RE 4 17.99 used at Gamecrazy YMMV

Mishimaryu

Mishimaryu

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I receieved an ad today it says 17.99 and under on the following games under it although it's probably a misprint on RE 4 maybe they can honor it???

POKemon Colossuem
RE 4
SW rogue leader
Mario Sunshine
Mario Kart DD
Metroid
SSB melee
Star Fox
 
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[quote name='othergames']Yeah, why? Why don't you spend the SLIGHTEST BIT of effort explaining why you feel this way, or trying to justify yourself. Explain how this is different from the Wal-Mart guy's idea? When I don't hear from you I will assume it's because you can't justify it, and that you realize you're a fucking hipocrite. Let's hear it![/QUOTE]

I'm not the one you are screaming at, but I'll let you know why this is different. There has been no indication if this is a misprint or not. No one has posted that they have been shot down at a GC yet. Maybe GC is offering a tremendous deal on this game similar to the KayBee Toys MGS3 sale.

If it is a misprint, then getting a store to PM it would be shady. If it is not, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

Taking a game, any game, to another store to cash in on a price difference is scamming.

EDIT: Oh, and any store that doesn't call to confirm price and availability on a PM is asking to be taken advantage of. That still doesn't make it an acceptable pratice.
 
[quote name='lebowsky']I'm not the one you are screaming at, but I'll let you know why this is different. There has been no indication if this is a misprint or not. No one has posted that they have been shot down at a GC yet. Maybe GC is offering a tremendous deal on this game similar to the KayBee Toys MGS3 sale.

If it is a misprint, then getting a store to PM it would be shady. If it is not, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

Taking a game, any game, to another store to cash in on a price difference is scamming.[/QUOTE]

I disagree. Because everyone is assuming that it IS a misprint, the spirit of the endeavor is fraudulent. Whether the price has been confirmed is irrelevant. Everyone just said, " It can't be true -- but sounds like price-match heaven! I hope it works!"

But thank you for at least saying something intelligent and having the maturity to discuss the matter.
 
[quote name='othergames']No, because everyone is assuming that it IS a misprint, the spirit of the endeavor is fraudulent. Whether it's been confirmed is irrelevant. Everyone just said, " It can't be true -- but sounds like price-match heaven! I hope it works!"

But thank you for at least saying something intelligent and having the maturity to discuss the matter.[/QUOTE]

A consensus in a forum doesn't mean jack. There was a consensus that another deal was bogus too, it was called the Circuit City $5 deal. Let's wait until the facts start coming in before we go all ballistic on people.
 
[quote name='othergames']Except that the general concesus is that the price is a mistake! Which means they're not matching the price at all. If you told the price-matching store that the price might be a mistake, and to call Gamecrazy, there would be nothing wrong with that. Tell the guy "I'm not sure this is right, but I'm not gonna complain if you match it." That's fine. But "Hey guys, let's take advantage of this misprint. There's no way it can be right. I'm not even gonna bother going to Gamecrazy to find out, I'm just gonna go to a competitor and hope they're stupid enough to give it to me. I'll make out like a fucking bandit! This is gonna be fucking great! I hope it works..." is FRAUD.[/QUOTE]

"General consensus" is that you're freaking out.. quit spazzing out, man. If it's a mistake, whatever. But they advertised it at that price, and if another business matches it, that's their fault. Most stores call to see if that store will honor the price.. if GameCrazy says no, then they can't pricematch.

As far as your "there's no way this can be right" theory, someone should explain supply and demand to him. Look at GTA: San Andreas. Look at NFSU2 on XBox (here, anyways). People are done with these games. There's a huge stock of used games. This price could easily be the way to clear out backstock of RE4.

Again, regardless of whether or not it's a misprint, there's a huge difference in returning a game to Wal-Mart for credit and getting someone to pricematch an ad.
 
[quote name='othergames']Hypocrite. Better? Now is my point valid? Whoops! You must have thought you were making a point -- what was that point, by the way? That mispelling "hypocrite" invalidated my point? Hm. Ok. I guess that's what I should expect in a thread like this. A bunch of half-assed ideas nobody's put too much effort into.[/QUOTE]

Aww, yes I agree with nirvana on this one. Another person for the block list. Also, I would just like to recommend to you that you return to whtever GameFAQs hole that you crawled out of, because you're type of posting is not needed here. Thank you and good bye.
 
