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CAGiversary!
Trade in any 2 PS1,PS2,Xbox,GC,GBA games, buy any Pre-Owned game for 9.99.
Example: Trade in 2 games (Splinter Cell-xbox, My Disney Kitchen-ps1) Get $9.50 in trade in. Picked up Mario Kart DD at 39.99.

39.99
-30.00
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9.99
+0.60 tax
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10.59
- 9.50 Trade-in
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$ 1.09 OUT OF POCKET.

i paid 0.09 later for pop :)

If you've got some POX games that EB/Gamestop dont want, or will only get a quarter for, use it to get up to $30-$35 OFF a PO game.

Thanks go to Strider Turbulence from, well, CAG.

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More info.
States where Gamerush is available:
Connecticut - HI! i dont exist!
Georgia
Massachusetts
Michigan
New York
N. Carolina
S. Carolina
Texas
Virgina
West Virginia

If its a plain old Block Buster...no go.

I live in MI, and the 4 GR's ive gone to have had this sale going on with 2 other sales, Buy one, Get 1 %50 off and Trade in any game, get $10 off a 39.99 or more NEW game.

Not all GR's are in on this. Of those that do, the rules vary by compentence.
 
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If you could find some cheap ones at EB and use the 20% coupon or 30% if you have the GMR it would be even cheaper for you.

[quote name='scuba']I am thinking about buying 10 gba games at gamestop for 5 bucks each costing me 50 bucks and then trading those into gamerush to get 100 and then getting a gba sp or something :)[/quote]
 
I respectfully disagree. It would work out for them only if a person trades in two halfway decent games that can be resold and buys an older preowned game they aren't able to sell as easily. Keep in mind they are also giving you your trade credit (often inflated) in addition to giving you a ton off your preowned game.

I would agree with that, but I've seen copies of fairly new games come in as trade-ins (not brand new, but made within the past 6 months).
Perhaps the disconnect between our two opinions is that I see the old rental games that Blockbuster places out as having no value. Blockbuster has already reaped the benefits of multiple rentals, which have made up for both the sunk cost for the game, and already turned a tidy profit.
If they get anything else out of the deal, it's just gravy.

Even if they are getting older, less popular games they are building up a huge backstock of software for no real investment, so even if they sell them all at a pricepoint lower than ten dollars, it's just about all pure profit.
With only a few rare exceptions, I would think thier shelfspace is a more valuable commodity than the old games, since with the volume of software they run through thier rentals, they're trying to offload old rental games at a fairly fast pace.


Good preowned games are harder to get at GR's now, but people are trading in awful games that won't be resold and pickup up used games like SC: PT for $9.99 which is 30+ off.

Put the games at an attractive enough price point and it will sell.
I'm still of the opinion that the old rental games are considered to have negligible value by blockbuster corporate... though this deal, they get to draw money from the same product 3 times.. one from the trade in, and then two more times when the trade-ins sell.
Not only does it appeal to the gamer than wants the newest games, it appeal to the frugal parents that want to go in and buy a couple of games inexpensively. At the Gamerushes I've gone to, I've seen no less than 3-4 titles per store on the current gen systems that have sub 10- dollar price points. While this may not appeal to the CAGs among us, the less sophisticated parent will see this and think they've just gotten a really good deal... especially when they can buy one and get the second half off.


Plus in many cases the crap they are trading them in is getting more than $10 in trade-in credit,
Not as of late. Haven gets 50 cents. Many of the 5 dollar Best buy games will get you 1-1.50.
The only really bad games that are getting higher trade in credit are the GBA games, and that is likely because Gamerush wants to build up thier stock of GBA games.

so you are actually paying nothing out of pocket and getting credit back.

That's highly situational. Many games are not getting near the trade in credit they did at the start of this promo.

I don't know how you can view what people have been trading in (check the threads for how many people traded in old PS1 games and old sports games) as easily moveable.

Since they only gave 1-1.50 unless it was a hot title, Gamerush could easily move a bunch of those games at a 5 dollar price point (especially in conjunction with the other deal.. making it about at 3.75 price point, which is still double what they paid out).


I traded in Road Rash Jailbreak and Namco Museum Xbox for $13 each credit and got SC: PT for $9.99, which resulted in over $15 credit and nothing out of pocket. And those games I traded in were complete like new, probably some of the better trade-ins they've gotten. I figure MAYBE they could get 10 each for them if they were smart, but if they paid me $13 im sure they're going to try to resell them at 20 which is ridiculous. Like you I don't have the figures but I'd gather the great majority of people doing the swap were looking to get the newest and most expensive possible preowned games, and not looking to just get $10 off a 19.99 preowned game.

