Comments on: Crazy gaming sale now on!

By: larch

larch — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:11:13 +0000

Nick are you evening reading what some of the people have been saying here? Most people did ask and phone but the people who run the damn stores weren’t even aware of what was going on themselves. If they weren’t even aware of the sale how could they tell you what games they have on special?

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:07:16 +0000

Larch, this was a clearance sale, this is how it works. Get over it,

The list, as mentioned previously, was an idea of what you could get and was everything they have throughout all the stores.

What you had to do (obviously) was phone before to ask if your store had them or not. What were you expecting? Every shop to have ALL those games?

By: larch

larch — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:00:37 +0000

Sorry Jason but that is a load of BS, I was there on the day the sale started only to find a limited selection of games not even close to 30% of what’s being advertised on this blog post. Not to mention that some of the branches sales people were un-aware of the sale. And many people echo my sentiments in this regard. I find the sub standard service we get as gamers in this country rather despicable, from the ridicules pricing of games to false advertisements like these. I think it’s about time gamers like us should stand up and say something, instead of being on the receiving en of the retail stick.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:28:31 +0000

@larch – here I am. As with all sales, there is only limited stock and once its sold out, people will sometimes complain that they couldn’t find what they were looking for – that is just the nature of clearance sales!

IC moved all the stock from stores not running the sales to the stores that were so that they were all in one place and easier for customers to find multiple copies of the games.

As you can see, there are some really happy shoppers that did get to buy some real bargains, but as I mentioned before, there will always be people that couldn’t find what they were looking for as some of the games are sold out.

By: UnforgivN

UnforgivN — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:51:58 +0000

One of my friends bought the orange box for the PS3 for R199 at our branch in Bloemfontein.

By: larch

larch — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:49:07 +0000

And you have to wonder where Mr Author of this blog is through all of this or was he also ill informed about this so called sale?

By: mezu

mezu — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:46:14 +0000

Was really looking forward to checking out Orange Box, but all these comments make me wonder. Whats the point of publishing such reports when none of the stores and staff are in the dark..pathetic indeed!

By: dchedda

dchedda — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:36:55 +0000

the IC sales are always failures of note
the proevious sale they only had 5 copies of a title in stock. That is pathetic. not a clearance, just a reason for people to come into the store to be ripped off on something else

By: Chuky

Chuky — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:51:36 +0000

Maybe next time you people shouldn’t do false advertising. Out of the 5 stores i phoned only 3 knew there was a special and out of the 3 that knew only 1 was running it (Canal Walk). Then as mentioned above they don’t have stock of anything.

SO BIG FAILURE
feel like checking if you even had stock to begin with and then suing you for false advertising.

By: UnforgivN

UnforgivN — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:35:35 +0000

I finally did see the specials here in Bloemfontein, and as Larch mentioned, its only 4 or 5 different titles (UT3, Ninja Reflex, Facebreaker and C&C3 here) on sale.

Some titles I saw on the list such as the Singstar song pack IV, and the Buzz pack were still retailing at its original prices. I did however pickup a copy of Singstar 80′s for R199 incl the mics. Although there were about 10 copies of the game there and it was the only one marked down.