The recent CC $4.99 sale. How often does something like that happen?

I'm new to CAG so for those of you that have been around for a little while, how often does something like this happen? How often do sales occur where very sought after games (eg. Disgaea and Ikaruga) and some quite decent games (eg. Mario Party 4) go for so cheap? Was this a once-in-a-lifetime occurrance?

Extremely rarely for such a huge discount on so many decent games to go on. But.. we do find pretty good deals for a game or two relatively often.

You'll find a title here and there for $9.99 or $19.99 and this is about the rock bottom deal as far as averages go. The $4.99 CC and BB sales were complete inventory dumps of ancient and stagnant games. CC had more garbage on its shelves than you could shake a stick at.

Hell, I was able to pick um Um Jammer Lammy during that sale. It came out in 1999 for chrissakes and never became a Greatest Hits. Just to let you know how bad they were.... I saw Wipeout Fusion there during the holidays for $49.99. I bought it new last summer for $9.99.

$5 for good games? Not too often but this wasn't once in a lifetime - we will see this again - I'm guessing maybe in 6 months or so. $10-$20 games are more standard around here but that beats paying $50 like the masses will do...

Actually, this is the second big CC purge in a year, the first happenening in Q1.

It will probably be something that becomes at least an annual event, especially as publishers continue to believe on the importance on Q4 releases for the holidays and fill store shelves with huge quantities of new releases.

For most retailers the current retail climate is built around maintaining a short shelf life for product -- if a product does not sell, then the shelf needs to be cleared for the next item -- Target is a perfect example of this, quickly clearancing games that don't sell to make room for games that do. I have even seen games and even toys that are clearanced one month, and then the same item restocked at the orig retail price the next month -- they are not looking at items as specific single items, but rather from more of a SKU number perspective, as just a number. If a SKU does not sell, they get rid of it. It may get restocked later when bought from a distributor with a diff SKU.

Analysts (everyone has opinions) think this holiday season will be a bloodbath. With a large number of premium releases, look for more BG&E bargains to pop-up in Q1 2005:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3133457

2004 is going to make 2003's quick price drops of games like XIII, BG&E, Goblin Commander, AvPE, R: Racing all the XSN games etc look TAME.

This holiday list is dynamite. There are about 5 major generational defining titles coming out. MGS 3, GTA:SA, Halo 2, Fable, Metroid Prime 2 plus many other A-AAA titles. An incredible amount of games are going to get burried. Rather than try and keep up this year like I did last year (I am so kicking myself for getting Top Spin, Crimson Skies, Links 2004, PGR 2, BG&E, XIII and about 6 other games for full boat.) I'm just getting the majors like the games I listed and by March if they haven't dropped then I'll start shopping for 4th quarter releases.

I haven't purchased a new release since March/April. I was so close to getting RalliSport 2 and Full Spectrum at launch but now they're $29.99 and Target has FSW this weekend for $27.99. What's the point anymore of buying new games at full price?

[quote name='donssword']Actually, this is the second big CC purge in a year, the first happenening in Q1.

It will probably be something that becomes at least an annual event, especially as publishers continue to believe on the importance on Q4 releases for the holidays and fill store shelves with huge quantities of new releases.

For most retailers the current retail climate is built around maintaining a short shelf life for product -- if a product does not sell, then the shelf needs to be cleared for the next item -- Target is a perfect example of this, quickly clearancing games that don't sell to make room for games that do. I have even seen games and even toys that are clearanced one month, and then the same item restocked at the orig retail price the next month -- they are not looking at items as specific single items, but rather from more of a SKU number perspective, as just a number. If a SKU does not sell, they get rid of it. It may get restocked later when bought from a distributor with a diff SKU.

Analysts (everyone has opinions) think this holiday season will be a bloodbath. With a large number of premium releases, look for more BG&E bargains to pop-up in Q1 2005:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3133457[/quote]

I remember the one in Q1. I bought all my christmas gifts from there (parents gave me the money for it and said that these would be my christmas presents). I scored about 9 games if I remember right.

Target has deals like this all year long pretty much, although it's tough to find a 4.99 game ...

I wouldn't look for CC to be doing this for a few more months, hopefully around the same time they did last year Q42003- Q1-2005. I might do some anticipating and pick up a couple games just to PM later on, in case they do hit the rock bottom clearance prices.

The only other time I saw a game for $4.99 before CC was the Best Buy sale and a few games at Sears last year. Usually, I see $9.99 when games go clearance big time.

The quality, breadth, anhd depth of this discount has been the best I've seen. But so far this has happened every two to three months. CC had a similar clearance early in the year. Though not as good. Then Best Buy had a similar clearance. Around april I recall. Now CC has another $5 clearance that tops the BB one two months ago.

With any luck in mid september BB will have an even better $5 clearance!

Well, you have to remember, Thanksgiving isn't that far away and you can ALWAYS find a good deal on games the day after Thanksgiving - if you're willing to put up with the madness that goes with it.

Two years ago I got a GBA for $60 and a game for $5, which was an unheard of price for GBAs at that time.

this CC deal is the best ive seen so far on cheapassgamer and cheapyd missed it, im still amazed