I still content that Blockbuster corporate considers the previously viewed stock as having minimal value. Through these trades, albiet very generous trades, they get to build up a backstock of older games to sell at thier locations (which will move if sold at a low enough price point), get in the occassional game that will move very quickly and at a tidy profit.

The best thing about this deal for them, however, is that it will build consumer loyalty and an overall feeling of goodwill towards gamerush.
Have you yet heard anyone complain about Gamerush in the same manner they do EB or Gamestop?
 
"Have you yet heard anyone complain about Gamerush in the same manner they do EB or Gamestop? "

that is a very good point....i like gamerush very much so far...i've gotten a lot of my used games from them and have had no complants.
 
[quote name='scuba']whats the deal with preorder halo 2 and then it says grand theft auto, whats that deal?[/quote]

I don't think there is any deal on those. It's just a reminder to pre-order Halo 2 and GTA.
 
oh, I saw the thing and didnt' know what it was

if gamerush wasn't doing what they were doing right now I wouldn't go at all I would just go to gamestop

they have great deals and thats everyone here goes and wants to go
 
i'm going to check there tonight for any good deals....they always seem to have some decent deal going on there
 
JSweeney,

It's too long to quote everything but I will say this: You make a point about the pre-played rental games being essentially worthless to them. Before Gamerush, I don't really know what Blockbuster did/does with their old rentals. Did they sell most of them preowned? Are they unable to, and liquidated them at super low prices? I really don't know. I've seen a lot of posts on this thread with people getting very new games preowned. I myself got a Splinter Cell: PT. I never rent games and I don't know how profitable they are for Blockbuster, and what they do with the games when the renting slows for them. If they have really gotten their moneys worth out of a game from it's rentals and the game is now of little value to them, why do they sell it still at a fairly high price, like $40 for a fairly new game? Instead of bothering with the trading why not just sell the preowned rentals at a fantastic price, like 10-15 cheaper than EB/GS? If the shelf space is valuable to me that'd be a quicker way to get rid of games than taking in old sports titles and other castoffs no one wants.

I just don't know if anyone is actually buying any of the "old" rental games. I certainly am not going into Gamerush looking to get LOTR: Fellowship of the Rings for 9.99 with my trade in :)
 
I asked about the preorder deal that worked like the new release for 29.99 deal a week ago and the guy told me that it was only for that weekend. He then told me a little story where they had to cut the deal short and, sorry I can't really remember, but he said something about being in trouble with distributors or something and they would be taking huge losses. Like I said I can't really remember, since I just wanted to leave once he said the deal is no more, and he started giving me that whole story. I know some stores aren't aware of everything on what they are suppose and not suppose to do, so there still might be a store out there doing the preorder deal. Also I only saw the preorder deal advertised at only one of my 3 local stores.
 
my BB ended the deal and now it's at 39.99 BUT..i'm going to check the other two in the area to see if they are stiill doing the deal
 
i just ordered 8 gba games from ebgames.com and have them shipped 1 day, the total only came out to be $6 a piece, im about to head off to gamerush and get minium $10 a piece for them, you gotta love gamerush :)
 
:evil: , I had a copy of Yu-Gi-Oh: Eternal Duelist Soul the other day in my hands that I was gonna trade in today but I can't find the damn thing now!!!
 
i really hope that works out for ya....i really really REALLY wish i jumped on taht 29.99 deal when it was still around....

i really don't want to give up any more of my games though ;-(
 
The best thing about this deal for them, however, is that it will build consumer loyalty and an overall feeling of goodwill towards gamerush.
Have you yet heard anyone complain about Gamerush in the same manner they do EB or Gamestop?[/quote]

That's a good point. Also, it's not like they won't have good deals in the future. They may not be deals like these but they will still have good deals sometimes. I like GR more than EB or GS because of the employees that work at it. For the most part they have been very helpful. :D
 
my gamestop has a few nice guys that work there...they let me once let me scam them with an extra 10% on top of another 20% off

that was a huge score...i knew the manager from school
 
[quote name='jshorr']
I just don't know if anyone is actually buying any of the "old" rental games. I certainly am not going into Gamerush looking to get LOTR: Fellowship of the Rings for 9.99 with my trade in :)[/quote]
Actually, I've noticed certain mediorce titles disapeering from the shelves of my GameRush from visit to visit. I took along a friend once, and he picked up two titles that were like 16.99... I tried to persuade him to pick up at least a decent title if you were going to pick something under $25 (Star Wars:KOTOR, for example), but he didn't listen. Not everyone is educated in how games score or even that they should try to pick up some titles to get the most for their money.

