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Forums - General - Retailers appear to be a lot trickier this time. (BF discussion)

Joelcool7 said:
adriane23 said:
silicon said:
IMO I think it may just be hard to convince employees to spend their Thanksgiving putting stickers on merchandise.

This. None of the games at my local gamestop had sale stickers on them today (Got Sonic Generations for $30, but the sticker said $50), but I knew which ones were on sale from the flyer. It would take an unnecessary amount of man hours to label games, re-label them for a 1 1/2 day sale, then re-label them again once the sale is over.

Not talking the actual labels on the movies, games as much as I am talking the price listed on the shelf right below them. It would be very easy and non time consuming for them to put a price label that says 7.99$ and just put all the 7.99$ BluRays above it like they used too. Rather then putting a price tag on the shelf saying "Tomb Raider BR 7.99$) then having three or four movies directly above it.

Mixing the sale content in with all the other content and making it next to impossible to see whats on sale and what isn't. Thats not just saving time thats purposely done, I mean it never used to be the case.

In fact wouldn't it be more time consuming to put three different labels up saying (Specific movie name 7.99$) rather then a single one saying (BluRays 7.99$) and having the 7.99$ BluRays seperate from the others. This is where the labels did come in because it was impossible to tell which movies were on sale so you had to check the labels but the labels weren't marketed.

The ads said " 50 Select titles" or such, but how the heck can you know what those 50 select titles are if there is no price listed on the shelf or price tag on the product. I had to ask like 10 or so times about products just to see if they were on sale or not and half the time they weren't.

I just think its a marketing strategy. Get people in the store and confuse the shit out of them so they buy stuff at full price or nearly full price. You go in for your five or so movies and games and then you see everything else and can't tell whats on sale and what isn't and end up buying stuff at full price. Its actually ingenius!

Oh I see. In that case, Best Buy has been doing that for at least two years now. It's annoying, so I always double check by going to their website with my phone. And even that can be a problem, because the promotions aren't always in every store and you have to argue with them to honor the online price. When I bought my LED TV from them last year, it took me getting really rude with the them, two days, and a complaint on their forums for them to honor the sale price that was advertised online.



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@Joelcool7
I went to walmart and best buy.



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homer said:
@Joelcool7
I went to walmart and best buy.

How did you enjoy the sales, they were amazing just tricky.

I still managed to get every single thing I wanted so far this year other then Green Hornet and 30 Minutes or Less. Green Hornet just went on sale with cyber monday but I decided I really can't spend another dime so I'm missing out on that. 30 Minutes or Less is also on sale. Oh well guess I'll get them when their is another great sale and I have a bit more income to spend.



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@Joelcool7
This year's sales has convinced me never to pay full price for a game this close to Christmas.



"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." -My good friend Mark Aurelius