Spend $80 on select titles and receive a $40 promotional claim code usable towards a future Wii, Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 game purchase. To qualify for the credit, you must check out with two or more eligible items in your cart. Only purchases from Amazon.com as the seller and made between October 26, 2009 and October 31, 2009 will qualify for this promotion. Only one (1) promotional claim code will be sent per household. Promotional claim code will expire at 11:59pm PST on 12/31/2009. Codes will be sent via email seven (7) business days after all items in the qualifying order have shipped
Pretty good deal I think. It says "select titles" but pretty much every game I could think of were on there - except preorders. At this pace, Amazon is going to bankrupt me before the end of this holiday season.
Spend $80, Receive a $40 Promotional Claim Code Discount Fine Print Limit one promotional claim code per household. Only purchases bought from Amazon.com as the seller on the www.amazon.com website will qualify for this promotion. It does not apply to the same products sold by other sellers on the Amazon.com website. Promotional claim code will be sent via email seven (7) business days after all items in the qualifying order have shipped. Promotional claim code is only valid until 11:59pm PST on 12/31/2009. Each promotional claim code can be used only once, even if the full promotional credit is not used. Taxes, gift-wrap, and shipping and handling charges do not apply toward the minimum purchase amount. Promotional claim code cannot be used to pay for gift-wrap, taxes, or shipping and handling charges. Promotional claim code may not be combined with other offers in the same order. Generally, only one promotional claim code may be used per order. Offer is not for resale and is not redeemable for cash. Offer cannot be applied to orders already placed with Amazon.com. If you return items purchased using a promotional code, you will not receive a refund for the amount of the offer. Promotional claim code must be redeemed at our Web site, http://www.amazon.com, toward the purchase of by products sold by Amazon.com as the seller. If Amazon.com is not the seller, it will be noted on the product detail page.
Not a bad deal at all. It's just that right now Best Buy has a Buy-Two-Get-One-Free game deal. When that's over, Amazon's deal will look a little better.
chicoedge said: Not a bad deal at all. It's just that right now Best Buy has a Buy-Two-Get-One-Free game deal. When that's over, Amazon's deal will look a little better.
No tax and free shipping makes it a little closer...
rbraden said: chicoedge said: Not a bad deal at all. It's just that right now Best Buy has a Buy-Two-Get-One-Free game deal. When that's over, Amazon's deal will look a little better.
No tax and free shipping makes it a little closer...
Best Buy is actually offering free shipping on all three games. There is the tax issue but you get the third game completely free even if it's $60. You still have to pay a little extra for a game over $40 with Amazon's deal so both deals work out.
chicoedge said: rbraden said: chicoedge said: Not a bad deal at all. It's just that right now Best Buy has a Buy-Two-Get-One-Free game deal. When that's over, Amazon's deal will look a little better.
No tax and free shipping makes it a little closer...
Best Buy is actually offering free shipping on all three games. There is the tax issue but you get the third game completely free even if it's $60. You still have to pay a little extra for a game over $40 with Amazon's deal so both deals work out.
There is one positive to this Amazon deal vs. B2G1. If you did B2G1 the discount only applies to the lowest priced game. So it doesn't make sense to mix and match price points. To get the best deal you either have to get 3 brand new AAA titles, or 3 cheap games. I like this new Amazon deal so i can get a few cheap games, or 1 expensive game + 1 discount game, whatever so it totals $80. Then I get the $40 credit and can apply that to whatever I want down the line.
Of course I'm not arguing against the Best Buy deal either. Since I already took advantage of that one. But the Amazon deal allows a little more variety if you can't find 3 full price games you want or so you don't have to force yourself to get 3 "equally priced" older games.
tacoeater said: chicoedge said: rbraden said: chicoedge said: Not a bad deal at all. It's just that right now Best Buy has a Buy-Two-Get-One-Free game deal. When that's over, Amazon's deal will look a little better.
No tax and free shipping makes it a little closer...
Best Buy is actually offering free shipping on all three games. There is the tax issue but you get the third game completely free even if it's $60. You still have to pay a little extra for a game over $40 with Amazon's deal so both deals work out.
There is one positive to this Amazon deal vs. B2G1. If you did B2G1 the discount only applies to the lowest priced game. So it doesn't make sense to mix and match price points. To get the best deal you either have to get 3 brand new AAA titles, or 3 cheap games. I like this new Amazon deal so i can get a few cheap games, or 1 expensive game + 1 discount game, whatever so it totals $80. Then I get the $40 credit and can apply that to whatever I want down the line.
