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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Yeah, that's what I get too.

But then there are a couple stores where the managers do whatever they want, and merchandise a small little display case section of retro games behind some glass. In any case, one of them brags about getting entire console retro finds all the time for himself, so you know you're not finding anything but leftovers anyways. It's weird when he talks about meeting someone outside store hours just bc they want to get rid of all their stuff, and weird how every once in awhile someone comes along and has no idea about the value of their stuff and doesn't care.

In fact, just this spring I was at GS and some early 20's girls couple came in with a tub including 6 complete-in-box N64 games including Zelda OOT and Mario 64. I had a standing offer to buy the console + several games from them for $75. But then when I went to go to the cash machine, and came back quickly, they were just getting in their car and leaving bc the guy behind the counter told them they could get way more money at another source. I missed out on a massive haul just bc I didn't have money in my wallet...

The point is...these people show up every once in awhile. With their complete set of old Nintendo games from the family. Often young people moving, going to college, getting boxes out of their parents house, and just want some quick and easy cash. It happens every now and then. Parents selling their kids stuff for whatever amount too.
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Win some,lose some but at end of day more deals will come about.
 
ThatOneGuyWho said:
The parent trading in their college age kids games doesn't know or have either of those, so cash helps in those moments.
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Lol, I’m 4 years away from having a college aged kid. And I am on the older side for that (didn’t have kids until my 30’s) so I really don’t know if this holds true anymore.

 
NotNewHere said:
Win some,lose some but at end of day more deals will come about.
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always look at the used gaming accessories, once in a blue moon I get a halo elite controller for $99 or a set of smash bros joy cons, these are worth more than the GameStop used pricing, I always just see what they have!
 
I have the worst luck. I was first in line when GS opened. I went in to trade in my Xbox series S for $212.50 credit and the guy behind me literally bought the series S I trade in. GS made $55 in seconds doing nothing. I shoulda asked him to make an offer. I brought in the box and everything.
 
Ketsui said:
I have the worst luck. I was first in line when GS opened. I went in to trade in my Xbox series S for $212.50 credit and the guy behind me literally bought the series S I trade in. GS made $55 in seconds doing nothing. I shoulda asked him to make an offer. I brought in the box and everything.
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That's okay. Store has got to make theirs.

Gamestop pays several thousand dollars in rent every month in order to have that kind of ability.

Don't feel bad about it. You only randomly encountered that guy because of their paid retail location. You sold your old console and got good money for it. That's a win.

 
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Whatever he offered you would have been significantly less that what he was willing to spend at the store anyways.  People see other people and behave as if they are trying to take advantage of them.  They enact garage sale behavior, and need to get a better cash deal.  He'd pay less to you than what a person considers 'a legitimate storefront'.   That's just the human nature of people.

It's also poor etiquette to interrupt a store in the middle of a buying transaction, or to take other offers.  The employee working there would ask himself "why am I wasting my time on you then?"  That customer would have lowballed you (most people are paying on credit anyways) and the store employee could have asked you to leave. Then you'd have gotten nothing.

 
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I might be blind but how do I use my monthly $5 from Pro? They "gave" me an account during that shipping mixup. I only see the 10000 rewards points, no coupon or anything.
 
intelligentidiot said:
Currently, it lasts through 10/7.
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Thank you. I was able to find some complete 360 games on the four for $20 the last time that I went to GameStop, and I'm hoping to find some more.

Cars: Race-O-Rama - 360

Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon - 360

Sega and Sonic All-Stars Racing - 360

Tales of Vesperia: Remastered - Xbox One

 
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Has anyone tried trading a system toward a new Series X lately? If so, did they still give you that +$50 bonus toward Series X, or did you just get the new, general +$20 system bonus?
 
Dark Rider said:
Can a Powerup rewards coupon (i.e. $5 off) be stacked with the 4 for $10 deal? I know the monthly coupon cannot.
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I just used the monthly $5 Pro coupon on the 4/$20 a few days ago, I'd say it works.

