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Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread 2
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http://source.ncix.com/sony-psvita-promo/index.html
Buy Vita, get Gravity Rush, Resistance: Burning Skies, Unit 13 or Uncharted: Golden Abyss for free.
Decent deal.
Buy Vita, get Gravity Rush, Resistance: Burning Skies, Unit 13 or Uncharted: Golden Abyss for free.
Decent deal.
The $10 off receipt? It says you can't combine it with a price match :\
But if you live in K-W, I'll sell you my copy for $20.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
You aren't allowed to PM and use the coupon. Well, that's what it says but I don't think any of them know how the coupons even work. lol
Huh, wow. Price match always seemed to combine with everything since it's not really a "promotion". But indeed it does say that on the receipt... -_-;
Like, for example, even those periodic $10 Best Buy coupons which are not supposed to apply on "sale" items do work if you price match (even if it's on sale at the competitor).
10% online BB sale right now, get your Pokemon pre-orders in
Done. Cancelled my previous order. Thanks =)
10% online BB sale right now, get your Pokemon pre-orders in
Still not as good as when you got a full $5 off for per-ordering early on
At Walmart you get WipeOut and Resistance iirc
I have the following promo codes if anyone is interested.
- $20 off Assassins Creed 3 PS3 pre order
- $20 off Borderlands 2 PS3 pre order
- $30 off Borderlands 2 Collectors Edition PS3 pre order
All codes are for Futureshop only and can only be used for shipping. Do not use in store pick up.
- $20 off Assassins Creed 3 PS3 pre order
- $20 off Borderlands 2 PS3 pre order
- $30 off Borderlands 2 Collectors Edition PS3 pre order
All codes are for Futureshop only and can only be used for shipping. Do not use in store pick up.
You can't in this case, because it's an 800RZ game. So this is 10% off + $10 gc.
Future Shop has (had?) a trade 2 get Persona 4: Arena free. They took down the page that allowed you to view qualified trade-in titles, unfortunately, but before that happened I saw Arkham City on the qualified list and noticed they were selling used copies for $14.99. I'm still on the hunt for another qualified title for ~$15.
Sweet! The hunt continues... thanks!
RaySpencer
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Quick question, this rogers 6gig super plan, does that require a new contract? As in, if I sign up for it now, will I lose out on my chance to upgrade to the new iPhone for cheap?
I wonder if I'll get Starfox fast enough to do the trade for P4A. I'm not even sure if I want P4A right now though lol. Might just see if there's a trade for Sleeping Dogs or DOA5 instead.
The location I went to was out of the ps3 version. I asked if it was possible for me to trade 2 qualified titles for the 360 version and then exchange it for the Ps3 version when it comes in stock, but was told "I don't think so." I'm skeptical, but in the end it isn't worth the effort. I'll just wait for the price drop or the next game that comes with dlc characters for 39.99.
My store was sold out of KH last week too, no rainchecks or anything either.
I didn't realize trading in for an in-stock copy and then exchanging it (sealed) for another version qualified as a rain check. Although, I guess you can't exactly return a game that you didn't pay for in the first place, I suppose. Now I'm really curious what the proof of purchase looks like whenever these sorts of deals are done.
Lone_Prodigy
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P4A looks to be a niche title, so stock could be hard to find.
Plenty of 360 versions left.
I didn't have to renew when I did it. Is just a change of plan.
Mine was renewed. Could be because my contract ends in a few months, though.
RaySpencer
Member
My brother didn't have to renew, but he did renew it a few months ago.
MotionBlue
Member
The retail store I work at only received 10 copies, outside of preorders. We sold all them in one day.
I never said it qualified as a raincheck, I was saying how stupid it was for them to offer trade-in promotions when they barely have enough copies of the games and how they wouldn't let me guarantee one in any way.
Thanks!
You're welcome.
I'm guessing that its at EBGames?
Hero of Legend
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How does this work and how much do you get in said cards?
Hero of Legend
Member
Called EBGames, apparently it's the equivalent of credit, so you can get a $75 card if you trade in $75 worth of games, but you get 10% less credit for your games as the person said, so I guess you trade $75 worth you lose $7.50?
StunandStab
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This doesn't make any sense.
Anyway, I traded in a game today at EB Games and the guy working there asked me if I wanted the credit on a gift card, and I said "sure". So I have a gift card with $14 on it now.
