Not really a find of the century, but...

[hezeuschrist]

$53.74 got me this.

http://www.flamevault.com/~jesus/random/bbpwned.jpg

God Bless Loopholes.

[MarioAllStar2600]

WOW! That is a NICE find. SO explain this 'loophole' you speak of!?

[Crush Crawfish]

Nice find there! Go play disgaea RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!! And tell us the tale of this loophole.

[tholly]

yea, explain how you got all that for only a little bit of $$$

[tholly]

o yea..MAS2600...congrats on 2000+ posts.

[Ed Oscuro]

Looks like he traded in some crappy sports titles, perhaps.

Nice stuff. I could use some of those games myself ;)

[maxlords]

Wow...I want that copy of Thief :P And HOW did you get all that???

[hezeuschrist]

Blockbuster can help you out! This is going to be one hell of a step by step rant, so get comfortable. Keep in mind I'm just using BB in general, this was spread across probably a half dozen stores.

EB = EBGames
BB = Blockbuster
GS = Gamestop

EB: Buy 18 shitty ps1 games - $46.91

Blockbuster: Trade in 10 shitty games, get 5 good games worth lots of credit. After promos (trade 2 games, get any used game for $9.99) and credit (from 10 titles traded in) - $34.51

Keep 1 title: James Bond: Everything or Nothing

EB: Sell 2 of those games + $35.20

BB: Trade other 2 high credit titles + $50.00 Blockbuster credit.
BB: Buy Castlevania for $10.59 worth of credit. (trade 2, get 1 for $10)

BB: Trade 4 more PS1 shitty titles, get Dark Cloud 2 and Drakengard - $15.18 credit

BB: Trade in last 4 PS1 titles, plus Madden 02 and NHL 02 from my collection, get 3 more titles worth lots of credit. - $19.77 credit

GS: Trade one of new 3 high credit titles for $20 credit, pickup Skies of Arcadia for $19.99 + Tax. - $1.19

GS: Sell last 2 high credit titles. + $40

GS: Buy 4 more shitty titles, buy 2 get 1 free sale. -$7.39

BB: Buy Disgaea and Fight Night. - $4.46 end of credit, -11.75 cash.
GS: Sell Fight Night. + $22.40

At this point, I've actually spent $4.15, and I've got:

PS2-James Bond: Everything or Nothing
PS2-Drakengard
PS2-Dark Cloud 2
PS2-Castlevania
PS2-Disgaea
Gcube-Skies of Arcadia: Legends.

Rock. Sunday rolls around and my Gamerush store gets a Ninja Gaiden, and I decide I want an Xbox.

FYE in the mall (kinda like a shitty best buy) is having a game sale. Buy 4 games, get $5 off each of the 4 games. I buy 4 sets of 4 games, all PS1, priced: $4.99 and $6.99. Perkar works there, I write down all the titles and go back to work, find out which ones are worth the most. So...

FYE: Buy 16 shitty PS1 titles - $16.96

BB: Trade in 14 ps1 titles, buy 7 games, one being Ninja Gaiden. Other 6 are high credit titles used to fund my Xbox and other xbox games. After promo (trade 2 get 1 for $9.99) and credit ($41.50 worth from crappy titles ) - $32.86

BB: Trade in 6 titles for $165.00 credit. Get 3 games for $9.99 each (Thief, Project Gotham, MechAssault). - $31.77 credit

BB: Buy Metal Arms / Brute Force on Employee account, + Buy 1 get 1 half off. -$20.75 credit. Leaves me with $112.48 credit left.

BB: Trade in last 2 PS1 titles, get KOTOR for $9.99, buy used xbox on employee account. - $109.34 credit.

BB: Spend last couple dollars on diet coke.

What a fiasco.

[AB Positive]

It makes me a sad panda that there aren't any Game Rush stores in new england.

-AG

[DigitalSpace]

Wow. Nice score!

[Oobgarm]

*high fives Hezus*

You sir, are the man.

[Cmosfm]

Nice man, but WAAAAAAY too much work.

I'm a lazy bastard!

[Captain Wrong]

Nice man, but WAAAAAAY too much work.

I'm a lazy bastard!

Seriously.

[Keir]

FYE in the mall (kinda like a shitty best buy) is having a game sale. Buy 4 games, get $5 off each of the 4 games. I buy 4 sets of 4 games, all PS1, priced: $4.99 and $6.99.

Tell me more about this sale please! Do they really give you $5 off of games marked $4.99? Even if they don't, there are a bunch of $9.99 and under games at my local FYE I'd love to pick up with that sale. Do you know if it's nationwide, and how long it lasts? Thanks!

[gamergary]

That seemed like a whole lot of work.

[tholly]

wow...that is a lot of steps...i dont think i would be able to figure that one out...good job.

[ClubNinja]

Geez... did you factor gas, mileage, and time into that figure? That's a whole lot of running around. Cheers to you for pulling that one off, but I can assure you I'd not do the same thing!

[Perkar]

the sale at FYE just got extended 3 weeks at my store, should be chainwide as well...

[hezeuschrist]

So it's been updated. The entirely full run cost me $60.91. Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles is the only game missing from the picture.

http://www.flamevault.com/~jesus/ran...eallypwned.jpg

God damn.

[-hellvin-]

That is a nice steal. You must play Disgaea immediately. I can't believe you went through all that but I can see it was worth it, haha. Damn that is creative and very thought out. Or maybe not. But it seems genius. Unfortuneately out here in Arizona I am stuck with Gamecrazy.