With how lazy most GS / EB stores are, you'll probably have to pick through the bins and look for movies with the generic title line on the $5.99 sticker. The stores around here rarely update their prices. Hell, the GS north of me never bothered to update most of their prices when they went to the $5.99 / $9.99 / $12.99 system. You can still go in there and find many titles with $7.99 or $10.99 stickers on them.

Went to three local GS and at the first one, nothing, not even a single $5.99 generic!

I know I just saw a few music titles over the weekend there... Hmmm...

Went to second GS and BINGO!

Stalag 17, Pact With The Devil, Jack The Bear, Night Flier {snapper case}, Father Goose, The Devil And Daniel Johnston...

Next GS was wierd...

I saw a few titles that I just knew were not in their system and yet they were marked $5.99 so I looked closer and what this GS did was to wrongly name alot of dvds!

I brought 3 dvds to the counter and explained nicely to the ass. manager that these dvds are misnamed...

He said that when the dvds were brought in there, that's what the clerks named them as since they weren't in the system...

"Eh, so these 3 and many more like them should have generic $5.99 stickers and then be sold for $1.99, right?"

"No, that's how they are in the system so I can't change them!"

"Can I please speak to the manager?"

He comes out from the back and again I explain the situation and he says the same thing...

So I take out my cell with the camera and start taking pics of the dvds and the wrong stickers on them...

He sees me doing this and then says, "Okay, no problem, I'll just ring these 3 up as $1.99 and then go change the other titles later."

Picked up: Tomie, Pillow Talk, Creature From The Haunted Sea...

Had to resurrect this thread based on a conversation I just had with my local GS manager....

I stopped in tonight on a whim, just to see if they had anything new in their DVD section. Surprisingly, they did, including some box sets! I chatted with the manager regarding DVD trade-ins while he rang up my purchase. He told me that corporate has once again changed its mind. While they are still holding to the "no more DVD trades for cash" policy, they have decided to ditch the idea of doing away with DVDs altogether, so.... there will be new trades coming in, just not as spectacular as those "five-finger discounters" who brought in newly-released stuff to trade for cash (unless, of course, they bring those in to trade on newly-released games or some such thing).

Oh, and I picked up:

Saw III (Unrated version)
High School Musical (2-disc Remix edition)
Independence Day (SE)

for $23.38 after B2G1F and Card discounts.

A local manager told me the same. He also told me the story that led to the idiotic decision of getting rid of DVDs and the reason it was overturned.

The thing is that some idiotic higher up recommended that Gamestop and all its related store chains begain doing away with DVD because he believed that the format was going to die at the end of the year because of the introduction of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. He thought that if they kept accepting DVDs, the would have a backlog of an used, dissapearing format, like they did when the N64 and PSone were discontinued and that they would be unable to sell them since customers would have move on to another format. It seems somebody else did some little research and came to the conclusion that DVDs were profitable all around and that they will continue to sell them until the new formats get more mainstream.

The manager also added that small stores will indeed stop selling DVDs, but the reasoning behind them is shelf space.

This is what I was told since they made the decision. It was only the small stores that were going to stop selling DVDs altogether that had the B1G1 sale. There were only 3 stores small enough in my district to qualify (but apparently the greater Cleveland area is split into at least 2 districts, so there are probably more that I was to lazy to chase down), so most of my local stores still sell DVDs, though most have an ever shrinking selection.

Christ, Game Stop is run by morons. Of course we knew that already. Just a small bit of research that isn't done on an internet forum full of technogeeks would tell you that HD and Blu-Ray are no threat to standard DVD at the moment, nor does it look like they will ever be unless one of them eliminates the other and becomes the standard.

I wanted to get Sopranos S5 & 6.1 at my GS, but they had nothing for the freebie so I passed. This is the closest I have come so far to actually buying something via this deal at my GS.

Went to a Gamestop at a mall here in Michigan today and saw that their DVDs were now buy 2 get 3 free. The store used to be buy 2 get 2 free. So, I don't know if all the stores that had buy 2 get 2 have upped the deal or just this store. This is probably for smaller stores that are trying to sell out their DVD inventory completely.

Anyhoo, I picked up these for $18 plus tax w/ my discount card:
The Right Stuff (2-Disc SE)
The Libertine
Spy Kids 3-D (2-Disc SE)
Mission Impossible II (2-Disc Set)
Kicking & Screaming (Wide)

If this deal has already been posted, I apologize.

i just got
the last king of scotland - 5.99
formula 51 - 5.99
out of sight - 0.00

Where at in Michigan?

Westland mall. It's on Wayne Rd. near Warren Rd. I've also found quite a few valuable OOP DVDs at the FYE in that mall as well.

Ah, ok. A little too far for me to drive, as I'm out in Flint. All our stores are still B2G1F to my knowledge.

new Gamestop in Amherst has a decent selection of some newer movies for $5.99 too. And they are also B2G1 Free.

Children Of Men
The Fountain
Last King of Scotland
The Libertine
more...

So how much trade credit do they give you now for standard DVD's?

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Depends, but the clerks said not as much as they used too, maybe a couple bucks a title. And now they only give store credit, no cash anymore.
They fucking caved under the pressure of walmart complaints that people lift stuff from their stores to sell at GS. As if shoddy security is their fault!

FYE gives better rates, not sure why people sell to GS/EB.

Ever since my local GS/EB stopped taking in dvd trades the Moviestops have been filled with stolen titles. They usually have Tuesday's new releases by Wednesday afternoon.

I'm not sure if you're joking, but the real reason they're not selling dvds is because they don't feel it's cost justified. In other words, the profit doesn't meet up with the work. That, at least, is what several local managers told me that they were told by the regional manager. Personally, I think they're idiots. I only went in there because of dvds, and I ended up buying games because of it. Even if the dvds weren't making a huge splash, I think it helped their business. If it wasn't doing so well they should have changed purchasing and selling strategies. IMO, dvds and games are the perfect media marriage.

We don't have FYE over here, unfortunately. What about Blockbuster? Do they still buy used DVD's? I have a whole bunch I want to unload, but I don't want to dump them all for trade credit someplace that doesn't have anything I want.

Yea, all non-franchise stores take movies & Games. They give insane rates for games, not sure what their movie rates are though.

Looks like Gamestop is using the $1.99 tag for many of the unknown titles. I picked up Masters of Horror: Homecoming at that price yesterday, and they also had the Xena 10th Anniversary collection with 7 $1.99 tags on it (for some reason that's how they price some multi-disc sets).

The $1.99 tags actually list the name of the dvd or are they the "generic" labels?

the 1.99 tags only say "USED G, PG, PG-13 DVD" OR "USED R, NR DVD" and they put them on the dvds that are not in the system

its not just multi-discs but they are the dvds that they dont have in their system

Actually he wasn't joking. Best Buy had conversations with Gamestop top management about how the trade-in market impacted their retail stores. He said that there was an increase number of theft in the DVD departments and new that many Gamestops/Eb Games accepted stolen merchandise from BB. That was reason #1. Reason # 2 was that Gamestop top management thought that Blu-Ray and HD-DVD were going to take over the market and their chain of store will get stuck with huge bulks of unsold DVDs. So their logic was to stop accepting DVD trade-ins by the end of 2007. According to some managers, those plans have changed and they are going to accept DVD trade-ins at most of their stores beyond 2007.

Yes, that's what I said.


The one thing that leads me to doubt this otherwise very credible sounding story is that the store that had conversations with Gamestop management changes depending on what store is closest to the storyteller's local Gamestop. In this area, it's Target that threatened to sue.