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qizah
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Are blu-ray players relatively cheap now? A lot of those are super cheap which makes me intrigued.
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Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread 2
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Are blu-ray players relatively cheap now? A lot of those are super cheap which makes me intrigued.
I think you can get some lower end or generic brand ones for less than $100 nowadays. I still tend to recommend a PS3 for those wanting a blu-ray player though. Even as just a blu-ray player it's among the best, and it's probably second-to-none for making use of the blu-rays' online features.
I bought a Samsung Blu-ray playing during the Boxing week sales for $99 to use in the bedroom and it has been good so far. I still use a PS3 for Blu-rays in the family room, but the Samsung works fine. It's Netflix app is even usable, if a bit slow to navigate the UI (the video plays fine though, even in HD).
If only they had the bluray Quadrilogy set like Bestbuy US for $40. Then I'd get it. Does anyone know if the $10 coupon works towards Imax? I know they have some weird as fuck rules regarding things like that
Best Buy Canada also has the Alien Anthology blu-ray set for $40. Not sure if it includes the movie coupon though!
But this is kind of good, since you get a coupon for each movie. My dad wants to see it too, so I'll probably get Alien and Aliens, both. I don't really care about the other films anyway. I'm pretty sure the coupon would be valid on IMAX or whatever, you'd just have to pay the difference... which would be like 6 bucks I think, for IMAX. I'm gonna pick up the blu-rays tonight, so I'll confirm if it says otherwise.
Just don't watch Alien Resurrection and you'll be good, Alien 3 is debatable.
Oh, oh hey, guys. I have an actual gaming deal this time!
I just picked up Punch-Out!! (Wii) for $4.99 from Best Buy. I think they're clearing out their non-Nintendo Selects copies of the game. YMMV though, it's not even listed on the website. I think I got the last one at my local store.
I just picked up Punch-Out!! (Wii) for $4.99 from Best Buy. I think they're clearing out their non-Nintendo Selects copies of the game. YMMV though, it's not even listed on the website. I think I got the last one at my local store.
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qizah
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That's a great deal, the game is awesome.
Yeah I have been to the one near South Keys before. Didn't know they rented games. Will go there soon. Thanks
Hours Left
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That's an amazing deal. Punch-Out!! for Wii is incredible.
I bit. Also on Fight Club BR for $10. Always swore I'd nab it if I ever saw it again for that price.
Random deal:
Used Ultimate Spider-Man PS2 is $5 at GameStop. Saw one at the Dundas Square street front store. Someone bite! Great game, already have it myself.
Yup, I essentially got Fight Club for a buck thirty, as I'm super pumped for Prometheus anyways.
SMT
this show is not Breaking Bad why is it not Breaking Bad? it should be Breaking Bad dammit Breaking Bad
Got it from Best Buy for 29.99, time for a price-match biches.
There's a massive amount of Ottawa-GAF in game deals. You know what they say about government employee penny pinchers.
dancrane212
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Anyone know Futureshop's return policy on games from the "trade X number of games get Y free" promo? I'd like to try Resistance if I pick up a Vita (depending on how e3 goes for the system) but after seeing the reviews I don't want to drop "real" money on the game.
If I don't pick up a Vita will I be stuck with the game or can I return it? If so what do I return it for? Store credit? I emailed their CS but I got "we evaluate on a case-by-case manner" response.
If I don't pick up a Vita will I be stuck with the game or can I return it? If so what do I return it for? Store credit? I emailed their CS but I got "we evaluate on a case-by-case manner" response.
As mentioned, the only place I know that rents games downtown Ottawa is Microplay on Bank between Nepean and Gloucester.
On another note: Anyone want a code for the cemetery map for Max Payne 3? EB games had an extra one when I bought the game, and I'll never use it. Let me know.
On another note: Anyone want a code for the cemetery map for Max Payne 3? EB games had an extra one when I bought the game, and I'll never use it. Let me know.