Edit: Of course, I also bought some clearance $5 shirts which is what the coupon appears to have been applied to. I see no reason why they wouldn't allow it though. I'd say give it a shot.

 
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poet17eric said:
Got the $212 in credit for my Series S a couple days ago. My sons haven't touched their Switch Lite's in a while (usually only on vacation). Does the extra $20 apply to the Lites as well? Might offload both for $97 if so.
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If the promo is active tomorrow, it should be $97. I was there today (Saturday) and the switch lite rang up at $97.

 
bill123 said:
Trade credit can still be used. As well as the monthly 5 dollar ones.
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I can verify this. I purchased a $20 Steam Wallet eCard in store today. Applied my monthly $5, then used $15 trade credit for the rest. Certificates purchased with points will not work.

I remember there was something about tax on trade credit a while back on this thread. Is it true that you get taxed paying with trade credit now or is it just specific states?

 
Dark Rider said:
Can a Powerup rewards coupon (i.e. $5 off) be stacked with the 4 for $10 deal? I know the monthly coupon cannot.
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It will stack, but you won't get the full $5 off. Assuming that all 4 games are $5 each, the promo will adjust them down to $2.50. Then the coupon will apply to 1 item and take $2.50 off. You end up paying $7.50

 
billyhexx said:
I can verify this. I purchased a $20 Steam Wallet eCard in store today. Applied my monthly $5, then used $15 trade credit for the rest. Certificates purchased with points will not work.

I remember there was something about tax on trade credit a while back on this thread. Is it true that you get taxed paying with trade credit now or is it just specific states?
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I can tell you, in Missouri, you now get taxed on trade credit. I don't know what caused the change but I have been charged tax the last 3 times I bought something with trade credit.

 
Question.. I went to their deals page and it has a deal for Buy one Get One... Does anyone know how to get this deal? Do I have to add two brand new games or can they be used?

 
billyhexx said:
I can verify this. I purchased a $20 Steam Wallet eCard in store today. Applied my monthly $5, then used $15 trade credit for the rest. Certificates purchased with points will not work.

I remember there was something about tax on trade credit a while back on this thread. Is it true that you get taxed paying with trade credit now or is it just specific states?
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It's everywhere now
 
Ketsui said:
I have the worst luck. I was first in line when GS opened. I went in to trade in my Xbox series S for $212.50 credit and the guy behind me literally bought the series S I trade in. GS made $55 in seconds doing nothing. I shoulda asked him to make an offer. I brought in the box and everything.
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My wife once took her PS4 to trade in but because she had wiped the console they claimed their internet was impossibly slow and couldn't test it, so they refused the trade. Guy behind us said he'd buy it and handed her cash. We both laughed at that store and never went back.

 
My Pro membership expires middle of this month and I’m excited to finally be done with GS. I want to use my points to get a $10 online cert and use it on a $20 new game. If I throw in some silly Funko pops to get to the $80 free shipping minimum, can I return the Funkos to a store and keep the game for $10? Or will the value of the cert be spread across all items in the order?
 
DubTownG said:
My Pro membership expires middle of this month and I’m excited to finally be done with GS. I want to use my points to get a $10 online cert and use it on a $20 new game. If I throw in some silly Funko pops to get to the $80 free shipping minimum, can I return the Funkos to a store and keep the game for $10? Or will the value of the cert be spread across all items in the order?
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Technically you will see the item's price get reduced in your cart/subtotal. The $10 will not get distributed unless it's multiple quantity of the same item.

Realistically, complete ymmv on what the store employee does with your return. Recent packing slips haven't been showing itemized prices anyway.
 
Apparently my membership did expire last month so I'm free! Got a whopping 3k points left and about $11 in trade credit. One final trip to the store for $15 Xbox spacebucks and I can't think of a single reason I'll ever be back. Maybe the odd console trade-in but damn, crazy to think about after all these years. Then again, the same happened with Best Buy for me so par for the course at this point.

 
Mine also expires this month. I've only got 4k points so I don't care if they expire. Just gotta find something for pickup to use my last monthly coupon on.

