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Dick Smith Games Clearance Sale

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As if Harvery Normans Game sale wasnt enough, this one could be bigger!

Dick Smith are apparently getting out of the games market so they are selling off all stock.
Starts Monday 2 April

See below for more info

http://www.ecogamer.com.au/dsearticle.html

http://i.imgur.com/hWkCP.jpg
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http://www.vooks.net/story-20776-Dick-Smith-to-cease-selling…

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  • +3

    April fools joke I bet

    • +5

      No April Fools Joke – This is real! Our massive $7 million Gaming clearance will commence April 2nd, and you don’t want to miss it!

      • Ok cool but my local dse doesn't have 80% of that stock listed and I have 4 local stores

        Instore only?

      • +4

        maybe its a double reversed april fools joke?
        make everyone THINK its an april fools and then be like HUH APRIL FOOLS, IT WASNT

        seriously though, if this is legit - WORST timing ever for it, being 1 day after april fools

      • DSE Parramatta said, the sale starts from 10th April..what is that?

      • You sure I didn't want to miss it? Or did the stores themselves miss it?

  • Wii Zelda: Twilight Princess $15.00
    Wii Super Mario Galaxy $15.00

    Impossible! They are never discounted down to this price. Even at second hand, it costs >$60
    Too good to be true, its fake!

  • +4

    An anonymous tipper..Deep Throat (#Watergate)?

    • +1

      Dickgate?

  • Hope the staff and ebay profiteers get their hands on too many things.

    • +4

      you mean don't get their hands on too many things

      • Yes, that is what I meant. Oops.

        • I was at DSE brisbane CBD Queen st mall with a friend. He asked the lady about the Nintendo DSI, she told him that it has all been reserved then she took about 3-4 DSI off the shelf. A staff told us that the sale is on April 11 and that we were wrong. Looks like you won't see much items being sold as it may seem the staff are keeping it to themselves. Surely you won't reserve 3-4 DSI for a single buyer.

  • Can we price match from somewhere else? OW? HN? JB?

  • +1

    Here's my guess. Probably move all stock to the online store where they'll sell it for normal prices. What's left (Ones that have damaged boxes, etc) might be cleared at these prices - If they have any stock ;-)

  • +6

    DSE: Online or Instore only? Need more details!!

    • +4

      We need this answered!

  • Something tells me this was never passed by the Woolies directors / shareholders, but either way, I will be at DSE on Monday morning :)

    • I'll be there with you on Monday morning, some of those prices are unreal!

    • Dick Smith is being sold off and this sale is probably being done to trim the business and make it more profitable before sale. DSE's games section has always looked a bit sad. Dozens of titles that take up valuable shelf space and have probably been there for weeks if not longer. BigW has a games section many times larger and often with keener pricing. In my region the two stores are within a few hundred metres of each other. Why duplicate the business?

      Electronics are a commodity business now (sorry Gerry Harvey) and especially so for games. DSE can't compete with dedicated stores and online competition from England. As a Woolworths shareholder I welcome the sale and the sale of DSE.

  • +3

    I have no expectations going into this… Despite the list I've got written out.

  • Thats a lot of cheap games!

  • +5

    The COD MW3 Bluetooth headset is $15, and has a $16 cashback atm…I get paid $1 to take it off of their hands :P

  • What about world of Warcraft game cards? If they on special I will bulk buy that…..

  • +22

    Sale will be both online and in-store while stocks last.

    • excellent. no need to queue up at 9am, just have the browser ready to go :)

    • +2

      starts 12AM monday online?

      • +2

        online sale starts at 8am (as per twitter post)

    • Sale starts at 9am online?

    • +1

      I have a few grand to play with :D

    • +1

      What time does it start online?

    • -6

      so start 12am sunday? hope your servers are ready

      • +2

        .

    • If this turns out to be fake, expect any and every deal you post on this site to be negged to hell, DS.

    • May the force be with you. DSE's online server LOL

    • +1

      A complete lie.

  • +4

    Holy crap… this is going to get OzBargained

    Hope DSE have lots of stock available.

    • $7 millions sounds like a lot…lets wait and see

      • +9

        You underestimate the size of OzBargain.

        • the logitech cashback sale lasted 5 hours and was $250,000 worth of overpriced(RRP) stock.

          This should last at least two three days

  • +9

    NERDGASM!!!

  • Yeah online or in-store only?

