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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Vinny said:
It's 30% off one of the most popular items right now... it just sold out fast. It's a pretty insane deal.

I'm genuinely curious when we'll see a PS5 Pro honestly... I think they did the PS4 Pro at the same time as the PS4 slim but that's obviously not the case here. I'm also curious if Nintendo even cares about an NS2. They're making bank on that system and it seems like everyone has it (not to mention many people have multiple, either because of variants or family/kids).

Haha, I ordered those as well. Great price, but if you check local stock every store has 1 copy meaning they're likely all guts but I'm sure GS will use plenty of circle stickers to patch them into one "sealed" monstrosity.
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if you see 1 stock online shouldn't they have 2 due to the -1 inventory
 
Well I got back from trading stuff in…

Got $390 for my ps5 and also traded in some other small games including redfall for 19.xx and grabbed the slim ps5 modern warfare bundle for $499.

The slim console really is noticeably thinner.
 
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Just picked up kirby dreamland & donkey kong tropical freeze brand new sealed for $58 and some change. The $5 off $40 is still going on for in store pickips.
 
Question: does the $5 off with in store pickup work if I also redeem points and use a certificate on the order? I can't keep up with all the restrictions on what works with nothing else.
 
KeepGaming said:
Just picked up kirby dreamland & donkey kong tropical freeze brand new sealed for $58 and some change. The $5 off $40 is still going on for in store pickips.
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I wanted to do something similar but GS's stock is so out of whack... there are 20 GSes around me (30 min drive) but only 3 GSes that have multiple copies of DK and no Kirby and then there other 2 other GSes that have multiple copies of Kirby but no DK.

 
Vinny said:
I wanted to do something similar but GS's stock is so out of whack... there are 20 GSes around me (30 min drive) but only 3 GSes that have multiple copies of DK and no Kirby and then there other 2 other GSes that have multiple copies of Kirby but no DK.
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They didn't have the donkey kong game yesterday at the store near work but I check again around 10am this morning and they had 5 instock. Pick it up after work and I think I'm done with Black friday shopping! Let's see what kind of deals cyber Monday have or maybe similar deals going on as Black Friday!
 
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Not sure what to make of this, but I was in a GameStop tonight buying a Meta Quest gift card with trade credit while it is still possible. I started with a variable amount one, trying to get $60, and the clerk wasn’t able to do it, he said the computer wasn’t allowing it, and they may have cut it off early. Luckily I decided to have him try a $50 card, and that worked fine. So I don’t know if all variable currency cards are already not allowing trade credit to be used, or just Meta cards, or if he was doing something wrong.
 
organikshadow said:
Question: does the $5 off with in store pickup work if I also redeem points and use a certificate on the order? I can't keep up with all the restrictions on what works with nothing else.
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In case anyone else was wanting to try--the answer is no. If you ship to store and it's more than $40 but less than $79, you have to take the $5 credit but then cannot apply a redeemed points certificate. And if it's less than $79, you eat the certificate in shipping costs. Sweeeeeeet.
 
organikshadow said:
In case anyone else was wanting to try--the answer is no. If you ship to store and it's more than $40 but less than $79, you have to take the $5 credit but then cannot apply a redeemed points certificate. And if it's less than $79, you eat the certificate in shipping costs. Sweeeeeeet.
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I think you are confusing things here. Ship to stote is different. Its basically placing an online order to your store of choice vs your address,with the bonus of free shipping being $25 , not $79, and must be done at the store location. 5 off $40+ is store pick up, which you order from home,and pick up at a local store that has at least 2 copies of the game/item you want. So OP question, yes online cert + $5 off, should work but only if cert doesnt total under $40.
 
guessed said:
Not sure what to make of this, but I was in a GameStop tonight buying a Meta Quest gift card with trade credit while it is still possible. I started with a variable amount one, trying to get $60, and the clerk wasn’t able to do it, he said the computer wasn’t allowing it, and they may have cut it off early. Luckily I decided to have him try a $50 card, and that worked fine. So I don’t know if all variable currency cards are already not allowing trade credit to be used, or just Meta cards, or if he was doing something wrong.
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their terminals are all kinds of messed up this weekend for me. Ever single transaction I’ve done this weekend has been messed up, nothing has worked as they advertised from the trade bonus to get a GC with purchase. No sure if it’s GS or the seasonal employees but they were all patient and worked through everything so I’m grateful for that.
 
try to use my power up rewards monthly coupon and couldn't buy a psn gift card in store . and the price increased to 25 to renew 0___0 smh has any one had luck getting psn cards or anything in general with it . so many bad changes 

 
Flippingfordays said:
try to use my power up rewards monthly coupon and couldn't buy a psn gift card in store . and the price increased to 25 to renew 0___0 smh has any one had luck getting psn cards or anything in general with it . so many bad changes
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That shouldn't be the case. The monthly coupon not working on platform currency doesn't kick in till this upcoming Friday. Again like earlier in the year, I don't expect it to last long.

