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WEll, i really thought the $5 clearance was pretty good, so a friend and I hauled ass out to Best Buy before yesterday in the afternoon down here in seattle to check out what we could get our hands on.

When we get there we mysteriously cant find anything aside from 1 or 2 sports games. SO i went and asked a best buy rep.

He pretty much told me that hours earlier, two guys had come in together and brought over 80 titles...Buying multiple copies of the same games, everything. They cleared out the whole F'ing store of all the good games that were down priced, with no consideration to anyone else. He also mentioned that he had wished that there be a limit to the number of 4.99 titles one could buy.

Does this hoarding somewhat seem ridiculous to anyone else, maybe unfair? I went to buy games that id play. I got the impression that they were in it to probably make profit.

Pisses me off.
shaq-fuing hoarders.
 
It used to be ads would state a limit of how many copies of a deal you could get. And they would also say no dealers. Buying 80 games and multiple copies of some titles would make me think someone is a dealer
 
That's not really Best Buy's fault, though. They wanted to clear out that inventory as quick as possible, so they're not going to limit the per person purchase.

I feel your pain, though. I just wanted one or two games, but no luck. I wish things were somehow a little more fair like that.
 
[quote name='otz']That's not really Best Buy's fault, though. They wanted to clear out that inventory as quick as possible, so they're not going to limit the per person purchase.

I feel your pain, though. I just wanted one or two games, but no luck. I wish things were somehow a little more fair like that.[/quote]

same here I really wanted Wario World, but all 3 of the BB were out of it. Atleast I got Metal Arms for the Xbox(last copy out of all the stores).
 
DOOOOOOOOD!!~!!!!~!!@!! THAT'S ONE OF THE ONES I WANTED!@!!! HOLY SHEEEEITE!!! DAMNIT.. *LOL*

No seriously, though. That's one of the ones I wanted *sigh* :cry:

Wanna part with it? Maybe after you beat it? :wink:
 
[quote name='jlarlee']It used to be ads would state a limit of how many copies of a deal you could get. And they would also say no dealers. Buying 80 games and multiple copies of some titles would make me think someone is a dealer[/quote]

ads still do state this....but since this wasn't in an ad, there were no rules
 
Get over it. The Ebay contingent is always ready to swoop in. Years ago I had a job that had me visiting client sites all over Southern California and thus I had good opportunity to keep an eye on all of the stores. Whenever one of them was having a major clearance I could use my existing list of all their SoCal locations and soon have major pile to move on Ebay for a nice profit. I don't bother selling anymore as there are just too many others nowadays reducing the margins to below the point it's worth the effort.

At one time there was a room in my house that looked like an old-style Toys R Us cage where you made a purchase using a ticket then received the product from the cage.

The fact is that Best Buy simply doesn't care who takes away all of that product just so long as it goes. It is apparently now their policy to maintain higher ASP (average selling price) by eliminating discontinued items quickly rather than dragging out the process and having their shelves cluttered with myriad old games at myriad prices.

This means Best Buy may also offered a somewhat lesser variety with fewer of the obscure titles that appeal to hardcore gamers but this also creates an opportunity for small independent dealers to specialize in those products.
 
It's true BB doesn't care, but it's just disappointing for others, such as people here on CAG, or even non-CAG shoppers for that matter, who simply want one or two specific games. It's obvious those kids who bought the 80 games will trade them in or sell them on eBay to make a profit. I can see maybe buying one or two extra of a certain title, but clearing out all the sale games? I know this has been discussed before so I won't press it, but it just ruins it for everyone else. :(
 
I'm pretty surprised there were still 80 $5 games for them to get. I don't think my 3 BBs combined had 80 games. They probably ended up with about 25 copies of Everquest, so don't be too upset.
 
[quote name='moiety']It's true BB doesn't care, but it's just disappointing for others, such as people here on CAG, or even non-CAG shoppers for that matter, who simply want one or two specific games. It's obvious those kids who bought the 80 games will trade them in or sell them on eBay to make a profit. I can see maybe buying one or two extra of a certain title, but clearing out all the sale games? I know this has been discussed before so I won't press it, but it just ruins it for everyone else. :([/quote]

Yeah, but it's hard to take pity on CAG as a whole because there's already been multiple posts about the trade in value of the Best Buy games at all the regular retailers. That's the perils of arguing and yelling about people as a class.... you have to look first at the group you are a part of before you do to much yelling.

