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Euphoria14 on 26 July 2010

As a follow up to our story last week on pre-ordering Kinect from Toys R Us for $89, we've got some bad news.  They have begun sending out order cancellation notices to those that were able to pre-order the Xbox 360 accessory before Toys R Us restricted the code from being able to use it with Kinect.

As we mentioned in the original article, this isn't too surprising as retailers are apt to cancel orders when mistakes like this are made.  However, the good news is that those that had their pre-order canceled get a $10 off coupon code.

You can check out the full text of the cancellation notice below.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-28759-Atlanta-Video-Game-News-Examiner~y2010m7d26-Toys-R-Us-cancels-Kinect-preorders-that-used-40-off-coupon

 

Very unfortunate for those who thought they were grabbing a Kinect for only $89.99.



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Porcupine_I on 26 July 2010

this looks like the is not much of a margin for retailers in kinect



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Goddbless on 26 July 2010

They probably saw how many people were interested and decided to cancel the existing orders and jack up the price.



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Mistershine on 26 July 2010

Pity it wasn't Amazon, they generally honour these things.



Icyedge on 26 July 2010
kowenicki said:
Porcupine_I said:

this looks like the is not much of a margin for retailers in kinect



how so?


They are loosing enough money to justify cancelling the orders of their customers, which mean they have a low margin on it. Low margin is common pratice in video games anyway.



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haxxiy on 26 July 2010
Icyedge said:
kowenicki said:
Porcupine_I said:

this looks like the is not much of a margin for retailers in kinect



how so?


They are loosing enough money to justify cancelling the orders of their customers, which mean they have a low margin on it. Low margin is common pratice in video games anyway.

Yeah, I think you are right. MS most likely expects to make the bigger part of profits out from the extras - accessories and games. Much like Apple sells iPods at very low margin and make up for it on headphones etc.



 

 

 

 

 

twesterm on 26 July 2010
Icyedge said:
kowenicki said:
Porcupine_I said:

this looks like the is not much of a margin for retailers in kinect



how so?


They are loosing enough money to justify cancelling the orders of their customers, which mean they have a low margin on it. Low margin is common pratice in video games anyway.

You're really grasping at straws.  I would be willing to be this really was just an error.

These things happen all the time, they just usually aren't on a large scale or that big (nearly half off, at launch!) so it's pretty understandable the cancelled those.



 

pbroy on 26 July 2010

For some reason, this makes me really happy... since I missed out on the deal.. ~_n

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Icyedge on 26 July 2010
twesterm said:
Icyedge said:
kowenicki said:
Porcupine_I said:

this looks like the is not much of a margin for retailers in kinect



how so?


They are loosing enough money to justify cancelling the orders of their customers, which mean they have a low margin on it. Low margin is common pratice in video games anyway.

You're really grasping at straws.  I would be willing to be this really was just an error.

These things happen all the time, they just usually aren't on a large scale or that big (nearly half off, at launch!) so it's pretty understandable the cancelled those.

 

I was talking of toy r us having a low margin not microsoft. Sure it was obviously an error, but no companies cancel orders unless they loose enough money to justify it. Low margin for retailers on Video games is common practice, nothing related to kinect itself. Wheres the grasping as straws?!?!



JaggedSac on 26 July 2010

:(  Got me e-mail earlier today.  Unfortunately, I am probably not gonna pick up Kinect until a game comes out that I am interested in.  twesterm, its up to you guys :)