How to take advantage of Nintendo DS Game offerat Game stores

eaglesrjh

Basically game currently have a promotion on where if you trade in any 2 ds games you can get any other ds game for £4.99.

My wife wanted a new game but did not want to trade any existing games in so I spotted this loophole which other could use.

Basically this works if you have more than 1 game store close to each other or a gamestation or a blockbusters. Basically anywhere selling preowned games.

We went to gamestation and managed to find 2 pre owned ds games priced at £4.99. We bought these and took them to game to be traded in. We then paid £4.99 for the new game which was priced at £29.99

So basically we paid (4.99*3) =£14.97 for a game priced at £29.99 saving £15.00

A worthwile trick if you can find pre owned games cheap enough. assuming you are buying a game at £24.99 or over the preowned ones need to be at less than £10 for this to work. The lower the better obviously.

Asked in Game store, promo normally runs till thursdays, they were not sure if it will run after this thursday or not.

You do need to give name and address when trading in games, this is normal and I think is to stop people who get games at trtade prices taking advantage of offers.

hope someone gets some use out of this.

onthelook_2

Did exactly the same thing today went into cex and managed to find some £3 games and brought 6 of them and then went into game and brought 3 good games the sales assistant even quirped have you just brought these but he processed it anyway, did not have to give name / address.
Happy boys now anyhow

char_student

Thanks OP. Thats a good tip! Will def have a look next week. Does anyone know when the Game offer finishes? I really want the Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games on DS.

lynneand1

Is there any restrictions on the games you can trade in? Can you get say 2 really shi**y games and trade them in for a new release?:) Or do the games have to be of any certain age/title?
I know in the past Game have asked for certain titles to be traded in then you can have x amount off a certain title(s)
Just wanted to be sure before i head in to town 2morrow/Monday:D
TIA

biglugs

The offer definitely said ANY two DS games! So go for it.

Mike_J

Now is the tiem to get rid of those god awful games that are worth £3 trade in at any other time!!!

polly453

Do you have to have a GAME loyalty/membership card to take up the offer?

coupon_king_2

Do you have to have the box .......... Thanks

eaglesrjh

char_student wrote: »

Thanks OP. Thats a good tip! Will def have a look next week. Does anyone know when the Game offer finishes? I really want the Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Games on DS.

Asked in store, said they did not have a definate date. he said offers normally change on a thursday morning but did not know if this was a one week or two week offer. Only started on the 27th feb. Also standard t+c's state they can pull offer at any time but certainly I think it will be ok until this Thursday and after that we will have to wait and see.

eaglesrjh

lynneand1 wrote: »

Is there any restrictions on the games you can trade in? Can you get say 2 really shi**y games and trade them in for a new release?:) Or do the games have to be of any certain age/title?
I know in the past Game have asked for certain titles to be traded in then you can have x amount off a certain title(s)
Just wanted to be sure before i head in to town 2morrow/Monday:D
TIA

States any 2 ds games, I took in 2 very poor ones and all was fine. you do need box and instructions though. Have seen games specific offers before but this is not one of them.

eaglesrjh

polly453 wrote: »

Do you have to have a GAME loyalty/membership card to take up the offer?

no there is no requirement to have a GAME loyalty card to take this offer.