| BMaker11 said: All the Xbox fans are quick to jump on this with "Sony is getting desperate" (in the vein that Sony fans talked about MS for November's strategy for XBone)......but did any of you stop to realize that this isn't official from Sony? It's a retailer specific deal. Amazon is running the promotion, not Sony. This isn't Sony saying "hey, trade in a PS3 or 360 and we'll give you $100 toward a PS4". This isn't Sony saying "hey, buy a PS4 this month, anywhere, and you'll get a free game". This isn't Sony "temporarily" dropping the price to get people to buy it now thinking the price will go back up (but probably won't). This is Amazon doing whatever they want with the product they purchased from the manufacturer. I wish it was official. Then I could do it at Best Buy (because I have a card there :D). Apples to oranges. But good try, though, boys |
FYI, Best Buy will match it.
Just so you and a few others that seem to think that this is an Amazon thing. THe cost of the system to amazon is about $390. The games are only marked up $10-15 at the max, with some as little as $5. So, why would amazon put together a deal where they lose $60+???
The answer is they don't. THese kind of promotions are real simple. The vendor(Sony in this case) agrees to give Amazon/Target a certain amount of $$$ per unit sold as a kickback. That covers Amazon/Targets cost of the deal. If they were advertising this deal as a 2 per store or it lasted for 2 hours on Amazon, then it might be made by the reseller, but these are advertised deals.
This is a vendor sponsored promotion.
It is near the end of the end....
