A reader tipped me off that Toys R Us was NOT charging the usual $4.95 fee on Vanilla VGC back in July 2017, and you know what, the deal was still ALIVE as of 2 days ago. In this day and age, I’m SHOCKED that this MS nugget lasted this long. I’m even more shocked […]
One of the things you learn in this game is – NEVER PUT EYES ON YOUR ACCOUNT. This is synonymous with Slickdeal’s “DON’T CALL ABOUT PRICE MISTAKES.” Anyway, this poor reader had to call in and that led to his account being axed. In his own words: Hi Vinh, I don’t know if this is […]
Introduction A reader told me on 2/15/18 that a memo went out to Gamestop stores that they are no longer allowed to accept their own gift cards for Amazon gift cards. A day later, the registers were hardcoded to block this conversion. Apparently Amazon cash has also been blocked as well. You can figure out what […]
Introduction I had written 2016 was the year of reselling and 2017 was the year of GC churning. I know DOC said 2016 was the year of GC churning, but I think that’s when it was still ‘underground’ and every deal was at least break even (most profitable.) In 2017, more people were doing it […]
Introduction I was out of the country at the time, but it seems a reader found out that Toys R Us had a price mistake on VGC and in fact, all GC’s. It was pricing out a buy 1 get 1 40% off. You can see the screenshot above. Seemed to have went live on […]