Unfortunately over the past year there has been a steady decline in demand across the board for PC games being purchased at retail outlets. Recently we have been the only independent retailer in Ireland placing enquiry orders with the distributors for PC games.

What basically happens with all games is that the distributors release a list of upcoming titles and invite orders for them. They have minimum order quantities to fulfill before they will stock a game themselves which varies from publisher to publisher but you're usually looking at min orders of at least 50 and at times 200 per title. In previous times we were sharing the min order with a few other independent retailers and were able to place orders for less than 50 units and still source stock. Now we have been told we need to be ordering 50 units at a time which we don't have the demand for It has meant that we have had to stop carrying pc titles for the moment. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Thanks for clearing that up .. appreciate it

But would a title like Starcraft 2 or other big PC titles not sell 50 copies here in Ireland ?? If you see the amount of boardies alone who are buying this game

Again pity the distributers can't understand that there are "smaller" retailers too

It would sell them alright but it's a case of would you sell 50 of them in one place. The larger chains like Game / Smyths etc could be buying in 500 units and can ship 10 of each out to multiple sites whereas the smaller indy retailer might only have demand for say 2 or 3 copies. What's happening is that the smaller guys are going down to their nearest big player the moning of release and buying them there just to have them in stock. That's not an option for us as we need to have the stock in place two days before release date to ship it out for release day.

So if most of the smaller guys are not looking for the stock from the distributors here and the publishers have a min order quantity (which is understandable from box sizes and shipping costs etc) the only way the distributors here will stock it is if they can sell out the minimum order quantity. This was getting harder and harder to do and ultimately is next to impossible now for them as more and more of the smaller guys are not even enquiring any more. It's a bit of a vicious circle and is incredibly frustrating for us.

Do you do e-mail dispatch on sundays? ie. Buy code on sunday, get it sunday?

Providing the usual security checks clear in time we can dispatch by email up to 6.00pm on Sundays.

That's great, fair play!
Only problem I'm having is with Sagepay...after i enter card details and submit I get 'The Card Range requires 3D-Authentication, its not supported by the vendor.'

It's a laser card, i'm always having issues using laser

That shouldn't be the case at all. Laser cards arent in the 3d secure system. Bear with me a few min on this.

Np man, it's no biggie I can wait until I get cash into my paypal.
Cheers for the effort though!

PM on the way ..

what does gamesnash mean?

It stands for Games New And Second Hand

which sounded better than

Games New And Pre Owned

Gamesnapo

Hi Pat,

Just wondering when your next trade-in offer will launch? It said August 1 for a while and then changed to August 11 and still isn't up! It's just that I have a few games that I figure might be a part of the offers and just want to know if it's better to wait until the offer is up or whether to just ask for a quote now.

Thanks!

Hi there

Sorry I wasn't around yesterday (Mondays are generally a day off)

The current offer is:
007 Goldeneye Reloaded Xbox / PS3 €18.00
Call Of Duty Black Ops Xbox / PS3 €13.00
Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Xbox / PS3 €18.00
Call Of Duty World At War Xbox €12.00
Fifa Street Xbox €20.00
Halo Reach Xbox €15.00
Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge Xbox / PS3 €28.00
London 2012 - The Official Game Of The Olympics Xbox / PS3 €20.00
Mario Kart 3DS €20.00
New Super Mario Bros Wii €25.00
Super Mario 3D Land 3DS €25.00
The Amazing Spiderman Xbox / PS3 €25.00
The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Xbox / PS3 €22.00
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13 Xbox / PS3 €20.00

Thanks Pat for the order. Top work again

Anyone know if Gamesnash still operating?