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Canadian Gaming Deals & Discussion 9: Looking for a Switch in Deals
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<hidden msg></hidden msg>... tried more but didnt work
my haul =D...
for now...
AlexMeloche
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... Pokémon USUM is 60$ ? When did 3DS games ended up being this price and not 50$?
TheGamingBox
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will probably drop down to $50 or $55 later, nintendo did the same with sun and moon preorders last year as well
LifeBrandRobot
Member
Cool cool thankss
AlexMeloche
Member
Oh yeah, totally forgot they did that.
VanCityGamer
Member
I don't understand how that poster triple stacked Best Buy discounts. It says the promo code was already used when I try even double stacking the games he mentioned.
N° 2048
Member
I know you could add OOS games to cart via developer tools, so maybe something there?
The Elite
BOSS
I have a birthday party I need to go to tomorrow during the MS conference. Can't get out of it.
Who has their birthday on a Sunday? I always move that shit to a Saturday or Friday night.
catpurrcat
Member
15 years of reading RFD threads tells me these will be cancelled prior to shipping.
LifeBrandRobot
Member
Does everyone get a unique promo code?
Apparently it's fixed
doubly so with geniuses like him taking it to crazy extremes. will ruin it for everyone
truestatic
Member
nvm
VanCityGamer
Member
The Best Buy orders or Amazon?
My Amazon glitches never get cancelled. I HAVE had a Best Buy one cancelled though.
I got CSRs to adjust all of my E3 prices no problem. All you have to do is cite the preorder price guarantee.
The only exceptions were the 50 dollar games (FFXV and Resident Evil VII last year), because they weren't tagged with the E3 20% off.
But this year my E3 2016 20% off preorders are down to 50 dollars, so I get both deals.
i just did the 2nd order about an hour ago or so.
VanCityGamer
Member
Not sure, actually.
VanCityGamer
Member
Doing it how? Like I said, it gives an error for me trying to enter the same promo code a second time.
so u can get the $50 + additional 20% from last year's e3 promo?
truestatic
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i got one automatically emailed to me, then went to get another code from the rewards zone site. and also used a friends code.
i just enter it in xD
edit: read your post wrong... see the post below this.. lol
Yeah, but it involves CSRs. It's not automatic.
but the price guarantee only guarantees you pay the lowest price and not lowest price + 20% off?
KingdomHeartsFan
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Woke up and all my amazon orders are still there, so far so good 
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.MercuryLS3
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I tried to get multiple codes from bestbuy with no luck. Oh well, I'll use the 20% off on uncharted: lost legacy and everybody's golf since no one is doing deals on them.
Congrats to everyone for getting the big deals from Amazon. I tried a couple of times but didn't feel right about brute-forcing the heck out of it.
I am considering re-ordering stuff I had only a Prime discount on, just in case the E3 20% somehow works differently.
What I did notice, however, is that I don't see any evidence that the old Prime discount continues to exist in the form we knew.
For example: Since there were no deals on it, yesterday I thought I may as well bite the bullet and preorder Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. On its Amazon page (https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B06Y8YQ4V5/), there's a note about Prime Savings. It doesn't say 20%, but it does say they'll be applied at checkout. But go through to checkout and the only discount on the item is a $5 credit I had on my account for reloading my GC balance.
If you look at the Prime benefits page, it lists "Member Exclusive Discount" as one of the benefits of Prime, but clicking on that doesn't bring you to any sort of details, just a list of "Prime Discount"-eligible games. I'm sure there used to be a page of terms somewhere. Couldn't see a mention of 20% anywhere.
Has anyone tried ordering a game that doesn't have any sort of special E3 promotion active on it?
I am considering re-ordering stuff I had only a Prime discount on, just in case the E3 20% somehow works differently.
What I did notice, however, is that I don't see any evidence that the old Prime discount continues to exist in the form we knew.
For example: Since there were no deals on it, yesterday I thought I may as well bite the bullet and preorder Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. On its Amazon page (https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B06Y8YQ4V5/), there's a note about Prime Savings. It doesn't say 20%, but it does say they'll be applied at checkout. But go through to checkout and the only discount on the item is a $5 credit I had on my account for reloading my GC balance.
If you look at the Prime benefits page, it lists "Member Exclusive Discount" as one of the benefits of Prime, but clicking on that doesn't bring you to any sort of details, just a list of "Prime Discount"-eligible games. I'm sure there used to be a page of terms somewhere. Couldn't see a mention of 20% anywhere.
Has anyone tried ordering a game that doesn't have any sort of special E3 promotion active on it?
chrominance
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Yeah, that's the thing. In prior years, you DID get lowest price + 20%, and it was automatic. Last year, something changed. Contacting CSRs might get you the discount, as a bunch of people in this thread can corroborate, but I don't know if everyone just got dumb CSRs that didn't know the policy, or if Amazon's own shit spontaneously broke for no reason, conveniently only on E3 2016 pre-orders.
