Official Gaming Deals Thread

[Blzer]

^ That may be true, but it also might be the same as cancelling. I know some stores only hold onto your reserved copy for so long before releasing it for the public, which makes me assume they also would cancel the pre-order (possibly nullifying the promotion) and refund your money. I know in-store pickup is done that way. Perhaps pre-orders have a different system entirely.

[countryboy]

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^ That may be true, but it also might be the same as cancelling. I know some stores only hold onto your reserved copy for so long before releasing it for the public, which makes me assume they also would cancel the pre-order (possibly nullifying the promotion) and refund your money. I know in-store pickup is done that way. Perhaps pre-orders have a different system entirely.

How do they nullify the promotion?

You pre-order a game for $1 and then receive 30% a purchase. If you pre-order COD which comes out in November and then pick up say Crash Bandicoot and get 30% off, when November rolls around and you don't pick up COD, they aren't going to then send you an invoice for the money saved on Crash Bandicoot.

[ODogg]

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How do they nullify the promotion?

You pre-order a game for $1 and then receive 30% a purchase. If you pre-order COD which comes out in November and then pick up say Crash Bandicoot and get 30% off, when November rolls around and you don't pick up COD, they aren't going to then send you an invoice for the money saved on Crash Bandicoot.

Yeah you really only have to worry about something like that when it is a future purchase. There's nothing they can do if they give you the discount right then.

[Blzer]

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How do they nullify the promotion?

You pre-order a game for $1 and then receive 30% a purchase. If you pre-order COD which comes out in November and then pick up say Crash Bandicoot and get 30% off, when November rolls around and you don't pick up COD, they aren't going to then send you an invoice for the money saved on Crash Bandicoot.

I don't know if that's true or not. Here's another example:

Say I go after a B2G1F deal at Best Buy, and I order everything online (let's ignore GCU and taxes). Two games will be listed at $60, and one game will be $0. Now let's say I mark two items to ship (one of them being the free game) and one to pick up in-store. The two items ship to me, and I choose to not pick up the third item. Maybe two weeks later or so, they would cancel that item.

Now, do you believe that I will be able to keep those two games for only $60 total? Or do you think that after they cancel the other item, they will hike up my free game's price to $60 and charge me a total of $120? If it's the former, I'm going to take advantage of that more often... but I believe that the latter would happen.

[ODogg]

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I don't know if that's true or not. Here's another example:

Say I go after a B2G1F deal at Best Buy, and I order everything online (let's ignore GCU and taxes). Two games will be listed at $60, and one game will be $0. Now let's say I mark two items to ship (one of them being the free game) and one to pick up in-store. The two items ship to me, and I choose to not pick up the third item. Maybe two weeks later or so, they would cancel that item.

Now, do you believe that I will be able to keep those two games for only $60 total? Or do you think that after they cancel the other item, they will hike up my free game's price to $60 and charge me a total of $120? If it's the former, I'm going to take advantage of that more often... but I believe that the latter would happen.

Once the sale is completed they, by law, cannot go back in and cancel and change the price of something and then charge you again. That'd get them in trouble fast.

[countryboy]

Official Gaming Deals Thread

I don't know if that's true or not. Here's another example:

Say I go after a B2G1F deal at Best Buy, and I order everything online (let's ignore GCU and taxes). Two games will be listed at $60, and one game will be $0. Now let's say I mark two items to ship (one of them being the free game) and one to pick up in-store. The two items ship to me, and I choose to not pick up the third item. Maybe two weeks later or so, they would cancel that item.

Now, do you believe that I will be able to keep those two games for only $60 total? Or do you think that after they cancel the other item, they will hike up my free game's price to $60 and charge me a total of $120? If it's the former, I'm going to take advantage of that more often... but I believe that the latter would happen.

If you order online you pay in advance so they would already have the $120 for the two games. So whether you pick up the other game or not wouldn't matter.

If you go into the store in your scenario you would pay the $120 for the two games. If you try to return one of the games you paid for to get your $60 back, they will make you bring in all 3 games and basically "void" the entire transaction, and start over.


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[CubFan23]

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But if you don't pick it up they refund you the money for that game after 2 weeks I think

[countryboy]

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But if you don't pick it up they refund you the money for that game after 2 weeks I think

I'm sure they won't refund a game that's part of a B2G1F promotion.

But the discussion on that is moot because when you buy online you pay for merchandise before they ship or allow store pickup


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[jb12780]

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I see Amazon has gotten slick and only lets you pre-order digital versions of games now. Can't get 20 percent savings on those.

[Armor and Sword]

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I see Amazon has gotten slick and only lets you pre-order digital versions of games now. Can't get 20 percent savings on those.

No. I have been able to pre-order disc games still and get my 20% off.

What makes you say that?

[jb12780]

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No. I have been able to pre-order disc games still and get my 20% off.

What makes you say that?

I went to price out Madden this morning and only the digital version was available to pre-order. I had to double check to make sure my Prime membership was still active.

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[Quint75]

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Anyone else teed off at Amazon's policy of no longer offering up physical (disc) copies of new releases? The only way to pre-order games (Madden, Ark Survival, etc.) is digital only. Those games are full price, even as a Prime member. Prime members get 20% off on physical copies.

I e-mailed Amazon and complained about this a few weeks ago and they assured me this was a mistake that would be remedied. Nothing changed. A second e-mail sent a couple of days again went unanswered. So now I am gonna have to re-up with Best Buy's gamer club if I want my usual 20% off, which is gonna cost me an additional $30 to join. Very dissatisfied with Amazon now.


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[Aggies7]

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I believe some physical games are still offered for the 20% pre order. But not all of them. Appears all EA games are no longer offered, but I believe Far Cry 5 is still one of them being offered. Unless that changed since earlier this week


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[jb12780]

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I believe some physical games are still offered for the 20% pre order. But not all of them. Appears all EA games are no longer offered, but I believe Far Cry 5 is still one of them being offered. Unless that changed since earlier this week


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I didn't see 2k available physical either.

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[Quint75]

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It's ridiculous. Seems like they simply don't want to offer the 20% off deal anymore on the vast majority of games. I think the original reaction to make the games 20% off in the first place was in response to the Best Buy Gamers Club.


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