Technology has made being a shut in easier than everGet your nerd ass out the house and go to the store
Best Buy's GCU Is Coming To An End
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Its not about just bringing in business, it's about bringing in business that buys things that they actually make a profit on. There is no way they are making a profit on 48 dollar games, they were banking on you buying something else from there, which wasn't happening.
I knew this wouldn't last long because Circuit City was real aggressive with gaming deals before they went under. Gamers are just going to go for the best deal period and don't show retailer loyalty which is what these companies are mistakenly banking on.
Where’s my famous thread at?
So is there confirmation that you can still reup in store? Cause I'll go right the fukk now.
If not, then I really don't have a reason to go to best buy anymore. Like at all.
If not, then I really don't have a reason to go to best buy anymore. Like at all.
You can’t reup anymore
When it was $120 for 2 years hardly anybody had it. When it was priced higher it only encouraged people who would take advantage of it to buy it. The break even point was 10 games in 2 years for the $120 membership. At $30 it was a much better impulse buy for casual shoppers who were supposed to shift their shopping more to Best Buy. At $30 after the second game you were in the bonus for value.
I'm betting the problem is they had an excessive amount of members in the program that only used Best Buy for games. Even buyers like me that shifted more of our buying to them I'd easily buy 20 games a year at Best Buy so by the time the profits from my other purchases were factored into the losses my game purchases were costing them it might not have been worth it. If I'm buying 20 games and they'ye losing $12 a pop on them that's $240. If they were selling them under cost at a loss that's easily over $300 it was costing them to get my business and I was buying shyt like cell phones and manufacturer set priced TVs from them.
the fact is there isnt much profit on games at retail to begin with. this may have worked as a loss lead for a minute but i imagine it became too central to their business and turned to just loss loss loss
this change is going to need other changes as well
this change is going to need other changes as well
Thatrogueassdiaz
We're on the blood path now
Oh ok. Sorry, I didn't know.
I used to do security at a Best Buy in the city, they cut movies, cd's and games a few years back, I remember when they cut the movies and music section, they had totes upon totes of movies and cd's to go back to the warehouse, physical copies of media is going the way of the dinosaurs. And on the low, Best Buy as a company isn't looking too good, I don't see them being in business very long
500gb hdd is not enough space
typical "I have no argument to counter" response.
my 35% off discount aint going no where 