I don't understand why people are getting so worked up over people clearing off shelves... these weren't exactly fast moving games to begin with. Had it been games just released last week for 10 dollars, I can see the reason for the ire... these games have been around for a long, long time, and most of them had other Cheapass deals (while not as good, they were there.).

I think if you're going to get worked up over something like this, you have the wrong temperment to be a cheapass/bargain hunter. Great deals should be something you're happy to find, not something you think you're entitled to. These things are almost always first come, first serve...
if you can't deal with that, stop trying to hunt bargains/cheapass deals.

Of course, the fact that there are some people talking out of both sides of thier mouth (Honestly, I'd only buy 3 copies of each game...) doesn't help any of this "righteous indignation" that these people claim to feel.
 
that means youre saying that the cag community is based on profiteers? I thought cheap ass gamers was the name of this site. The point of cag is to find and share deals with other people, and allow those people to look forward to having the ability to find good games that theyd enjoy playing at good prices. Noone is being entitled to finding what they want. We went out there with the hope of finding at least one or two titles we could take interest in and purchase, we didnt feel that we were entitled to finding these games. Yet being brought to the fact that some person had walked in and swept off all the shelves of most of the titles was frustrating, infuriating even-I was more pissed at those type of people who ruin it for others. We found out that we had gone 45 minutes out of our way to come back completely empty handed. Screw over by the 'first come, first serve'. I would have been happy finding at least one action game or well priced ps1 games left. Im not convinced by the fact that youre trying to tell me that i shouldnt be a cheapass bargain hunter because i was dissapointed.. That strikes me as a very poorly thought out statement. :?

*and im not trying to start a flame. Im just saying that i dont understand why the heck youd say something like that. I posted a rant because someone went out of their way to ruin a deal. I vented, im fine now. thats it.
 
[quote name='JSweeney']
I don't understand why people are getting so worked up over people clearing off shelves... these weren't exactly fast moving games to begin with. Had it been games just released last week for 10 dollars, I can see the reason for the ire... these games have been around for a long, long time, and most of them had other Cheapass deals (while not as good, they were there.).

I think if you're going to get worked up over something like this, you have the wrong temperment to be a cheapass/bargain hunter. Great deals should be something you're happy to find, not something you think you're entitled to. These things are almost always first come, first serve...
if you can't deal with that, stop trying to hunt bargains/cheapass deals.
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Oh no, I understand that they weren't fastmovers and whatnot, and I'm not really upset. And I know I'm not "entitled" to these deals. It's like, the early bird catches the worm. Just like online deals get sold out fast if you don't act on them. I was just saying how, you know, you're hoping to get a couple of those games, but come to find one or two people bought out all the games. That's all, just acknowledging that "let-down" feeling. It's a different feeling when you know someone bought out everything rather than say just missing out on the deal because you waited too long to check your stores and the games were sold out.

A lot of times, these deals are YMMV: for example, my BB's didn't have the $4.99 games at all, but what can you do? You check out the stores in hopes you'll find something, and if not, that's it. I mean, that's my mentality. I figure, hey, it wasn't meant to be this time around, maybe I'll find something better the next time. The fun thing about being a bargain hunter (...and not just in games!) for me is the anticipation and wondering just what I'll find, if anything at all.

Edit: I'm not trying to start any flames here either. I was just commenting on Eclipse's situation.
 
The Best Buy I go to has only been raided for it's GBA and GC games, just about everything else they had for $5 seemed to stick on the shelves until I arrived.

Hugs copy of NCCA Football 2004
 
that means youre saying that the cag community is based on profiteers?

Not based on, but there are quite a few members that that tag would fit nicely. If you're going to bandy about the CAG name, you need to consider the whole of the membership, and not just a subset.



I thought cheap ass gamers was the name of this site. The point of cag is to find and share deals with other people, and allow those people to look forward to having the ability to find good games that theyd enjoy playing at good prices.

Right. How many Target clearence threads have you seen that talk first about how much they can get for trade in value for the clearence games?
Many people will take the good deals they get and use them as enablers for other good deals. Since that is an act that many here partake it, you can't try to get high and mighty when others try to do the same.



Noone is being entitled to finding what they want. We went out there with the hope of finding at least one or two titles we could take interest in and purchase, we didnt feel that we were entitled to finding these games.
Yet being brought to the fact that some person had walked in and swept off all the shelves of most of the titles was frustrating, infuriating even-I was more pissed at those type of people who ruin it for others. We found out that we had gone 45 minutes out of our way to come back completely empty handed.


