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Post by Jambowayoh on Mar 8, 2024 20:44:13 GMT
Wtf?!
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Post by Cappy on Mar 8, 2024 20:46:23 GMT
Is it me or have CEX prices got a bit silly now, I mean I expected them to raise their prices a tad after Game left the scene but some prices just seem absurd now. Nah it ain't new they've been full priced bullshit for a while. There's honestly no reason to buy a current gen game from them, I'd say even their older game prices such as ps2 and especially GameCube games are also piss takes. The PS3 and 360 are at least bargain bin prices. I've noticed certain things. I was after a copy of the GOTY Edition of Fallout New Vegas, a branch of CEX relatively nearby had one at around the price they go for on eBay. Hardly a bargain so I decide to wait.
A few months later, the price on this version of Fallout New Vegas have gone up even higher in online auctions, that copy in CEX stated to look a bit more like a bargain... Would it still be there? Next time I'm passing I check... It's still there!
With a new price sticker... Matching the higher online auction sale price. After that I noticed that they do it with everything, they must have some sort of bot that monitors online auction prices and cross references that against their stock and then some poor CEX minion has to go around periodically repricing things even if the difference is just a Pound or two.
That copy of Fallout New Vegas is still there and it got repriced again, to match an even higher price. If they're closely shadowing eBay prices you might as well just buy from eBay, at least then you don't end up stuck behind a couple of bulk DVD trade-in guys in a massive queue. |
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Post by rawshark on Mar 8, 2024 21:19:44 GMT
I was a former Special Reserve member too. Think one of the magazine they sent you was called NRG. I’d just started saving money via a paper round and the Saturn had come out, so I’d basically go through it doing the maths for what the ultimate bundle would be.
Of course the thing with Special Reserve was what they published didn’t necessarily reflect what they had in stock, so you’d send off the cheque not really knowing when you’d actually get your game. Could be a week, could be months…
Naturally I wasn’t going to take that chance with a console, so think I ended up getting a bundle via Curry’s in the end. Rally+Fighter 2+ Euro96 iirc. Euro 96 was shite.
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Post by baihu1983 on Apr 8, 2024 18:37:15 GMT
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Post by Nitrous on Apr 8, 2024 22:59:10 GMT
That'd be Mike Ashley and his management team then at work. All sports direct staff are 0 hours so it makes perfect sense that this would happen to GAME staff.
What gets me is, it sounds like they are changing the contracts of staff who have a contract already in place? Doesn't any change in contract need agreement from both sides?
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Post by gibroon on Apr 8, 2024 23:40:02 GMT
What gets me is why the fuck zero hour contracts are allowed legally in the first place?
Amazon probably has something to do with it.
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Post by Nitrous on Apr 9, 2024 5:23:09 GMT
What gets me is why the fuck zero hour contracts are allowed legally in the first place? Amazon probably has something to do with it. They'd just offer 4 hour contracts instead, probably less. It'll require a change in the law with a minimum hours allowed rule but that sounds like common sense. |
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Post by baihu1983 on Apr 9, 2024 6:12:32 GMT
That'd be Mike Ashley and his management team then at work. All sports direct staff are 0 hours so it makes perfect sense that this would happen to GAME staff. What gets me is, it sounds like they are changing the contracts of staff who have a contract already in place? Doesn't any change in contract need agreement from both sides? Not really now days. You only have to give so much notice then have the loophole of we've offered you this but you won't accept so no redundancy pay out. |
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Post by dangerousdave on Apr 9, 2024 6:59:41 GMT
On a zero hours contract you can potentially earn insane holiday numbers. Wetherspoons used to do this but I had a full time member of staff earn upwards of 40 days holiday in one year. I guess other pubs had this issue, so they introduced minimum hour contracts that cap your holiday pay to your contracted hours. It meant you could work 40 hour weeks, but still only have 10 holiday days in a full year.
Honestly, all these contracts are dodgy and need fixing. And yeah, I believe it was Amazon who brought the zero hour contract here to the UK.
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Post by Frog on Apr 9, 2024 7:09:14 GMT
Government won't be doing anything about them as it helps skew the employment figures.
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Post by zisssou on Apr 9, 2024 8:20:25 GMT
I suspect every GAME store will merge into Sports Direct shortly, which is in line with the zero hour contracts. I guess a lot of these sole GAME stores had a lease for x years, so they're just waiting until that's up, then it's into Sports Direct for you.