That isn't something they normally do? I had no idea... I never trade in games usually. I definitely would have preferred a pre-paid credit card so I could use it somewhere else.
I like that I have a gift card and not in-store credit, though, so I can at least use it on their website.
The Elite
BOSS
Yup, that's why I posted it. The ability to take your credit from EB and use it somewhere else is tempting. Seems they're offering less if you decide to take it in Credit Card form though. I expected that.
The Elite
BOSS
Wow. You should probably check the balance right away but I've heard something about the value of those prepaid cards going down overtime. Like a monthly charge. I've never actually had one so I'm not sure.
Crazymoogle
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Sometimes, yeah. But it's also possible the staff gave him an unactivated card (they are all value-less until activated). Unless you're sure you saw them activate it I would usually check before leaving the store. Maybe card design varies but in my limited experience with gift cards the unactivated ones ring up as just being empty.
(Pharmaprix here is notorious for giving out unactivated cards during specials)
Just looking at the RBC PP Visa, they charge 1.50 every month after six months until there is no more balance.
Its been a while but I do recall other PP CCs that don't have any monthly fees, while others have no initial costs (ex. RBC is $3.95 to "buy")
I think your other option is to place it towards a preorder (+20% trade-in value promo right now?) or use it on a purchase?
Last time I bought a prepaid card (PSN card) it was already activated -- the dude at the till didn't have to do anything with it, and I actually asked him about it because it was unusual. I guess that's what they do, at least at the store I visited.
If they do the same with the various prepaid credit cards they offer, they're courting all sorts of problems.
If they do the same with the various prepaid credit cards they offer, they're courting all sorts of problems.
EB no longer puts tax-exempt trade-in credit on EDGE cards, since they just discovered it violates some kind of law.
To my understanding, if you still want tax-exempt trade-in credit, your trades need to be applied to something in-store right away. This includes pre-orders as far as I know. Like, for example, I've got $300 squirreled away on a system preorder for a Wii U at my friend's store. I expect that if the system ends up costing $349, I'll be paying $49 +tax.
If your credit goes onto one of their gift cards (since, as I said before, they aren't using EDGE cards anymore), you'll be losing the tax-exempt nature of the credit. This is exactly how it was in the past at EB Games when you bought a gift card for someone with trade-in credit. You'd trade in $50 of stuff for example, and either nab $50 worth of stuff (with your trades covering the tax on top of that too), or buy a $50 gift card. And then when you tried to buy stuff with that gift card later, you'd still have to pay the $7 or whatever tax on top of it.
Hopefully this description of what's happening makes sense to everyone. I'm basing everything on my past experience with the EB POS system when I worked there and my observations on how the different types of credit behaved in different transactions.
To my understanding, if you still want tax-exempt trade-in credit, your trades need to be applied to something in-store right away. This includes pre-orders as far as I know. Like, for example, I've got $300 squirreled away on a system preorder for a Wii U at my friend's store. I expect that if the system ends up costing $349, I'll be paying $49 +tax.
If your credit goes onto one of their gift cards (since, as I said before, they aren't using EDGE cards anymore), you'll be losing the tax-exempt nature of the credit. This is exactly how it was in the past at EB Games when you bought a gift card for someone with trade-in credit. You'd trade in $50 of stuff for example, and either nab $50 worth of stuff (with your trades covering the tax on top of that too), or buy a $50 gift card. And then when you tried to buy stuff with that gift card later, you'd still have to pay the $7 or whatever tax on top of it.
Hopefully this description of what's happening makes sense to everyone. I'm basing everything on my past experience with the EB POS system when I worked there and my observations on how the different types of credit behaved in different transactions.
In re: to the taxes and stuff at EB, I've always been taxed on the difference (if any).
If my trade-ins only ring up to $50 and the game I'm purchasing is $60, I pay $10 + tax. If your trade-ins cover the retail price, no tax.
I don't remember how it works at FS/BB. I'm not 100% sure if it was the same way.
If my trade-ins only ring up to $50 and the game I'm purchasing is $60, I pay $10 + tax. If your trade-ins cover the retail price, no tax.
I don't remember how it works at FS/BB. I'm not 100% sure if it was the same way.
doctorcdcs
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I picked up Kingdom Hearts 3DS: Mastery edition for 39.83 + tax at my local Wal-mart at Scarborough Town Centre. Doing a quick google search shows that I wasn't the only one picking it up at that price point, so it might be set at all of their stores, but just in case, consider it YMMV.
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