Daggerfall: CompUSA version- brilliant Idea!
ron...@eden.com
After having worked for a computer superstore at one time in the distant past,
it occurs to me that the special CompUSA version is actually one of the
smartest things possible for CompUSA and Bethesda to do.
The differences in the game are very minor, but I purchased the game at
CompUSA (at a price a little above what I was comfortable paying for a game
that everybody says is buggy). I didn't want to be left out. I wouldn't have
lost much or anything buying it somewhere else since the differences are so
minor-- but...
If there is a difference, if the game that CompUSA sells is slightly
different--
They don't have to price match against their competitors!
The market here is very brutal with one store or another slashing one or two
titles per week to the bare bones, just to undercut their rivals (Picked up
Duke Nukem 3D in the first week for $29.95, where the cheapest price elsewhere
was $40-45). If somebody does that for Daggerfall, if another store sets the
price predatorially low, and CompUSA doesn't want to match it-- they don't
have to! It's a brilliant marketing ploy, as far as CompUSA is concerned.
They can sell the product at the price they want to sell it at. If you don't
want to pay it, you go somewhere else, but they control that particular
product.
Never mind if we all suffer for it, it's very clever!
Ron O'Neill
ron...@eden.com
Ken Robertson
In article <52h27d$p...@boris.eden.com>, ron...@eden.com says...
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>After having worked for a computer superstore at one time in the distant
past,
>it occurs to me that the special CompUSA version is actually one of the
>smartest things possible for CompUSA and Bethesda to do.
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It would have been even more clever it they had advertised the fact that
there was a special edition. I heard about it on this group 4 days after I
had bought the game.
Ken