After a romantic candle-lit dinner followed by a dip in the hot tub, my friend told me about the Best Buy trade in program. I went to the trade-in page and found out that it’s quite different from GameStop. There are three steps to the process: Estimate, Print/Ship, Receive a gift card. Instead of going into a store and trading your games in, everything is done online. The one exception are the trade-in kiosks, but those are not readily available.
The real question is if you get more money for your trade-ins. After a quick call to GameStop, I have a list of three games and their values at both Best Buy and GameStop.
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Setting up a new gaming system is hard people! Hard work I tell ya! Really flippin’ hard! We go out and buy that $300 next-gen gaming system, take it home to simply stare at it, and then beat the living piss out of it with a leg bone from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It sits there idly, looking pretty next to your TV setup. Trouble is, how the hell do you hook it up and play a game on it? I don’t know? All of these cords and buttons to press? It’s almost like trying to start a flying futuristic car! Do you you? Crap, call up the best Scottish scientist you know of! What? He’s too busy cloning sheep to have sex with? Geek Squad might know.
These white shirted Mormon looking dudes will come over to your house, take $130 dollars out of your cookie jar, setup your PS3, and then rape you in the ass without anal lube, free of charge in front of your kids. Why? Because they can. And they will.
The picture above is kind of blurry, but it states that the Best Buy Geek Squad will come and configure your gaming system, setup parental controls (don’t really need to), install all of the latest firmware updates (automated setup process for 20 minutes), setup local user accounts (takes 5 to 10 minutes) and get you online with a PSN account (takes about 20 minutes). Overall that’s about an hour or so of setup time. We’re looking at European car repair time/money ratio here people. Mechanics that work on Porches don’t get paid that much. Why does some pimply douchebag with a black tie who drives a shitty ass Beetle get $130 of my bones?
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Budget minded gamers like me are constantly looking for video game deals left and right. I have been subscribed to a few RSS feeds for quite some time now and I shop for everything from dorky/offensive t-shirts to geek gear and dragon dildoes. Through the Slick Deals RSS feed, I came across a great offer from Best Buy.com. Right now if you head on over to Best Buy online you will be able to get any 360 game of your choice for the online price (it can be any price mind you), and you’ll get the second one of equal or lesser value for 50% off.
Not only is that a great deal, it also works on pre-orders too. I myself just bought Batman: Arkham Asylum (which I was going to get anyway) and I pre-ordered Modern Warfare 2 for $30 dollars. Tax is added on after you enter your zip code, but shipping is free, so that puts the icing on the cake for me.
I only mention this because I feel like this is a great deal for my fellow Loot Ninja gamers, and want to spread the wealth, because I love you. I really really do. If you are looking to buy a few games around this slow time anyway, now might be the time to do so for a great price. You can tinker around with the shipping or pick-up option in store and it could save you a few extra dollars, but then you will have to deal with people. I don’t like to deal with people, so I chose the “ship to my front door” option. I can do that in my red hearted thong underwear if I want to. Best Buy apparently frowns on that attire in the store.
There is no telling how long this deal will last, so get on out there and get to buyin’!
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Now we all know that the Xbox 360 has its share of problems, most notably the RROD (red ring of death). For some people its very existence is a reason to never make a purchase. I can’t blame them really. After all, Microsoft knew the problem existed and decided to push the system out anyway, which is complete and utter horseshit. But there has always been a bit of a contrast provided by various companies to offset this questionable practice. This contrast has taken the form of PRP (product replacement plans). For $50-$80, you can get a 2 year replacement plan to cover any reasonable damage of occurrence to your system.
Unfortunately, 2 years to a retailer has its own definition.
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Anyone who is interested in getting a year of Xbox Live for 30 bucks should keep reading. Best Buy is having an online sale right now that allows you to get a 1 year card + 1 free month. I got this from Amazon last week for the same price but this is easier because you can do in store pick up. Here is the link for your shopping pleasure. It beats out of playing the 7 dollars a month as I was doing beforehand.
So you arrive at the airport just in time to find out your flight has been delayed by a few hours, what do you do? Buy a Nintendo DS Lite and brand new copy of Mario Kart of course! Best Buy Express vending machines have recently been spotted at the Atlanta International Airport which include various electronic items along with a bunch of popular Nintendo DS titles and the handheld itself. If you were ill prepared for your flight, you now have some options.
The products are priced right around the retail mark, there isn’t any airport price gouging on Nintendo products I guess. My main concern would be what to do if that Nintendo DS you just paid full price for gets stuck on it’s way out of the machine. This isn’t just a bag of Cheetos.
We have seen machines like these before that include other various electronics but it’s nice to see some gaming products readily available for your gaming pleasure.
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Like most fanboys do before the release of a much anticipated game, I went searching for the best pre-order deal for Gears of War 2. I decided that I wasn’t really interested in a gold hammerburst and went for Best Buy’s pre-order item of a remote control centaur tank. I was aware the tank would be fairly small in stature and probably be made of the cheapest parts available, but I was sure that it would at least function properly. Man, was I wrong.
Best Buy’s pre-order deal was, if you ordered the limited edition of Gears of War 2 you would receive a free centaur tank. The offer was only good for the limited edition copies of the game. The tank wasn’t exactly the deciding factor on going with the limited edition version but it did have a slight bearing on my final decision. So, I plopped down the extra $10.00 plus sales tax. I arrived early at Best Buy on Friday morning just to make sure I received my incentive gift because Best Buy only had a limited number of the tanks which was clearly stated in the ad. I picked up my copy of the game and the free tank, just another satisfied customer.
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Today is the day. Maybe you are even reading this from the car as you prepare your equipment to enter the dreaded line in anticipation for Fallout 3. If you reside in any of the northern states I would recommend to bring more than a blanket.
Bethesda Softworks and Best Buy have teamed up to bring you a midnight release of Fallout 3 in select cities. Lines will start forming around 3 P.M. local time today. Bethesda’s hometown Best Buy in Rockville, Maryland will be the flagship location with special festivities along with developer signings of your copy of Fallout 3. If you are no where near this location there are plenty of other metropolitan areas to travel to. This is one of the biggest games of the season so if you have any chance at making the midnight launch you should definitely go for it. A list of the select cities will be after the jump.
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I made a trip over to Best Buy today to pick up Far Cry 2 for the Xbox 360 and decided to browse through all the gaming aisles to see what they had available. To my surprise, for the first time, I saw PSN cards. Both the $20 and $50 cards were available for sale with over 10 of each on the racks.
It took long enough, but you can now walk into your friendly neighborhood Best Buy and actually get these bad boys. Too bad they aren’t getting advertised as being available. I bet most of the gaming population has no idea.
No one is immune. It’s spreading like AIDS from Scuba…
I was at Best Buy this Saturday afternoon picking up a couple of Blu-Ray movies when I happened upon this sight. Now, I’m in Best Buy at least once a week for various reasons. Whenever I’m there, I always stop by the video game section. I can attest to this Xbox 360 working on Thursday.
This isn’t the fist time I’ve seen this Best Buy hit by the Red Ring of Death either. The funniest part was some kid, half crying, asking his mom why this Xbox 360 wouldn’t work. Sadly, I didn’t want to take his picture for fear of being labeled a pedophile. But trust me, it was funny.
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