If you're paying £150 for a controller you're doing it wrong

Think somebody missed a "1" out.

Its got the word elite in its name

We should all buy and then cancel our orders in Oct BEFORE they ship see How they like it

Lol

We should all buy and then cancel our orders in Oct BEFORE they ship see How they like it

I forgot my sarcasm font, Gamestop do this thing regular

That's a bargain.

Back on at £99.97

Priceless.

LOL thanks for the laugh

Cancelled (and paypal have confirmed the transaction has been cancelled by GameStop).
Ah well, worth a try!

Ive had some "elite times" in that car :wink: does that count?

Yes... but was it the 'Elite' model ? :smirk:

my 1st car cost less than £150

I did the same.

I ordered my Xbox one with Zavvi, and they held the preorder price despite it being considerably lower than the launch price. They even gave me the one with fifa included despite me ordering one without.

I wouldn't pre order with gamestop again for fear that they decide they want more and cancel it again. If they'd have done that with my Day One edition, I'd have been mighty annoyed.
At least they saved me £44.97 today!

Bummer. I emailed back saying some kind of incentive to purchase with them again wouldn't go a miss due to their mistake. It was a long shot but companies **** me off these days with How they rectify their own mistakes.

Never had any problems, been shopping with them for over 8 years.

ShopTo are the worst anyway. I once preordered two games with a discount code and paid by paypal. After they took the money, they removed the discount code, and used part of the money for the second game for the first, and refused to ship the second game. Needless to say paypal's dispute procedure sided with me and refunded me for everything, and then ShopTo suspended my account :P

ShopTo are covered; "No contract for the sale of any product will subsist between you and ShopTo.net unless and until ShopTo.net sends you an email confirming that the products you have ordered are being dispatched to you."

Yup... Cancellation email... Booooo...

Lol!

I replied to their email advising I would no longer need my account with them as there are plenty of other places to buy my games and consoles, and they have already come back to me to confirm they have closed it.

Gamestop have cancelled my paypal transaction too.

They've just cancelled mine.

:disappointed:

I to have just received an email from PayPal advising me my payment did not complete, got more than enough in my pp account to complete. Just waiting for gamestop email now, I am sure they gave me a £5 off vocuher last time for their error

me too mate, obviously they are not honoring it. gamestop are a shoddy company anyways.

Andddddd here's the cancellation email from GameStop! :P

Just received an email from PayPal telling me my payment did not complete :confused:

EDIT: they've cancelled my pre-order because they got caught up in the E3 hype

It's not, the t's and c's specify that you have made an offer to purchase at a particular price, that offer is only accepted by the company upon dispatch, and that they have the right to limit availability (i.e. say "theres no stock at that price, sorry)

https://www.gamestop.co.uk/Help/Index/?section=TermSale

Section 7 paragraph 3 - "offer to purchase not to sell"
Section 11 paragraph 1 - "order is accepted only after they send a confirmation and despatch the goods"
Section 11 Paragraph 2 - "we reserve the right at any time to reject or correct any order for any reason whatsoever"

The last one is the best :smiley:

If they keep your money after cancelling the order then you can go after them, but they do not have to fulfil the order.

If they said "oops, we made a mistake" after shipping then that's their problem and they can't expect you to pay more.

Epic Fail!

I thought yours was received :smile:
Anyway, thanks, that's close enough to "calling Watchdog" for me. :wink:

But online sales involve an automated service and will accept all transactions because there's no one physically there to accept your payment and rectify the issue at the point of transaction. Once someone does notice it, then they can cancel it. Not the same walking into a shop and doing it online, thus there's different requirements.

Good to know - So how long do they get to hold your money for while they decide how much they will charge?

Its not deal or no deal

If the shop assistant accepts it then yes. You have made an offer and they have accepted.

If it makes anyone feel better I have had nearly all the good deals purchased through HUKD cancelled......I'm due a win and not had my gamestop email of doom yet

£150 for a controller! Lol :smile:

If someone puts a £1 sticker on something in my local highstreet, and I push a pound coin into the shop assistant's hand do you think I can then legally walk away with the goods?

Thanks, it's expected tbf, was worth a cheap shot!

I thought i had read your full comment. Damn HUKD for their super quote layout. Apologies.

Read my full comment. I was explaining that most retailers do not accept the order and enter into a legally binding contract until goods are shipped meaning there is nothing you can do to argue

Shopto have already cancelled orders so if your Gamestop one hasn't been its only a matter of time.

No I was just playing hukd misprice bingo. Slow day at the office :smile:

Does anyone know if Gamestop will honor? Someone said shopto might be? I got my pre-order in at 9am?

