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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Hellacious said:
Trade 2 promo for $50 Promo is back towards any game $39.99 and up. Can combine with the $5 off a $15 order for in store pick up to make some nice additional savings. Haven't looked but may be some stuff from Target's B2G1 Free that you could maximize on as well.
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How would you combine? Don’t you have to order online to get the $5off? And at that point the transaction would already be complete
 
TTAZ said:
How would you combine? Don’t you have to order online to get the $5off? And at that point the transaction would already be complete
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i assume they mean pick up the game and then trade it in using the promo, not recommended doing at the same time.

 
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izembo said:
sorry but NEVER use paypal with GS. their(gs) payment system is already shit, adding another company into the mess makes everything 100x worse.
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After my credit card info was stolen from GameStop breach years ago I've always used pay pal or trade credit and never had an issue, but not doing that again.
 
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TheLegendofTyler said:
After my credit card info was stolen from GameStop breach years ago I've always used pay pal or trade credit and never had an issue, but not doing that again.
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Plus with PayPal it's easier to file a chargeback claim. I still don't believe that they ever refunded me for an order I made once upon a time. It was one of the megaman star force games? I think that is what it's called. Never sent it to me in the order but sent me a review the game email for said game. so I wrote in the review that I never got it so how would I be able to write a review for it XD.

Second incident in semi recent years was judgement which they sent to me without the disc though at the time lots of people here reported that problem. They sent me another one after I contacted without much fuss at least. Oh it happened with zelda breath of the wild as well. Error in my favor as I sold the empty case from the first order for 15$.
 
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surprised to come across a sf6 ce and a calisto protocol ce. ended up buying the sf6 ce

haven't been keeping up with the thread but my monthly coupon isn't showing up in my app
 
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Imbackhaha said:
whats the point of the 5 off pickup promo if they have nothing in stock? do you all think 50 after 5 off pickup and 5 monthly for armored core is a good deal? do you think the game will go rare beore it will drop in price or you think we'll see 35 or 40 on amazon BF?
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Target has it as part of their B2G1 for around 35, though you'll have to get that to work out for you (I've heard you can just buy 3 of the same item and cancel 2, haven't tried it myself).

 
Imbackhaha said:
whats the point of the 5 off pickup promo if they have nothing in stock? do you all think 50 after 5 off pickup and 5 monthly for armored core is a good deal? do you think the game will go rare beore it will drop in price or you think we'll see 35 or 40 on amazon BF?
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With it being available digitally (and on Steam no less), I don't see Armored Core going away, and Bandai games always eventually see some amount of sales.

But $35-40 this year, specifically on Amazon? Probably not unless they're matching another store.

 
Freeze Time said:
I wonder if GS is going to have a good BF considering the changes they just made. They don't PM others(I don't think) so I guess we will soon see.
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I'd imagine they'd have to, just because if they don't beat other places on price, why would anyone bother with them?
Gamestop can't afford NOT to try to push the envelope on deals as they need to get people in their doors and to their website.

 
It’s looking more and more like trade values going to stink the rest of the year. Values are so bad even if they doubled them they are still 50% of last years values in some cases. I cancelled my membership renewal for later this month, I guess I’ll hit them with accessories one more time, but the value won’t even be 33% of November 2022.
 
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JSweeney said:
I'd imagine they'd have to, just because if they don't beat other places on price, why would anyone bother with them?
Gamestop can't afford NOT to try to push the envelope on deals as they need to get people in their doors and to their website.
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At a minimum, they will have the Nintendo advertised deals. They usually have a few random games that are decently priced.
 
2023 the year of Gamestop falling upside down. Here's to 2024 in seeing what other policies flop and twist because honestly it hasn't gotten worse
 
[attachment=38307:Untitled.png]I love at the bottom of the email they sent out today says "There's never been a better time to be a Gamestop Pro!" lol

 
Is anyone else having issues with packages never making it to the post office?  I placed an order on 10/10 and the status never updated past "Label Created - USPS awaiting item."  They finally sent a replacement order on 11/1 and that one is currently in the same status

Edit - ironically, my replacement order actually arrived today.  The way they packaged it, the shipping tape had a vertical bump on the scannable barcode.  Maybe someday the original October order will show up too, but for now I'm thankful to at least not have to deal with customer service again.

 
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Shugo2540 said:
It’s looking more and more like trade values going to stink the rest of the year. Values are so bad even if they doubled them they are still 50% of last years values in some cases. I cancelled my membership renewal for later this month, I guess I’ll hit them with accessories one more time, but the value won’t even be 33% of November 2022.
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I'm kicking myself for not instantly trading in Spider-Man 2 after beating it. Went from ~$40 trade-in to $33. Kinda hope they just temporarily lowered values because of the cash promo they are/were running and that they go back up.

