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[IMG-L=5198]7741[/IMG-L]Trade in 3 select PS3 or Xbox 360 titles to GameStop and get Fight Night Round 4 free. Click the image on the left for eligible titles. Customer may be responsible for sales tax on full retail price in some states. Offer ends 07/12/09.

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And the $20 credit they gave me for that bioshock that sits on their shelf for $17.99 used will never make them that money back. And it's never guaranteed to make them that money back in cash - maybe more store credit, but you don't know how someone's going to pay for it, or if it's going to be sold b2g1, or for $10 somewhere down the line.

The same goes for all of these stinkers we're selling them for $20 apiece. If it was a good deal for gamestop, we wouldn't be giving them to them for $20 each, we'd be putting them on amazon ourselves for $20 each..
 
[quote name='thehoweller']Who doesn't, the guilt trip they put you through trying to get you to preorder a game's enough to warrant destroying your own hearing.[/QUOTE]

LOL Most of the employees at my local GS stores know better than to try and get me to PO anything anymore.

Funny story: I actually just recently got back my $5 pre-order deposit I put down on a copy of God Of War 2 about six months prior to it's release. The store I made the deposit at doesn't even exist anymore, but I went to the other GS store in the same mall and they did it no problem.

:lol::lol: I think they were kind of like 'wtf' that I wanted my deposit back. The look on their faces was just priceless. I wish I had a camera to capture the moment.
 
[quote name='jer7583']And the $20 credit they gave me for that bioshock that sits on their shelf for $17.99 used will never make them that money back. And it's never guaranteed to make them that money back in cash - maybe more store credit, but you don't know how someone's going to pay for it, or if it's going to be sold b2g1, or for $10 somewhere down the line.

The same goes for all of these stinkers we're selling them for $20 apiece. If it was a good deal for gamestop, we wouldn't be giving them to them for $20 each, we'd be putting them on amazon ourselves for $20 each..[/QUOTE]

That's exactly right. Think of all the copies of original xbox games that will never be sold. They came from somewhere.

Plus, there's the little business cost of overhead...

Nobody is saying to feel sorry for gamestop. But one should realize the economics of the deal before adopting the flippant attitude of "whatever man, gamestop is still making money on this trade in deal...i aint doing anything wrong here."
 
boo woo for gs. they are doing something right there profits are on the rise. gamestop wants soccer moms . inmo gamestop wants soccermoms to shop there not people like us at cag. that is where they make there money. i personaly never buy a new game. the most i will spend is 15.00 new or used so i am not who gamestop wants as a customer.

the preorder is something else i will never do. you give them 5 for nothing. I get so tired of hearing the same bs. that game will be hard to find. it might have been that way 10 years ago but not today, we have to many choices to buy it at
 
[quote name='jer7583']I've bought and returned 6 copies of this game now. Awesome deal. Thanks for fucking up again, gamestop. No matter how you look at it, they're not going to be making anything on these quantum of solaces and Spider-mans.

Gamestop paid money to EA for each copy of FNR4 (or to whatever publisher we exchange for whatever) so it's basically them exchanging their money for our shitty blockbuster games.. Or in some cases, like when I bought Bioshock 360 from GS and traded it back in for about $4 more, they're basically paying for our product.

Or in dallow's case, paying us. That's rediculous - but I did have it happen with one of my returns too.. seems shady, but that's how the cashier insisted it had to be done..[/QUOTE]

The people who don't follow cag and don't know how to take advantage of this deal and trade in 3 (or even 1) near brand new releases that in turn sell for 55 bucks make up for the 3 bucks lost by customers like us though.

This deal is aimed at people like that of course, but it works out for us as well. For every CAG that trades in games for less than the price of the game (by at most about 10 bucks), there's probably another 10 guys trading in stuff worth way more.
 
