It’s a sale on nothing! How do we know when it ends?
GameStop is running a pretty cool sounding flash sale; get five select pre-owned games for $10. Now that sounds like a pretty damn good deal. Click on the link and it takes you to the list of eligible games, of which there are apparently 57. Not great, not horrible. Filter that list to “available now” for shipping and you come up with… 23. Twenty three titles.
On the plus side if you’ve been waiting to get a bundle of previous year’s sports games this is your time. Of the twenty three available games on the sales list, fourteen of them are in the Madden, NBA, and WWE franchises spanning the 2013-2017 editions. Further remove the Toys To Life games that are completely useless unless you already have the portals and figures and you get…
- Agents of Mayhem (PS4)
- Destiny 2 (PS4)
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 (X360)
- Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (X1)
- Middle-Earth: Shadow of War (PS4)
- LittleBigPlanet Game of the Year (PS3)
Six titles scattered across four consoles. Your only chance at taking advantage of this sale for the few games that are actually available is to order through store pickup and that means praying that the games you want are actually available at the stores you are willing to drive to. I put together my list and couldn’t finagle a method of buying them that wouldn’t involve driving over an hour between three different GameStops for a total savings of roughly $5.
In so many ways it is a worse sale than one GameStop already has going on. All of the games on the list are under $5, and there is an ongoing buy 2 get 2 sale for pre-owned games under $9.99. There are 977 results available under that sale, and 5,574 if you include pick up at store. It is so much of a better deal and includes the games on the Buy 5 list, except there are actual games in stock for you to buy.
The Buy 5 sale is running for two days, but I’m not sure what GameStop hoped to get out of it because they’re not actually selling games. Maybe they were really hoping to liquidate their stock of NBA 2k15 of which I’m sure they have thousands of copies. Someone needs to explain to GameStop that in order to have a sale, you need to have items people can actually buy.
But what do I know.
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