How to save at gamestop
Video games mean different things for different people. For some they are life, while for others games are a form of mere occasional entertainment. No matter what our reasons are many of us love gaming and know that even if games are never cheap or cost effective, we will still buy them and look for ways to save.
GameStop has plenty of games and a few ways to save. Over the years GameStop started carrying more than just games. The company understood that with satiated market they simply have to have more to be popular and survive. Today you can find various collectibles, such as pop figures, movie characters, and game heroes. This expands your shopping opportunities far beyond just games, and if you add some savings to the mix, it’ll be beautiful:
Sign up with GameStop PowerUp Pro Rewards
This program costs just $14.99 for the entire year and is definitely worth it, even if you shop just once a year for gifts or for your own game supply. This is what kind of perks you can get:
- 10% more on trade-ins
- 10% savings on used games
- Free Informer gamers magazine for a year
- 20 points for each $1 spent
Sales
Start your shopping with what’s on sale first, this is where you can save the most. You can find digital sales ad and use it for savings while shopping online. The best sale you can shop is for GameStop PowerUp Pro Rewards members – they can buy 2, get 1 free. This applies for video games and figures.
Coupons
Yes, you can find coupons for video games, and plenty. Coupons are sent to GameStop account holders, the biggest one being on their birthday – 20% off the entire purchase with no minimums or maximums. While getting your birthday gift in the shape of games, accessories, and figures, you will still be earning points. The points can later be used for coupons on used games, bringing that total price down even more.
In-store purchases
This applies for times when we are not locked up at home during corona virus with all non-essential businesses closed. Physical GameStop locations have clearance sections and bins, which are not available online. Games, figures, and accessories can be found on clearance and make perfect gifts. All stores feature different items on sale and in clearance, so you can visit a few of them for the best deals.
Pre-order games
All seasoned gamers know that most new games can be pre-ordered before their official release date. You might not pay that much less than people who will purchase the game after it is released, but you will have freedom to make small payments and not everything at once. You can put $5-$10 down and pay the rest in small increments as long as everything is payed off before the release date.
It’s very popular to let kids use their weekly allowance to pay for the game and to understand what it takes to get what you want slowly and how saving for something big works. Many people prefer to pay $10 each week for 6 weeks rather than $60 in one lump sum.
Trade-in savings
If you have a game that you don’t like very much and rarely play, but it’s still relatively new and works with newer consoles, why not trade that in and get a hefty discount on something new? You will get a store credit that can be added to your account and used whenever you want.
The price of the game you trade in varies. You should keep an eye on store ads advertising special trade in bonus on certain games each week. Special trade in events can give you as much as 40% bonus in store credit.
How to save at gamestop
Video games mean different things for different people. For some they are life, while for others games are a form of mere occasional entertainment. No matter what our reasons are many of us love gaming and know that even if games are never cheap or cost effective, we will still buy them and look for ways to save.
GameStop has plenty of games and a few ways to save. Over the years GameStop started carrying more than just games. The company understood that with satiated market they simply have to have more to be popular and survive. Today you can find various collectibles, such as pop figures, movie characters, and game heroes. This expands your shopping opportunities far beyond just games, and if you add some savings to the mix, it’ll be beautiful:
Sign up with GameStop PowerUp Pro Rewards
This program costs just $14.99 for the entire year and is definitely worth it, even if you shop just once a year for gifts or for your own game supply. This is what kind of perks you can get:
- 10% more on trade-ins
- 10% savings on used games
- Free Informer gamers magazine for a year
- 20 points for each $1 spent
Sales
Start your shopping with what’s on sale first, this is where you can save the most. You can find digital sales ad and use it for savings while shopping online. The best sale you can shop is for GameStop PowerUp Pro Rewards members – they can buy 2, get 1 free. This applies for video games and figures.
Coupons
Yes, you can find coupons for video games, and plenty. Coupons are sent to GameStop account holders, the biggest one being on their birthday – 20% off the entire purchase with no minimums or maximums. While getting your birthday gift in the shape of games, accessories, and figures, you will still be earning points. The points can later be used for coupons on used games, bringing that total price down even more.
In-store purchases
This applies for times when we are not locked up at home during corona virus with all non-essential businesses closed. Physical GameStop locations have clearance sections and bins, which are not available online. Games, figures, and accessories can be found on clearance and make perfect gifts. All stores feature different items on sale and in clearance, so you can visit a few of them for the best deals.
Pre-order games
All seasoned gamers know that most new games can be pre-ordered before their official release date. You might not pay that much less than people who will purchase the game after it is released, but you will have freedom to make small payments and not everything at once. You can put $5-$10 down and pay the rest in small increments as long as everything is payed off before the release date.
It’s very popular to let kids use their weekly allowance to pay for the game and to understand what it takes to get what you want slowly and how saving for something big works. Many people prefer to pay $10 each week for 6 weeks rather than $60 in one lump sum.
Trade-in savings
If you have a game that you don’t like very much and rarely play, but it’s still relatively new and works with newer consoles, why not trade that in and get a hefty discount on something new? You will get a store credit that can be added to your account and used whenever you want.
The price of the game you trade in varies. You should keep an eye on store ads advertising special trade in bonus on certain games each week. Special trade in events can give you as much as 40% bonus in store credit.
GameStop Corona Survival
While its physical doors might be closing for now, GameStop is happy about increasing business. We are all kept at home by novice corona virus and by government orders with sometimes little to do. When work and homeschooling is done and no parties or events are taking place and social connections are limited to the immediate family, what is one to do? Maybe game a little? Many people seem to think so bringing business to GameStop and similar retailers.
GameStop has closed most of its physical stores around the world, but that doesn’t mean that game buying got completely dried up. On the contrary, online sales are surging keeping bored people sane. Customers flocked the stores right before the closings in anticipation of boredom at home and they are continuing to order online more than before.
Europe closed earlier, but before then GameStop has seen 2% increase in sales when compared to the same period in March of last year. People are adjusting to life at home and are happy to have some entertainment. Part of March success was the release of Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Those two games were highly desired and anticipated. Some experts say that 2% growth with those two games and before home isolation is not as impressive as it should’ve been, but it is still growth.
The impact of all European and US stores closures is not going to be reflected right away. It remains to be seen if online sales will help offset the losses at least partially. Most closed stores are still operating and are open for curbside delivery or in their case delivery to the door. Such stores are operating with just one employee because it is enough and it is safer that way for everybody involved. Employees mostly volunteer to do this duty and thus don’t feel unhappy.
What’s ahead for the company?
Sadly, most likely, a difficult year is ahead. The trouble started way before the corona outbreak. Winter holiday sales in the last quarter of last year were down 26% and overall 19.4% down for last fiscal year.
The company closed down 320 stores in 2019 and is looking to close about that much this year. Before the closures, GameStop had about 5,000 stores worldwide. According to company’s CEO George Sherman, the closures were planned as part of “de-densification” program and are not affected by recent low sales. He says the new strategy is going to leave only the most profitable stores operational to reduce cost and improve profits.
Due to corona’s impact on global economy, projections are impossible to make for all businesses and GameStop is not going to project immediate future earnings. 2020 is going to be difficult and transitional year. Sales might not pick up until late fall when new consoles are going to be launched. So far there are no indications that new Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5 will be affected.
Hopefully the economy will be in the upswing by the end of the year. The positive impact of new game consoles remains to be seen, but there are voices that say that after this is over, people might just be used to downloading new titles from home without visiting physical stores of GameStop and similar. One thing is certain – we all will be changed in some ways, but hopefully for the better.