TRU - Buy 2 get third FREE (all platforms) 10/27

BingBangBoom brought us all the TRU online coupon codes a while back. If he writes it is so, that is good enough for me. Thanks BBB.
 
I'm normally all over this deal, but thanks to Gamerush I don't think I'll get anything from TRU this time around. Thanks for the heads up Boom.
 
We have been hearing this is going to happen for a while, but its always been speculation. I hope your right though, I have a bunch of $20 games I want to pick up.
 
[quote name='crawlingpeter']this deal starts on a wednesday?

thanks for the info either way[/quote]

October not September
 
[quote name='msdmoney'][quote name='crawlingpeter']this deal starts on a wednesday?

thanks for the info either way[/quote]

October not September[/quote]http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/monthly.html?year=2004&month=10&country=1

looks like wed to me... :D
 
i hope this actually happens, my local tru's are all full of some good games like aria of sorrow, but at thirty, that is too much
 
Donkey Kong Konga, Time Crisis: Crisis Zone and Paper Mario or Shin Megai Tensei: Notrune.

$100 for 3 NEW release is not bad deal ....right ??
 
[quote name='silliemutafuka']Could someone PLEASE confirm this? I have some $20.00 games I really want to get this week.[/quote]

You already posted that. If you think they will still be around in another month, wait, but if they are likely to be gone taken by someone else before that, you may want to go ahead and get them.
 
that's the same week it has happened for the last 2 years so i would say that you can count on it

also, tru has a 45 day return policy so you can buy the games now, play them, rebuy them, and then return them on the original receipt (the risk being they better have them during the sale for you to rebuy)
 
Watch out andrew, what you just outlined is considered 'fraud' by some people here :p


Personally I don't see what's wrong about it, but thanks for the tip
 
[quote name='andrew333']that's the same week it has happened for the last 2 years so i would say that you can count on it

also, tru has a 45 day return policy so you can buy the games now, play them, rebuy them, and then return them on the original receipt (the risk being they better have them during the sale for you to rebuy)[/quote]

It IS fraud and is a pretty shitty thing to do.
 
it is absolutely not fraud

as a matter of fact, the more i think about it, it really is just a price match (which tru does)

by the way, it is not fraud to buy a game cheap in one store and return it without a receipt to another store (i agree that it is a crappy thing to do but it is not fraud so long as you don't deceive them)
 
what are the specifics of this deal, like when u buy 2 games does the 3rd one have to be of equal or lesser value?
 
andrew333 Posted: September 20, 2004, 12:35 am Post subject:

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that's the same week it has happened for the last 2 years so i would say that you can count on it

also, tru has a 45 day return policy so you can buy the games now, play them, rebuy them, and then return them on the original receipt (the risk being they better have them during the sale for you to rebuy)
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How bad is your life financially where you can't just support a good deal like this? It's already possible for Toys R' Us to lose money through this sale, why do you want to dick them further? They've been closing stores down for a couple years now and they have stuff like this just to draw us in. Are you trying to discourage them?
 
[quote name='andrew333']it is absolutely not fraud

as a matter of fact, the more i think about it, it really is just a price match (which tru does)

by the way, it is not fraud to buy a game cheap in one store and return it without a receipt to another store (i agree that it is a crappy thing to do but it is not fraud so long as you don't deceive them)[/quote]

Yes it IS fraud to return a game to a store you didn't even buy it from. It IS a shitty thing to do. It's also not a price match. That doesn't even make sense.
 
you shouldn't really opine on things that you don't understand, especially when you have no idea to whom you are talking

maybe you should learn the legal definition of "fraud" before ranting your expert opinion

that said, i don't think we need to discuss this further
 
Andrew, do you honestly know someone whose gone into a store, told the manager that they bought the game from somewhere else and attempted to return it? I worked at Circuit City during my first year of college and I got a few people here and there say they "lost the receipt" or "someone else bought them the game/CD/movie" and they "don't know where it came from" but I never once heard someone come in and blatantly say "I bought this game from another store, can I return it here", especially when the price of that game is cheaper at another store. It should be noted that being vague and stating "I don't have the receipt" knowing that you bought the game from another store is considered fraud. They're accepting the game under false pretenses that are your responsibility to clear up beforehand.
 