Oh... and the guys working at my GameRush have been exteremely kind and friendly. No problem getting me green cases for xbox games, and the guy last night even offered to look for the manual for me without even asking.
 
Let's be honest: It's really too soon to tell. All the GR employees at the 3 stores near me are not so bright, but that's partially expected b/c they're all on Staten Island :twisted: They also had no clue about when deals were supposed to expire, each store had a different policy regarding the trades. I was pleased with the super trade-in deals I got, but without them, to me it's just a Blockbuster, which as never been anything special as far as games. I sure know I wouldn't be rushing back to buy their preowned games in the blockbuster non original cases for $40.




[quote name='sj41']The best thing about this deal for them, however, is that it will build consumer loyalty and an overall feeling of goodwill towards gamerush.
Have you yet heard anyone complain about Gamerush in the same manner they do EB or Gamestop?[/quote]

That's a good point. Also, it's not like they won't have good deals in the future. They may not be deals like these but they will still have good deals sometimes. I like GR more than EB or GS because of the employees that work at it. For the most part they have been very helpful. :D[/quote]
 
it really matters, but it's funny, there are 2 GR's in my town and one gamestop. the nice people who know about games work at GR. and the 2 year old GS is full of idiots since day one, literally.i was there on opening weekend and they couldn't give me the right game.
love GR. just got back from there, picked up JSRF for 2.99, they of course will be seeing that again in a month. w/ my 4.99 preowned game coupon.
 
[quote name='jshorr']In all honesty, if these deals are abused it is entirely GR's fault. They very easily could have implemented a few checks and limits....been more selective in the games they take in....they're going to lose tons of money either way and they know that....the problem is, once the deals end, the store is nothing special....[/quote]

blockbuster in general loses money on all trade-ins. at the stores that accept dvd trade-ins(which should be most unless i'm mistaken) they allow any dvd to be traded in. so you can go trade in some movie you picked up cheap on clearance, sale,PO at BB or another store. They accept junk and still pay a little but with their deals it's # of trade-ins that matter. i'm just buying stuff from them for cheap and giving it back.

i really wish i picked up those games for $1-5 at KB-toys when they went out of business.
 
JSweeney,It's too long to quote everything but I will say this: You make a point about the pre-played rental games being essentially worthless to them. Before Gamerush, I don't really know what Blockbuster did/does with their old rentals. Did they sell most of them preowned? Are they unable to, and liquidated them at super low prices? I really don't know.

I can't really speak with any authority on the issue because I don't work there, but from what I've seen at the Blockbusters around me, that is exactly what happens.. games pile up, prices drop, and then they usually have one big sale that ends up blowing out the rest of thier old stock (usually a B1G1 type sale.)


I've seen a lot of posts on this thread with people getting very new games preowned. I myself got a Splinter Cell: PT. I never rent games and I don't know how profitable they are for Blockbuster, and what they do with the games when the renting slows for them.

When the rentals die off, they attempt to sell them. Seeing that the active rental period of a game appears to be around a month or so (the time period where the game is almost consistantly rented out.). After that month, the game just languishes on the preowned rack until someone buys it... they don't want to keep a huge stock of rentable games that are past thier high point.

If they have really gotten their moneys worth out of a game from it's rentals and the game is now of little value to them, why do they sell it still at a fairly high price, like $40 for a fairly new game?

I'd assume they look at the value that their competitors are trying to get out of the game. They've already got thier profit from the game, but higher profits never hurt any business.


Instead of bothering with the trading why not just sell the preowned rentals at a fantastic price, like 10-15 cheaper than EB/GS? If the shelf space is valuable to me that'd be a quicker way to get rid of games than taking in old sports titles and other castoffs no one wants.

They want create a stock of older games.. to create a wider variety and selection. The want to compete head to head with EB and Gamestop it appears... what better way to build up the selection in your stores by trading off stuff that's of negligible value to you?

