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I've noticed that there's been a large focus on used games & there's been several @gamer coupons for used games that have resulted in good deals. But the problem for many is that their local stores don't have a large selection of used games which makes the coupons "useless". Also, when there's deals like buy 2 get 1 free on all used games or buy any used game $30 or more get a free Unlocked membership these are also not enticing if there's little to no game to buy. BestBuy is new to the used game market but if your gonna compete with Gamestop in their backyard you gotta provide the same services.
This is one of the best promos going & will be even bigger than the 5 for $100 deal last fall but there's quite of few titles missing some big sellers have been forgotten. Other sleeper titles have been left off too but with this credit promo BB can ensure themselves getting a huge share of the pre-orders on these titles. There were a few titles I had to purchase elsewhere b/c they weren't included in the 5 for $100 deal so hopefully these can be added so I can keep my gaming dollars @ BB.
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=322426
Darksiders 2
Little Big Planet Karting
Skylanders Giant(New casual huge selling franchise)
Dead or Alive 5
Tekken Tag Tournament 2(Top 1-2 2012 selling fighter game)
Sleeping Dogs(New top notch franchise)
New Super Mario Bros 2(huge seller)
Transformers Fall of Cybertron(sleeper title)
Risen 2
Anarchy Reigns
I'm sure there's a few titles I'm missing too.
Just wanted to thank everyone for all the input on this idea. You told us what you wanted, and we listened. We have added the following titles to this year's promotion.
Bioshock Infinite
Crysis 3
Deadspace 3
Gears of War Judgement – 360 Only
God of War Ascension – PS3 Only
GTA V
Injustice Gods Amongst Us
The Last of Us – PS3 Only
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance
South Park Stick of Truth
Splinter Cell Blacklist
Tomb Raider
Thanks for all the input on this idea. We have made the following changes to our Gamers Club Unlocked Memberships.
The limits for using your Unlocked membership will be three copies of a New (i.e. not pre owned) gaming software title per platform, per year. Collector’s and Limited Editions count toward that title limit. Game of the Year editions, usually released much later including additional content do not count toward that limit but would essentially start as a separate game and limit.
Thanks for all the input on this idea. Gamers Club Unlocked memberships can now be purchased on BestBuy.com.
Today the myrz.com website was shut down. Now everything is folded into bestbuy.com. However, in the new My Best Buy pages, the Point History page lacks the fine details the old myrz.com Points and Purchases page had.
Please add to the new Point History page:
These are all features that existed on the myrz.com site.
Also add a new page that lists all My Best Buy promotions that are currently happening. This was another feature of the myrz.com site.
I did hear back on this and was informed that these features were added back on 10/1/2014. Thanks for the feedback.
Because of the amount of deals BestBuy has had it can be very difficult to keep up thus I always check CAG(CheapA$$Gamer.com) to see what's going on. I'm a very active member there as I am also active on the BestBuy forums page & I think this would benefit all those involved. So it's a "WIN WIN WIN"
BestBuy Wins
Because the deals are far more visible than just the weekly ad thus more sales more $
Errors/mistakes that occur can be correctly quickly & that will cut down on the number of angry customers that miss a deal
With more sales & more $ generated BestBuy can provide more deals & promotions based off the larger sales base
More site traffic, more visibility
Even though the site is for gamers there's also a section for movies & other electronics
Customers Wins
More deals
Less errors/mistakes to avoid several trips to the store
Easy way to find all the deals in one spot
The CAG community can help with alerting stores that are out of stock & where items can be found
CAG Wins
More site traffic, more visibility
More deal posters = more deals posted
More CAG's helped
The only "loser" is our wallets but hey those are the breaks.
Just take a look at the current March @Gamer thread with deals that include $10 for Batman Arkham City, $5 for Rage & $5 for Mass Effect 2
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=316177
The CAG will also be speaking on a rep joining hopefully we can make this happen sooner than later. The 2011 fall deals from BestBuy were unbeatable & even I was overwhelmed trying to keep up, keep everyone updated & get in on some of the deals but that's where a Official rep comes in.
