Reduced Price Game Guides: Thread Seven

guinaevere · Mar 19, 2007

After well over 1600 posts, it was time to close Thread Six. It was a great thread and has served us well.

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Sgt Grumbles · Apr 10, 2007

I picked up the Final Fantasy I & II guide at CC for $1.58 but it wasn't easy. The cashier had trouble ringing it up, so he had to call his manager over to figure it out. The manager found the game in the computer's inventory for $1.58 but he said that the computer indicated that it was supposed to be sold with something else. He rang it up for me as an "open box" item but told the cashier to pull the rest of the guides from the shelf. Yeesh.

Also, Final Fantasy III's guide shows up in the guide wiki for EB Games (in fact it shows up four times), but its definitely still 16.99.

IAmTheCheapestGamer · Apr 10, 2007

[quote name='Sgt Grumbles']I picked up the Final Fantasy I & II guide at CC for $1.58 but it wasn't easy. The cashier had trouble ringing it up, so he had to call his manager over to figure it out. The manager found the game in the computer's inventory for $1.58 but he said that the computer indicated that it was supposed to be sold with something else. He rang it up for me as an "open box" item but told the cashier to pull the rest of the guides from the shelf. Yeesh.

Also, Final Fantasy III's guide shows up in the guide wiki for EB Games (in fact it shows up four times), but its definitely still 16.99.[/quote]

That's because it's probably for the OLDER guides for FF III for the other system(s) it was on before.

guinaevere · Apr 10, 2007

[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']That's because it's probably for the OLDER guides for FF III for the other system(s) it was on before.[/quote]No, it's another example of how this unknown person hijacked the wiki.

ARGH. Not much gets me angry, but why would someone do this?! It was clearly done with malicious intent, and that's just mean.

Rocko · Apr 10, 2007

Grr, I saw a Pokemon Ranger guide at BB and didn't know it was $0.01!

Drat.

IAmTheCheapestGamer · Apr 11, 2007

I think I saw a couple the other day and didn't realize that either. Although, weren't there like 3 versions of the guide?

Rocko · Apr 11, 2007

I've no idea. I never really bothered with the game. Although if there's a Prima and Nintendo guide like most Pokemon games, odds are the one I saw wasn't $0.01

guinaevere · Apr 11, 2007

CG, as Sixballer said, there are Nintendo and Prima versions. Plus there *may* be a DS and a GBA version of each publishing, but I'm not entirely certain.

Rocko · Apr 11, 2007

No, Pokeon Ranger was a DS-only game, I believe. Mystery Dungeon was the one on GBA and DS.

62t · Apr 11, 2007

yes there is 2 version of the pokemon ranger guide. Only the nintendo power version is 1 cent at best buy

guinaevere · Apr 11, 2007

[quote name='sixersballernum3']No, Pokeon Ranger was a DS-only game, I believe. Mystery Dungeon was the one on GBA and DS.[/quote]Oh, duh.

Sorry, I've begun trying to clean out the wiki and wasn't thinking clearly about Gamers' question. Thanks for correcting me so quickly, sixers. =)

EDIT: You know, in going through this it looks as if someone took a print out of some stores game inventory history and copied all that product into the wiki. Which would go some way into answering why there are so many multiples and the truncated listings. A store like EBGS will pull up several listings for something like Age of Empires II. One will be new, one will be pre-owned, one may be a guide, one a hardcover, et cetera. Unfortunately, this still doesn't help in anyway to clean up this mess. Or answer why someone would do this in the first place.

62t · Apr 11, 2007

while there are two version of Mystery Dungeon, the game guide covers both version

W.arner1281 · Apr 11, 2007

Given the little bit of the wiki you quoted Guin, I can tell you that the "updated" screwing around is definitely a cut and paste from the old GS/EB penny list. The Ao&O is because someone scanned in the list and did text recognition, but instead of seeing AD&D, it saw AO&O. Anywho, that's obviously what the screwing around was. Someone trying to be a completist/helper who obviously felt it was necessary to put in guides that are more than 2 years old. Yeah... not helpful.

guinaevere · Apr 12, 2007

Thanks for that insight, Warner. The affair is currently being looked into and I hope to have the list fixed up on Saturday.

