Tesco Ripping Us All Off

[Richie]

Well, I was just looking for cheap Uncharted prices, and thought I'd look at Tesco's. And I discovered how they're making so much money...

By ignoring the RRP!

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/6375/loltescotj8.jpg

[kingpin46]

tesco are idiots. they just showed the whole world they could get it cheaper elswhere. lol. try looking on ebay for uncharted, i got a brand new (never opend before) dreamcast game. GO CHU CHU ROCKET WHOO

only for £2.50

[Deathvein]

Hmm, can you please use the edit button in future? I've seen you double posting quite a few times. Thanks! ;)

[kingpin46]

yeah sorry about that

[liambonner]

tesco every little hurts

[Deathvein]

Whilst we're on the subject of Tesco, has anyone seen this?

http://www.dougweb.org/images/blog/tesco.jpg

[liambonner]

Whilst we're on the subject of Tesco, has anyone seen this?

http://www.dougweb.org/images/blog/tesco.jpg

lol what a rip off if some one gave me that for valantimes day i would be insulted

[kingpin46]

tesco every little hurts

lol and so u should be

[kingpin46]

Whilst we're on the subject of Tesco, has anyone seen this?

http://www.dougweb.org/images/blog/tesco.jpg

im gonna get one of thos, give it to a girl i know and see how far i get

[Tolkamas]

I think whats gone wrong there Richie is not some evil scheme of theirs but some idiot that puts all the prices up asumed the platinum was the rrp for both copies. Still a nice image of how Tesco cocks up supremely.

At least they're not Morrisons... *shudders*

[Storky]

and to be honest, tesco are pretty competitive price wise (through out the store, not just games), they drop prices quite soon and are usually much cheaper than the likes of woolies

[greyfox-x]

Dont just dont iget me started on this agggghhhh ive tryed talking about this in forums before and almost got killed lol

I belive shops like tescos and game dropping prices of very new releases are hurting the industry in the long run , it sounds odd i know but ive got many reasons for thinking so but hears one example

Shops like tesco are running a lot of chain shops out of bussiness unless they match tesco and the indepentant shops are even worse off,
(and there are less and less around these days ) in the end there will be less and less places to buy games , untill only a few big chains selling games there are a number of repercusions for this one being large chains like tesco only stock chart games so many smaller tiles would not just get ignored they wouldnt get stocked at all.

or another thing all games could go download only which is a horrible thought

or many many other things

now before ppl jump down my throat and say im talking crap i just want to say, that im just as bad ill go to the cheapest place like anyone else,
so im all for competitive prices but not when a shop sells a game at zero profit to control market share its wrong!!

ie, when the first gears of war came out in the uk blockbuster caused a huge uproar in retail by selling it at £34.99 (it cost them that for each copy) just so they could say "we were responible for selling 19%(or whatever) of all copys of this game sold in the first week)

and yeah they might of done, but its a fake figure , a fake figure that makes there share prices rise quite a way , in a very sneaky and deceptive manner because the company dosent make any money except of selling its shares after a big game like that has come out ....as i said it wrong.


games should be cheaper yes ......but not like this

[Tolkamas]

Very good point Grey. didn't see it like that. Well, you could well be right but if anything like that ever happens, i reckon it'll be long in the future. Personally, I use my local GameStation for almost all my gaming needs.

[greyfox-x]

Thanks im glad somebody see's my point they dont have to agree but it's nice when someone understands what im trying to say .

as for gamestation tho are you aware of the current problem gametation is having since they were sold by BLOCKBUSTERS to GAME , I shop there a lot too (tho that may change way things are going ) i liked its varied support and stock of hard to find japanese titles like fighters and rpg's

[Tolkamas]

Yeah, they have the best trade in rates and the staff seem a lot more switched on and genuine gamers. At least in my branch.

[Richie]

Dont just dont iget me started on this agggghhhh ive tryed talking about this in forums before and almost got killed lol

I belive shops like tescos and game dropping prices of very new releases are hurting the industry in the long run , it sounds odd i know but ive got many reasons for thinking so but hears one example

Shops like tesco are running a lot of chain shops out of bussiness unless they match tesco and the indepentant shops are even worse off,
(and there are less and less around these days ) in the end there will be less and less places to buy games , untill only a few big chains selling games there are a number of repercusions for this one being large chains like tesco only stock chart games so many smaller tiles would not just get ignored they wouldnt get stocked at all.

or another thing all games could go download only which is a horrible thought

or many many other things

now before ppl jump down my throat and say im talking crap i just want to say, that im just as bad ill go to the cheapest place like anyone else,
so im all for competitive prices but not when a shop sells a game at zero profit to control market share its wrong!!

ie, when the first gears of war came out in the uk blockbuster caused a huge uproar in retail by selling it at £34.99 (it cost them that for each copy) just so they could say "we were responible for selling 19%(or whatever) of all copys of this game sold in the first week)

and yeah they might of done, but its a fake figure , a fake figure that makes there share prices rise quite a way , in a very sneaky and deceptive manner because the company dosent make any money except of selling its shares after a big game like that has come out ....as i said it wrong.


games should be cheaper yes ......but not like this


Trust me, I just finished economics at a-level - what you just said makes perfect sense, about monopolising companies ruining independant stores. Had to write an essay about whether this is a good or bad thing... I still have nightmares of that course.

