The 2024 Gamestop Thread

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GS FAQ

Where is the weekly ad?
They ended the weekly ad for more rotation of deals. Please check the homepage and deal link for the current deals.

I can't find a trade in value for an item?
It might not be tradable or calling a store to find the value may be the only option.

How many copies of a game can I trade in?
You are allowed to trade in 4 copies of the same game (same system) within a rolling 30 day period.

Are there trade limits?
Yes, $500 cash minus some electronic trade ins and or $2000 trade credit in a rolling 30 day period.

Where is the weekly ad?
They ended the weekly ad for more rotation of deals in a period.


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Can I use the $5 monthly coupon on gift cards?

Yes you can in store but not online please note not all gift cards will apply to this rule.

I have a $XX.xx pre-owned reward certificate, and I want to use it on a B2G1 transaction. Should I?
It depends. If the three games are equal value, do not use your certificate. The value of the certificate would be applied to the free game, which would not benefit you. If one game is more expensive, you can use the certificate to make it the same value as the other two games ($5 reward certificate applied to transaction with two $10 games and one $15 game would make all three games $10).


TERMINOLOGY AND LINGO:
ASL/SL: Assistant Store Leader, Store Leader; manager positions at GS.
B2G1: Buy two, get one free.
GS: GameStop
JD: Junior detective, an employee who is out to get someone
LP: Loss Prevention; this is the department that actually bans accounts after being flagged.
TC/TiC: Trade credit.
TIV/TV: Trade in value, or what a game currently trades for. When posting a TV for a game, always use the base value.
 
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I usually am of the mindset that I will wait for physical copy (and will even skip games that are digital only (even if I enjoyed the first game in the case of sequels). I did ignore this for Baldur's Gate 3. Son is in the Navy and we play online when possible. Good times and Good memories, so glad didn't wait for that one.

Also PSA to those old enough to remember this. EGM started a Kickstarter (see link below)

 
whitereflection said:
Bilbil-kun has leaked the Black Friday PS5 deal. It's going to be a Fortnite bundle priced at $425 for the PS5 with disc drive, $375 for digital.
www.dealabs.com

De nouveaux packs PS5 et une promotion alléchante prévus pour le Black Friday 2024

Nous vous révélons l'une des promotions du Black Friday 2024 avec l'introduction de 2 nouveaux packs PS5 qui incluent un DLC de Fortnite.
www.dealabs.com www.dealabs.com
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The Fortnite bundle is super disappointing but the price is decent. Thank you for posting that link.
 
I always end up trading towards new consoles but this time around,neither company(Sony & Microsoft) are doing anything interesting. Current hardware still does a fine job and is less expensive. Using my wallet power to avoid the trap
 
Here’s a crazy one. And of course GameStop phone customer support is atrocious, as most companies are today.

i ordered metaphor collectors edition for PS5, shipped from GameStop.com. It arrived with padding and in a large box, NOT damaged from shipping. Well guess what was damaged…. the actual game itself. How so? Some employee intentionally took a box cutter and slashed about 15cm through the game CE itself. Probably happened from opening the manufacturer shipping box to their warehouse.

I contacted support who told me to just return it if I don’t want it. I asked for an exchange and they essentially told me to go F myself or go to a store location and have them fix it. I insisted a store has nothing to do with this as it’s a shipping issue yet it fell on deaf ears.
 

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Some employee intentionally took a box cutter and slashed about 15cm through the game CE itself.
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That happened to me with an in-store pickup preorder, the spine was slash in half. It doesn't take a genius to open a box without damaging the merchandise inside, that there has to be some intent to screw over people.
 
Any confirmation that B2G1F has officially started today?

Edit: Just checked online, only for PS4 and XB1 games; XB1 with XSX smart delivery are not included sadly but PS4 games with free upgrade to PS5 are lol.

Correction: Some XB1 games that are labeled as XSX (i.e. Stranger of Paradise and Elden Ring), are not eligible for B2G1F. Other XB1 games with XSX smart delivery (i.e. Fenyx Rising and Scarlet Nexus) are eligible for B2G1F. GS shenanigans.
 
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ritchardf said:
i think they looked too soon at the new deals, that banner is gone. and it was up all last week and someone mentioned it wasn't even active last week.
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That’s exactly what I did, I always assume they are updated by 5am eastern time, I won’t assume again, know what that does.
 
PS5s too. If that's in-store too, it probably won't last beyond today, and employees may get notice from corporate not to trade them for that value. I expect someone will be asking about it on the GS subreddit before long.
 
When you click the actual picture it goes back to the normal value. I mean, good luck to anyone that tries to go for it, but yea...
 
FYI20XX said:
Any confirmation that B2G1F has officially started today?

Edit: Just checked online, only for PS4 and XB1 games; XB1 with XSX smart delivery are not included sadly but PS4 games with free upgrade to PS5 are lol.

Correction: Some XB1 games that are labeled as XSX (i.e. Stranger of Paradise and Elden Ring), are not eligible for B2G1F. Other XB1 games with XSX smart delivery (i.e. Fenyx Rising and Scarlet Nexus) are eligible for B2G1F. GS shenanigans.
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Any games worth flipping with this promotion?
 
Well went away for 10 days on vacay and came back to 1 of the 2 local stores closing.

Richmond, CA store had their sign being taken down today. Didn't stop in but assume it's closed now.
 
johnnymavrik said:
Well went away for 10 days on vacay and came back to 1 of the 2 local stores closing.

