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Welcome to the Official CAG Gamerush/Blockbuster video game deal thread.

First and foremost, please check out the
GameRush Trade-In Prices Wiki.

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What is this thread for?
The primary function of this thread is to discuss current trade-in and sale promos and to post any trade-in values you have obtained. Please post trade-in values with the date of the trade (or quote) and system. One of the CAG Wiki editors will then add them to the Wiki.

It is also permissible to discuss system availability, credit issues, etc. As long as it is related to game trades or sales at Blockbuster it is generally OK to discuss it here.

Unlike more tightly focused clearance threads, it is OK to discuss more general Gamerush/Blockbuster issues here as well as trade requests as long as they are kept to a minimum (and usually just during specific deals, of which there are none currently).

Due to the questionable stability of the Gamerush brand, it is also permissible to discuss ways of converting credit from Blockbuster to other stores (ie, which games may be used for trading in to other stores such as Gamecrazy or EB/GS). As of right now, we have no indication of Gamerush's imminent demise, but given Blockbuster's ongoing financial difficulties we need to be aware of the possibility.

What is this thread NOT for?
There will be absolutely NO DISCUSSION of the recent doctored coupon. Do not discuss what you bought, what you traded it for, or anything else - all such posts will be deleted. Any discussion of that should be done here.

Also, it is bad form to discuss the flipping of games from one Gamerush store to another should another such opportunity arrive (through trade-in deals which we haven't had recently anyway). It is one thing to "play the market" with trade-in values from one chain to another (GR to GC to EB) - free market buy low/sell high and all that. But taking advantage of loopholes in a single store's policies/promos is frowned upon and has, in the past, led to trade-in bans from GR.

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General Info
- Trade-in credit can be placed onto your store account or onto a "Value" card
- Credit on store accounts can only be used at that one store
- However, credit can be transferred from the store account to a card at any time
- Value cards can be used at any location
- Gamerush stores often do not get new game stock until the Friday of the release week, thus a few days later than most retailers

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Gamerush vs. regular Blockbusters
All Blockbuster game-related discussion belongs here. Most threads created in the Deals forum will be merged in to here. There seems to be the impression by many CAGs that if they don't have a Gamerush store near them then this thread does not apply to them. However, regular (non-GR) Blockbuster stores often run the same promos and generally have the same trade-in values.

The key differences:
- Only Gamerush stores sell new and used video game hardware, with the exception of the occasional new controller/memory card spotted at regular stores. (Edit - Some recent exceptions have cropped up: many regular BB stores had a PS3 bundle available over Christmas and a few stores have been reported to sell DS Lites).

- Only Gamerush stores allow for preorders of new games (though, it seems, many of those have even stopped taking preorders).

- While many Gamerush stores have cut back on their new game stock, some regular (non-GR) Blockbusters have started selling new games. They usually have a very limited selection of top-selling new 360, PS3, and Wii games. I will be maintaining a list below here for those with Blockbuster credit but no access to a GR store.

- Trade-in values are controlled centrally and are uniform across all Gamerush and Blockbuster locations EXCEPT if the Blockbuster is a franchise location. You can tell from the receipt if your store is a franchise store. All Gamerush stores are corporate-owned so they will have uniform pricing.

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New games that may be available for purchase at select non-GR Blockbusters
For those with access to only regular Blockbuster stores but wanting to take advantage of the decent trade-in values Blockbuster offers, this is the list of new games being sold by some regular Blockbuster locations. Note that they will generally not get new games on the release date. They will most likely have them a few days to weeks later.

