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DVD Empire is closing their games division. They explain all the problems on the link below, basically they just can't make any money off it.

Currently all games and what little hardware they sell are 20% 50% off. This includes PS3 (they only have 1 game though), 360 and Wii, as well as the older systems.

I have no idea how these prices compare to other places, and the selection seems small, but I thought I'd point it out. I'll leave it up to others to post any good deals that may be had. They do accept GCO so this may be stackable with that deal.

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Interesting read, kind of unprofessional wording in some areas though. They once in a while had some great clearance deals.
 
awesome. just got a 360 wireless controller for $32.05 shipped w/ GCO. i've been needing one to play with my roomate. thanks OP!
 
Maybe they aren't selling many games because their site annoys customers away. Why do I have to click on the game to see its price? Why aren't they displayed in the list like everyone else does it?
 
A few of the 360 and Wii games aren't too bad: DOA X2 for $47.99 for example. However, the "value" shipping is insanely slow. Yes DVDEmpire, the game market has very low margins and benefits the big retailers. Newsflash, game companies want wide distribution so they can make money too! I used to shop DVDE a lot before, but DDD and Amazon, to name a few, have been blowing them away.
 
I'm glad at least a couple people are finding something useful here. I was looking a bit more and it looks like your best bets are the newer games. I looked through the Wii games and it looks like 6 of the 8 in stock are under Amazon's price. I don't really follow the prices, but they could be worse. Older games look to be mostly way overpriced even with the 20% off.

Someone mentioned the shipping being slow. I've placed a couple orders with DVD Empire with the GCO deal and they've been coming very quickly when I use the free shipping for 3+ items. My last order was placed very late on the 22nd and arrived today.
 
4. No Product Returns:
This one blows our minds; we are not big enough to return products. The game industry releases many bad games, and word of mouth spreads fast to the consumer. All of those bunk games sit on our shelves. If we do end up selling them, we lose more money, due to the lack of price protection. They won’t let us return the bombs. So if we buy a bad title, we are stuck on an industry-induced money losing ride through the land of price drops. Of course, if the video game industry produced quality games, we wouldn’t have this issue.
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I love this. They're saying "we're stuck with a bad game and we can't get our money back for it!" These morons ought to recognize the hypocrisy here. If I bought a game from them and I just didn't like it, would THEY give me a full refund for my opened, used game? Let's check their return policy!


• Merchandise must be factory sealed to receive a refund.
• Opened items cannot be returned unless DEFECTIVE.
• Defective Items will be replaced with the same Item only. NO Refunds.
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Yeah, I thought so.
 
[quote name='AlanSaysYo']I love this. They're saying "we're stuck with a bad game and we can't get our money back for it!" These morons ought to recognize the hypocrisy here. If I bought a game from them and I just didn't like it, would THEY give me a full refund for my opened, used game? Let's check their return policy!




Yeah, I thought so.[/quote]


LOL e-mail that to them, I wonder what canned response theyll use.
 
[quote name='AlanSaysYo']I love this. They're saying "we're stuck with a bad game and we can't get our money back for it!" These morons ought to recognize the hypocrisy here. If I bought a game from them and I just didn't like it, would THEY give me a full refund for my opened, used game? Let's check their return policy!
.[/QUOTE]


I completely agree. I was gonig to ask if the site is trust worthy, but they seem like the site is run by 15 year olds. Supply and Demand at it's basic. Bad games don't sell, so don't buy them in the first place.
 
[quote name='AlanSaysYo']I love this. They're saying "we're stuck with a bad game and we can't get our money back for it!" These morons ought to recognize the hypocrisy here. If I bought a game from them and I just didn't like it, would THEY give me a full refund for my opened, used game? Let's check their return policy!




Yeah, I thought so.[/QUOTE]


I don't agree with this, and I'm sorry but I have to side with DVD Empire here. I think it should be pretty obvious that DVDempire does not have as much of a choice to buy just quality games as we do as consumers. They HAVE to carry products even if they're bad to have a wide selection of games so they can at least try to compete with Best Buy, Circuit City, Toys R Us, Target, etc.

