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Best Buy Gamers Club Unlocked for FREE with purchase of $15 prepaid phone this week.
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So will it be properly restored soon without any changes?
Goto your account, click on rewards -> overview.
I did the $30 with a game, the $15 with the phone and the $7 with an activation pack and ended up with
Oct. 24, 2020
Club Benefits
I feel like I need to do this, even though I don't think Best Buy will exist by then.
Nathan_Drake
Member
Just got the welcome package with coupons in email. Pretty bad coupons. 50% off strategy guide, buy 2 get 1 free used game, and save 10% on digital gaming purchase. But I didnt expect anything anyways
I mean, with $5-7 for 2 years it'll pay for itself just with games I buy this year. So say they go out of business in 2020(guess, I hope not) I'll still have 5+ years where I got 20% off? Not to mention the plenty glitches that the BB website has that GCU usually stacks with. Seems like a no brainer.
Prolly make 1 more trip tomorrow to add it til 2030-2032.
YuriLowell
Member
So can I price match targets buy2get1 free at best buy next week?
I think I'm going to chance it and do the activation card and at least take me to 2022. That way I will have gamers club for the rest of the ps4's life and I also have almost enough 1 year playstation plus cards to last that long as well. So I am covered for a generation that just begun. lol
Yeah I'm at 2020 now, but I think I need to go back at least once more and double down. Can't resist.
Even if I am unsure the next consoles will have disks.
Speedwagon
Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Yabuki turned off voice chat in Mario Kart races. True artists of their time.
Yeah, but it won't stack with the 20% off GCU.
It'll be worth it for the going-out-of-business deals.
I really hope Best Buy has one soon. There's enough I want damn it.
Damn, I don't know how you guys are buying this for 10-12 years. Are you sure you're even going to be interested in video games that far down the line? Life can change A LOT in that amount of time.
Or what if an even better competitor comes along, or there is no more physical media? Just seems like a waste IMO.
Or what if an even better competitor comes along, or there is no more physical media? Just seems like a waste IMO.
I've been interested in video games for 27 of my 29 years now. That isn't going to change.
I need to buy 1 game in a 2 year span for this to be worth it.
It's $7, it's worth rolling the dice on "life changing".
For 35~ dollars now you're getting 20 percent off new games and 10 percent off used games plus bonus trade in value for 10 years. You buy 3 new games and you've already paid it off and now every extra purchase is just money saved. Unless you plan to buy 2 games in 10 years then even if you stop gaming a few years down the line you still come out ahead.
It is so cheap tho, you would be knocking yourself if you didn't for $5.
Jailer of Hope
Member
It's low risk. It'll pay for itself for most people by the end of the year.
NegativeCero
Banned
Are you able to buy the phone for $15, the card for $6 in separate transactions at the same BB for the extensions each time? Somehow I feel like they wouldn't go for it.
I bought two activation cards at once, I just made sure the employee rang up the GCU card twice before I gave her the Net10 cards to scan. Worked like a charm, she didn't even bat an eye.
SanguineShark
Member
The fact they STILL have yet to shut this deal down after people are price matching 5 dollar phones, makes me consider what I thought was previously unlikely, that they're going to nerf Gamers Club sometime in the future.
Not immediately, but can they afford to give discounts to ALL these people for new games?
Not immediately, but can they afford to give discounts to ALL these people for new games?
Glad to hear that worked.
I checked a Best Buy on the way in and they had zero GCU cards on the racks and the employee I asked about it acted super weird when I asked if they had any left.
Jailer of Hope
Member
If it gets people to shop at Best Buy it could be good for them. I pretty much stopped getting my games at Amazon ever since I became a member earlier this year.
