Simon Ward • Thursday 15th November 2007 12:06 GMT
"How else can we explain why it's offering one of the consoles for £1000 - more than three times' the recommend price?"
Given Pissy World's near legendary price-gouging on other kit, console or not (20 quid for a USB cable? Yeah, right) I'm struggling to work out how this is newsworthy ....
Sales ?
Ian O'Friel • Thursday 15th November 2007 14:15 GMT
That's odd, PC World and Dixons both having a sale on the same day !
No Change
Michael Sheils • Thursday 15th November 2007 14:28 GMT
That's a pretty standard mark-up for the DSG stores.
Newsworthy? Why, yes.
Anonymous Coward • Thursday 15th November 2007 14:35 GMT
You read it, didn't you?
I smells a rat
Gilbert West • Thursday 15th November 2007 14:42 GMT
Oooh what a coincidence. We're not in the run up to the Christmas byuing period are we?
mac
Anonymous Coward • Thursday 15th November 2007 16:00 GMT
browsing PC world on a MAC...lol
Shipping
Chris Seiter • Thursday 15th November 2007 17:35 GMT
But where they really get you is on the shipping...
Pretty common actually
Duncan Watts • Thursday 15th November 2007 21:11 GMT
They'll sometimes put a new code on the system at a stupid price to make sure no one sells it before it's released. They'll bring the price down to the proper price once it's finalised and ready for release.
I imagine this might be the rumoured Wii with DVD playback functionality I'd heard about or even just a new bundle...
A comment on prices
Robert Harrison • Friday 16th November 2007 08:36 GMT
Whilst in PC World justtheotherday I noticed you could buy 2m of cat5 ethernet cable for a measly 17.99 (UKP). 'HOW MUCH?' I heard Arkwright shout.
Still that price is more than justified by their excellent A1 customer service.
*gag* *splutter*
Carphone Warehouse has Wii's on their homepage
Anonymous Coward • Friday 16th November 2007 11:08 GMT
Same post as before, except that I've now called them and found out they've got loads and you can get one free with a mobile connection.
Nintendo are really s****ing the market place here.
Dazed and Confused • Monday 26th November 2007 18:57 GMT
This is a quite deliberate act of price gouging. There is plenty of stock in main land Europe, but now Amazon in France and Germany are refusing to take orders from the UK. This is surely against European law. Weren't VW fined €50M for making it difficult for Germans to buy their cars in Italy. I wonder what the EU will make of this blatant suppression of the open market.
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