Simple favor to ask

[defender]

I know lots of you guys have bought from VGD and I just realized that I only have 3 reviews at resellerrating...thankfully they are all good :-)

If anyone who has bought from VGD could be so kind as to give me a rating I would be appreciative.

feel free to leave an honest review

http://www.resellerratings.com/seller6116.html

[Dead of Knight]

Left a review.

[PsyClerk]

Done.

[defender]

thanks guys I appreciate it

[epobirs]

This is the first time I've ever seen resellerratings mentioned and I suspect the same could be said for a lot of the other people here. That would explain a lot.

[PsyClerk]

Hey, can I leave one review per invoice or do I just get a one shot?

[dafoomie]

This is the first time I've ever seen resellerratings mentioned and I suspect the same could be said for a lot of the other people here. That would explain a lot.
I check resellerratings for every site I buy from that I don't know of...

Most people I know do the same.

[mombbsmj]

Done

[epobirs]

This is the first time I've ever seen resellerratings mentioned and I suspect the same could be said for a lot of the other people here. That would explain a lot.
I check resellerratings for every site I buy from that I don't know of...

Most people I know do the same.

Which is entirely meaningless if you've never heard of the site. Just because it's used by your circle of friends and acquaintances doesn't mean it's especially well known. Certainly not on a par with more in-your-face operations like Bizrate.

[dafoomie]

it's used by your circle of friends and acquaintances doesn't mean it's especially well known.

I wasn't trying to be snooty, so I'm sorry if I came off that way, but it is a fairly well known site. I'm surprised anyone that does a fair amount of online shopping doesn't know about it.

I only say that because I see it mentioned here all the time in regard to less-known stores online.

[chess380]

Review sent. I fogot about your site. But I'm going to check it out now. Truley Awsome store though.

[XboxMaster]

I would help you out, but I've never bought anything from you. Oh! I know how I can help you, how 'bout I help you build the Video Game Network?

:lol: , sorry, I had to bring it up. Everytime I see your name I always think about that VGN thing. Remember, send me a PM if you need any help with anything when you start VGN.

[PsyClerk]

This is the first time I've ever seen resellerratings mentioned and I suspect the same could be said for a lot of the other people here. That would explain a lot.
I check resellerratings for every site I buy from that I don't know of...

Most people I know do the same.

Which is entirely meaningless if you've never heard of the site. Just because it's used by your circle of friends and acquaintances doesn't mean it's especially well known. Certainly not on a par with more in-your-face operations like Bizrate.

Oddly enough, someone references it (resellerratings) in another thread posted today.

It's a fairly big site that gets a lot of traffic from sites like CAG, since it's useful in determining if that good online deal is really a scam from some fly-by-night company.

[epobirs]

it's used by your circle of friends and acquaintances doesn't mean it's especially well known.

I wasn't trying to be snooty, so I'm sorry if I came off that way, but it is a fairly well known site. I'm surprised anyone that does a fair amount of online shopping doesn't know about it.

I only say that because I see it mentioned here all the time in regard to less-known stores online.

Which would explain much. I rarely have use for the smaller operations except when I'm looking for something out of the ordinary, like HDLoader. That led me to do business with ConsoleSource and that went OK but virtually everything else they offer is stunningly overpriced. The sheer capital requirements prevent small companies like that from being useful for most mainstream products when compared to those companies with massive B&M presence in addition to their online operation.

A few years ago, during the dot.bomb idiocy, the new wisdom was that online-only operations would have a huge advantage over B&M operations. This turned out to be much harder to realize than it was for the B&M guys to create strong online outlets. The online-only titans are decidedly few in number. Amazon, Dell, .... I'm sure there must be others but none come to mind. (And Dell was already was established in mail and phone ordering before they started their web site.) Most of the other online-only companies I once did business with are gone, mere shadows of their former selves (Buy.com), or owned by B&M companies like Outpost.com's acquisition by Fry's.

So other ignoring the occasional popup from Bizrate, I don't have much reason to think about things like resellerratings much. If I ever did business with Defender I'd certainly accommodate his request but so far the onling he's had that I wanted at the offered price was the CAG t-shirt and even that price required some other purchases. I check his site once in a while to see if I can find anything but not so far. I just don't fall into the demographic for his business. He cannot compete on the mainstream items and I'm not given to spending on premium goods that drive small businesses like his. It's a very tough field for small businesses, as he himself has mentioned several times in recent months.

