday. I called back again and asked if I could come over and buy one full price and get the difference refunded on Sunday and they said no. 9:45 Sun, some idiot employee comes out and asks if the 5 of us were there for the Touchpad and of
ing course we are. He then tells us they are sold out. I quickly told him I called and they verified they had plenty and weren't selling them til tomorrow. I quickly stormed off and told them to go
themselves for wasting my time.
I have a friend that got ripped off on that Homefront headphone shortage...
The BB list of
ups goes on and on...
Best Buy (aka Worst Purchase) is not consumer friendly or even gamer friendly at this point.
Oh, BTW BB, you can shove that crappy (bias) mag and the coupons you won't accept.[/QUOTE]
@Gamer coupons work with sales now, they have for what? 2 months? That employee was simply mistaken (and they tried to scan it and it didn't work than there was an error). I would of talked to a manager.
I've only bought one used game from BB, but it had no sticker on it. My guess is that someone traded in an old rental disc of some sort that had the sticker on it before hand (that is unless of course it said Best Buy than obviously I'm wrong, but assuming it didn't it may be a bit rash to assume BB did it).
As for the HP Touchpads, someone probably did the buy/price adjust thing with the stock they had left. Most likely someone who was smart enough to not ask the manager if it were okay if they gamed the system before hand.
Most deals tend to say limited quantities, if they ran out of headphones he simply should of not bought the game. If it were an online order and he was simply never sent the headphones he should of demanded a refund or returned the game.
Also, I recommend deal with the people at your gaming counter (if your store has one of course). These people are actually trained specifically for their department. There are still idiots from time to time, but the service and knowledge of the staff has shot up probably 500% since they introduced this new system.