Of course I'm not arguing against the Best Buy deal either. Since I already took advantage of that one. But the Amazon deal allows a little more variety if you can't find 3 full price games you want or so you don't have to force yourself to get 3 "equally priced" older games.
There's a number of hidden advantages to either deal. Right now I'm in a double points period on my Amazon Via card so a $120 game purchase will net me 720 points instead of the usual 360. Of course, someone with a Best Buy credit card will probably have similar benefits. On top of that, the Best Buy deal allows you to buy multiple games over the week and keep scoring free titles. The Amazon credit can only be used once.
I'm not knocking either deal either. However, someone can walk into Best Buy right now and get three AAA new release games for the price of two plus tax and still pay a little less than what the same games would cost on Amazon. I'll probably take Amazon up on their game offer but at the moment Best Buy's deal is nothing to sneeze at.
Yuyak said: Pretty good deal I think. It says "select titles" but pretty much every game I could think of were on there - except preorders.
Unfortunately the Xbox 360 version of Williams Pinball Hall of Fame, which at $29 would have been an excellent 2nd title to hit the $80 mark, is not included in the promo, apparently.
Leave it to Amazon to trump BB. This deal is muuuuuch better than BB. Being able to pick up a couple mid priced games and get a $40 promo for use later, plus no taxes, what a deal and hey, thanks for the post spider, I am always on top of game deals but knew nothing about this.
broll
Member
posted: Oct. 27, 2009 @ 8:42a
ktg said: Yuyak said: Pretty good deal I think. It says "select titles" but pretty much every game I could think of were on there - except preorders.
Unfortunately the Xbox 360 version of Williams Pinball Hall of Fame, which at $29 would have been an excellent 2nd title to hit the $80 mark, is not included in the promo, apparently.
Cool that the ECA code stacks with this deal.
So the ECA code is back? How exactly does somebody (who already signed up for ECA) get the code to work? Last I saw was that the code wasn't fixed on the ECA Forum.
broll said: ktg said: Yuyak said: Pretty good deal I think. It says "select titles" but pretty much every game I could think of were on there - except preorders.
Unfortunately the Xbox 360 version of Williams Pinball Hall of Fame, which at $29 would have been an excellent 2nd title to hit the $80 mark, is not included in the promo, apparently.
Cool that the ECA code stacks with this deal.
So the ECA code is back? How exactly does somebody (who already signed up for ECA) get the code to work? Last I saw was that the code wasn't fixed on the ECA Forum.
He prob had a code from before they broke the code generator.
sweet deal, ordered uncharted and borderland, gonna use 40 and 10 from COD for GOW3. Amazon gave me an option to get it today. crazy. i heart Amazon. thanks op
PhDeez said: broll said: ktg said: Yuyak said: Pretty good deal I think. It says "select titles" but pretty much every game I could think of were on there - except preorders.
Unfortunately the Xbox 360 version of Williams Pinball Hall of Fame, which at $29 would have been an excellent 2nd title to hit the $80 mark, is not included in the promo, apparently.
Cool that the ECA code stacks with this deal.
So the ECA code is back? How exactly does somebody (who already signed up for ECA) get the code to work? Last I saw was that the code wasn't fixed on the ECA Forum.
He prob had a code from before they broke the code generator.
That is not true, the generator was never broken. Folks figured out some of the older generated codes could be used/stacked in conjunction with the newer ones, resulting in a game being 20% off. This and only this caused Amazon to request ECA to remove the generator (temporarily, although it still has not been reinstated).
DUNsho said: sweet deal, ordered uncharted and borderland, gonna use 40 and 10 from COD for GOW3. Amazon gave me an option to get it today. crazy. i heart Amazon. thanks op
1) I don't think you can combine 2 coupons on one order. (But, you should be able to use the $40 on COD:MW2, then the $20 on GoW - might have to "re-place" your order). 2) The COD:MW2 will be $20, not $10 and Amazon will update previous pre-orders to reflect that.
hugenut said: That is not true, the generator was never broken. Folks figured out some of the older generated codes could be used/stacked in conjunction with the newer ones, resulting in a game being 20% off. This and only this caused Amazon to request ECA to remove the generator (temporarily, although it still has not been reinstated).