[quote name='camelking6969']boo woo for gs. they are doing something right there profits are on the rise. gamestop wants soccer moms . inmo gamestop wants soccermoms to shop there not people like us at cag. that is where they make there money. i personaly never buy a new game. the most i will spend is 15.00 new or used so i am not who gamestop wants as a customer.

the preorder is something else i will never do. you give them 5 for nothing. I get so tired of hearing the same bs. that game will be hard to find. it might have been that way 10 years ago but not today, we have to many choices to buy it at[/QUOTE]

To be honest, pre ordering at GS for some of the bonuses are pretty nice.

not to often, but something like a free t shirt orart book goes a long way
 
I always love the folks that cry about how evil GS is and how they hate going there, but that doesn't stop them from stepping on their own grandmother's face to run there and abuse a deal. Cheers.
 
[quote name='jer7583']I've bought and returned 6 copies of this game now. Awesome deal. Thanks for fucking up again, gamestop. No matter how you look at it, they're not going to be making anything on these quantum of solaces and Spider-mans.

Gamestop paid money to EA for each copy of FNR4 (or to whatever publisher we exchange for whatever) so it's basically them exchanging their money for our shitty blockbuster games.. Or in some cases, like when I bought Bioshock 360 from GS and traded it back in for about $4 more, they're basically paying for our product.

Or in dallow's case, paying us. That's rediculous - but I did have it happen with one of my returns too.. seems shady, but that's how the cashier insisted it had to be done..[/QUOTE]

Thank you soooo much for abusing this deal for your own personal profit. When they stop running cool deals like this I'm sure you will be the 1st to piss cry and moan about it and its the rest of the moral CAG's that will suffer. Seriously dude, do you need a full time job or something?
 
Anyone know the trade in value for Fight Night 4 Xbox 360?

I want to trade it in sicnce they wont let me return it for another game or credit. Thanks In Advance.
 
[quote name='romodome']Anyone know the trade in value for Fight Night 4 Xbox 360?

I want to trade it in sicnce they wont let me return it for another game or credit. Thanks In Advance.[/QUOTE]


What? They can't stop you from returning it if its unopened. Seriously, when they pull that kind of crap with me it's one of the times I actually appreciate being an attorney. (I normally hate my job)
 
[quote name='romodome']Anyone know the trade in value for Fight Night 4 Xbox 360?

I want to trade it in sicnce they wont let me return it for another game or credit. Thanks In Advance.[/QUOTE]

Only $25
 
[quote name='romodome']Anyone know the trade in value for Fight Night 4 Xbox 360?

I want to trade it in sicnce they wont let me return it for another game or credit. Thanks In Advance.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='bgame2']What? They can't stop you from returning it if its unopened. Seriously, when they pull that kind of crap with me it's one of the times I actually appreciate being an attorney. (I normally hate my job)[/QUOTE]

I severely doubt they won't let him return it at all. The dopey employee probably didn't properly convey that he can return it, but not receive this extra credit via this promo. That, or the employee simply doesn't understand how do a return on it and lied about not being able to return it at all.
 
Well technically speaking they only have two options: Give him the full credit or give him his games back. For two simple reasons, the value of the game being returned is 60, not the regular trade in amount on the three games he returned. So they can't take 60 from him and only give him 30 in credit back because they did not inform him that this would occur at the time of the sale. Relatedly they can't refuse to give him his games back by saying all trades are final because he was promised something in return for those games. You cannot induce someone to do something or give you something and then change the terms later.
 
The promo clearly states you get $60 in credit for trading in three games towards FNR4. He got exactly what he was told he would get by trading in those games: FNR4. No terms were changed at all. If anything, he's trying to change the terms of the deal, but I'm gonna not bash him. He's just trying to do the same thing everyone has. He's just being denied, which is what should be happening to everyone. That's pretty much the end of the discussion right there. He can keep the game, which is what you're suppose to do, or he can return it for the credit he would have received for just trading in the games.
 
They offered me cash, if I would come back when they had more money in the register, but i just took credit, didn't want to come back
 
Very, very odd that they offered you cash. When you buy something with credit and return it, you're suppose to get credit. Sounds like a clueless employee.
 
