Ohhhh sneaky sneaky sneaky Amazon..... I've started getting emails about switch games i preordered before the discount ended that the item is no longer available so they're cancelling the order...... But don't worry you can place your order again (for 20% more money) if it's available!
I have about had it with the most consumer unfriendly store. Surely Sears and kmart are better than them at this point. Bezos needs to make an appointment with the front of a freight train.
I miss Kmart. We used to visit Kmart every year on our holiday trip to Arizona. The last time we went, the shop was basically empty, they were selling the shelves and everything.
It was sad.
About Amazon, I've been very lucky so far with them. No bad experiences with preorders. And I hope it stays that way.
@NEStalgia Can't say I'm surprised, Amazon's going to keep getting worse until a new competitor arrives. It's the same reason the XB1 successor needs to beat the PS5, 2 generations of Sony in the lead will be dangerous to gaming.
Eh, locally K-Mart went out of business a few years ago. Sears closed it's doors a 2 or 3 decades ago as well. Target's still around, but it's mainly a clothing and (crappy) grocery store these days. The other departments are rather underwhelming, often taking up only one or two shelf units.
I'm really hoping some retailer is seeing the massive gap in physical game discount programs now that Gamer's Club, Amazon, and Gamestop have all dropped their discount stuff. Like how AMC and others rose up when moviepass just kept getting worse and worse.
But Amazon cancelling preorders made with a discount after they kill the discount, that's got to be close to class action suit ready at that point. Along with dropping weekend delivery. In the same year they drive prime prices through the roof. They've officially cornered enough of the market they don't even need to pretend to be customer friendly anymore, you exist to serve them, not the other way around, now. I'm hoping this will backfire mightily. Other stores have to be able to smell the blood in the water.
@Grumblevolcano Unfortunately I don't know that I see a competitor arriving. Amazon has vertically integrated the entire supply chain, which is illegal, but the government let them do it, meanwhile Amazon hosts the government's own data.......probably with government funding to expand to do it. They own the means to compete with them. The only real competitor is Walmart, so even though they're even more loathsome, I'm hoping they start curb stomping amazon. I may start buying everything on walmart.com now. I haven't bought there in a decade.
@subpopz Yeah, same problem. They designed this whole area that you have one area that's all business and industrial with some resedential. Then vast anti-business swaths that are nothing but sprawling luxury homes for miles and miles. Then on the other side of that, a shopping district that's 5 huge shopping centers, all separated by like 3 miles, with 10 minutes travel between each, and while the whole district used to be 20 minutes away, with the fact that they've built thousands of homes in the past decade yet not a single new road, and centralized all shopping in one place and all business in another place, everything is clogged, and what took 20 minutes now takes 40-60 minutes each way, plus 10 minutes between each store you want to go to, plus all the time actually wandering the stadium sized stores, so a shopping trip to brick and mortar is now a 4 hour task minimum. If it can't be bought online it simply can't be bought, now. [insert string of expletives here]
But I was happy with Amazon....loyal customer, great service. Suddenly in the past 8 months it's going rapidly downhill. Right about when they raised prices on prime. Walmart was massively advertising 2 day shipping. Now that it can't be worse than amazon's, why not?
@MisterPi I really can't believe every store dropped physical discounts while digital is growing by leaps and bounds. They clearly don't really want the business I guess. Maybe not high enough margin to fight for.
I'm really hoping some retailer is seeing the massive gap in physical game discount programs now that Gamer's Club, Amazon, and Gamestop have all dropped their discount stuff. Like how AMC and others rose up when moviepass just kept getting worse and worse.
Sadly that's unlikely. Brick & Mortar stores are in the process of dying out (especially specialty stores like video games). It's funny in a slightly morbid way. National chains like Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and Target drove small locally owned department stores out of business and have nearly killed small locally owned businesses across the nation. And now Brick & Mortar department stores are starting to lose business to online shopping more and more. How long will it be until even Wal-Mart has to close it's last physical store and becomes an online only vender?
Unless it doesn't due to people having been burned by Mighty Number 9. Which was decent, but not a particularly good game. And was clearly not fully play tested with "player who doesn't intimately know the controls and mechanics" in mind.
@FaeKnight Depends on the shipping costs. Amazon loses money on every package delivered with Prime. Now they're cracking and stripping back shipping costs. How long until they start charging for all shipping again? Or force you to go to some brick and mortar to pick up your packages any time but the most inconvenient times? Shipping is expensive and slow and they trained the public to expect free and fast. Now they're backing down. That actually does open the window for B&M walmart. But walmart also competes online. "Retail is cyclical" and a stupid Amazon will push too much, too hard at some point. I wonder if 100% of retail can really be sustained being delivered daily to every single address in the world?
@Darthnocturnal I'm envious of TRU there actually. Technically BB's GCU was a stupid plan by an often struggling company. 20% off the top of one of their biggest departments was great for consumers but never seemed smart for them. Amazon only copied. But Amazon's problem is the optics of them raising prices and then dropping tons of perks and services they'd trained people to enjoy for years.
@IceClimbers decent advertising for DBFZ....almost none for MM11. Plus super popular fighter based on top shelf anime license is sure to beat 2D platformer from 35 year old series.
I just bought Megaman digitally...despite my friend shipping me the amiibo edition from America (Because screw us in the EU amirite?)… which means Capcom just got two purchases out of me.
If Capcom didn't own Mega Man they'd see none of my cash.
Now Playing: Mario & Luigi Brothership, Sonic x Shadow Generations
Now Streaming: The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
@DarthNocturnal Ahh an Amazon CS rep. Always somewhere in India, with a tenuous grasp of English speaking only in copy pasted responses. I'm sure they get at least $.20 an hour or so....
It's not a short stick, it's just the stick of truth.
Is it weird that I'm hyped for MegaMan 11 and I'm not even a Mega Man fan? Seriously, I've never played one of them. Never appealed to me in the 80's and 90's for some reason. I bought MM1 on WiiU and it turned me off on the first level....not an ideal starting point in 2018.
@NEStalgia I mean, that makes sense. This will hopefully be the first Megaman game with post-8 bit graphics that makes a good starting point for newbies. Megaman 7 was... not the best place to start. You're only other option would have been Megaman Powered Up (a remake of the original) on the PSP I think?
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