Am I stupid?

by **junkster** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:02 pm

Since when did PC games cost £44.99?

Whilst perusing my local GAME store I happened to glance at the shelves adorning the Coming Soon section and there it was.......

QUAKE 4 £44.99 out 21/10/05.

I couldn't believe it, PC games used to be at least £5-£10 cheaper than their console brethern and now they're at least £10 dearer. (As most Xbox and PS2 new releases now sell at £34.99.) What the F...?

So a quick scan around the interweb reveals

www.gameplay.com QUAKE 4 £27.99
www.amazon.co.uk QUAKE 4 £26.99

and here's the one which really cracked me up

www.game.net QUAKE 4 £26.99 THAT'S £18 CHEAPER THAN IT'S OWN BLIMMING HIGH STREET SHOP!!!!!!!!! :roll:

You decide where you are going to get your copy, I know where mine is coming from! :wink:

by **Wolfeh** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:46 pm

http://www12.cd-wow.com/searchresults.p ... ield=quake

£20.49 and Im sure you can find a 50p voucher taking it under £20 quid

Im buying cod2 from there also.

Yeah agree 9/10 you will always find it cheaper online.

by **junkster** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:56 pm

But £18 cheaper! That's just taking a liberty! :roll:

by **Armistice** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:10 pm

places like game make their money from those who are not too clued up or have money burning a hole in their pocket. There may even be those who really *must* have it as soon as they see it. for the rest of us who see no point in wasting beer tokens, the internet awaits!

As long as there are folk who will pay at that price there will be those who will be more than happy to charge it! :twisted:

by **-Snoopy-** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:24 pm

anyone want to buy me a graphics card so i can run quake 4

by **junkster** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:26 pm

Try asking the manageress at GAME Coleraine she's bound to have a few spare quid lying around after charging £18 extra for nothing! :roll:

by **-Snoopy-** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:27 pm

ill email her now lol

by **Wolfeh** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:00 am

The worst ive seen is PC World for this

1st option

You can order a graphics card online and collect at the store
an hour later for £89.99.

2nd option

work into the store and pay £150.00. :shock:

You can understand why their doing it, their trying to compete
with online retailers such as ebuyer, aria etc, hoping they will flag
up in a froogle or something.

I said about 10 years ago when I worked in retail that
online shopping would be the future. Very little overheads, passing
the saving onto the consumer, there's really no contest.

by **Goku** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:37 am

ok..... i dont use £ i use CAD (Canadian Dollars) and a pc game usually is between 50-70 dollars here so...

by **[AsC]Frags** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:15 am

Tbh PC World is s***.. I work there..... But i must admit thier collect at store service is a good idea and have found some really good deals... whenever i buy something from the shop i work i just oder it via website and a minute later it goes thru the tills cheaper than the bloke standing next to me (+ i get staff discount)

Its mad... but there are good deals... so it may sometimes be worth checking out pcworld.co.uk and if price is good (remember there is no delivery charge) just moveing order to collect at store basket and then mosy on down and ignore the stupid sales advisors and get a cheap deal and have it today!

by **c0smic** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:22 pm

Try Brothers in Arms at £99.00 at PCW

by **BrainBuG** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:22 pm

Yes

by **junkster** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:08 pm

They brought the price down to £34.99 for Quake 4 at my local GAME store after everyone gave them grief. Yay for people power.

by **[AsC]Frags** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:21 pm

c0smic wrote:Try Brothers in Arms at £99.00 at PCW

LMAO its not £99

There was a promo pack of BIA + a special box set.... it was licenced not to be sold seperately so pcw management artificially put the barcode price up so its not sold as a seperate item.... unfortunatly... some bright sparks when doing the price tickets scan the promo items barcode instead of the bundle code... thus sticking a £99 sticker on it... thats why these people get put in the warehouse as not to embarass themselves in public

N00bs!

by **CrazyIdiot** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:45 pm

I feel sorry my Local Game Store... and everysingle staff know me.. apart from the new ones.

and eveytimr they see me they will be like "Oh not himagain"

Basicly the only reason i go in there so i can bolock them get there manager out and bollock him too which i love doing ....

I remember 1 time in X last year when they wer doing this offer on the Ps2 and people where queing up to buy.... What people didn't relize is that dixon where doing a better deal... And sometime Game store dont match deal... so i just told the people in the go dixon they doing a better store. they did all run out.. and here ya go manager on my case....

Game store is rubbish pathetic like why u wana buy any games from game store?

by **junkster** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 11:08 pm

CrazyIdiot wrote:I feel sorry my Local Game Store...

I feel sorry for them too. :roll:

by **CrazyIdiot** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:14 am

bet you do :roll:

by **Dutchman** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 11:16 am

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