SwiftDeath
Member
Part of the small print on the back of GCU cards and on the site for GCU specifies the 20% off on all new game software. There is no wiggle room to try and get out of that
What I'm more curious about is if Best Buy ever wanted to stop GCU, what would happen to those with long memberships? I assume we would still get the benefits because they promised us that legally but no new members could join and memberships couldn't be extended
cancerdancer
Member
Best Buy's GCU has a limit of 3 games per platform per year. Unless someone else has found anything otherwise, this is from a Best Buy rep on CAG: https://www.cheapassgamer.com/topic/334126-best-buy-ups-gcu-limits-to-3-per-platform/
Yeah, the lady was super confused when I asked to extend my GCU subscription. There were no cards on the rack and she had to ask on the radio what to do. Once she found a card I essentially told her what to do, haha. Never got no beef for it though!
It's limited to 3 copies of the same game, per platform, per year. You're allowed to get more than 3 games per platform just as long as it's different games
superpickleman
Member
The wording is strange but I think they mean 3 of the same game per platform per year.
edit: I thought so.
Yeah, it's 3 of the same game per platform, per year. That Best Buy rep even says so in that post.
"For clarity, when we say per platform, were referring to each console. For example, you could purchase three copies of any given title on Xbox One. Then, you could purchase three more copies of that title on PlayStation 4."
TheAngryMonkey
Member
I did the Net10 activation kit thing today and it works perfectly. Came to about $7.50 USD.
cancerdancer
Member
My bad. Carry on pillaging Best Buy
Jailer of Hope
Member
Not as often as Target but yes. Sometimes they'll have platform specific deals. A few months ago they had a B1G1 for 3DS games and GCU absolutely did stack with that.
moltonasty
Member
Why does everyone think best buy is going out of business? Secret insiders on gaf all over the damn place.
Yeah, they stack.
JetBlackPanda
Member
makes sense.
Conor_Fool
Banned
Does anyone know if you can get a $10 rewards certificate for preordering with each of those purchases? Like say I preordered and proceeded to buy 3 copies of GTA 5 for XBone and preorder and purchase 3 copies of GTA 5 for PS4. Would I receive $60 in coupons or only $10 per platform (so $20 total)?
I'm asking because if it is the former, I can just sell 5 games on Craigslist for ~$50 sealed and the 6th copy would basically pay for itself.
SwiftDeath
Member
From here
I don't believe it's platform agnostic either in this promotion. IE you buy GTAV once for PS4 and once for XB1 and you'd still only receive $10 in reward certificates
she did mention having a little brother and it's not a terrible idea if you have siblings/nephews/nieces etc that game. 20% off for gifts plus an employee discount
um, guys, how long does it take to update your account online after purchase? I JUST came back from the store and had quite an adventure and from that I learned I'm never doing this sale again this week. I tried to do the sim card and that didn't work even though the computer had the card go down to zero after the sim card was scanned (but no, they dont want to listen to their own computers). Luckily, I still got a $14.99 phone so 4 years for $30 when this deal was originally this card for $30 IF you bought a $40 game, right? Anyway, my site still says I'm at 2020 when I should be at 2022 now (at least my date is showing up at all unlike some people here). Does it matter that I used the gamers club unlocked code I used l got last time to extend my years? BTW, the cashier would NOT give me my gamers club card back when they let me walk out with it last time (thats kind of rude and telling me they are fed up with this deal right about now). Anyway, my best buy is filled with new employees so I'm not even attempting to do this deal again I just wanted to secure my membership through this generation BUT I WANT WHAT I PAYED FOR TO SHOW UP IN MY ACCOUNT! Especially when I didn't fully rip them off because I bought the $15 phones with no pricematch.
Can someone answer my question above. If I reused a old gamers club unlock card would that still reup my years? Because I'm still at 2020 right now when I should be at 2022.
Also I'm done with this deal. Too much hassle and confusion at my best buy. $30 for 4 years. I think I'm just gonna quit while I'm ahead.
Also I'm done with this deal. Too much hassle and confusion at my best buy. $30 for 4 years. I think I'm just gonna quit while I'm ahead.
I know right? Bestbuy is the best place for gamers compared to Amazon and GameStop because of GCU's 20% off games. They even price match on the bloody spot and give out $10 certificate on certain preorders.
SwiftDeath
Member
Same GCU card should work fine. They all have the same bar code number on the back so it's irrelevant if you use one or the other