Personally, I hate contacting CSRs and trying to cajole them into giving me what I want and half the time telling me no. So I consider E3 2016 discounts to be 20% off MSRP. Don't know if this year's discounts will go back to being lowest + 20%, but given that Prime explicitly states that you only get MSRP + 20% or lowest + 0%, and given that this would be a really weird way to differentiate between Prime and E3 discounts, I'm not betting on it personally. It may still be a good idea to replace your existing Prime discounts with E3 ones, just because they'll still be around after your Prime membership expires.
Games that have released in the last two weeks have lost their Prime discount. Wipeout Omega Collection, for example, has a banner about Prime members saving on new release games, but does not actually apply the discount at checkout.
My guess is this is temporary, they probably pulled the Prime discounts entirely and replaced them with the E3 ones. It would be pretty shitty of Amazon to suddenly pull a major benefit of Prime before a year is even up, meaning that no one who signed up for a full year gets the benefits they were promised. (Hell, you could argue even this temporary suspension isn't right, given that some people might be relying on that post-release discount so they could wait for reviews of a game.)
KingdomHeartsFan
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I'm trying to get a second code off best buy, but I don't see an option to sign up for the newsletter after login into the reward zone.
Edit: I think I did it but I'm not getting another email from them.
Edit: I think I did it but I'm not getting another email from them.
That was my thinking as well, but it definitely does suck. Might just put in a Best Buy preorder for a couple of things just as a backup (or maybe I will come to a realization that I don't need everything (ha ha ha))
MercuryLS3
Junior Member
I signed up to rewardszone using a few different email addresses. Got 3 unique codes. Going to try to stack them on pre-orders when I get home.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
You know, this double stacking is probably how Amazon got rid of the ability to combine orders.
catpurrcat
Member
Best Buy. FS before them.
Buying a controller at BB at store opening hour, the guy at the counter immediately says, "good price, just the one? you part of RFD?" Lol. Uh no, just a regular dude buying ONE controller.
Guess they see all kinds of deal seekers at that hour looking to clear out shelves before anyone else gets there.
I'll try to make this explanation as simple as I can haha.
Here's the E3 fine print:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/A242VYQU4A/
You can't stack promotions, but lowest price guarantee isn't a promotion. A promotion would be "E3 DISCOUNT -30 DOLLARS" at checkout, which wouldn't affect the lowest price guarantee for existing preorders.
But Amazon didn't do that. They lowered the asking price, lowering the price of everyone's E3 2016 preorders in the process. But because there are no other promotions applied, items are still eligible for 20% off (if you complain to a CSR).
Here's what they did: they lowered the asking price of a bunch of games to match Walmart, and they're pretending these items are "special promotions" when really it's just a quick price reduction.
Likewise, they repurposed the Prime 20% off for E3 2017 and disabled the Prime 20% off in the process, which is another opportunity for CSR complaints.
No. That's basically it. It's too bad that the 20% prime doesn't apply to the order.
They didn't lower the asking price, they discounted them. That's a promotion. The 49.96 games are currently saying 30 DOLLARS OFF, like you said, on their respective pages. Amazon is simply giving you the best promotion of the two, since you cannot stack them. Complaining to CSRs like that is gaming the system, and will likely eventually lead to the discontinuation of these promotions, or to worse customer service.
For $50 games no. There was a glitch last night on Amazon which allowed Prime members to stack the Prime discount with the e3 discount on certain $79.99 games.
I mean, this is a thread where people are gaming the system for double discounts. At least I have fine print justification.
KingdomHeartsFan
Member
I made a new account to get 2 codes, won't let me stack them tho :/.
EDIT: In case anyone else has this issue, it had been forever since I logged into Rewards Zone, so upon logging in, I was prompted to change my password and nothing else. When I logged in a second time, there was an opt-in for promotional Best Buy emails -- which, after I accepted, informed me I'd receive the E3 email shortly (FWIW, my account was already set up to receive promotional emails).
So, a question regarding Best Buy, did people just get codes from them, or what? I'm not in a rush to order anything from them, but I just logged into my Rewards Zone account for the first time in forever, and between that page and the Best Buy page, I'm led to believe I should already have something in my inbox?
(Wow, look at me, Mr. Needs Technical Support this E3)
So, a question regarding Best Buy, did people just get codes from them, or what? I'm not in a rush to order anything from them, but I just logged into my Rewards Zone account for the first time in forever, and between that page and the Best Buy page, I'm led to believe I should already have something in my inbox?
(Wow, look at me, Mr. Needs Technical Support this E3)
N° 2048
Member
I just got a code in an email.
Iamcorrupt
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Have 3 BB codes but they don't seem to stack beyond 1 code for me.
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