For a 32GB? That seems like a fairly good price to me.
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Canadian Gaming Deals and Discussion Thread 4: That $70s Show
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For a 32GB? That seems like a fairly good price to me.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
I've been looking for one as well for my phone. 32GB for $13 is a pretty good price. Other things you should look at are the brand and the speed.
Persona Q SE #1 is here! Then I realized I'm not opening it.... fuck. I wanna play right now.
does it come with those SD card adapter thingies? still, 32 might be too low for me. I need a 64 for the n3DS
Teletraan1
Banned
They would get the clicks from me for the rest of the week if they gave up the goods. I wont just look at it once and memorize all the prices. I like to check/compare/etc when new flyers come out. This way I will just wait until thursday and do it all at once.
I dunno. I thought they all did but looking at the product it doesn't seem like it.
I have an adapter already but it doesn't specify that it's an SDHC adapter, so not sure if it'd be compatible with an SDHC card...
edit: scratch that, I just tested an 8GB SDHC card I had lying around with the adapter and it worked
zephervack
Member
Whats the rationale behind the $50 gift card offers, Im not mad or anything, I do my grocery shopping at Wal-Mart anyways, but why cant they just offer the Xbone for $300??
Im wondering how that works behind the scenes, is the $50 gift card paid for by Microsoft?? Why would they do that? is it in the hopes that you will use it to buy a game or accessory for it on the same shopping day???
Or are they paid for by Wal-Mart to try to get people in the store??
They had the same deal with the 4GB 360 during the anniversary sale, I used the card to buy Wii U games
Im wondering how that works behind the scenes, is the $50 gift card paid for by Microsoft?? Why would they do that? is it in the hopes that you will use it to buy a game or accessory for it on the same shopping day???
Or are they paid for by Wal-Mart to try to get people in the store??
They had the same deal with the 4GB 360 during the anniversary sale, I used the card to buy Wii U games
WrenchNinja
Member
Where do you see that? Is there anything on there for a 64GB?
mmk thanks. screw it, I'll bite.
edit: oh nice, will start on 12 AM EST Nov 28. 9 PM booyah
WrenchNinja
Member
Oh okay.From the flyer:
didn't see anything for 64GB
I was going to buy a 64GB for my phone and give my 32 GB to the New 3DS when I get it but it might be smarter to just buy this 32GB you mentioned instead.
zephervack
Member
So its Wal-Marts doing to get people to come back and buy more? Why cant Microsoft sell the Xbox One at $299 everywhere else then?
nobodyshero
Banned
It's a psychological thing stores use. You can't really get much for $50, so you're going to spending at least a bit more money at the store. You'd be surprised how much more that turns into with most people, despite only having $50 to play with.
zephervack
Member
So if its a Wal-Mart thing, why cant Microsoft sell the Xbox at $299 everywhere else?
MS can do whatever they want, maybe they just don't want to.
The GC has nothing to do with MS. If MS wants to sell the X1 for $300 they can, but then Walmart could still offer the GC if they wanted to. Plenty of stores do this, and it has nothing to do with the product they are packaging it with. They just want to give you a reason to come back to the store later.
nobodyshero
Banned
It's not MS that's dropping that extra $50, it's wal-mart. They're the ones eating the cost of the gift cards, and they're doing it to compete with other stores. If MS dropped the price to $299 then stores would still be offering gift cards, because the point is to make you choose wal-mart over something else. That's why you might see some stores, instead of offering a gift card, will offer a free game instead.
$350 is the sale price, and the gift card is the loss leader to get you into the store.
The partnership is the worst. RFD no longer leaks BB/FS flyers and instead work with their marketing department for both Black Friday and Boxing Day.
Even though we may see those full flyers as early as sometime tomorrow, yes this also pisses me off.
That's pretty lame yeah.
Hours Left
Member
Cross post from the amiibo thread...
So is anyone else that pre-ordered the whole first wave from Amazon.ca still waiting for their order to ship? Because I am. :/
I pre-ordered back in September too, so I'm not sure what the holdup is.
