Walmart Clearance?

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Just a quick question for any of you more familiar with Walmart's policies...

Does anyone know if they clearance items that are no longer supposed to be sold? (Gamecube games)

I have a Walmart near me with several rare Gamecube games but they are priced at 49.99. Will they just rot there forever at that price, or will they eventually be lowered in price?
 
It will just stay there. Some stores were selling N64 games for years because they are not mark down.
 
[quote name='62t']It will just stay there. Some stores were selling N64 games for years because they are not mark down.[/quote]

Yeah, my sister bought me Tony Hawk 3 for the 64 for like... $30 at a Wal-Mart on Black Friday of either '06 or '07 (I have a bad memory on years). I have no idea why, but they had like six copies of it sitting out on a display case.
 
Wal-mart is notorious for letting games rot on the shelf. They will eventually mark the price down a bit, but there's no guarantee. One of the Wal-marts near me had about 10 copies of Majora's Mask sealed up until 2005 when they finally decided to mark them down to $29.99. That's five years after the game came out and about four years or so after the system was pronounced dead. Maybe the GC games you've seen will see a markdown in two/three years?

Depending on what the games are you may just want to buy them now even if they are at full price.
 
Hmm.. well the thing is, doesn't Walmart do YMMV clearance things randomly? Does anyone know how those work? Does the electronics department manager at each individual store just randomly price down stuff if they haven't been touched in a while or something?
 
About the only thing I've ever seen clearly marked CLEARANCE and at a somewhat decent clearance price is a desktop PC they had locally. Otherwise, Wal*Mart is definitely NOT the place to be looking for clearance deals.

I remember seeing a game that had been out for years(Dino Crisis 2 for PS1)marked $29.92 in a big game bin at a Wal*Mart here just a couple of years ago and it was still priced as marked.

Considering they're the largest retailer in the world and a fairly unstoppable juggernaut, I guess they feel they have NO need to actually clearance stuff.
 
Up to a year ago my local Walmart had 2001 and 2002 PS1 sports games for $19.82. They were never clearanced. The store closed because a new Walmart Supercenter opened 5 minutes away and they brought over the old stock but I guess they trashed the games because they are not at the new store.

I hate Walmart for clearance deals since I never get anything, even non gaming clearance is a joke. In the toy aisle I saw some die cast cars, was $3.86 on clearance for $3.50, not even 10% off!
 
Walmart clearances by department. Each department is allowed a certain amount for markdowns and that is it. So if the toy department is allowed 3k for markdowns they have to spread that over all their merchandise and they cannot exceed that amount. Its also random when the departments are allocated money for clearance. Its not a weekly, monthly or regular clearance. The clearancing is also done by 16 year old kids, so the prices are pretty random and YMMV, you will almost NEVER find the same price at 2 walmarts. They pretty much just take the pricing gun and start marking down things until they reach their limit. I was in a department when a clearance was going on so that's how I know this stuff, I don't work there or anything I was just in the right place at the right time to overhear this stuff.

Electronics never has any clearance here. I suspect that since most electronics are lower margin that they want to keep the markdowns as minimal as possible so they don't lose money. Besides people here buy from the Walmart electronics department like its OMG the best thing that ever existed and any games they have usually get wiped out really, really fast.

Way back when, I mean a long time ago I saw a whole bunch of GBC games on clearance for 10$ each. They were good titles like harvest moon and needless to say I bought my share but that's the only time I have ever really seen clearance in the Walmart electronics.

My Walmart has about 6-7 aisles of clearance toys that are not moving and just sitting there, and this includes stuff from Christmas of 2007 that they never marked down but once since then.
 
Yeah. WalMart clearance is strange. the new Cranium Wow! board game is $30-$35 everywhere, but my friend in tiny Bushnell, FL was able to snag 2 of them for $9 each on clearance at his local WalMart.
 
SaraAB-- Wow, I did not know that. That would explain the huge YMMV nature of Walmart clearances. You'd think being the world's biggest retailer, they'd have some more cohesive standards for that sort of thing.
 
I have a Walmart near me with several rare Gamecube games but they are priced at 49.99. Will they just rot there forever at that price, or will they eventually be lowered in price?
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I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess that it's Zelda: Twilight Princess, and possibly Odama right? Those seem to be the ones I always come across. My local walmart still has them ringing up at $50, hopefully they'll drop sometime soon, but I'm not keeping my fingers crossed.
 
[quote name='eastshore4']I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess that it's Zelda: Twilight Princess, and possibly Odama right? Those seem to be the ones I always come across. My local walmart still has them ringing up at $50, hopefully they'll drop sometime soon, but I'm not keeping my fingers crossed.[/quote]

The keyword in the original post was rare games. Odama is far from rare and I suppose Zelda is as well (although if any Zelda game gets rare it will be the GC:Twilight Princess as most people bought Wii version).
 
[quote name='tazrex']Yeah. WalMart clearance is strange. the new Cranium Wow! board game is $30-$35 everywhere, but my friend in tiny Bushnell, FL was able to snag 2 of them for $9 each on clearance at his local WalMart.[/quote]

Oh Bushnell, that place is so BFE it isn't funny. I've never seen anything marked down clearance wise at my local Walmart, probably because it is in a really high traffic area.
 
[quote name='cranguy']SaraAB-- Wow, I did not know that. That would explain the huge YMMV nature of Walmart clearances. You'd think being the world's biggest retailer, they'd have some more cohesive standards for that sort of thing.[/QUOTE]

I wouldn't believe it if I didn't personally see the young employees with the pricing guns doing the markdowns randomly. As far as I can tell there are no standards for marking down, and this explains why the prices are always different at each store. Last year I got some video now players for 3$ each! I suspect what happens is that they start on a pile of stuff marking it down pretty heavily and when they near the end of the pile or shelf they start to mark down in small increments. Its pretty random on which day they dump stuff too.

They USED to dump stuff here in bins or at carts at the front of the store and say 1$ for everything in the bin or 50 cents for every thing in the bin but I have not seen that in years. They are definitely getting cheaper with their clearances and letting the merchandise sit longer, at least here, remember its totally random though, so another store might suddenly start doing more clearance.

Walmart isn't a very good store to shop, I prefer to buy things ONLY off the clearance racks aside from the essentials like food so they aren't a very good store for me to shop at. They never have video games on clearance. I find their grocery prices to be as expensive as Wegmans or even more. Anyone who says Walmart is always the cheapest is just trying to justify buying stuff they don't need, its AMAZING what I see people buy in walmart when I am in the checkout line.
 
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