Best gaming deal you have ever scored

[Devilgunman]

I just randomly browsed eBay for XC: DE a few days ago and stumbled upon this listing

That seems too good to be true, right? I know it's listed as "used" but the description says it includes everything so how bad could it be? I jumped in and ordered it but at the same time I was prepared to raise complaints in case the seller just sent me a bunch of rocks. When it arrived, it turned out to be legit. The package is unsealed (of course) but everything is in mint condition and the game works. This is one of my best gaming deals ever, aside from some pricing error on Amazon.

What's the greatest deal you've ever scored?

Edit: shyte, wrong forum. Mod, can you move this please?

 

[Dest]

I got a copy of Pandora's Tower for $5 once.

 

[MrNewVegas]

I never ever trust stock photo listings.

My best deal was actually from a member from here. I scored a Sega Blast City along with CPS-2 boards (AvP, Puzzle Fighter 2T, SFA3) for $1200CAD.

 

[Facism]

PlayStation 2 with an extra pad, memory card, DMC, MGS2, Silent Hill 2, CVX, GT3 for £55 off a mate moving country.

this was like a year after UK release I think?

 

[Bigkrev]

I got a copy of the PS4 Collectors edition of MGS5 2 days after release for $7, Target had one returned and it was tagged at that price and rang up as "water toy", which means that some super soaker in a different isle was probably tagged for $90 or whatever, but they let me leave with it

 

[Arc]

$60 Wii U at Wal-Mart

 

[FaceHugger]

The local BestBuy had a ridiculous sale on the Xbox One X when I got mine about a year ago. It was $350 with two games, three months of Live Gold, which I spent a few dollars to upgrade to Game Pass Ultimate for about two years.

I feel like BestBuy must have lost money on that deal. Must have really needed to clear out that stock.

 

[I am a Bird]

I once got an NES Advantage for free

 

[Deleted member 12224]

That GameStop B1G1 + trade-in debacle a few years ago netted me like $500 in GameStop credit, have eaten from that on game buys + subsequent trade-ins for awhile now.

 

[Boy]

Gamestop price glitch with Dying light and Tomb raider for $20 when they first came out.

Another one was getting ps4 slim +Red Dead 2 + a controller a few years back.

 

[Deleted member 20361]

I've had many, but one that was real good was buying Microsoft points for like 70 % off at the local super market. At the time MS was ditching the points so I converted the points to money. Bought all I could.

 

[oledome]

 

[TerremotoDePorta]

GTX 1080 (with box) for around 210€, a couple of weeks after the 3070/3080 launch, right when everybody was selling low to make a quick buck towards their purchases (HAHAHAHAHA)

 

[Deleted member 23212]

NES with 2 controllers and like 15 games for $20

 

[Indelible]

Got the Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Collector's Edition for $25 Canadian last year thanks to a Amazon price error.

 

[t26]

Circuit City $5 clearance

 

[WascallyWabbit]

Mario Odyssey for like 10 bucks on a price error

still chasing that high after 3 years

 

[Einbroch]

2 Kohl's PS5 preorders cancelled which resulted in $360 in free Kohl's Cash.

Bought an entire Ring security system.

 

[Imthefunmachine]

On of the CDI Zelda games from a quarter CD bin at a Goodwill.

 

[super-famicom]

In 2002 I bought a barely used Sega Dreamcast with 2 controllers, a VMU, and maybe 3-4 games for $20 and some DVD I didn't want anymore from some guy in my college dorm.

 

[megashock5]

Got a few clearance deals back in the day that stand out.

Beach Spikers for Gamecube and ExciteBOTs for Wii for $5 each from BB.

Pikmin 2 and Tekken 5 for $10 each from Toys R Us.

The one I can't believe to this day was Mario Party 4 for $5 from Circuit City.

 

[gappvembe]

I just picked up Xenoblade at Walmart for $10, Aladin & Lion King for $5

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I have kids into video games so every birthday is like my birthday.

 

[jonathanp]

This past summer Gamestop ran B2G2 sales a lot. One weekend they had a flash sale that included a separate B2G1 on PS4/XBX only. These two sales overlapped and I was able to grab 12 games for $25 after all discounts.

For something recent I ended up getting Sekiro for $6, Nioh 2 for $6 and XB:DE for $9.

 

[gappvembe]

Oooo, now that I think about it, the original Best Buy gamer's club, they use to have coupons too, I got some call of duty for PC, Blur for the 360, and Tank Tank Tank for the Wii U all for free.

 

[Wulfric]

$35 Pink Nintendo 3DS XL from K-Mart in 2014

Eventually I traded it in for the Uncharted PS4 bundle at Black Friday

 

[SatoAilDarko]

Art Academy for 3DS for 3 cents from Walmart in 2018.

My cheapest game ever was buying a used PS2 Eye Toy game from Gamestop for a penny.

I also got a Just Dance Wii U with Wii Remote bundle for $5 also from Walmart in 2014/15.

 

[linkboy]

I picked up a full copy of Fire Emblem - Path of Radiance back around 2010 for under $50, it's now over $200.

I got a brand new Xbox One controller for $15 a few months ago

 

[OrangeNova]

Toys R Us, about a year after the DS came out, listed a BUNCH of games for $5, so I asked for a bunch of them for Christmas from my parents, and explained what's going on, and to get it sooner than later.

