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Monday, July 9, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Gamestop Marks up PS Vita Memory Card
Sneaky? Looks like it.
Today I accompanied my youngest brother to GameStop to buy a memory card for a PS Vita. Since he's a newly minted debit card holder, I let him handle the transaction on his own while listening on GameStop's typical process of trying to up sell stuff. After that while eating some froyo, I looked at the packaging, at the price tag showed "$34.99". That immediately struck me as odd. I swore I saw it everywhere else for "$29.99" INCLUDING on Sony's online store.
I then busted out my phone (ah the wonders of technology and the internets), looked it up on Amazon, low and behold, $29.99. Checked out Best Buy (another local store that will now earn this purchase), $29.99. What the heck? I immediately told my youngest brother, we're returning this. Oh the perils of being 16 yrs old and having a debit card. We went back, I told them flat out, "Hey, Best Buy has this thing for $29.99, you guys have it for $5 more?". To which they went to their snide response of "Oh really?". I gave them an unimpressed raised eye brow. They then suddenly started back peddling and said "Yeah we have no idea why our MSRP on this is $34.95". Since they didn't price match, we returned it (unimpressed).
So buyer beware!
Today I accompanied my youngest brother to GameStop to buy a memory card for a PS Vita. Since he's a newly minted debit card holder, I let him handle the transaction on his own while listening on GameStop's typical process of trying to up sell stuff. After that while eating some froyo, I looked at the packaging, at the price tag showed "$34.99". That immediately struck me as odd. I swore I saw it everywhere else for "$29.99" INCLUDING on Sony's online store.
I then busted out my phone (ah the wonders of technology and the internets), looked it up on Amazon, low and behold, $29.99. Checked out Best Buy (another local store that will now earn this purchase), $29.99. What the heck? I immediately told my youngest brother, we're returning this. Oh the perils of being 16 yrs old and having a debit card. We went back, I told them flat out, "Hey, Best Buy has this thing for $29.99, you guys have it for $5 more?". To which they went to their snide response of "Oh really?". I gave them an unimpressed raised eye brow. They then suddenly started back peddling and said "Yeah we have no idea why our MSRP on this is $34.95". Since they didn't price match, we returned it (unimpressed).
So buyer beware!
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