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"Quick reminder"

We are a retail site, and this our chat forum. Therefore, we would ask you kindly not to promote other retailers on these discussion boards.

Thanks
Ali

Like IB said, the cheaper the game, the more people will just buy it no matter what. If you saw a GC game you'd never heard of in a shop for £3, and you had an extra fiver on you, I bet most of you would just buy it regardless.

4 gone in 2 minutes, even though I've never heard of it!

XBox game now ...

I've bought most of my games from SR over the past 5 years. Their prices for new games always rivaled the chain shops and independents (mainly by sticking to the RRP but still). I've never felt ripped off by SR, but I know an overpriced game when I see one, so I wouldn't get to the "ripped off feeling" stage.

The server has probably crashed already.
It wil be strange. At 11pm, it will cost more for P&P than for the actual game. Basically you are paying more for an envelope and a stamp than for a game. WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Damarus wrote:
> They went quick
>
> They'll go faster as the prices tick downwards.

True, come 10 or 11pm tonight 100 games will probably go in 10 minutes lets see if the GAME site can cope ! bet there will be some disappointed people.

Damarus wrote:
> JBN
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> STOCK LEFT
> 0 TOO LATE!
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> They went quick

Certainly did, not bad for a tenner, what will be next ?

Plus GAME have most of the impulse buying market (the PS2 market) pretty much sewn up. Just because they have stores everywhere; especially in places like stations, where there are a lot of people and game shops are often the most interesting type, so they get a lot of browsers, and a lot of those people will just buy a game because it's there.

Damarus wrote:
> They went quick

They'll go faster as the prices tick downwards.

Unbeliever wrote:
> Rather than do an "across the board" price cutting
> promotion, maybe they should concentrate on certain sectors?
>
> For example, one month would be PC, the next month GC etc.
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> With larger price cuts within a smaller range, it might encourage more
> buying.
>
> Having said that, I'm not sure how Game can make much of a profit with
> their prices. It must be something to do with having so many stores
> and economies of scale. SR probably find it harder to maintain a
> profit margin due to less number of stores.



nap they advertise as being a family game shop. Unknowing parents who dont know the first thing about games would for to GAME (if force between say virgin etc). Being that it is blatently obvious. Basically they get profit etc etc by aiming themseleves at another target audience. Not focussing on the average gaming but at e.g. parents who are buying a game for their 6 years old child. Beside from that economies of scale DOES apply and ther fact that GAME is a bigger company also gives them an edge when ordering from warehouses etc.