MugiwaraCole
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Mine not coming up. Is this not something you get automatically with the pro membership?
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GameStop has a 70% trade in deal right now..
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Mine not coming up. Is this not something you get automatically with the pro membership?
shungokusatsu
Member
Am I doing this wrong? Go buy a few copies of say the top 3 switch games from Best Buy for GCU discount, then flip them at GameStop?
Merchandise
Member
I did all my transactions on a separated trade credit card, not with my pro rewards card. Is there any way to get the awards points on my account now?
MugiwaraCole
Member
One option if you have the cash to spend. I didn't, so I did everything in store, using a few games I had laying around to get me started. Got lucky and had a few titles that are fetching high values right now, like Amazing Spidey 2.
Permanently A
Junior Member
The B2G1 is utterly ridiculous. I literally made $20 and 3 $60 PS4 games out of it. Insane.
Might try again tomorrow. If I had a car and more time this would have been my entire weekend, but overall my haul of $470 and 3 games is already incredible. Do you think they'll send a memo out tomorrow morning to shut it down?
Might try again tomorrow. If I had a car and more time this would have been my entire weekend, but overall my haul of $470 and 3 games is already incredible. Do you think they'll send a memo out tomorrow morning to shut it down?
panama chief
Member
Today turned out to be a lucrative day for not only myself, but two of my boys. I made it to the $2000 cap and during that time I financed their start up.
After 6 hours one of them is up $1000 and the other stopped at $578. $578 got a ps pro, a year of plus, and some b2g1 games.
Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
After 6 hours one of them is up $1000 and the other stopped at $578. $578 got a ps pro, a year of plus, and some b2g1 games.
Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
I don't recommend that. You'd basically gain like 10-15 dollars total and that's assuming you had at least 6 games to get the max trade in deal, else you'd probably lose.
And even so, you're trading cash for GameStop credit and it sounds like you have GCU, is GameStop credit worth more than a nearly equal amount of cash?
matrixman92
Member
But they scanned your card when they did the trades and purchases right? It shouldnt matter where the credit goes. As long as your account is connected to the transaction
Merchandise
Member
-guy pointing to his head meme-
An employee can check your recent transactions but it involves clicking through several windows. Sometimes they update right away while other times they will update the day after.
EroticSushi
Member
Anyone have a list of stuff to grab at GameStop for B2G1 flip?
nillapuddin
Member
Pray for me, i just sat in the car and opened my second haul from best buy. Only to realize the Gamestop had just closed 10 minutes ago. Fml.
If these prices drop by tmrw i might take a loss, fuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkk
Everywhere i went was cleaned the hell out today anyways I ended up with
Spiderman X/P, Shadow of Mordor X/P, Puyo Switch, Just Dance Wii, Lego Marvel 360
But now they are all just sitting unwrapped in my passenger seat, fuck.
If these prices drop by tmrw i might take a loss, fuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkk
Everywhere i went was cleaned the hell out today anyways I ended up with
Spiderman X/P, Shadow of Mordor X/P, Puyo Switch, Just Dance Wii, Lego Marvel 360
But now they are all just sitting unwrapped in my passenger seat, fuck.
fluffydelusions
Member
When I wanted to unload credit I bought up PSN cards and sold them in the buy/sell thread here for a bit of a discount.
7DollarHagane
Banned
PSN or Xbox or steam or Nintendo credit sold to the Buy sell trade thread at a discount.
But with the eBay $10 off $50 discount lately it might be hard to move for a while.
DeceptiveAlarm
Gold Member
How long has it been? Mine always takes a day or two to show up on the app.
BasedKiliK
Member
Opted for the Xbox. Model is a 2 TB Xbox One S with Halo 5, Titanfall 2, ESO, and Sunset Overdrive. Got $433 in credit and spent an additional $50 for Xbox Live.
I sold 19 3DS games, holy shit.
I sold 19 3DS games, holy shit.
fluffydelusions
Member
Would you say this is worth the hassle if I don't have GCU, not a gamestop pro member, and have no games to trade in?
Merchandise
Member
I had no idea if I was going to pull it off either this afternoon, lmao.
1. Trade in your old games. Try to get like $250 in credit from this. Use the trade in credit to immediately buy a Pro rewards membership in the same transaction. If you trade 6 or more games in, you get 70% extra credit total.
2. Use that credit to buy at least six used games (search this thread for the post with pictures of the best ones to buy aka the most expensive, or just look on GameStop's website). Remember to have them scan your pro rewards card.
3. Go to second store and trade those in / buy 6+ more, remembering pro rewards card.
4. Repeat steps 1-3
Captain Zyrain
Member
Wow fam.