I just don't know if anyone is actually buying any of the "old" rental games. I certainly am not going into Gamerush looking to get LOTR: Fellowship of the Rings for 9.99 with my trade in :)

While I've been looking through the games to choose what I want to trade in for, I've seen plenty of people buy Wolverine's revenge and Tomb Raider:AOD.
 
I knew someone mentioned it but I couldn't find it...

I saw that ad and it said all gba 10 dollars but I forgot when it expired does anyone remember?

I just got 7 gba games on ebgames.com for 35 bucks :) I am going to 10 a piece for them and then get a gba sp

I traded in today hitman contracts and got 30 bucks trade in and I traded in a messed up gta vice city cd only and looked like crap and got 10 bucks.

They have decent old games but no good new ones for ps2 etc anyway I got kid icarus for 5 bucks :) mint condition
 
I would think the answer is no but does anyone know whether GR will take more than 1 copy of a game (say a GBA game) to trade in. IE if you get on a super deal can you give them 5 of one copy. Probably YMMV but wondering if anyone's tried it.
 
I traded in 2 copies of Wild Arms 3 at one GameRush and they gave me $25 for both of them. I don't think they care if you are trading multiple copies of the same game. Come to think of it, I also traded 2 copies of Blowout at the same Gamerush too.
 
It is a limit of 2 of any game, once a day. What shipwreck did was fine, and he could have done the same thing the next day. He just wouldnt have been able to trade in 3 copies of something.
 
I know I posted this in the other thread too, but my f'n gamerush again told me over the phone one deal per day. :(

[quote name='Wshakspear']It is a limit of 2 of any game, once a day. What shipwreck did was fine, and he could have done the same thing the next day. He just wouldnt have been able to trade in 3 copies of something.[/quote]
 
[quote name='jshorr']I know I posted this in the other thread too, but my f'n gamerush again told me over the phone one deal per day. :(

[quote name='Wshakspear']It is a limit of 2 of any game, once a day. What shipwreck did was fine, and he could have done the same thing the next day. He just wouldnt have been able to trade in 3 copies of something.[/quote][/quote]

it is only one deal per day I wanted to get buy one cartridge game and get one free but I was already doing the trade 2 in get one 9.99 thing.

I dont know when the gameboy advance thing ends, I hope it doesn't end soon :(
 
Well thats what your store and my store told us....but other people have had no problem doing it many, many times per day, and the coupon says limit 2 titles per day. It doesn't say for sure whether that is 2 traded in or 2 purchased. It's YMMV unfortunately.
 
i totally didn't even think about pre-orders with their $29 dollar deal...i would have done that if i was thinkin...
 
[quote name='jshorr']Well thats what your store and my store told us....but other people have had no problem doing it many, many times per day, and the coupon says limit 2 titles per day. It doesn't say for sure whether that is 2 traded in or 2 purchased. It's YMMV unfortunately.[/quote]


if you really want to you could have a friend go with you and give him some money to get what you want 8) or you could have a parent
 
Are there any Staten Island\NYC Gamerush/CAG's here? If so maybe you could give a holler if you're trading back in some good stuff and let me know which store...so I will know when a trip down there is worthwhile....

Also another quick question....the SC: PT I got from gamerush last month was in a blockbuster case, not an xbox case. I didn't notice if all of them were like that. It wasn't an issue because I wound up trading it back to Gamerush, but has anyone had any issues trading gamerush PO games into EB or Gamestop? Do they require you to have the original xbox, ps2 or gc case?
 
Then there isn't one yet probably....hopefully you will get one rolled out to your area soon.

[quote name='Magician']Is there a Gamerush in Virginia? For some reason, it doesn't show up on their online webpage.....[/quote]
 
[quote name='jshorr']Are there any Staten Island\NYC Gamerush/CAG's here? If so maybe you could give a holler if you're trading back in some good stuff and let me know which store...so I will know when a trip down there is worthwhile....

Also another quick question....the SC: PT I got from gamerush last month was in a blockbuster case, not an xbox case. I didn't notice if all of them were like that. It wasn't an issue because I wound up trading it back to Gamerush, but has anyone had any issues trading gamerush PO games into EB or Gamestop? Do they require you to have the original xbox, ps2 or gc case?[/quote]

Unless the particular company is really picky, it shouldnt matter. its a case.
 
Yeah...actually I guess I am sorta picky... because I didn't like the case...there wasn't enough room for the SC: PT manual without it folding up a little....

