Every store in the bay I went to was clueless. Felt like I was the only one up to this lol.
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GameStop has a 70% trade in deal right now..
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You selling the phones somewhere?
I kinda want to do this to cash this credit out for real money.
Nameless
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I'd assume so. Hopefully the values hold. The closest GameStop to me has Mario Maker DS, Mario/Sonic Rio, and Pokemon Sun. I totally over looked the DS/Wii stuff earlier. In the unlikely event that they don't drop the hammer on this tomorrow, I'm trying to get at least two good 9-12 game transactions in.
GAF will be watching the Gamespot.com like the NASDAQ tomorrow.
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
Nah not a mistake. When in store today the employees kept telling people it's buy to get one free on ANYTHING pre owned. The floor guy was trying to see if a kid and his friends wanted three PS4s for the price of 2
The Strokes
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Does the offer continue to be of up to 70%? I'm taking a look at the website but it says only of up to 60%, unless I'm reading it wrong.
It stacks with the Pro 10%
matrixman92
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oh dear lord, a store by me just got multiple used copies of Tekken 7. Must fight the temptation
The Strokes
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Oh, I don't think I'm a Pro Member. So 60% for me I guess.
DieAntwoord
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Like I said, it was maybe just the emeryville store but that manager was a PITA to deal with just trying to buy.
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titiklabingapat
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Tried this for the first time today. Was able to turn my initial 200 investment from that Best Buy thread into 560. Not bad. Too about four hours total. All try again tomorrow. Already made a list of which store has has 3DD games.
Oh, and make sure to chekc inside the game cases for the console ones and make sure the envelop is gone. That was slightly embarrassing but I don't think the guy who helped me cared.
Oh, and make sure to chekc inside the game cases for the console ones and make sure the envelop is gone. That was slightly embarrassing but I don't think the guy who helped me cared.
Permanently A
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Forreal lol
The funniest part of this deal by far is that there's no product being cleared out or scalped - most of the games bought are just ending up in other stores, so you have a pretty solid chance of being able to execute this deal as long as you prepare carefully.
If your trade in goes over $160 you can get the Pro Membership for basically free it's $15 for the whole year and they will give you the 70% on that trade in.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Yeah that was nice. Used a $10 code earlier today.
Do you get more Pro points when you use your trade-in credit to buy games?!?
Yes... Extra $40 in points is icing on the cake.
EroticSushi
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Any other games to look out for besides these?
Best WiiU
Best Switch
Ahh bummer. I don't even think I ran into a manager today.
Alligatorjandro
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RayCharlizard
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Just sign up in store during your trade, they'll apply the extra 10% on the sale. It's only $15, pays for itself quickly in this promo.
lifeexpectancy
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Get pro at your first six game trade in when you start things off. The trade credit bump of 10% will make the pro free, and the pro will discount purchases and increase trades at all subsequent stores.
Quite possible yes. Lets say you buy six games for $180. You trade them in for $340. Now you have $160 on your gift card but $340 in total progress toward the 2k trade in limit. So now you huy six games again, leaving $160 on your card. You trade those in for $340. Your card now has $500 but you have traded in $680 in value. If you dont use the higher trade in value games, I could see hitting the $2000 trade in mark with only $1400 on the card. If you stuck to the higher stuff like the switch games, I would expect closer to $1700-1800 on the card(s) when you hit the $2k trade in limit, theoretically.
Indeed haha
So what you're saying is we all need to go back next week and start flipping phones too lol. This is absolutely hilarious. Were all recycling GS merchandise to nearby stores and making a massive profit.
The Strokes
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Thanks for the advice guys! Will proceed to do the pro sign up so it can stack to up to 70%.
Charles Alan Ratliff
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There are a few people I still want to thank for their help, and I will when I make my full post after I am done with everything, but I had one main question at the moment.