If you didn't feel entitled, there should be no anger. What's the difference between one person buying all the games and 50 people buying all the games...the end result is just the same.



Yet being brought to the fact that some person had walked in and swept off all the shelves of most of the titles was frustrating, infuriating even-I was more pissed at those type of people who ruin it for others. We found out that we had gone 45 minutes out of our way to come back completely empty handed.

Boo hoo. If you didn't have a sense of entitlement, that wouldn't bother you. You only set yourself up for disappointment if you expect that you will get ANY games when you go to explore a deal... especially one that was spread all over the internet DAYS before you even bothered to go look.



Screw over by the 'first come, first serve'. I would have been happy finding at least one action game or well priced ps1 games left. Im not convinced by the fact that youre trying to tell me that i shouldnt be a cheapass bargain hunter because i was dissapointed.. That strikes me as a very poorly thought out statement. :?

It's well thought out. You say that you don't feel a sense of entitlement, yet you still speak of a pointless anger. If you didn't expect to find a game for that price, or feel entitled to it, you wouldn't be bothered.
I never go to hunt down any of these deals expecting to find them.
If I do, great. If I don't, oh well.

If you can't grasp the benefits of that frame of mind, you're just setting yourself up for disappointment... I don't know about you, but I value my happiness over finding a game at a cheap price.


*and im not trying to start a flame. Im just saying that i dont understand why the heck youd say something like that.

Because a person usually seeks to make themselves happy. If hunting down cheapass deals always ends up with you being pissed off or unhappy, you really shouldn't be doing it.


I posted a rant because someone went out of their way to ruin a deal. I vented, im fine now. thats it.

No, you're whining because they beat you to it. You likely wouldn't have just bought one game. Most Best Buys didn't have ANY of those games in stock to begin with.
 
The fun thing about being a bargain hunter (...and not just in games!) for me is the anticipation and wondering just what I'll find, if anything at all.

That's exactly the right mindset a person who wants to hunt deals should have. That's one of the major points of what I'm saying.

Edit: I'm not trying to start any flames here either. I was just commenting on Eclipse's situation.

I don't see any flames there, moeity, you posted a very well thought out post. I do understand that some people will feel like they were let down, but would they feel any different if the games were just all gone, and not by the hands of one person? Probably.
 
Geez dude, he can't be angry that someone swoopped in to buy up all the games so he can sell them for an inflated price? WTF? Next you be telling him he cant be angry if he stubs his toe.

It just human nature to be mad at something like this, let him vent.
 
[quote name='Eclipse']Cookies to you, Jsweeney.

you have enlightened me to the world of trolling. knock it off.[/quote]

If that's what you feel, there's nothing I can do to change that..
of course, it's not like we haven't seen a post like this whining every time someone doesn't get in on just about all of the good deals that float around here.

Of course, If I were a troll, I'd be trying to get flames..and saying much more incendiary things. Probably a good thing to remember when you throw around loaded words like troll.
 
[quote name='Alpha2']Geez dude, he can't be angry that someone swoopped in to buy up all the games so he can sell them for an inflated price? WTF? Next you be telling him he cant be angry if he stubs his toe.

It just human nature to be mad at something like this, let him vent.[/quote]

Why? Why is right for him to vent about people buying up all the games, but wrong for me to vent about people always whining that they don't get in on these deals?

I mean, its not like they're aren't a bunch of trade threads there filled to the brim with games bought from best buy like this... or threads talking about trading them in...How about you bitch about what all of them did... or the guy that walked into the store to buy the games for all of their friends. It's easier to assume that somebody just bought them all to make a quick buck, right?
 
Still... what's the point in being mad?

If I wasn't confined to my house for the next couple of weeks for medical reasons, I'd have been there the first day of the sale. I would've bought every Nintendo title they had, maybe even multiple copies of some of them. Assuming there were no good trades offered I might've even *gasp* put some up on eBay.

I mean sure, I would've loved a copy of Sim City 2000 to pass the time... what can you do?
 
Am i the only person who went to BB found a bunch of games he wantted for 5 bucks, asked what the price was, and found out they were still 30-50 dollars? actually looked them up in the computer...
 
Having seen the results in the six BB locations closest to me I can say that if you didn't get there on Monday or Tuesday you had no reason to expect any good finds unless it was a returned item. By the end of business Monday night most of the stores here in SoCal were swept clean.

