Best Buy Pulls An EA

[Gunpei]

Apparently, if you go to the best buy website and you put Splinter Cell [The Xbox version ONLY] in your shopping cart it will say your total purchase is only 5 dollars instead 20. And after that if you put any other Platinum Hit titles into your cart they will also only cost 5 bucks! But you must put Splinter Cell in their first.

[Prince]

woo hoo time to go shopping

[Michael Bluth]

You don't have to put Splinter Cell first, you just have to put it in there. At first I thought it was just Splinter Cell, so I ordered two copies. Then I read a thread at another forum and said all PH if you have Splinter Cell, so I, uh, ordered 10 more games.

Chances are Best Buy will cancel all the orders, but hey, it's worth a shot.

[Gunpei]

Yeah its worth a shot because EA honored a lot of peoples orders when they messed up. Although, one guy from IGN boards went to pick up the games at best buy and the manager thought the prices didnt sound right and didnt let him take the games. I wish i had a credit card

[Michael Bluth]

On the second order I got:

- Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
- Conflict: Desert Storm
- Splinter Cell
- Ghost Recon
- Max Payne
- Hitman 2
- SegaGT Online (hey, it was listed)
- Dead to Rights
- Crash Bandicoot
- 007: Agent Under Fire

[Shayde]

Not letting me Checkout..
I ordered:
- Morrowind
- THPS4
- Max Payne
- Unreal Championship
- Splinter Cell (Obviously)

[Mercury Shadow]

Best Buy can't cancel your order, they messed up. Here's what I ordered

3 Simpson's Road Rage
2 Splinter Cell
2 Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2
1 Unreal Championship
1 Ghost Recon
1 Mortal Kombat

All will sell quite well on eBay

My order, like many of yours probably, is on back order... it won't ship until 1-12-04.

[Michael Bluth]

I think I'm going to see if I can pick some of them up in-store tomorrow if it's still... uh... "broken".

[Prince]

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
Pac-Man World 2
Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
MechAssault
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Max Payne
Unreal Championship
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Dead to Rights
Spider-Man: The Movie

all are backordered though, i hope this goes thru

[[[tavis]]]

just bought

max payne

dead to rights

agent under fire

splinter cell

[Michael Bluth]

Damn, they took it off their site, haha.

[Mercury Shadow]

Damn, they took it off their site, haha.

Got this from SlickDeals.net about the $5 Plat hits-

Spoke to a Sheryl in customer care 1-800-237-8289.....this indeed WAS a special ONE DAY PROMOTION at BEST BUY!!....all orders ARE being processed! I REPEAT....ALL ORDERS THAT WERE PLACED YESTERDAY WILL BE PROCESSED!

They said they were so backed up that is why your account may not show the transaction yet online. Fear not, they will eventually eamil a confirmation to everyone!

[Shayde]

It was working this morning though...

[Jushiko]

It only worked for the XBox version, and sadly I have no XBox.

Ghey.

[Prince]

this deal also works with Prince of Persia (then you add Splinter Cell for PS2/GC) and your platinum hits will be $5

not as good of a deal (PoP is 50$) but still works

[Jushiko]

Isn't it over?

[swifferman]

your orders wont get honoured
Just a heads up.

[Prince]

I just got a confirmation email, finally:

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Order Confirmation
January 05, 2004
Order Number: ***************

Dear *****:

Thank you for shopping at BestBuy.com. We have received your order, and it will be processed as soon as possible.



all of my games say:

Status: Order in process of being fulfilled. Estimated arrival date: 01/12/2004 - 01/22/2004.

[Haris]

Would I still be able to do this...?

[seraph]

Thats gay... why the hell cant that happen for PS2