[greyfox-x]

oh thank the gods , this site has people with brains you have know idea how much grief i got for posting this point somewhere else,

you have know idea how happy i am that people understand, id sure love to read that essay you wrote , do you think that games retail is heading for a crash soon ( next5 years) or do you think is a lot far away in the future like tolkamas does?, or do you think it will be fine but just without independant stores?

thanks again for your post

[Richie]

id sure love to read that essay you wrote

No you wouldn't, it was crap :D

But, it's great that we get cheap prices, but I would much rather go to a specialist shop that doesn't just sell chart games, and pay a little bit extra to support that. It's the same with exclusives for consoles, I'd much rather each console had a few of it's own exclusives, rather than all games just being on both systems. It creates a unique image for a console, and after all, a games console is made for it's games, if games were all multiformat then it'd just be hardware comparisons. That's not how it should be, and consoles would just keep getting more expensive too as companies pour more into giving their console better hardware, which is good because of the technological advancements but very bad in terms of price.

The gaming industry is beginning to hit a boom right now, what with nintendo really putting effort into making everybody a gamer. Personally, their new ethos isn't for me having grown up on gaming, but I don't half respect them for taking that risk and making gaming a more widely accepted pasttime. Did your parents ever say to you that gaming was a waste of time? Have they seen/played a wii, and are they acting differently now? I know my mum has (my dads a gamer too, thankfully). So good for Nintendo, they're doing all of us a favour in the long term.

Now, thanks to this rapidly expanding market, no wonder companies like Tesco have decided to invest in selling these products, but as far as I'm concerned, the crash is a long way off. The gaming community is a strong one, and even if we start seeing less unique and not as big name titles being released in stores, no doubt we'll see an increase in those appearing on the web, and across the psn and xbla etc. With these technological advancements, gaming machines becoming more like media centres and the expanding market, it is a very good time for the industry, and there'll be plenty of innovative and unique titles due to that.

Ok, I haven't thought any of that through too much because I'm really tired, but I think at least the majority makes sense.

[Readd1]

Hi everyone. I have two points on this topic:

1) Look more closely at the listing. The platinum one underneath is the one they are selling, the one you are looking at is an old listing which they must've forgotton to update. Hence why the platinum Uncharted is only £16.97 (why not just buy that one?? lol).

2) Tesco are actually very competitive when it comes to pricing and I have nothing but praise for them. I was looking for Guitar Hero III a few weeks ago and it was between £65 and £75 everwhere i looked online. So i went into my local Tesco and got the game for only £44.99 (with the guitar!!!).

They aren't damaging the industry as they still pay the same wholesale price as other establishments, but sell them to the public for less. Hence game developers etc. are still getting good money from selling their games (record profits etc.)

BTW - i don't work for Tesco ;)

[greyfox-x]

[QUOTE=RichieJr;8352]No you wouldn't, it was crap :D

But, it's great that we get cheap prices, but I would much rather go to a specialist shop that doesn't just sell chart games, and pay a little bit extra to support that. It's the same with exclusives for consoles, I'd much rather each console had a few of it's own exclusives, rather than all games just being on both systems. It creates a unique image for a console, and after all, a games console is made for it's games, if games were all multiformat then it'd just be hardware ................................................(s ee richiejr's post above)

well i can do nothing but applaud that statement , very very well put on all count .

[youngballa14]

im gonna get one of thos, give it to a girl i know and see how far i get

not far mate.