You can't run a game store by just carrying Zelda, Gears of War, and Metal Gear Solid... it doesn't work that way. If you go shop somewhere and see that they only carry like 5 games, you wouldn't take their games division seriously and probably consider it just a "side" business. And when a big game comes out, people won't even think of going to your store first to buy the game, the stores with more gaming cred will come to mind first.
 
I'm no business man, but if I was told I could pay $400 for a console to sell it for $405, I'll tell them I can make more money and easier to just work at KFC...

Does anyone actully beleive that BS they post on their site? Sounds like a whole bunch of fucken bullshit to me.

Didnt want to sound harsh, but seriously, someone need to invite them to join CAG, with the deals you find here they'll have a much better profit margin than their current 0.01% lmfao!

Good luck to the dumb asses working at DVD empire.
 
[quote name='Asgardian']I'm no business man, but if I was told I could pay $400 for a console to sell it for $405[/QUOTE]

It's true. Retailers make nearly nothing selling consoles. The margin is only a few dollars, except for the Wii.
 
That explanation was a weird read.

Sounds like DVDEmpire needs to get themselves some better accountants and purchasing managers.

And a CEO who knows better than to turn a retail website into an emo blog.
 
They seem like they don't know what they are doing. Why didn't they do some research first. They're calling the video game companies greedy but that's all they were as well. If they knew anything about video games they would know that people rarely buy games online for full price. That's also why there isin't a video game specialty store that only sells new games. Gamestop and them make 90% of their money from used sales. That's what they get for being greedy and stupid.
 
That comes off as a childish rant IMO. To make it worse they complain about being screwed by the inflated list price and then give us 20% off of that... They lost their games because they are a poorly run business. I stopped buying from them 2 years ago after a DVD order went absurdly wrong. It took 2 weeks to get satisfaction and that was only after contacting the business owner directly...
 
[quote name='hhhdx4']I personally liked how honest they were.[/quote]

I agree. While some poeple are saying it was unprofessional (and it was), there was a lot of truth in what was said. Since it is their business they have every right to say whatever they want.

[quote name='AlanSaysYo']If I bought a game from them and I just didn't like it, would THEY give me a full refund for my opened, used game? Let's check their return policy!
[/quote]

That is completely different from them having SEALED product that they can't return to the manufacturer and you know it. If any of you haven't before, I suggest working retail and look at margins on what you sell, then you might understand where they are coming from.
 
[quote name='Lizard Axe']Did this yesterday with GCO to get Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones for $8 shipped.[/quote]

I just did, too - according to the website it was the last one in stock, so thanks :)
 
[quote name='johnnypark']I just did, too - according to the website it was the last one in stock, so thanks :)[/QUOTE]
I think all of the in-stock games say that. I never ran across a game that wasn't OOS or the last one in stock. I doubt it's true for all of the games.
 
[quote name='Asgardian']
Does anyone actully beleive that BS they post on their site? Sounds like a whole bunch of fucken bullshit to me.
[/quote]

I think that their point was that they are a small retailer, and they don't get a lot of the perks that larger retailers get. There's probably a lot of truth to that, and I'm sure it makes making a profit very difficult for them.

Of course there's also a lot of sour grapes. They had to know, going into the business, that they would have to do something to make their games store attractive. You can't have a limited selection that's priced at MSRP and expect customers to go wild and order everything.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']That is completely different from them having SEALED product that they can't return to the manufacturer and you know it. If any of you haven't before, I suggest working retail and look at margins on what you sell, then you might understand where they are coming from.[/QUOTE]
It's not at all different. I'd love to be able to buy any game I want risk free and return it if it sucks. That's the same thing they want, to be able to give sucky games back to the manufacturer. They want to stock unlimited amounts of every product without risk. Life doesn't work that way. Every other business needs to order and stock wisely and know their market. They're not special. Yeah, the margins suck and maybe they're not cut out for the videogame business. If they can't compete on service or price then they certainly should get out. Not wanting to carry games anymore is a valid and reasonable business decision, but crying about it on your website is uttely unprofessional. It shows a lack of personal responsibility that's off putting from a business owner. It makes me think that any type of problem or issue I'd run into shopping there would be blamed on something else.
 