[quote name='fshaia']They offered me cash, if I would come back when they had more money in the register, but i just took credit, didn't want to come back[/QUOTE]

I wish the people at the GS stores by me would've offered me $$$$ for the copy I returned, but I'm just glad enough they took it back without pulling the 'we have to give you the original trade credit for each of the three games' routine.
 
Thanks to the BBV deal and an old Target Clearance game I ended up picking this up for what would equal about $20...Damn good deal if you ask me.

Side question: Did anyone get store-credit back when doing this deal? For some reason I ended up getting around $3.12 in credit besides the game itself...seemed rather odd.
 
What a great deal this was. Traded in QOS, SpiderMan WOS, and Bioshock, from the Blockbuster BOGO sale. So for around 30 bucks, I got FNR4 and a copy of Kung Fu Panda for my kids. So stoked.
 
For flippers this is kind of a once in a moon deal since blockbuster and gamestop promotions rarely overlap each other. You rarely get anything from GS to BB due to their low TIV's
 
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']Very, very odd that they offered you cash. When you buy something with credit and return it, you're suppose to get credit. Sounds like a clueless employee.[/QUOTE]

The original receipt said "cash" on it, I don't know why, anyway, they knew what was going on, and didn't care, also returned EA sports that we never used from the last trade in 3 promo, and they gave us cash for that.
 
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']The promo clearly states you get $60 in credit for trading in three games towards FNR4. He got exactly what he was told he would get by trading in those games: FNR4. No terms were changed at all. If anything, he's trying to change the terms of the deal, but I'm gonna not bash him. He's just trying to do the same thing everyone has. He's just being denied, which is what should be happening to everyone. That's pretty much the end of the discussion right there. He can keep the game, which is what you're suppose to do, or he can return it for the credit he would have received for just trading in the games.[/QUOTE]


Ok, bigdaddy, my decade of practicing law and you will just have to agree to disagree. There's a little concept of a liquidated damages clause missing here. There is no provision dictating what he would get in return if he returned the game. Giving him back anything else or anything different fails to make him whole because he can successfully argue that he would not have traded his games in if he were not getting that extra value. So I'm sorry that you feel "it's the end of the discussion" but all too often what people think is right/fair and what law is in reality are entirely different things. I completely agree that he got what he was supposed to get: FN4, but the deal does not contract out of returns for full credit or prohibit returns in anyway. Gamestop is the drafter of the deals terms, therefore any ambiguities are construed against them. Their failure to specifically address a very foreseeable issue will be held against them. Therefore they can give him the full credit or his games back. I don't want to clutter the board with argumentation, but CAGs should be aware of the law as opposed to people's expectation of what the law is or what stores may try to tell them the law is. And while I may agree with Bigdaddy in a practical sense, in a legal sense what they did is not permitted.
 
I didn't take the completely cheap route for this promotion as others have, but I still bought Quantum of Solace and GTA 4 from Blockbuster and traded those in with a Fable 2 that I bought used from GS a while back to get Fight Night Round 4. Calculating what I paid for the three games I traded, I probably spent almost $35 out of pocket for Fight Night which I think is still a decent price. I wanted to go full CAG and get three games from the BOGO sale but I could not find another game I wanted to keep.

Oh, and the copy of Fight Night Round 4 for PS3 that I got was one of those highly coveted Gamestop Like-New-New copies that had been gutted for display. First the person behind the counter handed me a shrinkwrapped 360 version but I told him I wanted the PS3 verison instead. So I get the gutted copy. It doesn't matter. I'm going to play game anyway and throw it up on Goozex when I'm done with it.
 
So many little kids on CAG these days damn. "boo hoo gamestop"? boo hoo you that you need to sink that low for "pennies on the dollar".


edit- So I should have no problem giving them back Fight Night for a preorder on Bigs 2??? Or do I need to get the gift receipt and try returning it? Thanks
 
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All bets are off with gamestop, as long as it's not illegal, theft, or causing other CAGs harm.
 
