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Now we are seeking your ideas for products which we don't sell, which you think we should sell:
There is one prize to be decided at the end of April for the best set of suggestions.
GAMES DON'T COUNT. We aren't looking for a list of games which we don't sell. It's the other stuff we are interested in.
In particular we are looking for PC Software. Not the very expensive stuff. Also PC bits or peripherals.
You can suggest new product ranges which could be of interest to our existing audience: for example our next catalogue includes a Metal Detector.
Make suggestions for our shops, or for items to sell on the internet. Our aim for the shops is "Brimming with Stock and Bristling with Offers". On the internet it's a question of what people will be searching for.
If YOU are thinking of buying something soon, and we don't sell it, then please enter that too.
There is one prize to be decided at the end of April for the best set of suggestions.
GAMES DON'T COUNT. We aren't looking for a list of games which we don't sell. It's the other stuff we are interested in.
In particular we are looking for PC Software. Not the very expensive stuff. Also PC bits or peripherals.
You can suggest new product ranges which could be of interest to our existing audience: for example our next catalogue includes a Metal Detector.
Make suggestions for our shops, or for items to sell on the internet. Our aim for the shops is "Brimming with Stock and Bristling with Offers". On the internet it's a question of what people will be searching for.
If YOU are thinking of buying something soon, and we don't sell it, then please enter that too.
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You could pinch some of Theslammer.com's ideas:
1) Sell PS2's for £149.
(They charge you £300 on your credit card, send you a PS2 2 months later and refund you £150 then. Only trouble with Theslammer.com is, they started this without the proper infrastructure in place and now cannot handle the complaints they are getting. Problems like people not getting their PS2's, not getting their £150 refunded and so on is losing them a lot of business. They are so bad, that one guy ordered a PS2 and got 2 of them, plus they never even charged his card, they charged someone elses.
2) Give away 5 free games a week
Theslammer.com just started doing this, but you have to pay £2.49 postage for the games you order. So although you can get Sonic Adventure on the DC for £0.00 along with 4 PC games for £0.00, you have to give them your credit card details to pay the £2.49 p&p, and after their PS2 fiasco (see above), no one is really willing to give them their credit card details.
However, the signup rate to register for their site was immense, which I think started off their problems, they just weren't ready to cope with the demand. SR, with their infrastructure in place, could probably cope with launching a marketing exercise on this scale. The way Theslammer did it was to advertise on Planetarion, but there are many other browswer based games out there where you could do the same thing.
Visit mpogd.com (multiplayer online games directory) for a complete list of the most popular browser based games on the world wide web, and under the reviews you can find out which ones concentrate on the UK, from there you can pick out which ones would be best for you to advertise your promotion on.
Just make sure you have the measures in place to cope with the traffic that would be generated, unlike Theslammer.com, who are probably one of the most hated sites on the net at the present time.
1) Sell PS2's for £149.
(They charge you £300 on your credit card, send you a PS2 2 months later and refund you £150 then. Only trouble with Theslammer.com is, they started this without the proper infrastructure in place and now cannot handle the complaints they are getting. Problems like people not getting their PS2's, not getting their £150 refunded and so on is losing them a lot of business. They are so bad, that one guy ordered a PS2 and got 2 of them, plus they never even charged his card, they charged someone elses.
2) Give away 5 free games a week
Theslammer.com just started doing this, but you have to pay £2.49 postage for the games you order. So although you can get Sonic Adventure on the DC for £0.00 along with 4 PC games for £0.00, you have to give them your credit card details to pay the £2.49 p&p, and after their PS2 fiasco (see above), no one is really willing to give them their credit card details.
However, the signup rate to register for their site was immense, which I think started off their problems, they just weren't ready to cope with the demand. SR, with their infrastructure in place, could probably cope with launching a marketing exercise on this scale. The way Theslammer did it was to advertise on Planetarion, but there are many other browswer based games out there where you could do the same thing.
Visit mpogd.com (multiplayer online games directory) for a complete list of the most popular browser based games on the world wide web, and under the reviews you can find out which ones concentrate on the UK, from there you can pick out which ones would be best for you to advertise your promotion on.
Just make sure you have the measures in place to cope with the traffic that would be generated, unlike Theslammer.com, who are probably one of the most hated sites on the net at the present time.
We've had the second-hand option under review for some time.
If you take EB, for example, they can afford to take part exchange because they make more profit on each game. It doesn't matter if they lose a bit on the second hand stuff they take in.
We make less profit per game, so it's more difficult to "risk" taking second hand stuff, which we have then got to sell through at a much lower price than new.
Example:
We sell a game at £24.99
EB might sell it at £29.99 in their shops, but they'll give you £7.50 for your old game. Their revenue is still £22.29.
We are working on it though.
If you take EB, for example, they can afford to take part exchange because they make more profit on each game. It doesn't matter if they lose a bit on the second hand stuff they take in.
We make less profit per game, so it's more difficult to "risk" taking second hand stuff, which we have then got to sell through at a much lower price than new.
Example:
We sell a game at £24.99
EB might sell it at £29.99 in their shops, but they'll give you £7.50 for your old game. Their revenue is still £22.29.
We are working on it though.
golden rhino wrote:
> get second hand selling going. It will be v.good
hmm - you guys should explore our left hand links at bit more.
> get second hand selling going. It will be v.good
hmm - you guys should explore our left hand links at bit more.
telescopes?
Stereos, Speakers, Amps, Casstete players, old gaming antiques,footballs.
Why not get site users to define what they are after...
add an auction site...
tht way they can swap for stuff... and it'll be easy to see what people want/want to sell, etc...
or even make a more specalist computer/console auction site?
add an auction site...
tht way they can swap for stuff... and it'll be easy to see what people want/want to sell, etc...
or even make a more specalist computer/console auction site?
How about
whateveryouwishaday.
Sounds like a winner.
And I would like to ask, in advance, for a go on Jennifer Connolly.
whateveryouwishaday.
Sounds like a winner.
And I would like to ask, in advance, for a go on Jennifer Connolly.
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