Amazon US October monthly bestsellers and general Amazon based discussion

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jason1637 said:

binary solo said:

Only for Black Firday I reckon. If the price is cut in a permanent way so soon after relase then the early buyers will have good cause to be extremely pissed at MS. Wheras if it's a Black Friday / Cyber Monday only deal then there's nothing to complain about.

I would consider doing it, if I was MS, if I could offer a meaningful freebie to everyone who bough the bundle at $499.

Well lets not forget its a LE bundle so i think we wont be seeing much of it starting next year.

Even more reason not to drop the price yet. If they get into december and retailers are still carrying stock then MS could perhaps let retailers know that they are fine with retailer specials without formally dropping the price. As a LE bundle, by definition, it's not going to be able to shift the dial a lot on sales numbers, because once they run out, there's no re-stocking. If they have X number of bundles still in the retail system on 1 November then it doesn't matter too much if they sell X over 4 weeks or over 1 week, they still only have X amount available. They are better to leave the price of the Halo bundle alone (except on Black Friday) and focus on making the unlimited skus more attractive for people to buy. Of course if they actually drop the base price of the Xb one down to $299 then all sku's should shift down in price by the same amount. Again, early buyers of the Halo bundle can't complain too much if the price cut is across the board.