[teh_spanks]

Dont just dont iget me started on this agggghhhh ive tryed talking about this in forums before and almost got killed lol

I belive shops like tescos and game dropping prices of very new releases are hurting the industry in the long run , it sounds odd i know but ive got many reasons for thinking so but hears one example

Shops like tesco are running a lot of chain shops out of bussiness unless they match tesco and the indepentant shops are even worse off,
(and there are less and less around these days ) in the end there will be less and less places to buy games , untill only a few big chains selling games there are a number of repercusions for this one being large chains like tesco only stock chart games so many smaller tiles would not just get ignored they wouldnt get stocked at all.

or another thing all games could go download only which is a horrible thought

or many many other things

now before ppl jump down my throat and say im talking crap i just want to say, that im just as bad ill go to the cheapest place like anyone else,
so im all for competitive prices but not when a shop sells a game at zero profit to control market share its wrong!!

ie, when the first gears of war came out in the uk blockbuster caused a huge uproar in retail by selling it at £34.99 (it cost them that for each copy) just so they could say "we were responible for selling 19%(or whatever) of all copys of this game sold in the first week)

and yeah they might of done, but its a fake figure , a fake figure that makes there share prices rise quite a way , in a very sneaky and deceptive manner because the company dosent make any money except of selling its shares after a big game like that has come out ....as i said it wrong.


games should be cheaper yes ......but not like this


I understand your point but if there are only a handful of large chains selling the game, than new stores will open and sell the games for cheaper, so the gamers will just go to them... This cycle will continue... surely i mean im no expert at market shares and thingys but people on ebay have been doing this for years.. i mean i always see cheaper things on ebay.....

Anyway good point...

[greyfox-x]

I understand your point but if there are only a handful of large chains selling the game, than new stores will open and sell the games for cheaper, so the gamers will just go to them... This cycle will continue... surely i mean im no expert at market shares and thingys but people on ebay have been doing this for years.. i mean i always see cheaper things on ebay.....

Anyway good point...

cogs my friend cogs this is costs and overheads while things on ebay appear cheaper there not the costs and overheads are morealess the same if you you think to get a sale you have to : buy the item then pay a , listing fee , gallary picture, paypal charge, final selling fee and postage and most sellers will charge you for all that too so when you work it all out its only a couple of £'s cheaper (if any) on ebay .

Then you have to put up with many games sold on ebay, are u.s.a copys now i know that dosent bother some people but it sure bothers me , and a lot of ebay seller (not all mind just some ) are so sloppy its unbelivable .

I just dont want the market to go the way of only large chain stores and ebay i would truly suck ,

Also new stores opening and "selling games for cheaper" as you put it, is very very hard to do as many many video game publishes cant be bothered with small indepedant shops these days.so wont deal with them.
so the indie shop has to go to a dealer , a middle man ... and get games of a dealer that gets them from the publishers, and this is the best bit ...they often cost more from the dealer than if the indie shop went to tescos and bought them from there .

This will all add to less choice in the long run i belive.

All this also adds to the reason the second hand market has boomed in the last 6 years as its the only way shops can secure a safe margin of profit,

Thanks very much for reading my post tho glad you kinda agree with me as i know alot of people wonder what the hell im on about ! lol :D

[Storky]

to be honest, its not only the games industry tesco are monopolising
i dont know how many people here live in big cities/towns/villiages etc, but i live in a town with an estimated population of less than 15,000 yet we still have a huge tesco that is open 6am till about midnight daily and sells pretty much everythin, from entertainment to clothes to having its own butcher.
it dosnt take a genius to work out the effect this has had on our local high street, which is now almost non existant and apart from a butcher the only shops worth visiting on it are....woolies, boots, and superdrug. also big chain shops, but then whats the point in going to those shops when anything you can get there you can get in tescos while buying your food shopping at the same time?
so there it is, sell everything cheaper than anyone else and do it all under one roof, result: monopoly of the market and destruction of local buisinesses, and yes, im just as guilty as anybody else because i shop there too

[exion]

this thread makes me so happy, seeing that there are obviously some brains here in the forum!

The evils of Tesco go far beyond the destabilisation of the economy, and the destruction of local business; the sheer waste of the company is perhaps the most sickening thing of all.

I worked the night shifts at Tesco for about 3/4 of a year (stretching from the christmas period up until autumn) and I used to see massive amounts of food go to waste. This was particularly gutting for me as I could just about manage to pay my rent, but was struggling to afford food, so being forced to wheel out day old bread and cakes that I'd have happily eaten, or bruised vegetables that I'd have been able to use in a stew was a real kick in the balls. What's more the total lack of compassion from the cold corporate face of Tesco only further perpetuated my hatred for my employer... when I asked if I could take home some of the food that would be thrown out, something quite embarrassing to ask by any account, the manager laughed and said "no f***ing way, it's against company policy, now get back to work"... that guy was a real nightmare!
Most companies are a little more lax on these policies... a friend of mine (we're not very close, but I find her interesting in a curious kind of way) spends quite a lot of time squatting, and apparently gets scraps and throw-aways from various supermarkets (according to her, spar and safeway are great for bare essentials, whilst the crème-de-la-crème comes from Marks and Spencer)... and usually staff will just let them take what they want... no harm, no foul... just homeless hungry people getting fed on stuff that's otherwise just going to get dumped in landfill.