Lion Rocker · Apr 12, 2007

This is probably a dumb question, but a local Borders has had the Final Fantasy 7 and 8 Bradygames guides for a long time now (over a year, in fact). What are the chances they would ring up for $0.01 if I took them up to the cashier? Because I'll definitely go for them if I can get them at that price.

neocisco · Apr 12, 2007

[quote name='Lion Rocker']This is probably a dumb question, but a local Borders has had the Final Fantasy 7 and 8 Bradygames guides for a long time now (over a year, in fact). What are the chances they would ring up for $0.01 if I took them up to the cashier? Because I'll definitely go for them if I can get them at that price.[/quote]

Zero. Bookstores know exactly what to do with .01 merchandise. It immediately gets pulled and destroyed. On the off chance that it was actually pennied it's pretty much a guarantee they wouldn't sell it to you.

shrike4242 · Apr 12, 2007

[quote name='Lion Rocker']This is probably a dumb question, but a local Borders has had the Final Fantasy 7 and 8 Bradygames guides for a long time now (over a year, in fact). What are the chances they would ring up for $0.01 if I took them up to the cashier? Because I'll definitely go for them if I can get them at that price.[/quote]
If it's a guide that you're unlikely to find elsewhere, and I'm sure FF7 and FF8 guides fall into that category, I'd suggest picking them up while you can find them. Likely to be cheaper than any eBay price you'd pay.

bill123 · Apr 12, 2007

Hey all thought I'd contribute the best I could to this thread. There will be a coupe of guides dropping to 0.01 tomorrow at Circuit City. I was checking for game drops early and found it they are:

Black
Codes and Cheats Spring 2006 strat guide
Codes And Cheats Summer 2006
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion SKU: PRI 0761552766
Final Fantasy I & II Player's Guide
Madden NFL 2007
NCAA Football 2007
Perfect Dark Zero
Pokemon Colosseum
Quake 4
Socom III
Star Wars Battlefront II
The Godfather
Tomb Raider Legend

Not much But there might be something on here someone wants. I can probably grab all of these my store has if anyone wants to trade for them.
Drop me a PM

bill123

IAmTheCheapestGamer · Apr 12, 2007

[quote name='Lion Rocker']This is probably a dumb question, but a local Borders has had the Final Fantasy 7 and 8 Bradygames guides for a long time now (over a year, in fact). What are the chances they would ring up for $0.01 if I took them up to the cashier? Because I'll definitely go for them if I can get them at that price.[/quote]

Actually, the one local Waldenbooks(Wilkes-Barre,PA) has had a FFVII book sitting there for forever. I had it pc'd one day, saying that I couldn't believe they had such an OLD book. It was STILL full price(matter of fact, I think it rang up for 2-3 cents OVER MSRP).

The chance of finding a pennied guide at a book store are slim to none imo.

And....a CC guide drop? Yeah right, I'm sure they'll all be pulled by the time the store opens in the morning. But hey, if I'm around that way later tomorrow, I may well check it out.

GrilledWitOnions · Apr 13, 2007

Not to get tooooo OT but Amazon has an FF7 OSG; is it this one you guys are talking about?

jazzman · Apr 13, 2007

Going to check my local CC tomorrow for Oblivion. Thanks Bill123!

neocisco · Apr 13, 2007

[quote name='bill123']Hey all thought I'd contribute the best I could to this thread. There will be a coupe of guides dropping to 0.01 tomorrow at Circuit City. I was checking for game drops early and found it they are:

Black
Codes and Cheats Spring 2006 strat guide
Codes And Cheats Summer 2006
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion SKU: PRI 0761552766
Final Fantasy I & II Player's Guide
Madden NFL 2007
NCAA Football 2007
Perfect Dark Zero
Pokemon Colosseum
Quake 4
Socom III
Star Wars Battlefront II
The Godfather
Tomb Raider Legend

Not much But there might be something on here someone wants. I can probably grab all of these my store has if anyone wants to trade for them.
Drop me a PM

bill123[/quote]

CC has blocked these guides from being able to be sold at all. They won't scan. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

shrike4242 · Apr 13, 2007

[quote name='neocisco']CC has blocked these guides from being able to be sold at all. They won't scan. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.[/quote]
I'd be surprised, though I'm not.

