Best Buy Gamer's Club Unlocked is legit

[Eel O'Brian]

I got in on this a few months back. For the full price it's not worth it, but if you can snag a membership whenever they run those "buy ___ game get GCU membership for $30" deals it's really worth it.  You get a 20% discount on new games (which applies to any wrapped game, brings $60 games down to $48, and also stacks on top of sale prices), 10% extra on trades (which stacks with whatever other promos they're running), and other offers throughout the year. Using a rolling trade-in combined with the $10 BB Rewards pre-order certificates, I've paid a total of around $64 out of pocket for the following games (all of which except COD gained/gains you a $10 pre-order RW certificate):

Shadow of Mordor (which I paid for with some initial game trades)
Sunset Overdrive
COD: AW
Halo MCC
Far Cry 4
GTA V

If you like to play/trade and not hang on to stuff, you'll pay very little out of pocket. Good deal, thumbs up.

[Shino]

I have GCU as well.
I actually got lucky.  I was a part of it before it switched ... where it as $15/year, you got a magazine ( @gamer = ) and it doubled the preorder bonus reward zone points.
So I not only got grandfathered into the current GCU, but the sent me a coupon to extend it 2 years for $30!

So I'm good for a while.
Plus I use a Reward Zone mastercard for pretty much everything I buy and then pay it off every month so I always have a great supply of reward zone points to use.

That 20% off works on Infinity Characters too last I checked.  So if you're into that or have kids that are into it like I do, that's really helpful.

[G The Resurrected]

Member since the GMR days and was happy with the new GCU stuff. That 20% plus preorder bonus on top of a 45 day adjustment window can't be beat. I've had a few major problems with them getting preorders in though. But it didn't stop my spending and with the additional deals for GCU subs I'm up to 2026 right now. I think by then they'll have to change things, since most stuff will all be digital.

[Shino]

So I ended up getting a Wii U during Black Friday (Ebay had a Mario 3DW Deluxe set going for $260 w/ free ship).
Now... Cyber Monday... Wii U games are Buy one get one 40% off...

GCU discount stacks.

Getting 2 $60 games for $72!

[Eel O'Brian]

We bought Xmas gifts today using this sale combined with the 20% off GCU discount, and got Diablo 3, LBP 3, and Kingdom Hearts 2.5 for $96 total with tax.

They're totally going to stop letting people stack the discount at some point, haha.

[Shino]

I"m not sure they can... b/c the discounts that they are offering everyone gets... we PAID for our 20% off so they have to give it to us!

[demi]

Who did you buy KH2.5 for? The anal fetish one?

[Eel O'Brian]

The Daughter, she liked the PS2 KH games and specifically asked for it

[G The Resurrected]

Actually they are going to be expanding the discount to include price matches here shortly sometime in Jan or March. It's a paid service and I'm glad they see the need to amend some policy issues GCU has in it's current form.