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Crap, the Pokemon 3DS is sold out. I just saw the post about it being live.
Oh well
Oh well
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Canadian Gaming "Deals" and Discussion Thread 6: Sorry, We Can't Afford a New Thread
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$290 actually. We're saving quite a bit buying it here. I'll be in Oregon where there's no sales tax the weekend it comes out but still better off here.
Lone_Prodigy
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Good time to have a meeting.
Oh well.
Oh well.
MrNineties
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How is it they blow through all stock in 1 hour of being available? This is lunacy...
BigJonsson
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MrNineties
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Yeah, me included, but with Amazon and now BB sold through and no leads on other retailers plans i'm SOL. Nintendo needs to put these on their webstore for goodness sake.
ReddishGUI
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ebgames has yet to put them up.
Have they confirmed if they will even be carrying it? I don't think they had the AC: Happy Home Designer bundle.
I'm thinking about moving a sizable amount of money from my french bank account to my canadian bank account. I've been waiting for the canadian dollar to plunge as low as possible before making the move so I don't know if I should wait a few months or do it right now (1 euro = 1.60 CAD).
Do you think it will hit 0.60 by the end of the year ?
Do you think it will hit 0.60 by the end of the year ?
ReddishGUI
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I feel confident that they will and I'm pretty sure that I saw the hhd bundle in store.
User 479360
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Nintendo.com lists GameStop as one of the two places that you can buy it from, with Best Buy being the other.
I'm not 100% sure I will end up buying one, but wouldn't mind pre-ordering one just in case. It is a lot of money, and more than I make in a month.
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I bought a HHD bundle at Wal-Mart.
I am sure people will be able to find the Pokemon bundle in store.
Elitist1945
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So BLOPS 3 is showing as $55 on EB's site. Thats a hell of a deal - translates to $38 USD. And its not showing as being on sale, either. Check Gamestop's site and its $60 there.
I think so. There's a forecast that the CAD will fall to 59 cents vs USD by the end of the year. Seeing that the Euro is at 63 cents. Yeah, it seems possible.
but I don't want that to happen
Neither do I but at least I have a silver lining ...
https://gameaccess.ca/Game-Store-DealOfTheDay.htm
Black Ops III + 1 month of Game Access for $39.99. Looks like it's only for the Xbox One version and the deal expires at midnight (EST). I've never bought anything from them, but I've used their rental service and thought it was great.
Black Ops III + 1 month of Game Access for $39.99. Looks like it's only for the Xbox One version and the deal expires at midnight (EST). I've never bought anything from them, but I've used their rental service and thought it was great.
User 479360
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Used?
Probably is, I've bought a game through them once, which was indeed used. It was in very good condition however.
bytemovies
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I'm in Vancouver and while the service technically worked, the shipping times were so slow that it was just a pain in my ass. And most games are gone for a long time unless you had them reserved, which was also a pain in my ass.
I didn't get nearly enough value out of it to keep going.
ColonelSkills
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Used it for years and years (like, 5 or so?) with absolutely no issues whatsoever, and only stopped because my work life got too busy to justify the two game plan I had. For what it's worth, I had a good experience with them and enjoyed it. Had all of one issue with a game getting lost in the mail once and a simple phone call had that sorted in a few minutes. Turn around time in the mail was heavily dependent on weather, and suffered a bit in winter, but otherwise was pretty painless.
Mass_Pincup
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What's your incentive for doing so? I've been using my french account since I got here and didn't really felt the need to have a canadian bank account.
The exchange from EUR to CAD hasn't been as drastic since the EUR has been having issues too...
1 EUR = 1.3679 CAD in July 2013.
I think they only have one distribution centre, which is in Quebec, so it's probably only worth it if you live in Eastern Canada. And if you want to rent new releases, you'll need pay $3 or $4 more per month to be able to reserve a game or else you'll be waiting a while. I was happy with the service when I used it though.
chrominance
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Best Buy in the US already does this, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch to see the Canadian one do it too.
Either that, or the parent company just decided to unify the two ecommerce platforms because you don't really need two different shitty website platforms to serve the U.S. and Canada when just one shitty platform will work for both.
chrominance
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Nintendo sells a few direct from their online store. Otherwise, I'd try importing from Asian stores (ex. Nippon-Yassan). Amazon.com has a bunch too, but it's hard to say which is more expensive at this point.
I can't believe they charge $4 more for the New XL charge cradle than the New charge cradle. that's such a joke. lol
Apparently it's mediocre as a game but decent as a FF fanservice title that doubles as a spiritual successor to Crystal Chronicles
so buyer beware
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Jotamide
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Witcher 2 X360 showing as free on XBL: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-CA/P...acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80257520824?noSplash=1
Thanks!
Wow I had to add a payment option so I could get a free game. w/e after all those months of free games with Gold, the digital backlog is intense.
doctorcdcs
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as much as i love free games, I already have it for PC, plus I don't want to really put my CC info just to get a free game. I try to usually pay through prepaid cards if I want something through them. Hacking has made me too paranoid now, especially after what happened with steam. Thanks for the link though. I'm sure there's a bunch of people who haven't played the game yet.
Xenoflare
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Apparently it's mediocre as a game but decent as a FF fanservice title that doubles as a spiritual successor to Crystal Chronicles
so buyer beware
Mhmmm.... my interested suddenly plummeted since I never played CC, probably gonna save it for SMT IF Final then.
I'm also not too sure about Bravely Second.... Bravely Default dropped hard on me after chapter 5
I really really need to know too lol.
Dumb question: is there any way to grab white or black n3DS cover plates? I got the Pokemon n3DS bundle thing but I don't want the Pokemon plates, I'd rather have solid black or white. I guess I'll have to do a trade and/or buy used ones from someone in AUS or JP who has the original plates that came with the vanilla n3DS consoles?
knacklover
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Oh no you did not!
Nintendo store does have some face plates for sale: https://store.nintendo.com/ng3/browse/subcategory.jsp?categoryId=cat600792&pageSize=6&viewAll=true
I'm pretty picky and would prefer the black or white solid colour ones.
EDIT: Found someone from the UK in the B/S/T thread who has the original black ones for sale.
knacklover
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You can find it directly at The Nintendo store for 39.99$! https://store.nintendo.com/ng3/ca/p...lse&productId=prod580495&categoryId=cat581117
socksfelloff
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There's already a guy listing his Pokemon bundle on kijiji for 370$$ lol
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