Pong20302000 said:
you do realize you can haggle and change games in the bundles in GAME?
i used to work there so i know why they do it
if you dont haggle you wont get what you want
Perhaps you used to be able to, but not any more. The tills auto discount bundles - if you put a different game through (even a cheaper, pre-owned copy of a new game in a bundle) it just doesn't work. I guess you could do some manual discount trickery, but it shows up in the the discount report at the end of the day and the managers do not like it at all. Sometimes you get rare cases where you can get a chart game as part of a bundle, and trade it in for more than you paid for it.
F.E.A.R 3 was one of those games - pay an extra £20 and get it when you buy a 360 or PS3, but trade it in for £35. Often people want different games and you can work something out that way. But there is literally no way of simply swapping games in bundles. It's all too automatic and restricted now.
The price of a solus 3DS is still £199 in most places. As far as I know, the offer still stands at £199 for the Zelda/Mercenaries bundle. I worked yesterday and it was definitely still that price - commercial updates are done on Thursdays, so that price won't be right.
It's possible, but given the price of everything in the bundle I'd be extremely surprised. I'd hazard a guess that they've just got it wrong. The pre-owned price is £129.99 now though. You can understand the store not being given stuff to promote an impending price drop - it'll mean people won't buy something THAT VERY SECOND, and they'll wait.
Though I've been telling people to wait and get it post-price drop. Or to buy pre-owned, get it near mint and still get the 20 free games. They really should be pushing the 20 free games thing. It's an excellent incentive, I'm tempted to grab a pre-owned one to get the games.
If that price is right, though...then what a sh*tty bundle.