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Offline joshnickerson

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I hate people... (GC related)
« on: October 14, 2003, 05:43:43 PM »
Everyone knows that Best Buy had recently posted Skies of Arcadia Legends on their website for a mere 9.99. I ordered mine last night, but I got an email this morning saying it was backordered and it would be shipping later this month... if they get it back in stock. I think, no problem, I was planning on putting it aside to play later on anyway. That is, until I got on the IGN boards and found out that people were buying 20, 30 copies of the game to sell on ebay for 40 bucks each! That pisses me off. It's fine with me if you want to buy an extra copy or two to sell on the side, but THIRTY copies? That's just greedy. I just hope it all backfires in their faces and they won't be able to sell them on eBay.
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RE:I hate people... (GC related)
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2003, 07:37:54 PM »
So it's about time for Lenin to smash out of his glass case and crush capitalism under his giant godzilla feet, then?
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RE:I hate people... (GC related)
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2003, 07:53:39 PM »
joshnickerson knows the score!

Keep fighting the good fight comrade.
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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2003, 08:13:10 PM »
at least they have Ikaruga for 20 bucks
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Offline Ian Sane

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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2003, 09:06:32 PM »
You figure with a deal like that they would limit the amount of purchases.  But then again it's not like THEY care who buys the game.  It's a bummer but what can you do.

Still 30 copies seems a bit excessive.  This isn't like a super rare game you can't find anywhere else.  Even though I can't find it somewhere else for ten bucks I know I can find it for less than 40.
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« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2003, 09:12:06 PM »
it got released for like 5 days in australia then they stopped it lol


is it anygood?
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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2003, 11:27:31 PM »
they could make alot of money bundleing that with a pal freeloader and selling it to australia. but err.. yeah that does suck balls, good price for nutmeg if you can get a copy though. well worth it.
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« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2003, 03:11:16 AM »
I 98% agree with your topic title....

BB should really consider limiting the number of titles one can buy, especially when they do the same for movies...
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« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2003, 08:01:09 AM »
i been wanting to try this game for some time, for 9 bucks i think it's time to try it out.
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« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2003, 09:11:58 AM »
That's funny.  I can find the game in a search on their site, but when I click the link to the game, it tells me that page does not exist.
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« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2003, 09:37:34 AM »
You needed this incident to make you hate people?
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« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2003, 03:25:04 PM »
They must have removed it from their website, because I can't find it now.
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« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2003, 03:31:47 PM »
Here it is, but it's impossible to access

bah, the link won't work...Just go through their search engine...you'll find the game, but the page doesn't exist...
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« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2003, 04:00:44 PM »
I hate that sort of thing too.  People need to think a little less about their wallets sometimes....
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« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2003, 05:07:43 PM »
Yeah.
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« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2003, 05:46:49 PM »
*looks up from wallet*

hmm?  yeah..sure...whatever...

*goes back to wallet*
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« Reply #16 on: October 16, 2003, 04:25:35 AM »
Makes no sense.  Even sealed new, you can't get more than $20 on ebay.  These supposed ebay entrepreneurs are not going to make huge profits.
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« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2003, 10:29:22 AM »
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they could make alot of money bundleing that with a pal freeloader and selling it to australia. but err.. yeah that does suck balls, good price for nutmeg if you can get a copy though. well worth it.


price of skies 9.90, price of freeloader 20? (guessing) sell it on ebay.com.au for a buy it now price of $100 (and trust me it would sell) and you have made

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30.00 USD United States Dollars = 43.5731 AUD Australia Dollars


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 100.00 AUD Australia Dollars = 68.8498 USD United States Dollars


over double your money back, now times that by say 30 copies over the space of a month or two, and thats a nice return on your initial investment, its not huge sums of money, but doubleing it with each copy sold, thats a nice 300 spent you have turned into 600 (roughly, exchange rate fluctuates) and thats only if you bought 10 copies.
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