[quote name='othergames']Hypocrite. Better? Now is my point valid? Whoops! You must have thought you were making a point -- what was that point, by the way? That mispelling "hypocrite" invalidated my point? Hm. Ok. I guess that's what I should expect in a thread like this. A bunch of half-assed ideas nobody's put too much effort into.[/QUOTE]

I'm not validating your point, merely correcting your spelling.

Morality is subjective, and in any case, I'd suggest keeping your flames to yourself. That goes for everyone.

How about we get back on-topic? A novel idea, I know, though it's a good idea IMHO.
 
[quote name='Scorch']"General consensus" is that you're freaking out.. quit spazzing out, man. If it's a mistake, whatever. But they advertised it at that price, and if another business matches it, that's their fault. Most stores call to see if that store will honor the price.. if GameCrazy says no, then they can't pricematch.

As far as your "there's no way this can be right" theory, someone should explain supply and demand to him. Look at GTA: San Andreas. Look at NFSU2 on XBox (here, anyways). People are done with these games. There's a huge stock of used games. This price could easily be the way to clear out backstock of RE4.

Again, regardless of whether or not it's a misprint, there's a huge difference in returning a game to Wal-Mart for credit and getting someone to pricematch an ad.[/QUOTE]


You guys are not understanding. This not about business, it's not about supply and demand, it's not even about whether the price is correct. It's about this:

Most people agreed the price was a misprint. Instead of saying "oh well" or investigating, the first idea was "let's take advantage of price matching!"

Nobody sees that that's hypocritical (in a CAG forum sense, I mean), in light of the way the Wal-Mart switcheroo guy was flamed? It's practically the definition of hypocritical. If you'll recall, I said that the scheme was neither right nor wrong. I said it's hypocritical. AND IT IS.
 
Yeah, I'm no fan of fraud, but that cuts both ways. I'm tired of companies being too lazy/sloppy to proofread their own advertising materials. (a) These companies make enough money to hire someone to do it right, and (b) it's not that hard to do right. Some designer in some corner of the buliding didn't just pick $18 Gamecube games out of a hat. Someone gave him a list. The designer either transformed that list into a graphical advertisement correctly or incorrectly. Either way, there is an editor or supervisor or both whose responsibility it is to make sure that it's right. And then they send those ads all over the world to drive traffic into those stores, using the low prices as loss leaders in the hopes that people will buy additional merchandise with fatter markups.

Shoppers take these ads seriously -- I take time off of work to go to these stores, which means longer days and later arrivals at home to see my family. During the second weekend of the TRU 90% off sale, we all went to Chicago and back, hitting five or six TRUs along the way (and getting stuff we needed like kids' bikes and car seats). That's the degree to which I'm willing to commit to execute a sale. The degree to which the retailers need to be willing to commit is to honor their advertised price and not hide behind weasel words in the fine print.

Likewise, stores that price match do it in order to steal that sale from that other store, not to give their customers the best deal -- that's why they don't go and change the stickers on the rest of their merchandise to the new, lower price. Taking an ad that the original store won't honor and asking someone else to honor it according to their price-match policy is not, in my opinion, fraudulent. If they choose not to honor that, or if they call to confirm that the price is real, bully for them -- that's part of their policy, and as a consumer, I can't be too upset. But that avoids the real point, which is that we should be more insistent that stores honor the prices they advertised in order to attract my business in the first place.
 
[quote name='Fire']Aww, yes I agree with nirvana on this one. Another person for the block list. Also, I would just like to recommend to you that you return to whtever GameFAQs hole that you crawled out of, because you're type of posting is not needed here. Thank you and good bye.[/QUOTE]


Haha.
 
Again, I will say that I am not passing judgment on the scheme. I am not saying it is right. I am not saying it is wrong. I happen to think it is an interesting idea, ethics aside!

I am saying it is hypocritical! You can't tell one guy to get the hell out for suggesting how to take advantage of a loophole and then turn around and exploit a different loophole, then expect not to be called on it!

The main problem here seems to be that many of you don't understand what the word hypocrisy literally means. It means preaching one thing and doing another, REGARDLESS of the action's morality or ethicity. A Nazi who helped Jews escape from the concentration camp is a hypocrite. See how ethics has nothing to do with it?

Everyone jumped on that guy for taking advantage of Wal-Mart's return policy, and now everyone here can't wait to take advantage of Gamecrazy's competitors' price-matching policies (all based on what MOST BELIEVE is a false price in the buyer's favor). The whole point of the exercise is to fool the price-matcher to exploit a loophole.