[defender]

bizrate is bullshit...you have to pay to get listed and that means the results are skewed...

resellerratings has been around for many years and its actually very popular

unlike bizrate which does so many things...resellerratings really just focuses on reviews of resellers

[defender]

I can't compete on mainstream items? That's news to me since I have better prices than EB, gamestop, and amazon on just about everything thats new or common.

[PsyClerk]

FLAME WAR!

[epobirs]

bizrate is bullshit...you have to pay to get listed and that means the results are skewed...

resellerratings has been around for many years and its actually very popular

unlike bizrate which does so many things...resellerratings really just focuses on reviews of resellers

I wasn't saying Bizrate was a good thing. I became tired of their tedious questionaires years ago. I was only saying they have a much greater market awareness due to their ties to much better known sites.

[dafoomie]

The sheer capital requirements prevent small companies like that from being useful for most mainstream products when compared to those companies with massive B&M presence in addition to their online operation.

I get far better prices online than I ever do from a b&m... Newegg.com has better prices than CompUSA 99% of the time. Buy.com is a shell of its former self because Amazon is kicking their ass. There are tons of online retail failures (buy.com, pets.com, etc) and there are plenty of b&m failures (KBtoys, Toys R Us, Kmart), I agree that the so called advantage of online only is BS but they both need to work from a solid business model to be successful.

[epobirs]

I can't compete on mainstream items? That's news to me since I have better prices than EB, gamestop, and amazon on just about everything thats new or common.

Which matters not if the price is still more than I'm interested in paying for the product in question. I've gone to VGD at least once every two weeks since I registered with CAG just to try to return the favor for all the value CAG has brought me since it became apparent how deeply involved you are in making it happen. I have yet to find a single item I really wanted at a price that got me excited. In that same period of time I've made numerous online purchases from EB, GameStop, BB, CC as well as purchase from the B&M clearances as well as other B&M places like TRU and Sears.

It isn't for lack of looking. You just haven't had anything that could compare with the deluge of $5 and $10 offerings in recent times. You would have to be in disastrous financial condition to do so and I wouldn't wish that upon you.

I said before I don't fit in your customer demographic. I'm very tightfisted when it comes to spending on luxury items. The last time I bought a newly released DVD was Spider-man. It was only $14 at Wal-mart, I hadn't seen it in the theater and I successfully argued with myself that I'd been waiting about 30 years to see this movie. That was quite a while back. Since then, every single DVD I've been tempted to purchase on release has turned up much cheaper just a few months later.

It's the same with games. The last new release I bought was Zelda for GC. That came with a previously unavailable in the US bonus game that effectively cut the price in half and I had a fair bit of TRU credit on hand from my VIsa card kickback. That was the only on-release purchase I'd made outside of a console launch in nearly a decade. There are any number of gaming coming out this Fall and next year I look forward to playing but that won't happen until late next year at the soonest. I have way too many good games that cost me only a few dollars a piece to bother myself with new pricey releases.

So you see, it doesn't matter if you sometimes meet or beat the big name retailers. I'm still not buying until there's a major writedown charge in the annual accounting due to the price I paid. Why would you want my business under those circumstances?

[epobirs]

The sheer capital requirements prevent small companies like that from being useful for most mainstream products when compared to those companies with massive B&M presence in addition to their online operation.

I get far better prices online than I ever do from a b&m... Newegg.com has better prices than CompUSA 99% of the time. Buy.com is a shell of its former self because Amazon is kicking their ass. There are tons of online retail failures (buy.com, pets.com, etc) and there are plenty of b&m failures (KBtoys, Toys R Us, Kmart), I agree that the so called advantage of online only is BS but they both need to work from a solid business model to be successful.

I only buy from CompUSA when they're bleeding in the process. The last thing I recall getting there was a 40 GB USB 2.0 hard drive for $34 after an instant rebate. This was well over a year ago so it was a pretty irresistable value. Other than that I once in a great while see a game marked down to $10 or less that appears worth trying. Since I have Fry's and PC Clubs all over my vicinity CompUSA just isn't in the running for most of my shopping trips.