Get Up To $35 Towards Madden NFL 15 By Trading in Madden NFL 25 at Best Buy 8/10-8/16

[mestevo]

Re: Get Up To $35 Towards Madden NFL 15 By Trading in Madden NFL 25 at Best Buy 8/10-

I apologize if I am totally clueless to the talk, but can anyone fill me in on the "digital" talk, I see you all speak of?

I bought 3 copies of M25, 2 digitally, that I can't trade in. Personally don't really care though, got my money's worth and the convenience is worth it.

[JaymeeAwesome]

Re: Madden trade in Best Buy 8/10 - 8/16

Already traded it in. smh

So this is essentially 35 bucks off Madden 15. How do they make any money?

EA gets their money because Best Buy buys the game at wholesale. They can then offer any deals to help lower the price of the game. The one thing Best Buy can't do is sell the game lower than retail cost at launch, so to increase sales and get people in their stores, they offer these deals. They are willing to take some small losses to get the foot traffic.

[oreo93]

Re: Get Up To $35 Towards Madden NFL 15 For Trading in Madden NFL 25 at Best Buy (8/1

You guys might want to clarify in the first post it's only up to $25 trade for 360 or PS3.

[michiganfan8620]

Re: Get Up To $35 Towards Madden NFL 15 By Trading in Madden NFL 25 at Best Buy 8/10-

I apologize if I am totally clueless to the talk, but can anyone fill me in on the "digital" talk, I see you all speak of?

Digital means you buy the game on the Playstation Store or Xbox Marketplace, and download it directly to your system. No disk is involved, the full game is just saved onto your Xbox and able to be played, similar to how demos work. Although due to trade-in offers like this one where you get $35 for trading in Madden 25, it is difficult to justify. If they made the price of the digital download less than a disc copy, then it would be interesting. I feel like it almost should be cheaper to buy the digital version since you aren't getting a disc, packaging, no cost of shipping it to a retailer, etc. I know discs and packaging are fairly cheap to produce, but the work of burning the game onto the disc, putting together the packaging, etc that is saved would at least equal a little bit of money. Added to that, I'm not sure what the wholesale price of the game is for retailers, but EA makes more money off the digital download anyway, since they get the entire $60 I believe (I don't think Microsoft or Sony gets royalties, but I'm not sure), not just the wholesale price.

[ODogg]

Re: Get Up To $35 Towards Madden NFL 15 By Trading in Madden NFL 25 at Best Buy 8/10-

Digital means you buy the game on the Playstation Store or Xbox Marketplace, and download it directly to your system. No disk is involved, the full game is just saved onto your Xbox and able to be played, similar to how demos work. Although due to trade-in offers like this one where you get $35 for trading in Madden 25, it is difficult to justify. If they made the price of the digital download less than a disc copy, then it would be interesting. I feel like it almost should be cheaper to buy the digital version since you aren't getting a disc, packaging, no cost of shipping it to a retailer, etc. I know discs and packaging are fairly cheap to produce, but the work of burning the game onto the disc, putting together the packaging, etc that is saved would at least equal a little bit of money. Added to that, I'm not sure what the wholesale price of the game is for retailers, but EA makes more money off the digital download anyway, since they get the entire $60 I believe (I don't think Microsoft or Sony gets royalties, but I'm not sure), not just the wholesale price.

You better believe Microsoft and Sony get their royalties off digital downloads, same exact royalties as store distribution.

[TreyIM2]

Whew. Glad I started getting into Madden 25 when the trade in price was $19 @ Best Buy, early June or so, because I almost traded it in. Took me a long time to really start playing it but next week, it goes in.

[Iceman87GT]

Does anyone know if this applies to the Ultimate Edition as well?

If it does I'll be cancelling my Gamestop Preorder (I only preordered from them because they had the free $15 of MUT content and now that it appears every store will offer that I will definitely go for the cheaper option).

It would be awesome if we could stack the trade-ins because I have the PS3 and PS4 versions of Madden 25.

[Unlucky 13]

Re: Madden trade in Best Buy 8/10 - 8/16

The PS3 copy of 25 is worth $25 off I believe. And with the PS4, keep an eye out in next week's target ad if you have one near you. I think I saw the target deal for buying a PS4 was $35 off 1 year of Playstation Plus (required for online play on PS4), whereas Best Buy is $10 off. Not sure what other places have. I also saw Sam's Club has PS4's at $350 right now as well.

Thank you, but I cant get broadband where I live, so that doesn't matter to me. I'll get it at Best Buy so I can use my credit card and get 18 months no interest.

[Retropyro]

This is why I cant go digital

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Meh, I sold M25, FIFA 15 & BF4 all for $30 each. Then I got that EA Access for $30 which just gave me those games again and I still have $60. Buy Madden 15 at retail and then sell it for $30 come next April/May and re-sub to EA Access and get M15 digital for free.

[friscob]

Re: Get Up To $35 Towards Madden NFL 15 By Trading in Madden NFL 25 at Best Buy 8/10-

Probably going to buy a copy of Xbox One madden 25 on ebay for like $12 and take it straight to Best Buy for my $35 towards M15.

[Hender3]

So I have Madden on Xbox 360.. Can I trade that in for anything? Im getting Madden 15 on ps4..

[reyes the roof]

Re: Get Up To $35 Towards Madden NFL 15 For Trading in Madden NFL 25 at Best Buy (8/1

Reward certificates aren't usually instant, are they? You won't be able to put that extra $10 towards Madden 15? I've got ~$55 or so banked so it doesn't matter, but just wanted to ask if others have taken advantage of similar offers.

The last sentence of this FAQ makes it seem like they won't be instant


Q3: What do I have to do to qualify for this offer?
A3: If you are an eligible My Best Buy member, pre-order your copy of any of the qualifying titles in either the standard version or special edition for PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS4 or PC prior to their release date. Then you must purchase and pick up your pre-order within 7 days of street date. Please provide your member number at the time of pre-order and pickup. When you meet these requirements, you will receive 500 bonus points credited to your account within 15 days of purchase or game shipment

[mestevo]

Re: Get Up To $35 Towards Madden NFL 15 For Trading in Madden NFL 25 at Best Buy (8/1

The last sentence of this FAQ makes it seem like they won't be instant


Q3: What do I have to do to qualify for this offer?
A3: If you are an eligible My Best Buy member, pre-order your copy of any of the qualifying titles in either the standard version or special edition for PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS4 or PC prior to their release date. Then you must purchase and pick up your pre-order within 7 days of street date. Please provide your member number at the time of pre-order and pickup. When you meet these requirements, you will receive 500 bonus points credited to your account within 15 days of purchase or game shipment

That's why I asked. There is typically a delay to prevent fraud and to try and encourage return business.

[Mauer4MVP]

Re: Madden trade in Best Buy 8/10 - 8/16

EA gets their money because Best Buy buys the game at wholesale. They can then offer any deals to help lower the price of the game. The one thing Best Buy can't do is sell the game lower than retail cost at launch, so to increase sales and get people in their stores, they offer these deals. They are willing to take some small losses to get the foot traffic.

No, I'm asking about Best Buy. I understand that companies make deals to get foot traffic, but it usually doesn't result in sacrificing margin to this extent. Just seems extreme and a better deal than I have ever seen before on a video game.

[mestevo]

Re: Get Up To $35 Towards Madden NFL 15 By Trading in Madden NFL 25 at Best Buy 8/10-

I don't see that at all, they'll resell many of the copies they receive and get repeat shoppers on other goods via the reward certificate. Good deal, sure, but it's not that unreal.