Rumor: Best Buy beginning 'buy 2, get 3rd game free' sale Sunday, Oct. 25

by Christopher Grant on Oct 22nd 2009 11:04AM

If you missed out on last week's Toys "R" Us or Amazon "buy two, get one" sales, a purported scan of this weekend's Best Buy circular promises a third chance. Specifically, it promises the following: "Buy 2, get the 3rd game free -- on any PS3, X360 or Wii games -- mix or match platforms, valid on any game $59.99 or less."

Snagged by NeoGAFfer Wario64, the full-page reveals tasty treats like Borderlands, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Tekken 6, and Forza 3 -- in other words, this isn't limited to a handful of games like Amazon's sale was and, we imagine, Best Buy's stock won't be as easily decimated as that of your local Toys "R" Us. You've got from this Sunday, October 25, until Halloween, the following Saturday, to take Best Buy up on its offer ... That is, if the circular is real. If not ... uh, trick or treat?

[Via Hot Blooded Gaming]

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Tags: best-buy, deals, Microsoft, Nintendo, retail, rumor, sales, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (140)

hmmm...well, not sure if you could do this - but it may be possible to get the 2 games +1 free deal over a couple times (or at different stores) - keep the "free" one, sell the other 2 shrink-wrapped on ebay for new*

if you do it once, you are left with the 120 back and a free game.

No because the 3rd game is the free one. So, if you got that gift card then you could buy anything and not just games with it. You still have $120 worth of games and now you have an additional $60 at your disposal. I did it when Target had their Buy 2 Get 1 sale on Wii games last Christmas ... ended up buying a new PS3 game for $10.

You can also sell the games online for new or a little below new and get a game for a few bucks if not free.

The only problem with the Wal-Mart thing is they now limit people to like 2 or 3 returns a year without a receipt. So, you might need that return for real because you lost a legitimate receipt.

Personally I don't see a problem with this. You aren't robbing anyone because you are just exchanging unopened merchandise for a gift card that guarantess you spend the value of said product in their store. They aren't losing anything.

How is it stupid? You can save the gift card and get mw2 instead of the 3rd free game you really didn't want.

dont have a ps3 and rented batman didnt seem like worth buying and brutal legend seems too repetetive...
if only mw2 or new super mario bros was out damnn

@Apollo

How concise of you. +1

Credit should go to cheapassgamer.com probably. I think the ad scan originated there first.

These deals always have poor timing for me. There's never 3 games out that I want enough to do it...

Best Buy is really stepping up in the gaming sales business. I will be there to buy games.

Fallout 3 GOTY, Halo ODST, and Brutal Legend.

Want to fight about it?

Family Guy quote win.

Ooh I think I'll pick up Uncharted 2 and Ratchet. Don't know what to pick for the third game, though... Borderlands or Fallout 3 GotY?

My vote is Borderlands - I'm assuming Fo3 will be the first to go down in price and you should be able to grab a good used copy off ebay in the near future.

Best Buy is my main gaming shop. I love their Gamer's Club program.

Unfortunately I can't think of 3 games to buy right now.

Meh. I already bought games through toyrs R Us and Amazon recently. I can't afford Best Buy!

Plus I seriously don't know what other games I want at this point...

Isn't that new super mario bros out reasonably soon?

NSMB Wii doesn't come out until November, too late for the sale.

For me it's the opposite. The sale comes too late and I've already bought the games I want (Brutal Legend, Beatles Rock Band)

I'll be getting Fallout 3, Red Faction Guerrilla, and GTAIV: Episodes of Liberty City

"If you missed out on last week's Toys "R" Us or Amazon "buy two, get one" sales"

Wow, buy two, get one doesnt sound quiet like a good deal to me. lol you should correct that.

ONE FOR THE PRICE OF TWO!

Hmm... time to catch up on a few games.

I'm thinking about grabbing Tekken 6, Fallout 3 GOTY, and maybe Borderlands or Demon's Souls.

hmm.....This or world series tickets?

Gah! And I just bought two Wii games. Well, I suppose that I'll just be getting three more now. *shrug*

D: no PC games? I would've gotten Fallout 3, Borderlands, and Muramasa...

I wish this sale went on in mid-November. A whole slew of games are coming out, and this deal would be perfect.

Best Buy has a 30 day return policy. Just buy 3 games and wait until mid november and exchange them for the ones you want. Thats what I'm doing for Assassins Creed 2 & Modern Warfare 2.

I think what I'm going to do is get Tekken 6, Ratchet And Clank Future & Borderlands ... then, don't open two of them (I'll decide which one to keep) and exchange them for Modern Warfare 2 & Assassins Creed 2 a few weeks later. That way I get the three games I want the rest of the year anyway. I just need to decide what that final game is between Borderlands, Tekken 6, R&C F ACiT, New Super Mario Bros Wii & the God Of War compilation.

I'm leaning towards Ratchet And Clank Future but the metacritic reviews have me a little worried that there isn't going to be much new content there. Maybe there is a game I'm forgetting about ... would obviously love to get forza 3 but not sure I'm going to buy a 360 right now with Christmas around the corner.

"and exchange them for Modern Warfare 2 & Assassins Creed 2 a few weeks later."

This is a great idea, except if it's a situation like TRU where the popular titles, they keep in sufficiently low numbers such that you can do the switchoff.

Best Buy may be not as bad though, so maybe it'll work out.

The sale itself will be over by the time those big time games come out. All you have to do is get two placeholder games and exchange them when the others release. It's never been an issue in the past for me.

According to posts at Cheapassgamer, if you buy 3 $60 games the receipt will show each ringing up at 40/40/40. Apparently works the same with gift receipts. So you could return the games you don't want but you will end up with only $40 in credit for each.

One post is below:

"Best Buy is a lot smarter about B2G1 sales than TRU is, so the tricks with gift receipts and placeholders won't work.

The receipt will show the return value for each item, and it'll be 1/3rd of the total pre-tax price. Placeholders won't be worth the full value of the game, so it won't work for future purchases as even exchanges.

TRU does it as $60 / $60 / $0, BB will do it as $40 / $40 / $40."

This would ordinarily be a great sale except that I have no self-restraint on spending money.

I suppose this lets me buy duplicates for online co-op stuff like Borderlands, MUA2 for the ps3 (I have both for the 360 right now).

Not really too excited about MUA2, but Borderlands would definitely be nice to be able to play with both communities. Still a bit of a luxury though.

Would DJ Hero count as one of the 2 games you need to buy? The "59.99 and less" line confused me..

I was wondering this myself, as I was planning on going to BB to pick up DJ Hero this week anyway.

Hopefully I can pick up Ratchet and Clank, Borderlands and DJ Hero.

I wonder if this will be online as well, or just the brick and mortor stores.

slick asses they know october aint shit when it comes to games the real month is november, why not do this around november then my hat will really be off to them

Hm, I was going to wait on Borderlands and Uncharted 2, but not anymore.

thank you johnny and xbox420 for not being idiots. I was kinda pissed some people didnt quite understand such a simple concept

So is this under "Equal or Lesser Value?" It doesn't say so on the ad, and I'm wondering if I can get two $40 games and then sneak in a $60 game as my third.

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