[quote name='game_fanatic']So let me get this straight...you were at two different WM's last week, saw the discounted games, and came back a week later expecting the games to still be there?[/quote]
The games weren't discounted last week (at least not visibly or announced online), so I wasn't just spending days trying to decide if that $1 was worth spending.
Sure, it could've been hoarders. It also could've been a bunch of people buying a single copy while browsing around in WM. Do I know for sure? Of course not. Do you? Of course not. It's fun to blame the hoarders, sure, but don't blame them when you don't know for sure. If you said "I saw some guy running out with 10 copies of each in his hand," then yeah, I'd be grabbing my pitchfork right with ya bud. Sometimes I like to give people the benefit of the doubt.
I also give people the benefit of the doubt, but let's be realistic about two things:
(1) It would be idiotic to deny that there are hoarders here and on RFD who jump on these deals. One hoarder could easily check both stores in a day and pick through the titles to trade/sell at a better price later. Knowing that several of the games listed were available in reasonable quantities in two different locations nearby, and that all of the clearanced games disappeared within 1 day of the initial post here (even Petz Sportz?) while non-clearance games were essentially untouched is more than enough to suggest hoarding. At the very least, it was targetted selection by a small number of people "in the know".
(2) Although slightly annoying for people who are slow and miss out on the hot deals, this kind of hoarding is a smart move for people concerned about gaming enough to take advantage of it. They aren't scamming anyone or doing anything wrong, and I didn't say anything bad about hoarders in my previous post.
If you don't think it was hoarders, that's fine. Experience and common sense leads me to guess that it was a couple of people cleaning out the stores as quickly as possible, and there is no way to prove that guess wrong.