Thanks for keeping the scene alive DR , On the east coast here and my store had plenty of both DA II CE and MK CE at FULL PRICE ! sadness :(
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Reduced Price Guide Thread XIV (FAQ in 2nd Post)
By Dark Rider, Mar 12 2012 02:18 PM
Strategy guides
#62
The Bus Guy
Posted 13 March 2012 - 03:46 PM
Thanks for keeping the scene alive DR , On the east coast here and my store had plenty of both DA II CE and MK CE at FULL PRICE ! sadness :(
Glad to see another East Coaster. Thanks for checking that, and I will take those out of the op. I apologize for any confusion at stores anyone had. Weird that they would have rang up at .01 for PatelKing. Must have been a glitch.
#63
Zune Duck!
Posted 13 March 2012 - 05:56 PM
Glad to see another East Coaster. Thanks for checking that, and I will take those out of the op. I apologize for any confusion at stores anyone had. Weird that they would have rang up at .01 for PatelKing. Must have been a glitch.
Patelking never rang it up. It only show up as 1 cent on the RSS
#66
Savior, Conquerer, Hero, Villain.
Posted 13 March 2012 - 08:11 PM
Probably same situation. In the RSS the priced might be marked a penny but when rung up it is probably still full price. I remember running into the opposite a couple times when asking employee's to look up pennied out guides for me in the past.
Interesting... I didn't know that it was even possible for the RSS to show one price and have it ring up another!
#67
Not My Job Anymore, Go Bother Someone Else.
Posted 13 March 2012 - 08:16 PM
RSS stands for Retail Sales System, I think.noob question: What is the RSS?
It's Best Buy's internal inventory/price lookup tool, and it shows inventory in real time. Best Buy reps would look up pricing and availability in RSS when you'd call in or be in-store to check pricing and availability for an item.
#68
10 years of backlog building
Posted 13 March 2012 - 08:59 PM
I have personally never seen an items in-store price not match with RSS, in almost three years of doing tons of price checks daily.
I also know that every store I've been to does actually send the guides out somewhere. I've loaded the totes on to trucks my self. I don't think every if any stores throw them away but maybe they do. I also don't know what happens to the guides when they get where they're going, maybe trashed maybe on the BB auction site.
When the whole gaming dedicated employee process was starting my managers, who knew about me and penny guides and didn't care, told me they were going to start cracking down as a company. I wouldn't go blaming any one person for them getting their heads out of their asses.
I also know that every store I've been to does actually send the guides out somewhere. I've loaded the totes on to trucks my self. I don't think every if any stores throw them away but maybe they do. I also don't know what happens to the guides when they get where they're going, maybe trashed maybe on the BB auction site.
When the whole gaming dedicated employee process was starting my managers, who knew about me and penny guides and didn't care, told me they were going to start cracking down as a company. I wouldn't go blaming any one person for them getting their heads out of their asses.
#69
LOBSTERS!....IN MY PANTS!
Posted 13 March 2012 - 10:39 PM
This is pretty rough, but it was a fun way to kill time at work. I might edit it a bit here and there.
Now remember, it ought to take you around 4 minutes to read this, and 8 to sing.
A long long time ago
I can still remember how
Penny guides used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my stash
That evil bosses I could smash,
And make the land happy for a while.
But lousy Smarch weather made me shiver
With every update the thread would deliver
Bad news on the monitor screen
I couldn't believe what I had seen
I can't remember if I cried
When I read his letter so snidely sighed
My sagging shelf next to me beside,
The day penny guides died
So
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
Did you write the Doublejump scene?
And are you Brady and Prima keen?
Or Nintendo first party?
Now do you believe in Versus gold?
Can they save your bank roll?
And can you teach me the Konami Code?
Well I know that you did inform the man
Cause I saw the posts you glibly ran
You and they saw everyone screwed
Man, I don't dig that at all dood
You were a lonely El Hoardoin' buck
With an attitude of who gives a fuck
But I knew we were out of luck
The day penny guides died
I started singin'
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
Now for ten weeks we've been on our own
Our collections grow dim and so alone
But, that's not how it has to be
When he sang for the publisher king
In a state of crazy unfurling
And a wtf that came from you and me
Oh and while the king had been clueless
El Hoardo in all his hubris
Handed him our demise
A thing he still denies
And since we could read no new book
The betrayal we couldn't overlook
So we wrote rages to the crook
The day penny guides died
We were singin'
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
Our retail core killed and ruined store,
The archives and posters are no more
Brick and mortar gone and fading clear
They all crumbled down in the retail sphere
We'd run a good game but now shed a tear
With El Hoardo leading the crash with fear
Now the high ups had heard the call
Destroyed our chances completely all
We all laid down our blades
And accepted there'd be no more trades
Cause we as players took up virtual fields
To slay monsters for high loot yields
But now our fates were all but sealed
The day penny guides died
We started singin'
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
Oh, and there we were all in one place
At CAG in digital space
With no thread and had to start again
We bid farewell to the old Frankenstein
Thread of posts, discussion and rhyme
Off topic rants that were sublime
And as we watched him burn it down
Took everything to hell and then left town
No Hoardo we had thought
Would set fire to our lot
And as the flameposts chimed through the night
So bright upon the Deal thread light
I saw El Hoardo laugh in spite
The day penny guides died
He was singin'
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
I read a guide so long ago
To seek answers and see the line show
And every secret now turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd scored guides years before
But the man had killed the guides that day
And in the forums the posters screamed
Strell wrote a song while Cheapest was reamed,
And so many words were spoken
As all our doubts were awoken
And the guides that I admire the most
Hardcover galaxies and artbook boast
Had been the last call that I could toast
The day penny guides died
And they were singin'
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
Now remember, it ought to take you around 4 minutes to read this, and 8 to sing.
