Canadian Gaming "Deals" and Discussion Thread 6: Sorry, We Can't Afford a New Thread
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Let me bless you guys with the bible:
Free Deal
Consortium Master Edition is free on Gog.com: http://www.gog.com/game/consortium_the_master_edition
Free Deal
Consortium Master Edition is free on Gog.com: http://www.gog.com/game/consortium_the_master_edition
UberTag
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As nice as discounts are in the "our dollar is crap" era, I don't exploit Amazon support staff for deals that aren't warranted. Hell, Amazon is already eating a loss on these joysticks as it is. I don't need an additional 30% off. Red flags from shit like that will eventually take down the entire ecosystem and we'll be stuck with extortionary prices, no price adjusting on pre-orders and no E3 discounts to begin with.
This is probably a good idea. I can't remember of it was a CA or COM order for which this happened, but I recently got an order and it had a really low quality bubble mailer and then after it arrived I got an email asking me to do some survey about my experience with the packaging the order had arrived in. What this makes me guess at is that amazon is looking to cut costs on packaging so they're testing customer reactions to cheaper packaging now.
Has anyone else experienced this lately? I want to say it was a COM order.
Maximus.
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Because you're abusing the system regardless? Doesn't matter if others are getting away with it, they may already get those notifications or will one day.
Anyways, must resist the X1 sale yet again..
Grand Kingdom
Yeah, I'm all for deals, but not when you're essentially social engineering them out of uninformed people. The justification of "well, Amazon should have better policies and/or better train their staff" doesn't sit well with me, either.
Still, I'm not going to try to browbeat people into adhering to my personal ethos.
HubbaBubba
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Since fire emblem is talked so much here I'm gonna ask here is read of looking elsewhere on the Internet. How does the new fire emblem work? Is there 2 games? Is the only way to get both with the collectors edition? How does it work as dlc?
You need one game and buy the other two paths as DLC for 25$ each
and each route is one complete game.
DeathByBacklog
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You asked for free shipping didn't you? Contact amazon and ask why the delay. Express that you're disappointed as other retailers are shipping the game out on time. They'll bump up your shipping and may just give you a promo discount towards your next purchase (depending on how upset you are).
WHAT????
Well lesson learned.
Amazon would not re-apply my 30% discount to my Twilight Princess HD that got lost along the way (due to the way my orders/discounts were applied back in November). A lesson learned + karma I suppose.
At most they applied a $10 promo to it (this was actually an old credit on my account, lol), which only brought the price down to $69 instead of $56... bluh
Amazon would not re-apply my 30% discount to my Twilight Princess HD that got lost along the way (due to the way my orders/discounts were applied back in November). A lesson learned + karma I suppose.
At most they applied a $10 promo to it (this was actually an old credit on my account, lol), which only brought the price down to $69 instead of $56... bluh
Ebay
Don't complain about shipping too much guys that's the one thing they hate
For the stick though mine is also 30% off, but the CSR did that on his own when my Odin Sphere wasn't getting the discount
DeathByBacklog
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Don't complain about shipping too much guys that's the one thing they hate
For the stick though mine is also 30% off, but the CSR did that on his own when my Odin Sphere wasn't getting the discount
Wow. And I thought getting the 30% promo applied to Pokken Tournament was good compensation for the hold up on the sticks. Apparently I'm not thinking big enough.
Don't complain about shipping too much guys that's the one thing they hate
For the stick though mine is also 30% off, but the CSR did that on his own when my Odin Sphere wasn't getting the discount
There's a reason everyone complains, though.
Their shipping is a disgrace, and a really shitty attempt to force people to buy Prime
DeathByBacklog
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And if you live in a rural area, Prime has exactly 0 benefits.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Glad someone brought this up.
Threads turned into how can we dupe Amazon CSRs and get deals where none exist. You people pushing your luck, I don't even think RFD does it like this.
Yeah, the hypocrisy is strong in this thread. People here complain all the time that "RFD ruins deals", but then they go and exploit Amazon... What?
Well, be fair, it's not like people are just demanding 30% off out of nowhere. Amazon had a 30% off promo which they advertised and everyone used. There's probably a few exceptions where people are pushing it too far, but generally it's just asking to apply an existing promotion to a different game or something similar. That's hardly exploitative.
It's no longer hypocrisy if the thread is pretty much the extension of RFD.
Asking if it's possible to move a promotion from one game to an another one while canceling the first one isn't an exploitation, the promotion is overall the same and Amazon isn't losing business over it (to the contrary) and the bottom Line remains the same. The CSR are free to refuse and most do so.
Now decieving CSRs in order to doubly apply a discount is exploitation, I agree with that.
Yeah that's really stupid cheap.
Can't take advantage of that since I don't live in Canada anymore.
ReddishGUI
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And then you also have people coming in with screenshots and constantly bragging about the fact that they have every versions of fire emblem for the cost of one...
DeathByBacklog
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Meh. Most of the pre-orders I got with the double 30 discount will be getting cancelled anyway. Even with those two discounts (which happened after they linked two orders) the price comes out higher then what it'll eventually be when (if) I ever get around to playing them.
