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So Fry's had Madden on sale for $36.99 today.

What did the EBGames down the street do?

Drove down the road and bought every single copy of Madden in the store to return to their store and sell for $49.99.

Fucking assholes.
 
what.

don't fry's have a limit per customer? what did they do, bring in their families and friends?
 
is that even legal?

see, while you idiots are worrying about EA being evil, you're buying your latest lameass little japanese RPG from the devil himself. Shame on you all.
 
Dr_Cogent said:
Do you have proof of this accusation?

:lol



It's capitalism - why not?
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i would imagine it would be against some company policy. Which higher up would authorize one store spending that much company $$$ just to have even more copies of a game that they probably had a ton of already to begin with.
 
ManaByte said:
So Fry's had Madden on sale for $36.99 today.

What did the EBGames down the street do?

Drove down the road and bought every single copy of Madden in the store to return to their store and sell for $49.99.

Fucking assholes.
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Can you even prove this?
 
Ninja Scooter said:
i would imagine it would be against some company policy. Which higher up would authorize one store spending that much company $$$ just to have even more copies of a game that they probably had a ton of already to begin with.
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Could be against policy. Illegal? I doubt it.

xsarien said:
Can you even prove this?
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Haha! That's what I said.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
is that even legal?

see, while you idiots are worrying about EA being evil, you're buying your latest lameass little japanese RPG from the devil himself. Shame on you all.
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So true. I'm in the minority, but I'm sick to death of all these interactive anime titles... i mean JRPGs. Always so cliched, nothing new or original, your same stupid bubbly idiots or generic angst tripe.
 
ManaByte said:
So Fry's had Madden on sale for $36.99 today.

What did the EBGames down the street do?

Drove down the road and bought every single copy of Madden in the store to return to their store and sell for $49.99.

Fucking assholes.
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Seeing how you are a man with no dick, I am not sure if I should believe you. Are you sure that Fry's just didn't sell out?
 
i guess you can prove it by seeing if there's sticky risidue on the wrapping, or the fry's price tags covered up with ebgames stickers

i find this pretty hard to believe though...basically since fry's usually limits 1-3 per customer
 
Ninja Scooter said:
see, while you idiots are worrying about EA being evil, you're buying your latest lameass little japanese RPG from the devil himself. Shame on you all.
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Who's the Devil?

Lameass little japanese RPGs? Which ones?

I guess I am not in the know here. Probably because I don't buy Japanese RPGs.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
is that even legal?
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Jeff-DSA said:
Seriously?

That should be illegal...
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Ninja Scooter said:
i would imagine it would be against some company policy. Which higher up would authorize one store spending that much company $$$ just to have even more copies of a game that they probably had a ton of already to begin with.
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It is usually the district manager who TELLS the manager to do it. Back when I worked for EB 10 years ago, anytime a store would be selling a game for less than the price EB pays for it, the DM would call and have people go in waves to buy out the stock and return it to the store. The manager goes, then the assistant, then the peons, etc until the store selling it under cost is sold out the the local EB has a bunch of additional inventory they got cheaper than they would normally.

Oh, and the local Fry's still has GCN versions in stock. The EB only bought the PS2 and Xbox versions. Didn't check for the PC one.
 
it was probably some young, enterprising EB employees who decided "Hey, Fry's is gonna have madden for $36, and we're probably going to be getting a LOT of customers coming in for Madden today so..." In which case, its kinda smart, as the customers dont' know or care which copy they are getting, but their asses are probably fired.
 
I wouldnt doubt it. EB employees were instructed to do this kind of thing at least once before in my memory, I cant remember the game. Basically the price point the competitor was selling at was below what EB was buying it at, so they ran this scenerio.
 
Ninja Scooter said:
it was probably some young, enterprising EB employees who decided "Hey, Fry's is gonna have madden for $36, and we're probably going to be getting a LOT of customers coming in for Madden today so..." In which case, its kinda smart, as the customers dont' know or care which copy they are getting, but their asses are probably fired.
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Again, no it is the district manager who orders it. The peons are usually too stupid to think of it.
 
ManaByte said:
Again, no it is the district manager who orders it. The peons are usually too stupid to think of it.
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wow. Somebody needs to kick that guys ass. I take it Fry's doesn't put a limit on the amount of copies one can buy?
 
Guys, seriously, it's an accusation that is being made with absolutely no proof of it. How can we believe it to be true?

Holy shit! EB guys are taking me away from my computer! I'm fighting to type this message! Please send word out of my abduction by EB employees! Oh no! Gamestop employees too! WTF?!?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
 
Wow, you have blown the lid off another questionable practice by videogame specialty chains.
At $36.95, they're even getting nearly a used copy's profit margin off of them.
 
So can you actually prove this? Or are you just assuming since Fry's was sold out of the XB and PS2 versions?
 