Oh, I wondered why. I just thought people were generating them and selling them (or something like that). Didn't know people were combining them. Good job DBs. At least I didn't pay for the ECA membership... too bad I didn't generate a couple before it broke.
hugenut said: PhDeez said: broll said: ktg said: Yuyak said: Pretty good deal I think. It says "select titles" but pretty much every game I could think of were on there - except preorders.
Unfortunately the Xbox 360 version of Williams Pinball Hall of Fame, which at $29 would have been an excellent 2nd title to hit the $80 mark, is not included in the promo, apparently.
Cool that the ECA code stacks with this deal.
So the ECA code is back? How exactly does somebody (who already signed up for ECA) get the code to work? Last I saw was that the code wasn't fixed on the ECA Forum.
He prob had a code from before they broke the code generator.
That is not true, the generator was never broken. Folks figured out some of the older generated codes could be used/stacked in conjunction with the newer ones, resulting in a game being 20% off. This and only this caused Amazon to request ECA to remove the generator (temporarily, although it still has not been reinstated).
Just to clarify, I had a single code that I had generated when I first joined ECA a few weeks back, and hadn't used yet.
Thanks OP! Just a word of caution - some games show up with the $40 promo, even though they are clearly not sold by Amazon. Be sure to look at the seller.
Between this and the BB deal, my kids will be very happy this Christmas.
hugenut said: That is not true, the generator was never broken. Folks figured out some of the older generated codes could be used/stacked in conjunction with the newer ones, resulting in a game being 20% off. This and only this caused Amazon to request ECA to remove the generator (temporarily, although it still has not been reinstated). Yep, that's the story I heard too. Unfortunately, ECA announced that they're going to end the Amazon partnership "for the time being" (announced yesterday). I think they intentionally left open the possibility that it'll come back later, but I think they were getting annoyed with everyone asking when it was going to be back up. Anyway, at this point, it'll probably be better to assume it's not coming back and be grateful if/when it does.
mei12008
Member
posted: Oct. 27, 2009 @ 6:28p
looks like they raised the price of some games (ninja gaiden sigma was around 13, now 25?! motorstorm too....typical
chimmyc
Happy Member
posted: Oct. 27, 2009 @ 7:50p
Does anyone know how these sorts of credits work with returns? I might want to pick up one title for me and another as an early b-day or holiday gift, but worried the recipient might end up getting it for himself between now and then. The credit is issued once the titles are shipped, correct? Can they retroactively pull the credit if I need to make a return on one?
Also, it was mentioned in the original post, but for those who just skimmed it be aware that the $40 credit expires on 12/31. Not a big deal for the 'hardcore' gamer but it's worth mentioning.
Shelbyman said: Where does it say that the order qualifies for the $40 future credit. I dont see it during the cart/checkout process.
It won't show in the cart... Just make sure you purchase two games from the qualified list (or confirm it shows on the item page "qualifies for spend 80 get 40") and make sure the seller is Amazon. You'll get your code in less than a week.
Shelbyman said: Where does it say that the order qualifies for the $40 future credit. I dont see it during the cart/checkout process.
It's not noted on the checkout page. The deal is noted on the games that qualify. if your game qualifies, you'll see the offer on the page for the game you want to buy; also note this is only good for games sold by Amazon - some games had the offer on their sale page but were sold by another vendor. I took screenshots of the pages for the two games I bought.
DUNsho said: sweet deal, ordered uncharted and borderland, gonna use 40 and 10 from COD for GOW3. Amazon gave me an option to get it today. crazy. i heart Amazon. thanks op Cancel your COD pre-order. Do another COD pre-order and use the $40 coupon
Leave it to Amazon to trump BB. This deal is muuuuuch better than BB. Being able to pick up a couple mid priced games and get a $40 promo for use later, plus no taxes, what a deal and hey, thanks for the post spider, I am always on top of game deals but knew nothing about this.Ummm, no?
The deals are comparable, but advantages to each deal have been pointed out. For someone like me who has a PS3 and doesn't really have any games and has been wanting to stock up on a dozen games or so, the Best Buy deal is much better, as long as I piece the items together smartly.
Vorpal
Member
posted: Oct. 28, 2009 @ 8:38a
On paper the deals look the same, but remember the Amazon card Cash Back (which can sometimes be doubled) and also that Amazon sells some games for less than best buy. Uncharted 2 is 59.99 at BB and 54.99 at Amazon. Borderlands is 59.99 at BB and 53.99 at Amazon. And so on.
Granted this might 'hurt' you if your particular configuration of desired games is a buck short.
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