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ryodi

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My local GAME was fairly busy today, I went in to pick up the Tales of Xillia 2 Day 1 edition in the sale that was sold out on their website. Captain Toad is now £44.99 in store for those of you haven't got it already and can't wait a week.

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Hey, i'm just pointing it out, not having a mental breakdown that it was forced upon me in a brack friday bunduru

I know, I just think its a bit mad after all these years we get a bunch of Halo remasters, he gets the machine, and for the sake of 25 quid and a few bugs you dont play it. Nothing against smitty either, i just think its something that should be played.

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Sabreman

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Nipped in to my local to check the sale this morning, noticed The Crew had gone from £25 last week to a new sale price of £35.

To be fair, The Crew was on their deal of the week last week. The Captain Toad price is obscene though, seeing as I (and a lot of others) bought it from GAME earlier in the week for £34.99, and that's about as high as that game should go.

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Kryptonian

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Except where dumpster has pointed out the rationale.

Is an average customer meant to know Game's policies on buying stock? I still think it's not unreasonable to expect a company to swap 2 products that have the same price, especially when they do bundles with both. I guess I have been spoilt by other companies who care about customer service.

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cultofweaver

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To be fair, The Crew was on their deal of the week last week. The Captain Toad price is obscene though, seeing as I (and a lot of others) bought it from GAME earlier in the week for £34.99, and that's about as high as that game should go.

Depending on the wording for The Crew that might be illegal miss-selling. From memory in order for a product to be listed as 'On Sale' it must have been offered at the higher listed price for at least 28 consecutive days immediately prior to the new price. If it was available at a lower price it must list exactly what the offer price is referring to. Trading standards would advise better on that though.

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Gabe

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Yeah, I don't think it has to be immediately prior, or even within 6 months, just higher for at least 28 consecutive days at one of their stores for a period. The only reason I don't think it's 6 months is because on a link to a TV somebody posted in the HDTV thread it lists the previous price - upon which the 'sale price saving' has been derived - as applying from March to April (i.e. more than 6 months ago).

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dumpster

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Except where dumpster has pointed out the rationale.

The games in the bundles will be subsidised and bought in to be sold with consoles.

Microsoft will supply, say, Forza for a highly discounted price, specifically to be sold with a console. If they find out that store managers are using a workaround to give other games away instead, then the store sells the Forza for full price, they will kick off big style. Microsoft could refuse to supply further discounted games, Game would be the only store on the high street without bundle deals.

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Is an average customer meant to know Game's policies on buying stock? I still think it's not unreasonable to expect a company to swap 2 products that have the same price, especially when they do bundles with both. I guess I have been spoilt by other companies who care about customer service.

I'm not convinced that getting upset when they don't swap games at random to their detriment is necessarily their fault. Good luck buying a bespoke make it up as you go along^ bundle deal from Tescos, Sainsburys, John Lewis, Amazon etc. I don't see why Game, or games consoles, should be different. If you don't like the offer, don't buy it.

Game having a separate online presence that they don't honour in-store, but prominently advertise, and with no collect in store option is, however, starting to become really quite odd.

^ Which is what we're basically talking about here: swapping out a manufacturer supplied cheapo game for a different game. The fact that separately from the console Game have them marked up to the same ridiculous price...

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McCoy

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Well, if the Stratford Westfield Game store is anything to go by, they are doing good business. The queue for the till snaked round the store twice. Made browsing next to impossible so the queue in of itself wasn't good for business and put me off their £300 Xbone deal I was pondering but it was certainly doing a good trade. Of course, it is a bit of a last man standing thing. The only other place in Westfield which sold games was HMV and they are barely putting any effort in these days. Oh and an Argos come to think of it. Still, not immense competition for trying to buy games on the high street.

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Paulando

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There was a massive queue just to get in the Trafford Centre GAME all day yesterday. Crazy.

I quite like them though to be fair. I took loads of shit games in when they had the double credit offer a few weeks ago, and I get them to price match CEX trade prices and then I use the credit on their website at all other times. Can't remember the last thing I bought from them that wasn't PSN or eShop credit though.

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SteveH

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Has anyone used the Gamewallet? I received an email on the 23rd Dec offering me the Evil Within season pass for £8.99. It just said to top up the wallet and I could make the purchase online and be emailed the code. But the purchase kept failing.

I have now spoken to several people at Game they all say the gamewallet can only be used instore. Despite the fact the fucking email says it is an online exclusive, and that is how you purchase it. I've now had to send the email on to someone there for them to look into it. They all seem completely clueless as to how their own system is supposed to work.

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HarryBizzle

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Just had an assistant be incredibly rude to me in Game over trying to get them to pricematch Cex prices from last night. I was trading 4 games in, 3 of which I wanted to pricematch, while his manager was checking the prices of another customer who was trading in about 30 and had a massive print off with him.

Still, got £33 for SSMB instead of the measly £16 they were offering.

And let us know how you get on, Steve. I assumed I'd be able to use this credit online as I can use reward point credit online.

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earlymodernsteve

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Was gonna get my local to match a pile of 360 stuff that CEX were offering £62 for but the shelves were so empty I ended up just going to CEX anyway. It has been really busy in LLancaster Game but it'll be interesting what sort of stock they actually hold outside of the Christmas period.

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Quexex

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Game deserve to fail. I went in today to buy the PS4 gold headset, they wanted 129.99 for a product that is 89.99 rrp. I asked the guy why and he asked me if I wanted a bag for my also horrendously over priced PS4 stand (it's a long story)! In the end I ordered online from tesco for 68.

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