Is there a consensus on the best way to turn your trade-in credit into cash while either maintaining most of or increasing its value? Is it really buying used iPhones/iPads and selling them elsewhere afterward? I'll need to make a decision by the 4th and am trying to figure this out. It seems like that would be the way to make more cash than what you have as trade-in credit (since your third iPhone/iPad would be free under the B2G1 deal), right? Are the alternatives, which result in either a 1:1 transfer or getting less, involve either getting a Visa/Amazon gift card somehow or buying something like a bunch of $50 Steam cards and then selling them to people on NeoGAF for like $40 each?
Thank you.
Is there a consensus on the best way to turn your trade-in credit into cash while either maintaining most of or increasing its value? Is it really buying used iPhones/iPads and selling them elsewhere afterward? I'll need to make a decision by the 4th and am trying to figure this out. It seems like that would be the way to make more cash than what you have as trade-in credit (since your third iPhone/iPad would be free under the B2G1 deal), right? Are the alternatives, which result in either a 1:1 transfer or getting less, involve either getting a Visa/Amazon gift card somehow or buying something like a bunch of $50 Steam cards and then selling them to people on NeoGAF for like $40 each?
Thank you.
MikeE21286
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I haven't seen anyone successfully turn the credit (PUR or gift card) into Amazon credit yet.
Seems like consensus is to flip iphones/ipads with B2G1 to transfer the credit out of Gamestop, unless someone knows a way to get it into Amazon credit.
Seems like consensus is to flip iphones/ipads with B2G1 to transfer the credit out of Gamestop, unless someone knows a way to get it into Amazon credit.
Thanks for the exploitation. Yeah I don't think I maximized it. I went for some lower games like Prey, the PGA Tour, Overwatch. Not the most maximizing games but its what I could find at the time. I'm pretty happy with $1400 regardless. Only wanted to make $300 to get a Switch at the start of all this. lol
Good luck to the rest of y'all though. Just remember that some states doesn't charge tax on purchases make it store credit. So you can make a big purchase at gamestop and not have to worry about tax. Florida is one of those states.
lifeexpectancy
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I was lazy so several of my $300 trades were only a net gain of $100. But it just depends on how they calculate how much trade in youve done. If it is only calculated on the base trade in value then you shouldnt max out too fast. If it includes the 70% bonus value, then I probably should have already maxed out at 2k even though mt gift cards sre only at $1100.
BeardyChan
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Trade cards are designed to stop the purchase of several types of prepaid cards. If you move the money over to a giftcard it should work from my understanding. Sadly employee's are trained to think of this as a hostile threat to their store because you are taking the money away from the store. It's stupid, but the more they try to turn the employee's against us the more I don't want to give them any business. The hostility and personal offense some of these employee's give off is not acceptable.
Time to start doing some surveys.
They're probably not counting the 70%. Cause I did about 7 trades. and each of those was at least $300-400 per trade in. So I could see how I hit the $2000 wall so fast despite only making $1400. Damn this is like an RPG, you can maximize your profit (character's stats) if you plan carefully with a little luck lol
kingofthedead45
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Had quite a few flippers come in today lol. It was hilarious to see multiple copies of pvzgw2 and shadow of mordor and me saying something along the lines of "so you got em at best buy huh?" The looks of horror and shock I got from the customers when they realized I knew exactly what they were doing was too funny. Especially when they came in acting like they owned the games, or the classic I got these as gifts lines. Of course I was just teasing most of them, was never going to deny any trades(I'm not seeing any issues with it as there's no policy being broken, so more power to yall) but it was still funny nonetheless.
Also you know,putting a little thought into this whole thing, doesn't gamestop kind of come out on top here? You guys are buying product at other retailers at new(low) price, then flipping it at gamestop, WHICH, provides gamestop with stock of now pre owned games(where gamestop maximizes their profit) and you the customer who spent actual us currency on the product now leave the store with gamestop credit, which requires you to spend your money at gamestop. Meaning you have to come back, to potentially spend more then you got initially. So is "gamestop" really gonna be that mad here? This applies to the folks not buying and reselling gamestop product, I guess that's a bit different.
