Where do you buy your retail games (NA)?

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TalonMan said:

killeryoshis said:

Recently I get all my new games on Amazon due to my discount on Amazon Prime. Before I would get all my games from Gamestop. (Don't look at me like that. Gamestop is the only game store near me!)

If I want used games I go to Ebay,Amazon or Used gaming store.

Have you looked into Best Buy, at all?

I was on the fence for awhile with the $30 membership fee, but it's for two years and I already saved that much on my first order - it's a CRAZY good program to join! Besides the 20% discount, I've also found that:

 - Best Buy includes the 20% discount on ALL new games, whereas Amazon only has the discount on most pre-orders and for the first few weeks after release. The Best Buy discount continues indefinitely - all new games, regardless of release date, are 20% off!
 - Best Buy includes the discount on "Collecter Edition" items, in addition to the standard releases! I pre-ordered Xenoblades Collector Edition at Best Buy for $79.99. It's a full price purchase ($99.99) on Amazon.
 - The GCU also includes a 'Rewards Program" - I think it's something like $.50 per $1 spent. I don't know, but whatever it is, it's far more than Amazon gives back because Amazon gives you NOTHING! I've already received $15 in "purchase certificates" from Best Buy, which I can apply to my next order.

I honestly don't see how you can beat the Best Buy deal at this point - seriously. I do understand wanting to have (and use) Prime, because of all of the extra stuff that comes along with that membership. But if you purchase a lot of physical games, I would suggest seriously looking into and considering GCU...

This is all appealing to me. I use Amazon Prime but the thing I dislike about Best Buy is that (I like to order online) they charge you at the time of pre-order. Amazon charges when they ship. And I like to pay off my pre-orders on my own time, rather than immediately have the money. Meaning, I just reload my amazon account with the required funds and then apply them to the pre-order I have and boom, done. 

If Amazon changes anything else about their Prime savings, I'll switch to Best Buy. Also kinda pisses me off that half the time when I pre-order something, the price goes down to like $48.50 on Amazon for NON Prime members. So I get like... $0.51 cents of savings? Gross.