More BB penny guides
10-14-03, 07:24 PM
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More BB penny guides
Went to BB and they had a few penny guides they had Zelda Wind Walker, Tomb Rader Angel Of Darkness, Kingdom Hearts, and Enter The Matrix. I got like 4 copys of TR and Matrix and one Zelda but no KH for me 
So does anyone want to trade me a KH guide for one of the above I also can trade Brute Force guide and Donkey Kong country for GBA guide.
Opps forgot to add if anyone just wants me to ship them a guide and pay me for shipping that is fine too.
So does anyone want to trade me a KH guide for one of the above I also can trade Brute Force guide and Donkey Kong country for GBA guide.
Opps forgot to add if anyone just wants me to ship them a guide and pay me for shipping that is fine too.
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10-14-03, 09:01 PM
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Hi.. i'm interested in Matrix, zelda would you be able to ship me those? how would I pay you? please contact me at
[email protected]
Thank you very much.
[email protected]
Thank you very much.
If someone could pick me up some guides I'd be grateful...maybe even 
or 
...depending on the guide(s). 
10-15-03, 06:15 AM
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Last Friday, I had a BB employee scan all of the guides and Zelda was a penny but Matrix and Kingdom Hearts still scanned at $14.99. I guess they dropped the price over the weekend. I also picked up Splinter Cell and Wolfenstein for a penny. Thanks, I'll check it out again.
10-15-03, 10:42 AM
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I'm sorry, I'm a little confused.
Are you guys actually saying that some of the $15 game guides (walkthrough magazines), those cool mags with all the glossy pages and detailed walkthroughs with many screen captures, can be had for a measly 1 cent!?!?!?!?
As in $0.01?!?!?
If so, that's simply amazing!! Why/how would Best Buy do this?
Seems like it'd be very big losses. Are they misprices, or actual markdowns?
Do I just walk in and grab the ones I'm interested in and ask someone to scan them for the prices?? (There're at least 5 I'd snatch up!!)
Are you guys actually saying that some of the $15 game guides (walkthrough magazines), those cool mags with all the glossy pages and detailed walkthroughs with many screen captures, can be had for a measly 1 cent!?!?!?!?
As in $0.01?!?!?
If so, that's simply amazing!! Why/how would Best Buy do this?
Seems like it'd be very big losses. Are they misprices, or actual markdowns?
Do I just walk in and grab the ones I'm interested in and ask someone to scan them for the prices?? (There're at least 5 I'd snatch up!!)
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10-15-03, 10:52 AM
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They was I understand it is that:
For some reason when the guides no longer sell it is cheeper/better for the store to sell them for a penny then to Ship them back to the manufacturer. That would cost more money plus they want the guides out of their inventory. Also I think the guides have a high markup, they are not hard to make so if they sell like 20 and give away 5 they are still making money.
For some reason when the guides no longer sell it is cheeper/better for the store to sell them for a penny then to Ship them back to the manufacturer. That would cost more money plus they want the guides out of their inventory. Also I think the guides have a high markup, they are not hard to make so if they sell like 20 and give away 5 they are still making money.
10-15-03, 11:19 AM
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Speaking as someone who helped make one of these guides, I can attest that they are NOT easy to make. I was hired freelance by Prima to construct a world map of every screen in Link's Awakening DX for their guide. Using an emulator I had to play the game all the way through and painstakingly take a screen capture of every locale (and thus make an overall world map, dungeon maps, and several others). I also had to remove Link from each shot, which meant making sure he was on a easily replicated surface when I took the shot. Then it was a matter of copying a bit of the ground that looked the same and pasting it over him, lining up the pixels so it looked as though he was never there. Fun.
I think I got $500 for the job. They wanted me to do another game but I was so exhausted by the end of that one I turned it down.
I think I got $500 for the job. They wanted me to do another game but I was so exhausted by the end of that one I turned it down.
10-15-03, 01:30 PM
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Originally posted by BeckysBoy
Speaking as someone who helped make one of these guides, I can attest that they are NOT easy to make. I was hired freelance by Prima to construct a world map of every screen in Link's Awakening DX for their guide. Using an emulator I had to play the game all the way through and painstakingly take a screen capture of every locale (and thus make an overall world map, dungeon maps, and several others). I also had to remove Link from each shot, which meant making sure he was on a easily replicated surface when I took the shot. Then it was a matter of copying a bit of the ground that looked the same and pasting it over him, lining up the pixels so it looked as though he was never there. Fun.