Also you know,putting a little thought into this whole thing, doesn't gamestop kind of come out on top here? You guys are buying product at other retailers at new(low) price, then flipping it at gamestop, WHICH, provides gamestop with stock of now pre owned games(where gamestop maximizes their profit) and you the customer who spent actual us currency on the product now leave the store with gamestop credit, which requires you to spend your money at gamestop. Meaning you have to come back, to potentially spend more then you got initially. So is "gamestop" really gonna be that mad here? This applies to the folks not buying and reselling gamestop product, I guess that's a bit different.
I think I spent only about $45 out of my own pockets on games at BB to trade in. That's like 3 games. The rest of the profit came from the B2G1 free promotion. So if more people did it that way, I dont think GameStop will come out on top. Cause all we did was shifted inventory
around the area while gaining profit for ourselves
thetruth1983
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It's not a mistake. I ordered a PSVR and a PS4 and then got another PS4 for free.
titiklabingapat
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How long does the B2G1 free last until?
And where are you guys ordering the iphones? It says unavailable online.
And where are you guys ordering the iphones? It says unavailable online.
Fachasaurus
Member
They might be coming on top. On top of copies of Shadow Of Mordor and Garden Warfare.
I can't imagine the GS headquarters are pleased with what's going on. Granted its probably a drop in the bucket. But sure someone at corporate is gonna take a lesson from all this!
DieAntwoord
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July 4th
Adam Prime
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Good post man! So tell us, can GameStop look at a customer's buying/selling history at the time of purchase and notice that they're buying/reselling the same games?
DieAntwoord
Banned
Anyone wanna trade 88 in GameStop credit 60 in steam?
The Strokes
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Guys, sorry if I ask a lot of questions but this is the last one.
This promotion is only for trade credit, right? Doesn't apply to cash, right?
Thanks
This promotion is only for trade credit, right? Doesn't apply to cash, right?
Thanks
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
Right
BeardyChan
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It's gotta be by design especially the EA games. It's an accounting game for sure when it comes to Gamestop saying they have X of one of those publishers games that they didn't move NEW that they lost money on and now have X used copies because contract date has expired. Especially for those games that are on Gamepass or EA access. It's all fuzzy accounting so Gamestop can get a credit from the publishers that maximizes their sustainability and losses. I don't think they could without a huge dent carry all of the games they do if it weren't for such tricks. So having high values on those games comes off as highly suspicious to me.
titiklabingapat
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His point is that we still have to spend it at Gamestop regardless and that creates foot traffic.. Foot traffic is valuable since more often than not, most people really do buy more than what they usually planned, even if the initial plan was to just check things out. Plus Gamestop get to pitch you more stuff. For example, I actually pre-ordered Mario Odyssey even though I had no plans of ever pre-ordering that one yet.
Plus that individual store still counts it as a sale and a trade-in so it's gotta pad the accounting part as well.
kingofthedead45
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Yup, we at the associate level can even see that lol. We can see you 5 most recent purchases if we really want to.
For what it's worth we got a bolo(be on the look out) email about people buying and reselling Pokemon games at the same store. It wasn't a corporate email, it was at the region level, and the email was funny cause it basically said "we don't know why these people just turned around and traded these games but please keep an eye out, it also had the transaction log of the customer and all that, but again even in that case the trade wasn't denied, cause again no policy is being broken, but if you wanna avoid an email being sent out about you, don't buy and sell at the same store.
Takeru
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What Adam Prime said.
But the great thing is that you can also use your GS Credit on Amazon.
kingofthedead45
Member
You can use tc to buy steam cards at gs.
titiklabingapat
Member
Do you guys get emails about scalpers too?
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
I was told today by an employee that you can transfer your Trade-In Credit > GameStop Credit
Then go another store: GameStop Credit > VISA/Amazon
You just can't do that all in the same transaction/same store because the policy is not to allow Trade-In Credit for Visa/Amazon.
Mihael Mello Keehl
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Best and most positive Gamestop thread ever
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