 
I got a PSN card last night. Wanted to get a last one. December is my last month I'll probably grab something clearance.

Flippingfordays said:
try to use my power up rewards monthly coupon and couldn't buy a psn gift card in store . and the price increased to 25 to renew 0___0 smh has any one had luck getting psn cards or anything in general with it . so many bad changes
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I had to return a switch game from the buy 2 preowned games get one free and they sent me a switch game in a yellow disc sleeve. Went there and dude was like your returning the free game and I was like the pikmin 1+2 was the free game. He didn't say anything and just process the return. I would had exchanged it but they didn't have any preowned copies at all.
 
arsenalcrazy8 said:
Well I got back from trading stuff in…
Got $390 for my ps5 and also traded in some other small games including redfall for 19.xx and grabbed the slim ps5 modern warfare bundle for $499.
The slim console really is noticeably thinner.
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Sorry if it’s been asked but is there a little bonus right now? I know the +$50 console trade in is over but if it’s $390 and not $357 I may trade in my chonker ps5 today.
 
Gamingsincetheseventies said:
I think you are confusing things here. Ship to stote is different. Its basically placing an online order to your store of choice vs your address,with the bonus of free shipping being $25 , not $79, and must be done at the store location. 5 off $40+ is store pick up, which you order from home,and pick up at a local store that has at least 2 copies of the game/item you want. So OP question, yes online cert + $5 off, should work but only if cert doesnt total under $40.
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Yes, sorry I misphrased that. In store pickup. So last night I tried getting the ps5 dualsense controller (over $40) and it wouldn't let me use a $15 point online only redemption. I even tried adding other items, going over $79 for shipping to home (which removed the $5 pickup credit) and it still wouldn't let me apply. So. I dunno.
 
Royal High Knight said:
That shouldn't be the case. The monthly coupon not working on platform currency doesn't kick in till this upcoming Friday. Again like earlier in the year, I don't expect it to last long.
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Almost 2 weeks ago they refused to let me use it. Didn't even attempt just told me it wasn't allowed to work anymore.
 
while the buy 2 get 1 free preowned was still going, i managed to get mario wonder, mario rpg and robocop shipped. now trying to decide whether or not to trade wonder back and make the other 2 even cheaper.
 
FamedGuardian said:
Anyone actually get on the Discord during downtime? Those guys hate all of us 😂
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Went on. Made me realize I still hate discord.

Didn’t help that I had a viral infection with a secondary bacterial infection. I was lost/confused by discord, but that could’ve been because I felt like I was dying. Got a Zpak yesterday and holy shit do I feel better today.
 
Can confirm that the trade bonus of 40% (50% with Pro) is still active as of today. It might have been my eyes, but I thought I saw that the bonus activated with only 2 games being traded in, instead of the 4 that had been mentioned. I couldn’t fully confirm before they added my other games.
 
Dranakin said:
Can confirm that the trade bonus of 40% (50% with Pro) is still active as of today. It might have been my eyes, but I thought I saw that the bonus activated with only 2 games being traded in, instead of the 4 that had been mentioned. I couldn’t fully confirm before they added my other games.
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20% bonus with 2 trade ins, 30% with 3, 40% with 4+
 
ritchardf said:
20% bonus with 2 trade ins, 30% with 3, 40% with 4+
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Yeah, that’s what I thought, but again, I saw the full bonus be added just after two games (and their values didn’t change after more than four were added). I’m just gonna chalk it up to my old eyes.
 
ritchardf said:
20% bonus with 2 trade ins, 30% with 3, 40% with 4+
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Will this work with any 4 games? Or do they have to be games that show up on their website as something they'll take? I've got 2 games I want to trade in but for the bonus, thinking about just trading in two old PS2 or GC games if I can as fillers.
 
Vinny said:
Will this work with any 4 games? Or do they have to be games that show up on their website as something they'll take? I've got 2 games I want to trade in but for the bonus, thinking about just trading in two old PS2 or GC games if I can as fillers.
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i don't think we know the particulars about what older gen games trigger the bonus, but i doubt anything not listed on the website would work.
 
Should work with anything on the website with more than a penny trade value. Stores taking retro are very YMMV. Had to hit 3 stores before one would take my PS3/Wii games. $2.50 base was the lowest I traded so far. Have some .25 games to try if I can find more flips. Maxed out my 4 copies each of Redfall, and Mlb The Show 23. Waiting for 2 more Redfalls from VGP, that are supposed to come with steelbooks, which I will keep.
 
I have 4 or 5 games I could trade in. Seems like a pretty good deal. Spider-man MM for PS5 doesn't have a trade in value though. I can call them and see what it is.
 
If anyone comes across some good flips post them. I am about $150 short of a new PS5 for the family. Wife offered to pay the difference, but just cant spend real money at gamestop. Wanted to trade in all my Dualshock 4 controllers, but the guy was like, black is $12, any other color is $20. Traded the colored ones kept the blacks.
 
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