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9420240#post9420240
There have been/are other retailers that have reps. there & they have been rewarded with more sales.
Sound off below lets get a BestBuy rep to CAG in time for the 2012 fall gaming blitz
Good news! Thank you, Enuf, for posting this idea on IdeaX and to all the Community members who commented on this idea. I am happy to announce that the CAG website is part of the Best Buy Affiliate Program. In partnership with CAG, we are now providing them information about our deals and promotion which they can post on their website. Other ways to receive information about our exclusive gaming offers are by signing-up for our @Gamer magazine, checking out BestBuy.com’s gaming offers, viewing our weekly ad or joining the Reward Zone Gamer’s Club.
One great idea from IdeaX and our Gaming Forum boards implemented. I look forward to the next. Game on!
We will now be supporting Apple Pay. Currently we support it via our app, and later this year it should launch in our stores.
Other retail sites are offering this for pre-order, can Best Buy get this on the website sooner rather than later for pre-order?
Although these titles are currently sold out we do now have them on BestBuy.com.
Thanks for the feedback on this idea. We have added this title to this promotion.
This is probably a long shot, but here goes:
Best Buy is the leader in consumer electronics but the technologies that Best Buy utilizes in its stores suggest anything but. If Best Buy wants to be the leader in technology and showcasing it to customers you need to commit to it fully by investing in supporting infrastructure:
(1) Better WiFi bandwidth and infrastructure in-stores. My closest Best Buy is located in a rock quarry. Simply put, cell phone signals don't exist. When employees activate phones, they have to go outside and up the side walk to get reception so you rely heavily on WiFi, which is atrociously slow in this store. Whether it be mobility, home automation, home theater, etc. Everything that is big in technology right now requires significant WiFi to work and as such, Best Buy should provide significant WiFi bandwidth to give its' employees the capabilities to demo these solutions to customers, effectively.
(2) Update/refresh kiosks and registers. It still amazes me to see these clunky registers all over Best Buy (my local Best Buy store still has beige registers to give you an idea) - meanwhile, I go to the local mall and every other store has eliminated the register space in favor of tablet or phone-based point of sale solutions. I would love to see Best Buy consider giving each department several tablet-based point of sale units and maybe keep registers up front only for cash-based transactions. This would create a better shopping experience for customers and employees alike and force Best Buy to update their antiquated POS software - if you've ever been in a Best Buy store when a register goes down, I need to say no more, but it takes an embarrassingly long amount of time for the systems to restore and they do go down quite a bit. Yes, this would be a sizable investment, but if help desk tickets went down as low as even 25%, there's a significant ROI on this too.
We should already be providing our stores the fastest possible WiFi available in their area, and the real problem is most likely the sheer number devices connected to each store's WiFi.
We did recently upgrade our Point of Sale Systems.
At least print about them on the reciepts! Store #364 don't have a clue about them and I'm sure the other stores follow suit. I thought companies were supposed to know all about the inner workings of their companies but some do not?
I hope I'm making sense, perhaps integrate the forums experience into part of their training and make them aware that these forums exist and what their purpose is.
Best Buy currently does not have a wedding gift registry. The wedding industry is over a 40 billion dollar industry and Best Buy does not offer a registry for new couples. I am getting married in June 2012 and like most couples my fiance and I already have all kitchen ware and etc that couples use to register for at one point in time. Plus gift registry is for stuff that couples want that they typically can't afford or wouldn't normally purchase. Plus this is a way to tap into the woman market as they are the ones that determine where to register. If Best Buy did offer this, I would have registered. It would be nice to be able to create a registry online where couples can add things that they would want/need and also offer purchase of online gift cards as well for couples if they don't want to purchase something on the registry. This would really tap into a new market because Best Buy offers home appliances and much more (women love) and electronics for men. It's the best of both worlds. Plus let's be honest registries are all wants and what Best Buy offers is wants not needs. I would love a new television or washer and dryer for my wedding. I can buy dishes and sheets on my own...
