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Starcraft 2 for $55.20 at Selected JB Hi-Fi Stores Today 6 - 10 PM! SOLD OUT in Some Places, Read Comments

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Starcraft 2 for $55.20 at Selected JB Hi-Fi Stores Today 6 - 10 PM! SOLD OUT in Some Places, Read Comments
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LMyocard on 28/07/2010 - 15:03 files.ozbargain.com.au (5471 clicks)
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Hey guys! Rang to confirm this today. Starcraft 2 standard edition can be bought for $55.20 on sale. This is after the 20% discount on the hot price (which is $69). Great price for those who waited a bit!! Will upload a receipt when I get it!

EDIT: Receipt uploaded - please find it here http://upload.ozbargain.com/2010/07/28/4182_sc2receipt.jpg .Please refer to http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/28979 for list of stores that this price is applicable with. Nunawading JB HiFi has already sold out of their stores, but maybe you can still price match this elsewhere!!

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  • Darkii on 28/07/2010 - 15:05

    That is a bargain! If you can get it for that price, cheapest i've seen

  • Darkii on 28/07/2010 - 15:05

    whoops double up

  • compound on 28/07/2010 - 15:08

    can't jb match their own prices?

    • jaxxa on 28/07/2010 - 22:42

      I gave that a try ringing there Hornsby store,
      No such luck.

    • Myocard on 28/07/2010 - 16:01
      +16

      Ah, sorry - I thought that it would be nice to let people know that SC2 was on special. I saw that people were wondering if SC2 was included, and I thought I'd clarify. Sorry if this is an inappropriate post!

      • delantro on 28/07/2010 - 16:04
        +13

        SC2 is popular enough that any deals that specifically involves it deserves a separate post of its own. I wouldn't have known about this if you hadn't posted even though I saw the JB post before, so thanks heaps! :)

        • Myocard on 28/07/2010 - 20:26
          +1

          Thank you for your support delantro! Much appreciated ^^

  • BenMHarvey on 28/07/2010 - 15:44

    Ehh nevermind

  • nickt43 on 28/07/2010 - 16:03
    +1

    yeah does jb hifi price match their own prices?

    nothing in cbd sydney area.. what the hell?

    • delantro on 28/07/2010 - 16:05

      yea I know it's weird, none of the big stores are on the list :S

    • punk on 28/07/2010 - 19:11

      yeh tell me about it

  • ryang on 28/07/2010 - 16:06

    Ehh… I'll wait until he uploads a receipt. It would be a great price if it applies though!

  • Garlic on 28/07/2010 - 16:07

    lucky i work in crows nest so i'm going stright after work…..

  • videoman on 28/07/2010 - 16:08

    $55 sounds pretty sweet. Guess they are trying to smack dicksmith up good.

  • nickt43 on 28/07/2010 - 16:09

    anyone tried to ring jb to see if other stores will price match their own stores?? sounds stupid, but seems illogical if they didnt

    • wartortle on 28/07/2010 - 16:45

      Usually they don't. Each store is franchised I believe so there has been cases where the store has refused to match the online store prices. The fact that it's a one night sale makes me think if your store isn't participating it's because they don't want to sell products at those prices.

      • sash213 on 28/07/2010 - 16:48

        Are they franchises? I thought it was centrally managed company

        • megaloman on 28/07/2010 - 16:55
          +4

          I don't think JB Hifi is franchised.
          Hardly Normal is.

          • CuteChocobo on 28/07/2010 - 17:09

            @megaloman: Harvey Norman u mean?

          • wartortle on 28/07/2010 - 17:14
            -2

            @megaloman: Maybe it's not franchised but I'm pretty certain each store keeps an amount of control over their prices, either way I'm fairly certain they won't price match, EB games might match it though (as long as their close to a store having the sale…)

            • bigheadache on 28/07/2010 - 20:02
              +3

              @wartortle: JB is definitely not franchised. However, each store manager keeps control of pricing. You'll see the sales staff carrying around PDAs (especially the sales guys selling high value stuff like TVs) and when you haggle, they'll look at it. The pricing information on the PDA shows the different pricing thresholds and how much margin they have at each level. So for example, there will be a full price, then a discount price, then a "customer pushing me hard price" and a price they can't go under (may be cost price, may not be, its just the min the store manager will allow). The store manager can remotely adjust the prices on the PDAs whenever he wants. In answer to the question, they won't price match a price that is below the manager's minimum. The margins also impacts on the remuneration of the sales person as well, so they are not going to go around giving every customer the minimum price.

  • nickt43 on 28/07/2010 - 16:09
    -1
  • grizz_li on 28/07/2010 - 16:46

    Great price.
    Cant believe someone can do it better than Electronic Dick's $70.

