I caught Disc Replay slipping! ($15 Earthbound!)
I caught Disc Replay slipping for a fantastic deal. Earthbound (cart only), not in the glass case with the other rare/notable games. Just sitting in the box they keep the rest of their loose carts. And it was marked at only $15! I know this store ebay checks games, so I'm not sure how this one got through the system. Not complaining though, I've tested it and it works perfectly. I'm happy to check that one off the list. I also picked up a cart only genesis Strider for $10, which is also a nice deal (not close to the Earthbound dynamite score though, obviously). It's finds like this that keep me going...the thrill of the hunt and those rare rewards make it all worth it.
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Originally posted by: pujolsfan
Nice find! Did the cashier notice the low price?
Actually the cashier looked at it like it was nothing, then looked at Strider and said "oh good choice, you never find this one".
Originally posted by: jkenned5
sounds like an employee hid it there hoping to buy it after their shift but u snagged it first, good job screw the employee
That was my guess too...
Nice find!
Disk replay is so hit and miss here in Fort Wayne. I snagged a Tengen Tetris for 3.99 though, so I can't really complain
I've gotten in a few arguments over that kind of thing before.
Originally posted by: AllThingsRetro
I'm amazed you got that past the cashier. Then again, it was in a bin with a price sticker on it, there's nothing they could have legally done to stop you from buying it. Not that someone who noticed the mistake wouldn't try.
I've gotten in a few arguments over that kind of thing before.
What are really the legalities of this, though? I know it would probably vary state to state, but doesn't a store reserve the right to refuse your business under reasonable grounds? Not to say that I think flipping the price at the last second is reasonable, but I'd imagine that if the store noticed that it would put up a fight. Big retailers usually never fulfill significant pricing errors, that's why I ask.
Congrats on the score!
Legalities on this with it stickered as much depends on your state or county. Back west I got a game for $30 (at Fry's) instead of $60 because they had a card out with no date on it advertising the price despite the sale ending the day before so I got it, and they removed the card as legally they were required to do it. Depending on where you are it really depends. If you were that afraid I suppose you take a pic of the stand the game is found in, and the sticker on it, then go to the counter and if they argue you demand the price or contact the authorities if the law is in your favor. Mind you the store probably would childishly ban you for it. Know your local law or hope a bit and be very low key about it.
Originally posted by: Drippy
What are really the legalities of this, though? I know it would probably vary state to state, but doesn't a store reserve the right to refuse your business under reasonable grounds? Not to say that I think flipping the price at the last second is reasonable, but I'd imagine that if the store noticed that it would put up a fight. Big retailers usually never fulfill significant pricing errors, that's why I ask.
Congrats on the score!
Around here we can refuse your business if we choose so long as it is not for discriminatory reasons. You could call it a gross pricing error and refuse to honor it. If the buyer puts up a fight or is disruptive the store could issue a tresspass and ban the person from the store
They can refuse to serve me, since I live in Florida and business owners have all sorts of nifty laws to protect themselves (that's not me being snarky, I happen to like them). But it's a big deal for a manager to suddenly say "We're not going to serve you" when you don't agree to a price change on a game.
I had something like this happen to me at a pawn shop. Someone put FF7, FF8, Legend of the Dragoon, and FF9 out on the shelves with $4 apiece on them. I happened to be the first gamer who knew better along and snagged them up. The manager who rang me up saw the prices, asked the girl what she was thinking and if she'd checked the games on Ebay before putting them out. I stand there for five minutes while he goes on Ebay and finds out the games are worth "$60 apiece!" which isn't close to right, but they were definitely worth more than $4. I told him that there are price tags that say otherwise and I'd like to buy them at the stickered price.
We go back and forth for awhile, and I start to put an edge in my voice and we basically come to the deal to sell them at $10 apiece. I could tell he was PISSED at the girl who put them on the shelf, and I still had to pay $6 more per game than I wanted, but I still got a hell of a deal. If I had made a full on argument about it I'd have probably gotten my service refused. As it is, it's pretty tense when I go in there anymore but I've still found several really good deals there since.
