Reduced Price Game Guides: Thread Eight(MODS: Please lock, Thread Nine is up)

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

First off, let me welcome you all to the new guide thread. Second, I'd like to ask you all to please keep conversations not pertaining to guide drops or which ones you've grabbed to a minimum to avoid cluttering the thread. It's not that I don't enjoy the chit chat, but that it may stop others from locating information on the newest drops.

That being said, let me thank Cheapy for creating this site, without which I would've spent probably 10 times what I HAVE spent on games and guides. Moreover, let me thank each and every one of my fellow CAGs for continuing to contribute to making this site a great place to find out about sales and clearances of the items we as gamers use most. Without a great community, NONE of this would be possible.

Furthermore, I would like to thank our Wiki editors HeatDolphin and Rocko for updating the Wiki. Great job.

Now, with that out of the way(and before I get to rambling), let's get on to making this new thread.

Useful Information(and links):

Game Guide Trading Clearinghouse(old one, locked now):
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=102021

Game Guide Trade Thread(current one):
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175548

PLEASE keep ALL trade requests in there or PM's. Thank you.

Reduced Price Guide Discussion Thread(please keep all conversation NOT related to guide drops HERE. Thanks.): http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169252

Guide Lists:

Master Drop List(by store, alphabetically):
http://wiki.cheapassgamer.com/index.php/Category:Strategy_Guides_%28master_lists%29

Recent Guide Drops(by date):
http://wiki.cheapassgamer.com/index.php/Category:Strategy_Guides_%28recent_drops%29

What is the purpose of this thread?

The purpose of this thread is to let our fellow CAGs know when a guide has dropped to a low price(it's NOT ALWAYS A PENNY), so they can go out and grab guides for themselves and for trading with other CAGs.

Anytime you have guide drops to report, post them here. Please specify at which store you found them and which guides you found and list them in alphabetical order. Thank you.

What are penny guides?

Penny guides are guides which have been on the market for a while and the publisher(or store chain) decide that the remaining stock of these guides have little to no chance of selling, so they issue an order to pull them from the shelves and destroy them. At that time, they are also marked as .01 in their inventory system, except in the case of BBV, which marks them .01 only AFTER pulling them.

Most stores have an agreement with the publisher that states that if they destroy the remaining stock of those items, they will receive a credit for their value from the publisher. This is why many stores are usually annoyed when we CAGs come in and buy the guides AT the penny price, since otherwise they would've received a full credit for those items.

According to an employee at a local BB, they also have a recycling program for the pennied stock, so as to not clutter landfill space with the guides. As to how true it is, I cannot confirm, but I would hope that the paper is at least recycled instead of just dumpstered.

Prior Reduced price game guide threads:
Guide Three:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50515&highlight=guide
Guide Four:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1496376
Guide Five:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85976
Guide Six:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116918
Guide Seven:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131717
Guide Seven and a half:
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=142400

Finally, below is a list of website links, each of which goes to their respective guide page. Whenever possible, I will update the links with better ones(if available).

Amazon
B&N
BestBuy
Borders
BookPool
CircuitCity
Gamestop
Overstock
StrategyGuide.net
ToysRUs

Thanks to floormat, who did threads 3,4,5 and 6 and provided me with the links to them.

Thanks to Gwen for allowing me the honor of giving something back to CAG by doing this new guide thread. I hope you all enjoy it and it isn't TOO hard to read.

 

[shiningslade]

just bumping back to 1st page.

 

[xDerekRx]

Any new guide drops? I looked at the Wiki and noticed the last one was 4.7.08

 

[Slim Gatsby]

"NE dropz?" isn't the question to be asking -- its "Did anyone check?" I was going to swing by yesterday and check the previously $9.99 guides, but I didn't have time.

 

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

[quote name='xDerekRx']Any new guide drops? I looked at the Wiki and noticed the last one was 4.7.08[/quote]

We have a running list of drops from October of 2007 to the present there.

 

[xDerekRx]

[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer'] We have a running list of drops from October of 2007 to the present there.[/quote]


Thank you, sorry about that.

 

[punkmaggit]

CAG, how do I love thee?

3 Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
4 Advance Wars: Day of Ruin
6 Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings

for thirteen cents. THIRTEEN in' CENTS. :kiss:

I cleaned out one of the Best Buy's here in Vegas (Charleston & 215). Another one (Rainbow & 215) is impeccable with upkeeping their games and guides - no luck there.

Originally I took 3 guides, one of each up to the register after someone scanned them in for me to confirm their price. He sold them to me no problem and then I asked if I could go get the rest of them. I can't wait until the next price drop!

 

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

[quote name='xDerekRx']Thank you, sorry about that.[/quote]

No problem at all. I know the Wiki has been updated, but not very frequently as of late(as is evidenced by the woefully out of date trade values for games). But, personally, I'd rather it stay out of date than it end up messed up because someone went in to update one thing and accidentally messed up a bunch of other stuff.

 

[shrike4242]

[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']No problem at all. I know the Wiki has been updated, but not very frequently as of late(as is evidenced by the woefully out of date trade values for games). But, personally, I'd rather it stay out of date than it end up messed up because someone went in to update one thing and accidentally messed up a bunch of other stuff.[/quote]
Here's a thought.

Why not make a new thread, since we're in a lull between guide drops?

 

[Rocko]

I'll try to update the wiki sometime soon. I forgot about it. :lol:

 

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

[quote name='shrike4242']Here's a thought.

Why not make a new thread, since we're in a lull between guide drops?[/quote]

You know, we wouldn't even NEED a new thread if we didn't have all of the thinly veiled trade posts(including my own at times) and the 'I got zyx guide x eleventy billion' posts. #

But, I figured I would cap this thread off at 1500 posts, so as not to strain the servers that much in comparison to the other bloated threads.

I'll start work on it in a couple of minutes.

EDIT: NEW THREAD IS UP AND RUNNING!!! PLEASE LOCK THIS ONE MODS!!

NEW THREAD(basically a cut n paste of this one's first and second post): http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4502661#post4502661

 

[io]

Locked. But bumped, also, so people see that there is a new one!