Anyone else find it funny that Amazon has gotten so bad for purchasing video games that you can walk into a Walmart and...

Anyone else find it funny that Amazon has gotten so bad for purchasing video games that you can walk into a Walmart and pick out a game for a better deal on a game that just released?

Nice bait.

Why is it bait exactly? I was shocked that they aren't selling it for 59.99 like anywhere else but just have resellers trying to make more than that off it for some reason.

Resellers are resellers, Amazon doesn't control them.

You can be a reseller too if you buy bunch of game copies from local area and sell it online.

Amazon is out of stock, thus you only see resellers. They're likely out of stock because they sold it at the cheapest price ($51 not prime, $48 w/ prime).

I never have this problem. I buy all my games through steam or I just pirate.

They're not doing their job and acting as a price floor if they're sold out though. And usually when Amazon is sold out they will still have it on offer but say it's backordered. Here there's nothing. It's like they burned through their stock of it and don't intend to restock

Out of stock or not, these people are fooling themselves if they think they're going to sell a 7.5/10 game for over the MSRP. I haven't even heard anyone talking about TLG anymore since it released.

You won't find The Last Guardian on Steam

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Hebrews gonna Heeb

People pay much more for much worse user

It's a niche game with a very loyal/desperate fanbase, people will shell out a lot of sheckles for it. I was able to sell my original pre-order copy of Xenogears for $100 for this exact reason.

Amazon has been awful ever since they decided to "promote" their prime scam by only selling some games to prime users

I'm still trying to figure out why resellers haven't basically subbed to Prime, ordered like 10 copies at the lower price and then mark them up a bit yet still under the other resellers' prices to make some profit off them

because amazon catches that shit and bans you for it. read the TOS you dumb fucking nigger.

Really? Holy shit how is that even detectable? Do the Google fags tell them with your IP address sale history?

And who the fuck would even think that would be disallowed? It's CAPITALISM

how the fuck do you not know peoples' stances on resellers? grow some balls nigga and start selling shit. many places will deny your bitch ass after they catch onto your antics

Wow, to think someone this retarded is on Sup Forums.

They have sales, often timed, for members. Gamestop and other retailers do this too. Welcome to Economy 101.

>how the fuck do you not know peoples' stances on resellers?
By not reading TOSes

Also how is this even an issue? You're buying off them and then selling it. Where's the problem? Oh you're exploiting poor widdle corporation? How sad.

I don't see what's retarded about that. High profile online stores should always have a major title that just released like a week ago in stock. This makes me think Amazon is just shorting specific titles because they don't think they'll sell.

Initial sales from many retailers is based on pre-orders. TLG isn't the only game recently to see stock vanish quickly and reseller prices rise. It also takes time to properly restock, especially if they have backorders to fulfill.

The difference is, Gamestop and other retailers will still sell you the game at the normal price and chip say 1 buck or two off for members. Amazon themselves flat out won't sell you a game if you don't have prime if they have a prime deal going on for it. How would you like it if you walked into a mcdonalds and they wouldn't sell you a big mac this month because they're having a special deal on big macs for their exclusive mcdonalds members (only 60$ a year!!!)

I dunno but I've been buying on Amazon since 2012 and have never seen this occur before on Amazon. But then I also have never seen them for some reason charge 51 bucks for a game that just came out either which they did on a couple titles like FF15 and Nioh. Are they shorting Japanese games or some shit? I just don't get it. Why not just sell it for 60 bucks and keep it in stock rather than going for 51 and selling out in a few days?

>buying a big mac instead of the absolutely based McChicken™

Despite the size of a company, none like holding onto merchandise very long. It's better for them to sell out of a stock for a bit of a loss than hang onto one.

I dealt with retail inventory management for over 15 years. We'd sooner mark down left over stock of games a few months old than hang onto them, unless we're given the chance to ship old stock back in bulk, though it rarely happens with video games unless stated by the company (like Sony with the Vita and Nintendo with the 8gb Wii Us, we got a lengthy set of pages from Sony distribution over the Vita consoles, accessories, and games and orders that all stock we felt wasn't going to sale be shipped back within a certain time).

The last example of Amazon having this happen was with Dragon Quest VII on 3DS. The initial stock was sold out and resellers were already listing copies for $10+ more the following day.

Just seems bizarre to me how Amazon still has so much stock for far older games when taking into account that mindset. Like they're still selling Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters for 25. Why not just drop it to 17 or something. They'd sell out their stock quick.

Dunno, as for older games, that's just stock they got steadily back or paid cheaply for in hopes to make some form of profit. I often wondered myself in my early years of retail why we'd hang onto some games for years. We still had a hefty stock of PS2 games long after the PS3 had been out. Then I found out that we'd hung onto the stock for so long that we'd need to sale it at X price to break even. There's also the chance that selling a game cheaper than MSRP could hurt relations with distributors.

Example of this would be us purposely marking titles down cheap and then requesting more stock to do it again. The distributors and manufacturers are eventually going to feel the cut we made if it's too low and either stop providing us with as many copies or none at all.

Interesting insight into what goes through their minds at retailers. I know I'd just get out of video games entirely if I owned some kind of retail store. They seem way too unpredictable as to what will sell unless it's CoD or the like and even that will quickly drop in value after release. Just seems like too much of a marginal market where there's no chunk money to be made, but I guess that's just what retail lives on.