EB GAMES Summer Sale 7/15-7/31 B&M & Online (mostly)

[QUOTE Bah psychonauts needs to lower in the 15 dollar range..[/QUOTE]

we all want cheaper games, but this game dropping so fast is not good for majesco. its a good original (non sequel, non license) game that i hoped would have sold more so publishers would be more inclined to make more of these types of games. o well, hope they make a sequel :)

i love me some cheap games, cheap!!!!
 
based on everyone wanting bard's tale at that price chances of scoring a copy= not so good

i feel sad that collector's editions are so hit and miss about when they will be plentiful and when they will be hard to score, or maybe i feel used, yeah i feel used and angry
 
I don't think I'm gonna have any luck with this sale based on the way things are going:

Yesterday, I came into work and saw a guy trading in his N64 + a bunch of complete N64 games (Zelda, Harvest Moon, Castlevania, Mario Kart, etc...) Since our store isn't a hub store, we ship games older than PS1 games out...I asked my manager if he could not ship those out because I wanted to pick some of them up during the sale. Manager said no...okay, so I asked if I could buy some of them right away (thinking that I'd return them and rebuy them when the sale starts...quitting at the end of the month so I don't care too much about my job anymore); no to that too. Said he ships all "classic" games out, no exceptions (even if we're buying them?). Note this is the same manager who doesn't let his employees pick up pennied out items (stuff that drops to $0.01 and are supposed to be destroyed) and makes sure that every item that is pennied out is destroyed and thrown away.

There is only one store near me that sells NES and SNES games. I went there after work today to scope out some stuff I could possibly pick up on the 15th. All I see are games like Sesame Street, Jack Nicholson (sp?) Golf, and some other crappy games. Turns out the employees there are already holding Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, and Final Fantasy 3 for themselves (they were showing off since I'm also an EB Games employee). The employee holding the games said he'd let me buy Chrono Trigger and Super Metroid if I sold him my 1 GB memory stick pro duo for $70 (and he was trying to be nice too...). Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Knowing my luck, Bard's Tale will be sold out before I can make it to EB on Friday.
 
Wowww...tough luck - but I think the sale will be online as well ^_^
Good thing the employees at my EB don't really care for those games...
Here's hoping people don't go looking in random places in the store and find my well hidden Lufia/CT/MM5 :whistle2:|

[quote name='vietgurl']I don't think I'm gonna have any luck with this sale based on the way things are going:

Yesterday, I came into work and saw a guy trading in his N64 + a bunch of complete N64 games (Zelda, Harvest Moon, Castlevania, Mario Kart, etc...) Since our store isn't a hub store, we ship games older than PS1 games out...I asked my manager if he could not ship those out because I wanted to pick some of them up during the sale. Manager said no...okay, so I asked if I could buy some of them right away (thinking that I'd return them and rebuy them when the sale starts...quitting at the end of the month so I don't care too much about my job anymore); no to that too. Said he ships all "classic" games out, no exceptions (even if we're buying them?). Note this is the same manager who doesn't let his employees pick up pennied out items (stuff that drops to $0.01 and are supposed to be destroyed) and makes sure that every item that is pennied out is destroyed and thrown away.

There is only one store near me that sells NES and SNES games. I went there after work today to scope out some stuff I could possibly pick up on the 15th. All I see are games like Sesame Street, Jack Nicholson (sp?) Golf, and some other crappy games. Turns out the employees there are already holding Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, and Final Fantasy 3 for themselves (they were showing off since I'm also an EB Games employee). The employee holding the games said he'd let me buy Chrono Trigger and Super Metroid if I sold him my 1 GB memory stick pro duo for $70 (and he was trying to be nice too...). Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Knowing my luck, Bard's Tale will be sold out before I can make it to EB on Friday.[/QUOTE]
 
[quote name='vietgurl']I don't think I'm gonna have any luck with this sale based on the way things are going:

Yesterday, I came into work and saw a guy trading in his N64 + a bunch of complete N64 games (Zelda, Harvest Moon, Castlevania, Mario Kart, etc...) Since our store isn't a hub store, we ship games older than PS1 games out...I asked my manager if he could not ship those out because I wanted to pick some of them up during the sale. Manager said no...okay, so I asked if I could buy some of them right away (thinking that I'd return them and rebuy them when the sale starts...quitting at the end of the month so I don't care too much about my job anymore); no to that too. Said he ships all "classic" games out, no exceptions (even if we're buying them?). Note this is the same manager who doesn't let his employees pick up pennied out items (stuff that drops to $0.01 and are supposed to be destroyed) and makes sure that every item that is pennied out is destroyed and thrown away.
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Your manager sounds like a douche girl... I would hate to work for a guy thats all policy like that. He sounds like an angry middle age man who can't get none.
 
