Big 3DS game sale at best buy next week (US ONLY)

[n64king]

Those were the 2 I wanted. and they don't have them in any stores, so pick up is worthless anyway. :c

I find it shady that they didn't stock enough games. They just wanted people to talk about them, or go in the store, without actually honoring the offer. I don't shop there a lot anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter. But I could have gone in and been impressed and became a customer. My store's 3DS section was tiny, and a total mess, and even the employees didn't want to look at it--they asked me if I had searched myself, then just ran to the back to check stock instead of dealing with the unorganized games. Now I understand if there were hoards of people there messing things up, but there weren't. For the 20 minutes it took to tell us those 2 games weren't available anywhere in my city, not 1 other person came to that area. And this was around 1 PM, on Sunday, day 1 of sale. Did everyone get there at 10 AM? I highly doubt it.

Stores do this all the time, this was just super high profile. Basically you can tell half those games on that list are ones that are less dominant sellers, Yoshi's New Island, Disney Magical World, Mario Golf, Mario Party, then the top sellers that have already sold their bulk and now they want to get the last people on board, like Pokemon XY & Zelda, then awkward ones are Tomodatchi Life because it's new, Bravely Default because it's more mature and probably sold it's bulk a while ago so maybe goes along with Zelda & Pkmn, and Kirby which is the oddball imo. And clearly they wanted to get rid of the WHITE WiiU Pro controllers, that most likely sell less because people want black nowadays, probably to match the console, which is why only those were on sale.

tl;dr
I feel like most people said either they already own all those, or there aren't any in there they want. So they're trying to get rid of their stock + get everyone on board with the games that are lesser popular, because they know the good stuff will be sold out fast and people will want to hit the bogo sale up even if they're kinda iffy games. 2 birds 1 stone almost.

But I do agree, all the stuff was snatched up, so if you didn't get there fast you were out of luck. Kinda shocking. But I guess that's how sales work sometimes.

- - - Post Merge - - -

If they do restock Wednesday then maybe people on here can retry then

 

[LyraVale]

they're trying to get rid of their stock + get everyone on board with the games that are lesser popular

Right, but then they didn't have those games in stock, a few hours into day 1 (when they should have stocked enough for 6 days). I mean, I was going to get Yoshi and Kirby. And while the bogo deal is great, I'd still be spending $35+. They didn't have either of those 2, so now they didn't get to clear the stock on Yoshi, and they didn't get my $35. It just makes no sense. If they were so low on stock to begin with, then why even have the sale. It was just to generate walk in traffic. Which is another reason their online orders are in-store pickup only...except the stores don't have it, so it's not gonna pull anyone in to the store. I suppose in that case, they're getting people on the website. So really this sale was only to get store/website traffic. Meh, I just answered myself. I'm not shocked that a business wants to draw in customers, but the way they went about this just leaves a bad impression on me, and makes them look desperate.

 

[n64king]

Right but that's the part of the clearance sale, it was probably mostly a "get rid of these games people aren't buying" sale. They're not gonna give away a million free games, and def not ones people are actually pining to get.
Not directed at anyone, but I'm more surprised that people are shocked that they did it this way, it's like lol really? You're all shocked a store "tricked" you? Well okay. Everyone sorta build it up in their head, and we only had that one image of the newspaper floating around, and I don't think Best Buy posted about it anywhere (I could be wrong) It seems like the only reason this sale was a success for some and the store, is because the game news websites blew up about it. In hindsight it should have all been obvious it wasn't going to be the diamond sale they wanted. Otherwise it seemed just like any other Best Buy sale, only it was on something we on this website were interested in. They do the same thing when they sale on anything else, they'll have a sale on TVs and only have 10 TVs and 500 people show up for it.

 

[LyraVale]

I'm not really surprised, because it is what it is. But it still seems to me like Best Buy is desperate to make a buck, and doesn't value customer satisfaction. And that makes me not want to give them my business in the future. Anything where your store leaves a bunch of customers unsatisfied can't be good for business in the long run. Most businesses don't care about longevity, I guess. They don't want to build a reputation with their customers. Still, they could have had a one day sale, and stocked up for that day. Then they would have had a bunch of happy customers, who would have probably kept coming back. How many of us are gonna go back after day 1 they tell you they MIGHT restock in 3 days, and the sale ends a couple of days later. It's just so disorganized and not worth most people's time to try to get a deal out a store.

I know we're over analyzing this a bit, but I also find the topic interesting, from the business/marketing standpoint. Maybe this is getting a bit off topic though, so sorry everyone.

 

[Xela]

Is it only the games advertised?

 

[PoizonMushro0m]

Is it only the games advertised?

Yes it is.

 

[Story]

Well, in conclusion I was able to get Kirby Triple Deluxe and Mario Party instead of Bravely Default. Shame, but I'm not complaining I learned a valuable lesson about store deals this week. xD

 

[Cress]

Yep, checked mine yesterday. All they had was 1 copy of Mario Party. They never planned on ordering more until the sale was over.

 

[n64king]

I went back for the hell of it, and now it's even more wiped out. There was like no 3DS games at all even unrelated to the sale. Just a handful of Lego Batman and then those awful Wipeout games. I took a pic I could post LOL

 

[Cress]

I went back for the hell of it, and now it's even more wiped out. There was like no 3DS games at all even unrelated to the sale. Just a handful of Lego Batman and then those awful Wipeout games. I took a pic I could post LOL

Where's teh picture?

 

[n64king]

Oh lol didn't know someone would actually want to see. Top and left side rows are all used box-less DS games and crap people thought they wanted and left behind, then you got your Spongebob, Beyblade, Steeldiver, Wipeout and Legobatman. Oh but there's some Prof Layton. How about that.

- - - Post Merge - - -

I mean there's still some crap left over, but I know for a fact that people bought up most the other weird stuff. All those Return to Oz games are gone, the 3D Crossword thing is gone, the other Lego games are gone too. Scavengers wanted it all.