This would have happened with ordinary traffic without the CAG effect sending a swarm of us to every BB on the planet. The Ebay sellers only hastened the things a bit.

Interesting related item. I had occasion to make some monster purchases at BB in the past. If you have more than 50 items be prepared to break it up into at least two separate receipts. The BB POS systems allows a maximum of 49 items per receipt.
This may have changed since I had this rudely brought my attention when I was buying out their stock of decent Saturns games during that long ago blowout. My credit card company called me to make sure I had had my card stolen since they were seeing this odd pattern of big purchases at BB's all over SoCal.
 
Ill admit it, i was someone that bought out one best buy of all the better titles, thinking i might pass some along to Cag's but when i did i get nailed with pm's on how i was charging to much etc etc. Help the ones get what they missed. Im not looking to make a profit, just make sure my end is covered. So i paid 4.99 plus tax and im charging 10.00 shipped. Covers the shipping, bubble envelope, delivery confirmation, and whatever is leftover, that can pay for the gas i suppose. If not that, the ones that want to trade other stuff that what was sold at the bb clearance think they should get more on their half because you caught something on clearance? f' that. If you buy it anywhere else is it 4.99? just because someone catches a good deal doesnt mean its that price anywhere else or should be considered worthless. So because im not willing to take it in the ass for someone and sell and ship it for less that what i paid, sorry.

[quote name='Eclipse']that means youre saying that the cag community is based on profiteers? I thought cheap ass gamers was the name of this site. The point of cag is to find and share deals with other people, and allow those people to look forward to having the ability to find good games that theyd enjoy playing at good prices. Noone is being entitled to finding what they want. We went out there with the hope of finding at least one or two titles we could take interest in and purchase, we didnt feel that we were entitled to finding these games. Yet being brought to the fact that some person had walked in and swept off all the shelves of most of the titles was frustrating, infuriating even-I was more pissed at those type of people who ruin it for others. We found out that we had gone 45 minutes out of our way to come back completely empty handed. Screw over by the 'first come, first serve'. I would have been happy finding at least one action game or well priced ps1 games left. Im not convinced by the fact that youre trying to tell me that i shouldnt be a cheapass bargain hunter because i was dissapointed.. That strikes me as a very poorly thought out statement. :?

*and im not trying to start a flame. Im just saying that i dont understand why the heck youd say something like that. I posted a rant because someone went out of their way to ruin a deal. I vented, im fine now. thats it.[/quote]
 
[quote name='JSweeney'][quote name='Alpha2']Geez dude, he can't be angry that someone swoopped in to buy up all the games so he can sell them for an inflated price? WTF? Next you be telling him he cant be angry if he stubs his toe.

It just human nature to be mad at something like this, let him vent.[/quote]

Why? Why is right for him to vent about people buying up all the games, but wrong for me to vent about people always whining that they don't get in on these deals?

I mean, its not like they're aren't a bunch of trade threads there filled to the brim with games bought from best buy like this... or threads talking about trading them in...How about you bitch about what all of them did... or the guy that walked into the store to buy the games for all of their friends. It's easier to assume that somebody just bought them all to make a quick buck, right?[/quote]

Fine then, if you want to vent about his venting make your own thread for it! :p It's a free forum. Just becasue there are a bunch of trade threads doesnt mean people necassarily wantor even have to use them, especially if the prices are being inflated.
 
Fine then, if you want to vent about his venting make your own thread for it! :p
Why clog the board with useless threads when this one suits my purposes just fine. :twisted:
If someone started a new thread every time someone said something they didn't care for, we'd have a whole lot more threads, and most of them only having one or two posts before sparking off another thread...
not only does it make something harder to read, it's just wasteful.


It's a free forum. Just becasue there are a bunch of trade threads doesnt mean people necassarily wantor even have to use them, especially if the prices are being inflated.

Yes, But those trade threads are still part of the site, and the actions upon them reflect directly upon CAG.com and CheapyD.

Everyone should just be happy if they got any games, and if they didn't, oh well.

I wonder how many Best Buy sales associates actually just told people that someone came and cleared out the section just minutes before that person got there? It's got to be getting annoying having so many people come in pestering them about these (some of which with dubious manners)... I would think after a while that they'd just start telling them that just to twist the knife a little.
 