Though, how exactly do they "block these guides from being able to be sold"? :whistle2:

s Is there some message that comes up on the register like a "Do Not Sell" or something like that?

neocisco · Apr 13, 2007

[quote name='shrike4242']I'd be surprised, though I'm not.

Though, how exactly do they "block these guides from being able to be sold"? :whistle2:

s Is there some message that comes up on the register like a "Do Not Sell" or something like that?[/quote]

They include the UPC's as part of a group purchase. It's kind of complicated to explain but I checked it and, unfortunately, it's a no-go.

erehwon · Apr 13, 2007

I dropped by my CC today. Didn't have any luck on those guides. I wasn't expecting to, but I thought I'd try. They had already pulled them. I also noticed that they had rearranged the games section and the guides were in new spot. I wish they could have just marked a few of those down like some of the other guides. I wouldn't mind paying $4 for an Oblivion guide.

sacreddoctor · Apr 13, 2007

[quote name='neocisco']They include the UPC's as part of a group purchase. It's kind of complicated to explain but I checked it and, unfortunately, it's a no-go.[/quote]

This makes ALOT of sense....i've gone by a couple times to my local CC to price check the city of vilians/heros binders and they always come up as a "bundle" or "group" purchase and they never know the price. They always call some manager who says to sell it at the price on the UPC 24.95 which i laugh at as i walk out of the store. So these binders along with other penny guides just sit there and take up shelf space until some sucker comes along who will pay full retail on a 2 or 3 year old guide, rofl!!!

neocisco · Apr 13, 2007

[quote name='sacreddoctor']This makes ALOT of sense....i've gone by a couple times to my local CC to price check the city of vilians/heros binders and they always come up as a "bundle" or "group" purchase and they never know the price. They always call some manager who says to sell it at the price on the UPC 24.95 which i laugh at as i walk out of the store. So these binders along with other penny guides just sit there and take up shelf space until some sucker comes along who will pay full retail on a 2 or 3 year old guide, rofl!!![/quote]

This is CC we're talking about.:lol: The current regime running things has no idea what they're doing. Just look at the (lack of) logic behind the recent firings. This is a guide thread so I digress. If anybody does happen to get any guides it's definitely YMMV.

ddrisgood137 · Apr 13, 2007

Yeah, I was just at CC... saw an oblivion, around 6 Black's, and some others on the list... wouldn't scan.

freshzen · Apr 13, 2007

Yeah I tried getting guides from a couple CC locations today, no luck. One manager wanted to pull them and wait until they "fixed it" and another wanted to sell me the guide for $10 under a generic SKU...

cheapbastard · Apr 13, 2007

Today I went to Best Buy to buy some stuff. I stoped by the guides section to check it out and saw on the shelf price labeled God of War 2 for a penny. Needless to say I was suprised cause I havent heard anything from here. But above the label price there were a bunch of Viva Pinata guides, which was another suprise cause Ive never seen them before, didnt even know they existed. So I figured there must be a mistake and the Pinata are pennied out.

So I go get them price cheked and they both ring up reg price. But I figured since its labeled a penny I might be able to get them for that. So I go pay my stuff and tell the cashier about the penny deal. She goes to check it out and comes back with the story that yes its a penny but its a different guide because the sku #s dont match. This might be true but I think its BS cause Ive only seen one version of God of War 2. Does anybody know if there are more than 1 versions????Also the game section was very busy with employes marking some games down but I couldnt see evrything since they were just starting out.

fairtrade · Apr 13, 2007

Both the regular and LE God of War II guides are still regular price on the website.

