expired Dick Smith Games Clearance Sale
This was posted 1 year 1 month 27 days ago, and might be an out-dated deal
Edited by neil, scotty 03/04/2012 - 00:21
As if Harvery Normans Game sale wasnt enough, this one could be bigger!
Dick Smith are apparently getting out of the games market so they are selling off all stock.
Starts Monday 2 April
See below for more info
http://www.ecogamer.com.au/dsearticle.html
http://i.imgur.com/hWkCP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/r2kfb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zRl7u.jpg
http://www.vooks.net/story-20776-Dick-Smith-to-cease-selling...
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+5 votesDicked off: Customers furious at Dick Smith's $7m sale 'scam'
http://www.news.com.au/technology/gaming/dicked-off-customer...
+5 votesi believed it for almost 30mins, after i found all the responses of the online rep on FB and twitter are same…..
- contacting of DSE offices denied
= typical lazy april fools effort of online sites seen every year, had they spent more effort around however…better luck next year dicky, almost had me taking mon off too :P
mrhorseham on 01/04/2012 - 01:49 ¶I've been informed by some friends that work at Dick Smith that stock will be limited and alot of the 'best' bargains have been bought by staff. But we'll see on monday.
waterproof on 02/04/2012 - 16:15 ¶^
At least OzBargain made it front page of the news and slammed Dick SMith:D
I give it a positive+. I went to plenty valley yesterday with my list of games and hid all the ones that were on the shelf that were meant to be reduced. Also the nice manager put on hold the last toy story psp bundle away for me. Went there first thing this morning amongst the crowd and as all the other people went to the games I went to where I had stashed them walked up to the counter and was first served with all the games that were reduced, picked up the psp and was gone while all the seagulls were wasting there time fighting over games that weren't even on sale:)
batiudrami on 29/03/2012 - 18:42 ¶Out of interest, what do other players do better than PS3? Just read times or what?
spawnpoint on 29/03/2012 - 18:55 ¶yeah, things standalone do better
- the time taken to open the disk slot
- read times for disk
- faster rewind/forward etc
- remote comes with player and depending on the brand of tv and bluray player, cross compatibility with other remotes
+1 voteOn the downside every time Fox or whoever updates their copy protection to some new system breaking menace, in my experience (Samsung/Toshiba) it takes the stand alone player manufacturers twice as long to get firmware updates to fix things as they seem to come to the PS3.
+6 voteslang_tu_syd on 30/03/2012 - 08:32 ¶It took over 16 hours for someone to point out dan76n misspelled "Misco"
+1 voteBirdyMcBirdBird on 29/03/2012 - 15:59 ¶"Harvey Norman to cease selling games, offloads for cheap" ??
Do not believe it for a second. They'd be cutting a bugger load of products off their line at massive expense to themselves.
If they're still selling DVDs, they'll still be selling games.
+1 voteWell.. It's Dick Smith in the line you mentioned, and in that case it wouldn't be unreasonable. I've never seen DSE stock much in the way of games, it's usually just a small section.
And it's not unusual for a retailer to just "dump" the product. Possible that the supplier they got them from doesn't want any of it back, and is offsetting the sale, with rebates, etc..
+1 voteCarbonTwelve on 29/03/2012 - 16:05 ¶Seems hard to believe. The item codes are legit it seems though… Would be a lot of effort to go to if it was fake…
I have to think that unless there is something official from Dick Smiths themselves then this should be kept in the forums.
- +2 votes
From http://www.ausgamers.com/news/read/3193491 (who are just referencing the original article);
As we all know Dick Smith is going through a sell-off process right now. A business decisions has been made to pretty much do what Myer has done and just focus on Consoles, branded accessories and popular new releases. Thus all aged inventory and inventory that doesn't fit this description is been cleared.
Pricing starts from Monday 2nd April, but won't be advertised in stores until the 11th of April (to give stores time to actually price everything properly).
- spawnpoint on 29/03/2012 - 16:17 ¶
does that mean no logitech accessories and console sales. They are contradicting the actual pricelist.
Am pretty sceptical myself, I could understand them getting out of the games market but some of these prices are ridiculous. Looking at all the logitech peripheral's for example they have a fraction of the price you can find even on net - for them to be doing this would be at selling at a huge loss when they could have much higher prices and still sell it all off.
If this turns out to be legit then it will get a big +1 from me.
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+2 votesDevils Advocate on 29/03/2012 - 22:24 ¶Ha, yeah easy mate I was only kidding around, I didn't neg his comment. (But I think that the real reason that he negged was to help kill the hype of this deal)
Well, the store called me to say that they didn't have one of the items. I said that it was fine, and if it was ok to come and pick it up on Monday. She didn't seem to have an issue with that, so either she doesn't know their policy very well, or they just don't enforce it. I'll give it a go regardless :)
- +7 votesspawnpoint on 29/03/2012 - 17:07 ¶
Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment - EDWIN S. SHNEIDMAN
My question is what on earth are you moving things like a $170 keyboard that people are more than happy to throw money at competitors when they drop to $145 for $40? People would still queue for $100. I guess you'll get the volume of people in your stores to clear stock, but wow. Just doesn't make any sense. >.< Good luck to everyone getting stuff.
fearlessplayr on 29/03/2012 - 16:21 ¶well first thing is first. most of dicksmith staffs will purchase or put all the good stuff on hold and second of all this would be real because woolworths is closing over 100 dicksmith stores australia wide
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If this is real the bargains are outstanding. A DSi for $20, PS3 for $199, XBox 360 for $100?!