Nope, as long as they give you a full refund once the discrepancy has been brought to the retailers attention.

But what about if they have already taken payment for the product? Surely that is binding?

As long as they give you a full refund, then there's nothing you can do. So I have no idea what legally binding document you've seen. It's not legit if you have indeed seen one.

It's hilarious the amount of people that still don't know their basic rights and still bang on about trading standards, watchdog etc. A retailer is covered for mispriced items, it happens all the time. They don't owe anyone anything. Even if something isn't mispriced, the advertised price is not binding either.

There is a legally binding contract once a retailer accepts an order. The problem is that many terms state that email conformations or taking of money is not them accepting an order. Most say its only accepted once goods are shipped.

No. I know my rights.

No. A shop may change the price at any point. The price you see is merely an advertised price, not what you may pay. If it's a misprice, then the retailer is well within its rights not to honour it.

Will going to Trading Standards etc even make a difference?

Isn't there something in the wording of selling goods online that covers them for situations like this?

Do we have any rights with regards to preorders?

Trading standards will hear about this. Ive screen grabbed the order confirmation

Haven't heard anything about my GameStop order yet.

Mine's still showing up in "Orders" (though I suspect it'll disappear from there some time soon).

Definitely worth a try, though - and you never know, a few might slip through the net.
TBH if it doesn't turn up I'll be calling watchdog. They advertised it at this price, so they have to sell it to me at this price. None of this bllks about it only being an invitation to treat. It clearly advertised the price, so isn't a misprice!
Hope they don't take payment any time soon. I've ordered twenty of them - gonna make me a mint on ebay.



House?
[Top line accurate. Rest of post nonsense.]

Cancelled my order, b^%$!"%s

My order is still there with gamestop but I'm not holding my breath.

You're right! Still no line though, bah.

You missed 'Why did you tell them about it".

gg everyone, especially you ThisName
Almost got a line, but you people with your only ordering 2 at a time really screwed me...

It was worth a shot

Noooooo

looks like the deleted/cancelled emails are coming in now - just got mine from Shopto saying about supply issues :laughing:

Mine has been deleted to :disappointed:

my shopto order has been deleted :disappointed:

"Your pre-order for Xbox One Elite Controller on XBOX ONE(XB1AC42) has been deleted by ShopTo.Net Admin, this is usually because we can no-longer obtain the product from our suppliers."

Surely you can't advertise at one price and accept and confirm orders and then charge a completely different price?

If something is priced incorrectly and the order is not accepted or you are unable to transact then thats a different story but I had a confirmation email from gamestop saying to order has been completed.

Mines been delivered.

The controller is not worth the rrp at all. If M$ insist on keeping that rrp it will flunk harder than their "next gen" console did at release. Bring it to a realistic price £40-50 and then you will find many impulse buyers snapping this up.

Think uve ordered a xbox 360 elite controller if its been dispatched lol

Elite controller has changed to £142.36 on shopto now :disappointed:

controller hasn't been made yet. Only a few for testing.

Im must have just got lucky. You dont have to be bitter about it. Fail

Troll when the controller isn't out till October? Fail.

Well obviously £129.99 is the real price why would they not honour it? Tbh this controller should not sell for more than £89.99 scuf's are like £120-150 so yeah and there ridiculously overpriced

Mines been dispatched

pre order has been deleted from shopto, no email they just candled it

Think Game are honouring £129.99
But Both ShopTo and Gamestop Are Not

The last 4 deals i've ordered from gamestop (not including this) have been cancelled.

You've been gamestopped

Good find Buzz, You never know we might get an early crimbo present!

Expired it now guys. Was worth a try :smiley:

Good luck to you all.

If this is a misprice then shopto is a misprice as well? Maybe they sold there alocated amount?

Seems to have disappeared from the site now, I ordered mine via paypal an hour ago, hope they fulfill it.

When will these websites learn? If they don't know the RRP then don't put it up for sale.

The creakyness better be fkn fixed!

damn shopto!

ShopTo Have Roughly Said The Same

"Hi Nicky,

This is only a holding price until the value has been confirmed and then this will change on the website

Regards
Tris"

"Hi,
If I order at that price will you honour that price?"

"Hello Nick,

Unfortunately as this is only a holding price this does not reflect the price the item will be sold at. The controller will most likely be above £100

Kind regards,
Daniel"

Just had a webchat with the guys at shopto, they will not honour the price at £48 pound for anyoner who has pre ordered it, i cant add a screenshot of the chat as im at work but will do it once im home

just received this from Gamestop
"Because the item is only just announced the price is subject to change, so no I can't guarantee that the price currently on the site will not change.

