Earlier this year Gamecubes were selling for $98 - $120, with Superstore (Loblaws for you Easterners) having the cheapest price of $98. Now Gamecubes are selling for $113 - $130. Even Superstore jacked up the price of a Gamecube.
When I used to work at BB, according to the computer it costed the store $113 for each GC, so we lost $13 for each sold. Usually consoles are sold at retail cost. So going back to $120 seems reasonable.
They probably kept the promotion for a while since they wanted to sell an X amount and then stop it. Maybe they want to drop it officially to $99 this winter as well.
I'm pretty sure that that was just a Superstore promotion, with everyone else responding to the competition. If I recall correctly, Cubes in any Canadian Wal-Mart (which is competition-proof when it wants to be) I went into were holidng right at $120, and never dropped then bounced upward again.
Of course, this is based on hazy memory...I wasn't exactly shopping for a Gamecube at the time.
The temporary promotion explanation sounds like the most likely answer. In that case, financially speaking, my girlfriend decided to get me a Gamecube at the right time.
