The 2024 Gamestop Thread

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GS FAQ

Where is the weekly ad?
They ended the weekly ad for more rotation of deals. Please check the homepage and deal link for the current deals.

I can't find a trade in value for an item?
It might not be tradable or calling a store to find the value may be the only option.

How many copies of a game can I trade in?
You are allowed to trade in 4 copies of the same game (same system) within a rolling 30 day period.

Are there trade limits?
Yes, $500 cash minus some electronic trade ins and or $2000 trade credit in a rolling 30 day period.

Where is the weekly ad?
They ended the weekly ad for more rotation of deals in a period.


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Can I use the $5 monthly coupon on gift cards?

Yes you can in store but not online please note not all gift cards will apply to this rule.

I have a $XX.xx pre-owned reward certificate, and I want to use it on a B2G1 transaction. Should I?
It depends. If the three games are equal value, do not use your certificate. The value of the certificate would be applied to the free game, which would not benefit you. If one game is more expensive, you can use the certificate to make it the same value as the other two games ($5 reward certificate applied to transaction with two $10 games and one $15 game would make all three games $10).


TERMINOLOGY AND LINGO:
ASL/SL: Assistant Store Leader, Store Leader; manager positions at GS.
B2G1: Buy two, get one free.
GS: GameStop
JD: Junior detective, an employee who is out to get someone
LP: Loss Prevention; this is the department that actually bans accounts after being flagged.
TC/TiC: Trade credit.
TIV/TV: Trade in value, or what a game currently trades for. When posting a TV for a game, always use the base value.
 
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intelligentidiot said:
I'm seeing a number of mentions of stores closing with somewhat short notice this month. I imagine it's leases expiring. One store in MN in West St Paul closed earlier this month. I find it interesting since it was one of the retro designated stores.
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Bummer, I didn’t get there often but that store always had a great selection.
 
Z-r0 said:
The Fortnite bundle is super disappointing but the price is decent. Thank you for posting that link.
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If anyone ends up getting the Fortnite bundle, hit me up. I'm interested in the code.

By thew way I lost my original account. Name - Dahk

It was tied to a very old work email that I no longer have. If anyone can assist with getting my old account back, that would be great.
 
whitereflection said:
That's almost a year old. It's not going to have anything that has closed within the last six months, nor this upcoming February, which is when more leases are set to expire.
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Up until a month or so ago YTD for 2024 was 77 or something close to that. Now it’s at 134. So it’s not a year old. I think that’s just the date they started the list for 2024. It’s absolutely getting updated as locations close.
 
DahkX said:
If anyone ends up getting the Fortnite bundle, hit me up. I'm interested in the code.

By thew way I lost my original account. Name - Dahk

It was tied to a very old work email that I no longer have. If anyone can assist with getting my old account back, that would be great.
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You could try messaging Cheapy, he was able to help me recover my account after the new site went live.
 
i know the amiibo have been showing up in search results before now, but on the trading page there is a separate category just for amiibos now.
 
I went into a store today to renew my membership and was informed I had no points in my account. Dude told me there was nothing he can do and usually it takes 45 days for the points to disappear so I called customer service and was told I would get a call back sometime today. Nothing yet. I have called back 2 times and get told the same automated message that it will be longer than 5 minutes and I will get a call back.
 
Oh wow. One of my go to GameStops closed. I hadn't been there in a while and was thinking of stopping by yesterday but didn't. Sad to see it's closed. Hopefully the other ones near me stay open.
 
Freeze Time said:
I went into a store today to renew my membership and was informed I had no points in my account. Dude told me there was nothing he can do and usually it takes 45 days for the points to disappear so I called customer service and was told I would get a call back sometime today. Nothing yet. I have called back 2 times and get told the same automated message that it will be longer than 5 minutes and I will get a call back.
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You should've cashed in as previously advised or renewed beforehand since you were committed \_(ツ)_/¯
 
Romeo said:
Here’s a crazy one. And of course GameStop phone customer support is atrocious, as most companies are today.

i ordered metaphor collectors edition for PS5, shipped from GameStop.com. It arrived with padding and in a large box, NOT damaged from shipping. Well guess what was damaged…. the actual game itself. How so? Some employee intentionally took a box cutter and slashed about 15cm through the game CE itself. Probably happened from opening the manufacturer shipping box to their warehouse.

I contacted support who told me to just return it if I don’t want it. I asked for an exchange and they essentially told me to go F myself or go to a store location and have them fix it. I insisted a store has nothing to do with this as it’s a shipping issue yet it fell on deaf ears.
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That's some BS. You clearly didn't do this and as a company they failed
 
Romeo said:
Here’s a crazy one. And of course GameStop phone customer support is atrocious, as most companies are today.

i ordered metaphor collectors edition for PS5, shipped from GameStop.com. It arrived with padding and in a large box, NOT damaged from shipping. Well guess what was damaged…. the actual game itself. How so? Some employee intentionally took a box cutter and slashed about 15cm through the game CE itself. Probably happened from opening the manufacturer shipping box to their warehouse.

I contacted support who told me to just return it if I don’t want it. I asked for an exchange and they essentially told me to go F myself or go to a store location and have them fix it. I insisted a store has nothing to do with this as it’s a shipping issue yet it fell on deaf ears.
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The only other scenario when GPG would've been actually useful. Less you wanna risk compromising your account, I would file a chargeback as a last resort of course.
 