 
My membership expires November, unless we see a boost in trade values, I’m also not going to renew for the first time in a while. Hoping we get a boost in values around the holidays again.
 
billyhexx said:
It will stack, but you won't get the full $5 off. Assuming that all 4 games are $5 each, the promo will adjust them down to $2.50. Then the coupon will apply to 1 item and take $2.50 off. You end up paying $7.50
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But it'll take $5 off for the 4 games for $20 deal, right?
 
billyhexx said:
Yes, it should.
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but won't it just take $5 off the regular price of the game? so you put it on a $9.99 game that would have changed to $5, it is just going to change it to $4.99? I can't imagine gamestop would actually code the coupon correctly to be able to be applied after a promo like this.

 
Ahh will be done with Gamestop after this month:

  • Main account renewed its subscription on 10/31/22, but somehow my points got zapped on 9/21/23 and my Pro doesn't work now. This was the account that was shadow banned for doing too many "trade X console and get $50 when buying a PS5/Xbox Series X", and the account that got too much back in returns when trying to get rid of gutted B1G1 free games. Weirdly enough the $5 pro reward worked though, despite not getting the Pro discount on used games. No shock that GS's system is borked there.
  • Secondary account expires on 10/30 and has about 17k points
It's crazy that my original account has had 600k points lifetime, and I signed up for PowerUp Rewards back in 2010/2011, when it was being piloted in Ohio. Ya know, back when GS actually gave you points for trade-ins too. Their sales are beyond boring now (games that were eligible for 4/$10 months ago don't even qualify for 4/$20, for instance), they have so little stock that "new" purchases online will get you gutted games, and the few times there are good trade deals, you get weird shadow bans because of the 800 weird flags that are coded into Gamestop's POS system.

 
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My main GameStop account was banned because I "abused the return policy." These past few months I've ordered a bunch of games online and they've either forgotten to put any games, put in the wrong games, new games come in black cases without covers... so many damn issues.

I've been a pro member for over 10 years and this year has been the worst year to buy online. It's been atrocious. The quality of service has really gone totally downhill. I reached out to them to reverse the ban but they wouldn't. So good riddance.

I have 2 more accounts, one from my wife and another one. Once these expire I'm done with GameStop.
 
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Macedon911 said:
My main GameStop account was banned because I "abused the return policy." These past few months I've ordered a bunch of games online and they've either forgotten to put any games, put in the wrong games, new games come in black cases without covers... so many damn issues.

I've been a pro member for over 10 years and this year has been the worst year to buy online. It's been atrocious. The quality of service has really gone totally downhill. I reached out to them to reverse the ban but they wouldn't. So good riddance.

I have 2 more accounts, one from my wife and another one. Once these expire I'm done with GameStop.
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Somehow I returned 20+ games and didn't get banned (albeit on 2 orders) but I still have 1 piece of an August order in limbo, because the store in question cut off my apartment number, USPS refused to deliver it, and it's been sitting in a post office in Erie for a month. GS says it's my fault somehow.

These are the things that happen when you ask retail employees with no knowledge of best practices around shipping to be your distribution center.

 
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ritchardf said:
but won't it just take $5 off the regular price of the game? so you put it on a $9.99 game that would have changed to $5, it is just going to change it to $4.99? I can't imagine gamestop would actually code the coupon correctly to be able to be applied after a promo like this.
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If you have 4 $10 games, they all get marked down to $5 each. Then the $5 cert will apply to 1 game. So you are paying $0+$5+$5+$5 = $15. You get the same result even if you use a $10, $15, or $25 cert.

 
Does the $5 monthly coupon work in store for a $10 PSN card/code?  I haven't paid attention since they killed the coupon for online PSN orders.

 
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I used my $5 monthly coupon on a complete copy of Driver: San Francisco for Xbox 360 for $18.99 today.  It was one of the last few physical 360 games that I had hoped to find in the wild because it's a fairly uncommon game, so I ponied up.  My best find at GameStop this year.

 
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