A long long time ago
I can still remember how
Penny guides used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my stash
That evil bosses I could smash,
And make the land happy for a while.
But lousy Smarch weather made me shiver
With every update the thread would deliver
Bad news on the monitor screen
I couldn't believe what I had seen
I can't remember if I cried
When I read his letter so snidely sighed
My sagging shelf next to me beside,
The day penny guides died
So
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
Did you write the Doublejump scene?
And are you Brady and Prima keen?
Or Nintendo first party?
Now do you believe in Versus gold?
Can they save your bank roll?
And can you teach me the Konami Code?
Well I know that you did inform the man
Cause I saw the posts you glibly ran
You and they saw everyone screwed
Man, I don't dig that at all dood
You were a lonely El Hoardoin' buck
With an attitude of who gives a fuck
But I knew we were out of luck
The day penny guides died
I started singin'
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
Now for ten weeks we've been on our own
Our collections grow dim and so alone
But, that's not how it has to be
When he sang for the publisher king
In a state of crazy unfurling
And a wtf that came from you and me
Oh and while the king had been clueless
El Hoardo in all his hubris
Handed him our demise
A thing he still denies
And since we could read no new book
The betrayal we couldn't overlook
So we wrote rages to the crook
The day penny guides died
We were singin'
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
Our retail core killed and ruined store,
The archives and posters are no more
Brick and mortar gone and fading clear
They all crumbled down in the retail sphere
We'd run a good game but now shed a tear
With El Hoardo leading the crash with fear
Now the high ups had heard the call
Destroyed our chances completely all
We all laid down our blades
And accepted there'd be no more trades
Cause we as players took up virtual fields
To slay monsters for high loot yields
But now our fates were all but sealed
The day penny guides died
We started singin'
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
Oh, and there we were all in one place
At CAG in digital space
With no thread and had to start again
We bid farewell to the old Frankenstein
Thread of posts, discussion and rhyme
Off topic rants that were sublime
And as we watched him burn it down
Took everything to hell and then left town
No Hoardo we had thought
Would set fire to our lot
And as the flameposts chimed through the night
So bright upon the Deal thread light
I saw El Hoardo laugh in spite
The day penny guides died
He was singin'
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
I read a guide so long ago
To seek answers and see the line show
And every secret now turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd scored guides years before
But the man had killed the guides that day
And in the forums the posters screamed
Strell wrote a song while Cheapest was reamed,
And so many words were spoken
As all our doubts were awoken
And the guides that I admire the most
Hardcover galaxies and artbook boast
Had been the last call that I could toast
The day penny guides died
And they were singin'
Bye bye to my penny guides,
There are no more at the toy store or BBY,
A memo was sent and now that well has gone dry,
Singin' this will be the day the guides died,
This will be the day the guides died.
#70
CAGiversary!
Posted 13 March 2012 - 10:42 PM
Patelking never rang it up. It only show up as 1 cent on the RSS
Glad to see another East Coaster. Thanks for checking that, and I will take those out of the op. I apologize for any confusion at stores anyone had. Weird that they would have rang up at .01 for PatelKing. Must have been a glitch.
I found it very strange that it said $.01 in RSS and it still rings up full price. Both DAII CE and MK CE guides were listed for $.01 at multiple stores in CT, NY, and NJ. I guess they have wisened up for now.
#76
Itchy, Tasty ...
Posted 14 March 2012 - 08:35 PM
Guide Vixen Strikes Again . Went to pick up the kids from school and thought Id hit up the local GS . Let the kids take a peek and see if anything caught their attention . Shes like oh yea ! Got something for you . ( Now just a lil something , superfriendly to all the staff I buy alot of games and always do the surveys 10's across the board ) She Whips out A BF3 LE and two new guides I havent seen listed
Rachet and Clank All4One
Goldeneye Reloaded
Not too shabby... 3 guides two games all paid on GS credit . If only I didnt have a hillbilly amount of kids a great wife and was 10 yrs younger . Oh well Thanks for the guides made my day !
Rachet and Clank All4One
Goldeneye Reloaded
Not too shabby... 3 guides two games all paid on GS credit . If only I didnt have a hillbilly amount of kids a great wife and was 10 yrs younger . Oh well Thanks for the guides made my day !
#77
The Bus Guy
Posted 14 March 2012 - 08:40 PM
Guide Vixen Strikes Again . Went to pick up the kids from school and thought Id hit up the local GS . Let the kids take a peek and see if anything caught their attention . Shes like oh yea ! Got something for you . ( Now just a lil something , superfriendly to all the staff I buy alot of games and always do the surveys 10's across the board ) She Whips out A BF3 LE and two new guides I havent seen listed
Rachet and Clank All4One
Goldeneye Reloaded
Not too shabby... 3 guides two games all paid on GS credit . If only I didnt have a hillbilly amount of kids a great wife and was 10 yrs younger . Oh well Thanks for the guides made my day !
Alright I will add those to OP when we get a second confirmation.
I am surprised that Goldeneye is already pennied. Didn't it come out in November?
#86
Banned
Posted 15 March 2012 - 03:14 AM
:applause:Thanks for putting other peoples' feelings into song form, Strell. But you forgot the line about torches and pitchforks.
He's talking about Gamestop cuz BF3 CE pennied there and the others are all older drops.How... Where...?
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