I see that they brought back the trade 2 deal. https://www.gamestop.com/trade2

 
bobbyblane said:
Is anyone else having issues with packages never making it to the post office? I placed an order on 10/10 and the status never updated past "Label Created - USPS awaiting item." They finally sent a replacement order on 11/1 and that one is currently in the same status
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Hasn’t been quite that long. But I ordered 3 games on Thursday. All were shipped separately. 2 came today. And the third is saying that
 
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bobbyblane said:
Is anyone else having issues with packages never making it to the post office? I placed an order on 10/10 and the status never updated past "Label Created - USPS awaiting item." They finally sent a replacement order on 11/1 and that one is currently in the same status
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If your package is passing through Oklahoma or Dallas area, I have had problems in the past 2 weeks with Fedex and USPS. I finally got my packages this week.

 
I am so pissed with GameStop.  I ordered a Series X Play and Charge Kit with the $5 off in-store pickup coupon yesterday.  I got an email this afternoon to say that they cancelled my order because the item was never in stock at the store where I was supposed to pick it up.  And now I have to wait 3 days to get my money back.  God, this company sucks.  :bomb:

 
Vigilante said:
Not sure why it's dropped so much, but the Dead Space remake dropped to $24.99 preowned on both systems. Stacking the $5 monthly coupon and $5 store pickup promo resulted in a final cost of $13.99+tax for me.

PS5: https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/products/dead-space---playstation-5/359611.html

XSX: https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/products/dead-space---xbox-series-x/352596.html
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hmmm no new copies available. i wonder if they holding on to the new copies and sell them cheap for Black Friday.

 
trunks982 said:
hmmm no new copies available. i wonder if they holding on to the new copies and sell them cheap for Black Friday.
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Oddly, Amazon is OOS of it as well on PS5.

Vigilante said:
Not sure why it's dropped so much, but the Dead Space remake dropped to $24.99 preowned on both systems. Stacking the $5 monthly coupon and $5 store pickup promo resulted in a final cost of $13.99+tax for me.

PS5: https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/products/dead-space---playstation-5/359611.html

XSX: https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/products/dead-space---xbox-series-x/352596.html
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Thanks for posting this. Just double dip my coupon and ordered a copy.

 
johnnymavrik said:
Sigh..used a pur coupon on a cheap switch game I had already. Man I'm getting old. 🤦‍♂️
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I keep a list to manage my backlog for these purposes after I somehow bought 2 copies of so3. Though that only works when keeping it updated. That's how I ended up with 2 copies of dark cloud. The first copy was disc only thus I forgot I had it.
 
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trunks982 said:
hmmm no new copies available. i wonder if they holding on to the new copies and sell them cheap for Black Friday.
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I doubt that, Dead Space PS5 is on their most wanted list. Either EA is sparsely printing the discs or GameStop is not buying them.

 
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Shugo2540 said:
It’s looking more and more like trade values going to stink the rest of the year. Values are so bad even if they doubled them they are still 50% of last years values in some cases. I cancelled my membership renewal for later this month, I guess I’ll hit them with accessories one more time, but the value won’t even be 33% of November 2022.
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The hilarious part of this is they are charging MORE for a lot of used games than they did in 2022. My reference is always the group of 4 for X orders I did in January 2023. Almost every game from that list (outside of sports) have increased in price.

 
rp71284 said:
How exactly are they going to stay open 5am-closing when they can barely staff the stores their normal business hours?
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They know the stores will be empty, so they will just have the employee unlock it, turn the lights on and go back home till 10am
 
MysterD said:
I see Final Fantasy VII Remake for PS4 = $15 brand new

-> https://www.gamestop.com/video-games/playstation-4/products/final-fantasy-vii-remake---playstation-4/197964.html

Is the actual Yuffie content & any other extra content in Intergrade Edition on PS5/PC worthwhile? Is the new content in Intergrade short/long in terms of hours?
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Yuffie episode is about 5 hours if you rush through the story, 7-10 if you do the side quests and minigames. Beating it also unlocks a new superboss in the main game.

The upgrade to the PS5 version with all the graphical and performance enhancements is actually free but Yuffie episode is $20.

I played the DLC through PS+ Extra so I don't feel ripped off, but value is subjective. If you're planning on getting FF7 Rebirth digitally, you can also get both it + FF7 Remake PS5 version + DLC for $70 which is the same price as Rebirth alone.

 
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