[quote name='David85']That has been $10 at CC.com or BB.com for weeks now.[/QUOTE]

I think you mean for almost a year ;) At least in regards to BB...
 
[quote name='Damian']It's not at all different. I'd love to be able to buy any game I want risk free and return it if it sucks. That's the same thing they want, to be able to give sucky games back to the manufacturer. They want to stock unlimited amounts of every product without risk. Life doesn't work that way. Every other business needs to order and stock wisely and know their market. They're not special. Yeah, the margins suck and maybe they're not cut out for the videogame business. If they can't compete on service or price then they certainly should get out. Not wanting to carry games anymore is a valid and reasonable business decision, but crying about it on your website is uttely unprofessional. It shows a lack of personal responsibility that's off putting from a business owner. It makes me think that any type of problem or issue I'd run into shopping there would be blamed on something else.[/quote]

Come on now...

If they have a factory sealed game they want to return the manufacturer it is VERY different from you or I returning an open game, especially when they can't return it to the maunfacturer and cannot sell an open game as new, AND have no model for selling used games. It isn't even remotely the same.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']If they have a factory sealed game they want to return the manufacturer it is VERY different from you or I returning an open game, especially when they can't return it to the maunfacturer and cannot sell an open game as new, AND have no model for selling used games. It isn't even remotely the same.[/QUOTE]
But it is. You're thinking too specifically and not about the overarching concept. DVD Empire wants to do business without risk. They want their distributor to assume all the risk for their buying decisions and that's not right. The distributor orders product based on what they perceive as demand and the manufacturer produces it based on the same. Everyone relies on reading that tier below them to make decisions. If the manufacturer screws up and overproduces, they're left with product they can't sell. If the distributor orders too much they're left with product they have to unload at a loss. That's fair because they screwed up. What makes DVD Empire special? Why do other people have to pay for their mistakes? If they order a lot of product and can't sell it, that's their problem. They didn't read the market right and they got burned.
 
[quote name='swootacious']Everyone seems to be hating DVD Empire, but check out their Porno Store Section. It's FANTASTIC!! :applause:[/QUOTE]
too much free porn on the internet to spend money on it.
 
Just picked up Shaolin Monks (XBOX) for just a smidge over $8 with GCO. I've been on a bit of a MK kick since getting Midway Arcade Treasures 2 and seeing Armaggedon go down to $20, although I passed on that since the Wii version is getting Khameleon and some new mode that was only on the PSP.
 
Some of you need to learn some business. with magazines and books, for example, stores will rip off the covers of unsold copies and send them back to the distributor for credit. being able to return unsold merchindise is possible with many different goods. Sure, they should've done their research, but the statement is fine if you look at other products.
 
[quote name='Promophile']Some of you need to learn some business. with magazines and books, for example, stores will rip off the covers of unsold copies and send them back to the distributor for credit. being able to return unsold merchindise is possible with many different goods. Sure, they should've done their research, but the statement is fine if you look at other products.[/quote]

Exactly.
 
I have no problem with what they said, and like it or not, there's quite a bit of truth to it. No one makes money on consoles these days, which isn't a surprise considering that, at least initially, the manufacturers themselves LOSE money on them. Those of you laughing at the .01 profit margin are uninformed at best...that's the market, like it or not. Sounds to me like DVD Empire did the math and is just going back to focusing their energies on what actually makes money.
 
Hey, post this article in the Video Game Discussion forum too... this is definitely worthy of a discussion as well but in a seperate forum.

So far, from what I'm seeing, their selection of games blows and 20% isn't that much of a discount after shipping.
 
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