Split Second Xbox 360 $30.50 - Costco

I would certainly put YMMV. 99.9999999.1% of Costco/Sam's Club/Walmart game deals, especially anything halfway decent, are always YMMV. These things vary by store all the time.
 
[quote name='Thekrakrabbit']I would certainly put YMMV. 99.9999999.1% of Costco/Sam's Club/Walmart game deals, especially anything halfway decent, are always YMMV. These things vary by store all the time.[/QUOTE]

Actually Costco Coupons are company wide, especially instant coupons. YMMV on clearance items but not on items that have an instant coupon. I will check my local Costco later on tonight and report back.
 
About a month ago, the PS3 version (not sure about X360) had a chain-wide "Instant Rebate" offering this for 29.99. I locked in a $25 gift card trade in at BestBuy, bought this game, played the heck out of it, then traded it in within the 30 day limit. I get tired of most games after just a couple weeks, so made sense to me. I did the same thing when Blur went on sale and had the $20 mfg coupon, just sent that in to the trade in service for a $32 dollar gift card, so they paid me $12 to "rent" Blur.

I plan to do this a lot more in the future, actually get paid to play games like they're longterm rentals. Lock in a game's TIV, buy it close to day one for as cheap as you can, then play it out within a month, trade it in and don't lose a lot of value, in some cases, make money. As long as I don't care about keeping the games, then makes sense to me.

Both S/S and Blur are great games too, recommend them for play.
 
[quote name='jazzman']Actually Costco Coupons are company wide, especially instant coupons. YMMV on clearance items but not on items that have an instant coupon. I will check my local Costco later on tonight and report back.[/QUOTE]

Ahh, I didn't know that the rebate was in the coupon book, I thought this was just another YMMV deal stumbled upon at Costco. I've never seen game coupons in the coupon book before.
 
[quote name='Thekrakrabbit']Ahh, I didn't know that the rebate was in the coupon book, I thought this was just another YMMV deal stumbled upon at Costco. I've never seen game coupons in the coupon book before.[/QUOTE]

Actually I just got the new Costco coupon book in the mail today; no videogames in it, and actually I've never seen any video games listed in the coupon book.
 
If it's a Costco mfg instant rebate, the discount usually is displayed in the shelf's price display, at least for the Southern CA stores. Can't say if that's a nationwide practice.
 
[quote name='Thekrakrabbit']Ahh, I didn't know that the rebate was in the coupon book, I thought this was just another YMMV deal stumbled upon at Costco. I've never seen game coupons in the coupon book before.[/QUOTE]

Other than store specific clearances which are very rare and are YMMV, all of Costco's video game prices and rebates apply chain-wide in the United States. As another poster noted, they typically print a black and white sign advertising the rebate and attach it with magnets to the rack where the video game boxes and budget games are kept. Costco typically has at least a couple of these instant rebate deals a month and you need to just look along the bottom shelf of the racks for the details. The only coupons I have ever seen for video games at Costco have been a $5 off coupon on $14.99 budget games which they typically do at least once a year, usually around the holidays.
 
I cannot recommend this game enough. I had a blast playing it. It was an impulse buy when my costco had it for $33 at release. It was a mfg instant rebate. The game wasn't labeled as being on sale. I just took CAG for it's word and it rang up correctly.

It ended up taking priority over MGS:pW and MarioGalaxy 2.

They had another instant rebate for PoP. Makes me wonder how many awesome deals we miss because of bad advertising / club dues.
 
Somehow the phrase 'Manufacturer's Instant Rebate' seems to make people think it's a coupon. Costco doesn't accept coupons other than its own, so therefore, Costco has its own coupon. It's an instant rebate, so when you buy it, it's automatically applied.
 
Yes, I picked one up last night for $30.26. the Mfg instant rebate was advertised right on the video game racks for both PS3 and 360. $52.76 less the $22.50 that came off at the register.

Great deal OP, thanks for posting this!
 
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