TDIRunner

You know what you did. Don't be a coward and hide behind your vague comments. Seriously, grow the fuck up.

No one has suggested that. Please read more carefully. I specifically mentioned discussing the issue with the store associate politely. I'm not sure why this has upset you so much, but if it bothers you, make a trip out here and get some good deals. No reason to keep throwing out insults like a child.

It seems like every time we see a video game related Guinness record, it seems easily disprovable. However, you have to remember that Guinness can only certify what they know about. Obviously, it would be nice if they added the disclaimer "that we know of" to their records, but that will never happen because it doesn't sound as good as "world record."

I fixed it for you. Vintage Stock has to ring the games up in sets and manually make the third game free by scanning a sheet with B2G1 bar code. If you bring up a huge pile of games, they have to go through the games and stack the sets together (like 3 $20 games, and 3 $10 games). This is why I do it for them before I get to the counter. It saves them time and it saves the time of the guy waiting behind me in line. The other reason I do that is because I don't want it to get screwed up which is why I also calculate the price in my head first as a rough estimate. If it's within a buck, I know they did it right.

I gave the PS1 and SNES a ranking of 10 because I felt they both deserved it. The PS1 is my favorite, but I still feel the SNES deserves a 10.

With the exception of one game store that I no longer visit for that very reason, the crossed out games would be free at any other store you can find. My experience covers a pretty wide area and includes traveling two states over. $55, $55, $55, $45, $35, $30. In all cases this is done with one transaction. At most places it's calculated automatically at the register, however, some places have to do it manually, which is why I always stack my games ahead of time to make their life easier (and the wait for the guy behind me shorter). Some of you guys are getting ripped off, and personally, if it were me, I would start voting with my wallet and start spending my money elsewhere.

Not one person has said that in this thread.

See my comment above.

It's pretty clear to me now that at least one, if not two people involved in this discussion didn't read this entire thing very carefully. I think you might need to go back to the beginning and start over. Absolutely no one ever said they expected the most expensive item to be free.

Separating 30 items into 10 separate transactions costs time and money and therefore isn't logical. If you want to encourage that I won't try to stop you, but my time is too valuable for that shit and nearly all business owners in my area agree.

Maybe it's a regional thing, but I can assure you that the GS associate was not changing anything on their end. Any prices changes made at the register show up on the receipt. I've had GS reduce prices on lots of stuff if the box or case has some damage to it, and those price adjustments always show up on the receipt. Again, I suppose it's not the same everywhere, but making the cheapest items from the entire lot the free items simply isn't logical. Otherwise, you have to ring up each set of three games as separate transactions which wastes the buyers time along with the store associate's time which cost the company money. I have never and will never give my money to businesses who use this strategy. Apparently I'm lucky in that I've only ran into it one time, and I'm not just talking about game stores.

Definitely not true at GameStop. I've been buying from their B2G1 deals for years and they always go with the cheapest in a set of three. No separate transactions needed. The computer automatically calculates the free game. I have plenty of receipts to back this up. Outside of the local game store that I mentioned in my story, I have NEVER seen any store of any kind go with that type of B2G1 deal, so no, it is not default. If the stores in your area are doing this, that is unfortunate for you, but it's still uncommon and shouldn't be encouraged by shopping at those types of businesses.

But that's not fun. It's way more fun to assume that the grading companies are evil and trying to destroy the gaming market. So let's just keep doing that.

I never regretted buying a Wii U. I got way more house of enjoyment out of the Wii U compared to the Wii.

Once you finally beat it, you should give Super Mario Advance a try. It's only slightly different, but it also adds some hidden coins and Yoshi eggs to provide a little more replay value.

7-2 is fun. It has multiple routes and a lot to explore.

Great point. I wonder if they at least moved the headphone jack in a way that allows for using Bluetooth adapters that don't get in the way of the cart slot, and can remain in place while docked. Seems like it would just be easier to add Bluetooth.

Here is an example of some late run PS1 games that are brand new and sealed but with no security label. Also worth noting that if you open either of these, the back side of the disc would not be black like most other PS1 games.

I don't listen to them very often, but definitely some good songs.

You should check out the Fairchild Channel F. It has one single stick per controller. What's interesting is that stick moves in all directions like a typical joystick. But you can also twist the joystick clockwise or counterclockwise to make it act like a paddle controller. Lastly, the stick and be pushed down or pulled up to act as two separate action buttons. But all of those actions are done with a single stick.

I would swap 3 and 1, but the fact that you listed 2 as the best is for me.

I'll have to check that out. Looks like my type of game as well.

I would highly recommend not giving them your business as I and many others have pointed out, that policy simply doesn't make practical sense.

I asked her what would stop me from doing that and she said nothing. I tried to use that point to show why their policy didn't make any sense. That policy actually encourages people to buy less stuff. That's why I was willing to just walk away if they weren't going to work with me. I'm not going to stand there and make 5 or 6 different transactions when I can just take my business elsewhere.

We have very few local games stores left around here. There is really only one with reasonable prices, but the drive is nearly 40 minutes each way. The one that is closer to my house is just way too expensive. About 6 months ago, they had a B2G1 sale. I figured the sale would help offset their high prices so I picked several PS1 games that I was interested in. When I was ready to buy, I started to lay out the games to make it easier for the cashier. I put the three $10 games together, the three $7 games together, the three $5 games together, etc. The cashier said, "you can't stack games." I asked her what she was talking about. She said with their B2G1 deal, only the cheapest games in the entire bundle become free. Most stores offering B2G1 would charge you the following: $10 + $10 + $10 $7 + $7 + $7 $5 + $5 + $5 For a total of $44 ($22 savings) She was telling me that her store policy for B2G1 was the following: $10 + $10 + $10 $7 + $7 + $7 $5 + $5 + $5 For a total of $51 ($15 savings) Those weren't the actual numbers. I was just using those as an example. Also, I was trying to buy way more then 9 games. In the end the price difference may not have been huge, but it was more the principle of the thing. I have NEVER been to any store with that type of B2G1 policy which I politely expressed. When she said there was nothing she could do, I said no thank you and started to walk out. She ended up making an exception for me, so I bought the games. However, she said that they wouldn't be able to do that ever again, and I haven't been back since.