[quote name='Seventh']Your manager sounds like a douche girl... I would hate to work for a guy thats all policy like that. He sounds like an angry middle age man who can't get none.[/QUOTE]

Scary how close that description is to him. He's in his 40s, bald, with a hunchback, and tends to stick up the bathroom (and the stockroom along with it).

*crosses fingers* please be online sale, lol.
 
Wow - I'd hate to work for someone like that. Bah, for your sake I hope the sale is online as well =)

[quote name='vietgurl']Scary how close that description is to him. He's in his 40s, bald, with a hunchback, and tends to stick up the bathroom (and the stockroom along with it).

*crosses fingers* please be online sale, lol.[/QUOTE]
 
No more having to cut out the UPC for rebate vouchers.... ( I have the ad in front of me)....... All you need to do is send in the reciept and rebate form............. pretty sweet now that you don't have to ruin your game insert.
 
[quote name='n00bie']How do you tell how many they have left in stock? I see people saying there is only xx left.[/QUOTE]
Add it to your cart, put the quantity in as 100, click "update quantities" and if there are less than that in stock, it will show you how many are available. And if there are 100 or more, it will list 100 (the max you can order).


Anyway, I'm really counting on this being online. If it is, I'll probably bite on:

50% off all SNES, Genesis, and Nintendo 8 Bit Games
Bards Tale PS2 (good for Pricegrabber, so it's a steal at $5)
Rumble Roses PS2 $24.99 - $20 - $4.99 (FINALLY! less than $10 on this thing)
Capcom Fighting Evolution PS2 $29.99 - $20 = $9.99


Although, I must say, I'm really nervous about the vouchers thing. Paper Mario, I don't mind paying $20 for, but no way in hell am I paying more than $5 for Rumble Roses, and $10 for CFEvo is pushing it. Full price on either of those, however, is out of the question.
 
[quote name='CoffeeEdge']Add it to your cart, put the quantity in as 100, click "update quantities" and if there are less than that in stock, it will show you how many are available. And if there are 100 or more, it will list 100 (the max you can order).


Anyway, I'm really counting on this being online. If it is, I'll probably bite on:

50% off all SNES, Genesis, and Nintendo 8 Bit Games
Bards Tale PS2 (good for Pricegrabber, so it's a steal at $5)
Rumble Roses PS2 $24.99 - $20 - $4.99 (FINALLY! less than $10 on this thing)
Capcom Fighting Evolution PS2 $29.99 - $20 = $9.99


Although, I must say, I'm really nervous about the vouchers thing. Paper Mario, I don't mind paying $20 for, but no way in hell am I paying more than $5 for Rumble Roses, and $10 for CFEvo is pushing it. Full price on either of those, however, is out of the question.[/QUOTE]

There shouldn't be the funny business that we've seen with the Paper Mario rebate situation.
 
[quote name='bostonfrontier']how do you know?[/QUOTE]

I don't know, though the issues that came about from the Paper Mario rebate were from the fact that EB's intention was to sell the game at $49.99 with a $20 GV for it, netting the buyer the game for $29.99.

Since Paper Mario hit down to $19.99 when it did, it made the game "free", which I'm sure wasn't the intention on their wish to put out the $20 GV rebate. It may have also been an uncoordinated price drop, since I can't see EB planning on selling a game for $20 with a $20 GV rebate on it, when it's a top-tier Nintendo-branded title. The other sales they ran like this, in-store, for Hot Shots Golf Fore and Syphon Filter: The Omega Straiin, weren't an issue.

The Syphon Filter $20 GV rebate when purchased online for $10 was a previous situation, which worked out OK for me and I had my $20 show up, though others weren't so lucky at first. They've also done "free" after GV rebate games in the past, such as Alias, plus ones that netted more than the purchase price back, such as Max Payne 2.

Since they have a set price in the ad coming up, and theoretically online on Friday, unless they deviate from those prices online or in-store, I can't see those being a problem. If they do, they make their own mess to clean up, just like the one they're still cleaning up with Paper Mario. If they stick to their plan, there shouldn't be an issue, for us or for them.

Do I know that for 100% certainty? No, of course not, though who does know anything with 100% certainty?
 
I'm also weary about the 'free' rebate deals now after paper mario ( still arguing with EB support over how you are, as a consumer, supposed to know they intend to give you the game for free or if its a badly timed temporary price drop)
 
[quote name='suko_32']Capcom Fighting Evolution is 19.99 on the eb site. So instead of 9.99, would it be free?[/QUOTE]
What I'm thinking will happen is, on the 15th, it will go up to $29.99 online.
 
If this deal is online, do you guys think it will start at 12 midnight, or during the EB morning update, or later? Will we have to use codes? I wanted a couple SNES games that I think are going to go OOS in the beginning of the sale since all the EBs around me don't sell the old school stuff at all.
 
