Or it could be some sort of sales tactic to, you know, sell stuff.

GAME deserves to go under with their prices. The trade in prices they quote for your games are just offensive. I've not been in for a year. Probably 3 years since I bought something.

CEX beats them every time, by some mile.

If they're targeting mostly the sailor/pirate community as their customer base, I feel that that may actually be the root of their problems.

ok this is fun. I'll break it down for you.

1st the article you linked to, If you read more than the headline. It refrences the fact the decreased credit insurance is NOT affecting game's ability to purchase stock from suppliers. later stating since this inital announcement many of the crediters have changed their minds.

If you read other articles detailing this information there are refrences to the fact the drop in credit insurance is related to game's strategy of focusing on digital content. example being in two years game have gone from 80% physical pc & 20% digital to 90% digital and 10% physical. which probably requires a different kind of financing.

as for the "property of sony until sold to customer" stickers that's "began to surface". they've appeared on every single new and sealed sony first party product for at least 9-10 years. That's not a game only thing either, seen them on the back of new copies of games from argos and asda to name a few.

Also there have been rumours about EA pulling stock from game. in the build up to mirrors edge. People were saying due to financial issues game wouldn't be stocking more than pre orders etc...NOPE like most ea games they're not in short supply. This stems from when game had financial issues in 2012 and couldn't stock mass effect 3. ever since game restablished themselves every ea release is met with the same rumour.

alot of folk enjoy jumping to conclusions with little evidence. "they're offer 20% off preowned for ONE DAY so they must be going out of buisness. " if it was 20% off all products, you might have a point.

Most of the hotukdeals community moan about games terribl etrade in value...a valid point (but that's why they price match) however 90% of the customers who trade in, just trade in at games prices. That's the reason they can do these offers. The profit margins on preowned are so high that these kind of offers don't make a dent in profit.

The cynical part of me says this will replace the 3 for 2 offer that had been on recently!

won't replace it.

but you won't be able to combine them.

t&c says not to be used with other offers. 3 for 2 is an offer.

So they offer double the value of games then sell those games at 20% off. Looks like a quick cash grab. If I had any vouchers I'd be looking to get rid sharpish.

I'm sure there's no need to worry and get rid of vouchers... Probably they just wanna increase their customers coming inshore and chance that they'll buy normal priced or preorder stuff as well... They've only really got cex as competition other than supermarkets and they only stock current or chart most of the time... so i feel my gift vouchers are safe

cold 20% off an already over inflated price

​nah he is right GAME are struggling again.

EA is refusing to send them new stock and Sony are "lending" them stock and taking money after the sale.

Cashing in on vouchers is a wise move.

Proof?

where has anyone read any of this? i could believe that they're struggling because there's been naff all out pretty much all year (lots of amazing games en route though) but I've not seen anything to suggest it.

​https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/16/game-digital-significant-reduction-credit-insurance-cover

that was the start and then the Sony games with "property of sony until sold to customer" stickers on them began to surface.

it's a long time coming.

GAME deserves to go under with their prices. The trade in prices they quote for your games are just offensive. I've not been in for a year. Probably 3 years since I bought something.

CEX beats them every time, by some mile.

ok this is fun. I'll break it down for you.

1st the article you linked to, If you read more than the headline. It refrences the fact the decreased credit insurance is NOT affecting game's ability to purchase stock from suppliers. later stating since this inital announcement many of the crediters have changed their minds.

If you read other articles detailing this information there are refrences to the fact the drop in credit insurance is related to game's strategy of focusing on digital content. example being in two years game have gone from 80% physical pc & 20% digital to 90% digital and 10% physical. which probably requires a different kind of financing.

as for the "property of sony until sold to customer" stickers that's "began to surface". they've appeared on every single new and sealed sony first party product for at least 9-10 years. That's not a game only thing either, seen them on the back of new copies of games from argos and asda to name a few.

Also there have been rumours about EA pulling stock from game. in the build up to mirrors edge. People were saying due to financial issues game wouldn't be stocking more than pre orders etc...NOPE like most ea games they're not in short supply. This stems from when game had financial issues in 2012 and couldn't stock mass effect 3. ever since game restablished themselves every ea release is met with the same rumour.

alot of folk enjoy jumping to conclusions with little evidence. "they're offer 20% off preowned for ONE DAY so they must be going out of buisness. " if it was 20% off all products, you might have a point.

Most of the hotukdeals community moan about games terribl etrade in value...a valid point (but that's why they price match) however 90% of the customers who trade in, just trade in at games prices. That's the reason they can do these offers. The profit margins on preowned are so high that these kind of offers don't make a dent in profit.

But their games are so expensive so there is literally no point going to the bother. Plus, when you ask to match cex the staff look at you as though you've just asked if you can take a dump on their mum.

