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dre-w:
 :lol
Ok, let me just first off thank those of you who were backing me up on this one.   :cheers: I did nothing wrong, if you go back and look at my first posts I mentioned that I went in there with the intent of buying a DS game then came across the mispriced Wii game I wanted.  I always make my trips down the other videogame aisles to see if there's been any price drops on the games I've been wanting or any sale or clearance, I don't go out of my way to check all of their games to make sure they are accurately priced just to screw them..  And I really wish I'd taken a picture of the display card because it was legit, my first thought when seeing this actually was "Wow that's a good deal" then I started thinking "Nah that's too good to be true" but after reading the price and label carefully, then seeing that the sku # and model # matched the game, I said to myself "Well this better be right because I'm about to buy this!"  How dare you guys say that a company should be allowed to display an incorrect price on a game, get some kids hopes up, then have the right to deny them that price upon purchase.  And whoever that was comparing this to me purposely slipping on spilled milk then filing a lawsuit.. get bent.  And people pointing out the oh so obvious.. Really??  Best buy didn't fail from my win??  Darn, and I really thought that $30 loss was going to drive them into the ground..  because only then I'd win huh..  I'm too lazy to go back and highlight and point fingers but whatever.

And believe it or not, the thing that hurts big corporations the most..  not shoplifting, definitely not this, but something called internal theft.  I worked Loss Prevention for Macys & Sears and customers were the least of our concerns, the thing that hurt the company most was employees stealing.  So all of you saying "Oh you dumb deceptive consumer  :blah: tearing down businesses"  get outta here with all that noise..

jamesjones626:
anytime i see best buy i have nothing but...........not so much hatred but a big dislike. the first reason is when i was 19 i applied for a job there, they gave me 5 interviews total, for each interview they called me at random times and days and told me to get there as fast i could.  Well they didn't hire me, and about 2 weeks later i went shopping there and the guy interviewing me approached me and said "oh hey the guy we ended up hiring didn't work out, do you want to work for us?"  I pretty much told him to "fudge off".  Reason 2, I needed help on looking for an item and i approached a worker and said "excuse me", well the guy looked at me and just said "im sorry i dont speak spanish".  I know i look south of the border but damn, i never realised i looked like i didnt speak english.  In my opinion the only place with worse customer service than best buy is walmart.

DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: lilshawn on January 12, 2011, 12:35:04 am ---
--- Quote ---And, for the umpteenth time:  Best Buy is NOT losing out in the deal.
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dude even at $10 they would be making money... where do you think the games/videos/software in the UNDER $5 bins come from?!?!

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Well if it's ending up in those bins, it's because no one was buying it at any price.  That was a common sight in 1983/84 when the industry crashed.

But you are correct - they always make their money. 
 

yotsuya:
I remember towards the end of the Crash of '83 being able to get some great Atari games for as little as $0.50 at a local drugstore.

DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 12, 2011, 09:49:23 am ---I thought video games were like books and magazines where the store doesn't really own it and more or less sells it on commission?

 :dunno

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I was curious and looked this up and after digging around, retailers buy stock from the wholesaler at around 6% under the MSRP (EDIT: I saw various percentages after further reading, I can't nail down a definitive answer and went with the mean, more or less) - less for higher quantities and also based on if the purchaser in question is a BEST BUY or similar with enough advertising strength to move the units.   (In other words:  Best Buy very well sold that game at "cost").  

As far as I know, video games were always an item the store had to buy as inventory.  A notable exception was Nintendo's deal it struck with retailers when introducing the NES.  Due to understandable hesitation from stores stocking video games again after the crash, Nintendo made an intial offer to buy back unsold stock when rolling out the system.

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