PS5 disc system trade value dropped from Up to $302.50 to Up to $291.50. Switch systems and PlayStation controller values dropped further as well.
 
FYI20XX said:
It's okay! HOPE will get us thru, just keep on believing! $410 TIV was so GOOD tho.
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I’m playing castlevania on my PS4 with $410 in my pocket waiting for the next good sale on the regular PS5 or the Pro. I could already get a new PS5 for equivalent at least, and the discounts are just going to keep getting better. No regrets, I can be patient. Castlevania collection would have been no better on a PS5. I know we are talking about GameStop here, you never know what kinda mistake they could come up with to lose money next, but anyone holding out for better than $410, for what was now going to become the old model, the odds are not in your favor.
 
ritchardf said:
wow, mwt live and nobody talking about it, this place is dead. i guess it makes sense, even with the boost mario odyssey is only $18 base. mario 3d all stars $45 base, some newer stuff (dragon ball games? silent hill 2) up to $35 base.
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I did notice the boosts, but I didn't get an email, so I honestly didn't connect the dots lol
 
Starting to wonder if I should go ahead and trade in my extra copy of Breath of the Wild. I found a special edition at a pawn shop for $20, so I got it knowing I could get at least that much for my regular copy of the game. But $19.80 is the highest it's been in a while now.
 
I mean we’re about a month away from Black Friday. GameStop probably knows which Switch games they’ll be allowed to put on sale for $30 this year. So they are cutting values on those ahead of time. Breath of the Wild seems to always make that list.
 
Weak bumps this weekend. But since I had a +30% offer expiring 11/2 my guess is that this weekend will be the best time to trade before expiry. I can confirm that scanning the barcode of the offer worked on a trade done on my active pro account, even though the offer was originally sent to a different, expired account.
 
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traded in some old worthless stuff and a couple bumped items, guy was so slow. He would stop and look at the computer after he scanned every single item. then he told me this was his third day on the job, and he was by himself. He didn't know how to add a preorder to the transaction and tried to get me to swipe my card before he did (would have lost about $40 if i did). i told him just to put it on a card because i didn't trust him to add it to my remaining balance on my ps5 pro preorder. I can't imagine why gamestop is failing so hard.
 
ritchardf said:
traded in some old worthless stuff and a couple bumped items, guy was so slow. He would stop and look at the computer after he scanned every single item. then he told me this was his third day on the job, and he was by himself. He didn't know how to add a preorder to the transaction and tried to get me to swipe my card before he did (would have lost about $40 if i did). i told him just to put it on a card because i didn't trust him to add it to my remaining balance on my ps5 pro preorder. I can't imagine why gamestop is failing so hard.
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In the gaming community of yesteryear, the employee would be known as a "newb."

Edit: Or more precisely "noob."
 
Reminder that if you have any of those extra coupons, they expire at the end of the week. The 25% off a preowned game stacked with other coupons like my $5 monthly pro coupon, and the preowned discount. So it can add up.
 
topchief1 said:
Third day on the job? At Gamestop that's halfway between new employee and fired employee
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the sad thing is that statement is not far from being the truth, I probably stop at gamestop at least 3-4 times a month to get my free pokemon packs, check out clearance stuff, and look for any retro gems and I never see the same person, used to recognize employees and they would recognize me as a repeat customer, and even had a rapport with a few of them
 
I've got a ps5 pro ordered. Should I trade in my ps5 for $291 or wait for a trade in deal? I'm not worried about the money, I just hate to wait and see the trade in value go down even further.
 
cyonara74 said:
I've got a ps5 pro ordered. Should I trade in my ps5 for $291 or wait for a trade in deal? I'm not worried about the money, I just hate to wait and see the trade in value go down even further.
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That's such a small amount for something you bought for $500 plus tax. You do realize you are worried about the money right? Why else would you state that you would hate for the trade value to go down further if you weren't worried about the money?
 
Freeze Time said:
That's such a small amount for something you bought for $500 plus tax. You do realize you are worried about the money right? Why else would you state that you would hate for the trade value to go down further if you weren't worried about the money?
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It sounds like he's worried about the value of the PS5 and not the actual money.
 
Freeze Time said:
That's such a small amount for something you bought for $500 plus tax. You do realize you are worried about the money right? Why else would you state that you would hate for the trade value to go down further if you weren't worried about the money?
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i'm not super rich. Maybe have about 120k in the bank. I just hate waiting and missing out on recouping some of the cash i spent.
 
cyonara74 said:
I've got a ps5 pro ordered. Should I trade in my ps5 for $291 or wait for a trade in deal? I'm not worried about the money, I just hate to wait and see the trade in value go down even further.
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If you need to use a working PS5 in order to upgrade to a Pro for ~ +$400 then that is not worth it. or you shouldn't afford it.

That is such poor value.

It also means that if you need the console trade-in in order to make the purchase, then money decisions are important for you. This is a particularly bad tradeoff. A person doesn't need a Pro if you need to subsidize it and lose that much value.

Why not look for a game or a collector's edition something you can sell for $300 instead? Sell high, buy low. Be able to sell an item that has some crazy weird outlier value. Most of us own a couple of very valuable games. Use those.
 
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