WooHoo!!! Called Decatur, Al K-Mart this afternoon...noonish...said they had received a shipment of PS3's this morning. Went immediately after work...3:30pm.

Went to the pharmacy...ask the pharmacist for the booklet with the coupons in it...she handed me 2. Went to the Electronics department asked the very young girl (about 20) if she still had any PS3's....she had 3 40gb models left was all.

She asked if I wanted one...i said only if this coupon works with the PS3...she didn't even look at it...and she said "it works with it". I said ok...but i want to buy 6 $50 gift cards first (she was wearing one of those red ribbons that says buy a $50 gift card get a $10 gift card free).

She was very nice...told ME that's a good idea. So...bought $300 worth of gift cards and with the buy $50 get $10 free got $360 worth of gift cards.

Final Numbers were:

$400 40gb Spiderman PS3 with Spiderman and get 5 free blueray movies
(80) 20% off coupon

$320 after coupon
25 tax

$345 total due

$360 paid with gift cards that cost me $300

got $15 Cash Back

So my final cost wast $285 after tax on an item that would've cost me $432 with tax normally.

That's a 34% savings.

Oh..almost forgot...also got a $15 off my next $25 purchase.

Now that's a deal!

Think i might try this again this weekend with an ipod. Using the 20% coupon, the buy 50 get 10 free gift cards and my $15 off $25 I should be able to rack up quite a deal.

Thanks OP!!!!!

Stupid blond fat cow at the Hillsborough, NJ Kmart shot me down at getting a 60GB PS3. Said "i received a memo today saying we can't take the coupons for PS3's."

Was able to duplicate and improve the gift card deal outlined above. I improved it by buying ANOTHER $50 gift card with 5 reward cards, thus getting an extra $10.

Bought the 40GB for $300 and have $28 left over in GC credit. $272 after tax => 37% off!

SUHWEET!!!!

Can we please kill on of the two threads.

People are double posting in both.

nikkai said:Can we please kill on of the two threads.

People are double posting in both.
While I agree it's annoying, you could also just use the "not interested" function of FatWallet too.

SaleTroller said:Most KMarts in StL are out of the 40 GB PS3. Found one of last remaining 80 GB. The Kmart in Bridgeton didn't have the GC deal but did honor my B/W printer copy of the coupon. Not too shabby.

The Gift Card deal was last weekend in all stores in the St. Louis Area.

I only got one gift card to fly today. She was getting ready to
do them all, then decided to call someone else and she said its
our right to change the deals at any time... so 20% + $10 off with the gift
cards, i figured might as well. Better than no gift cards

maxfleischer said:Just wanted to thank the OP for this fantiastic deal! Got the 80GB for my son for Xmas and a DSLite for my daughter for Xmas. Also got the coupons for $10 off 25 and $15 off 25, which I'll use on games next week. Also got the Kyocera Wild Card for my daughter using 20% coupon. FYI, you can also use these on phone cards ... (this was in the glassboro and mantua NJ KMarts ...)

BTW -- first thing the cashier asked me was if my coupons were originals, because they won't take copies ... and the Mantua pharmacy had a HUGE stack of booklets when I was there yesterday.

I went into that exact K-Mart on Monday! They probably still have 80gig's in stock they had 3 when I was there. When did you use the coupon? I might want to buy a backup 360 for when mine breaks.

EbayExpert said:FatherTed said:What's the point of a PS3 which won't play PS2 games?? That has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! Talk about making a dumb mistake.

If you want to play PS2 games, then buy a PS2. Why would you spend $400 on a system just to play PS2 games, when you can get a PS2 for $100. THAT has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Reasons we are considering a PS3 over a PS2 or another system (XBox, Wii, etc)
- PS2 broke, but we still have 20+ PS2 games that kids still like
- PS3 offers new games that look cool, so not sure if I want to buy PS2 vs upgrade
- PS3 offers BlueRay movies that would nice on HDTV - 1 machine to do both, less space

I could see buying a PS3 that doesn't play PS2 games if you don't have any legacy games and if you don't think you would want to buy/play any of the them until the number of PS3 games grows. There is also a flipside as well though.

TomB

Dom: Used it today. Good luck!

(should mention, I got the PS3 at Glassboro store ... )