Actually I don't see the Gears of War LE on the site though (just the regular). Did that one get pennied?

loxthefox · Apr 13, 2007

Not yet.

dopa345 · Apr 14, 2007

[quote name='cheapbastard']Today I went to Best Buy to buy some stuff. I stoped by the guides section to check it out and saw on the shelf price labeled God of War 2 for a penny. Needless to say I was suprised cause I havent heard anything from here. But above the label price there were a bunch of Viva Pinata guides, which was another suprise cause Ive never seen them before, didnt even know they existed. So I figured there must be a mistake and the Pinata are pennied out.

So I go get them price cheked and they both ring up reg price. But I figured since its labeled a penny I might be able to get them for that. So I go pay my stuff and tell the cashier about the penny deal. She goes to check it out and comes back with the story that yes its a penny but its a different guide because the sku #s dont match. This might be true but I think its BS cause Ive only seen one version of God of War 2. Does anybody know if there are more than 1 versions????Also the game section was very busy with employes marking some games down but I couldnt see evrything since they were just starting out.[/QUOTE]

The first God of War has been pennied out for awhile, maybe that's what they had meant to label.

argyle · Apr 14, 2007

[quote name='cheapbastard']Today I went to Best Buy to buy some stuff. I stoped by the guides section to check it out and saw on the shelf price labeled God of War 2 for a penny. Needless to say I was suprised cause I havent heard anything from here. But above the label price there were a bunch of Viva Pinata guides, which was another suprise cause Ive never seen them before, didnt even know they existed. So I figured there must be a mistake and the Pinata are pennied out.

So I go get them price cheked and they both ring up reg price. But I figured since its labeled a penny I might be able to get them for that. So I go pay my stuff and tell the cashier about the penny deal. She goes to check it out and comes back with the story that yes its a penny but its a different guide because the sku #s dont match. This might be true but I think its BS cause Ive only seen one version of God of War 2. Does anybody know if there are more than 1 versions????Also the game section was very busy with employes marking some games down but I couldnt see evrything since they were just starting out.[/QUOTE]

Both the God of War II & Viva Pinata guides are less than a month old, so there's no way they would be pennied out that fast.

IAmTheCheapestGamer · Apr 14, 2007

Man, I wish they would've done that at my local BB because had they done that, I'd have taken the shelf tag and found a copy of BOTH the LE and reg GOW II guides and checked the UPC #'s on the tag with the back of the guide.

And, if either matched, I'd be getting that damned guide for .01.

That's one way to check to see which guide(s), if any, are pennied. That is, if your local BB puts .01 tags on the shelf.

One of the great things I learned in my time as a retail worker.

Nogib · Apr 14, 2007

[quote name='cheapbastard']Today I went to Best Buy to buy some stuff. I stoped by the guides section to check it out and saw on the shelf price labeled God of War 2 for a penny. Needless to say I was suprised cause I havent heard anything from here. But above the label price there were a bunch of Viva Pinata guides, which was another suprise cause Ive never seen them before, didnt even know they existed. So I figured there must be a mistake and the Pinata are pennied out.

So I go get them price cheked and they both ring up reg price. But I figured since its labeled a penny I might be able to get them for that. So I go pay my stuff and tell the cashier about the penny deal. She goes to check it out and comes back with the story that yes its a penny but its a different guide because the sku #s dont match. This might be true but I think its BS cause Ive only seen one version of God of War 2. Does anybody know if there are more than 1 versions????Also the game section was very busy with employes marking some games down but I couldnt see evrything since they were just starting out.[/QUOTE]

The Viva Pinata guide has been out less than a week and GoW2 barely a month. No fuck

ing way would they be pennied out yet! The shelf labels clearly state what they are for. So it doesn't matter if Viva Pinata or GoW2 guides happened to be sitting there if the shelf tag was for something like Yoshi's Island.

loxthefox · Apr 14, 2007

Rocko · Apr 14, 2007

You know they have a page that shows all their game guides, right?

Unless I'm missing something relating to you posting all those links.

62t · Apr 14, 2007

[quote name='sixersballernum3']You know they have a page that shows all their game guides, right?

Unless I'm missing something relating to you posting all those links.[/QUOTE]
We can have an idea of what might pennied out if we see any of those link dead.