That's hypocritical in light of the flame the Wal-Mart guy sustained.
 
[quote name='othergames']Again, I will say that I am not passing judgment on the scheme. I am not saying it is right. I am not saying it is wrong. I happen to think it is an interesting idea, ethics aside!

I am saying it is hypocritical! You can't tell one guy to get the hell out for suggesting how to take advantage of a loophole and then turn around and exploit a different loophole, then expect not to be called on it![/QUOTE]

Enough with this line of discussion. Back on-topic.
 
Thanks for posting this. :bouncy: I'm gonna go tomorrow and try to get at least the flyer. It says nothing about the games being used on that posted picture anywhere. If they are used 3 great games for $35 with tax would be very nice since they have b2g1f.

I'm getting a Gamecube soon and pretty much all the games i want are on listed on that flyer: RE4, Super Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, Zelda WW, Mario Sunshine, Luigis Mansion(can find much cheaper i'd assume). My Gamerushs only have 1 game for GC i want: SSBM so there goes the $5 po deal....
 
*Swaers because there isn't a GameCrazy within 200 miles of my house*

All the ood deals are at places in the middle of no where or the damn south.
 
[quote name='othergames']Again, I will say that I am not passing judgment on the scheme. I am not saying it is right. I am not saying it is wrong. I happen to think it is an interesting idea, ethics aside!

I am saying it is hypocritical! You can't tell one guy to get the hell out for suggesting how to take advantage of a loophole and then turn around and exploit a different loophole, then expect not to be called on it!

The main problem here seems to be that many of you don't understand what the word hypocrisy literally means. It means preaching one thing and doing another, REGARDLESS of the action's morality or ethicity. A Nazi who helped Jews escape from the concentration camp is a hypocrite. See how ethics has nothing to do with it?

Everyone jumped on that guy for taking advantage of Wal-Mart's return policy, and now everyone here can't wait to take advantage of Gamecrazy's competitors' price-matching policies (all based on what MOST BELIEVE is a false price in the buyer's favor). The whole point of the exercise is to fool the price-matcher to exploit a loophole.

That's hypocritical in light of the flame the Wal-Mart guy sustained.[/QUOTE]

This is the reason why we exploit the loophole. It is the American way when some makes a mistake for you to take advantage of it.
 
[quote name='shrike4242']Enough with this line of discussion. Back on-topic.[/QUOTE]

I'm the first to agree that the internet, and discussion forums in particular, is not a democracy. This is your choice.

But having a whole thread about how to take advantage of a print error, then disallowing further discussion of issues surrounding it, is something you should reconsider in my opinion.
 
[quote name='uzumaki_star']This is the reason why we exploit the loophole. It is the American way when some makes a mistake for you to take advantage of it.[/QUOTE]

You still don't get it. It's not about right and wrong of price-matching. It's about the fact that you flamed that other guy for exploiting Wal-Mart (the most DESERVING of a screwing in the corporate world, most would agree), but now here you all are discussing how to do it to other retailers. And nobody sees any problem with THAT.

Everyone who flamed that guy owes him an apology, or you deserve to be flamed for flaming him in the first place.
 
[quote name='othergames']I'm the first to agree that the internet, and discussion forums in particular, is not a democracy. This is your choice.

But having a whole thread about how to take advantage of a print error, then disallowing further discussion of issues surrounding it, is something you should reconsider in my opinion.[/QUOTE]

You know, when a moderator kindly tells you to stop arguing a point and get back on topic, it's usually a good idea to. ;)

I'm headed to GC to see if I can PM the deal. I'll be back in an hour or so to post results.
 
[quote name='othergames']I'm the first to agree that the internet, and discussion forums in particular, is not a democracy. This is your choice.

But having a whole thread about how to take advantage of a print error, then disallowing further discussion of issues surrounding it, is something you should reconsider in my opinion.[/QUOTE]

You brought up this line of discussion, and I'm asking, nicely and politely, to just let it go, and let us get back on topic.
 
[quote name='purpleshaman']
I'm headed to GC to see if I can PM the deal. I'll be back in an hour or so to post results.[/QUOTE]

I went there and the worker there was (for a good reason) confused at the low price of it, so she called around to a few managers, and found out that the deal is legit, and while it doesn't enter the price system until tomorrow, she did a manual price override.

