Reduced Price Guide Thread XIV (FAQ in 2nd Post)

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Below is two years or so of guide drop info. If you want to see the full list, please refer to the third post of the Reduced Price Guide Thread XIV that can be found HERE.

Note that date may be of confirmation, and not of drop.

CE/SE/LE=HARDCOVER GUIDE
Red=Gamestop drop
Blue=Best Buy drop
Pink=Toys R Us drop

 

Recent Drops (Last Six Months)

Dropped 3.23.16 at GameStop

Game Stop 1 Cent

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate

Assassin's Creed: Syndicate CE

Just Cause 3

Halo 5 CE



Dropped on 3.26.14
 

Gamestop

Battlefield 4

Disney Infinity

Grand Theft Auto V

Remember Me

Super Mario 3D World

Dropped on 2.26.14

Gamestop 

Assassin's Creed IV: CE

Battlefield 4 CE
Grand Theft Auto
 CE

Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds CE

Skylanders Swap Force CE

Wonderful 101

Dropped on 2.14.14

Toys'R Us

Rage
Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Mass Effect 3

Star Wars The Force Unleashed II

Dropped on 10.31.13

Gamestop 
 
Animal Crossing
Assassin's Creed 3
Borderlands 2 LE
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
Cheat Code Overload: Winter 2013
Codes & Cheats Vol. 1 2013
Dead Island Riptide
Diablo III


Disgaea D2

Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Legendary
Epic Mickey 2
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Halo 4
Hitman Absolution
Injustice: Gods Among Us


Injustice: Gods Among Us LE
Last of Us


Last of Us LE
Lego City Undercover
Madden 25
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
Ni No Kuni
Pokemon Black & White 2 Pokedex
Resident Evil 6 LE
Resident Evil Revelations


Wind Waker LE
Dropped on 9.25.13

Gamestop
Army of Two The Devils Cartel
Dead Space 3
Metal Gear Rising Revengence
Star Trek
Super Mario Bros. Wii U
Epic Mickey 2 Limited Ed
Halo 4 Limited Ed
Hitman Absolution Limited Ed


Dropped on 9.04.13

Gamestop
 
Call of Duty Black Ops II CE
DMC: Devil May Cry
Dishonored
Tomb Raider


Tomb Raider CE       
 
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Yeah, I just couldn't find a list of the 2012 drops.

Also Silent Hill Downpour is pennied/do not sell at BB. I asked the girl if she could just check if it rang up at all but she got a stick up her ass and had to go get the GM from outside just to check if it rang up.
 
TRU penny guides. Some may have been mentioned previously.

Epic Mickey

Mario Party 9

Mass Effect 3

New Super Mario Bros 2

Assassin's Creed Revelations

Uncharted 3

Saints Row the Third

Darksiders II

 
Thanks for the list!  I'll have to check tomorrow.  I remember seeing a couple of those at my closest TRU.

Also, minor rant I forgot to post the other day: when a GS employee denies me, they could at least say "we aren't allowed to sell this/these" instead of "it's not in our system" when I can see it clearly rang up fine in the system.

 
TRU penny guides. Some may have been mentioned previously.

Epic Mickey
Mario Party 9
Mass Effect 3
New Super Mario Bros 2
Assassin's Creed Revelations
Uncharted 3
Saints Row the Third
Darksiders II
Hopefully they havent pulled these out from tge shelves. Saw some in my store a week ago. Thanks
 
Has anyone seen the Wind Waker HD guide pennies at TRU yet? Interesting that Gamestop would destroy them, but there's a stack of 20 at TRU. Doesn't Nintendo order them all destroyed at a certain point?
 
Wow, GS still stocks P3, P4, and both DDS's for Shin Megami Tensei for $30 each brand new on the site. Meanwhile, Amazon will give you pennies, and I do mean pennies, trade in on each.

 
thelaughingmann, on 23 Dec 2013 - 4:18 PM, said:
Wow, GS still stocks P3, P4, and both DDS's for Shin Megami Tensei for $30 each brand new on the site. Meanwhile, Amazon will give you pennies, and I do mean pennies, trade in on each.
Don't forget Final Fantasy XII guides for $15 still! (saw a couple in November on a trip)

 
i found a pennied out loz wind waker hd hard covered guide sealed at gamestop today. if anyone has avengers blu rays like thor, the iron mans and captain america we can work out a trade as im trying to collect them all. i only have hulk and avengers so far :)
 
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i found a pennied out loz wind waker hd hard covered guide sealed at gamestop today. if anyone has avengers blu rays like thor, the iron mans and captain america we can work out a trade as im trying to collect them all. i only have hulk and avengers so far :)
What about the Straight Edge Avenger, CM Punk?
 