Kind regards
Ida l Customer Relations Officer"

I Wrote Back to them
"Hi,
If I order at that price will you honour that price?"

And The Reply Was

"Hello again,

No we cannot guarantee that price, it is subject to change.

Kind regards
Ida l Customer Relations Officer"

If retailers and sell the standard wireless controllers from £24-£35 new (I got 3 from tesco for £72) on offer with multi buys then £50 does not seem that crazy.

Can always pre-order with ShopTo as well.

I still found it on the website..https://www.gamestop.co.uk/SearchResult/QuickSearchHeaderPlatform?platform=32&rootGenre=30

Just placed an order :smiley:

Okay it's been pulled, has anyone been emailed yet?

..I hope anyway as It will make me feel better for not buying several now!

Definite Misprice

Deleted from gamestop - anyone get email or smth?

I'm thinking it will either be released to tie in with Halo 5 in Oct, or more likely Forza 6 in Dec since the paddles at the rear are designed with racing games in mind.

Thanks Buzz - Ordered two. Let's hope they honour it.

Ok great thanks :smiley:

Thanks. I've pre-ordered it again and it is now showing but shopto have not taken any money. Has shopto taken money for anyone else?

PICTURES!@!@

Same ordered but took payment straight away paying with card

I've pre-ordered from shopto but it isn't showing in my pre-orders or orders? Has anyone got it showing?

Any idea when this gets released?

£129.99 from GAME, so that's the RRP. http://www.game.co.uk/en/elite-wireless-controller-for-xbox-one-667133?pageSize=40&searchTerm=xbox%20elite&catGroupId=

A similar controller from Scuf would cost around £160.

Go on then, I'll try. But I have no idea why I need one...

It's £129.99 on game

Had to order for this price. The equivalent Scuf will be £100+ and a standard Xbox controller isn't far off £45, great deal!

Ordered and took payment straight away for me

shopto price is showing as £48.35 for me

The pad looks fantastic but at full price they must be having a laugh. I was actually thinking this morning that £60 would have been my limit so i'm gonna have a crack. I await my email "computer says NO"

Good find, fingers crossed

Haven't read all the comments but it is the same price in Shopto: http://www.shopto.net/video-games/xbox-one/XB1AC42-xbox-one-elite-controller

Ordered. If it was a mistake I'm sure they would have changed it by now. So much traffic going to the site.

Ordered, cheers.

Fingers crossed.

Exactly the same here, I really wish I could use my 360 controller on my PS4, which is crazy considering the years between them.

I don't care if a controller comes with crappy std AA batteries, or crappy rechargeable batteries, I probably wouldn't use either. I have decent AA rechargeable ones which last days of playing on the 360, days... not flipping 4 hours!
Then I can change them in seconds, not like on the PS4, where I then plug the controller in using the brilliantly sized 2 foot usb lead included.

Ordered from both Gamestop and ShopTo, I can always cancel one if needed :stuck_out_tongue:

Don't know if I actually need this or am I grabbing it purely for cheap value lol

Think It Must Be A Missprice otherwise the cheapest is game £129.99

Yep lol that's the one

There's a massive gap between the pound sign and the 4 so gotta be mistake

Of course I'm charging it when it is in rest mode, you've never played for more than 4 hours?

so which is better - shopto or gamestop to order from (past experiences) - the controller looks awesome

Ordered, fingers crossed! These are same/cheaper than standard wireless editions :smiley:

Ordered 2, let's see what happens with this next

You could try reading the T&C's

"The total price of your order will be charged to your credit card when our shipping and payment notice email has been sent to your email address."

https://www.gamestop.co.uk/Help/Index/?section=TermSale

They may be 5x better than existing built-in batteries but that doesn't mean built in batteries couldn't be better because they're both rechargeable batteries. Anyway my issue was not that they're not built in but that they've thrown in everything and the kitchen sink, except the one thing they can charge you extra for which is the battery packs.
But I still have a 360 so where can I get these reliable quality batteries? My existing rechargeables take a long time to charge and the first pair have already died from overuse.Doesn't explain why they couldn't have included the play and charge kit as well, or just some reliable rechargable AA batteries. But surely the future is in hot-swapping batteries like pistol magazines? Even my PSP had multiple batteries that could be swapped in seconds. Although you couldn't keep a PSP on while you swap, a controller going off for a few seconds is not so bad. There have been a lot of times when trying to shake out the AAs from my 360 controller have been a lot more hassle than it would have been to just shove in another battery pack (I have a second but it's unresponsive from overuse).

will this work wireless with windows 10 or will it have to be wired ?

How do you know? Are you sure?

shopto 49.85

the rrp is $150 plus tax in the US

even ms have it as a 149.99 ERP

ordered cant see it getting sent tho if the price should be over £100

Got one. Worth a try.

