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

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The Reduced Price Guide FAQ/OP has been moved to the SECOND post. Read this first!
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All credit goes to IAmTheCheapestGamer, floormat, and guinaevere. They ran this thread for years, and I can safely say we would not have penny guides here without them. Thanks for your work!
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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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Liquid Metal said:
What has to happen before cheapest finally realizes he's a dumb bastard and can't fool anyone. Not anyone at walmart, gamestop, bestbuy and definately not anyone here. You would figure he'd find some friends who are just as miserable as his dumbass and go hang at the park.
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blackbeard4886 said:
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Creepy source

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Finally watched that. Wowzers.
 
Found 2 Pokémon. Guides still in the wild. Employee said she couldn't just throw them away. So they're out there still.
 
Finally found a BoTW that a store still had while I was on vacation, thanks to the sheets you created, BB! I appreciate very much your doing that, so I knew which stores to hit along the route I was taking!

Now to wait out Mass Effect: Andromeda.

 
Drathdon said:
Finally found a BoTW that a store still had while I was on vacation, thanks to the sheets you created, BB! I appreciate very much your doing that, so I knew which stores to hit along the route I was taking!

Now to wait out Mass Effect: Andromeda.
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Was it soft or hard?
 
Hard to find, hard on the cover, and had me hard in the car!

(I am not sexually attracted to paper. I just can't avoid bad dad jokes.)

 
Went to a store and had my first denial when they had it on the floor.

They had Wildlands CE NOT pennied out but priced at $14.99.  Pokemon Sun and Moon CE was pennied but they wouldn't sell it.  They had 4 or 5 more copies sitting on the shelf so maybe I'll give it a try another day when it is a different employee.

 
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I tried to get a Pokémon S&M CE Guide at two GameStops yesterday but I was unsuccessful. Both times the employees where confused. The first said he couldn't sell it to me but he could give to me for free if I renewed my PUR membership which I thought was weird. The second employee at the other store said he couldn't sell it either and he thinks he might have to send it back or something so I just let it go.
 
EmpoleonRules said:
I tried to get a Pokémon S&M CE Guide at two GameStops yesterday but I was unsuccessful. Both times the employees where confused. The first said he couldn't sell it to me but he could give to me for free if I renewed my PUR membership which I thought was weird. The second employee at the other store said he couldn't sell it either and he thinks he might have to send it back or something so I just let it go.
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This was a "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" type of situation.

 
there was one customer came in to sign up for the membership so he can get a free Funko Pop figure. the cashier was like... that will be $15 bucks. customer said i want the free one. cashier said... what? the free version?. gave a smile to the customer. luckily the customer knows theres a free one. hate those workers making ppl to get them pay for memberships.

 
looks like site updated, half off for every guide in stock (excluding preorder/future release)

$5 Fallout 4 CE seems like the next best deal to penny.

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Placed a pick-up order/hold request. Never heard from the store.

In a world gone mad, it's reassuring that some things are consistent. Thanks, GameStop!

 
Thanks Obama.... I mean Darby.


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Really though, thank you Darby, blackbeard, and everyone else who keeps a lookout on the drops. Plus I'm grateful I travel often enough to be able to visit various GameStops all over.

I'll be out of the country the next couple weeks so no chance of grabbing anything upcoming unfortunately.
 
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They started selling penny guides again.

Last I saw best buy and gamestop starting to deny these transactions and was corporate enforced.

Personally I'd just sell them now. I don't use them and storage of books and mags is a pain.
 
needler420 said:
They started selling penny guides again.

Last I saw best buy and gamestop starting to deny these transactions and was corporate enforced.

Personally I'd just sell them now. I don't use them and storage of books and mags is a pain.
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Nothing has changed. Still entirely YMMV.

 
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