Errrr, are you sure you use the term "Pennied out" correctly? I am not sure they do that to games, only guides (as they can just scan and then pull any any that ring up as a penny).
Yeah. I've been working for GS for a long time now. These two were on Wednesday's list of price drops, specifically at $0.01. Not all new games get converted to preowned. Sometimes they do penny out.
 
Yeah. I've been working for GS for a long time now. These two were on Wednesday's list of price drops, specifically at $0.01. Not all new games get converted to preowned. Sometimes they do penny out.
I recall some PC games pennying out a while ago. Controllers and other console accessories penny out occasionally too.

 
I recall some PC games pennying out a while ago. Controllers and other console accessories penny out occasionally too.
There's several thousand PC games that are pennied in the system.

I was just saying that console games don't do it as much. I still can't remember that PC/PS3 MMO that pennied when it went F2P. Grr.

Sims 3 Showtime guide is pennied at BB btw. Gives the "do not sell" message. My cashier didn't give a shit and just threw it in the bag with my Tomb Raider I PMed with GS.

 
There's several thousand PC games that are pennied in the system.

I was just saying that console games don't do it as much. I still can't remember that PC/PS3 MMO that pennied when it went F2P. Grr.

Sims 3 Showtime guide is pennied at BB btw. Gives the "do not sell" message. My cashier didn't give a shit and just threw it in the bag with my Tomb Raider I PMed with GS.
DC Universe I believe.

 
Interesting thing a guy just told me at GS: to fly under the radar he could mark guides either at regular price or at $0.00

Just found that interesting. (flying under the corporate/DM radar for him that is)
 
Thanks, much appreciated!

Anyone check AC: Black Flag CE or Mario 3D Worlds?
The Black Flag CE might have pennied since it's not on GS.com anymore, and the SM3DW CE guide is still there but at ~50% off ($17.99).

I can't find the Link Between Worlds CE guide on GS.com, so it might have pennied, too.
 
If someone can find me the GTA V CE and AC: Black Flag CE guides, I'd be willing to pay shipping plus a little more for them. (I have no faith in being able to find pennied guides where I am.)

 
The Black Flag CE might have pennied since it's not on GS.com anymore, and the SM3DW CE guide is still there but at ~50% off ($17.99).

I can't find the Link Between Worlds CE guide on GS.com, so it might have pennied, too.
I just looked those up in the POS item search. They did in fact penny out.

Since my store doesn't have those guides in stock, they didn't show up in my store's morning price changes. Thanks.


More guide drops:
AC IV CE
Legend of Zelda: ALBW CE
 
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If the GS I frequent is actually open tomorrow (they were closed today due to weather) I'll have to give them a call.  The manager knows me & is cool, he told me last time he would hold them for me but I should call to remind him if I hear of any drops.  I already have some of those but GTA V & Wonderful 101 (for when I eventually get a Wii U again) would be nice.  

 
The local Gamestops in my area are incredibly efficient with destroying these - I went in yesterday afternoon to three different stores, and they each had already pulled the GTA V and BF 4 CE's from the floor. When I asked one of the managers about them, he mentioned that GS is actually phasing out guides - can anyone corroborate that?

Also - it's worth noting that he also mentioned GS will begin to send all guides back to manufacturers sometime in the near future instead of destroying them. My thought is he doesn't know that much at all, but it's worth mentioning in-case someone else had heard a similar statement elsewhere.

 
They always refuse to give them to me, I'm always polite and don't try to argue. I've even tried buying the games along with them, can't sell it they say.

 
Is the CE guide for Super Mario 3D World worth it? Is there any extra content?

My GS locations never give out penny guides, so I might settle for the current ~50% off.

 
Could be the end of a very good run ..got

GTA V  LE x 2

SL SW LE x 2

Zelda LE x 2

AC IV LE

Wonderful 101

BF 4

My lady said similar things like returning stock back to publishers or that most stores wont carry the guides anymore sadness !!!

 
Is the CE guide for Super Mario 3D World worth it? Is there any extra content?
There's a full-sized 2014 wall calendar included with it.

Alas, the GS I visited last night--which I had had the highest hopes for--had already disposed of the guides the day before. :cry: Is there a kind soul out there willing to sell/trade the LoZ: ALBW CE guide? :pray:
 
Id be interested in buying some of those guides if anyone got some and didn't plan to keep them. Namely the AC4 CE and the Zelda. *whimper* my local store actually closed down like on the 26th o.o (The freaking RADIOSHACK next door lasted longer than them!). I had talked with one of the cool managers that would probably have been willing, but he didn't know what the manager that opened did with them, and so when I called back today apparently the other guy isn't as cool "We can't give those out." The worse part... I know... guaranteed they have a big inventory of guides that are pennied, because they have my local store that closed down essentially in 30 boxes in the back. So they have the guides in a box somewhere... sitting there...

 
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