:ds:
Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass

:360:
Bioshock
Blue Dragon
Call of Duty 4
Guitar Hero III
Halo 3
Lego Star Wars TCS
Mass Effect
NBA Live 08
The Orange Box

:ps2:
Guitar Hero III
Spiderman Friend or Foe

:ps3:
80GB PS3 bundle for $600 (PS3, Surf's Up Blu-Ray, HDMI cable, 20-week rental card)
Assassin's Creed
Lego Star Wars TCS
NBA Live 08
Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction
Rock Band bundle
Uncharted

:wii:
Guitar Hero III
NBA Live 08
Mario Party 8
Mario Strikers Charged
Super Mario Galaxy

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Current Trade-In Deals

There are no trade-in deals at this time. The trade 3 get an extra $5 per game is still in affect at some (very select) locations.

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Reported Trade-In Prices

Trade-In Price Wiki
 
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Just a heads up for those who are still looking for some classic GC games, I believe that Pikmin 2 is now being removed from rental inventory and stores are now possibly placing them in PRP (used games). I've picked up my second copy for $14.99 and all stores are now Pikmin 2-less when it comes to rentals.
 
I haven't seen Pikmin 2 as a rental (sometimes if I find a rental I want I'll ask them to convert it to PRP so I can just buy it).

The whole PRP thing seems very YMMV though, I see some games for sale at certain locations while others still have it as a rental.
 
[quote name='AzN_BaLLeR']Anyone know the current trade in values for Forza 2, MUA and LOTR:BFME?[/QUOTE]

I believe Forza 2 was $32 and MUA was $15. Big discussion on the previous pages with it. Although, some stores are YMMV without cover art since this is from the bundle I'm assuming.
 
[quote name='doubledown']I believe Forza 2 was $32 and MUA was $15. Big discussion on the previous pages with it. Although, some stores are YMMV without cover art since this is from the bundle I'm assuming.[/QUOTE]

Strangely enough, it hasn't been updated for this week. Has anyone checked?
 
I still got $32 for Forza 2 and $15 for MUA last night. Deal is still going...surprisingly, since Forza is now selling for $34.99 used at GR.
 
I traded the 3 games in yesterday and recieved $85 bucks. Spiderman 3 was $19, I was looking at the collectors edition when I looked it up last time which is 28.50. I also traded in the original guitar hero (just the software) for $19 for a total of $103.

Picked up my copy of mass effect with the credit and I still have about $65 left.
 
[quote name='Cimpy101']I traded the 3 games in yesterday and recieved $85 bucks. Spiderman 3 was $19, I was looking at the collectors edition when I looked it up last time which is 28.50. I also traded in the original guitar hero (just the software) for $19 for a total of $103.

Picked up my copy of mass effect with the credit and I still have about $65 left.[/quote]

My local BB still has Mass Effect at 54.99
 
Just bought $200 worth of gift cards to donate to my son's preschool for their charity auction. So I finally found a decent use for a good chunk of my credit. They tried to tell me I couldn't buy gift cards with gift cards (since I was using some odd-valued ones and wanted the $20 or $50 "branded" ones to donate), but they let me do it when I told them what it was for. They even tried to get me the bonus cards but I guess that promo is over as he scanned it and it didn't work. I wish I had tried this a week ago ;).

I still haven't bothered calling about my trading account hold. I don't know, I kind of feel free not even thinking of trading games there any more. Maybe it was a good thing :lol:.
 
I have picked up 2 Pikmins myself with hopes of trading them off. Still doesn't beat it when i got 2 copies from movie gallery closing for $1.99
 
any place in southern california sell ps3 consoles? Im looking to cash in my credits for a 40 gig. Let me know guys, thanks!
 
Wow, crazy day. Insanity ensues:

Was going to hit up CC, but I left at 4:15 so I decided to check GS instead. Found 4 copies of MUAF2. Headed up to my GR. Traded them in for $208 n credit (from $77). Ran into abductedvision (henceforth "AV") (who was picking up his Wii). Called a different GR to find a 360 holiday bundle and they had one, and offered me a Wii as well. Picked up both, AV tagged along shortly. We decided to hit up more GS for MUAF2. Found 3 copies at one place, then another 2 at another GS. While there, this trio was trading in a huge stack of PSP/PS3/PS2 games. They wanted a DS, but the store was out. I offered them a pink DS and $20 cash for the entire stack, and another $30 for their broken PSP. They agreed. Took the stack of games over to GR and traded in most of them. Got $297 in credit (from what cost me initially about $70 cash).

