Best Buy's GCU Is Coming To An End

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Just great:stopitslime:
Doesn't amazon have something similar?
Not for long. If Best Buy is dropping this you better believe Amazon will drop it too. I still have my membership for about 2 more years. It probably won't effect my purchasing of games much because I can still afford full price but I'll shift to Amazon until the wheels fall of that. Best Buy is going to lose a lot of my purchases because of this. I won't be in their store nearly as much anymore.
 

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I actually stopped using gcu because prime gives 20% plus my 5 % with my cc.

Still sad to see it go, it’s always nice to have options.
I had the US Bank Cash+ which offered 5% off at electronics stores like Best Buy. No way in hell am I not switching to Amazon with the Prime Visa on pre-orders when this expires in 2020 if Amazon still even offers their 20% off at this point. Bad part about Amazon is they can kill the program any day and it's gone that same day.
 

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Places like Best Buy and wal mart giving deals on games are the only reason amazon does it.

So,if Best Buy pulls out then it’s only a matter of time until amazon does as well
It's a good thing I got my pre-orders in for games I care about back in 2016. :miyagi:

And 2 of them still are not out yet:thanos:
 

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Breh, I literally just used it to get Hyrule warriors today

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It expires in about a week, should I renew it now?
 

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Breh, I literally just used it to get Hyrule warriors today

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It expires in about a week, should I renew it now?
You can't renew or create a new membership. An internal email instructs stores to pull all the cards and their POS seems to block them.
 

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The gaming market is quickly becoming what I predicted 5 years ago

We are going to see more great games with story lines disappear

While free games like fortnite with a lot of buy in option and less features will reign

Can't blame the industry, I choice not to buy games at full price
 

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fukkIN STUPID! I know that shyt brought them a lot of business. For the last year and a half I've only bought my games from best buy. They're gonna lose a lot of business bc of this. Maybe this has to do with their new partneship with Amazon? I know that's only for TVs but you never know. Maybe they're going to do more business with other product lines like videogames
 

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Will pre-orders we make now stay locked in, even after our GCU expires?
 

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I was thinking about getting this too... then I realized I don't really buy day 1 games much anymore.


Will not be surprised if amazon drops the 20% preorders.... they already nerfed it last year
 
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