Far Cry Primal for example. After the two promo's it'll ring in at just under $45. But I'm not going to follow through with it. It'll be selling for $20 by the time I get around to playing it (if ever). So I'll be cancelling that one along with most of the others.
The thought of the money saved is exciting. Until I realize that I'll save even more by just waiting it out. My MASSIVE backlog comes in handy.
Far Cry Primal for example. After the two promo's it'll ring in at just under $45. But I'm not going to follow through with it. It'll be selling for $20 by the time I get around to playing it (if ever). So I'll be cancelling that one along with most of the others.
The thought of the money saved is exciting. Until I realize that I'll save even more by just waiting it out. My MASSIVE backlog comes in handy.
i feel like everyone taking advantage of the nice CSRs are gonna eventually ruin it for everyone in the long run
but hey, what do i know, i've always had bad luck with CSRs in general, even when just trying to figure out where my packages actually are
Agreed. I'm not sure when or how this became a thing, trying to actively manipulate humans into giving us discounts when we know 100% full well we shouldn't be getting them.
I'm totally on board with jumping on a low price or whatever, but this seems like a truly scummy practice.
If you're in Vancouver, I'll take the Far Cry off you.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
I think people want to save money and share the joy of getting a deal, but yeah, I can see the other side too. Doubly so if it seems like people are being tricked/manipulated.
Not of one, of the SE.
Mind you, none of that was done "taking advantage" of anything and happened through sheer errors.
My initial order of FE Fates was changed to one specific path (birthright) because at the time of the preorder Amazon only had a placeholder version. I asked them to give me conquest too and the CSR just added it for 31,5$ on his own (since the first one had the E3 preorder promo)
For Fire Emblem Fates SE one of the games in the order was shipped without the promotion beeing applied (and that was an error) the CSR gave a refund and changed Fate's price on his own since it was the last item on the order and the promotion was no longer there
Should I contact them and ask for a price increase because he gave me a mistaken price through actions of his own?
I understood not one word of what you just typed.
But sure, ask for a price increase, that would be a hilarious transcript I would actually care to read.
Freaking Limit
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I actually wonder if they can do price increases. More often than not, when they screw up and discount the wrong item for me, they never fix it and just discount the right item (basically how I get all of my excessive discounts), which makes me suspect they can't. I can imagine them having to ask a manager about if they can increase the price at a customer's request.
I mean, I'm sure their computer system can do it, but yeah, I can't imagine a situation where an employee is allowed. They are probably told to cancel an order before ever increasing the price.
Initial order was for FE Fates, at the time no one knew it would be two games
Preorder changed by Amazon and defaulted to the birthright version. Ask them to add the Conquest version to the order (to have both) and CSR manually applied the discount (making conquest 31.5$)
Preorder Fates SE for 99$, have game in order shipped but without 30% promotion, get refund, CSR changed Fates price to 40$ for reasons unknown (same happened with SFV btw in the same order)
So while it would be fun to ask for a price increase, I'm not going to go out of my way to fix Amazon's cheapness with their CSR and outsourcing everything to India in order to save money.
Low wages go Hand in hand with some of the incompetence displayed
Lone_Prodigy
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doctorcdcs
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you're talking about your penis, arent you
oh wow your username makes so much sense now
well said, friend. well said.
BigJonsson
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Abuse the system and we'll be paying 100 dollars for games and no E3 promos
TheGamingBox
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well my order was for twilight princess so i dont think a screenshot of my order will help
but this is my chat reciept for it
The E3 promo is probably Amazon's way of giving us some thing on par with what the US has through prime
I'd rather have 20% flat than wasting time waiting for the promo
ReddishGUI
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No offense Fularu, I'm glad that you had such a great deal and you are also not the only one who ever "bragged" about his sick deals from amazon CSR's fuckup/abuse. You just ended being one of the most recent example that I could reference.
It's just that the thread often becomes a contest to see how much we can abuse the system and then show it off with screencaps and stuff(I wanna see a free stick pls, 30% off is nothing...). It's hard to not share your excitement when you get great deals like those and I'm pretty sure that I have done the same in the past...
It's not my call and I have no idea if that's even a real issue but I feel like it could be hurting our community a little bit. Deals are hard to come by and rubbing it in the face of those that could not be as lucky as some of us who had gotten these special "deals" from amazon is probably frustrating to read.
I'm also wondering how long will all this last... since most of us are doing it and I'm pretty sure that many lurkers are doing it too so amazon must have noticed that we are quite active with their customer service up here in Canada...
Whatever I guess.
Lostconfused
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Well then you should abuse it as much as possible right now. Because if you think it will go away due to everyone else abusing it, it definitely will since clearly nobody is stopping.
I see where you're coming from, no worries
I actually reported to Amazon the double promotion exploit but they did nothing about it /shrug
Lone_Prodigy
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I really don't care about you getting dirt-cheap games from Amazon. But let's not blame the outsourced CSRs' "incompetence" for getting it for you. You should be thanking them for saving you money, but you go and throw it back on them by saying "if they weren't so clueless I wouldn't even get a deal."
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