![]() A $5 gift card is worth 5000 points which would require you to spend roughly $455 or 7.6 $60 games. Points can be redeemed for many different types of rewards from shirts to wallets to gift cards. 20 points per dollar on used items and for trades, plus the 10%. 10 points per dollar spent on new products, plus the 10%. 250 points for starting or renewing membership. PowerUp Rewards Pro: 10% more points than the regular option. Also, you earn double points for trade-ins, making it 2 per dollar. Spend $125 on games and you’ll earn enough points for a $5 gift card (250 points). A $60 game becomes $47.99 which gives you 94 points. Gamers Club Unlocked: GCU gives you double reward points, so 2 points for every dollar. $10 for a game I was going to buy anyway? Thanks, friend! GameStop: Some games offer exclusive items sometimes. Gamers Club Unlocked: Preordering some popular games will give you a $10 gift card. 20% off no matter when seals the deal.Īmazon: Some games offer exclusive items sometimes. Gamers Club Unlocked: 20% off all games including preorders and amiibo/skylanders/Disney infinity/etc. Plus you’re probably a Prime member already anyway.Īmazon Prime: 20% off all pre-orders and for the first two weeks after release. Here’s where Amazon gets its well-deserved win for having a lot more features. PowerUp Rewards Pro: Subscription to Game Informer magazine. Gamers Club Unlocked: Not really anything. In terms of gaming, Best Buy and GameStop are equal in cost with Amazon being the worst choice if you were to become a Prime member just for games.Īmazon Prime: Exclusive/free movies and TV shows, free 2-day shipping, etc. I’ve bolded these to indicate their free-ness.Īmazon Prime: $99/year with many other non-gaming benefits. When that is the case, I refer to it with just the store name to avoid confusion and to show that that is the standard level of service. Note: With some of these categories, it doesn’t matter if you are a member or not. The results of all this will be used to determine what’s the best option for your gaming dollar. I’m going to be outlining all three of these memberships in terms of cost, extra perks, deals on new games, preorder bonuses, points program, shipping, store pickup, selection and deals on pre-owned games, trade-in bonuses, and trade-in value. With all that out of the way, let’s get down to business. Let’s not forget GameStop’s PowerUp Rewards Pro, the tried and true discount program, which has been around for years and years and years. Meanwhile, Best Buy’s Gamers Club Unlocked has been around for a few years now, but it wasn’t until roughly a year ago when they lowered the price of membership that it started really taking off. Well put your mind at ease my gaming friend, I’ve outlined the three major contenders and pitted them against each other to find you the very best deals.Īmazon is the new kid on the block when it comes to this but they’ve come out swinging by adding a video game benefit to their Amazon Prime membership. With Amazon Prime getting into the discount video games arena, it can be difficult to know where to shop these days.
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