It has been brought to my attention that the “other game store” in town recently started offering a 10% Military Discount. I am guessing this effort is to try and recoup some of their customers back. While part of me is glad our military service members are now receiving the discount they fully deserve, the other is annoyed. As a military wife, I have purchased hundreds of dollars in video games from the other store before opening Game Over! in 2006. If this discount was available for the past few years, why have they not offered it sooner? It took Game Over! opening in Kingsland, and offering a FREE 15% military discount (like we have done since day 1) to get them to put forward this discount. This leads me to think they don’t really care about our service men and women…they just care about your money!

Game Over! is active duty owned and operated. When you shop at Game Over!, you are supporting a local business, and the local economy. With that being said, we understand that value and saving money is extremely important. We have done the math, and this new added discount the other store is offering, doesn’t save you at all compared to Game Over!’s discount and prices.

Game Over!                                                             OtherGameStore

While they say it is a total of 20% off, our everyday low prices offset their cleaver marketing. Don’t forget that in order to receive the 10% card discount, you have to pay them $15.00 annually. Doesn’t seem like it’s that great of an edge, does it?

*Price comparison conducted on 07MAY09

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The “13 Cent” difference? What is it you may ask? We’ll I’m here to answer it one part at a time. First, let’s start with what we mean by “13 Cent” difference. At our store, I have heard numerous times “I can get that cheaper at “Wally World“, and we know who that is. So in order to set the record straight, I’m here to expalain the pricing difference. We at Game Over! work on a .95 price point. Essentially, almost everything we sell ends with 95 cents; i.e. $59.95, $49.95, $29.95, $14.95, $1.95, and so on.

On next generation games for Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, Wallyland typically sells them for $59.82, hence a 13 cent price difference. Now on games for the Nintendo Wii, their typical price is $49.88, a 7 cent difference. There are of course some exceptions to this rule, but the price is usually within 5 to 7 cents of these figures. In turn, we use “13 Cent” since it is the most common price difference on next generation games. A quick check of their website (as of 9/3/08) shows a total of 96 Xbox 360 games listed available, only 6 do not meet this criteria.

So with all that in mind, is the statement “I can get that at WallyWorld cheaper” a true statement. YES, it is, but what do you sacrifice for that 13 cents? With gas prices as high as they are, will it cost less than 13 cents to drive there vice our store? And finally, what do you get for that extra 13 cents? Over this blog series, I hope to explain the difference, inspire you to support your independant specialty stores, and why 13 cents is a small price when compared to what you get.

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