Pretty sure the employees there hate me.
Originally posted by: AllThingsRetro
I know the legalities of printing one price, then trying to 'bait and switch' people with another price when they're in the store. I'd imagine if something was marked as a certain price (With a price sticker on the game) and some cashier saw the error, called a manager, and they tried to up the price on you, it's not legal. That's just my opinion on the legalities, I'm no lawyer.
They can refuse to serve me, since I live in Florida and business owners have all sorts of nifty laws to protect themselves (that's not me being snarky, I happen to like them). But it's a big deal for a manager to suddenly say "We're not going to serve you" when you don't agree to a price change on a game.
I had something like this happen to me at a pawn shop. Someone put FF7, FF8, Legend of the Dragoon, and FF9 out on the shelves with $4 apiece on them. I happened to be the first gamer who knew better along and snagged them up. The manager who rang me up saw the prices, asked the girl what she was thinking and if she'd checked the games on Ebay before putting them out. I stand there for five minutes while he goes on Ebay and finds out the games are worth "$60 apiece!" which isn't close to right, but they were definitely worth more than $4. I told him that there are price tags that say otherwise and I'd like to buy them at the stickered price.
We go back and forth for awhile, and I start to put an edge in my voice and we basically come to the deal to sell them at $10 apiece. I could tell he was PISSED at the girl who put them on the shelf, and I still had to pay $6 more per game than I wanted, but I still got a hell of a deal. If I had made a full on argument about it I'd have probably gotten my service refused. As it is, it's pretty tense when I go in there anymore but I've still found several really good deals there since.
Pretty sure the employees there hate me.
Yeah, I think it is complete bullshit. I've had two different stores change the prices on me at the register (once at a thrift shop, the other a Play N Trade). Tried to get a hold of someone to investigate but never heard anything back.
Originally posted by: Drippy
Originally posted by: AllThingsRetro
I'm amazed you got that past the cashier. Then again, it was in a bin with a price sticker on it, there's nothing they could have legally done to stop you from buying it. Not that someone who noticed the mistake wouldn't try.
I've gotten in a few arguments over that kind of thing before.
What are really the legalities of this, though? I know it would probably vary state to state, but doesn't a store reserve the right to refuse your business under reasonable grounds? Not to say that I think flipping the price at the last second is reasonable, but I'd imagine that if the store noticed that it would put up a fight. Big retailers usually never fulfill significant pricing errors, that's why I ask.
Congrats on the score!
I think it depends on the big retailers....gamestop grossly misprinted their wii u system here around Christmas and honored it. They even sold it to me at the posted price and gave me a $25 gift card which was advertised.
Originally posted by: smokinjoe24
Originally posted by: Drippy
Originally posted by: AllThingsRetro
I'm amazed you got that past the cashier. Then again, it was in a bin with a price sticker on it, there's nothing they could have legally done to stop you from buying it. Not that someone who noticed the mistake wouldn't try.
I've gotten in a few arguments over that kind of thing before.
What are really the legalities of this, though? I know it would probably vary state to state, but doesn't a store reserve the right to refuse your business under reasonable grounds? Not to say that I think flipping the price at the last second is reasonable, but I'd imagine that if the store noticed that it would put up a fight. Big retailers usually never fulfill significant pricing errors, that's why I ask.
Congrats on the score!
I think it depends on the big retailers....gamestop grossly misprinted their wii u system here around Christmas and honored it. They even sold it to me at the posted price and gave me a $25 gift card which was advertised.
It's a case-by-case basis. If it's a mom and pop they're a wildcard, if it's a chain a lot of times they'll just sacrafice the 'profit' (The games would still be on the shelf for like $60 apiece if I didn't buy them) in order to make good and not piss someone off.
Then again the pawn shop on the story I mentioned above was considered a rather large chain, but I think pawn shops are more worried about their bottom line than Gamestop.
Originally posted by: Logo1285
Yeah, I think it is complete bullshit. I've had two different stores change the prices on me at the register (once at a thrift shop, the other a Play N Trade). Tried to get a hold of someone to investigate but never heard anything back.