I am now the proud owner of a $18 copy of RE4! :D
 
[quote name='lain21us']Has anyone confirmed that RE4 and Mario Kart are price mistakes?[/QUOTE]

The one I went to, the manager said that Pokemon Colosseum, Mario: Double Dash & RE4 for $17.99 preowned each was a print error. Which sucks, cause there's also the B2G1 deal with their $18.99 or below preowned games.
 
how on earth did you manage to price match this at CC? doesnt the ad point out its POed? Even when i take something like this to my CC, they always get suspecious and say things like "well arent new games supposed to be an even rounded number..."
 
Jeez, I'm glad that othergames guy finally shut the fuck up. I thought he would go on forever. Anyhow, I went to my GC to get this and they had a stack of the ad and said the employees weren't too sure if it were a misprint or if it was purposely done. They thought that there might be 3 misprints in the ad: MK:DD, SSBM, and RE4, but as I said, they weren't a hundred percent sure on it since the games have been out for a long time and they thought it could be another case of BK/ToS price drop. They said that anyone that walked in the door and requested those games that they would give them the price for it, but sadly they didn't have any RE4 or MK:DD used at the store I went to. Also, how did somebody get CC to pricematch this deal?
 
I tried to PM this at Toys r Us , they said no longer PM since February!?! bestbuy gave me a curious look they were about to PM it until they suspected that it was the used price!
 
I talked to the manager of a GC and he said it was a misprint also. I grabbed a few ads and tried a PM at Best Buy. In the end I was busted by the red 90 used game thing in the upper right hand corner and refused the PM.
 
Are there no retailers that price-match on used titles? My local EB manager told me they will match Gamestop if the price is within $5, but that is a decision by the local manager.
 
what does the red thing in the top right corner say someone mentioned they got shut down because of this. I'm going in the morning to get the ad and try to get a couple games cheap either here or on the way home at other stores.
 
[quote name='$hady']what does the red thing in the top right corner say someone mentioned they got shut down because of this. I'm going in the morning to get the ad and try to get a couple games cheap either here or on the way home at other stores.[/QUOTE]

It says "90-Day quality guarantee on used games".
 
[quote name='Mishimaryu']I tried to PM this at Toys r Us , they said no longer PM since February!?! bestbuy gave me a curious look they were about to PM it until they suspected that it was the used price![/QUOTE]

Don't you remember when either Zon27, benboxer, or tubtub posted that TRU would no longer do PMs? Sorry I don't exactly remember which one it was, but thanks anyway to all of the CAG TRU Crew anyhow.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']Don't you remember when either Zon27, benboxer, or tubtub posted that TRU would no longer do PMs? Sorry I don't exactly remember which one it was, but thanks anyway to all of the CAG TRU Crew anyhow.[/QUOTE]

I believe it was tubtub and benboxer, hiccuple.
 
I don't have a scanner, but I had a friend go by the Gamecrazy in Apex, NC today. He got me a copy of the add, and that section has the header:

"$7.99 & Up"

The titles listed are:

Pokemon Coloseum
Resident Evil 4
Star Wars Rogue Leader
Super Mario Sunshine
Mario Kart Double Dash
Metroid Prime 2 Echoes
Super Smash Brothers Melee
Starfox Adventures
Luigi's Mansion
Legend of Zelda: Windwaker
Wrestlemania (something else cut off)
NASCAR Dirt to Daytona
 
It was a misprint, along with MK:DD and Viewfiful Joe 18.99 on the GC on the page before that. Along with others my manager and I laughed at. Also, check out the "Chung Lee" controller.
 
[quote name='Kaboobi02474']It was a misprint, along with MK:DD and Viewfiful Joe 18.99 on the GC on the page before that. Along with others my manager and I laughed at. Also, check out the "Chung Lee" controller.[/QUOTE]

out of curiousty why do GC's ads always tend to have misprints? This reminds me of when Ace Combat 5 was a misprint on Sears ad most stores still honored the price.
 
That dude had a good point. So far i have seen around 6 people say they were refused the sale because it was a printing error, yet I have seen 3x that doing the price match at other retailers. And I do remember that Wal Mart switcharoo dude posting his "deadly sins". They jumped all over his case for being just as dishonest. Whatever...
 
[quote name='Mishimaryu']I receieved an ad today it says 17.99 and under on the following games under it although it's probably a misprint on RE 4 maybe they can honor it??? [/QUOTE]They *have* to honor it. It's the law.

My store (JCpenney) was fined by the State for not honoring the advertised price, when they had a misprint ~2 years ago. It's called "bait and switch" and is illegal.

troy
 
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