Is this good or bad?

[Ed Kolis]

Oh, wow... I thought that the good old games only made it down to $15 or $20, and only the crappy ones (MOO3, Generic Derivative FPS #63,872, etc.) made it any lower

[Fyron]

Maybe the CA retail market is different from the Ohio one.

[TurinTurambar]

I bought Starcraft last year for $10 in the bagain bin at Office Depot. I was ecstatic!

TT

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, games such as Moo3 can go all the way down to negative five bucks after rebate.

[Atrocities]

I would vote very very bad. Even though the game is six years old, it was only very recently released into stores. To go from 20 to 10 bucks is a no confedence vote. As too moo3, I was once told that i would have to pay someone to take that game.

[Fyron]

$20 to $10 is the only way it could go... there is always a price reduction at about this time in shelf life, and $15 is just too abnormal of a pricing point. Seriously, this is being blown out of proportion.

[Atrocities]

I agree, it is the only way it could have gone, just as was predicted by our friends running Shrapnel some time ago in a blog and subsuquent posts about retail sales of games.

[Azselendor]

I did web design work for a reverse logisitics company a while back, I was surprised at what happens to merchandise in stores.

For example, Returned merchandise in major stores like KMart, WalMart, etc rarely got back to the shelf, instead it gets palletized, wrapped, and sold of at below cost (typically 10-30%) to smaller companies that resell to outlet stores, flea market vendors, etc. Same applies to slow-selling merchandise and overstocks, expired foods, damaged merchandise and more.

The really interesting part is that companies that liquidate their old inventories this way don't try to recoop their lost investments, only the frieght cost it seems. The rest they write off at tax time.

[Atrocities]

Do you still do web design work? Are you any good?

[Azselendor]

I certainly do and am.