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Pretty good deal from a reputable store so it will be 100% genuine DS3 controller :)
ebgames = $99.95
game.com.au =$99.95
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PS3 Dual Shock 3 controller Wacky Weekend Special $54.94 DickSmith
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It's pretty much a dupe: http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/36487. The PS3 controller should just be added to the list there. Don't forget that shipping is extra as well.
This is better than the HN deal a few weeks ago right?
A few weeks ago I asked DSE Springwood price match HN for $58 and they refused, claimed it's under their cost.
Now they are even lower !!!thats because they are a big bunh of fat liars. All retaillers in australia lie about their prices
No they don't. They plan sales like these with the manufacturers and the manufactures will reimburse the retailers loss.
well the so call cost price is not really the cost price. the cost price is much lower. They then add on other cost like staffing electricity leasing cost and then work out cost price. so when they say its below cost it really isnt below the real cost price of the product.
so what's wrong with that? business' do need to add onto their selling price to take into consideration overheads. not doing so would be stupid.
explain this plan with manufacturers please!
@neosin
Sometimes large retailers can organise a sale with the distributor/manufactuer. If they can usually they'll sell their stock below their "cost" price and have any difference reimbursed by the distributor/manufactuer so that the retailer's profit margin will stay the same.
Usually this is done with EOL products so that any remaining stock is cleared out of the market, or if there's a huge stock pile sitting at distributor level.
Just on what Tomsco said, i wanted to say hes right on this one.
When i worked at … we will call it Miqourland, they had a deal 2 for $42 - tooheys extra dry. It was significantly below cost, and the fosters was only doing the deal with our chain. We had other stores come in and buy the beer off us because it was cheaper for them to do that, instead of getting it themselves from the supplier
Of course I'm right, my IQ is 214 ;)
xavierdylan is right, don't know why he got neg'd. The cost they use is 'floor cost' which is inclusive of all costs involved in selling the item, and that's the cost given to employees at the stores too.
@ tomsco. Im not saying they shouldnt take into account overheads. Im just saying that they should not claim that that is their cost price. As that is a bit misleading. I just prefer when employers are straight and honest with their staff. Instead of leaving them in the dark and making them look like fools when sales like this come along when just a week ago they were telling customers 'its below cost.' i have worked in retail in the past and I know how stupid it can feel.
I just wish when they calculated the arbitrary 'cost price' that the ancillary costs they factor in for any one product didn't appear to be the daily running costs for the entire store! :p
Actually Australian prices are screwed up, basically because the dramatic change in exchange rates hasn't been reflected in reduced prices (eg someone is making a killing).
Take this dualshock controller as an example, the price of this 'bargain' is about the normal price from the high street Argos store in the UK. Look around, and take into account the difference between VAT and GST and you could easily source it for $45.
Australian retail needs to take a long hard look at their business models and cost structures - and less time whining "it's not fair".
@sane
you forget that distributor cost in Australia are higher than North America and Europe cause the market in Aus is too small. It's basically companies charging what they want cause they can and know that the people in that area will pay.
Basically:
Sony sells to the Aus distributor at a higher price than EU/NA distributors. The Aus distributor then sells it to retailers at the high price cause it needs to make a profit as well as cover the high cost price from the maker. The retailer then sells it at a higher price to the consumer because it also needss to make a profit. The root of the high prices in Australia is because the market is small and the manufaturer can charge whatever they seem fit.@ Trance N Dance
It's a third of the size of the UK market, with less retailers. It's also a market which is heavily concentrated in 5-6 metropolitan centres. As such the cost base should be comparable with European countries - but the lack of competition and laziness of most consumers means they think they can get away with higher prices along the chain.
This christmas is showing them they can't.
They are going to need to shape up, cut costs, and work on smaller margins. This is a global market and you dance to the global pricing tune, or die.
You do realise that only 1.5% of our total sales is overseas right….
And also the major countries in Europe are way bigger markets than Australia
UK - 3 times
France - 3 times
Germany - almost 4 times
Spain - 2 timesAlso the fact that Europe is Europe and 27 countries are part of the EU means that the EU is in fact only one market and not 27 individual markets on a global scale. And a HUGE market at one too with over 501 million potential buyers, almost 23 times that of Australia.
The more concentrated a market, the higher the final price you do realise right? If eveything is concentrated into a single area in a small market with a handful of large players and no small players, this creates an oilgarchy. This also explains why Perth and Adelaid suffer in retail pricing as well as products available.
The EU is spread across 27 countries and in each of those countries there are multiple concentrations of economic zones/metropolitan centres. Now because the EU is really only one market a distributor can import lots of stock and distribute it easily across the whole of the EU. Hence cost is lower because the distributor has influential power by the sheer volume they deal with. Now distributed to the numerous metropolitan centres at roughly the same cost (factor in shipping, and remember the EU has the same land area as Australia). Now each of those centres will operate to different profit margins hence different prices to the consumers. But because there is free movement in trade within the EU, each centre is competing against each other beacuse someone in Italy could easily buy something in Germany all they have to do is pay shipping. This keeps the price down due to competition.
Also on a side note that is also why Amazon can work in Europe and not Australia.
I heard from a reliable source that our market is crap because Scotty has flooded it with his dodgy Zimbabwe dollars buying up the last remaining stocks of Pentium II laptops for some nefarious purposes! :o
Davo the godfather wouldn't be helping matter much with his under the table black market jerky economy removing all possibility of reasonably priced dried beef from saturating the market! :p
I might not believe it if I'd heard all this from a dodgy source like Gerry Harvey, but straight from God's lips to Ruslan Kogan's fingertips is gospel enough for me! ;)
in store as well?
dupe
It is a duplicate, but has already got 14 votes before i logged on. might leave it at this stage.
davo:)
Hi all, just to let u know that we went to a dicksmith store and they wouldn't do the deal because it's an 'online deal', but we managed to get Kmart to price match and got 2 :)
Had the same prob at dse. Refused to price match themselves, the guy who served me said there was no way he could sell it to me at that price and tha I would have to buy it online. So went to kmart and had no problems. In fact I don't think the girl actually checked that store details, just saw the price on my mobile and priced match straight away.
LOL, gotta love a company shooting themselves in the foot.
Yes, I had the same experience with DSE today too. Just going to check now whether it is too late to catch Kmart today!
You did well, I struck out at Kmart and BigW. Kmart just rang the nearest DSE store and confirmed they had stock and checked the price ($79.95) and declined to match $54.94. Never mind, some other opportunity will come soon!
Go to a 24-hour Kmart past normal trading hours. They won't ring DSE since they're already closed. Got mine for $54 aswell since the girl only acknowledged the first two digits :)
Where the hell are 24 hour Kmarts? I don't think we have any in QLD?
You can now order online and pick up & pay in store:
Just click "Check Store Stock"
http://dicksmith.com.au/product/YG2333WACKY/ps3-dual-shock-3…Awesome price!!
And I notice it shows the deal has expired.. which it hasn't
Any similar deals for xbox controllers ? Thanks