Cheap Arse Gaffer (Euro Gaming) Thread 2 - Add to your backlog with ease
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Wrestlemania
Banned
£12 FREE AMAZON CREDIT!
1 - Go to the Sonic Generations PS3 page and click the "trade in" button
2 - Change condition to "like new" and print out postage paid label
3 - Order 2 x copies of Sonic Generations PS3 (maximum trade in qty is 2)
4 - When they arrive, send them back to Amazon still in their shrink-wrap using the postage paid label
Total Cost - £17.98
Amazon Credit received - £30
Yeah, that's some awful Hot UK Deal style shenanigans. Nobody should be doing this shit.
Scammers gonna scam. :-/
Next thing you know someone will offer to sell these games to fellow Gaffers for 19.99 when the price goes back up to 22.99.
Ah okay thanks! Damn it, no SSD for Austria.. (and not for Germany, lol?) No money from me then. I dont want to spend 7 pounds shipping for 2 games. Probably because Austria/Germany have Amazon.de and they would cannibalize their own platform?
iNvid02
Member
right, buying a product from amazon and then taking advantage of their trade in offer is
scamming them - seriously? they offer £3 trade in for black ops, its less than gamestation lol
i'd understand if it had no limits and everybody started ordering tons of copies and it made
amazon reset the trade in price and bump up the sonic price, but its 2 copies.
Ah okay thanks! Damn it, no SSD for Austria.. (and not for Germany, lol?) No money from me then. I dont want to spend 7 pounds shipping for 2 games. Probably because Austria/Germany have Amazon.de and they would cannibalize their own platform?
Yeah, I think they only offer that option for countries that don't have their own Amazon site.
J Tourettes
Banned
It's probably not scamming Amazon that people are moaning about, more the fact that a legitimate consumer could miss out on the game at a great price due to shenanigans like this.
Exactly. Its been happening over and over again.
People actually wanting to buy a game to play and enjoy it, but when they click 2 minutes after it's been posted, they are all gone thanks to scalpers.
It's disgusting enough to see this happening on those kinds of sites, let along GAF.
feint_ruled
Member
Also any potential 'scammers' be aware that all traded games have to go through an approval stage. Amazon could reject it at this stage, offering you a lower price (or you can opt to have it returned to you).
kurtrussell
Banned
Poor old Amazon! It's scammers like me who could put the fragile operation out of business.
Sorry about that, guys! x
Sorry about that, guys! x
No it's guys like this that screw the people who use this topic for it's intended purpose out of the games they'd like to play.
Monkeylord
Member
Try contacting them. I ordered the 360 version of SotD on the 12th, it was posted to me on the 16th and I had it by the 20th.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
£12 FREE AMAZON CREDIT!
1 - Go to the Sonic Generations PS3 page and click the "trade in" button
2 - Change condition to "like new" and print out postage paid label
3 - Order 2 x copies of Sonic Generations PS3 (maximum trade in qty is 2)
4 - When they arrive, send them back to Amazon still in their shrink-wrap using the postage paid label
Total Cost - £17.98
Amazon Credit received - £30
Fraudster GAF?
PS3 version sold out everywhere.
Going by your previous post that you also buy cheap games you see in this thread to trade them in at CEX, do you actually use this thread to play games or just to make a profit?
StevePharma
Member
Ordered Sonic Generations along with some other stuff on Amazon. Good shit.
I feel sorry for the people who have to game the system in order to make some petty money. But hey, I won't judge and berate you, it's not illegal.
I heard that we get a nationbased Amazon here in Holland as well (supposedly Amazon.nl) Kinda bums me out a bit because no way they will have these bomba prices like the UK does once in a while. Sonic generations is still 59 euros at most local retail stores. :-/
I feel sorry for the people who have to game the system in order to make some petty money. But hey, I won't judge and berate you, it's not illegal.
I heard that we get a nationbased Amazon here in Holland as well (supposedly Amazon.nl) Kinda bums me out a bit because no way they will have these bomba prices like the UK does once in a while. Sonic generations is still 59 euros at most local retail stores. :-/
Jeff Albertson
Member
People doing shit like that really pisses me off, really against the spirit of this thread as well.
Remember the guy on Black Friday who bought a Wii or something and tried to sell it on here at a huge markup?
Enjoy your £12
Anyway I'm considering Call of Juarez The Cartel, I know its meant to be bad but £5 at Play seems to be worth it
Remember the guy on Black Friday who bought a Wii or something and tried to sell it on here at a huge markup?
Enjoy your £12
Anyway I'm considering Call of Juarez The Cartel, I know its meant to be bad but £5 at Play seems to be worth it
StevePharma
Member
Damn that was quick.
Foliorum Viridum
Banned
I hope Amazon offer them less than what they paid for it.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
This thread has really turned to shit over the last few months thanks to some people showing their true colours.
A real shame.
A real shame.
kurtrussell
Banned
With the greatest respect, who the fuck are you to tell me what to do with my money?
Following on the same route as yours, where does your arrogance end? What next? Only people who will 100% complete the game should buy games listed on this thread in case they take away the opportunity for someone else who wants to 100% complete it?
Or should we only buy games listed on here if we are sure we are going to like it? If we buy it on the offchance we might like it, but then decide we don't and want to sell it after a day, haven't we "deprived" someone else who may have played it for a week? Oh Noes!
So yeah, shades of grey, and people who judge others are usually twats.
I'm sorry, but everyone has an equal chance to read this thread and buy anything listed on it. What they do with that is their business, and considering I'm not a) breaking any laws and b) completely taking the piss and profiteering from 100s of copies, I think I'm just fine as I am, buddy.