Basically framed it as "I want to get these eventually, and it'll save money in the long run.

Ended up with a bunch of great DS games to play when I got one for christmas that year.

 

[Chrizzy_81]

I got a barely used 60gb phat PS3 with ~20 games for £50 a few years back. Definitely one of my best deals.

 

[Nexus2049]

Probably the 3 years of GamePass I got for $180 or whatever.

 

[MJForum Poster]

Probably when Wal-Mart sold me a PS5 launch game for $20 and then gave me a $20 gift card, making it essentially free

I did also take advantage of a price mistake once for Metro Last Light at Best Buy and bought a Steam code for 1 cent, after they mistakenly listed a SKU meant for a GPU promotion

 

[Rhomega]

Steam price glitch sold Tropico 4 Collector's Edition for $0.39

 

[Cross-Section]

I remember grabbing Battletech for $10 at launch via a price error on Amazon

 

[eXistor]

Quite a few but I think a mint condition Power Blade 2 + mint manual (no box unfortunately) for about $10,- takes the cake.

 

[Damaniel]

A copy of Little Samson for the NES for $2.

 

[Kraid]

I got Harvest Moon, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, Mega Man 7, and Uniracers for $2 each, all with box and manual, from a video store selling off their SNES stock. That was all I could afford at the time, I wish I'd been able to get more.

 

[meph]

Got an Xbox One X during the Target coupon fiasco of 2018 for ~$180.

 

[SapientWolf]

Probably the 3 years of GamePass I got for $180 or whatever.

Click to shrink...

Microsoft also used to just kind of give away XBL points because they wouldn't prevent accounts from grabbing multiple free codes. I'm guessing they're trying to pump up some internal metric.

 

[Duxxy3]

It would mostly be in hardware, not software.

I got a whole bunch of sixaxis controllers (not dualshock 3) for either $10 or $20 each.

Got an RX 570 4GB for $40 and an RTX 2060 for $150. Bought a Ryzen 1600af when they were still going for $85.

 

[Deleted member 17210]

$50 CDN at Radio Shack for a new TurboGrafx system with Keith Courage and China Warrior in the early '90s.

 

[HalStep]

most likely when i went into a second hand shop and saw a psone with official lcd screen, the lady couldn't test it because the lid wouldn't shut.

she told me i could take it for free on the understanding that if i couldn't get it to work it was my problem getting rid of it, i took it apart when i got home and found the eject lid button internals was all plastic and had got jammed up. so i feed everything and put it back together and everything worked perfectly, even the lcd screen.

i even went back in the next week and told her i fixed it and offered to pay something but she said no "a deal is a deal".

 

[someday]

Microsoft had a deal to trade in your xbox 360 and get a $250 trade-in towards an xbox x. But the discount was applied as soon as you filled out the form. So I got $250 off my Xbox X, never sent in the 360, and got 2 free games when I did buy the Xbox X. Ended up getting the whole thing for less than $100.

 

[Illiterate Bookworm]

Star Ocean for the Super Famicom for 300 yen, brand new.
Tales of Phantasia was a whopping 500 yen.
Got them at a department store during the heyday of the PS1 era.

 

[Starwing]

Getting that Nintendo Switch from Daily Steals, I think it was around $180-$200. Other than that, around 15 or so years ago, I played and won that stacking block prize game and got a GBA SP.

 

[ASleepingMonkey]

GameStop stocks.

 

[LakeEarth]

Years ago, Target had 25% off PSN gift cards. That was insane to me. I should've bought more.

 

[valuv]

Not really a deal, but after a lot of weird circumstances and delays I ended up getting my Series X fully refunded and was given 110$ in credit. So brand new console (albeit 2 weeks late) and 110 bucks to spend on whatever.

I also won an x1x from taco bell on only one try, so x1x for 5 bucks.

I got a TE2+ which was retailing in Canada for 350 (I think) from amazon for 200, which was definitely a screamin deal.

 

[J_ToSaveTheDay]

Used mint condition Suikoden 2 for 14.99 at a local mom and pop in early 2003.

I think that was just before it was basically determined that it was a super rare game. I went searching for it because I really liked Suikoden III a few months before (my personal first Suikoden game) and had heard that 2 was excellent.

I quit gaming in college my junior year (Fall 2007) and gave big chunks of my classic games collection away to friends, including that copy of Suikoden II... Not gonna lie, kinda regret that -- not because I want to sell it at its high pricing now, but just because I actually do love that game and wish I still had a physical copy, especially a physical copy that was mint condition like that one.

 

[Goldenroad]

I remember back around 2010/2011-ish, when MS was coming out with the 360 S, EB games was also doing some ridiculous trade-in deals all the time. One of the deals they had was if you traded in any game towards new hardware it would get bumped up to $25 Trade in value. This was the same time when Blockbuster and Rogers Video and so forth were all going out of business, so they were clearing out these old games. I remember in one day going to Blockbuster, and buying 12 used games for a total of around $60, and taking them straight over to EB games and trading them in for a new XBOX 360 S. (and then also trading in my old 360), which I think I got more than $60 for...so we're talking them basically paying me to take a new model 360.

I think I got a Wii the same way...maybe right around the same day.

Those were the days.