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Onyxmeth said: Gamestop doesn't lose much profit actually. They merely take the games in at maybe $8 and they make $12 per used sale, and with such low trade in value, they'll likely not have to sell many at that price at all. Normally week one they would give like $25 and resell for $55, so they lose like $18 per used sale, but trade ins for the title would be low because no one would trade in something like MW2 for $8. It's a single title, not every game in existence. It would be small potatoes. They still get to makem like $10 or so on every new copy of MW2 they sell and that will be the big potatoes at first. Meanwhile Best Buy is making absolutely no money on this big title starting first week, and would be losing approximately $30 per every sale. That is a real hit. The problem is, who budges first? I say Best Buy because they can go in the hole if GS plays nasty enough. All GS has to worry about is lowered used game sales. They still have their accessory sales. They have their new game sales. They still have smaller profits coming in from used games. It's still a winning scenario for them. Meanwhile they push Best Buy into losing monsterously on every game they sell if GS sees fit to do so. @mibuokami-If Best Buy does it like that, I could see a lot of arguments from customers since it's not on the sign. Normally these kinds of price adjustments are based on advertisers' catalogues, or in this case, just the price list. A customer could just keep asking Best Buy to call Gamestop after Gamestop looking for a used copy, and there are a lot of Gamestops. A lot.
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It's actually very feasible since its something local stores in Australia seems to do on occassions.
The premise is simple. The store will match and sometime even go lower than the price of any competitor with a local presence, the key word here is local presence, which generally mean that a shopper has to go inside a shop and say to the salesman, store X around here is currently selling product Y for Z price, can you do better than that? The Salesman then either agrees in which case he will ring the store you've just mentioned and ask for availible stock before matching or beating it or says that he can't do it.
To apply to the above, it would be up to the buyer to quote an availible store or franchise with a used game price and the store's responsibility to check on said price up, the policy to match the price would only be honoured if the store is considered a 'local competitor' perhaps a suburb or 2 out at the max or the metropolitan area of any major city.