Total spent: $137 and a pink DS (which cost $50 cash)
Received: $537 GR credit and a fixable PSP

Here's some updates from what they sold me:

:ps3:
Unreal Tournament 3 - $36
F1 Championship Edition - $30
NBA 2K7 - $16
Fifa 08 - $36
Rainbow Six Vegas - $33
Fight Night Round 3 - $16
Need for Speed Carbon - $26

:psp:
MACH $15
Thrillville - $3
Moto GP - $12.50
Death Jr. - $1.50
Ridge Racer - $1.50
Darkstalkers - $3
Midnight Club 3: Dub - $3

:ps2:
Tiger Woods 06 - $2.50
NFS Most Wanted - $6
GT4 - $6.
 
[quote name='TMNT770']whats the update on darkness, forza 2, shadowrun, timeshifht & Two worlds on trade in value?[/QUOTE]


NOBODY TELL HIM!!!

Make him look through the thread and wiki for it.
 
[quote name='djkunai']NOBODY TELL HIM!!!

Make him look through the thread and wiki for it.[/quote]


i heard two world value drop to 28.50. im not sure about the other.
 
I picked up a couple MUA/Forza 2 sets to get a little trade credit at BB (Only have 1 Blockbusters within about 50 miles). Every time I've tried to trade just 1 in the employee in the front doesn't know how to do trades and calls in a manager, who then denies me trade because its always the same short haired bitch who on a whim tells me "its illegal to trade in games without cover art" and then walks away. I've printed cover art for the separate games, included everything necessary, as well as pointed out that about 1/4 of the games they're selling don't have cover art...yet still no dice.

Any CGers be willing to accept 2 Forza's and 3 MUA's in exchange for a few Darkness or Two Worlds or whatever's trading in decent games that would go over without a hitch? It would really be much appreciated and I'll pay for the media shipping. Potentially I would send about $110 worth of trade-in for something that could equal up to $90 trade and throw in a couple bucks for whatever shipping costs (and it'd make me very happy to spite the bitch that has continually rejected me in trading in games). PM me if interested. Thanks!
 
:lol: For those of you reading this thread. SHAME ON YOU!!! DJKUNAI and friends are no longer welcome at his "SO CALLED GR" 5 dollar extra credit
is officially over. you, Johnny, your girlfriend are no longer allowed to rent or trade PERIOD. Have a Merry New Year. :):):):):):):):)
 
[quote name='sgxlx']:lol: For those of you reading this thread. SHAME ON YOU!!! DJKUNAI and friends are no longer welcome at his "SO CALLED GR" 5 dollar extra credit
is officially over. you, Johnny, your girlfriend are no longer allowed to rent or trade PERIOD. Have a Merry New Year. :):):):):):):):)[/QUOTE]

Is there a reason I shouldn't delete this post? I'm not sure if this is a joke, or a Blockbuster employee from his store posting, or one of his friends messing with him (and us). Seems delete-worthy, but I want to see what djkunai says first ;).
 
[quote name='sgxlx']:lol: For those of you reading this thread. SHAME ON YOU!!! DJKUNAI and friends are no longer welcome at his "SO CALLED GR" 5 dollar extra credit
is officially over. you, Johnny, your girlfriend are no longer allowed to rent or trade PERIOD. Have a Merry New Year. :):):):):):):):)[/quote]

Knowing Kunai, he'd hire people to go trade in games.:roll:
 
[quote name='edavis0780']I'm not sure if it's spam, but boot this fucker ^[/QUOTE]

Well, I'm sure the reposts were due to the standard CAG 3am maintainance or whatever the hell goes on then (I had a double post myself because of it - the site hangs for a long time around 3am Pacific usually).