PS. Also ordered one even though I don't yet have an Xbox one, if GameStop honour this I'll buy it from them :wink:

Ordered on the hope they'll honour it.

wow i can now update my controller wireless i want 2

Be aware though that Gamestop have taken the money for it from my bank, so make sure you have enough in there!

do gamestop normally honour price errors

Ordered

order states Release: 27/12/2015

Also, with regards to using AA batteries, your controller isn't bricked (or transformed into a wired controller) when the built in non user replaceable batteries have had one charge too many and stop holding a charge for more than 5 minutes...

Ordered, thanks OP.

That's why I said "standard AA batteries". If they gave you rechargables to begin with wouldn't you be better off? Or a rechargeable battery pack like the play and charge kit, which it makes sure to mention is sold separately.

Besides, I have 4 PS3 controllers accumulated over the years so when one runs low I just plug it in and use another. I sit close enough I can still use it when it's plugged in anyway.
This one comes with a 9-foot cable, which means it is longer than the usual recommended viewing distance for any domestic screen size. For all standard users it should be close enough to connect while seated as normal.

Ordered... Nothing to lose eh, and great looking controller!

Anyone remember the Trade 2 Get for 99p thing that Gamestop ages ago?

Im still waiting on my copy of Crackdown 3! Release date... Neveeeeer!

I'd much prefer to have AA batteries in a controller. High quality rechargeable batteries like Eneloops are amazing in controllers, easily 5x better than built-in batteries so are alot more convenient. Also you can use a fast charger to charge batteries from dead to maximum in an hour, so if you have more than a pair of these batteries (and you should as quite a few devices uses AAs, e.g. clocks and remotes) you can swap dead batteries out in a flash. And even better, once you charge the battery and leave it, these high quality AA batteries retain more than 80% of their charge for over a year.

Easily the biggest feature I miss having switched from 360 to PS4.

Could it be that the RRP is actually supposed to be £49.99?

Ordered on the off chance they honour it; thanks OP. Sure they'll give the old "we received low stock from our supplier" excuse though.

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You're meant to charge the controller when the console is in rest mode... That way you get 4-5 hours of gameplay and just charge it when you aren't playing it. Only saying it as it sounds like you aren't doing that but charging it when the console is fully turned on

If its any help, Amazon.com had it up for pre-order for $89.99 before jumping the price up - I don't think any retailers expected the price to be so high!

the RRP is silly. £149, but 44.97 is better

Sweet thanks!

My xbox360 uses AA, I use rechargeables, can change them in seconds and always have spare, so I never have interrupted gaming.

My brand new PS4 uses a built in battery, which although a tiny bit lighter than the batteries in the 360 controller, has a much lower gameplay time. And I can't change it, so I have to have it plugged in to the console via a usb lead.

Please explain how this is possibly moving forward. Moving bleedin backwards if you ask me.

ordered even though I've got another controller still in the box never opened

They most likely mixed it up with another new controller: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories/controllers/covert-forces-controller

'If you don't buy a ticket', etc.

It's pretty impressive tech, but I found it amusing that after all that they're still using standard AA batteries like it's 1989.
http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/accessories/controllers/elite-wireless-controller
UK site doesn't list a price but it's the same ETA: October is quite some time away, so you don't want to pay up front for them to hold on to your money so long and then cancel. If you choose a method where you don't pay, though, there's much less risk.

Ordered, why not. Don't even have an Xbox, but I am sure I'll have one by the time this is released! Sticking with PS4 and PC at the moment

October launch apparently, let's hope they honour it.

Ordered and I don't even own an Xbox One.... :confused:

Not out until October.

What's special about this controller to warrant such a high RRP?

Now showing as £149+

:disappointed:

Edit - Doh! I checked Zavvi! (Slaps forehead!)

Finally a decent price! :smirk: Shame I've ordered it with Zavvi already :confused::disappointed:

Let's hope they honour it. Thanks OP

Worth a shot! Cheers Buzz!

Ordered. I think they will honour it.

Thanks OP. now ordered.

ordered. why not

nice price!

what's the best way to pay to increase chances of getting this honoured?

Thanks Scarborough :smiley:

If you're paying £150 for a controller you're doing it wrong

Given it a go, why not!

They'll never honour this

Had a stab at it. Nothing to lose.

Do they take payment immediately or on despatch? Thanks.

Bought, cheers Buzz, let's hope they honour it.

Think somebody missed a "1" out.

Now I'm really tempted, it's got to be a mistake?

Is this a misprice? I want one. I dont even have an xbone but this controller looks cool