Best Buy Matches 2 for $50 Offer

Yesterday Toys R Us offered a sweet deal that no gamer can refuse (1 of the games hasn't released yet). Of the 6 really good selected games, you can pick any 2 for $50. After looking over through some game deal offers, a popular forum, CheapAssGamer, has mentioned that Best Buy has matched the Toy R Us offer.

[TastyTreats]

hell yea im gonna get some games

[BiggCMan]

Gotta love competition. It's good for us consumers most of the time.

[Downtown boogey]

Orly

[AAACE5]

Just came from toys r us. The ad is not in their paper. It was only in email. The sale is kinda done. The games wouldn't register when purchasing. Manager had to override to give me the sale price. Signs were taken down as I was leaving. LA Noire sold out! I got last copy of Mortal Kombat on 360 and got Brink on Ps3.

[mugoldeneagle03]

We (I work at Best Buy) price match any store, at all times. So this isn't just for the Toys R Us deal. The only thing management tends not to price match are online only offers or smaller sites.

Like the article says just bring in the Ad or have them look up the item in store (or call)

[AAACE5]

Son of a b....! I was driving around earlier and considered stopping at these stores, but figured i'd go tomorrow!

Anyway, good info. I didn't know Best Buy matched prices like that!

[Enate]

Went to pick up some a headset and bestbuy matched neweggs price.

[WeedyOne]

!!!!!!DEAL IS NO GOOD!!!!!!!

Dont bother i just went to toys r us and they said it was a typo and the deal is supposed to be get a $50 gift card when you purchase 2 of the select games.

I then went to best buy to see if they would match the deal i had printed off this web site, they went on to say they dont price match "combo deals" They said they only price match if it is a single item.

!!!!!!DEAL IS NO GOOD!!!!!!!!

[Sneak-Out]

nice deal

[Spitfire_Riggz]

Is it both for 50 a piece or 2 games for 50 dollars together

[TheRacingX]

BOTH for $50!!!

[DistrictMime]

Damn and I just bought both brink and f3ar from toysrus

[Thesonygeniuses]

No harm done though, its the same offer at best buy. From what i heard, some dude bought $1500 worth of one game which made the game sold out online. It sucks for other gamers that wanted that game as well.

[BiggCMan]

Is that legitimate or made up? Is there an actual news story about it? That's ridiculous if true.

[zeal0us]

1500 thats only about 25copies of one $60 game, at the least

37 copies @40 dollars

25-37 copies online seem very limited amounted.

lol the story itself sound kinda bogus no offense

too bad for me I got most of them games excluding portal and brink which I don't want.

[Thesonygeniuses]

I think its bogus too, but apparently that is the reason toyrus sold out on one of the games online.

[frelyler]

Bogus, best buy always has the disclaimer with video game deals or other similar deals which limits the amount per transaction or customer. Otherwise other companies that sold video games would not order them in bulk like usual and instead would pilfer Best Buys stock. Urban legend and nothing more. (unless best buy messed up)

[Ravens20]

Not every Best Buy price matches, for example, my best buy only price matches deals from bestbuy.com

How lame is that

[Spydiggity]

brink isn't worth 25 dollars.

[Buff1044]

I have a Best Buy and TRU right next to each other across the street. Round one...fight!

[BiggCMan]

Do Best Buy, it's more man friendly and gamer friendly than Toys R Us is haha.

[TheROsingleB]

I've got them in the same plaza as well. If one is sold out, heading to the other!
Picking up Fear 3 and L.A. Noire.

[MrBeatdown]

Best Buy will only match TRU if TRU has both games you want in stock. When I went to get LA Noire and Portal 2, they called to verify that both games were in stock.

You could always get an employee who doesn't check, but if the employees know what they are doing, odd are they will, since they know this is a deal that will go fast.

[-MD-]

I have a $20 gift card too... Hmmm.....

I'd probably get LA Noir and Mortal Kombat since the other games are on PC.

[Baddo_Ekkusuchi]

this sucks, i only want La Noire there :( already got portal2 n mortal kombat

[TheROsingleB]

Pick up Fear 3 (F3ar, whatever..) and return it unopened at Walmart or something for full price on a gift card.

[Baddo_Ekkusuchi]

lol that would really work? well, just got la noire from craigslist yesterday for $30

[ChrisGTR1]

i went today, they didnt match it. so i just went to toys r us and bought em. lol

[cochise313]

Is this real?

[BLACKBIBLE]

THAT'S AWESOME

[divideby0]

I called both best buys in our area.. they are NOT doing this..
Also online is not doing this.

another case of inept gamming journalism.....

[Thesonygeniuses]

we didnt call. we showed the ad at best buy and they agreed. look at the entire forum if you dont believe us.

Edit: We also did mention "you must bring the offer to best buy" soo duh its not online.

[Spydiggity]

the bottom half of the picture (the part related to what we care about - unless you still enjoy playhouses n sandboxes) is NOT a coupon. it's just some added text...nothing to scan. i'm pretty sure it's been a scam all along.

[tayz]

i hope AMAZON matches this.

[auen1]

*nods in agreement*

[xVeZx]

if its those same games then its meh to me....i have all the ones i want from that selection....

[MrBubble]

does this also apply in canada

[Alpha_Gamer]

Best Buy price matched for me too. Insane deal for those who jump on it.

[silverdragon41]

is this deal also available in Canada

[dbbd1388]

Wait, is this $50 each or $50 for both together?

[MoreRPG]

what to pick??? thats easy Portal 2 and LA Noire

[Iceman X]

I looked on Toys r Us site no info, i think this is fake the site that posted this didn't even give a link, they gave a picture that could be fake.

[Sorrow24]

I just went to Toys R US after reading this and picked up Black Ops and LA Noire for $50 (total value for both).