Anyway, I've cleaned up the excess (there were 4). I'm leaving one because I don't understand a word of it but it is an interesting part of the puzzle ;). It's too bad I'm about to go to sleep for 6 hours or so - I'd like to see what responses come from these. Note that I will most likely delete all this tomorrow afternoon, so enjoy it while you can.
 
[quote name='Hair6a11']I'm curious about the trade in value of Bullet Witch/Slypheed.....[/quote]Someone said they got BW and that if they didn't like it they could trade it in for 25 at their work. At that high of a tradein value I can only imagine which store they work at;) If I ever get a chance to trade in a few games I still have, I'll ask.

Someone here already checked on Sylpheed and it's TIV was 15.
 
[quote name='Hair6a11']I'm curious about the trade in value of Bullet Witch/Slypheed.....[/quote]

Nothing in the wiki... I just called and they 'couldn't' check the price for me... anyone else give it a shot?
 
[quote name='io']Just bought $200 worth of gift cards to donate to my son's preschool for their charity auction. So I finally found a decent use for a good chunk of my credit. They tried to tell me I couldn't buy gift cards with gift cards (since I was using some odd-valued ones and wanted the $20 or $50 "branded" ones to donate), but they let me do it when I told them what it was for. They even tried to get me the bonus cards but I guess that promo is over as he scanned it and it didn't work. I wish I had tried this a week ago ;).

I still haven't bothered calling about my trading account hold. I don't know, I kind of feel free not even thinking of trading games there any more. Maybe it was a good thing :lol:.[/quote]

You should call, it's going to drive you nuts to watch this thread but not be able to participate. Now Xmas is over and most people are back at work you should have better luck talking to the DM. You're clearly a reasonable, eloquent sort of guy, so I suspect a short conversation will clear it all up for you.
 
[quote name='jdawgg76']Someone said they got BW and that if they didn't like it they could trade it in for 25 at their work. At that high of a tradein value I can only imagine which store they work at;) [/quote]

If you look at his profile, he works at FX Video Game Exchange.
 
[quote name='InvaderZim']Nothing in the wiki... I just called and they 'couldn't' check the price for me... anyone else give it a shot?[/QUOTE]

Its $15 for project sylpheed and bullet witch sells for $24.99 used so I would imagine it only trades in for $15 or less. Cruddy flipping value IMO.
 
[quote name='TMNT770']i heard two world value drop to 28.50. im not sure about the other.[/quote]

Two Worlds - $32
GRAW - $12
 
Here's trade value in couple of games from CC clearance...

NBA Street Homecourt goes for $15 PS3
Bullet Witch $15 360
Def Jam Icon $16 PS3

Prett weak trade flipping...
 
[quote name='djkunai']Sgxlx and Novito Sanchez are definitely employees from the $5 store. ;) I won't post names, however...[/quote]

In which case, please clarify a couple of things...

1) wtf did novito sanchez say (in english please)?

2) Are they joking around or have you been banned?

3) Just that store or district wide?

4) What ticked him/them off?
 
[quote name='Warner1281']In which case, please clarify a couple of things...

1) wtf did novito sanchez say (in english please)?

2) Are they joking around or have you been banned?

3) Just that store or district wide?

4) What ticked him/them off?[/quote]

They're just messing around. I'm not sure what they were trying to say, but I know who they are.
 
Yeah, the thread didn't blow up like I thought it might, so no need for thread-cleaning (well, that's a relief, anyway). But I'd also like to know the answers to Warner's questions. And I see that as I'm composing this djkunai says it all amounts to not very much. Oh well, so much for that drama ;).
 
[quote name='djkunai']They're just messing around. I'm not sure what they were trying to say, but I know who they are.[/quote]



The five dollar credit has been discontinued corporate wide until further notice
any store in violation will receive harsh penalites and the trade accounts will be banned. Major restrictions are in place in regards to trading multiple games of same title on same transaction.
 
