50% off at woolies!

[~Latency~]

guessing everyone knows by now? my local is pretty much empty, very few games left. popped to a smaller branch today and they literally had everything :] picked up gears 2 £17.99 and guitar hero world tour for £37.. the berk behind the till didn't know the games inside the big box so ended up with 2 copies of the game xD going straight to cex when the crazy sales have stopped..

heard from a friend that works there that it'll be 75% off next week.. just hoping they still have dead space :}

 

[Billargh]

£37 for the whole thing?!

 

[~Latency~]

£37 for the whole thing?!

whole thing as in all the instruments?! nein nein nein.. 2 copies of the game + wireless gooooooootar

 

[Zenith.UK]

My best store closes tomorrow (Saturday 27th). My local store closes on January 5th. I'll have to pop in first thing in the morning to see what I can grab before they go forever.

 

[bob269]

heard from a friend that works there that it'll be 75% off next week.. just hoping they still have dead space :}

Half way thru Dead Space currently, excellent so far, play with the lights off and the sound up

 

[Aada]

guessing everyone knows by now? my local is pretty much empty, very few games left. popped to a smaller branch today and they literally had everything :] picked up gears 2 £17.99 and guitar hero world tour for £37.. the berk behind the till didn't know the games inside the big box so ended up with 2 copies of the game xD going straight to cex when the crazy sales have stopped..

heard from a friend that works there that it'll be 75% off next week.. just hoping they still have dead space :}

Bullshit tbh i went in and all the best games were still full price.

 

[Raven]

It will naturally depend on which store you go into.

 

[Ch3tan]

Bullshit tbh i went in and all the best games were still full price.

The 50% comes off at the till... the full price is shown on the shelf.

 

[Billargh]

Half way thru Dead Space currently, excellent so far, play with the lights off and the sound up

Seconding this. Just started Chapter 5 and it's fucking amazing thus far

 

[Zenith.UK]

The best store locally closed today and they had half of the lower floor with stock left.
Games? None.
DVDs? None.
CDs? A dozen £3 ones.

It was kind of strange to see the store almost empty when I saw it full of stock a couple of weeks ago.

 

[Litmus]

i Went into my local woolies yesterday and it looked like a shop which had been looted or summat, not much left.

 

[PLightstar]

Can't believe that, My Woolies hardly had any kind of Sale of DVD's Games and CDs everything else was £75% off but CDs were still full price DVD's for £16 or more and games dropped by a fiver at the most.

 

[Ch3tan]

The discounts only come off at the till..... how many times can the same thing be said???

 

[Litmus]

Can't believe that, My Woolies hardly had any kind of Sale of DVD's Games and CDs everything else was £75% off but CDs were still full price DVD's for £16 or more and games dropped by a fiver at the most.

Yes, the sticker says £16, but you minus 70% off that, so its like £4 after that?

 

[Ch3tan]

well done litmus, full marks for getting it!

 

[PLightstar]

God damm it, that wasn't anywhere in the shop. too late now though

 

[Sar]

I tried buying Red Alert 3 PC and they claimed they had no stock despite there being boxes on the shelves.

It was the same for anyone else trying to buy any games - I honestly reckon the staff had nicked them all to flog privately to mates :/

 

[Ch3tan]

cases do not = stock levels. They are display cases. But yes staff probably did hoarde stock for themselves, and quite rightly too.

 

[Sar]

They weren't display boxes - they used the actual game case as the "display" box. Same for all their games of all formats. They kept the games & manuals in big drawer units behind the tills.

Wasn't just me - 3/4 other people ahead of me got the same reply. 20 or so 360 cases for Fallout 3 and none in stock? Ok...

 

[nath]

I'm with Ch3t, they were losing their jobs - fair enough they should try and get some decent severance.

 

[Sar]

Turns out I can get RA3 for £15 off Sendit.com in their sale anyway, which is exactly what I'll do.

And most of our Zavvi stores have closed down (2 of the 3 in and round Belfast), and the one most local to me is one of the two shut down. So Game in Newtownabbey have very little direct competition on Console games*, and they know it. They've stuck most of their prices up to near retail price (£40, not £50, no-one sells em at £50 ffs).



*PC game retail sales are a joke locally, and it appears I may well have to purchase any and all future PC games online or digitally download them via Steam or some such.

Which is a fucking monster pisser.