So is anyone else that pre-ordered the whole first wave from Amazon.ca still waiting for their order to ship? Because I am. :/
I pre-ordered back in September too, so I'm not sure what the holdup is.
Many have answered, but I will add a bit. First of all, Walmart is the one eating the cost here. Clearly MS is pushing the $349 price point for boxing day, and Walmart is kicking in the gift card as a differentiator.
Secondly, the $50 gift card does not cost Walmart $50, it's less. It's money that must be spent back at Walmart. They probably have analyst working for them that calculated the average profit on $50 worth of merchandise, and the average amount that people over spend their gift card and use real money. So while you see $50 in value, it may only be a $30 cost to Walmart. That's why you won't see a $299.99 console.
AlexMeloche
Member
I'm still waiting for Pokémon and Smash Wii U, wich were preordered in June. Amazon has been kinda shitty with shipping lately.
It says I should get them on December 1st. Meh.
nobodyshero
Banned
Plus something like 20-25% of gift cards never go used, which is literally just a pool of money that grows and grows for the stores.
AAANNNNDDDD they're gone. Not surprising. Amazon.ca still has Villager though.
There's a Marth Amiibo on Amazon.ca from a third party seller selling it for $60 + $10 shipping. :lol
I saw that too. That dude can fuck riiiiiight off with that scummy practice.
Did you see that 169.99 dollar price for a GC adapter earlier by VGP on Amazon? That was completely ridiculous.
Nowinstock now tracks the adapter, thanks for linking the site to me earlier Canada-Gaf: http://www.nowinstock.net/ca/videogaming/games/supersmashbros/
In other news, my Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth shipped from Amazon, should be here tomorrow. I guess that is what prime is for.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Wow, had no idea they had a partnership. Stupid. Oh well.
Also, I never got a call from EBGames about my Persona Q Premium Edition and Persona Q XL. I haven't had calls in the past for games I had pre-ordered and they had them in, but this still bothers me.
Infinite Stars
Member
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but Target is selling the regular 2DS system(Meaning no Transparents) with MK7 for $75. YMMV, but I saw it at my local store.
Great deal.
Call Nintendo. Seems this has been happening more and more now because of Smash U's release. Be sure to give them proof of purchase. They need to verify your claim.
Some people....unbelievable SMH.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Wow, fucking EBGames. Way back when the Persona Q XL was finally listed on their site, I immediately ordered it to make sure I would get one. Then the next day I went to my local EBGames and pre-ordered it there because I prefer to get it at the store (I just pre-ordered it online in case they would go fast and my location didn't except pre-orders). So then later that day I tried cancelling my pre-order from their site, but their was absolutely no option to do that, so I e-mailed them telling them there's no option and that I would like to cancel my online pre-order and they asked for my order info and then when I gave it to them they e-mailed back telling me the order was cancelled.
Now I get an e-mail today telling me they effing shipped it!? Their charging my cc over $200 for something they told me they cancelled. This is literally the worst time of the year for them to charge my card that much. Looks like I'll have to contact them again... my goodness! Effing hell!
Now I get an e-mail today telling me they effing shipped it!? Their charging my cc over $200 for something they told me they cancelled. This is literally the worst time of the year for them to charge my card that much. Looks like I'll have to contact them again... my goodness! Effing hell!
Pretty much the same I had with them. The difference was I was able to checked my order online and saw my order status was still in "process" and not cancelled.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
What did you do about it?
Hero of Legend
Member
Since this is a new sealed copy (I would think), how is this possible? Unless folks in manufacturing got sneaky or it was a human error and the code wasn't put in properly?
I emailed them again that my order was still "in process". After that, I finally see the "cancelled" status in my order. After reading your situation, I wonder if that was intentional or not
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Yours was for the Persona Q XL as well?
People online are changing a few digits in their legit codes and activating codes of other games.
Hero of Legend
Member
Wow. What's the point? Unless they have multiple accounts to abuse.
Worst case if Nintendo does nothing: return it to BestBuy and tell them you need to exchange it because they sold you a game with a used code. Eventually it will be Nintendo's problem when the game gets sent back to them.