[quote name='sgxlx']The five dollar credit has been discontinued corporate wide until further notice
any store in violation will receive harsh penalites and the trade accounts will be banned. Major restrictions are in place in regards to trading multiple games of same title on same transaction.[/QUOTE]

Well, that's a little more clear, thank you. The $5 thing is not a big deal to 99% of us since most stores stopped doing that over a year ago. Though it seems odd to ban the trade account if the store offers the customer the $5 bonus - they are punishing the customer for a mistake by the Blockbuster employee :whistle2:s. Leaving djkunai out of it, what if some random person who knew nothing of how all this worked was given the bonus at that store - they'll be banned?

As for multiple games of the same title on the same transaction, I (and most others) never thought that was a good idea to begin with. It seems djkunai only did it because he was encouraged to do so by various BB employees.
 
random person doing trade who did not know anything of it will not be banned
stores will look in their inventory to see how many copies of a certain game are in stock if store deems they have not met the maximum then he/she will be allowed to trade, however recent events suggest that the majority of the traded games aree ones that are sold cheap with a high sale price. if such exploits are miss used those trade accounts will be banned from trading and those games will no longer be accepted for trade in mass volume.
 
While I don't work til tomorrow, I doubt there's a communication about anything except the $5 bonus. Most likely, this is a store/district thing, spurred on by the actions of traders in the area. I don't think anyone will be affected, besides stores limiting kunai to 2 per day.
 
[quote name='novito sanchez']no trades for punia ever again. For all those who doubt my powers tees ie no longer
welcome.[/quote]

bizzarre, now I understand why Kunai can trade with impunity, he's providing the BB staff with a little reefer!!
 
[quote name='sgxlx']
stores will look in their inventory to see how many copies of a certain game are in stock if store deems they have not met the maximum then he/she will be allowed to trade, however recent events suggest that the majority of the traded games aree ones that are sold cheap with a high sale price. if such exploits are miss used those trade accounts will be banned from trading and those games will no longer be accepted for trade in mass volume.[/QUOTE]

Hey, I'm all for BB/GR having better inventory management and limiting trade-ins of "exploitable" games. But that is all there should be to it - just a rejection of particular trades if there are too many in the store or whatever. Either that or they should just get on top of the trade-in values and truly only offer what the games are worth to them. Once a store accepts trades from a customer, though, it is entirely unfair to ban them after the fact as long as they did nothing wrong according to the "Trading Terms and Conditions" form we all signed (which would exclude trading more than 2 copies of a single game per day so I guess that one is fair game). If they suspect theft (ie, that the only way you could get multiples of a game to trade is to steal them from some other place - how naive, by the way ;)) then they ought to request proof of purchase before letting the customer trade again. But no, instead of calling you to clear it up they mark the account like you are a thief and then don't tell you about it unless you press them for it.
 
Anyone know the trade-values Ghost Squad and Prince of Persia:Rival Swords for Wii...

I checked the wiki, but the prices were either not updated or not in there at all.

Thanks
 
[quote name='mvp828']Anyone know the trade-values Ghost Squad and Prince of Persia:Rival Swords for Wii...

I checked the wiki, but the prices were either not updated or not in there at all.

Thanks[/QUOTE]

I am sick of the requests for trade-in prices. You have a phone and the internet (blockbuster.com ---> store locator ---> call).
 
[quote name='unforeseen']I am sick of the requests for trade-in prices. You have a phone and the internet (blockbuster.com ---> store locator ---> call).[/quote]

Hey Jackass... Stores by me don't give out trade values over the phone, and I am not driving 25 miles in a truck that gets 10 mpg.
 
[quote name='mvp828']Hey Jackass... Stores by me don't give out trade values over the phone, and I am not driving 25 miles in a truck that gets 10 mpg.[/quote]

Try calling a store that's further away but still in the same area. For example, if I needed a trade price early in the morning so I can hit up a B&M store when they open, I'd just call a store on the east coast at 8am since they'll be open (I'm on the west coast and all my stores would be closed).
 
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