Reduced Price Game Guides: Thread Seven

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Actually, POG and Serik, if you watch the little screen(the one that usually shows your credit card info and has the words EB POS system or something similiar on the bottom of the screen, you SHOULD see the .01 price come up for the guides that ARE .01 in their system.

However, some stores have those turned off and done in a way so customers can only see the TOTAL of their sale and they have a chance to override any kind of 'pricing mistake'.

Keep an eye on that little screen for the .01 price....
 
Anyone know what the status of 7557226 World of Warcraft Atlas is at BB B&M? It was taken off the BB website sometime last week.
 
Is the Rogue Galaxy guide already 9.99? I checked the other day, and it did not seem to be the case at the Gamestop here in town.

Not my usual modus operandi, but certainly tempting for such a massive guide.
 
[quote name='SargeSmash']Is the Rogue Galaxy guide already 9.99? I checked the other day, and it did not seem to be the case at the Gamestop here in town.

Not my usual modus operandi, but certainly tempting for such a massive guide.[/quote]It's $9.99 at Best Buy.
 
holy crap- what?!? I guess I'll have to stop by BB, soon. They're the only store I've seen the guide still plastic wrapped.

by chance, is there some kind of list I can skim, for further price-drop'd guides?
 
[quote name='sirplue']holy crap- what?!? I guess I'll have to stop by BB, soon. They're the only store I've seen the guide still plastic wrapped.

by chance, is there some kind of list I can skim, for further price-drop'd guides?[/quote]For Best Buy? They list everything on their site until its pennied, for the most part.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=cat02171&type=category&_DARGS=/site/en_US/catalog/fragments/product/olslinelistingsortfilter.jsp

Otherwise the wiki links in the OP are all we have for pennied guides.
 
[quote name='eugaet']Anyone know what the status of 7557226 World of Warcraft Atlas is at BB B&M? It was taken off the BB website sometime last week.[/quote]

It must still be full price, since I saw several copies a couple days ago at a BB near me on the shelf. And, with how quickly they've been pulling pennied items anymore, I doubt those would've stayed on the shelf past the markdown for long(be it from someone grabbing them or them pulling them).
 
I finally had some good luck at Gamstop. I found one of those hole-in-the-wall locations that seems to have a better success rate. They had a couple of copies of MGS:pO and some others that I wasn't too sure about. So, to test the waters, I brought up a MGS:pO with some B2G1F fodder. He scans the games, then the guide.

"Wow, this is your lucky day! This guide is only a penny."

Scoreboard.

Anyway, it goes to the tradelist. I'm going to try to extract the other guides a little later.
 
all i can say is i have had luck at every gamestop i have been too, i just studied the list so i always look at rack when i go in, the cooler stores let you look at the guides in the back room, every game store i go to i look at guides first, actually truth be told the only reason i go to gs/eb buy almost all my games from pawnshops
 
[quote name='loxthefox']Rogue Galaxy and Pokemon Ranger have been removed from the BB site.

Thought y'all wanted to know.[/quote]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, shit!:bouncy:
 
Rogue Galaxy Guide, meet World of Warcraft Atlas. You two will be roomies for the next few days.

Yea Guide, I know Atlas takes up all the space. But it's for the better, lest you get taken away by the Best Buy Sunset Squad.
 
This would be an unusual drop, if it happens within a day or so, since I think there's only been 1-2 drops that didn't occur on a Monday in the past 6 months(since I started keeping an eye on this thread anyway).

Good luck to all anyway....but it may just be that the guides sold out and were removed for now, cause I think a couple did that before but reappeared on the site a few days later.
 
I'm heading out to BB this morning and see if I can get a Rouge Galaxy guide. I wonder what else I should check? I'm also going to see if my BB is actually pulling guides now. This BB has been pretty good to me for the last few years.
 
[quote name='erehwon']I'm heading out to BB this morning and see if I can get a Rouge Galaxy guide. I wonder what else I should check? I'm also going to see if my BB is actually pulling guides now. This BB has been pretty good to me for the last few years.[/quote]

Check Viva Pinata while you're at it.:D
 
[quote name='erehwon']I'm heading out to BB this morning and see if I can get a Rouge Galaxy guide. I wonder what else I should check? I'm also going to see if my BB is actually pulling guides now. This BB has been pretty good to me for the last few years.[/QUOTE]

Dude....check them all.
 
