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Project Gotham Racing 4 for €17.99 - Discount Code
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31-08-2008 1:37pm#1http://gamesnash.ie/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=60_25&products_id=334
In our oppinion the best driving game ever released on the XBOX 360. We're clearing out 100 copies of this title at €24.99 but if a boardsie happens to type in "boards gotham" at checkout there's another €7.00 off
As always with these offers in the bargain alerts thread it's first come first served while stocks last.
Joanne
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muppetkiller wrote: »It's in game preowned for 4.99
We are giving €9.00 trade in value for it so if that has the manual etc you could nearly double your money on it 0 -
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Well you can't please everyone can you
- a couple of things in our defence though:
1) Fifa 08 - the example you chose we hold our hands up - this was a programming error on the X360 version - however the PS3 version was and the X360 version has been changed to €32.99
2) We are not anywhere near as big as play.com - they are buying tens of thousands of each title directly from the publishers. The majority of our stock is sourced from Irish distributors as we are not yet big enough to buy directly. As such if the Irish distributors have not lowered their prices we are not in a position to do so ourselves. Play.com can afford to loss lead on their last couple of hundred of each item as they have made their money on the thousands of units they sold before.
2) Play.com are based in Jersey and exploit a legal loophole in that they are not obliged to charge VAT on their sales so take the current Tiger Woods 09 and add 21% to their price and see how that compares to us and indeed to the bricks and mortar stores.
3) We generally work off less than 10% margin - on a €57.99 game we will make a profit after postage costs of approx €4.00 and with this we pay for staff costs / warehousing etc. Due to points 1 and 2 above there are certain situations where play.com are able to retail cheaper than we can buy ourselves.
We will quite openly state now and as we have done in the past that we do not claim to be as cheap as play.com on every single item they sell - we simply can't compete with them at the moment. When we source clearance stock etc from our own suppliers we pass on those savings to our customers and yes we do put offers out on boards.ie because quite simply we have a large customer base from here.
However our market research and our growing customer base is showing quite clearly that customers choose their retailers based not only on price but on service too. Order Tiger Woods 09 now from play.com and delievery times are generally 1 - 2 weeks. Order from us get it 1-2 days.
Our business model is based on the fact that we believe that service plays a big part in a customers choice and that we bridge the gap between the higher prices of a bricks + mortar store and the lower prices of the super retailers like play and amazon etc who whilst at times offering the cheapest option balance that with an inferior customer service.
Pre orders through ourselves again bridge the gap - the biggest example to date was GTA4 - we retailed at €57.99 - the high street stores retailed as high as €74.99 and play.com retailed at €55.99 ( again noting that play.com made a lot bigger profit than we did ) the majority of our customers recieved that game on the morning of release, saved up to €18.00 and were online beating the crap out of the guys who stood in a midnight queue. Head over to the GTA forum and you will see a lot of posts where our competitors took a further 2 weeks to deliver.
We also allow our customers to trade in their old games - We aim to match if not beat bricks and mortar trade in prices but instead of then putting your credit to a game that is up to 20% dearer you end up with a transaction which leaves you paying far less for that game than if in a high street store.
In summary - of course it is up to an individual consumer to make their choice and for some a cheaper product is worth the wait, for others it is not. For some inferior template type responses to email queries is acceptable - for others it is not. For those who want that bit of service, for those who want their retailer to go the extra mile to sort them out, for those who want to support an Irish owned company and for those who want to tell the tax dodgers to f£$% off there is Gamesnash.ie - for the others there is play.com and we wish you all the best there. 0 -
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Gamesnash definitely get my seal of approval anyway. I left preordering GTAIV too late to consider getting a copy from a bricks & mortar store, and would've been waiting up to a week after the release date for it to arrive if I ordered from play and the rest.
+1 ...... Handled the Gta Preorders Amazingly 0 -
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best I can do at the moment 
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