Enresshou's Game Credit Hacks

[Enresshou]

So, since I keep hearing about/finding a lot of these, I figured I'd start my own thread. Basically, I try to find deals where--if you equate cash and Amazon/Wal-Mart credit--you can get a lot more bang for your buck.

First up: until 10/11/14, Wal-Mart is doing an extra 50% trade-in credit on games traded towards NBA2k15. The caveat is that you have to trade at least 2 games, and you have to purchase NBA2K15. You can check the value of trades here: http://walmart.cexchange.com/online...=U9cCv9g9ooJYAdbcpuuqrgPM/nrNSm562OfpS7k4NgQ=

How to game the system if you don't have any games lying around to trade:

1. Go to Gamestop. Find 3 copies of Destiny, Madden 15, or any other game that trades for $40.80 ($61.20 after 50% bonus) at Wal-Mart. Note: make sure they are either PS4 or XBox One; PS3/360 trade for less. Make sure you check the values the same day you go to trade in--they can fluctuate!--and make sure your local Wal-Mart does game trade-ins!

2. On your first transaction at Gamestop, purchase the $15 Power-Up Rewards program. You'll get 10% off used games for the next year, but what you really want is that--on your receipt--a coupon for "Buy 2 used games, Get 1 Free" will print.

3. On your second transaction, purchase the games from Step 1. Your total will come out to $99 + tax (one free game plus the 10% discount).

4. Trade these games in to Wal-Mart. You will receive $183.60 in credit, although you must buy NBA2k15.

5. Return NBA2K15.

6. Smile that you just made Wal-Mart pay you $2 more per game than they sell for brand new and you made >$50 in profit.

7 (optional). Purchase Gamestop gift cards with Wal-Mart credit; wash, rinse, repeat.

 

[drawn_inward]

You will go far in this life! Your empire started from such humble beginnings.

But seriously, well done.

 

[Enresshou]

You will go far in this life! Your empire started from such humble beginnings.

But seriously, well done.

Much appreciated. I started doing this as a broke college student (as opposed to now being only a mostly-broke grad student), so I like sharing these tips wherever I can.

Additionally, all American Express gift cards in $100 denominations (ONLY $100, for some reason; not $25, $50, or $25-500) appear to not have an activation fee. So, if you scan these cards yourself at the Walmart self-service station, you can easily convert your Wal-Mart credit directly into cash. I think this is technically against store policy, however, as cashiers will not allow you to do this at manned check-out stations.

 

[Frank]

This reminds me of the day Future Shop here in Canada did a deal where you trade any 2 used games and you'd get a copy of the new Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed Pirates, or something else I can't remember, Battlefield 4 or something. It was bananas with people lined up all around the store. Well, one guy I talked to was trading 12 shitty old games for a copy of each on Ps3 and 360 (you could get 1 copy of each per visit). He would walk across the parking lot to EB, open them up and trade them in to EB for credit. He would then buy 12 more bargain basement cheap used games from EB with a tiny portion of the trade-in credit and go wait back in line and get 6 more brand new new release from Future Shop. He was on his 4th trip through and had amassed several hundred dollars in credit at EB.

 

[Dave]

Another way to get free shit.

If you have an iPhone or iPad, get the Walmart app. It's free. You sign up and there's this thing where you scan in receipts and it looks for deals in your area. If there's a better price on something, they will credit you the difference.

So go to Walmart & watch for people who buy a whole bunch of groceries but toss the receipt. Pick it up and scan it. Eventually the credit will build up enough to buy yourself a game. I've scanned in two receipts and have $10 in credits.

 

[Enresshou]

Just an FYI, Walmart's doing the same trade-in I mentioned in my original post for CoD: Advance Warfare (instead of NBA2K15). All the methods I listed before should work just fine, just make sure you double-check the trade-in values before going hog wild.