[PwnerifficOne]

I went to TRU yesterday and saw the little ads in the shelves of the game section, it's legit. Too bad all the deal games were sold out except for Brink xP.

[silverdragon41]

I wish this deal was in Canada I could have bought the PSV FOR $100. I will explain, buy mortal kombat for ps3 and 360. Trade in value for these games is $35 at EB and EB gives you an extra $25 bonus on your trade when trading in for hardware. That’s already $120 trade in value. Next get L.A. Noir for PS3 and 360 trade in value is $28 add the $25 bonus and it comes up to $106. Now we are at a total of $256 that’s already enough to get the version without 3G and you only spend a total of $100. If you want the 3G PSV then purchase two copies of Brink.

[popular64]

Best Buy would not honor the deal. I tried today in Springfield, VA. They said that they cannot match the price in a bundle deal, only on individual items.

[Toadmaster89]

I work at Best Buy, and someone wanted to know if we did that exact deal. We did it, but the guy that was going to buy both games decided to wait for tomorrow to get Fear 3. The only thing that's weird is that in order to make the deal, we need to call Toys 'r Us and ask if they have the games in stock, dont know why though. Oh well.

[DarthJay]

This deal is a misprint. Just went to Toys R Us and they had a correction up. It is supposed to be that you get a $50 gift card with purchase of two of those games.

[Surfaced]

I went there at 11:50 AM at the Milford CT location and I was told the same thing.

Man, how are people still getting this to work? Maybe I should try a price match at best buy.

[mastershredder]

I was in TRU yesterday. I was going to get Fear 3 (which they had in hand) and LA Noire. I was being rung up when they noticed that Fear 3 was not at the street release date yet (hell I did not know it was not released yet, just thought timing was good).

I went back this morning to go pick up this great deal and there was a new flyer in the section saying that the "deal" was a misprint. It is supposed to be buy two of the games on the list and get a 50 dollar gift certificate. Weak.

[Bengoshi-San]

10:59am New York City (Mid-Town)
Best Buy here on 5th Ave and 44th Street price matched with no problem. Got LA Noire and Black Ops for $50 + tax.

[Surfaced]

What did you use to price match? The web page isn't there at toysrus.com anymore. What did you give them as proof?

[heyitsmichelle]

I went to Toys R Us yesterday to get Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time. I wasn't even planning on getting any PS3 games, but then when I looked at the shelves I saw the great 2 for $50 deal and I couldn't pass it up! I got LA Noire and Portal 2 for $25 each! Mario and Luigi cost more than them ($35)! LOL

[SSKILLZ]

Good buy

[evildeli]

I picked up LA Noire and Mortal Kombat. Best Buy cashier didn't know how to ring it up, and the manager had to take over. In their list of company matches, Toy 'R Us didn't show up, so it had to be manually entered.

[ME1989]

Bought L.A. Noire and Portal 2 for my PS3.

SHIT YEA!

[Fel08]

That's an amazing deal. On my way to Toys R Us to get LA Noire and Mortal Kombat.

[Fel08]

BTW, this is still going right???? It says on the sheet, from June 19 to June 25

[Surfaced]

WTF how are people still getting this to work? I went to my Toys R Us, and I was greeted by an employee with printouts claiming the deal has been corrected: "Buy 2 and get a $50 gift card".

I will call the other store in my area, but I have a feeling they all got the memo and are adjusting accordingly.

[skyblue14213]

I had seen this deal online through the ad, so I planned a trip to the nearest "toys r us" store to take advantage of the deal. Then I went on their website to get the address of the nearest store which was at least 20 miles round trip from where I live and there was no mention of a misprint about the ad on their website.

Thinking that the deal was still good I made the trip and only found out about the mishap WHEN I ARRIVED THERE, THERE WERE NO NOTICES ABOUT THE MISHAP OF ANY KIND(in-store or online) NOT EVEN A CIRCULAR AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC TO CLARIFY THIS, I HAD TO FIND OUT BY AN EMPLOYEE IN ELECTRONICS! Needless to say I am not happy because I made the trip all the way out there for nothing(though I did enjoy the weather).

So the employee suggested that I call up toyrus customer service, and I did and first I and another family member spoke to an associate and they could not do anything to help(they could not even tell my family member where they were calling from). So I and another family member then talked to a customer service manager and they refused to even send me a coupon towards something in their store to try to restore customer confidence.

I was not asking for a handout or something for free, just at least something like a coupon for 20% off towards a future purchase to encourage me to do business with toysrus for the inconvenience of making the 20 mile round trip to only find out when it was too late that the deal was a mishap on toysrus part, but they refused to even offer me a coupon towards a future purchase. That is some wonderful customer service, isn't it?

A long while ago another company tried making a family member of mine pay twice the amount of what they owed the company by having another company in addition to the company in question collect twice(in other words double dipping) and when my family member asked for a readout of what they have been paying this company the company refused to produce a readout to my family member. So my family member stopped paying them and I have boycotted the company ever since. It's been at least 10+ years since I have done business with this company.

Another time I went to a chain convenience store in my area and because I walked right in and I did not find what I was looking for and then proceeded to leave I was accused of stealing because I did not buy anything in which that accusation was of course found to be false. I have been boycotting that particular store for a few years now and show no signs of returning to that store. Maybe in the future I will do business with that particular store though.

There have been other legitimate mistakes or mishaps from other companies(not many though) that I have dealt with but they were quick and went above and beyond to correct them, and those will be the companies(who value their customers) that will continue to see my business.

I don't like to complain and I am not looking for freebies. But when a company refuses to put any effort in correcting a mistake that occurred on their part through reasonable accommodations they are an unacceptable company to do business with by any customer.