Meanwhile at Tesco: the back of the store I worked at was like Auschwitz! and of course, policy dictates that waste materials MUST be wasted.

I don't know the ins and outs or minor details, but I do know that in the store I worked in, on a nightly basis you could feed hundreds, if not thousands, of people every night merely on the food getting thrown out (the sell-by-date rarely matches the use-by-date)... and from the perspective of a life-long vegetarian, that's a shit load of livestock killed for no reason.

[Richie]

You're telling me - it's worse than my story, but I'll tell you it anyway.

I work at an Odeon cinema, I leave in just over a week, but the amount we waste is unbeliveable. Working on retail, we have to have things ready to serve, popcorn, nachos, hot dogs. If we accidentally get salt popcorn instead of sweet, we have to waste it and write it down. We put the wrong sauce for nachos, we have to waste it. At the end of the night, any hot dogs that have been warmed have to wasted too. This is all fine to eat, all us employees would happily help to make sure this food doesn't go to waste (we do a bit anyway seeing as there's no cameras there ;)) but we still throw away loads.

You might think thats bad, but its nothing compared to customers. It's our job to seel food to those who want it, and to upsell. Prices are stupid but portions are quite large to contemplate. After the film ends, we go in to clean it, and the amount of food left is unbelivable. A whole tray of nachos, with maybe 2 or 3 eaten. About an inch's height of popcorn eaten, loads of drink left. Even sealed bags of sweets that could be sold again or given to us staff have to be chucked in a bin bag and thrown out. We have two great big wheelie bins in the cinema, about 2m cubed volume. You get about 15 full bin bags in them. We have to empty both out about 5 times each day, and thats a lot of rubbish. It's shocking.

[greyfox-x]

this thread makes me so happy, seeing that there are obviously some brains here in the forum!

.


yeah exion it makes me happy too !!

yeah these big shop just dont care as there too worried about getting sued i dont know if anyone knows this but
If a tramp got in an unlocked whellie bin and stole some food that had been thrown away and got sick he could sue the shop ?!! now while this is true the chance of this happenong is so slim who cares
Ive long thought shops like tesco should be forced to donate at least some of these out of display date stuff given how they monoplize everything else .

Funny story of my own tho of how little tescos cares

In the shop where i work you can trade in games and we were getting in loads of games that were only out the day before and and like jucied 2 on all 4 consoles at the same time and it as always the same 3 people bringing it in , we thought it was dodgy untill one day they brought them in with the plastic security case still one it !!

The manager spoke to the police and tescos as they couldnt have come from anywhere else in this town and they didnt give a toss ......madness , as these people were trying to sell over £1000 of games a week . again madness , they just dont care as tescos make so much money they really couldnt care less

[Daneshi]

Very good point Grey. didn't see it like that. Well, you could well be right but if anything like that ever happens, i reckon it'll be long in the future. Personally, I use my local GameStation for almost all my gaming needs.

I used to work for Gamestation and I must say that the guys they tend to employ across the board are probably the most dedicated, hardcore obscure gamers you will ever meet! The people who work in Game inmy town are a RIGHT bunch of retards who have cocked up 3 times this year with regards to me!

1) I wanted Oblivion for the PS3, and I specifically asked for the GOTY edition as it was exclusive to Game. The moron in the store refused to believe there was a GOTY edition and tried to sell me COD4 GOTY edition! Strike 1...

2) I phoned up and asked them to put me a Singstar to the side (Don't ask...) went all the way down there (took me 30 minutes) and they just sold it to some random joe public as I walked in the store, they didnt even say sorry!!! Blockbuster had a copy and a tenner cheaper!!!

The other time was just in regards to their pricings which was by far the worst and annoying time. But let's just say that I take my business elsewhere if I can help it!

[Strong_in_the_arm]

Tesco are always going to win because people, in general, like to be able to buy everything they want/need in one go, under one roof. So if you're a small independent retailer of games, food stuffs or clothing near a big Tesco, unless you have lots of good will and trade with local people you're going to suffer, and publicly blaming Tesco for it will get you sued. So many shops were I lived went under because they had to raise prices to pay for rising rent bills, which drove customers to the new local Tesco. I personally, buy everything from a dedicated shop. Games from GameStation, food from local producers, and clothes from good stores. I just like the range and quality you can get from shops that only sell one type of thing.

I also worked for Tesco when I left school, it was a 24hr store which sold literally everything. The managers treat the workers like they're nothing, over 15 people left while I was working there. Also, they were prosecuted countless times for selling alcohol and tobacco to kids, selling out-of-date things, over-charging, miss-pricing, and misleading products (organics or free range products which, in fact, weren't). They only care about money.

As for games they tend to sell new releases cheap, but on the whole the range is pathetic and older games are way overpriced.