Rocko · Apr 14, 2007

[quote name='62t']We can have an idea of what might pennied out if we see any of those link dead.[/quote]

Ah, I see. So games aren't usually pennied out online, like Godfather was?

cheapbastard · Apr 14, 2007

[quote name='fairtrade']Both the regular and LE God of War II guides are still regular price on the website.

Actually I don't see the Gears of War LE on the site though (just the regular). Did that one get pennied?[/QUOTE]

The one I got checked was the regular one. I didnt know there was a LE version. Somebody might wanna go price check that at their BB since they dont have one at mine. Maybe thats the one pennied out??

Blackout · Apr 14, 2007

Went to a TRU today and found Half Life 2 and Ghost Recon guide. Went to go pay and the lady wouldn't sell it to me, said she had to send it back. I think she was just being a ***** though, cuz I've had luck at that TRU. She was watching me the whole time I was in the store. I'm going to go back next week, they had a couple Half Life's there, hopefully they still are.

loxthefox · Apr 14, 2007

[quote name='sixersballernum3']Ah, I see. So games aren't usually pennied out online, like Godfather was?[/QUOTE]

When they're pennied, they're pulled from the site completly, hence me posting the links to the guides. Trust me, it works.

Though on occasion, some guides might reappear on the site after being pennied.

loxthefox · Apr 14, 2007

Sorry for the double post, but Mortal Kombat, Lego Star Wars II, Need For Speed, and Scarface were removed from the site.

Carry on.

ddrlenz · Apr 15, 2007

Anyone able to snag me a pennied out Olivion guide? I'd gladly pay for the book, time, and shipping.

IAmTheCheapestGamer · Apr 15, 2007

[quote name='Nogib']The Viva Pinata guide has been out less than a week and GoW2 barely a month. No fuck

ing way would they be pennied out yet! The shelf labels clearly state what they are for. So it doesn't matter if Viva Pinata or GoW2 guides happened to be sitting there if the shelf tag was for something like Yoshi's Island.[/quote]

You'd be quite surprised actually, as some guides( though usually for PC games) have pennied out within a month of coming out. At least one example I can think of right now is Mage Knight Apocalypse. That guide at least seemed to drop QUICK.

Oh and I snagged a copy each of the Reservoir Dogs and Pirates Of The Caribbean:The Legend Of Jack Sparrow guides yesterday. Just wanted to clarify WHICH POTC guide was pennied for those who may actually want it.

vahn401 · Apr 15, 2007

where did you get the guides from man, eb/gs i assume? Thats the only store I can recall that carries those 2 guides.

drawingboard · Apr 15, 2007

[quote name='vahn401']where did you get the guides from man, eb/gs i assume? Thats the only store I can recall that carries those 2 guides.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, PotC, Res Dogs, and Chromehounds were recently pennied at GS. That's all we've heard of though.

Rocko · Apr 15, 2007

[quote name='loxthefox']When they're pennied, they're pulled from the site completly, hence me posting the links to the guides. Trust me, it works.

Though on occasion, some guides might reappear on the site after being pennied.[/quote]

Which is why I was confused. Thanks.

vahn401 · Apr 15, 2007

PEOPLE OF CAG, LEND ME YOUR EARS

***Official as of 4/16 at Best Buys Company wide***

The following guides will drop to a penny

Lego Star Wars 2: The Original Trilogy (8023015)
Codes & Cheats: Fall Edition (8044742)
Madden Nfl 07' (7941301)
Mortal Kombat: Armagedon (8039767)
Need For Speed: Carbon (8131014)
Scarface: The World Is Yours (8029769)

I was on my way out tonight and they posted this small list of drops last minute to be official this following monday. I have listed the skus for the guides after the name as well to resolve any confusion if there is any. Hope this helps some people, I know its not a great list, but it IS something. your CAG friend, vahn.

Nemo_Hyde · Apr 15, 2007

ooooh Lego Star Wars 2, my sone would be thrilled.

Too bad I haven;t seen that at my local BBs though.

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