[quote name='Wshakspear'][quote name='jshorr']Are there any Staten Island\NYC Gamerush/CAG's here? If so maybe you could give a holler if you're trading back in some good stuff and let me know which store...so I will know when a trip down there is worthwhile....

Also another quick question....the SC: PT I got from gamerush last month was in a blockbuster case, not an xbox case. I didn't notice if all of them were like that. It wasn't an issue because I wound up trading it back to Gamerush, but has anyone had any issues trading gamerush PO games into EB or Gamestop? Do they require you to have the original xbox, ps2 or gc case?[/quote]

Unless the particular company is really picky, it shouldnt matter. its a case.[/quote]
 
You can also try asking at Blockbuster for an Xbox case when you buy an Xbox game. Every Blockbuster that I've bought games from has been happy to go to the back and give me a green case. They're probably happy to get rid of them since they have no use for them.
 
Good idea, thanks!

[quote name='shipwreck']You can also try asking at Blockbuster for an Xbox case when you buy an Xbox game. Every Blockbuster that I've bought games from has been happy to go to the back and give me a green case. They're probably happy to get rid of them since they have no use for them.[/quote]
 
my local TRU had green cases for sale for 25 cents...i picked up 5..but next time I will see if my Blockbuster has some in the back...
 
Eh, just a YMMV warning.
Many of the Gamerushes I visited this afternoon would not accept a trade in GBA games without the original box. This greatly reduces the value of this particular promotion for me.

Oh well, the stores around me are looking pretty picked over as it is, and after getting the cream of the crop of thier new games over the past few weeks, the Trade in 1 to get a "new hot" game for 39.99 is looking pretty anemic right now as well.

Oh well, I guess it getting the point of just waiting for a restock and just taking advantage of the B1G1 50% off.
 
[quote name='vanlandw']my local TRU had green cases for sale for 25 cents...i picked up 5..but next time I will see if my Blockbuster has some in the back...[/quote]

some BB sell dvd cases at 10 for $1. i went to one and asked for green, no problem. i'm going to go see if they'll take back my old green cases with there stickers on them. will this work? to trade them for clean ones. i'm bringing my reciept for buying the others and just asking for better ones.
 
[quote name='JSweeney']Eh, just a YMMV warning.
Many of the Gamerushes I visited this afternoon would not accept a trade in GBA games without the original box. This greatly reduces the value of this particular promotion for me.

Oh well, the stores around me are looking pretty picked over as it is, and after getting the cream of the crop of thier new games over the past few weeks, the Trade in 1 to get a "new hot" game for 39.99 is looking pretty anemic right now as well.

Oh well, I guess it getting the point of just waiting for a restock and just taking advantage of the B1G1 50% off.[/quote]

if thats true I would be PISSED because I bought 7 from ebgames.com :x
 
Hell, ive had stores try to charge me full price for a used GBA game because they were surprised it was in a box. I love how each store makes up its own rules...
 
It depends were u live. i bought 10 gba games from ebgames, and they were all gameonly. I traded them in a gamerush and they didn't care, one store told me you cant trade in 2 gba games to get the any pre-owned game for $29.99, but another store let me do the deal.
 
After all my planning, I finally went to BB earlier todoy. I traded in the four following games:

(All complete)
Arcade Party Pak (PS1)
Namco Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (PS1)
Robotech: Battlecry (GC)
Xbox Music Mixer w/t microphone (XB)
Grand Total = $19

These are the following games I got:

Fire Emblem (GBA, used, no box, no manual)
Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga (GBA, used, w/t box, no manual)
Splinter Cell: Pandorra Tommorow (Xbox, w/t box, w/t manual)
Grand Total: $25.XX

I got both Fire Emblem and Splinter Cell for $9.99 each because of the trade-in 2 get one PO for $9.99 deal and then payed for Mario and Luigi with cash. I saw they had a used PS1 LCD screen for $39.99. I could've got it, but I just couldn't bring myself to buy it. Why? 'Cause, 1.) I needed some new games to keep me occupied since I'll be gone for a week, 2.) I don't even has a PS1 in the first place. But, my Mom usually gives me some money at the beach to spend, so I'll probably just wait till I get back and buy the screen. :wink:


Also, I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw a Halo tournament sign-up sheet beside the counter!!! My BB's actually hosting a Halo tournament on July 4th. I obviously signed up and I'm gonna make sure my brother practices with me while we're at the beach. Not only do I wanna do my best because it's fun--but my Dad'll be there watching!!!
 
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