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Here's a thread where you can share the latest and greatest in video game sales and bargains with your fellow hypsters. This isn't an eBay links thread so don't bother posting those here. If it's a sale, price drop, bargain bin find or whatever, then this is the thread to post it in.
I'll start us off with this week's big sale: this week, Toys R Us is having their "buy two and the third is free" sale. The sale is valid on all games (with a similar sale for accessories), and if the games aren't the same price then the cheapest one is free. There are a variety of ways that you can take advantage of this sale beyond just getting 3 games for $120, and I'll share with you the one I used since I didn't want to spend more than $90.
Go to Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy or any of those big box game retailers that allow exchanges on unopened merchandise without a receipt. See what games they are offering for $30 and take note, because you can only exchange games with no receipt if they're in the store's data system. Afterwards, go to Toys R Us and pick a $60 game you want, plus two $30 games that you can also find at one of the aforementioned big box stores. Keep the $60 game, and then bring in the 2 $30 games to a big box store and exchange them for in-store credit. Now you'll have a $60 gift card that you're free to use on any in-store merchandise you want, so by doing this you can essentially get any two $60 games for $45 each and save yourself $30. I took advantage of this and picked up Batman: Arkham Asylum and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 today, and now I am happy.
If you're going to do this, just make sure to take note of what kind of price differences there are between the other stores and Toys R Us. After all, you don't want to accidentally pick a game that's worth $30 at Toys R Us and then then only get $20 credit for it at Target! This little strategy also works fine if you want to buy 3 $60 games at Toys R Us but they don't have the ones you want. Just pick whatever new $60 games are available, and exchange them at another store for $180 of in-store credit.
I'll start us off with this week's big sale: this week, Toys R Us is having their "buy two and the third is free" sale. The sale is valid on all games (with a similar sale for accessories), and if the games aren't the same price then the cheapest one is free. There are a variety of ways that you can take advantage of this sale beyond just getting 3 games for $120, and I'll share with you the one I used since I didn't want to spend more than $90.
Go to Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy or any of those big box game retailers that allow exchanges on unopened merchandise without a receipt. See what games they are offering for $30 and take note, because you can only exchange games with no receipt if they're in the store's data system. Afterwards, go to Toys R Us and pick a $60 game you want, plus two $30 games that you can also find at one of the aforementioned big box stores. Keep the $60 game, and then bring in the 2 $30 games to a big box store and exchange them for in-store credit. Now you'll have a $60 gift card that you're free to use on any in-store merchandise you want, so by doing this you can essentially get any two $60 games for $45 each and save yourself $30. I took advantage of this and picked up Batman: Arkham Asylum and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 today, and now I am happy.
If you're going to do this, just make sure to take note of what kind of price differences there are between the other stores and Toys R Us. After all, you don't want to accidentally pick a game that's worth $30 at Toys R Us and then then only get $20 credit for it at Target! This little strategy also works fine if you want to buy 3 $60 games at Toys R Us but they don't have the ones you want. Just pick whatever new $60 games are available, and exchange them at another store for $180 of in-store credit.