I think I got $500 for the job. They wanted me to do another game but I was so exhausted by the end of that one I turned it down.
Speaking as someone who helped make one of these guides, I can attest that they are NOT easy to make. I was hired freelance by Prima to construct a world map of every screen in Link's Awakening DX for their guide. Using an emulator I had to play the game all the way through and painstakingly take a screen capture of every locale (and thus make an overall world map, dungeon maps, and several others). I also had to remove Link from each shot, which meant making sure he was on a easily replicated surface when I took the shot. Then it was a matter of copying a bit of the ground that looked the same and pasting it over him, lining up the pixels so it looked as though he was never there. Fun.
I think I got $500 for the job. They wanted me to do another game but I was so exhausted by the end of that one I turned it down.
10-15-03, 06:06 PM
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Originally posted by Trevor
F-Zero GX is also a penny.
F-Zero GX is also a penny.
the donkey kong country for the gba a penney also?
10-15-03, 06:07 PM
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Last Friday, I had a BB employee scan all of the guides and Zelda was a penny but Matrix and Kingdom Hearts still scanned at $14.99. I guess they dropped the price over the weekend. I also picked up Splinter Cell and Wolfenstein for a penny. Thanks, I'll check it out again.
Last Friday, I had a BB employee scan all of the guides and Zelda was a penny but Matrix and Kingdom Hearts still scanned at $14.99. I guess they dropped the price over the weekend. I also picked up Splinter Cell and Wolfenstein for a penny. Thanks, I'll check it out again.
10-16-03, 12:12 AM
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An employee told me that at that particular store (Decker: The one on Rainbow and Lake Mead 
) whenever they get them in they send them back because they lose money on them, so they don't even put them out in the floor.
) whenever they get them in they send them back because they lose money on them, so they don't even put them out in the floor.
10-16-03, 08:41 AM
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I couldn't find any KH guides. I've brought that guide to the check out window like five times in the past b efore the price drop, too
But on the bright side, I found out that Ghost Recon : Island Thunder guide is also .01. The game is only $14.99 at the 2 BBV stores I've visited as well, BTW.
But on the bright side, I found out that Ghost Recon : Island Thunder guide is also .01. The game is only $14.99 at the 2 BBV stores I've visited as well, BTW.
10-16-03, 08:56 AM
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Decker which Best Buy do you go to ?! An employee at the Best Buy on Rainbow and Lake Mead told me they send them back because they lose money on them...
10-16-03, 11:38 AM
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That one. The GR : IT guides are out on the shelves. They probably don't realize that they're only a penny.
10-16-03, 11:52 AM
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GGGRRRR 
Best Buy. I'll go in a couple of hours and pick it up. How can you tell which ones will ring up at 1 penny? There's no self-price check terminal.
Best Buy. I'll go in a couple of hours and pick it up. How can you tell which ones will ring up at 1 penny? There's no self-price check terminal.
10-16-03, 12:00 PM
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I just grabbed all the ones i was interested in and went to the register w/ them. I asked the cashier to price check them for me. The ones that were $.01, I took, the others i left.
I snagged, Zelda:WW, F-Zero, Matrix, and TR.
I think i tried GR: IT, but it rang up at 5 or 10 bucks or something.
I'm going again today to a BB near my office in hopes to find Splinter Cell and Kingdom Hearts.
Much thanks to the original poster! I don't even own some of these games, but if/when they drop in price, I'll have the guide already!!
Thanks again!!!
I snagged, Zelda:WW, F-Zero, Matrix, and TR.
I think i tried GR: IT, but it rang up at 5 or 10 bucks or something.
I'm going again today to a BB near my office in hopes to find Splinter Cell and Kingdom Hearts.
Much thanks to the original poster! I don't even own some of these games, but if/when they drop in price, I'll have the guide already!!
Thanks again!!!
10-16-03, 01:18 PM
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Originally posted by squi23
I don't even own some of these games, but if/when they drop in price, I'll have the guide already!!
I don't even own some of these games, but if/when they drop in price, I'll have the guide already!!