Funny you should challenge his definition of fraud.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fraud

Seems accurate to me. Exchanging a game clearanced or otherwise deeply discounted at another store when you are fully aware it did not originate from that chain is clearly dishonesty with intent to gain at the expense of the retailer. Do not claim the retailer is not being harmed. At best they will reclaim most of the cost if they are able to sell the game at the price at which they exchanged it. Since you were able to obtain it for much less that is unlikely and the probably won't unload it until they've marked it down and then take a signidicant loss.

I did this sort of thing constantly in the early 90's. Sometimes I feel like I dingle handedly changed TRU's policy on exchanges without receipts. At first they tried to defuse the problem by only exchanging for store credit, back when TRU was a sovereign nation with ts own currency, Geoffrey Money. I'd often have games from Good Guys blowout sales with very high TRU value, especially KOEI titles with $80 SRPs. I acquired so much Geoffrey Money I'd sell it for 80% of the dollar value and still make a huge profit margin.

That wasn't even my best scam in my less honest days. So don't try to scam a scammer.
 
i'm not much for bickering either but if someone is going to take a nonsensical shot at what i say, i am not going to let it hang there, sorry for the inconveniece
 
first off, i want to be clear that i do not support this activity and never would do it (the multiple store thing)

next, it is not necessarily fraud without a deception

while many of the examples provided by parathod would constitute fraud, saying "i don't have the receipt" is not one of them (unless of course you have the receipt)

finally, the tru thing is a price matching situation, what would you do if you bought 3 games at a store and then found out a few weeks later they were selling the games at 1/3rd off (my guess is you would avail yourself of the store's price match policy if they had one which tru does)
 
Why would you need a price match? That typically refers to meeting the advertised price of a competing store.

If you have the receipt and can prove you made the purchase the procedure in that case is typically called price protection. Those semantic details matter when there is contention.
 
Actually, many people last year (at VGtalk.com, anyway) exploited this deal last year. They would buy 2 games, get the one free, then return one that they payed for. I don't think that price match would work in this case because your receipt lists the price of 2 games and then $0 for one. The thing is, everyone here now knows (or is assuming) that there is going to be a sale, so we should have nothing to be pissed off about when the sale actually comes around (unless we bought a game in the last week). Besides, this is cheapassgamer.com, not scummyassgamer.com.
 
yes epo, you are right, i meant price protection or price guarantee

perhaps we should stop talking about this and polluting the thread?
 
what you describe is pretty scuzzy parat, i can tell you that when i availed myself of the sale last year and the year before, tru apportioned $33.33 to each game that i purchased under the deal
 
[quote name='Masterkyo']Donkey Kong Konga, Time Crisis: Crisis Zone and Paper Mario or Shin Megai Tensei: Notrune.

$100 for 3 NEW release is not bad deal ....right ??[/quote]

You still might want to pick up SMT at release date anyway given that the first printing is gonna include the soundtrack and who knows about TRU?
 
This deal started on a Sunday the past 2 years and required a coupon from their own flyer, which there was thousands of when you entered the store. I think I bought 12-15 games last year.
 
Maybe I'm just overly skeptical, but I don't believe this...yet. I know that bigbangboom has been the one that's posted many of the TRU deals, and I'd love to believe him. Considering how many times we've seen people make up dates for the deal, though, I'm not quite ready to believe it this time...

Here's hoping that BBB is right...
 
Good, I'll keep this on my mind then. I'll try to pick up games like Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Growlanser: Generations, and Ace Combat 5 around that time, if the deal happens on that date.
 
Last year, I bought 4 games and go two free. But I got gift receipts and returned the four games for $200 in credit. I then waited for the late November and December releases to get the games I truly wanted. Also, my free games were SSX3 and Disgaea. This year I'll probably plan to do the game but use the credit to buy Christmas gifts for my cousin and maybe a game or two for myself. That way, since I'm going to buy all those presents anyway, at least I'll get 2 free games for it...
 
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