    Hoping online! My local store sucks.

    • dicksmith answered this already, online as well

    • +2

      My local store sucks

      My local closed down last week :(

    • Wonder the same thing!!

    • Dick Smith are like Harvey Norman. You can purchase online and choose to pick up in-store. =]

      Monday can't come soon enough. If I stack my backlog, I think it will surpass my height, and some. 1.63m but still, that's just my backlog.

      Thanks for the heads up, regardless of how long it took to get from 1 site to another. What matters is that it's where I am guaranteed to see it.

  • +1

    Take my money. I want the G-19! >:D

  • +3

    I wish this was real, so that Christmas would come 9 months early for me. But I also know that April Fool's day has been brought forward 3 days early too, so I am guessing there will be a clearance sale, but short of the prices listed in the list, and this is just a marketing ploy to attract more publicity so that people will come and buy the items at a higher but not as low as expected prices. . Dicksmith, please prove me wrong and tell me this is not true, so that Christmas can come early for all of us.

    • +49

      FOR GODS SAKE DICK SMITH LET THE BOY HAVE CHRISTMAS

  • hmmm checked the stock level of the consoles online,

    hardly any stores have stock :O

    and some things aren't even on the website anymore

    Xbox360 250GB Slim
    PSP 3000 Bundle Packs
    Logitech G9X
    etc

  • It seems like not everything is a super low price I was just looking at the Wii stuff it shows the
    Wii Console - Black $188.00 according to the JBHIFI site they have it for $149 including game and some accessories http://www.jbhifi.com.au/games/nintendo/wii/ Just pointing it out as I'm not much of a gamer so don't know what standard pricing is verses super bargain pricing :)

  • +2

    For everyone asking if this is instore only, please go back and read the thread. This has been answered about 19 times already

  • Thank god its in store! Online will crash no doubt. Stores don't crash and are less likely to have 100s of people at the one place :) Get to closest store at open and work to the further away ones from there :)

  • +5

    -edit-

    I'm going to need new pants.

  • Rep - can you confirm the prices listed or is this just hyped up to catch a few sales?

  • +22

    It's gonna be crazy town in the stores…if anyone wants to meet up beforehand to say gday, I'll be the guy in the hockey mask with the duffle bag and electric cattle prod.

    • WINNING!

    • +10

      Keep an eye out for me then. I'll be the one dressed as a cow, holding a hockey stick.

    • +8

      Watch out for the guy with a Bag of Holding.

  • I think there will be huge line ups out side some of the busier stores. But hope all the stores get the memo Monday morning ;)

  • Good one Dick.

  • -1

    The date it starts may be a clue…

    What is the date before?

    • very classy…already being said in a few comments.

    • +3

      There are going to be riots if it's an April Fools joke. Not that there won't be the equivalent of riots anyway.

      • It's Dick having the last laugh.

        • +7

          He's taking the piss.

  • +3

    PS3 Silver 320GB Console $199.00???
    Highly sceptical…

    • You just need to find one, not online so I guess it's just ringing around ;)

  • +1

    Contacted my local DSE and they denied this. Contacted DSE head office and they denied it too.

    • +35

      looks like they are dicking us around.

      • +1

        comment of the century

  • +3

    DSE twitter account just recently posted saying it starts online at 8AM on the 2nd… (See Here)
    i can't tell if its all a big joke or not…

    • Plan of attack is to order everything at 8am, then head to the stores to pick up additional loot.

      • +2

        No doubt the site will be down though.

    • +2

      hopefully they follow through with it, else it'd be a dick move

  • +3

    Im going to call in sick for work on Monday for sure

    • +4

      conveniently i already had monday off…
      i think its a sign…

      • same here!

        • online as well, starts 8am Monday morning.

  • There is a million and one things on that list which I want. GAH.

    • Just buy all ~500 things 2000 times, and then purchase the hot store clerk!

      • what do you plan to do with him.. hrmm

  • +1

    Real or not that is the question…

    • If it's true, I can sense that this will be as crazy as the Logitech Promo of last year haha.

  • so who to believe? dick smith head office or twitter?

    • +3

      Maybe the Dick Smith IT department has gone rogue.

  • hope the deal is real and have stock for this "MW3 Delta XP500" :)

  • -3

    ALL YOUR EVERYTHING ARE BELONG TO ME

  • +1

    The rep on here and Twitter could be the same person, just going along with it all.

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