1. All this stuff about people going after these deals and then trading them in is just sad.

2. If you all go and buy it and then trade it in for about 25 quid, the trade in price will soon drop. The stores monitor the prices for other stores. They're not going to carry on paying 25 for trade ins when someone is selling it new for 25, because they will then have to sell the traded in versions for more than 25 to make money and not many people will buy them when they can go to another shop and get it new for 25.

3. You can get Live for 3 months from about 9 quid without having to go and get the deal and then go to the shop to trade it in or sell it online and post it off, which all cost money with bus fares, parking, petrol etc, or a whole year of Live for 25/30 quid, which is regularly the price and is always on this website.

4. Leave the deals for people that will actually use them. Some people would be very happy, looking forward to getting Halo Wars 2 and then getting some 'free' Live with it, and they will use it and enjoy it, but instead you get a whole load of saddos buying them all so they can then trade in or sell part of it and then keep what's left, though there are probably people here who will also sell the 3 months Live just to make a few quid. So sad. Like when people buy all copies of something on offer and put them all on eBay. Just get one for yourself, maybe a couple from some of your friends, and then leave the rest for there people to enjoy and then go home and enjoy your new game instead of trying to make a few quid.

Just bought four took to Game and made 80p and a year free Xbox Live. Nice OP

Games trade value has dropped to £18 cash and £20 instore

Mine was the same as this!

I reserved last night too but they could not give me the 3 months of gold. Didn't get the game in the end.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/12-months-xbox-live-gold-26-50-microsoft-2644044

Like I said earlier really.. deals at and around £25 pop up all the time.

The very same day... it happens.

expired now I believe

I picked my copy up yesterday and redeemed the 3 months live code...

Buying a deal to actually use it... how very old fashioned of me...

HUKP not HUKD... now the buy and sell section has gone... daily this is seemingly more like a place that profiteers hang out...

Those asking where you can get xbox live for £25 I managed it not that long ago... and keep my eye open for deals... much easier than buying four copies of this and trading them in just to get a year of live for £20... Kudos to those that live that way though... different strokes for different folks.

anyway thanks to the OP for the heads up I am very happy with a game I wanted and a code to stack.

Mine isn't coming into stock until the 27th! Don't need the live as i stacked 3 yrs on Black Friday, so effective cost of the game will be about £15 which I really can't grumble at!

Even if you can only get £20 cash at CEX, buying and then selling 4 still gets you a years Live for £20, so happy days!!

​cex offers £20 cash or £24 voucher

Cex trading at £25 still? Games is £18?

I wouldn't call opportunists 'saddos', merely, people who capitalise on offers like this. It doesn't make them sad, just opportunistic.

​yes

​You have to send 2 games that are different to be eligible for free delivery though i think, i tried sending 2 halo wars 2 xbox versions and it stopped me from trying it

I got 4 from argos, got a lift into town, traded ​2 into game for £25.00 each, then got CEX to price match GAME for the other 2 and they beat the price by a quid for each game so i got £102.00 for 4 games i payed £100 for and a year of xbox live for free... Best deal I've ever had off hukd, Thanks very much OP, my live was due to expire in april too :laughing:

£18 trade in price now at game

Fraud

Just get the deal from Argos and 2 days later return the unopened game for a full refund. 9 times out of 10 they wont ask for the card as it has £0.00 beside it. If they do say you forgot it and I'll be back in a hour and try a different staff member or a different Argos :wink:

2 in my local, I reserved 1 and left the other for somebody else, hopefully someone who wants to actually play Halo Wars :wink:

Cheers OP. Thankfully still stock left locally for me before the vultures have picked the bones clean.

... Got 10 for ebay too while I was at it!

Great price! How does it compare to StarCraft 2?

Why is it anyone else's fault but my own that I saw the topic sightly too late and missed out on a game that I actually want because other people are buying multiple copies to tout off?
I wouldn't expect you to sympathise as you're one of the greedy ones so of course you will defend your actions.

Fantastic deal - was about to splash out on 3 months Gold too! Picked up a copy at Argos Victoria and gave to my gf to trade in as she will be passing a Game on the way home :smirk:

still stock in edinburgh craigleith and straiton branches if anyones interested.

How is that anyones fault but your own?

Thanks OP! Picked up 2 after work, heat added

Picked up from Argos and traded back at Game £25.20 cash within 15mins.
Funnily enough, guy behind me in queue was also trading in a copy of Halo Wars 2 :smirk:

My Xbox Live subs were due to run out Thursday so this was perfect timing.

In effect that's what they call causes stagflation when everyone waits for things to go down in price before they purchase it, a huge problem for the economy that's why they keep pumping money into the banks, quantitative easing and further devaluing the pound. It's all artificial, money is not real, they can magic money out of thin air and everyone's value of things have gone to pot.

