best buy had resident evil 5 for ps3 and xbox for $19.99

the online availability sold out on thanksgiving day

i stopped in the store near my house just on a hunch (2:30 pm, mind you)
and was told that the game sold out as soon as the store opened at 5 am)


i went back to bestbuy.com about an hour ago and voila!!! resident evil 5 is available for $19.99 and i can pick it up at the very same store ii went to yesterday.

so i bought it and on my way to get it.

what a crock of shit.

yaay online shopping.

as u were.

they probably got more in

veronikka said:

them mf'ers had them all along. creating that mass hysteria/gotta get it rush.

i'll just mosey in and get it in an hour or so

I bought my daughter a cell phone from bestbuy.com on Thanksgiving morning that was part of the black Friday "door buster" specials. $99.99 phone for $49.99. Even got a shipping notice that night. Now it's sold out. Ha, ha!!!

I've always kept up with the black Friday sales and this was my first year not going out. I knew before hand from bfads.net that a lot of the stores were putting some of their stuff for sale early on their web sites.

Fury said:

And you know this how?

SUPRMAN said:

mainly because i work for a retail company that had a black friday ad. it's not uncommon to get the email telling you to pull certain items from an ad and hold it. RE5 is a pretty easy game to find. the price made it attractive to the masses. just odd that something sells out in 10 minutes online, 10 minutes in the store and then is mraculously available in mass quantities 10 hours later.

Fury said:

Guess they couldn't have arranged for a delivery for later than day anticipating current stock would sell out?

That's just too logical for a retailer.
The best retailers stay in business by screwing over their customers . . . .

My daughters and I went to our local mall on Friday, we each walked away with something from our wishlist, and none of us payed full price. We even had a perfect parking space.

If they still honored the sale price later when they had more available I'm failing to see how anyone was "ripped off"?



Wouldn't it have been to their advantage to sell you it if they had it? Especially since they weren't getting any more money by you coming back later? There's no bait and switch here and nothing for the store to gain to hide stock in the backroom if they indeed had it.

i bought my husband a cell phone at best buy on saturday, and they still gave me the black friday price for it. that was awesome!

of course it is . they want us to trample on each other and act a damn fool for dumb shit

purplepolitician said:

that's the ripoff i'm talking about. they created a false sense of limited availibilty to make people get there for their "doorbusters" when all along there were plenty to be had. like i said, it was sold out online, 12 hours earlier and then miraculously every store in the area had it available. i'm happy i got mine, but it just reinforces why i stay my but in the bed on black friday.

SUPRMAN said:

People think retailers are all in on some insidious plot to deprive people of their goods/increase prices/withhold merchandise/whatever. It's not that complicated. Either the store is genuinely sold out, or merchandise is not allowed on the floor at specific times due to contracts with supplying companies. There's nothing underhanded about it at all.