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Re: Dick Smith $7m gaming clearance Apr 2- UNADVERTISED

My games were still nicely hidden where i left them on saturday :thumbsu:

$15 for GTA4 Complete edition and GoW Collection 2 :D

but have to go back later because the GTA has just the episodes disc in there, c'mon dick i paid $10 for this the least you can do is give me the right disc :p
 
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Re: Dick Smith $7m gaming clearance Apr 2- UNADVERTISED

I got what i came for, i even got an item that i thought was "out of stock" at the store (it went from in stock last week, to out of stock on saturday). I was very happy, even more so when i saw the reactions of most people that were in front and behind me that lined up with the current 12 month cards and ms point cards, while i was holding the older variety.

Instead of putting the cards back like a normal person would, the majority wound up being thrown on the ground, or at the people working behind the counter.

I walked out of the store happy :D
 
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went to my local and not a thing
 
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Never seen so many 200kg neckbeards in my life, couldnt move down aisles due to their fat asses blocking them off.

Staff member confirmed to me that most of the staff had nabbed all the good stuff an hr before open, some of them had stuff on hold for friends which they werent supposed to do, he seemed pretty against what theyd done.

He then marked down a turtle beach headset to cost price for me cause all of the sale ones were gone.

I also got a 320gb Limited edition Modern Warfare 3 Xbox 360 slim, with MW3 game, 2 LE MW3 Controls and headset for 290 bucks.

Wolfenstein game $5 and HAWX 2 $5

Happy with that haul.
 
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On a different forum I post on apparently someone managed to price match the $100 xbox 360 at EB games. I doubt it, but I think someone's in shit if its true.
 
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ImAwakeImAlive said:
On a different forum I post on apparently someone managed to price match the $100 xbox 360 at EB games. I doubt it, but I think someone's in shit if its true.
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Wouldnt be surprised, all it would take would be someone going in to EB and going:

Dude: Dicksmith have 100 dollar xbox 250gb consoles, pricematch?
EBGuy: Ermmm *rings DS* do you have 250gb xbox consoles on special for 100 bucks?
DSGuy: Yep. *hang up*
EBGuy: Okay...



I had to message my manager and let him know not to price match our expensive consoles so we didnt get cleaned out.
 
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Not at all upset that I didn't score anything - I cleaned up in the HN sale last week - what I am angry about is that the one thing that DSE did advertise (on their official Facebook page) was the eight o'clock start time for their online sale. To see that it went up at least 30 minutes earlier is disappointing and about the only thing you could make a legit claim about.
 

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Re: Dick Smith $7m gaming clearance Apr 2- UNADVERTISED

Went to a couple of stores at midday after uni. Really not much left at all. Managed to pick up the collector's edition of Avatar for 5 dollars so at least I didn't turn away empty handed.

The classic controllers weren't marked down at all so I'm hoping I can get one or two of those in the next round of sales (12th I think?)
 
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So took back GTA4 complete because they'd put the episodes disc in there, after she went out back for 15 minutes "sorry thats the only disc we have" got a refund and used the money on maccas.

Still stoked with GoW collection 2 for $5 though :thumbsu::D
 
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Went, was only shit, left.

Not unexpected, but pretty pissed that they do a sale like this only to have the majority go to the staff. It just doesn't seem all that fair.
 
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HBK619 said:
Went, was only shit, left.

Not unexpected, but pretty pissed that they do a sale like this only to have the majority go to the staff. It just doesn't seem all that fair.
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Only 1 out of the 3 stores i checked out over the weekend had anything decent, The gaming range is piss poor and they should just sell all the games off cheap and not bother doing gaming anymore. shouldve really hid a few more games like AFL Live & RE5 gold edition, most stores just had a shit tonne of brutal legend on ps3 left. Did spot a black wii with wii fit plus & board for $129 but........... its a Wii, been there, sold that

From what im reading on Whirlpool forums & facebook, people saw staff grabbing shit off the shelves whilst they were lining up waiting for the stores to open, definitely not fair, shouldve been a ban on working staff grabbing items then they'd have to get friends to buy it for them, making it an even playing field for all or they shouldve just been smart and hid shit a couple of days early like me :D
 
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HBK619 said:
Went, was only shit, left.

Not unexpected, but pretty pissed that they do a sale like this only to have the majority go to the staff. It just doesn't seem all that fair.
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My partner works for the company and she was saying that with this sale in particular some of those items on the original list were never even available to begin with in some stores. The list was only meant for stores to determine which of those items they had in stock and to prep them for clearance. The advertisement planned was never going to designate specific items (due to the severely low stock on these items). But due to the leak and the mistake in dates posted, there was no time to clearly prepare or advertise which lines were available for sale - so most people read those lists expecting a $10 point card (which were the old pre-activated ones that some stores had left) when in reality most stores wouldn't have even this.

She couldnt even get me my $20 DSi as her manager wouldnt let staff hold items and none of the staff had chance to put things aside in the morning rush.
 

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Re: Dick Smith $7m gaming clearance Apr 2- UNADVERTISED

Well, that was a shambles. The site was inaccessable due to high traffic from about 7:45 to 8:20, and most things went in that time.

I went to two stores at about 10am and almost everything was gone.

I wandered back about 1pm just for amusement value, and in the space of a few minutes four people went up to staff asking about items, a couple of them in rather aggro fashion.

Oh well, I didn't really want a console anyway!
 
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People who are complaining about not getting what they want, clearly do not understand the idea of a clearance sale

As for staff allegedly taking items for themselves, its actually illegal for staff to withhold clearance items, and any staff member who does is eligible to be sacked (at discretion of managers)

Maybe its just an eastern states thing, and maybe thats why all the stores over there are closing down
 
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happy_eagle said:
People who are complaining about not getting what they want, clearly do not understand the idea of a clearance sale
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I don't think anybody would be complaining if the stuff that wasn't there, wasn't there legitimately because it had been bought up by people looking just like we are/were. It's that a majority of the stuff wasn't there in the first place.
happy_eagle said:
As for staff allegedly taking items for themselves, its actually illegal for staff to withhold clearance items, and any staff member who does is eligible to be sacked (at discretion of managers)
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That's kind of the problem though, the stores are being closed so the staff don't care about 'losing their jobs'.
 
Re: Dick Smith $7m gaming clearance Apr 2- UNADVERTISED

Definitely a few disgruntled employees ruining it for everyone else

Our gaming sale ran pretty well today. We had all the discounted games in a bin out the front, and did not allow for any holds on clearance items. A couple of customers got lucky with the limited consoles that we had left
 
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Hehe, that never gets old.
 

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