    • manbearpig on 28/07/2010 - 17:53
      -1

      lol Hardly Normal and now Electronic Dick?

  • GerrardLFC on 28/07/2010 - 16:49

    Good deal :)

  • Caliente on 28/07/2010 - 17:29

    awesome - deal active at Myaree store :)

  • StalkingIbis on 28/07/2010 - 17:35

    dammit. just got home from buying it at game. 80 with a tshirt. they were slling the shirts for 10 seperately anyway

  • BenMHarvey on 28/07/2010 - 17:40

    I was over at JB and the stickered price was $89 earlier so i wouldn't be surprised if they remove the $69 sign they've done it with car audio in the past

  • thxsmileys on 28/07/2010 - 17:54

    This is ridiculous..no ACT stores :(

  • shu on 28/07/2010 - 17:58
    +4

    $15 saving is not enough to convince me to venture out in this cold melbourne rain lol

  • clementlow on 28/07/2010 - 18:29
    +1

    bought it from moorepark xD
    heard from the staff that its already sold out

  • tekkaman on 28/07/2010 - 18:36

    got it and also a free can of Mother from Maribyrnong!!! yay

  • psinite on 28/07/2010 - 19:03
    +1

    It is sold out in Melbourne City (elizabeth x lonsdale). :(

  • madcat939 on 28/07/2010 - 19:05
    +1

    hey guys found out that it was selling for $55.20 all stores it sold out in 10 mins by 6.10pm, worst still is the fact, at the store which i had reserved a copy. sold all their copies out in bloody 4 mins after 6pm and sold my copy to because i was 5 mins late. They apparently sold barely any copies just to entice people, waste of time

    • punk on 28/07/2010 - 19:15
      -1

      that's HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • bigheadache on 28/07/2010 - 19:11

    Sold out in nunawading at 630

  • Lukian on 28/07/2010 - 19:14

    Likely sold out at Brighton. Housemate just got back with a copy. About every 8th person joining the line had one. ~5 copies were left.

  • ENIGMA on 28/07/2010 - 19:14

    Still some in stock at 6:40pm in Narre Warren for $55.20

  • YellowEarthAustralia on 28/07/2010 - 19:21

    Melbourne cbd all sold out. So are dick smith in the cbd, so went to eb to price match dick smiths

  • vigermam on 28/07/2010 - 19:33

    Run into the store when I saw this post, got the last copy 20 mins ago, Bundall, QLD.

  • [Deactivated] on 28/07/2010 - 19:36

    trolls are people to you know

  • pingMarky on 28/07/2010 - 19:56

    meh. SC2-this should have come out years ago, gameplay is ordinary
    Good bargain find Myocard! +1

    • Myocard on 28/07/2010 - 20:25
      -1

      Thank you pingMarky!

  • JJ208 on 28/07/2010 - 20:27
    +16

    Was at Artarmon Home HQ at 6 when they opened the doors, a few people ran to the PC section, I saw one copy left at the stands out front and grabbed it, turned out to be the last copy. Spent the next hour thinking whether I wanted it, ended up deciding to get it. As the chick at the counter put it through, another guy ran in asking if they had any copies left, was pretty disappointed that there were none left. Gave him my copy, don't think I would have played that much. Got a raffle ticket for my other purchases and ended up winning the major prize of $400 headphones!

    • Vavoom on 28/07/2010 - 20:35
      +3

      That's some good karma right there

    • Horizon on 28/07/2010 - 23:04
      +1

      A little off-topic, but I too was in the Artarmon shop to check out laptops & TVs and I must say I was more than a little underwhelmed by the prices for these even after the 15% discounts.

      Also, they seemed to be trying hard to fob off some of the display units. And as much as I'm attracted to grubby models covered in finger-prints…

      However after wasting all that time checking out non-bargains I did have a wee triumph by getting a 15% discount on a $14 mouse which apparently wasn't really a discount item! Yay!! I'll lie awake tonight thinking about how I'll spend that sucker…maybe an extra litre of petrol tomorrow?

      • operator129 on 29/07/2010 - 19:04

        I was at the Artarmon shop too at 6pm to pickup some CDs at already discounted prices.

  • bcprowor on 28/07/2010 - 20:44

    On the JB online website its $69 plus the $4 something postage?

    Anywhere in Sydney selling for the $55.20??

  • bbqwer on 28/07/2010 - 21:00

    went to supacenta , eos 550d for 1218aud — soooo happyyyyyy

    • kctt on 29/07/2010 - 13:37

      You are the guy going with gf right?
      I asked you what's the deal you got and you refered to the sales guy. Now you posted on ozbargain :|

  • deviant on 28/07/2010 - 21:03

    sold out in preston, vic
    bendigo has 4 copies left.

