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Xtravision liquidation
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Ultimately, Xtravision were legally compelled to sell the console to customer without having to fork out for the quite average run of the mill game.
That's how they tried to get around it though, they'd still sell you your console, but you'd go to the back of the queue in terms of stock. They'd give priority to and only release consoles to those who were buying an additional game/controller. So they were still fulfilling their obligation, you'd just have to wait a few weeks, which considering this was mid-November and stock was sold out pretty much everywhere, meant you pretty much had no other choice but to do it, or possibly not get your console in time for Xmas.
They also tried to blame it on Microsoft, saying it was them who said people had to buy an extra game/controller. Much like their business model, they forgot it was the 21st Century and people could contact MS to ask. XV quickly had to backtrack and admit MS never gave that order.TrustedApple wrote: »I am still pissing myself over Xtravision makeing you buy another game with your xbox one ?. What where you going to be playing on them anyway if our not going to buy a game with it
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Just a fancy paper wight ha ha
That's the thing, even someone who had two games pre-ordered and already paid for, they were still being told they had to buy an extra game. Let's say 15 games are available at launch, you only want two of them or can only afford two of them, so you preorder and pay for them. You were then forced into buying another game, a game you did not want, in order to get your console. Even besides that, people might have been getting games from elsewhere or whatever, but XV were still saying they had to buy an extra game or extra controller, or they'd go to the back of the list and stock would be given out to others who were as a priority.
It came back to bite them in the arse though. Not only did many people stop going to XtraVision completely, but they also had to take back any games people were forced into buying, and considering many of them had probably been opened by that point, meant XV couldn't sell them for full price again. Plus when the PS4 was being released a week or two later, I had already paid off the console, but not the games. So I did in fact buy my PS4 without any games in XV and just got the games across the road in Argos.0 -
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TrustedApple wrote: »If you dont have the money to buy another game with the console maybe you should think twice do you really have the money to buy your new fancy 500 euros game console ?. As i would only buy something if i had double of it in my bank account as i would never wont to see my bank in red ever as i valve every euro i had as i have had some very very hard times.
You must be some rich kid to have had 500 euros to buy a games console and proves that kids today take everything for granted with getting stuff and wont thinks yesterday and wont wait for them. The way it was in my house if i wonted something i had to work for it as he mother and father wont hand me a penny unless i worked in my fathers business.
How is it illegal its like your out for a meal and there is 8 of you and you have to pay a service charge ?. If its in black and white you have to pay as its management rules. If they tell you in a nightclub your to drunk to go on and you have no drink in you ?. management rules. Same as going into another shop and see something that has a price of 50 euros but scans at 100 up to the management to give it to you for 50 as they dont have to at all.
Rich kid? I'm in my thirties. I did have to work for it, considering I bought it from my wages, not relying on mammy and daddy
Not everyone on the internet is a 15 year old.
Besides which, just because a company says "It's the rules", doesn't mean they're still not obliged to follow the law, and legally, they weren't.
In particular, your last example about something being priced at €50 but scanning at €100. The €50 is known as Invitation to Tender. If it scans at a higher price, you can then either decide to buy it at the scanned price, or not buy it. What XtraVision were doing were forcing you into an additional purchase in order to receive goods you had already paid for. The tender had already been completed when you prepaid, but they weren't giving you the item unless you bought something else. That's against the law.
And I did have more than double how much the console was worth in my account. The reason I did was because I'm not stupid enough to just accept policies like that which are designed to get you to spend money on things you don't want just because the company might say "It's the rules".0 -
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Captain Flaps wrote: »You need to know what you're looking for. Newer stuff is always extortionate, go back maybe a year and it's cheap as chips. Also offer good tradein value on a lot of things. I've bought new off Amazon before with the sole purpose of trading in at CEX immediately for a profit. I got a good deal on an iPad Air trading in my 2 also, but hardware pricing can be a bit hit and miss.
What is a CEX ? is it a Cash Exchange shop where you can buy stuff but more importantly they may offer you a knock down price for something you are trading in as well ?
Fair play if you caught them out on something
I'd say that's rare. There's a couple of them in my locality and they don't seem to offer particularly good value to buyers at least. 0 -
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Just download blueray copies, no?
A proper blu ray rip is like 25GB + if you also wont the 5.1 DTS sound as well if you have the speaker set up. Not these fake 1.4GB 1080P downloads
Having watched Netflix 4k, Blu rays and full HD downloads.
Blu rays always wins hands down for quilty as now point having the fancy TV if your going to download and watch bad sub 720P rips on them 0
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