Sunday Savings: Gears of War 2 and 007 deals

unfortunatly nope. it's either one or the other.

so if i pre-order it at circuit city, i wont get the microsoft points card?

NOTE: you can only pre-order Gears 2 at Circuit City OVER THE PHONE. yes, no online or in-store pre-orders allowed.

That's what he just said. Can you not read?

dicknjane: You're an idiot. You can preorder online and in the store.

@Nubby:
How about you go to circuit city and try and pre-order? as of 10/26/08, you can no longer pre-order in the store. also, with the 1600 MS points deal, you cant do that online either. thank you. now go back to your cave troll.

@Dicknjane: No one ever said you can get the 1600MS Points online. Just because your store doesn't allow you to preorder right now doesn't mean others are the same. My friend and myself just got back from CC where he preordered Gears 2 by filling out the slip and putting it in the box. Thanks.

Ever heard of price match? I do it at Best Buy all the time.

Price match just matches prices...right?

Are you saying I can take a Circuit City ad into Best Buy and get MS points from Best Buy too?

@offday, I was wondering that too. I was wanting to take the CC ad into Toys R Us and get both the points and the gift card.

Back when Wal-Mart had that $100 gift card for any Blu-ray player bought (including the PS3), I called my local Best Buys and only 1 would match it. They said they'd have to call a nearby Wal-Mart to see if they had any in-stock and, if so, it wouldn't be a problem.

So they called, it worked out and I got a 40GB PS3 + $100 Best Buy GC for $399.99 + RZ points. Then I went and bought 7 BD movies.

The moral is: it might work for you, but if you don't have a CC near enough that you're willing to drive to, my bet is they'll refuse to honor it on the same grounds.

hmmm, move from the shit hole town you in man. lol. ever wonder what beyong N,S, W, E? lol

@ Lkr: Maybe it's because you're in Wisconsin...you should have mentioned bratwurst you hoser. Go Bears! :)

sadly im in Florida. the cashier didn't even speak english, so I wasn't too sure about it ;)

This is one of the reasons why Circuit City is set to announce the closing of 155 of their store locations across the country. Circuit City is going the way of CompUSA, Sharper Image, and the others that simply should never have been in business to start. CompUSA did this "we are closing select stores" only to see them go online-only and that tanked as well.

Circuit City has been failing for many years, but it is their own fault, a result of extremely poor management, that never seem to have sat foot in one of their stores.

Regarding the Gears 2 launch, my prediction is this will be one of the last major game launches for them. I agree, the 1600 point card is a great deal if you need points, but for those thinking you will get the card for free, and then return it for store credit, you won't be able to. What Circuit City does is charge you for the point card on the receipt, but then take off the price of the point card from the game itself. So when rung up, the game will be $39.99, but then they will charge you $19.99 for the point card, which comes out to the same as if you purchased just the game.

It is actually a smart thing for a retailer to do, so if someone tries to return one item, they get back the cash for the one item only. In this case, IF this is how it will work, one could basically return the point card for their $19.99 if they don't need it, therefore, only paying $39.99 for the game, which is only $15 more than what employees at Microsoft pay for it. ;)

Regarding price match, yes, most major retailers will honor price matches, for local competitors only (meaning no Amazon or Costco), but they also usually will honor promotional giveaways too so Best Buy "should" honor the Circuit City deal.

Da BEARS!

Just don't be surprised if they don't send you your points card. =\

in store pickup? If not, not worth it

No I am getting it. How they are doing is is charging me full price for the 1600 card and then 40 for GoW2.

1600 MS card: 19.99 + 1.67 = 21.66
GoW2: 40.00 + 3.35 = 43.35
Total: 65.01 with free shipping on both, no idea if they will arrive separate or not

So from a "glitch" you were able to get two extra 1600 point cards from your Halo 3 purchase and you are whining about $5 in sales tax? WTF?

Easy big fella! I was joking, sorry I forgot a smiley face or something for the likes of folks like you.

That deal expired months ago. The lancer is still available, but the game no longer comes free with it.

how is spending $130 for a piece of plastic to get $60 worth of merchandise a deal? my halo helmet is just collecting dust and taking up room, don't need another item doing the same...

Amazon deal hasn't expired. It expires after the launch of the game. Do a search on Amazon for Gears of War 2 Lancer, and in a box it says you'll get the game for free..

Effective 12/31/08.