Rapidly going out of stock everywhere, can't get one close to me now, so cheers to all the greedy ****s buying multiple copies!

Mines paid for and picking up tomorrow. Cheers op :smiley:

went to local Argos and no halo wars 2 in until 27th but is possible to order online, pay for it and wait for pickup as they hold it for a week. just wanted it let people know who want the deal but can't get it straight away.

How can this particular account not yet be banned yet the other "SuperJumpingBeans" account is? Some strange people around, signing up different accounts to post a load of nonsense.

What's even worse is the people who like this drivel. The reason the price is as low as it is already is due to people who have bought and traded in. The market has to follow and challenge the lowest price. Which in the process ultimately helps those who want to play these new games for cheaper...

I know what you mean. There is a right knob in High Wycombe Game. I asked for a price to trade in Call of Duty on Xbox One which comes with Modern Warfare remastered on the disk. He gave me a really low price and I saw he'd given the price for PS4. I said can you check Xbox One as Modern Warfare is download on the PS4 rather than on the disk like Xbox. He wouldn't do it and said they would be the same. I asked someone else there couple of mins later and was like £15 more. I told knob head on way out and he said yeah sometimes they're different. Always makes it really awkward for anything.

How about... you do what you want to do and leave others to decide for themselves?

I have this reserved at Argos White Rose (Leeds), I do not need the item now. Please message me if anyone would like the reservation code - it will expire tomorrow anyway.

Cheers OP! I was after the game too, so will finish it quick and hopefully get my money back!

Awesome find - just picked this up. I was unsure about the stacking of Xbox live and/or the expiry of the prepaid cards (just topped my XBL up for 12 months!) so I tweeted the question to Xbox Support and got this reply:

"Hey there, you can add up to 3 years of prepaid sub cards to your account, the cards shouldn't expire but just in case we wouldn't recommend letting them sit for more than 12 months."

Hope that helps.

​FUNNY HOW MANY JOBSWORTHS WORK IN GAME MAN, CAN'T THEY JUST ACCEPT THEM AND NOT CARE? HAHAHA

Great find!

Yes you can, my son got his Xbox for Christmas with a few games and the usual 14 day free gold which we stacked and that gave him a month and a half of free gold

I'm only trying my luck with two, I know the local one won't take too many and the next nearest one is a pain to get to without paying extortionate parking fees and siting in traffic.

Argos usually have 2 of a certain deal in stock for more you would need to order online so I wouldnt say you can quite make a living - an extra couple lf quid a deal yes but thats about it :P

Thy give you the code separately so no need to open anything :smiley: I heard the games good so I kept a copy to myself

So just to confirm, I can buy the game, open it up, take the gold live trial out and trade the game into a game store and get what I paid for it? Sounds good. :smiley:

Also, what's this game like in general? I use to love the command and conquer games, but haven't played pc games in ages. How does this compare? Is it still good even though it's on a console? Thanks.

​which is what i have in Clydebank. they're pretty much opposite each other

Cdkeys.com often have the ultimate edition for under 40 quid on pc but it's cross platform so you can use it on xb1 as well.

They did say "Well technically this is trading" to which I just said okay ill just open the once I can trade in so that you cant resell them as brand new and take the rest to a different game store. She instantly snagged my 5 copy's and said "this never happened" with a smile

I had a similar situation with xbox one deal. I reserved it and they ran out of stock - shop manager just said that they will prologue the reservation and even if the deal is off will still do it for me. Presume worst that would happen is they would make you wait a bit longer (took them an extra 2 days for me)

Never said anything about it not being worth the time.

10 min sounds optimistic though unless you are one of those lucky people where game doesn't refuse to take multiple copies in a single trade.

Bet I'm the only one who doesn't end up getting this because I'm in work :disappointed:

Surely they can't cancel my paid for reservation even if they take the offer off?

Thanks for saving me from writing another paragraph :smile:

Is 10 minutes of my time to stop in two stores to make a years worth of gold membership for free worth? Id say yes

Well it's free money if you consider your time to be worthless.

You can make living out of it if you can find Argos and Game in the same shopping centre. :stuck_out_tongue:

Just went into GAME to trade two in. The guy wasn't impressed! Gave me cash for one and then said it had been a slow day and to try this evening with the other.

Thanks op. Got it and live codes stack - I had xblive until Feb 18 - its extended until May 18 now :smiley:

Any idea how long this offer is on for?

how many can i trade in at once in game? coz they are blagging to me on the phone i can only give 1 in but i'm pretty sure its 3 isn't it?

Could you just sell them both on E-Bay separately and make a profit of about £10 for like 20 mins work?

