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"£55, NO THANK YOU."

I went to woolworths the other day, and I was horrified when I came to the game section. Not only was it tiny but the price of the games was horrifying.

£55 for 5 year old N64 games. £35 for 2 year old Playstation games. Surely their profit margins are %400+. I have also noticed the same thing in other stores. Even supposed electronic stores like Dixons and Curry's are guilty of this malpractice.

The only times I have found these stores of some use are in the sales. Every now and again you get a decent bargain then, but they are still in the main vastly over priced.

So where do you get good price games from. You may say this sounds a bit like sucking up but places like Special Reserve are your best bet. They do offer the best all year round prices, that everyone can afford. Failing that, some game only stores i.e. one off specialist stores, are sometimes preety good. If you find a good one then your laughing all the way home with some great deals. Also some 2nd hand stores sell some bargains, [last week I got goldeneye for £5] but there are obviously certain risks to this.

So in conclusion, do not buy games from big chain stores except in sales. Buy your games from specialist places and individual stores. By recommendation of me.

Your thoughts much appreciated.

If I remember correctly what I read a year ago, about 40% or the RRP is what the retailer is likely to pay for it.

However, I've done a lot of drinking since then, and my memory's not quite what it used to be....

mrfunnyman wrote:
> I have found an efficient way to get around this mess, for my love of the games
> i shall share this info with you.
at the moment HMV have got a clearout
> sale. Buy a relatively cheap game, i found Oni for £10. Got to the games
> section of another shop, e.g. W H Smiths. Go to the till preferably one of the
> ones with someone who looks new.
Give them the usual excuse: Birthday gift, no
> like, no reciept. The will give you store credit for it if its original packing,
> make shure the pricetag from the previous shop is not still on it. You'll
> probably get £30, choose you game. I got GT3 for £10

good try but it doesn't always work like that.

Different shops have different till systems. So the barcodes have to be different to match the tills. For example, nearly everything you buy from Coop stores will have '5' as the first number on the barcode. (or they did a couple years ago when I last looked) So buy a pack of Wine Gums for example, then buy another from elsewhere, and they'll more than likely have different barcodes.

So, when you're taking that game back to woolies, be prepared for the store security blokes to arrive....

Oh yeah! Cex sells old games.. second hand or brand new. Use a browser to find it. Really decent prices. Try it every1. New games are cheap there as well.

I reckon Ebay is hard to beat, both for quantity and price.

If your looking for cheap games then either get them from SR or a local second hand games shop. But Game is also a good bet.... but SR is the best.

I have found an efficient way to get around this mess, for my love of the games i shall share this info with you.
at the moment HMV have got a clearout sale. Buy a relatively cheap game, i found Oni for £10. Got to the games section of another shop, e.g. W H Smiths. Go to the till preferably one of the ones with someone who looks new.
Give them the usual excuse: Birthday gift, no like, no reciept. The will give you store credit for it if its original packing, make shure the pricetag from the previous shop is not still on it. You'll probably get £30, choose you game. I got GT3 for £10

Slave2Games wrote
>'thankyou special reserve'

and i thought i was sucking up.

Yeah, I think we should all say a big thank you to SR for their cheap pricing.

*thank you Special Reserve*

(hears people in the back vommiting from the corny thanks)

Although the sale has made them all go down in erm errrr SR are still cheaper...

that is some extortionate pricing there, mesa thinks.

oh verily