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Subject: Gamestop's Pre-Order

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What is Gamestop's pre-order like? Do receive your game the day the game comes out? I would like to pre-order from Best Buy (I used them for Halo 3) but they don't seem to have the Sgt. Johnson token offer.

  • 06.02.2009 3:29 PM PDT

Suck it Red!

Watch out with Gamestop, they sell your game if your not fast enough. Best Buy will probably have the token, its just that its too early for them to have gotten notice from Bungie.

  • 06.02.2009 3:35 PM PDT

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Posted by: Caboose042
Watch out with Gamestop, they sell your game if your not fast enough. Best Buy will probably have the token, its just that its too early for them to have gotten notice from Bungie.

Yeah, Gamestop seems "shady." Best Buy is pretty good. I pre-ordered Halo 3 on August 1, 2007 and it arrived on September 25, 2007 (Halo 3's release date).

  • 06.02.2009 3:36 PM PDT

I also shop at Best Buy for games (Reward Zone ftw), buy they didn't even have a midnight release for Halo 3, which had to be more anticipated than ODST is.

I'm a little concerned, as I want to go to a midnight release, but from Best Buy.

Here's hoping they carry the Collector's Edition and the Johnson promotion.

  • 06.02.2009 3:37 PM PDT
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ganestop for sure has it

  • 06.02.2009 3:40 PM PDT
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You deposit as much money as you want on it (Minimum of $5, sometimes $10). Then, when the game is released, you have to pick it up within 48 hours or they will sell it. When you pay for it, your deposit is deducted from the final price. If you don't pick it up, your deposit is returned.

If you pre-order online, they ship it on the release date, and you get it a few days later.

  • 06.02.2009 3:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: reach17
You deposit as much money as you want on it (Minimum of $5, sometimes $10). Then, when the game is released, you have to pick it up within 48 hours or they will sell it. When you pay for it, your deposit is deducted from the final price. If you don't pick it up, your deposit is returned.

If you pre-order online, they ship it on the release date, and you get it a few days later.

I guess I got lucky with Best Buy getting it on 9/25/07. I don't know if I'll get get ODST on 9/22/09.

  • 06.02.2009 3:57 PM PDT
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Do you think I suck? Do you haet me for my opinion?

Don't fear! Join The Anti USGov League and flame me freely!

Gamestop will sell reserved copies to people that walk in off the street.

I'm serious.

  • 06.02.2009 3:58 PM PDT
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Posted by: DK daze
Dude I don't care and my grammer is perfect.I used "Big", as you recall it to mak is specific."to not do...",is incorrect beause "do" is present tense/perfect(or future) when it was a past tense.

I'm a little worried. When I pre-ordered Halo Wars LCE EB games didn't give me the flaming warthog. I should probably confirm that I'll get johnson.

  • 06.02.2009 4:00 PM PDT

Posted by: reach17
You deposit as much money as you want on it (Minimum of $5, sometimes $10). Then, when the game is released, you have to pick it up within 48 hours or they will sell it. When you pay for it, your deposit is deducted from the final price. If you don't pick it up, your deposit is returned.

If you pre-order online, they ship it on the release date, and you get it a few days later.


I thought it was guaranteed that you receive it on the street release date?

  • 06.02.2009 4:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: Atrum Ganon
I thought it was guaranteed that you receive it on the street release date?

That might be in-store guaranteed.

  • 06.02.2009 4:03 PM PDT
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We better get out of here because its gonna get messy

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I hope they dont sell my copy...if they do i am never going back there again!!

  • 06.02.2009 4:46 PM PDT
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gamestop only sells your copy if you wait like a week.

  • 06.02.2009 4:50 PM PDT

Will Gamestop sell my copy if I preorder it and pay full price?

  • 06.02.2009 4:50 PM PDT