Richmond, CA store had their sign being taken down today. Didn't stop in but assume it's closed now.
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I have one store within a 30 minute drive and it's about to have a mutiny soon. The store manager who has worked there for years is quitting, and most of the staff with them too.
 
johnnymavrik said:
Well went away for 10 days on vacay and came back to 1 of the 2 local stores closing.

Richmond, CA store had their sign being taken down today. Didn't stop in but assume it's closed now.
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I'm seeing a number of mentions of stores closing with somewhat short notice this month. I imagine it's leases expiring. One store in MN in West St Paul closed earlier this month. I find it interesting since it was one of the retro designated stores.
 
johnnymavrik said:
Well went away for 10 days on vacay and came back to 1 of the 2 local stores closing.

Richmond, CA store had their sign being taken down today. Didn't stop in but assume it's closed now.
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Last of the Oakland location closed down at Fruitvale also. I'm actually surprised that it lasted this long, considering all the break-ins that had happened there.
 
gAm3 Fr3aQu3 said:
Last of the Oakland location closed down at Fruitvale also. I'm actually surprised that it lasted this long, considering all the break-ins that had happened there.
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Hoping that the San Pablo and, to a lesser degree, the Emeryville locations stay open. Although without Pro, my days of stopping in frequently are gone.

I was surprised that the Richmond store closed. They are in the same lot as a Target and always seemed to have foot traffic.
 
intelligentidiot said:
I'm seeing a number of mentions of stores closing with somewhat short notice this month. I imagine it's leases expiring. One store in MN in West St Paul closed earlier this month. I find it interesting since it was one of the retro designated stores.
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Bummer, I didn’t get there often but that store always had a great selection.
 
Z-r0 said:
The Fortnite bundle is super disappointing but the price is decent. Thank you for posting that link.
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If anyone ends up getting the Fortnite bundle, hit me up. I'm interested in the code.

By thew way I lost my original account. Name - Dahk

It was tied to a very old work email that I no longer have. If anyone can assist with getting my old account back, that would be great.
 
whitereflection said:
That's almost a year old. It's not going to have anything that has closed within the last six months, nor this upcoming February, which is when more leases are set to expire.
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Up until a month or so ago YTD for 2024 was 77 or something close to that. Now it’s at 134. So it’s not a year old. I think that’s just the date they started the list for 2024. It’s absolutely getting updated as locations close.
 
DahkX said:
If anyone ends up getting the Fortnite bundle, hit me up. I'm interested in the code.

By thew way I lost my original account. Name - Dahk

It was tied to a very old work email that I no longer have. If anyone can assist with getting my old account back, that would be great.
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You could try messaging Cheapy, he was able to help me recover my account after the new site went live.
 
i know the amiibo have been showing up in search results before now, but on the trading page there is a separate category just for amiibos now.
 
I went into a store today to renew my membership and was informed I had no points in my account. Dude told me there was nothing he can do and usually it takes 45 days for the points to disappear so I called customer service and was told I would get a call back sometime today. Nothing yet. I have called back 2 times and get told the same automated message that it will be longer than 5 minutes and I will get a call back.
 
Oh wow. One of my go to GameStops closed. I hadn't been there in a while and was thinking of stopping by yesterday but didn't. Sad to see it's closed. Hopefully the other ones near me stay open.
 
Freeze Time said:
I went into a store today to renew my membership and was informed I had no points in my account. Dude told me there was nothing he can do and usually it takes 45 days for the points to disappear so I called customer service and was told I would get a call back sometime today. Nothing yet. I have called back 2 times and get told the same automated message that it will be longer than 5 minutes and I will get a call back.
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You should've cashed in as previously advised or renewed beforehand since you were committed \_(ツ)_/¯
 
Romeo said:
Here’s a crazy one. And of course GameStop phone customer support is atrocious, as most companies are today.

i ordered metaphor collectors edition for PS5, shipped from GameStop.com. It arrived with padding and in a large box, NOT damaged from shipping. Well guess what was damaged…. the actual game itself. How so? Some employee intentionally took a box cutter and slashed about 15cm through the game CE itself. Probably happened from opening the manufacturer shipping box to their warehouse.

I contacted support who told me to just return it if I don’t want it. I asked for an exchange and they essentially told me to go F myself or go to a store location and have them fix it. I insisted a store has nothing to do with this as it’s a shipping issue yet it fell on deaf ears.
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That's some BS. You clearly didn't do this and as a company they failed
 
Romeo said:
Here’s a crazy one. And of course GameStop phone customer support is atrocious, as most companies are today.

i ordered metaphor collectors edition for PS5, shipped from GameStop.com. It arrived with padding and in a large box, NOT damaged from shipping. Well guess what was damaged…. the actual game itself. How so? Some employee intentionally took a box cutter and slashed about 15cm through the game CE itself. Probably happened from opening the manufacturer shipping box to their warehouse.

I contacted support who told me to just return it if I don’t want it. I asked for an exchange and they essentially told me to go F myself or go to a store location and have them fix it. I insisted a store has nothing to do with this as it’s a shipping issue yet it fell on deaf ears.
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The only other scenario when GPG would've been actually useful. Less you wanna risk compromising your account, I would file a chargeback as a last resort of course.
 
PS5 disc system trade value dropped from Up to $302.50 to Up to $291.50. Switch systems and PlayStation controller values dropped further as well.
 
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