This thread mostly turned to shit mid-2010 when lazy GAFfers just started copy+pasting hotukdeals.
drkOne
Member
Are you really that dumb? And this goes to everyone who decided this was worth the FREE £12...
Most of the Sonic copies at this price-point will end up being returned. Yes, you get TWELVE FUCKING POUNDS, you may now go and watch a movie and dine for free, that doesn't make you any less of a douche, considering you came to post this on a thread where people (not including myself, I'm not flaming you because you screwed my deal) were actually looking to PAY for a £8 copy of Sonic.
If you can't see why this only screws the community of this thread maybe you should get out of your I GOT MONEY FOR FREE bubble and realize where exploiting these deals will lead us.
kurtrussell said:
You should buy games with the intention of BUYING them. Not with the intention of returning them and making a profit, considering there's a limited quantity available at a discounted price. For every £12 someone won, 2 people missed out on the chance of actually buying a copy of Sonic.
kurtrussell said:
Now you're just shitting on the effort a lot of people put into this thread to make it unique.
It's pretty laughable that you criticize your own way of acting. You say that this thread is shit due to copying HUKD deals, when that's what you just did.
You should be proud though, it's the first time I really feel the need to ignore-list someone on GAF.
Alessandro
Member
What the hell am I reading?
This is supposed to be the deals thread.
More deals less drama.
This is supposed to be the deals thread.
More deals less drama.
Aretak
Member
Jeff Albertson
Member
Wonder how much class £12 can buy you, not enough sadly.
twisteddeeds
Member
Its stuff like this that really grinds my gears....
Its as bad as the ebayers who buy up all copies of a hard to find game and then sell them at a premium...
I thought this thread was about helping people to save money, not screwing over other consumers
Its as bad as the ebayers who buy up all copies of a hard to find game and then sell them at a premium...
I thought this thread was about helping people to save money, not screwing over other consumers
kurtrussell
Banned
Okay, but you still haven't explained what automatically gives someone the right to purchase an £8 copy of Sonic whether they play it or not? That's because nobody has an instant entitlement to anything. If somebody wanted to play the game THAT badly, they've had a few months of it been available at anywhere between £10 - £12 depending on the deal. So I'm not going to feel too bad at depriving the folks who are opportunistic enough to wait for a sub-£10 drop by way of my opportunism. It's essentially the same thing, both they and I are making a perceived financial gain.
Ironically, if you check my post history, I've been known to post the odd deal in here from time to time, so therefore, I'm obviously "shitting on" my own effort.
Regardless, the stark reality is that without the fantastic (and under appreciated) efforts of Keyser Souze to repeatedly post unique deal after deal, this post would by and large be a clone of hotukdeals / dealspwn
Please go right ahead. Not sure why you feel the need to announce to me that you've put me on an ignore list? Is that supposed to offend me? Are you trying to make a melodramatic statement of intent? Or are you just attention seeking? A little bit of columns A, B, C perhaps?
I agree. There has been more outrage, hysteria and taking of the moral high-ground posted in the last page of this thread than in a Daily Mail article on immigration.
MarshMellow96
Member
Now little Jimmy won't be getting Sonic for his birthday thanks to you making a measly £12.
C'mon, guys.
C'mon, guys.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
I would have quite liked a cheapo sonic gen.
Thanks seedygaf.
Thanks seedygaf.
feint_ruled
Member
Agree, this thread should be about gamers saving money, not making money!
Tribes of Trusty
Member
Bought Sonic for 12,50, I intend to enjoy it.
For French-GAF : there are some awesome games in your local Fnac stores (also on fnac.fr) :
Valkyria Chronicle 2 for 5
FFIV Complete PSP for 10
Ghost Trick DS for 10
Last Window for 10
Fallout New Vegas for 8
For French-GAF : there are some awesome games in your local Fnac stores (also on fnac.fr) :
Valkyria Chronicle 2 for 5
FFIV Complete PSP for 10
Ghost Trick DS for 10
Last Window for 10
Fallout New Vegas for 8
kurtrussell
Banned
What's the difference between someone being greedy enough to wait until a game drops sub-£10 and some heinous, vile, sleazy, scum-of-the-earth scammer like myself being greedy enough to take advantage of the sub-£10 price drop to make a few quid, junior?
Besides - I'm going to save £12 on a Vita now. I rock!
randomlyrossy
Member
I was the same so I cancelled and grabbed it off Zavvi, mine arrived today.
Because you are deliberately screwing people out of getting something they actually want, just to make a few quid.
And these numerous attempts to justify this kind of shit just makes you guys look even more pathetic.
kurtrussell
Banned
What's the difference between Shadows of the Damned, and Shadows of the Damned 18 PEGI version? They are both rated 18, so are there any differences in content between the two?
Wrestlemania
Banned
Trying to work out which one you can sell on for more money?
Kandrick
GAF's Ed McMahon
If you want to make money by doing shaddy stuff, then do so. But don't gloat about it here and expect people to agree with you.
Also mocking him because he is a junior ? Really ? Not that i was expecting any less from you.
twisteddeeds
Member
It's not a question about being greedy about waiting on a certain price...
Not everyone can afford going over certain prices on a budget..
feint_ruled
Member
Well, if you can't see the difference between waiting to buy a game because you see it at a bargain price or buying multiple copies of the same game just to immediately sell them back to the same vendor to take advantage of a price discrepancy then I dunno what to say.
randomlyrossy
Member
One's the European version and one's the UK version? Really couldn't tell you, the one I got from Zavvi is the bbfc 18 cert one.
ecosse_011172
Gold Member
Really, this junior-snobbery bullshit should be a bannable offence, it's beyond pathetic.
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