Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: UncleBob on June 09, 2011, 12:11:31 PM
Title: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: UncleBob on June 09, 2011, 12:11:31 PM
What's wrong with me? (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11400.m516.l1123/7?euid=c972733635e94dac8e0208230925b426&loc=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem%26item%3D320697230043%26ssPageName%3DADME:L:OC:US:1123)
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on June 09, 2011, 12:19:04 PM
(http://i42.tinypic.com/300fu9v.jpg)
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: Ceric on June 09, 2011, 12:55:34 PM
What's wrong with me? (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/e11400.m516.l1123/7?euid=c972733635e94dac8e0208230925b426&loc=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem%26item%3D320697230043%26ssPageName%3DADME:L:OC:US:1123)
Alright. Was it at least Mint?
So with how you are collecting when are you going to open up a Museum? You could be the Curator, have events, and raise money so that you can get the proper display storage for this type of thing.
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: UncleBob on June 09, 2011, 10:58:05 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEo4NDovR1w
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: Ceric on June 09, 2011, 11:37:52 PM
I don't get the whole $99.99 to 99.95? What was the point of dropping it 5 cents? Aren't all Videogame companies Price fixing now. Nintendo, Sony, MS, Apple, etc. really only sell you stuff at a set price...
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: UncleBob on June 10, 2011, 12:36:11 AM
Personally, I don't see an issue with this, but here's my basic understanding of what was going on...
Nintendo was telling retailers - you can't sell the NES for less than $99.95 and you can't sell games for less than $49.95. Now, Nintendo couldn't actually *force* retailers to sell the items at $X, but for retailers that attempted to run sales and such, they'd find themselves getting less frequent shipments of Nintendo merchandise.
Now, Nintendo was a *major* player in the industry at the time. Hell, they were the *only* player in the industry. I forget the exact percentage, but Nintendo products accounted for a good chunk of Toys R Us' sales during this time. It was some crazy high percentage. Retailers couldn't afford to miss a shipment of Nintendo products, while Nintendo had enough demand, they could freeze them, cover them in ketchup and send them to Alaska to be sold to Eskimo women on their wedding day. Or something.
Obviously, this was a bad deal for consumers. Everyone wanted Nintendo and no one would ever run it on sale - meaning there was no price-based competition in the marketplace (this is, of course, ignoring the fact that this was pre-internet age and that stores could have easily competed based on things like, oh, customer service?).
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: oohhboy on June 11, 2011, 03:32:51 PM
Here I came thinking you had completely lost your mind. It turns out it was only your frontal lobe.
That is a little piece of history right there and a statement as to how not to do business. Especially important now that negative information can move faster than any PR team (Looking at you Sony).
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: UncleBob on June 19, 2011, 11:04:40 PM
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: Ceric on June 20, 2011, 11:10:57 AM
Cool. I'm thinking of finding some of my old WW map and mounting it for a spot that I recently moved to in my House. I also was thinking of moving all my games to a CD Folder by where the consoles are and making sort of display out of the cases.
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: ShyGuy on June 20, 2011, 12:18:40 PM
can you use that worthless plaque to pry open A MYSTERY CAN OF MOUNTAIN DEW?
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: UncleBob on June 20, 2011, 09:25:55 PM
Yeah, need to do that some time...
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: UncleBob on August 10, 2011, 11:13:18 PM
Wow! Freaky news host shows up again... http://kotaku.com/5829631/feel-the-fury-of-the-super-nintendo-launch-as-told-by-the-local-news
Title: Re: I just paid $30 for a $5 coupon. That's expired.
Post by: MegaByte on August 10, 2011, 11:26:47 PM
It was actually a combination of price and the anti-trust activities that prevented me from getting an SNES until late, and with my own money.
