adiohead
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Wycombe one had hardly any new games (some suppliers aren't supplying them), and all their preowned were on the floor in piles.
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Cole
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320gb ps3 uncharted3 and mw3 brand new £150 in my local game on sunday
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Sam
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Cole, do they not sell for like nearly double the price?
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Cole
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I believe they do
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mattant
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Has no one mentioned that they're actually up for sale?
quote: GAME, the popular but troubled UK retailer, has put itself up for sale in an effort to avoid administration. GAME has put itself up for sale, as it desperately tries to raise cash to pay a quarterly rent bill which is due in a fortnight, according to the Sunday Times. As I reported earlier in the week GAME is currently having a huge fire sale to get rid of stock, and there’s apparently quite a few bargains to be had.
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N16K
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The one near me is selling of their preowned stock found a cheap game for the ds for 1.98 good price brought it up to counter, guy behind counter searches and searches for 10 mins doesnt find the game, says he going have to out the back to stock room, comes back 30 seconds later and says im sorry i cant find the game im going to have to give you a new one (sealed and all). still charged 1.98, no wonder they don't make money
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mattant
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quote: Originally posted by N16K
The one near me is selling of their preowned stock found a cheap game for the ds for 1.98 good price brought it up to counter, guy behind counter searches and searches for 10 mins doesnt find the game, says he going have to out the back to stock room, comes back 30 seconds later and says im sorry i cant find the game im going to have to give you a new one (sealed and all). still charged 1.98, no wonder they don't make money
I once bought a strategy guide that was priced at £12.99, the woman behind the counter scanned it and it came up as £0.01, so rather than doing anything about it she just charged me 1p
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mwg
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Not used them for years. Expensive.
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Wrighty
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quote: Originally posted by mwg
Not used them for years. Expensive.
This 
They had 'spring clean sale' written on a big notepad outisde their leeds shop yesterday, theyve got fcuk all in though
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AlunJ
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Might go and have a look if I can get a ps3 cheap
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Dave
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Could probably buy the whole company for less than the cost of a PS3.
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Sam
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quote: Originally posted by Dave
Could probably buy the whole company for less than the cost of a PS3.
Not as ridiculous as it sounds when you hear of companies like Rover and Comet being sold for £1.
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RichR
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but taking on the debts too so whilst only a £1.00 changes hands to the former owners, the cost to the new owner isn't that little.
Dad bought an American company for $10 but took on the debts/mortgages for buildings etc etc
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adiohead
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Just hope I can find something worth buying tomorrow night.
I'll probably buy some shit game and then someone takes them over and their stock is replenished.
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Blade_sri
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http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/893129-walmart-to-buy-game
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Sunz
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^^ That would be good, get a copy of fallout and then you can buy the guns to go with it.
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noshua
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I like their spring clean. Got myself a PS3 Bluetooth remote for £3, perfect for XBMC on my HTPC
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PhilC
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They literally have no stock... I tried to spend some vouchers in there last night and all I could find that I actually wanted was superbad on blu ray...
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AlunJ
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Share price is back on the rise, maybe it would have been worth a punt.
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adiohead
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I got Batman: Arkham City pre-owned.
I'm half way through Arkham Asylum
Nearly bought Battlefield 3 for the ps3 so I could play online with everyone but then remembered I'd have to purchase some sort of online pass or something gay.
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Liam-Wilko
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iirc as well you can now trade games in to places like asda and tesco and buy pre owned games from asda and that as well
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mattant
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It's GAME over, 277 stores closed with immediate effect, 2,104 jobs lost http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/store-closures-begin-at-game-and-gamestation/093365
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AlunJ
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Gay, I went in the other day, nothing new had been reduced, plenty of cheap pre owned though. Bought a pre owned ps3 in game station but according to that list that appears to be still open.
[Edited on 27-03-2012 by AlunJ]
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It's not a huge surprise. These guys have always been expensive buggers, and when you can get a game title online, free deliver, and it's around ten pounds cheaper, why would you want to even consider buying at Game.
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dannyboy17
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went to the game shop in Aylesbury yesterday no price reductions, after hearing the have gone into administration went today, the shutters were down and all the games in piles on the floor
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