Hats off, always open to being proved wrong.

:smiley:

Why are you writing all in BOLD?

Again this is on for 1 day at short notice, it won't make much of a difference to their profits.

tbh I'm pretty sure you're gona have to ask for it refrence it. cause i doubt the prices would've updated for one day. it's likely to require manual entry.

& they're more likely to sell MORE at the lower price. it's better to make 80% on 200 than 100% on 100

they'll just put the extra 20% on them today lol

game are a shockingly greedy company

are there actually any bargains that people have seen?

Makes the new DOOM game £23.99 just off the top of my head.

I find the instore used games to be more expensive than I can usually pick up used games on ebay for. The 3DS and Wii U stock of used games is always dire too, mostly just ancient Wii and DS games.

If they're targeting mostly the sailor/pirate community as their customer base, I feel that that may actually be the root of their problems.

People still buy stuff from Game?!

so you mean sony are offering consignment stock as most game developers and console manufacturers have always done?

Yes.

Yeah recently I used discount codes and game points to get the Uncharted 4 Special Edition and when it came it had that sticker on

I bloody hope they aren't going under again, have £250 in vouchers with them and waiting for PSVR.

haven't bought a physical copy of a game in a while. Get all my digitally now, cheaper, easier & no hassle with disc tray or scratching discs.

​the cynical part of me says they probably upped the prices then knocked off 20%. I've seen it before, what I also don't understand is the shop to shop price difference. Some do a deal I see so I go in my local and it's a different price.

works for me....based on me trading in Fifa 16 for GTA V

CEX - Trade for £20 voucher, buy GTA for £35 (so £15 cash)

GAME - Trade for £12.50 voucher but price match CEX for £21. Then buy GTA for £32 with 20% off (£6.20) = £25.80. So I'll have to top up £4.80 cash.

**Edit** Just seen this "The prices displayed online may differ to the prices in GAME Stores." So basically, they'll just up the prices in store.

I went in today and 90% of games were 3 for 2 and nothing much under £35 on single preowned, also considering I was in last week when they had the trade deal I noticed they had added games to 3 for 2 that weren't in the promotion then.

People still pay silly prices for second hand games?.

​im in a similar position, I could always buy some Xbox elite controllers, game have a 28 day return policy if unopened, would have to return and rebuy 3 times, if they go under I still have controllers, just a theory, they're probably OK.

I traded in DOOM for The Last of US. When I got home I realised they'd given me a smashed in box, the game plays perfectly but the box is a pile of crap. They have no quality control it seems, trade it in, sell it for as much as they can milk.

I got £17 for DOOM and TLOU was £24.99, so cost me £8.49. DOOM was crap, TLOU is excellent so I can live with the sh*tty box they gave me.

I'd say it's the general publics double standards that cause those kind of issues as opposed to lack of quality control.

Most expect preowned to be immaculate yet would expect to be able to trade in their own poorly conditioned game. Game can't win.

An example of what commonly happens is items in poor condition are turned away. they then complain to customer service, customer service cave in...frankly to shut them up. and take their poorly condition item in.

Nope it's poor, they might have to take items in that condition but they don't have to sell them in that condition. There's no excuse not to change the packaging, it looked really unprofessional selling a product where the box is physically smashed and pieces broken off. I don't operate this way in business, I take time and attention to detail and make sure the product is as good as reasonably possible when selling goods. GAME is no different, the problem they have is employing staff that actually give a damn.

I'd actually argue there are valid reasons that the packaging cannot be changed. especially in regards to ps4 cases. game tend to stock wii,wii u,ps3,ps4,360,xbox one,pc & 3ds. of those only the 3ds,pc & ps3 dummy boxes are close to that of the standard cases in visual and practical terms. SO they're not an issue should a replacement be required.

ps4 cases, there just aren't many dummy boxes country wide. and those they do have aren't designed to safely house discs (they tend to come loose in these) xbox one cases are the american versions, more rounder with a smaller spine meaning the inserts have to be bent into fit....they're less of an issue than the ps4 cases. they are the ones in shortest supply...i'd have an issue selling out a ps4 game in a dvd or ps3 case

even if every slightly damaged case was replaced, replacements cases would then run out and you'd enevitable end up in the same position anyway...the kind of exercise thath burns money.

of course it depends on who serves you, but like any job when you repeat a process 100s of times a day complacency is a possibility. I'm sure if you'd said something they'd found a way to sort it for you...e.g had there been no nicer conditioned last of us, i'd of swapped the case with something like fifa.

I stick by my earlier statement, the heart of the issue is the consumers double standards, expect high quality products, but expect us to take their poorly looked after goods.

Should have told them to price match CEX....

I didn't think of that, there's no CEX where I live though, it's about 20 miles away.