ManaByte said:
It is usually the district manager who TELLS the manager to do it. Back when I worked for EB 10 years ago, anytime a store would be selling a game for less than the price EB pays for it, the DM would call and have people go in waves to buy out the stock and return it to the store. The manager goes, then the assistant, then the peons, etc until the store selling it under cost is sold out the the local EB has a bunch of additional inventory they got cheaper than they would normally.

Oh, and the local Fry's still has GCN versions in stock. The EB only bought the PS2 and Xbox versions. Didn't check for the PC one.
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Okay, one question, where's the money to buy these games coming from?
 
ManaByte said:
Again, no it is the district manager who orders it. The peons are usually too stupid to think of it.
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Its not really a matter of "too stupid to think of it". Employees, even store managers dont know what EB's cost of purchase is for x game, and they have no funds aside from their own to make purchases with anyway, its simply a stupid thing to do unless you are told to do so by higher ups.
 
Amused_To_Death said:
Okay, one question, where's the money to buy these games coming from?
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You buy it on your credit card, go back to your store, return it to your store at the price you paid and the money is refunded to your card.
 
meelk said:
Its not really a matter of "too stupid to think of it". Employees, even store managers dont know what EB's cost of purchase is for x game, and they have no funds aside from their own to make purchases with anyway, its simply a stupid thing to do unless you are told to do so by higher ups.
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i was thinking more along the lines of a couple of employees that would pocket the profit for THEMSELVES, not the store. Though, like i said, they would be fired on the spot for even trying that shit.
 
Wait, if this has happened so often, as posts in this thread have suggested, then why the hell hasn't anyone reported this to the BBB?
 
ManaByte said:
So Fry's had Madden on sale for $36.99 today.

What did the EBGames down the street do?

Drove down the road and bought every single copy of Madden in the store to return to their store and sell for $49.99.

Fucking assholes.
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I call bullshit. Fry's would have > 200 copies and that would be a credit card bill of $10,000, which ain't gonna make it pass auditing.

And the returns would raise a HUGE red flag through auditing as well.

I think someone sold you a bill of poop.
 
GaimeGuy said:
Wait, if this has happened so often, as posts in this thread have suggested, then why the hell hasn't anyone reported this to the BBB?
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It sucks what happened, but ALL the game stores do this. At my old store, Target used to be one of the main "distributors." Same with Comp USA.

One of the stores I worked at was literally right next door to a Target, and the owner would go and buy a bunch of their PS2s, Xbox systems, and in the case of the PSP, buy it for $250 and then mark it up to $280. Games that they had for $34-$40 would be marked up to $49.99 after we bought them.

I never liked that they did it, but I don't know what's illegal about this practice, since all this stuff is being bought for full price and within the limits of units per customer.
 
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Capitalism at work.

Why would it be illegal? Is it it illegal for you to buy a game at EB and sell it on Ebay for more?
 
Lyte Edge said:
It sucks what happened, but ALL the game stores do this. At my old store, Target used to be one of the main "distributors." Same with Comp USA.

One of the stores I worked at was literally right next door to a Target, and the owner would go and buy a bunch of their PS2s, Xbox systems, and in the case of the PSP, buy it for $250 and then mark it up to $280. Games that they had for $34-$40 would be marked up to $49.99 after we bought them.

I never liked that they did it, but I don't know what's illegal about this practice, since all this stuff is being bought for full price and within the limits of units per customer.
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Damn. Fuck game stores. I'm swearing them off (except when I can abuse their trade deals :P)
 
Why would they do this though? If a game sells for $50 then I'm sure they would get it at wholesale from their suppliers for less than $35. Unless they had shortages and urgently needed the stock, this doesn't make any sense
 
123rl: Madden 2006 is sold to gamestores at around $45 or so. Fry's is using it as a loss leader, to bring people in to buy not only Madden but other products they'll make better profit from.
 
sangreal said:
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Capitalism at work.

Why would it be illegal? Is it it illegal for you to buy a game at EB and sell it on Ebay for more?
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If it's not illegal, it could certainly raise eyebrows at EA, or any game publisher for that matter. I've never actually seen what kind of language is in the contracts that determine distribution and sales to chains, but I'd be very hard pressed to believe that such inventory padding is condoned. If Chain X wants more of Game Y, the publisher wants the money, they don't want it going to the Target down the street.

The only people who get hurt by this are gamers who don't want to pay EB's prices, and it's just another reason for me to never shop there. (I stopped long ago.)
 
I'm curious, does Gamestop do this too? I only worked there about 9 months, but never had to do this, or encountered this.

They should let the employees return the game at $37.99, so at least they have some incentive to go to another store.
 
Bullshit. Stores have policies agaisnt vendors doing this type of shit. Even though its not illegal, I cant imagine a 16 year old peon working at EB giving a shit enough to do this type of thing for corporate.
 
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