Dick Smith Gaming Sale (2/4/12)

@Nunawading store, VIC.
Sorry about the camera/photo quality, the phone is ancient :P

I was at the Nunawading store in Victoria, arrived at 6am, no one was around. Came back at 7.45am and joined the queue of 10 people. By 9am, there were about 50 people lined up.
Then I rushed in, straight to the keyboards - no G19s on the shelf! Sprinted to the Wii section, grabbed a couple of titles, then pushed my way through and grabbed a handful of PC games. Then leisurely got a Wii Tower Organiser and a Fitness Mat about 15 minutes later as I watched the crowd comb the shelves for anything good. Included in my handful was Kirby's Epic Yarn and Sonic Colours, both discounted and both the Wii games I came for. Also grabbed The Witcher 2 Premium Edition off the PC shelf amongst the scramble, awesome deal!

To clarify, the shelves were still full when I went in, there was no signs that the staff had really taken anything much at all. There were even Xbox 360 consoles (I don't know how many, just saw a couple of people carrying boxes). I got everything I wanted, besides the rare G19 keyboards which might have been out the back if I had the time to inquire.

Overall, despite the masses of disappointed customers in-store and online, I am really pleased with the couple of deals I managed to get. Good sale for those who made it early!

A couple of great deals I saw (and left for someone else to grab):
$5 LA Noire on X360/PS3
$10 Deus Ex HR PC
$5 Assassin's Creed 2 x360

Song: "Glitter Bomb" by Juanitos

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  Gaming

[123timsim]

what was the sale for?

[Babelfish112]

Dick Smith is basically going out of business, they are getting rid of a crapload of stock but the way this sale went down was a really really bad way of doing it...leaking a price list with very cheap prices, getting everyone hyped and then when everyone goes only the first 10 people in line can get anything since there is hardly any stock. I am very pleased with how it worked out for me though!

[Babelfish112]

Yeah I know right? I made this for the benefit of those who didn't go and wanted to see what happened, or those who went to other stores and want to compare the crowd and queue length!

[Babelfish112]

Just got the stuff shown at the end of the video, the best of which is The Witcher 2 Premium Edition for PC, $15. Also am happy about Kirby's Epic Yarn for $15 on Wii, since my sister really wanted that game since it came out. Sorry to hear you weren't in the know about the sale :(

[Babelfish112]

Ah I see. I found it from ozbargain*dot*com.au - They show deals and free stuff from stores daily

[collingwoodfc36]

i seen it after it was posted on a site called bigfooty and i was checking the site when i noticed a thread on the site called dick smith gaming clearance and it was the day after and then i saw the leaked price list.

[Babelfish112]

If you didn't hear about it till after, I assume you didn't see the leaked price list?

[Babelfish112]

Oh crap, I see why you are angry now! That is some real shenanigans DS pulled off. Some stores knew about the sale, some didn't. Some store's staff grabbed everything good, some didn't. A friend of a friend said that since they worked at DS, they put aside 11 games for my friend (which even I'm annoyed about). If the game you wanted din't show the discounted price on the website, then I guess there would be nothing to argue unfortunately.

[collingwoodfc36]

cheaper and he told me because the store has the right to choose which items they put on sale and which they dont.

[collingwoodfc36]

not on the day i actually found out the sale was on the day after on the wednsday but as someone pointed out to me it wasnt a one day sale it was a clearance so all the items should remain at the discount price untill sold.

i seen a couple of crappy games on a table out the front i wasnt expecting much if anything to be there but i did find the lotr game there it was marked at 69 bucks i asked the man behind the counter how much it was and he told me 69 bucks.

i asked why when it was displayed