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| lordmeatpie:
--- Quote from: byron on December 17, 2012, 06:16:19 pm ---Good god. Does your game store sell everything at a 300% markup? --- End quote --- Nope, not everything. Alot of games for the older systems just sell for a few bucks (alot of average NES games range from $2 to $6). Just the popular games that we have to order in ourselves get the mark-up prices. And generally our markup on ordered items is exactly 200%, which is quite minor compared to almost all retail chains who say, buy mass-produced t-shirts for $2 or $4 and sell them to you for $25 or $30. These are old games that are hard to find in most towns, especially without the help of online ordering. And I've got to say, people definately prefer the cleanliness of our store, the customer service, quality items, and especially the prices, compared the drug dealing dickhead up the street who has a cat in his store pissing everywhere, and charging $200 for the Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past SNES cart hahahaha. |
| byron:
I don't care how you try to defend it, your store is part of the reason game prices are so ridiculously inflated now. |
| kimimi:
That's really unfair - stores can only charge what buyers are prepared to pay. Why should a store sell an old game for $5 if they know people will walk in and happily pay $20? I assume if you ever sell anything I'll be able to buy your games for $1 - $5 even if the going rate's $20 - $40 right? |
| lordmeatpie:
--- Quote from: byron on December 20, 2012, 12:20:42 am ---I don't care how you try to defend it, your store is part of the reason game prices are so ridiculously inflated now. --- End quote --- We're also the reason alot of gamers have games without the luxury of the internet. How do you expect my boss to pay us? Peanuts? We certainly don't work for free no matter how much we love games hahaha. You're just being ignorant and foolish. All I'm doing is telling you how a retail business works. |
| byron:
--- Quote from: kimimi on December 20, 2012, 12:28:46 am ---That's really unfair - stores can only charge what buyers are prepared to pay. Why should a store sell an old game for $5 if they know people will walk in and happily pay $20? I assume if you ever sell anything I'll be able to buy your games for $1 - $5 even if the going rate's $20 - $40 right? --- End quote --- You have failed completely to understand what I said. I am not claiming that games should be sold below their fair value. I am merely stating the fact that games are frequently priced above that these days. --- Quote from: lordmeatpie on December 20, 2012, 12:49:27 am ---We're also the reason alot of gamers have games without the luxury of the internet. How do you expect my boss to pay us? Peanuts? We certainly don't work for free no matter how much we love games hahaha. You're just being ignorant and foolish. All I'm doing is telling you how a retail business works. --- End quote --- Oh, I see. You're even worse than I thought. your store is in a rural area where nobody can buy games at a fair price from the internet but you, so you get to charge whatever ridiculous price you want and you get away with it because you have no competition. That's not how a retail business works. That's how a monopoly works. |
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