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twesterm on 18 February 2011
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Bunyip said:
toadslayer72 said:
Bunyip said:
toadslayer72 said:

Awesome deal, just got it and passed the info on to a couple of friends. To all you guys bitching about the shipping, if you insist that you are getting fucked, then just tell yourself it's the other way around, 8 whole dollars for the game and 2 bucks for the shipping.

Can't speak for the others but for me it's not about "bitching about getting fucked".  It's the fact that on top of costing THEM more money to ship the damn code, the consumer also has to wait for it when they could have just made the download price ultimately the same cost and instantly emailed it to us.  Great deal, just a dumb way to go about it.

This is all I see.

In other words make the download $9.74 and give us access right away.  Same price and no shipping involved.  Why is that so hard to understand?

You really don't understand, do you?

I know what you say totally makes sense but what do you think gets you more sales?

1- listing the game at $10, attracting the attention of every news and gaming blog?

2- listing the game at $4 $1.74 and hiding the $6 shipping cost as well as possible, attracting the attention of every news and gaming blog?

Both of those, pretty much the same but the key difference is it's a lot easier to entine people with a $4 $1.74 game than a $10 game.  You end up spending the exact same either way, it's just that mental perception that makes the difference in the same way that the different between $299 and $300 seems like a lot.