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Originally Posted by lovekeiiy  damn, that blows Geoff. Since I have little extra money, it's easier for me to price match and go to the BB; no shipping.
I know it would be a no-no, but the best way to get those customers would be the break the street date. Other than that, knock off a few bucks. |
I hear you on the shipping, but when doing that remember to calculate shipping vs. sales tax. Then it just comes down to whether or not you can wait the extra days to get it.
Yeah... about street dates... we don't even break street for ourselves. Not that we have much opportunity to. You see, that is the other way that GameStop is sticking it to the little guy. They have deals with different companies that allow them to have games on the shipping date, which is what most people think of as the release date. For instance, the shipping date is Tuesday for most games. GameStop has them on the shelves by Tuesday, or Wednesday at the latest. For independant stores, our distributor gets them on Tuesday and ships them to us either Tuesday or Wednesday. That means we get them on Friday and, because of the low margin on games, if we were to pay to have them overnighted to us, we would lose money.
That is not a very good situation to be in, especially for games that don't sell. With normal shipping, we pay $54 for 360 titles that sell for $60. If the game doesn't sell before it drops to $29.99, then we already eat the $24 loss. We can't really afford to not make money on anything, because we rely on the $6 profit on games that do sell to cover the losses on the ones that don't. It is not as big of a problem with 360 games, but damn does the PS3 kick us in the nuts. I hope those games start selling. We didn't sell a single copy of NCAA 08, Lair, Heavenly Sword, Def Jam, Double Agent or FEAR on PS3. Sucks big time.
There you go, folks! Remember to support independent businesses, we deeply appreciate it! Remember to give GetYourGamez some love also, because they have to deal with this same nonsense. And because we like them.
Sorry for hijacking your thread, MadBryan!