[quote name='partygirlie21']If this deal is online, do you guys think it will start at 12 midnight, or during the EB morning update, or later? Will we have to use codes? I wanted a couple SNES games that I think are going to go OOS in the beginning of the sale since all the EBs around me don't sell the old school stuff at all.[/QUOTE]
I've been wondering about this as well. Plus, the EBGames Email update thing today made no mention of this sale... So I am skeptical as to whether or not it will apply to the online store at all.
 
I'm surprised the physical stores don't put out promotional brochures, flyers, etc. a bit further in advance. I went by my local store earlier this week, and they said they couldn't discuss any details of their upcoming promotions. Are they expecting word of mouth alone to bring people into the stores during the sale period?
 
[quote name='MaxBiaggi2']I'm surprised the physical stores don't put out promotional brochures, flyers, etc. a bit further in advance. I went by my local store earlier this week, and they said they couldn't discuss any details of their upcoming promotions. Are they expecting word of mouth alone to bring people into the stores during the sale period?[/QUOTE]

They did this with the last sale at my location, as well. Tried to get a flyer the NIGHT BEFORE the sale, and I was told they couldn't put them out until tommorrow morning, and couldn't talk about the sale.

EB has some really fucking stupid policies.
 
[quote name='MaxBiaggi2']I'm surprised the physical stores don't put out promotional brochures, flyers, etc. a bit further in advance. I went by my local store earlier this week, and they said they couldn't discuss any details of their upcoming promotions. Are they expecting word of mouth alone to bring people into the stores during the sale period?[/QUOTE]

I had the same sort of thing happen. I was in the store last night and said that I'd heard that they were going to have a sale starting on the 15th. The guy just looked around for flyers and then looked over at his manager; neither of them said anything. I just thought that he was an idiot, but maybe he was freaking out because of the `EB super secret flyer/promo policy' and that I must be some sort of corporate spy or something. I don't even know why they would care so much about such a half-assed sale anyway.

I really hate going to the local EB these days (not that it was ever a great place to go). They haven't had any decent deals for a while (well, if they have, it's usually a royal pain in the ass to find them, since they never update their price stickers, or know about any price reductions). ebgames.com has been great..I really hope that it dosen't get swallowed up into gamestop.com with the merger. =(
 
I didn't know this until recently, but if you're local EB doesn't have it in stock, just print out the webpage with the listed price, and bring it to either a Circuit City or Sears and they will beat the price. Worked for me at Sears when CC was running Baten Kaitos for 10 bucks.
 
[quote name='Zmanmurf']I didn't know this until recently, but if you're local EB doesn't have it in stock, just print out the webpage with the listed price, and bring it to either a Circuit City or Sears and they will beat the price. Worked for me at Sears when CC was running Baten Kaitos for 10 bucks.[/QUOTE]

Or your Sears manager can start to hate you for continually trying to price match prices he doesn't like. But maybe that's just my experience.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']They did this with the last sale at my location, as well. Tried to get a flyer the NIGHT BEFORE the sale, and I was told they couldn't put them out until tommorrow morning, and couldn't talk about the sale.

EB has some really fucking stupid policies.[/QUOTE]


That's weird the dude at my Ebgames store game me a flyer to take home
 
I asked some employees on Monday and they had no idea about any sale (when I went to pick up $6 MM3 from the morning update) and they had no idea about any upcoming sales. I hid a bunch of games to come back and get in any case :D Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Megaman 5, Lufia
Can't wait for this!

[quote name='bostonfrontier']That's weird the dude at my Ebgames store game me a flyer to take home[/QUOTE]
 
Yes I also need this info,

What is the online code for 50% off classic games?
I need to fill out my collection!
-Mike
 
I have a feeling that not all the specials will be online also. Like the 50% off Classic games...I'm going to be picking up MegaMan 5&6 instore anyway, but it would be nice to get some other games online.
 
Concerning online. Can't you go to a EB buy a $50 or $100 gift certificate then use the gift certicficate online. Do the stores sell certificates? I don't have a CC or want another one. Since there are a lot of cheap games at EB online that I want and not at the stores.

I got a Barnes and Noble gc for Christmas and brought books online.
 
[quote name='grantme']Concerning online. Can't you go to a EB buy a $50 or $100 gift certificate then use the gift certicficate online. Do the stores sell certificates? I don't have a CC or want another one. Since there are a lot of cheap games at EB online that I want and not at the stores.

I got a Barnes and Noble gc for Christmas and brought books online.[/QUOTE]

Yes, you can buy a gift card at an EB store. Then scratch off the area on the back of the card (like a lottery ticket) to reveal the PIN number. Then when ordering on the site, you can enter the card number and PIN to pay for stuff instead of a CC.

-DM
 
Alot of the specials just don't seem very special to me. Sort of disappointed with this. Hope there's more online.
 
[quote name='bostonfrontier']pp2get1[/QUOTE]

is this for the buy 2 get 1 free? It doesn't seem to be working for me.
 
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