[quote name='SMITTYBLAZE']So many little kids on CAG these days damn. "boo hoo gamestop"? boo hoo you that you need to sink that low for "pennies on the dollar".[/QUOTE]

:applause:
 
[quote name='jcizzla']Thank you soooo much for abusing this deal for your own personal profit. When they stop running cool deals like this I'm sure you will be the 1st to piss cry and moan about it and its the rest of the moral CAG's that will suffer. Seriously dude, do you need a full time job or something?[/QUOTE]

Wow, realize who you're defending, dude. I have a full time salaried job, and also happen to have 5 gamestops in about 10 miles from me, and another 4 or so blockbusters, with 2 more GS and Blockbusters on the way back from work. I probably spent 2 hours or so total doing all this flipping in the course of last week. Not bad for all the free credit and less than half priced new releases it's getting me.

Hey, if you don't have so much luck or aren't smart enough to take advantage of a corporation's fuckup for your own profit, too bad, but don't cry to me. Get while the gettin's good. They rarely mess up with promos like this, so make the most of it.

I don't understand what these gamestop-defenders are getting from this? I think they must just be gamestop employees.
 
[quote name='jer7583']Wow, realize who you're defending, dude. I have a full time salaried job, and also happen to have 5 gamestops in about 10 miles from me, and another 4 or so blockbusters, with 2 more GS and Blockbusters on the way back from work. I probably spent 2 hours or so total doing all this flipping in the course of last week. Not bad for all the free credit and less than half priced new releases it's getting me.

Hey, if you don't have so much luck or aren't smart enough to take advantage of a corporation's fuckup for your own profit, too bad, but don't cry to me. Get while the gettin's good. They rarely mess up with promos like this, so make the most of it.

I don't understand what these gamestop-defenders are getting from this? I think they must just be gamestop employees.[/QUOTE]

I'd actually have to agree with jcizzla to an extent. Not the part where he was insulting you or anything, but the part where they most likely will stop doing these type of deals.

I remember a time when it was still EB Games, almost every new game that came out on the PSOne and N64 had a Trade in deal of trade 2-3 get it free, and the limitations were as long as it wasn't a sports game you could trade something in to get said new game.

I personally was psyched to see that this deal came through, as I had 3 games that I had already beaten/got bored with that I could trade in to get FN. Then I come on here and see that everyone is trading in multiples of games and returning them for other games. It kinda pissed me off because GS will see what is going on, and they'll just stop doing these deals all together.

While I know there are people here who hate GS and everything, and will do anything to take advantage of the system when there is a workaround to get what they really want, in the end it screws over people like me, when money is tight as it is and you can't just go spending money on games and other things all the time (having a child changes your priorities). More than likely, they won't offer a deal like this for a loooooong time...
 
As others have mentioned previously in the thread, it's not like GS threw a dart at a board and decided to just make this promo involve FNR4. They work out deals with publishers, and that's how this came about. They need to move copies of that game. Abusing the system to get another game (or multiple games, in some people's case) might hurt GS now, but yeah, in the long run, it simply hurts us.
 
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']As others have mentioned previously in the thread, it's not like GS threw a dart at a board and decided to just make this promo involve FNR4. They work out deals with publishers, and that's how this came about. They need to move copies of that game. Abusing the system to get another game (or multiple games, in some people's case) might hurt GS now, but yeah, in the long run, it simply hurts us.[/QUOTE]

And there's the issue. All it does is hurt the consumer in the end. Because EA/GS will evaluate this promo and it might not make sense in the future. Or they'll change it to only games released in the past 3 months allowed to trade in.

But what do the abusers care? They got what they wanted.

I am not defending gamestop nor do i work there. I just think abusers of a promo (those that trade back in for credit with a gift receipt) are asses who care about nobody but themselves. I mean, do it once, twice, whatever. But 4-5 times? Ass.

Of course, no amount of ranting will change the behavior of anyone. So I don't know why i bother.
 
