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RyuujinZero

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Not sure where to post this so I'll just put it here. Forgive me if this is in the wrong board.

I have this $50 GameStop gift card that I really don't want, because GameStop's games are ridiculously overpriced and I could get two or three games from Glyde for the price of one from GameStop. My question is if I were to place a $50 preorder on something like... Assassin's Creed Brotherhood C.E. for the Xbox 360 and then cancel it, would I be able to get cash back? Yes, I know cancelling a preorder hurts the Game Advisor you cancel on (I used to work at GameStop), but if you cancel on the same person you placed the preorder on, they break even. I just need to know whether I can get cash back or not.
 
I don't think you can do that and get cash back. I was told that you receive a refund in whatever form you payed in.

I'd gladly take it off your hands though!!!
 
[quote name='RyuujinZero']Not sure where to post this so I'll just put it here. Forgive me if this is in the wrong board.

I have this $50 GameStop gift card that I really don't want, because GameStop's games are ridiculously overpriced and I could get two or three games from Glyde for the price of one from GameStop. My question is if I were to place a $50 preorder on something like... Assassin's Creed Brotherhood C.E. for the Xbox 360 and then cancel it, would I be able to get cash back? Yes, I know cancelling a preorder hurts the Game Advisor you cancel on (I used to work at GameStop), but if you cancel on the same person you placed the preorder on, they break even. I just need to know whether I can get cash back or not.[/QUOTE]

Actually, I did a pre-order for Super Mario Galaxy 2 online where I paid entirely in gs credit and once I received it in the mail returned it to GS and they allowed me to get cash. I'm not sure if this was just luck or what though.
 
[quote name='evildeadjedi']Actually, I did a pre-order for Super Mario Galaxy 2 online where I paid entirely in credit and once I received it in the mail returned it to GS and they allowed me to get cash. I'm not sure if this was just luck or what.[/QUOTE]

Most likely luck, but it might be something with online being different than B&M.
 
[quote name='Mr Dude65']I don't think you can do that and get cash back. I was told that you receive a refund in whatever form you payed in.

I'd gladly take it off your hands though!!![/QUOTE]

I don't remember the POS keeping track of what form of payment a preorder was placed using. I'd really like to get some games with the money, I just don't want to pay a ridiculous amount for them. I guess I'll just have to loiter around GS and ask people if they'll trade for cash...
 
Actually if you do $5 pre-orders on 10 games and stagger them so you're not taking all of the credit back in one shot you might be able to exploit a bit of a glitch I've encountered the last 2-4 times I've cancelled out of pre-orders that I paid $5 in credit for.

Apparently(and this may be different from district to district)if you place the base $5 pre-order deposit on a game in credit, you can receive it back in CASH when you cancel.

Mind you it may be a time consuming process, but it's about the ONLY way I've seen to get cash back instead of credit.
 
I don't know if this is true or not, but I've heard some gamestops say that they'll give you the option of 80% cash back instead of store credit. You could also try ebay to get around 90%--or you could just wait until they have a decent B2G1 free promo sale in store. Back when they had the guaranteed $25 trade-in value I was easily able to cash out my credit and get free games.
 
[quote name='jennyfur']Or you could just use GiftCardRescue. Works for any card you don't want from any store. You can also buy discount cards from them.
http://www.giftcardrescue.com/

Not sure exactly how much $ your card will be worth there.[/QUOTE]

That's a really cool site!! Thanks for posting this. It's almost worthy of a thread of it's own.
 
I sold my $100 Walmart gift card on eBay and sold it for $102. You'll likely find the same amount of luck considering people have built-up credit on Paypal to spend on the darn things. :p
 
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