[quote name='POG']Dude....check them all.[/QUOTE]
You really just have to check the one that are gone from the website
 
This has probably already been metioned in this thread, but I couldn't find it. I just picked up God of War 2 strategy guide for $.01 at best buy.
 
[quote name='Prepster']This has probably already been metioned in this thread, but I couldn't find it. I just picked up God of War 2 strategy guide for $.01 at best buy.[/quote]

Can anyone else confirm? That guide is still $17.99 on the website. :whistle2:?
 
[quote name='Prepster']This has probably already been metioned in this thread, but I couldn't find it. I just picked up God of War 2 strategy guide for $.01 at best buy.[/quote]

Regular or limited edition?
 
[quote name='Prepster']This has probably already been metioned in this thread, but I couldn't find it. I just picked up God of War 2 strategy guide for $.01 at best buy.[/quote]

Like others have said, since it's still full price on the site, how could it be .01 in store? Unless they're starting to get smart and will simply take down the guide from the site tonight.

Mind you, I want a copy of the guide, but I'm just in no mood to go out today to be disappointed. Plus, my local BB's ran out of copies of the guide a month ago I think.
 
Was only able to check the regular GOW2 guide. Still full price. Prepster, what version of the GOW2 guide did you get? Anyone check the LE version?
 
Alright, heres what happened, when I brought the guide up, it was without the plastic on it and there were no stickers over it, but the other god of war 2 guides that were still wrapped in the plastic had a sticker upc over the original one and those rang up a different price.

Heres what it looks like on the reciept:

8293385 0744008972 0.01
GOD OF WAR II STRATEGY GUIDE

Btw this is for the regular edition of the guide, and my best buy even had it typed up on the shelf tag as a penny.
 
Weird.... is all I'm saying, though if you took those stickers off the old Oblivion guides(the one without the black update stripe at the top), they rang up as full price I think too.
 
Well, sorry for getting everybody else's hopes up, I just thought since it had a self tag for a penny that it wasn't going to be ymmv, guess I was wrong.
 
So no guides were pennied this week, since no one's reported any (save GoW2 of the non-shrinkwrapped variety - awaiting confirmation from other CAGs!)

And I guess someone caught on, as the guides I stashed for a few months now in Appliances and in the Books sections were gone!
 
[quote name='Caliburn']So no guides were pennied this week, since no one's reported any (save GoW2 of the non-shrinkwrapped variety - awaiting confirmation from other CAGs!)

And I guess someone caught on, as the guides I stashed for a few months now in Appliances and in the Books sections were gone![/quote]

Maybe someone bought the floor model and has a nice little bonus waiting for them! ;)
 
[quote name='Prepster']Alright, heres what happened, when I brought the guide up, it was without the plastic on it and there were no stickers over it, but the other god of war 2 guides that were still wrapped in the plastic had a sticker upc over the original one and those rang up a different price.

Heres what it looks like on the reciept:

8293385 0744008972 0.01
GOD OF WAR II STRATEGY GUIDE

Btw this is for the regular edition of the guide, and my best buy even had it typed up on the shelf tag as a penny.[/quote]

Good point. The one I checked yesterday was shrink-wrapped and did have outside UPC stickers. I'm double-checking for open ones tomorrow. Thanks for the UPC # from yours.
 
They probably shrink wrapped them for two reasons, one being that it was showing up as out of system under the old upc and to stop 'browsers' from checking on how to do a certain level without buying the guide. I was SO guilty of that in times past, but since I found CAG and know about them pennying, I just wait till they hit .01 and grab one then anymore.
 
[quote name='Caliburn']Tonight, off they go into washing machines and beneath ovens! :booty:[/quote]I always wondered where you guys put them when you said about the big appliances. Personally, I'm surprized that they last in the washing machines. I mean, when I look at appliances (fridges, ovens, dish washers, washing machines, dryers... am I forgetting anything?) the first thing I do is open the door and look inside. If I found a bunch of crap in there, I'd take it out and set it on a counter or something.

