so i'm probably good on buying video games this year (exception: Madden 12, Gears of War 3, Uncharted 3, Call of Duty: MW3)
lemme start by telling you what i got in the past week:
LA Noire
Mortal Kombat
NBA2k11
Crackdown 2
Vanquish
Dante's Inferno
Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands
and i renewed my gamestop pro membership
in the same order this is the full retail current value :
$60 (new)
$60 (new)
$40 (new)
$18 (used) $20 (new)
$18 (used) $20 (new)
$18 (used) $20 (new)
$18 (used) $20 (new)
$15
~ $250
what did i spend?
...
$100 !!
how'd i do it? ok well some of it can still be done some of it can't due to expired sales and what not. nonetheless, this is what happened:
i bought LA Noire at best buy full price $60. i'm not in the habit of paying full price anymore so i didn't open it for 3 weeks thinking i might return it (busy playing other games anyway)
saw the amazon sale for $45... so was gonna return and get the amazon one. so i ordered it, and noticed NBA2k11 on sale for $28 and got that too. you never pay taxes and shipping was free so that's always a plus ordering from amazon.
so you can keep up, at this point: i've bought LA Noire twice, $60 and $45. NBA2k11, $28.
i brought the copy i already had of LA Noire to gamestop... told them i got it as a gift and wanted to exchange it for store credit. they're "technically" not supposed to do it. but it doesn't really hurt the company. it's not like they don't sell the game. and it wasn't opened. but i didn't call ahead cuz they'll just say no.
i went to one gamestop, got shot down. figured i'll try one more before i end up returning it to best buy. the guy was nice and said he'd do it if i exchanged it today, and could not give me store credit to take with me, like a gift card or something.
so i did, i got Prince of Persia, Dante's, Crackdown2, and Vanquish, AND renewed my gamestop pro membership...
i did all this because i get 10% off all pre-owned games with the pro membership, and there was a buy 2 pre-owned games get 1 free deal last weekend. i ended up with about a $66 balance. so i had the $63 credit from the LA Noire, and paid about $3 out of pocket.
next, i found out Best Buy was having a sale for LA Noire this week (still ongoing) for $40. i brought my receipt in for price adjustment, they didn't even need me to bring the game in...
so already, i turned a $40 purchase, into a $60 purchase... and got all that stuff from gamestop for it.
this is where it gets a lil hairy. Toys R Us had a misprint in their weekly ad... 2 games for $50. games like LA Noire, Mortal Kombat, Brink, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Fear 3. all new games. all $60 full retail.
the ad meant to say buy 2 of these games and get a $50 gift card. but they messed up. so by the time i found out about it, Toys R Us had caught on and pulled the deal from the website, and pulled the ads from their stores. i dug around online till i found a pdf of the ad, and took it to walmart for a price match...
it took a lil bit of nudging and waiting around, and they were hesitant... but they did it. so i got LA Noire again! for $25, and this is where i picked up Mortal Kombat for $25. can't beat that.
so now i have another extra copy of LA Noire, no more other games i want right now. so i took the extra copy to target for $60 store credit for groceries and what not.
hard to follow i'm sure. in the end i spent exactly $166 with $60 in store credit to target, or $106 if you want to count the credit as cash. if anyone cares here's the breakdown:
(here's the link to the pdf for the Toys R Us ad if anyone else wants to try for a price match:)
the $106 is from -- best buy
gamestop $3 -- spent $60 worth of store credit
so here, i spent $40 at best buy, got $60 worth at gamestop...
in the end i spent $43 at this point
amazon
so at this point i've spent $71, but if you count the store credit, then it's $56
walmart $50
which totals to $106...
still winning
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