[quote name='aaronmills']Also...if you're a Meijer regular this could help you out on this deal...
They're also giving a "$30 off General Merchandise" coupon for every $300's in Meijer Gift Cards that you buy. They're doing this in correlation with the Rebate Checks.
If you're gonna end up spending the money on groceries or what-not anyway, you could hypothetically buy a gift card (s) and then use the "$30 off" coupon to take even more off the price of your PS3.[/quote]
Here is a crazy idea, but unfortunately, time seems to be running out (on the extra $30 - everything else should work fine). As quoted above, until 5/31 you can get that deal where, if you buy $300 in gift cards, you get an extra "$30 off general merchandise". Now if you apply for a SonyCard
here you get $100 credited back to you after your first purchase of $299 or more (click the little yellow triangle to see). On slickdeals.net they have got it to work on gift cards from amazon.com, etc. Therefore, you could use it to buy $330 worth of Meijer gift cards plus the coupon's credit for $200.
Then you wait around for another 25% off general merchandise at Meijer and a 40GB PS3 is down to $300! Lucky for you, you have $330 worth of Meijer credit (gift cards and credit) to cover the tax and then some. So you get a PS3 for $200 including tax. (As long as the 25% stacks with the $30 credit - no reason that it wouldn't).
OR, wait around for the same sale with the same gift cards and coupon you bought with the SonyCard for the Metal Gear PS3 bundle. Now you could get the bundle for $245 plus tax (25% off of $500 is $375 minus $330 of gift cards = $45 plus $200 for buying the gift cards). An extra $45 for a great game, a better controller and a larger hard drive?! Count me in!
I might try to see if they extend the extra gift cards and then I might try it out (if I can convince my wife!).