Now UNDER an oven... that's crafty. Are you talking UNDER the entire oven, or in the small warming oven? Because I can honestly tell you that I don't recall ever using a warming oven in my life. Except... now that I think of it, I think I must have some pans and cooking sheets in mine. I put them there when I first moved here and then forgot about them.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']They probably shrink wrapped them for two reasons, one being that it was showing up as out of system under the old upc and to stop 'browsers' from checking on how to do a certain level without buying the guide. I was SO guilty of that in times past, but since I found CAG and know about them pennying, I just wait till they hit .01 and grab one then anymore.[/quote]

Also there is some digital nudity (the sex mini-game) in the guide. :roll:
 
I have a feeling Best Buy is waiting for the 9.99 guides to sell out online before pennying them out in stores.

That being said... the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon guide is now sold out online, which means it should drop off the site soon. That leaves just the You & Wii guide. Who in the world would buy this guide for $10, let alone full price, is beyond me. People don't RTFM, so why would they spend extra on an extended one? ;)
 
Figures, every other time BB has shrink wrapped some guides, someone ALWAYS comes in and unwraps them, but the time I wanted someone to 'need some info on xyz level' and crack open a nice .01 copy of God Of War II's guide(once those external UPCs are gone) and no one does it.

I'd do it, but I don't wanna get a persona non gratis at either of my local BB's.

I'm looking for a copy of the guide, since my one friend is gonna lemme borrow the game for a month or so to complete it.
 
I think there is some incorrect info here, at least based on my observations at BB. There is NO UPC on the outside of the shrinkwrap of the GOW 2 guide. There is actually a UPC sticker under the wrap but stuck onto the guide. I can see the original UPC under that one and that one is indeed the one that Prepster posted about as $0.01. I would find it nearly impossible for someone to find one of these that actually has the sticker removed but I guess anything's possible.
 
[quote name='guinaevere']

Now UNDER an oven... that's crafty. Are you talking UNDER the entire oven, or in the small warming oven? Because I can honestly tell you that I don't recall ever using a warming oven in my life. Except... now that I think of it, I think I must have some pans and cooking sheets in mine. I put them there when I first moved here and then forgot about them.[/QUOTE]

Most of these ovens have storage drawers on the bottom ;). (Might be the same thing you are talking about if you used it for storing cooking sheets). The washing machines have storage also. But as you said I wouldn't use those as most people look inside both the washers and their drawers (just to see how big they are, etc).
 
[quote name='io']Most of these ovens have storage drawers on the bottom ;). (Might be the same thing you are talking about if you used it for storing cooking sheets). The washing machines have storage also. But as you said I wouldn't use those as most people look inside both the washers and their drawers (just to see how big they are, etc).[/quote]My BB appliance area is right near the front checkout, is that how most are? I think the one in the other direction (also a fair drive) is in the back. So appliances are out for me at my most frequented one.
 
[quote name='GrilledWitOnions']My BB appliance area is right near the front checkout, is that how most are? I think the one in the other direction (also a fair drive) is in the back. So appliances are out for me at my most frequented one.[/QUOTE]

I dunno, it seems they are up near the front, off to the right of the registers usually. But it is far enough from the cashiers - especially the oven section (I've only hidden one thing there once ;)).
 
[quote name='rarebucky']I think there is some incorrect info here, at least based on my observations at BB. There is NO UPC on the outside of the shrinkwrap of the GOW 2 guide. There is actually a UPC sticker under the wrap but stuck onto the guide. I can see the original UPC under that one and that one is indeed the one that Prepster posted about as $0.01. I would find it nearly impossible for someone to find one of these that actually has the sticker removed but I guess anything's possible.[/quote]

Actually, 3 out of 4 of the copies of the original GOW II guide at the BB's near me have the UPC stickers placed on TOP of the shrinkwrap, with only ONE having a solid white sticker over the original UPC itself with the new stickers on TOP of said sticker.

So, in theory, to get 3 out of 4 of those guides, all one would need to do is remove the plastic. :whistle2:D But, I won't be the one to do it. I did that a couple times for a couple guides, when I just needed help on an end boss or something in times past, but not anymore I won't.
 
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