  • ol mate on 28/07/2010 - 22:09

    bought COD MW2 for <$60 :)

  • Tadashi on 28/07/2010 - 22:12
    +2

    Most likely too late, but was told I could rain-check at the same discounted price. Turns out they found a copy in the back, so I didn't need it. Hope it helps.

  • Talibanana on 28/07/2010 - 23:11

    Narre had heaps of copies, picked up mine from there.

    • ChaseTheSun on 28/07/2010 - 23:52

      yup narre warren plenty of stock there… got one there as well

  • leolapin on 29/07/2010 - 00:03

    Narre Warren will let you get as many copies as you want…

  • BargainJunkie on 29/07/2010 - 00:27
    +6

    Narre Warren was and is sold out. Sold out around 9pm. The last 7 copies were purchased by one person. He wanted 11 copies but the service girl only had 7 since the rest were on reserve from what I could see.

    I felt like the guy had some attitude and he complained about the lack of copies but the service girl dealt with it well. IMO he should have been grateful they still had 7 left to begin with rather than whinge about how the system said they had 100 in stock.

    I made my purchase (didn't buy Starcraft) and left. I came back to buy one last game that I forgot to get and when I was paying for it I saw someone collecting his copy of Starcraft that he reserved. I felt good to see that was one copy that dude didn't get.

    • Adamiam on 29/07/2010 - 00:57

      He got 7 copies, and still had the nerve to complain.
      sigh.

  • ranma on 29/07/2010 - 00:30

    I know this thread is all for SC2, but did anyone notice anything else that was good with the 20% off? The sale is still going to be on in WA tomorrow, so I can still prepare… my anoos.

  • whiteflame on 29/07/2010 - 00:53

    went to castle hill in NSW at 7pm, they already sold out, I was so pissed off because they said to me they only had 40 copies, sold out in 5mins. I was wondering WTF were they thinking when they have a massive sale on…. took me an hr to get there in peak hr traffic, I feel so stupid making my way there…

    • grizz_li on 29/07/2010 - 04:01

      Yeah sometimes its bs.
      I got mine from DSE. $70, arrived on Tue, no hassles.

      • MrLeE on 29/07/2010 - 21:10

        mine arrived 630am tuesday morning. ordered sunday night

    • madcat939 on 01/08/2010 - 18:46

      yeh mate they told they had reserved a copy for me and only came 5 mins late and they had sold out, i reckon they were selling before 6pm.

  • Kantankerous on 29/07/2010 - 01:36

    No surprises there.. unless you happened to stumble your way into a JB Hi Fi and were after SC2 but did not mean to go for solely the sale, that's just about the only way you can really get yourself a copy before they all sold out! I'm happy with my $70 purchase with Dick Smith.. less stress getting hold of a copy and the time/petrol wasted to get to a JB Hi Fi probably knocks off that $10 - $15 you're trying to save anyway!

    But good find nonetheless Myocard!

  • Dark Zeus on 29/07/2010 - 08:17

    Sold out at Northland Homecentre (Preston) at 6:30pm.

  • Biggles on 29/07/2010 - 08:33

    Picked up my copy at Moore Park last night, they were sold out by about 6:30 but in all fairness from what I could see when I got mine, they did have a lot of stock available, they stated that it was still just flying off the shelf. Guess a 1 day old game for $55 is too much of a bargain, and you can probably find most of them on eBay today =(

  • fungry on 29/07/2010 - 09:17

    Picked up mine at Artarmon ~7:30
    Cheers OP.

  • jlien on 29/07/2010 - 09:52

    Thank you for this, managed to pick my copy up from the nunawading store. They were sold out by about 6.15, but to be fair there were a LOT of people walking out with it. Also they imposed a limit of 2 per person, which I thought was good, there were a number who got to the counter holding 3 or 4 copies and were told they could only buy 2. Glad they imposed that.

  • melmac77 on 29/07/2010 - 10:36

    Note that this Deal is showing as expired which is not so in WA our stores are holding the Sale tonight(29th) this is due to our restrictive Jurrasic trading laws which wouldn't allow them to open last night :)

    • ranma on 29/07/2010 - 11:47
      +1

      Dude I think it's cretaceous in the mesozoic. We're not that backward. :)

  • singlewind on 29/07/2010 - 13:58

    I remember the wrong date. I thought it was shopping night but acctually not.

  • kakt on 30/07/2010 - 00:13

    Yeah WA was tonight. I thought Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) was on special for $69 + 20% off was not a bad deal !

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