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Possible huge pricing error at Gamestop.com | 2 Series S for the price of 1

Stuart360

Stuart360

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Gamerguy84 said:
This will be interesting to follow. Just curious if it was really a mistake because I don't think so.

We all know S stock is available do did GS order too many and have too much on hand? Did MS have to many and say hey GS on Thanksgiving i.want to do a two for one deal.

The reason I don't think it's a mistake is it went on for a while. Who even would program it in accidentally?

If it's a mistake though does GS honor it, I think so. Anyway I've never seen a deal like that in my life so congrats to anyone who got it.
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lol was waiting for this chestnut, surprised it took to page 2 before someone said it. :messenger_smiling_with_eyes:

Anyway i hope this goes through for yuo lot that have orders in. I'll be watching this with interest.
 
Gamerguy84

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ReBurn said:
it is obviously a mistake as the discount applies says it's for a year of Gamepass for $9.99 with the purchase of an Xbox console. I would imagine it went on for a while because the people who would normally fix it were not working today due to the holiday. There's no way they're going to honor a $290 discount for a misapplied coupon. But I hope they do since I ordered it.
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I hope it gets honored as well. It's awesome when customers win.

That's the thing though. I think it does get honored. It's like on the biggest shopping day of the year this deal gets put up. This one has me fascinated because you have to admit it's unprecedented and at least I've never seen it done before.

What's funny is it was done with series s. Let's just say stock were available for PS5 and series X, there is no way they honor that and claim it was a mistake.

GS is a huge Corp. People were tweeting at them and I'm sure they knew it was going on.
 
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Gamerguy84

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Stuart360 said:
lol was waiting for this chestnut, surprised it took to page 2 before someone said it. :messenger_smiling_with_eyes:

Anyway i hope this goes through for yuo lot that have orders in. I'll be watching this with interest.
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I hope it gets honored as well as I stated in the post. This deal was pretty wild.
 
jshackles

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Still one "preparing for shipment" and one "order received". (the full price one is preparing for shipment)
 
DeceptiveAlarm

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I actually did two orders. The one I did fast shipping on is the one they are shipping the $10 bundle. Everything else is preparing.
 
DeceptiveAlarm

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StreetsofBeige

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Hey that's the benefit of being an end consumer! Head office sets the price right 99% of the time. But if you can score during the times that made an error, thats good shit.

Business to business transactions dont work that way. Depending on how the systems talk to each other, an order wont even go through unless each company's pricing in their systems match.

And for orders that do go through, there are pricing error reports that someone analyzes and submits to the other company a correction.
 
ManaByte

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DeceptiveAlarm said:
No its still preparing. So idk whats going to happen yet.
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Well preparing means it's being packed. To stop it, they'd have to cancel the order and go down to where it's being packed and tell those people to not finish it and not load it into a trailer. Once it gets to that stage it's probably going to ship, unless they really go out of their way to stop them from leaving the warehouse.
 
DeceptiveAlarm

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ManaByte said:
Well preparing means it's being packed. To stop it, they'd have to cancel the order and go down to where it's being packed and tell those people to not finish it and not load it into a trailer. Once it gets to that stage it's probably going to ship, unless they really go out of their way to stop them from leaving the warehouse.
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As long as I get the $10 one I don't really care. Lmao. And it is suppossed to be shipped. I can't see how they could change the price or anything.
 
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PJX

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Imagine buying someone the inferior product. If a so called friend bought me a series S over an X, we wouldn't be friends anymore. I'd also dump that shit in the bin, not even worth giving it away.
 
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DaGwaphics

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PJX said:
Imagine buying someone the inferior product. If a so called friend bought me a series S over an X, we wouldn't be friends anymore. I'd also dump that shit in the bin, not even worth giving it away.
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Seriously, why would anyone throw a perfectly good XSS in the bin, give it to one of those church programs that helps the less fortunate at Xmas. Would bring hours of enjoyment to some family out there that could really use the distraction.
 
ManaByte

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PJX said:
Imagine buying someone the inferior product. If a so called friend bought me a series S over an X, we wouldn't be friends anymore. I'd also dump that shit in the bin, not even worth giving it away.
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If mine ships my nephew is getting the Fortnite bundle for Christmas and my friend is getting the other. I already told him and he's thrilled. He doesn't have a 4K TV and a $299 next gen entry point doesn't scare him. He just wants to play SoT on a better system with a SSD.
 
shoplifter

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I have a tracking number for the full price XSS, now just waiting to see the other one ship. Shipping weight lines up with a single console.
 
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elliot5

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I'm tempted to see if I actually get these and if I will be able to return one to make it easy for a cheap S. Might keep it for my office or maybe I'll keep it at my mom's house for when I visit
 
DaGwaphics

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elliot5 said:
I'm tempted to see if I actually get these and if I will be able to return one to make it easy for a cheap S. Might keep it for my office or maybe I'll keep it at my mom's house for when I visit
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You should be able to return the full price unit to a GS store ( https://re-turns.com/gamestop-return-policy/ ). Less chance of them noticing anything is unusual that way.

Would be an unbelievable way to purchase a $10 Xbox. Damn, and I thought I did good just by using $75 worth of MS rewards when I bought mine.
 
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prinz_valium

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DaGwaphics said:
You should be able to return the full price unit to a GS store ( https://re-turns.com/gamestop-return-policy/ ). Less chance of them noticing anything is unusual that way.

Would be an unbelievable way to purchase a $10 Xbox. Damn, and I thought I did good just by using $75 worth of MS rewards when I bought mine.
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Or just sell the console for retail price to someone else who wants it at Craigslist or Facebook marketplace.
 
kingpotato

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PJX said:
Imagine buying someone the inferior product. If a so called friend bought me a series S over an X, we wouldn't be friends anymore. I'd also dump that shit in the bin, not even worth giving it away.
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I think the inferior product is between your ears buddy. Console war all you want, but a $10 XSS is insanely awesome.

Nikana said:
Anyone else refreshing their order page for no reason at all?
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Yes lol
 
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