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Post by jimnastics on Apr 9, 2024 8:54:10 GMT
Anyone remember what Electronics Boutique was like? Ah I see been mentioned as I posted... I can't really remember where we generally used to buy our games in the 80s and early 90s, but the one I actually can remember is getting Street Fighter II CE for the Mega Drive, with the 6 button pad, in Electronics Boutique in Southampton whilst we were visiting family down there. One of my top childhood gaming memories!
By the mid/late 90s when I had my own money and started buying my own games, I think it was mainly Woolworths and Dixons, maybe Argos.
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Post by zisssou on Apr 9, 2024 8:59:47 GMT
I used to go to Beatties Wincester back in the day. They had tonnes of RC models upstairs, then downstairs a wall full of games, and a cabinet for the latest console(s).
I remember when GAME first opened in the city centre, and it felt like a step up, as you could trade games in, which was dangerous when your parents would complain you've only had the game a few weeks before getting rid..
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Post by A46Matt on Apr 9, 2024 11:09:23 GMT
Beatties, forgot about that place. Used to have offers on regularly with PS1 games that you’d get a 3rd party memory card for free. I had a stack of them. Was a great shop, had loads of Scalextric at the back.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 9, 2024 11:26:07 GMT
Beatties and Tandy. Clash of the titans!
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Apr 9, 2024 18:19:27 GMT
I used to buy games from a shop that used to upstairs in Rotherham's outdoor market. Micro-fun I think it was called. Used to have loads of tapes for my commodore.
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Post by hicksy on Apr 9, 2024 19:18:08 GMT
Electronics Boutique top floor of Guildford White Lion Walk shopping centre.
NBA Jam for SNES about £60 quid I think as my only wished birthday present one year (must be about £100 equivalent now… god I was spoiled!)
Great game to play with mates but at that price… what was I thinking?!
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Post by AgentHomer on Apr 11, 2024 15:01:21 GMT
Used to be a few really good independent game stores where I lived in North London. There was a shop called Adam's World in North Finchley that used to be really good, used to pick up excellent second hand games for the Mega Drive. It began to suffer when (I think it was) Game moved in on the other side of the road. There was also another small indie store there in a shopping arcade that used to be good, I remember buying Final Fantasy VII there. Finally another indie store called ePlay opened a bit nearer to me in Finchley Central. I had a school friend who worked in there. Used to be good, they had some unique import consoles in display cases and I bought my PS3 there when that released.
All eventually closed though, in part due to Game, then Tesco or I guess Amazon. I miss the days of those proper games shops, they had a real vibe and sense of community about them.
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Post by A46Matt on Apr 11, 2024 16:03:30 GMT
We had a real good indie shop in the 90’s. I think it was the only place doing trade ins/second hand. They’d let you try any game you wanted before buying, had a back room where all consoles were set up. Then an EB opened up two doors down and I don’t remember it being around much after that.
On the odd occasion I was taken to Special Reserve as a kid I thought that place was the holy land.
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Post by Syrette on Apr 11, 2024 16:09:16 GMT
My nearest indie selling me a copy of Shenmue a week before release has to still go down as one of the most satisfying days of my ife.
I was a weird little nerd.
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 12, 2024 14:32:58 GMT
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Post by Danno on Apr 12, 2024 21:11:34 GMT
Mike Fraser being a massive cunt whodathunk.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 12, 2024 21:19:20 GMT
Mike Fraser?
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Post by dfunked on Apr 12, 2024 21:23:19 GMT
It's Rick Astley ffs
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Post by Danno on Apr 12, 2024 21:25:59 GMT
Yeah he bought house of Fraser so clearly his name is Fraser now. |
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Post by baihu1983 on May 1, 2024 10:55:24 GMT
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Post by zisssou on May 1, 2024 10:59:08 GMT
"Ah fantastic! I've always wanted to look like a complete idiot in public."
Yep.
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Post by simple on May 1, 2024 11:23:09 GMT
You say that but that Pip-Boy can tell the time. Very useful.
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Post by britesparc on May 1, 2024 11:52:42 GMT
When I worked for CITV we were sent a lime green Virtua Tennis jacket, which was simultaneously kinda cool but also the sort of thing you'd never wear in public.
I wouldn't pay £200 for it.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 1, 2024 13:27:45 GMT
I would, ngl
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