Topic: The Deal Machine - May 2010

[Shaymin]

There's a transcription service called Pods In Print that does it, but they charge $1.75/minute at minimum for the service which may be beyond the budget of the site.

Short of having a transcriber that also is a site visitor and willing to do it pro bono...

[NWR_Lindy]

I think the $15 standard for DS games is perfect, because that's when DS games become real deals.  I wouldn't have bought Fire Emblem at $20, but at $13.99 I snatched it up.

[AV]

amazon is selling Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix  (with dance pad) for gamecube for  $25.

That includes free shipping super saver shipping.

Got a link? I just checked and I didn't find that.

its used


http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0009Z3MGU/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&m=A3N204K6ZA53H5&condition=used


 : :

[Mop it up]

Description says "dance pad not included."

[UncleBob]

You want DS deals?

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=76623
Glory of Heracles for the DS.
$10.99 + shipping.
Comes with a $10 game credit off a future purchase.
Use coupon code SAVER for free shipping on orders of $25 or more.

http://www.amazon.com/Glory-Heracles-Nintendo-DS/dp/B002EE5RKI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1275271944&sr=8-1
Glory of Heracles for the DS.
$10.99 + shipping.
Comes with a $10 game credit off a future purchase.
Comes with $5 MP3 credit.
Free shipping on orders of $25 or more.

[Stratos]

You want DS deals?

http://www.amazon.com/Glory-Heracles-Nintendo-DS/dp/B002EE5RKI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1275271944&sr=8-1
Glory of Heracles for the DS.
$10.99 + shipping.
Comes with a $10 game credit off a future purchase.
Comes with $5 MP3 credit.
Free shipping on orders of $25 or more.

Sooo... basically between the game and MP3 credits they are paying you to buy this game? Wow. I almost want to buy it just because of that.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Why is everyone force feeding me a sale of Glory of Heracles?

Chances are I would never get around to playing it, but.... but.... there have been so many deals just basically giving it away.

[Stratos]

It sold that poorly?

Or maybe it's like how I got my current car. It was tagged on a really low sales price with the intent of getting people to come in and look and the sales people hoped to show off other models and get them to buy new instead of that used car. I just went straight for the one so I got an awesome deal.

You only get free shipping when you order $25 or more. This is why Amazon always offers the free shipping like that. If you want the game 'for free' you have to buy something else. It's like those pizza coupons where you 'buy one get one free'. You have to buy the first at regular price. Most people buy one with a coupon so they only spend $10 or so on one pizza. If you wanbted to get the free one they you have to pay full price instead of coupon/special price which makes it $15-20 for the one plus the free one. Its a sales trick to get people to spend more than they originally intended. It's why they ask if you want fries with your order and I offer soda and breadsticks for only $4 more with your pizza. And it certainly works for Amazon because I ALWAYS order enough to make the free shipping and spend twice as much as I usually would.

[noname2200]

You want DS deals?

http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=76623
Glory of Heracles for the DS.
$10.99 + shipping.
Comes with a $10 game credit off a future purchase.
Use coupon code SAVER for free shipping on orders of $25 or more.

http://www.amazon.com/Glory-Heracles-Nintendo-DS/dp/B002EE5RKI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1275271944&sr=8-1
Glory of Heracles for the DS.
$10.99 + shipping.
Comes with a $10 game credit off a future purchase.
Comes with $5 MP3 credit.
Free shipping on orders of $25 or more.

I want DS deals!

Just not that DS deal!

[Crimm]

I tried to tweak Dealy today for a few reasons, but I've been having a hard time with the reg. ex. for the new site I'm scraping.  Dealy responded giving me whatever the hell it wanted.  Nobody was happy with the results.

As for Glory of Heracles, odd coincidence here, I reviewed that. 7.0

[NWR_insanolord]

I have Amazon Prime, so I'd get free shipping on that without buying anything else. That means I'd come out of it 4 bucks ahead, but I'm still not really interested.

[BlackNMild2k1]

What are all the benefits to Amazon Prime, because I've probably spent about $1500 on Amazon.com just this year so far and a Prime membership sounds like it really may have been worth the cost of admission.


but I figured that the minute I join Prime is when I just coincidentally stop using Amazon so much.

[NWR_insanolord]

Prime gives you free 2-day shipping on any item sold directly by Amazon (not from a third party company operating through Amazon's site) and 1 day shipping for $4/item. In my limited experience, release day shipping for a game has been free.

[BlackNMild2k1]

How much does it cost? $70 for the year?

[NWR_insanolord]

Yeah, that's it. It makes Amazon much more appealing for buying new release games than it is when you have to choose between paying extra for shipping or waiting longer to play something with the free shipping, and has come in really handy when I've used it to buy a few small things that otherwise would have required me to pay almost as much as the cost of the item for shipping.