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mike_intellivision on 02 October 2009

I wish there was a way to know when GameStop drops its prices for a week on a game and then re-raise it back to the MSRP.

It has done this twice with Wii games that I looked at and thought  -- "I will get this later" -- only to see the price reduction vanish, even though there was no sign it was just temporary (many times it does label those on its website).

The first was Call of Duty (5): World at War. It dropped $10 and looked like it might go further, only to return (and stay) at the $50 price point. I am confident though that it will fall in price after the new releases next month.

The second was Little King Story. It dropped in price about 10 days ago to $30 (from $50). I thought about buying it ... but decided to wait. And today I saw it went back to $50. 

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

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nordlead on 02 October 2009

yea, I saw the Little King's Story price drop and thought it would happen on Amazon too since I thought it was a lower MSRP just the competition hadn't reacted yet. I prefer to buy from the VGChartz Amazon store to help out the website so I waited




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Exblackman on 02 October 2009
mike_intellivision said:

I wish there was a way to know when GameStop drops its prices for a week on a game and then re-raise it back to the MSRP.

It has done this twice with Wii games that I looked at and thought  -- "I will get this later" -- only to see the price reduction vanish, even though there was no sign it was just temporary (many times it does label those on its website).

The first was Call of Duty (5): World at War. It dropped $10 and looked like it might go further, only to return (and stay) at the $50 price point. I am confident though that it will fall in price after the new releases next month.

The second was Little King Story. It dropped in price about 10 days ago to $30 (from $50). I thought about buying it ... but decided to wait. And today I saw it went back to $50. 

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Mike from Morgantown

Alot of times they will lower price to increaseinterest for the game and once selling better , they jack up the price to get more money back.



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