Daffy Duck
Member
I'll have to check there more often, but most times I've gone to look there (looked for a 20th anniversary controller) they were selling them for £55!! This was more than GAME were selling them for, £49.99.
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GAME in Trouble Again?
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I'll have to check there more often, but most times I've gone to look there (looked for a 20th anniversary controller) they were selling them for £55!! This was more than GAME were selling them for, £49.99.
Rabid-Coot
Member
They went out of business about 3 years ago a few months after Game nearly died.
Linkstrikesback
Member
None of my closest supermarkets have games. If you go to the local big tesco, and only happen to want a recent big ps4 or xbone release you might be OK. Nintendo/vita? Good luck.
In a word, yes. Margins are really terrible
toythatkills
Member
Yeah, people offering supermarkets as alternatives to GAME are completely missing the point. Unless you want FIFA or Assassin's Creed or whatever you're SOL at basically all stores other than GAME, in the south.
Which is okay because just buy online instead, but other than Grainger there is no bricks and mortar alternative to GAME and it's silly to pretend there is. Not that I'm convinced they're really needed on the high-street when they offer online trade-ins but still.
I don't know if it was a one-off price, or even an error. I was just checking the games out quickly as I picked up some stuff for the house. £55 for a controller, though? Ouch.
Possumowner
Member
I buy all my stuff through my local independent apart from Steam stuff.The local Game is staffed by knowledge deficient people,plus they are rude as hell,along with being stupidly expensive.
BrettHeazy
Member
absolutely hilarious.
toythatkills
Member
The staff in there must think you're so weird
SuperRaddy
Member
No matter how much some people seem to dislike Game on here, it would be a shame for them to go from the high street. They are the last dedicated nationwide game retailer (and i mean focused on games...), not to mention the loss of peoples jobs.
However, the UK is (or was in 2013 at least) the leader of online retail in europe and even the world. The days of the high street the way that we knew it are numbered.
However, the UK is (or was in 2013 at least) the leader of online retail in europe and even the world. The days of the high street the way that we knew it are numbered.
Socrates92
Member
I've avoided GAME for years - they haven't really changed. Amazon, SimplyGames and others are always far cheaper.
nuttyevans
Member
Would be sad to see them go. I need somewhere to kill some time on my lunch break and CEX smells too intense for me.
EDIT: Just read the update, damn that's funny.
EDIT: Just read the update, damn that's funny.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
Unfortunately they own the fucking market with regards to special editions more than Gamestop ever has.
Even so you don't need to pay off pre orders outside of the £5 deposit for a special edition.
Aren't they a pretty big retailer over there? That's a silly mistake on the part of the manager but truly idiotic on the part of the warehouse doing the fulfillment.
Miles Quaritch
Member
So their ordering system is so bad that they didn't pick up on this before the order was shipped?
This is kind of non news in my eyes. GAME will always be a struggling company now, times are moving on and they can't adapt.
from my experience GAME store workers are some of the snarkiest workers on the high street, filled with a level of self reverence that goes well beyond their actual job role. The only employees I find more annoying are those that work in commission based companies like curry's. I wouldn't worry too much if any of them thought I was weird.
toythatkills
Member
Oh yeah, if I don't shop in my local it's absolutely because the staff are twats more than the prices. I don't mind paying an extra £5/£10 for the sake of an impulse buy, I get they have to pay high-street rents and stuff so there's obviously extra costs over online shopping, but fuck the staff there.
I still remember the time that I bought two copies of a heavily discounted xbox 360 title for my brother and I. The employees removed the free xbox live 1 month subscription from the boxes as they thought I was buying the games for that alone. Even if I was, i'm laying down the price they had set for those specific games so I found the whole situation ridiculous, I politely asked that they put them back in after I noticed.
ozz ex machina
Member
Yup, I do always try and support the one or two relaxed independent chains in my area with the odd impulsive purchase. New 3dsXL for example.
Will probably do the same with that ridiculous elite controller next week.
Mysterious
Banned
GAME is worse than GameStop/EB Games.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Im not surprised our local GAME closed recently. They literally charge around 30 bucks more then online competitors.
I don"t know, man. I popped into the GameStop in Birmingham, and it seemed decent enough. Cheaper than GAME, at any rate, if only by a few quid.
Baleoce
Member
This is me in any highstreet chain tbh.
toythatkills
Member
Try Poundland, cheapskate.
Stallion Dan
Member
Because they bought out the (much better for consumer) competition. When they die we'll see other stores again.