Finding the cheapest prices for PC Games in the US

[Matthew Anderson]

Hey All,

   So, I went looking for a copy of the pc game Blood Bowl : Legendary Edition (hold the laughs) and due to a strange snafu I ended up on Amazon's UK site where the game was available to me for about 10 quid which is about 16 american dollars. I then noted I was at England's site and tried to find it in America -- 40 bucks everywhere! I mean everywhere!!! So I started thinking about importing it and quickly discovered a few things; First AmazonUK doesn't seem to export games to America, and second you lucky blokes in the UK have a site called http://www.best-game-price.co.uk/ which seems to do a pretty phenomenal job looking up game prices and letting you know how to find a good price on stuff.

   What I want to know is... is there a comparable site in America? Pricewatch, price grabber, google shopping are all leaving me cold compared to the narrow focus of the british site. I took a look at Cheap Ass Gamer but it was only pulling from a very small list of sources too. Any suggestions would be welcome.

[Dartful Dodger]

http://www.ebay.com/

[BadMouth]

http://product.half.ebay.com/Blood-Bowl-PC-2010/56279233&tg=info

$3 + $3.50 shipping - brand new

didn't check elsewhere, might be cheaper on fleabay itself

EDIT: oops, stuck the cheapest one in my cart to see what shipping was and it disappeared from the page.
deleted it from my cart, should be back soon.

[Matthew Anderson]

Hey Thanks for the input Dartful

and BadMouth for going that extra mile and looking it up on half.ebay . . I had heard of the site but never used it....

  Actually, truth be told I scored a copy of Blood Bowl from an Amazon seller for like 8 bucks so I was covered. What I was really looking for was a suggested site for finding "the best" prices on any random PC game in America. You see, whenever I run into a problem as suggested above I start to smell a little opportunity. Problem is, I generally start re-inventing a wheel and probably should not have bothered. So I was hoping someone had a line on a brilliant site I could do all my comparison shopping at.

Which does not appear to exist in America... <sniffs the air expectantly>...

[Vigo]

While it is flawed, you can always do a google shopping search, at least for new games. It will provide the cost and shipping from a number of retailers and even some ebay sellers. It is not limited to video games either.


Here is the result that google shopping came up with for blood bowl:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=blood+bowl+pc&cid=5242436732411325628&os=sellers#scoring=p

[shateredsoul1979]

cheapassgamer is pretty good if you're flexible about the games you want

[Samstag]

cheapassgamer is pretty good if you're flexible about the games you want

If you're looking for something specific, they have a tool to try to find the cheapest price.  It may not work so well for PC games but it did find the one you're looking for for $30.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/games.php?do=gameinfo&gameid=509981

[Matthew Anderson]

Thanks everyone for your help...

I bought the cheaper version for $10 and will wait for the price on the other version to drop... which it will inevitably.

The whole process got me thinking... while this may be bad hear me out.

Is there a demand for a service which would email (text message - whatever) when a game you are interested in drops below a certain threshold price? For me personally between humble bundles and being a Dad I am sitting on a stack of games to play so I am in no rush to play the latest and greatest game 2 seconds after it comes out.

Especially in the era of daily deals offered by steam, impulse and goodness knows who else...

So what do you think?

[shateredsoul1979]

... I like impulse. I'm usually good with just using craiglist notify. Between that and cheap ass gamer I have my new gen and old gen vgames covered. Let the vgame gods guide you.

I just bought a SNES used, no yellowing, w 2 controllers $25. The game gods have guided me to this, so it must be done.

Speaking of really being too busy to game, I think we should limit ourselves to buying one game each 6 months. Play the hell out of it until we are past bored, then buy a another for the next 6 months. I might be busier than I was before, but now I feel like an ADHD Video Game player because of all the options I have. Ok, i'm going to play this for 30 mins, oh remember that rpg! 40 mins, oh a new fps, 2 hours, oh street fighter iv, a week, oh a new emulator came out, let me test every rom for 15 mins.

I recently am going through a fad thinking that buying and selling old games would make a profit. I could make more money working a side job, but it's sort of fun going through swapmeets, and flea markets. The selling part is boring though.

[Samstag]

Is there a demand for a service which would email (text message - whatever) when a game you are interested in drops below a certain threshold price? For me personally between humble bundles and being a Dad I am sitting on a stack of games to play so I am in no rush to play the latest and greatest game 2 seconds after it comes out.

The cheapassgamer.com price tracker will do that if you register.  You can also set up deal alerts on slickdeals.com though you can't set a price there.

[ark_ader]

I tend to find PC games cheaper from the EU.

[Red]

What's the difference between the regular Blood Bowl and the Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition?

Weren't they both released just recently (Within a year or so of each other) for the XBox 360 and the PC?

[Matthew Anderson]

The Regular Edition has 9 playable races

The Legendary Edition has like 22 playable races so it is much more complete.