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']As others have mentioned previously in the thread, it's not like GS threw a dart at a board and decided to just make this promo involve FNR4. They work out deals with publishers, and that's how this came about. They need to move copies of that game. Abusing the system to get another game (or multiple games, in some people's case) might hurt GS now, but yeah, in the long run, it simply hurts us.[/QUOTE]

Nope. Gamestop does not run these promos for our benefit. They don't do anything for our benefit. They put games on that list for two reasons - One being that they believe those games would be profitable if people traded them and got approximately $20 towards FNR4 - two being that they're short on supply of those products and wish to increase their stock on them.

It was a fuckup that put Bioshock 360 on that list offering $20 for a game they charge $18 for used, and all the abuse in the world won't change that they accidentally included that. Hey, maybe the huge turnout for this deal even is a good thing and encourages more "trade 3 get such and such" deals - It's always possible that Gamestop really does see customers moving product from blockbuster to them as a good thing. We don't know. They've done these and had exploits in the past and just changed the flyers or changed in the system that you can't use such and such game anymore. (like the Open Season/Far Cry Wii debacle a few years back)

Revising their return policy so that you don't accidentally get cash back for a return that was on trade-in credit probably would be a good idea for them to do, though. That doesn't make sense - and none of us who had that happen have asked the cashier to do it that way, they always insist that's how it needs to be done or the system is just doing it that way.

So get off the soapbox and get to plunderin' - if this was harming publishers or developers in any way, I wouldn't do it, but this is 100% damage to gamestop, a corporate entity that really does no good for this industry or the creative minds in it. They need to go, ASAP. Anything I can do to help that process is a good thing, and abusing these trade in deals is one of the best ways to go abou that.
 
*yawn*

Do these GS haters simply read from a script? It's the same crap over and over again. "OMGz! Evil corporation alert!" What corporation isn't "evil," exactly?

The best part, though, is the fact that anyone who isn't a dirtbag who abuses a system is on a soapbox. Yet, what the hell do you call what you're doing on these boards? "I like sticking it to the man! I will bring down the evil corporation!" Preach on, brother. Bring down GS. You're doing a great job of it so far. Yep, they're going down any decade, now. You'd be better off murdering soccer moms and stealing games from young children. At the rate you're going, screwing them out of $60, they're gonna be around a lot longer.
 
[quote name='jer7583']So get off the soapbox and get to plunderin' - if this was harming publishers or developers in any way, I wouldn't do it, but this is 100% damage to gamestop, a corporate entity that really does no good for this industry or the creative minds in it. They need to go, ASAP. Anything I can do to help that process is a good thing, and abusing these trade in deals is one of the best ways to go abou that.[/QUOTE]

While I don't work at gamestop or anything, I think it's a shame to wish that a company would go under simply because you hate the way they do business. This reminds me of when Circuit City was in business, everyone was complaining about the employees and everything, but no one seemed to complain when they had a really good deal on a game. Then it was announced they were going out of business, everyone was excited for them to go, but a few months down the road, wished that they could get those really good deals that CC had on games.

At the end of the day, regardless of what you think of the company, they're still providing jobs for people. If you really have an issue with a company and how they handle used games and trade in values, there's other options out there besides gamestop. Sticking it to a company by abusing a flaw in the system is not putting them out of business, because they still have your games and credit you use at their stores.

It seems that some people forget that if you don't want a business to do well you simply don't shop there. End of story.
 
i tried to trade in Spiderman: WOS and two QOS. They told me at three different gamestops that they do not accept multiples of the same game.

Anyone know of a gamestop in the NYC are that will. I am in Queens. Thanks
 
It's been said before you can't do that. You can trade them in for store credit I think but not for the promotion.

As for these d-bags saying screw gamestop and this and that, do you know how much the economy is effected everytime a business closes? That means people out of jobs, that means paycuts, stop being such selfish, immature morons.

What'd you make $80 profit by abusing their deal, when you could've just made $30 by doing the deal once. Now instead they'll stop doing these deals rather than doing them more frequently. So instead of $30 every so often, you got $80 for something that will most likely not happen again.