You should be given store credit for the games you traded in, at their normal trade-in values. If there's a new "trade X get Y" promo, you might be able to convince them to switch it to the new game.
No personal experience on this, but I imagine in a worst case scenario, you'll end up getting the normal amount of credit for the game you previously traded in. So... if it's Splinter Cell, for example, I think that'd be $13 credit. Hopefully it would work out better than that, though. Maybe they'll give you an amount of credit equivalent to the marked-up used price of the game you traded in (whatever that is).
firehawk12
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http://forums.redflagdeals.com/future-shop-e3-promotion-buy-3-get-1-free-xbox-days-offers-1182303/
Posted on RFD - the E3 deal this year is buy 3 get 1 free. So worse than last year's deal by 20 bucks or so, but still decent I suppose.
Posted on RFD - the E3 deal this year is buy 3 get 1 free. So worse than last year's deal by 20 bucks or so, but still decent I suppose.
I wonder, however, how the discount will be apportioned. Will they split up the value of the free game into an equal discount for each of the four? Or will they just give a full-value credit for the free game?
If the latter is true, and the games all ship separately, you might theoretically be able to return the three you paid for and get the other one straight-up free.
firehawk12
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure they thought of that and will be doing it the smart way. At least I'd hope so. lol
Mikey Jr.
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I am not spending $200 on video games in one shot.
Fuck that noise.
Last year was better. All E3 games were 49 bucks if you preordered.
firehawk12
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I'm pretty sure that's the same thing as last year. I mean, you had to order all the games at the same time anyway.
You really aren't though, technically. Online pre-orders are only charged at the time of shipment, and you could easily order 4 games that are released several months apart. (Plus, if you change your mind later, you can always return any of the games)
Isn't the tsilon perk supposed to be similar to the old E3 offer or is this it?
Which one ends up being free? The last one shipped I'm guessing?
Jasper Avenue
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The deal last year was Buy 3 get $60 off. Making each game approximately $40. I was looking forward to a similar deal this year, but this is actually kind of disappointing. More than likely just going to wait for them to drop in price rather than pre-order.
$39.99!
Jasper Avenue
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Could be pretty great if Best Buy offers a similar deal but with Reward Zone points.
ThirstyFly
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Not as good as last year, but it's still pretty decent. If there's 4 games I want I'll bite.
do you normally get mail at your doorstep? if not, look for it in the communal mailbox after the usual mail delivery time.
CP's "successfully delivered" status isn't particularly accurate
It's a house, so we only have our regular mailbox/side door (not communal box on my street).
I'm going to give it a couple of hours, but this is rather... irksome.
Lone_Prodigy
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Posted this on RFD, but of the three games I pre-ordered last year during the E3 promo (ME3, Skyward Sword, Deus Ex AR CE), two didn't come with steelbooks and went on sale a few weeks after release, so I returned two. Only kept Deus Ex.
That's because it was easy scam the old deal. If you only wanted one game, you could buy all 3 and get the 20 dollar discount and then return the other 2 games you weren't interested in.
I assume now it's made so that you would get the game releasing last as free so that if you were ever to return one game you would lose the deal to get the free game.
that sucks ;_;
hope it turns up
I wouldn't be so sure about that. I doubt they are set up to be able to pull off knocking a free game from your order because you return one.
Lone_Prodigy
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double-post, must've got it in before the 500 error.
Time-warp double post?
Not something I would risk trying
well there isn't much harm in it, lol. unless you actually really wanted all four games in which case there was never any need to anyway.
Okay, it just got delivered.
Looking up elsewhere, it seems this is what the mail courier does when running behind schedule, scanning everything at once as "Delivered", rather than on a per delivery basis.
Yeah. Never trust CP tracking. It's not like UPS where they scan it at every point. The mail carrier has quite a bit of freedom in how they scan items out for delivery.
If that's the reason it happens, then the dudes have been behind schedule literally every time I've ever had anything delivered by CP, haha
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