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Originally Posted by Charger Hellcat
Why would retailers discount prices even more than previously? Everyone who saw lacluster BF prices said they'd wait till Boxing Day. So you either want the deal you can get now, which is going to be higher, or you don't buy. Retailers have figured this out and probably make more money on BD than BF because Canadians think by waiting they will save more. Even though the dollar is shit and the US is becoming a homo-xenophobic police state.
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Unless I am missing something or a post got deleted nobody mentioned expecting prices to be lower than Black Friday so all I can assume is that was in reply to me which isn't what I meant. I said there is no logic in them charging more Boxing Week than Black Friday not that they should have reduced the prices even further. I agree that when there is only a month difference they should feel no pressure to reduce prices even further. So with games like Titanfall 2 where they have the same price they had Black Friday I see no issue with that. But Skyrim for example was $39.99 at EB Black Friday and their Boxing Week price is $54.99. So I was saying stuff like that makes no sense. Not putting it on sale at all for Boxing Week and just keeping the normal $79.99 price would actually have made more sense to me. Best Buy and Wal-Mart at worst have the same prices they had Black Friday which you would think EB would do too but for no apparent reason they went with higher prices for some games. Your point that they can trap people that waited for Boxing Week doesn't work when the competition isn't doing the same and as a result have better prices as zeze said above.
Oh and by the way Wal-Mart do have a lot of prices lower than Black Friday. Games like previously mentioned Skyrim, Gears of War 4, the Bioshock Collection, Mafia 3 and others are priced at $29.96 for Boxing Week and none of those were lower than $39.96 Black Friday as well as others that are $39.96 that were $49.96. So there are better deals around for people that did hold out on Black Friday and your logic doesn't really work even though on paper I guess I can see how that could work for them. Although at this point regardless of prices on Black Friday vs. Boxing Week I would think Black Friday would actually be the one that makes stores more money. People being able to save on Christmas presents has more appeal to a lot of parents and stuff I am sure. While Boxing Week is just more tradition at this point. Honestly I wouldn't be shocked if we start seeing stores have Black Friday sales and completely skip Boxing Week. Based on the Costco thread it sounds like that has already started actually.
That being said after going to EB yesterday for my free Funko and Steep I did clue in to the logic they probably used. Like usual the staff are being forced to really push used sales (Normally they don't give their usual pitch with me since they know me but the district manager was at the location I go to watching them like a hawk so they had to this time) instead of new sales so making the new games less appealing to make the used sales seem more appealing does have some logic behind it I guess. But really all I see them accomplishing is making Wal-Mart or Best Buy more appealing. I buy 95% of my games at EB normally but even I ended up mostly buying games at Wal-Mart yesterday which on the flip side I usually avoid.
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