Congratufuckinlations retards...now I know why you flip video games for such a small profit...in store credit to a place you hate especially.

Wow
 
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[quote name='fshaia']The original receipt said "cash" on it, I don't know why, anyway, they knew what was going on, and didn't care, also returned EA sports that we never used from the last trade in 3 promo, and they gave us cash for that.[/QUOTE]


Did you pay the tax amount with cash?
 
Scratch that ended up leaving all the games. All the tradeable games are priced $5 above 14.99

headed to rosecrans/praire bb, if nothing there then I'm done.

South bay blockbusters suck
 
quick, maybe dumb question. lets say two of the games you trade in are a 360 and ps3 version of QoS. does that still count as a multiple of the same game if they are diff platforms?
 
[quote name='daladezman']quick, maybe dumb question. lets say two of the games you trade in are a 360 and ps3 version of QoS. does that still count as a multiple of the same game if they are diff platforms?[/QUOTE]

they consider it a different game. i traded in six games and had bioshock and qos for both systems.. he did tell me im not allowed to trade in two of the same games until i told him they were for different systems and then he let them through.
 
Its YMMV as usual, a store might not even allow it. Its up to the discression of the employee/manager. Try to get different games before resorting to that
 
[quote name='mitemouse']they consider it a different game. i traded in six games and had bioshock and qos for both systems.. he did tell me im not allowed to trade in two of the same games until i told him they were for different systems and then he let them through.[/QUOTE]

very nice thank you
 
Gamestop isnt going to stop doing these deals. By and large, morons are trading them newer releases in these deals.

I never knew there was such a pro-shamestop force on here.

I stand by my philosophy - pillage, exploit, rape, and take advantage of these gamestop deals as you're able. Its about the only time their store is worth going to, and the only time they're not doing the same to you.
 
It's not about Gamestop, it's about business. We're pro-business and don't appreciate someone intending to destroy a business where people are employed just so they can get 2 free video games. That's pathetic, "shamestop"?, your the one who should be ashamed. I feel sorry for those of you that feel the need to resort to such lows.. you truly are the definition of low-lives.
 
[quote name='SMITTYBLAZE']It's not about Gamestop, it's about business. We're pro-business and don't appreciate someone intending to destroy a business where people are employed just so they can get 2 free video games. That's pathetic, "shamestop"?, your the one who should be ashamed. I feel sorry for those of you that feel the need to resort to such lows.. you truly are the definition of low-lives.[/QUOTE]

Exactly. But wait, it's much cooler to complain about businesses and make up funny names for them. Game$top. You see what I did there?
 
Okay, i dont want all those highly compensated, valuable, gamestop employees out of a job. I'd rather see them in real jobs above gamestop-caliber, but a job is a job right now.
Shamestop is more about the feeling of going to one of these places than anything.

Hopefully someday digital distro gets profits for games back in the hands of those actually working on them, and gamestop is forced to change their exploitative business to survive.

The solution to the gamestop whining is simple. Dont sell a game used until 90 days after release date. Let the content creators get theirs, and then take the scraps.
 
[quote name='jer7583']Gamestop isnt going to stop doing these deals. By and large, morons are trading them newer releases in these deals.

I never knew there was such a pro-shamestop force on here.

I stand by my philosophy - pillage, exploit, rape, and take advantage of these gamestop deals as you're able. Its about the only time their store is worth going to, and the only time they're not doing the same to you.[/QUOTE]

i totally agree...i cant believe people defend a monopolizing company who screws people over 99% of the time.
 
Please tell me how they screw people over?
By buying your games from you when no one else would?

If you talk out of your ass, make sure you can back it up.

ohhh you'd rather want them at "real jobs", I guess that humans shouldn't work at game stores as a manager, CEO, or store clerk. They should be able to get "real jobs" at a "higher caliber". Who should they go work for AIG? The game industry is huge right now morons. I'm sure those guys who were at "higher caliber" jobs would love to be working for Gamestop.

Don't forget to answer how they screw people over.
 
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