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Insane secret Best Buy clearance

Posted: February 26th, 2007, 9:35 pm
by JustLikeHeaven1
Well I just got back from my local BestBuy and this secret sale was not happening.  About 90% of the games listed weren't even at the store to begin with and the few they had didn't ring up at a discounted price.  I think they moved all this stuff to larger metro areas weeks ago.  I live in Rhode Island and I live an hour away from any major metro area, so that might be why my BestBuy didn't have the sale.  Anyways, thanks for the heads up...I wish I could have taken advantage of this.

Insane secret Best Buy clearance

Posted: February 26th, 2007, 9:52 pm
by Edward M
[QUOTE=Shawn][QUOTE=ActRaiser]

It's a clearance sell.  ie they're not restocking anything, they're just trying to clear out inventory.

 

After hitting another Best Buy on the way home I snagged a few games.  All pretty much in the craptacular category.  Seriously, though I think all the employees got the good stuff at 10:00 am this morning.  None of the triple A titles were available.  I've been hoping for a clearance on cube games for awhile now.  Anyway, here's my list of stuff.  Most bad with a few gems thrown in.

 

DS
2 TAK3:The Great JuJu Challange
2 Pac Pix
10 Sprung


GBA
10 Gunstar Super Heroes
2 Ultimate Spiderman
2 Drill Dozer
2 Fairly odd parents: clash
2 Power Rangers S.P.D.

PS2
5 Star Ocean: Till The End of Time
2 Rainbow Six 3
2 Ghost Recon

Xbox
10 Taito Legends
5 Red Dead Revolver
5 Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
5 Destroy All Humans
2 Evil Dead Regenerations
2 Chronicles of Narnia
2 Tecmo Classic Arcade
2 187 Ride or Die
2 LA Rush
2 Marc Ecko's Getting Up
2 Darkwatch
2 Dead or Alive Ultimate
2 Def Jame Fight for NY
2 Sonic Riders

Total haul $86 plus tax for 25 or so games.  Most in the "eh" stage but some were an absolute bargain.

 

Good Luck!

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Actually dude you snagged some decent games. Darkwatch, Def Jam, Star Ocean and Gunstar are all pretty good. Too bad I missed this!

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Yeah he did great.   Be sure and try Darkwatch, that game is awesome.  A few of the game are crap like 187 ride or die, but he only paid 2 bucks so no big deal.  I hear Mark Echo's getting up is a pretty good Prince of Persia style platformer in the inner city, so thats why I bolded it in the list.  Probably the only major mistake he made was buying sprung for 10 dollars.   It looks like junk and it has a 48 percent at gamerankings.  If you haven't opened it up, I'd recommend taking it back.

 

 

[QUOTE=Shawn]

Well I just got back from my local BestBuy and this secret sale was not happening.  About 90% of the games listed weren't even at the store to begin with and the few they had didn't ring up at a discounted price.  I think they moved all this stuff to larger metro areas weeks ago.  I live in Rhode Island and I live an hour away from any major metro area, so that might be why my BestBuy didn't have the sale.  Anyways, thanks for the heads up...I wish I could have taken advantage of this.

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 That's strange.  I expected 90 percent of the games to be gone, like they were at my store, but I wonder why it rung up wrong.   I haven't heard anyone have this problem yet, anyone else have this problem?  Maybe some states aren't doing it or something.  I hope your store gets its act together.

 

 

 

 


Insane secret Best Buy clearance

Posted: February 27th, 2007, 8:38 am
by ActRaiser1

[QUOTE=JustLikeHeaven]Well I just got back from my local BestBuy and this secret sale was not happening.  About 90% of the games listed weren't even at the store to begin with and the few they had didn't ring up at a discounted price.  I think they moved all this stuff to larger metro areas weeks ago.  I live in Rhode Island and I live an hour away from any major metro area, so that might be why my BestBuy didn't have the sale.  Anyways, thanks for the heads up...I wish I could have taken advantage of this.
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My guess is you missed it by a few hours.  The first one I went to just after lunch had a small inventory and then at 4:30 or so I made it to another with an even smaller inventory of the $2 stuff.  I saw Best Buy guys going around and removing the $2 price list stickers for games that were sold out to avoid hearing the "Do you have this game in the back?" type questions.