That was so easy, it was ridiculous.
Hit up Target for a couple PvZ and Wii Just Dances to sweeten the pot.. got some Switch games from Best Buy then hit 3 Gamestops in a row with used games.
Think I'm sitting on about $950 in credit, $200 in Xbox cash and 3 3DS games I still need to flip. Wife made me come home to clean!
If this lasts till tomorrow I don't know if I'll be able to stop doing it at lunch!
Going to add up all the receipts and see what the total profit was after the start up games.
That was so easy, it was ridiculous.
Hit up Target for a couple PvZ and Wii Just Dances to sweeten the pot.. got some Switch games from Best Buy then hit 3 Gamestops in a row with used games.
Think I'm sitting on about $950 in credit, $200 in Xbox cash and 3 3DS games I still need to flip. Wife made me come home to clean!
If this lasts till tomorrow I don't know if I'll be able to stop doing it at lunch!
Going to add up all the receipts and see what the total profit was after the start up games.
Saren is Bad
Member
Trade values are likely to drop tomorrow, but I bet B2G1 flipping still works with the newer games
Merchandise
Member
If trade values drop, will it still be worth doing the whole thing, or will you just be getting net negative? Like, do pre-owned game prices drop along with the trade in values?
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Are you able to transfer the trade-in credit to Amazon credit?
//ARCANUM
Member
Nope. Register blocks. Just tried.
sensui-tomo
Member
Any way to find out how long the trade ban is or any way around it?
fluffydelusions
Member
Any of you guys sitting on stacks of gamestop credit looking to sell some steam cards on the super cheap?
Merchandise
Member
Explain the whole thing to your mom very slowly and ask her to make her own account? LOL
BasedKiliK
Member
Also guys, I heard from a clerk that this deal is actually getting extended by another week. So it may be worth your time to still take advantage of this.
Schucky Ducky
Banned
Wow, that's crazy. This deal must be doing well by them too then?
Captain Zyrain
Member
The B2G1 promo? The 20/40/60 promo was always set to end on the 9th.
BasedKiliK
Member
Considering the number of Pro member signups alone, I can imagine it's doing pretty damn well, yeah.
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
Dragonborn
Member
So, still got 900 or so in credit, 21 PS4 games (a lot of them recently released), a pro controller, Disgaea 5, and some Pokémon TCG cards... totally worth it
I can't believe gamestop allowed this I've gone to different ones and it seems no one else is really doing this trade in flipping
I can't believe gamestop allowed this I've gone to different ones and it seems no one else is really doing this trade in flipping
Merchandise
Member
That's what I was worried about, didn't want to have money associated with my name so decided to ask for the gift card.
DieAntwoord
Banned
Use your trade credit to buy a gift card then buy whatever you want
FUNKNOWN iXi
Member
Ahh, that's a shame. Thanks.
sensui-tomo
Member
Thanks, wish I checked this out earlier, I can still make purchases with the card mind you and use the credit in it. Again thanks for the answer unlike the smart ass some posts above. So I'm guessing I can't just get around with a new account.
Employees here generally put the credit on the card, never got asked if I wanted it on a gift card.
Nameless
Member
Would a ban also freeze your credit, or JUST stop you from adding to it with trades? Don't really care if its the latter, I rarely buy physical much less trade games in these days anyway.
//ARCANUM
Member
I have my trade in credit on a gamestop gift card. Their system won't allow you to buy Amazon credit with a gamestop gift card.
Or are you saying there's a difference between gamestop trade in gift card and a standard gamestop gift card?
babyshaq90
Member
Don't they already directly put it on the trade credit card? First time I have been back to Gamestop in a long time and they didn't ask for my wifes' powerup card to put the credit on there.
MugiwaraCole
Member
Did all my shit today, so that might be it.
Since this is still going tomorrow, could my girl theoretically take my phone number and use my membership to try and flip some more titles tomorrow? Just wondering if she could do this while I'm at work, we figured we'll take advantage as long as it's running, and she's not working lol
fluffydelusions
Member
bump anyone?
Only turned $288 of cash/credit into $446 today due to being in a hurry and only hearing about this like 3 hours ago lol. If it's still around tomorrow though and the trade values don't plummet then I'm planning on seeing how much I can get with that 446 across the ~7 or so local stores.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Also.. just a heads up. Toys R Us has $10 off $29 and $39 3DS games.
I had some credit there that I wanted to move, so I snagged some games and made money doing it.
I had some credit there that I wanted to move, so I snagged some games and made money doing it.
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