Thanks,
Connie
So this one has been a long time coming, and I have always thought it was a great idea. We agree that Best Buy is a great place to create a wedding registry, so we are pleased to offer one. Find more information and to create a registry, go here on BestBuy.com.
Call it the "Best Buy your way in" deal of the week and put it in the weekly ads. Keep a healthly mix of offers covering all platforms(Including the greatly overlooked PC)
1- Buy any 3, 4 or 5 games featured in that weeks ad get 25%, 35% or 50% off a GCU sub
2- Buy any console, 1 accessory & 2 games get either 50% off or a free GCU sub
3- Buy any console, 1 game & warranty get either 50% off or a free GCU sub
4- Spend $150 on gaming get 50% off a GCU sub
5- Spend $200 on gaming get a free GCU sub
6- Purchase a Sony TV or tablet + a PS3, PS4 or PS Vita get 1 yr free PS+ & a free GCU sub
7- Purchase a MS tablet + X360 or XB1 get a free 1 yr XBL sub & a free GCU sub
Maybe some deals only warrant 1 yr free vs 2 yrs.
We did recently have a promotion where you get a free membership to Gamers Club Unlocked when purchasing either an Xbox One console or a PS4 console.
A $10-$20 istant giftcard offer like what was provided for Dark Souls 2 or $10 pre-order credit would be enough to put BB back in play along with GCU.
It looks like we are now offering a $10 Gas Cash Pre-order bonus for this title. Thanks for the input on this idea.
I was trying to find an SSD that I purchase from a near by Best Buy store the same day. Unfortunately, after fishing around for a while trying to find one that was in stock in a near by store, I gave up and ordered one from Amazon. I had it the next morning. If there had been a way to limit my search to only items available at stores near me, I would have just gone to the store picked it up. I would prefer to support my local store, but it is currently time consuming and difficult to tell what is actually on the shelf at a particular store.
Thanks for the input on this idea. This is now an option on BestBuy.com.
I've been at Best Buy for about 2.5 months and, as it being holiday season, I'm thinking of my employee discount. To receive our employee discount, we can either buy in-store or by calling a phone number to make our order. I think it would be awesome if we could do the orders online by having an employee link or something where we can log in (via employee login information) and make purchases. Has this been talked or thought about before? Is there any chance of this happening?
Although you still can't use your employee discount on www.bestbuy.com, you can now use your employee discount online at the mobile version of our website of m.bestbuy.com. I would suggest first adding the items you want to buy on www.bestbuy.com, and then checkout on m.bestbuy.com.
@CannonO, Thanks for letting us know.
So we all know how many hoops you have to jump trough to get RZ certificates, and as an employee I can't even count how many times I've been asked if I can look up their points mid transaction.This leads me to the idea that since we can look up their rewardzone account info to get them the points, then why can't we also instantly use their 'points as well instead of having to print out paper copies or having to scan their phone. I feel as though it would be to more use as the consumer and also streamline the process at the register. If there's a prompt for using the Bestbuy credit card, so why not the RZ points as well just a thought from both a consumer an an employee alike
Gamestop does that, they automatically attach the pre order bonus SKU to the game. A lot of confusion can be resolved.
The customer service staff in Chesterfield MO is so friendly, but when I preordered Borderlands 2 and asked them about the pre order bonus, they said the code would be emailed to me. Sure enough, the code was never emailed because it was not attached to the game and Best Buy had no record of it. It took me raising hell to get a resolution and I am very understanding of customer service people.
It is not the fault of the customer service reps because their job is varied among returns, geeksquad, and because Best Buy is not just a game store, it is easy to see how they would not remember or understand how to put the pre order bonus on the item. Game stores, however, focus only on games which means that their staff is also only focused on games. It would be one thing if a game store employee forgot to add a pre order bonus because that is one of their main jobs to take down pre orders. But Best Buy needs to automate the process and not make it fall onto the shoulders of the customer service people because they have more important things to do than to attach pre order SKUs to games.
I guess this one got lost as we have been doing this for a while now. Thanks for the idea!