I agree, it sucks when one person buys out the entire stock of a good deal. I would have much less of a problem with it if 50 people bought 50 games than if 1 bought 50.
On the other hand, I'm with JSweeney. There's no point in bitching about not catching a deal. Somebody else cleared out BB first, so you got f'd when you came around. Big deal, it happens to a lot of people with almost every deal listed here. No need for a new post for each deal about "Best Buy sucks, I didn't get X game I wanted" or "Overstock.com sucks, they should have had more copies of Crystal Chronicles"
 
Since I'm playing Mario and Luigi, I just have to add this to the thread just because it's so germane.

I HAVE FURY!!
 
[quote name='alongx']I agree, it sucks when one person buys out the entire stock of a good deal. I would have much less of a problem with it if 50 people bought 50 games than if 1 bought 50.[/quote]

Yeah that's all I'm saying.
 
[quote name='Alpha2'][quote name='alongx']I agree, it sucks when one person buys out the entire stock of a good deal. I would have much less of a problem with it if 50 people bought 50 games than if 1 bought 50.[/quote]

Yeah that's all I'm saying.[/quote]

I see your point, but does it really matter? The end result is exactly the same... no more games for anyone. Here's another point to think about.. would it be any better or worse if it were the employees that did it?
 
[quote name='Eclipse']WEll, i really thought the $5 clearance was pretty good, so a friend and I hauled ass out to Best Buy before yesterday in the afternoon down here in seattle to check out what we could get our hands on.

When we get there we mysteriously cant find anything aside from 1 or 2 sports games. SO i went and asked a best buy rep.

He pretty much told me that hours earlier, two guys had come in together and brought over 80 titles...Buying multiple copies of the same games, everything. They cleared out the whole F'ing store of all the good games that were down priced, with no consideration to anyone else. He also mentioned that he had wished that there be a limit to the number of 4.99 titles one could buy.

Does this hoarding somewhat seem ridiculous to anyone else, maybe unfair? I went to buy games that id play. I got the impression that they were in it to probably make profit.

Pisses me off.
shaq-fuing hoarders.[/quote]

I think you need to slow down, take a deep breath, and realize that you were probably fed a bunch of b.s. by the usual hapless Best Buy employee. You say that you just went out yesterday. Fact of the matter is that you were four days too late. When the information about the sale exploded on Monday morning, stores were wiped out by Monday evening with maybe a few stragglers left on Tuesday. You were way too late to even hope of getting in on any of the $4.99 games. And truth be told, not one store would have had 80 copies of $4.99 games laying around. It simply wasn't the case. Stores only had 1-5 copies at most of any of the clearanced titles (with most being in the 1 category). From the sounds of things, most stores had at max 20 or 30 of the $4.99 games with most having none to maybe a dozen. There is simply no way a bunch, much less an unheard of 80, would have sat at a store all week long only to be sold a few hours before you got there. Sounds to me more like this Best Buy employee fed you a bunch of crap just to see how riled up you would get.

It sucks that you weren't able to get anything, but you weren't "hours" late, you were "days" late and stores never had numbers of games like that period.
 
it was 3 days ago. And the bb dude told me 2 people had come in together to buy the 80(the purchase limit thing). bs or no bs, Thats it. Im not venting anymore. =0
 
[quote name='-Never4ever-']one of the dealers at my local flea market sudenly has like 20 sealed copies of Wario World that wasn't there last week :evil:[/quote]

Coincidence? I think not.

For those of you upset over missing out on these deals, take a deep breath and relax. You survived not owning those games before this sale, and you should be able to continue living without them now.
 
I know everyone has already told you not to worry about it, but if it makes you feel any better, my friend and I took a trip to Northgate (I'm assuming thats the one you're talking about) on wednesday, and they were already cleaned out, so your employee's story wasn't true. Doubt that makes you feel better, but hey, I tried.
 
[quote name='epobirs']
Interesting related item. I had occasion to make some monster purchases at BB in the past. If you have more than 50 items be prepared to break it up into at least two separate receipts. The BB POS systems allows a maximum of 49 items per receipt.
This may have changed since I had this rudely brought my attention when I was buying out their stock of decent Saturns games during that long ago blowout. My credit card company called me to make sure I had had my card stolen since they were seeing this odd pattern of big purchases at BB's all over SoCal.[/quote]

LMAO @ that. hope you got some good saturn deals, tho good lord, you went all the state buying up everything you could and your cc company thought your card must be stoled :D good times
 
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