| Landguy said: 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. |
Actually, the Target deal is for signing up with their Cartwheel Savings Program. That's purely on Target (like when you get a Red card and save 5%).
As for Amazon, this is vendor sponsored? Only for a day? You think Sony sent them a check for $60K (how many PS4s are in stock at any given time on Amazon? 1000?) for a 1-day promotion? And they were advertised deals? Who advertised them? You would think Sony would announce something to get you to go over to Amazon ASAP. But I saw nothing, anywhere. And the only way you knew about the deal is if you went to Amazon and clicked "PS4" and then the PS4+Camera+TLOU+Game was an option.
In fact, the only places I saw it were direct links to the item at PS4 related forums (Sony discussion on VGC and /r/PS4), so where were these advertised at? Other than Amazon itself promoting......its own promotion?
A Samsung Galaxy S5 is normally $200 down with the signing of a new 2 year contract (AT&T, Verizon) . Sprint has it for $0 down right now with a new contract . Why would Sprint have a deal where they lose $200 (AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint all have similar priced billing for the same services, so over the life of the contract, the amount you put towards owning the phone is roughly the same). They getting kickbacks from Samsung? Or is it something as simple as offering a better deal than direct competitors, by your own means, to increase sales?