You just have to defend yourself. As a consumer, you have rights. A lot of people who own pawn shops tend to be very aggressive, and I've been through one or two situations in a Goodwill-type store where employees flat out didn't want to sell me something they'd 'set aside' for themselves. It sucks but you need to not back down.
Enough things get poached by employees now-a-days.
Originally posted by: K3VBOT
Nice!
Disk replay is so hit and miss here in Fort Wayne. I snagged a Tengen Tetris for 3.99 though, so I can't really complain
That DR is dope down there...It was soo packed I had to wait in line for like 25 minutes. Potential down there for sure.
Originally posted by: drclaw411
I'm wondering now if stores that sell this kind of stuff have policies in what employees are allowed to buy. I mean what's to stop some employee from stickering Stadium Events at $8, hiding under a stack of Mario/Duck Hunt carts all day, then buying it at the end of the shift?
Absolutely nothing. But that's an amateur move. 90% of the things never make it to any kind of shelves and just get bought before the store even opens that day. Locally, there seems to be a lot of people who have their families come in and buy the things immediately for them.
Originally posted by: Jobber8742
Nice score. I've found some good items at our disc replay but never that good. If it's like ours, they have a central pricing system that just spits out the price for an item. They must have labeled it the wrong item or something. Lately, I've been having to watch the store I go to because their system automatically changes the price of an item even if the price tag says something different. They usually change it to what the tag says, but sometimes they miss it. At one store in IN, the girl flat out refused to change it after charging a friend a different price than what was on the tag. I told her, then what's to stop her from labeling everything a dollar and charging whatever the hell she wanted when people came to pay.
I actually found this at the Crest Hill (Joliet) store. It's different from every other Disc Replay I've ever been in. They don't use those rectangle white price labels with the rounded edges, the ones nicely printed. Everything in that store is priced with a tiny white or orange square sticker, the type of thing that a price gun makes. They also take in far, far more than just games, music, and movies. This store takes damn near everything...they have a bunch of collectible statues, some action figures, posters, basically anything you can think of they'll take it. One time I was there and somebody was trading in a giant blue m&m character store display, the type of hollow one with a hole in the back and the bags of m&ms would be inside of it in a store. I've also seen an Oddessy CIB there before, and a Space Jam animation cel. I'm not sure why they are so different from the other disc replay stores which all seem to be pretty uniform.
Originally posted by: drclaw411
Originally posted by: Jobber8742
Nice score. I've found some good items at our disc replay but never that good. If it's like ours, they have a central pricing system that just spits out the price for an item. They must have labeled it the wrong item or something. Lately, I've been having to watch the store I go to because their system automatically changes the price of an item even if the price tag says something different. They usually change it to what the tag says, but sometimes they miss it. At one store in IN, the girl flat out refused to change it after charging a friend a different price than what was on the tag. I told her, then what's to stop her from labeling everything a dollar and charging whatever the hell she wanted when people came to pay.
I actually found this at the Crest Hill (Joliet) store. It's different from every other Disc Replay I've ever been in. They don't use those rectangle white price labels with the rounded edges, the ones nicely printed. Everything in that store is priced with a tiny white or orange square sticker, the type of thing that a price gun makes. They also take in far, far more than just games, music, and movies. This store takes damn near everything...they have a bunch of collectible statues, some action figures, posters, basically anything you can think of they'll take it. One time I was there and somebody was trading in a giant blue m&m character store display, the type of hollow one with a hole in the back and the bags of m&ms would be inside of it in a store. I've also seen an Oddessy CIB there before, and a Space Jam animation cel. I'm not sure why they are so different from the other disc replay stores which all seem to be pretty uniform.
Never been in one like that. I've been in about 10 different Disc Replays and they're all about the same. My favorite feature of Disc Replay is their pricing of CIBs the same as cart only. There was one in Indy that priced CIBs different though. I hope it was just a fluke store though. Best find ever at mine was a CIB Mega Man GameGear for $50. Wish I would've held on to that and not sold it.