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Dead Island at 75%, another "pricing mistake"?
I've noted the game in the front page at 75%, open the game page and the timer states that the offer will continue for 15hours or so, an hour later it is at 50%, why?
This was another pricing mistake?
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I don't give a damn. Wouldn't buy it even if it's 1 buck. And if that were the case, it would be a pricing fuck-up. So done with this site unless they sort something out quickly :) But hey, they have to enjoy the holidays first. Then take care of us.
I think they have someone watching the site manually now as they don't trust their automated system. Thing are chaos at the moment.
No point to buy that. They refund Your order without asking - probably. I'll never buy anything here because of that.
By taytothief posted Today
People are complaining that games are too cheap?
no, I'm complaining that a game that was supposed to be at 75% for 15 hours (as said by the timer an hour ago) is now at 50%
yeah another pricing error... I thought 75% off for 15hrs now it's suddenly 50%.
Pricing error on this site never ends... :(
They shouldn't be able to claim that one was a pricing error because I believe Steam sold it for 75% off for a while also so obviously it is possible to make sales at that price. Right now Steam has a bunch of stuff for 75% off.
So far it seems that every pricing error has been a result of the intended discount being applied twice. Items that are supposed to be 50% off end up being 75% off. Bundles that were supposed to be 70% off end up being 91% off (Bethesda New Years Collection).
My guess is that they recently added some sort of back-end interface for submitting sale prices to their website and there`s some scripting error in it that is performing the requested action twice instead of once. Would explain why it`s happening so often.
By KeaBlack posted Today
By taytothief posted Today
People are complaining that games are too cheap?
no, I'm complaining that a game that was supposed to be at 75% for 15 hours (as said by the timer an hour ago) is now at 50%
Meh, they are allowed to change their own prices you know.
You dont know what are the right prices anymore. How can I be certain I am buying something at the right price? and that it wont be taken back without my consent.
I would expect that as long as they aren't going to take a severe loss on the sales, you're probably safe to go ahead and purchase without worrying about your order being cancelled.
After all, there's a big difference between 75% off and 90-97% off. The former is a typical discount for daily deals here and they can obviously handle that, while the latter would be sold at a financial loss and could become an unbearable financial burden on the company if they tried to fulfill all the thousands of orders they likely received.
I, for one, do not want to see GamersGate suffering financially, because if they ever went out of business, there goes everyone's libraries of purchased games.
funny all the people who keep saying they are done with this site ...... yet they are STILL here. /rant
A sale that is ~95% off is probably gonna be a screw up. A 4 pack of a game that normally goes for $50 each on for $5, to good to be true (something got f*d up) where as a 75% or even 80% off sale now that is believable especially at this time of year.
Why are we still comming to site because we still don't have our dam money back and over xmas there were sales of 50% 75% 80% 90 % on steam so why the hell over xmas fantastic deal season wouldn't i think i got a good deal at Gamersgate. now after 4 games in 1 week being incorrectly priced how on earth am i supposed to think any deal on this site is real or not they have seriously impacted my confidence in this site. REMEMBER IS DEAL SILLY SEASON so man up grow some business balls and honor your sales commitment obligations.
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