Hottest deal of day right here mark my word :smiley:

Looks like I am going to miss this offer :disappointed:

1. All this stuff about people going after these deals and then trading them in is just sad.

2. If you all go and buy it and then trade it in for about 25 quid, the trade in price will soon drop. The stores monitor the prices for other stores. They're not going to carry on paying 25 for trade ins when someone is selling it new for 25, because they will then have to sell the traded in versions for more than 25 to make money and not many people will buy them when they can go to another shop and get it new for 25.

3. You can get Live for 3 months from about 9 quid without having to go and get the deal and then go to the shop to trade it in or sell it online and post it off, which all cost money with bus fares, parking, petrol etc, or a whole year of Live for 25/30 quid, which is regularly the price and is always on this website.

4. Leave the deals for people that will actually use them. Some people would be very happy, looking forward to getting Halo Wars 2 and then getting some 'free' Live with it, and they will use it and enjoy it, but instead you get a whole load of saddos buying them all so they can then trade in or sell part of it and then keep what's left, though there are probably people here who will also sell the 3 months Live just to make a few quid. So sad. Like when people buy all copies of something on offer and put them all on eBay. Just get one for yourself, maybe a couple from some of your friends, and then leave the rest for there people to enjoy and then go home and enjoy your new game instead of trying to make a few quid.

Cex pay £20 for hw2 if you want a cheap 3 month live

I really want to buy this, but i also want Halo wars definite edition that is only in the Ultimate edition. That hasn't had a price cut, so i still have to wait.

Dear bobac,

You have just said yourself that Game are aware and 'working to adjust', i.e. like i just said, the other shops are aware of the prices from other retailers (most will probably be using an electronic tracking system for prices), and then they adjust their prices. So in a short while, the trade in price will have dropped (it already has for some people), and there will only be a couple of people who who will be able to 'take advantage' of the offer before prices are changed.
As someone else said, this one being Argos, you either have to pay delivery or go in store, so it makes it even more pointless.
Also, if you are talking about people doing this regularly and buying in large quantities as a 'job', hopefully one day they will be found out and be made to pay tax on their income, as that is what it is.
They could just run a business. I legitimately sell items for a 500 to 900% + profit margin. £1 to £2 items into £10+ items with very small operating costs.
We don't live in an 'ideal wold' because the people choose to make it like that. They could easily say 'I value enjoyment over money'. Pay your bills, have enough to eat and then you don't need money for anything except stuff you enjoy.
People choose to value money over other things, so they create this 'unideal world'.
If they're so desperate for money, why are they buying games? And new games?
I wouldn't pay 40 or 25 for a game. Wait until it is ten pound new, or less.
If you take a 'time out', don't get any new games for a year, play the pile of games that most people on here probably have lying around, which they have bought but not played (further enhancing my point, and if they had waited instead of buying to stockpile them, they would probably be cheaper now anyway; very few recent , widely available games increase or hold value, GTA, Bully etc being some exceptions) and then once you have played your backlog (and enjoyed it... Hopefully that's why people actually buy games), all the games that came out in that gap year will now be much cheaper and you can get them for ten quid and carry on being 'a year behind', playing all the games for about ten quid, not 40.

Smoking Hotttt!

Great deal

​probably wont take effect until midnight

Can you stack live codes ?

Just bought four took to Game and made 80p and a year free Xbox Live. Nice OP

Physically going to the store. The guy at till was new so had to call manager in

For anyone curious - Game will only take 3 copies of a game as well as are aware of argos price and I quote "are working to adjust theirs"

​what codes?

Thank you very much, I have just reserved this now. Bargain!

reserved, thanks! :smile:

And CEX has dropped the price to £20 now. Still not bad £5 for 3 month Xbox live. Hot from me....

Great deal but as usual with argos you have to get it in store for the best price (rip off delivery) and this deal is actually in store only.

I know argos stores are pretty common but so many other stores do free delivery these days and im sure there is no good reason they couldn't do the same offer online too.

So hot deal but disappointing that argos are so old fashioned and inflexible with their deals...

Not for me, but good find.

Reserved, thanks...

see u got ur bitting point heat from me http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/halo-wars-2-xbox-one-game-get-3-month-xbox-live-gold-card-free-41-99-argos-2633158

Nice one op :smiley:

Great deal i Imagine but I'm not interested in the game and xbl is usually quite cheap anyway for a year, so can't be bothered with the hassle myself, just for 3 months lol

Great offer, nice find OP :smiley:

nice one cheers op

Whats the max of 1 game you can trade in?

Thanks o/p, great find! :smile:

Great deal. Really good game for those who haven't played the demo

thanx op

game xchange you can trade it in for 26 quit or 30 trade in.

When I looked yesterday Game had like £25.20 cash or £28 trade in for it.

So i can buy this and just trade in halo wars 2 for 25quid? or sell the game on gumtree and i'll get 25 quid for it?

Great find OP