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It's a rock and a hard place for us -
Here's how we are looking at it. Cost price for that title is approx €30.00 and we'd make a profit of approx €3.00 on each unit. Thats allowing for credit card fees / postage / packing costs etc.
So let's say we manage to sell 10 of them - make €30.00 profit and are left with 2 titles we paid €60.00 for. If we sold the last 2 in a few months at half price to get rid of them we'd end up just about breaking even.
Get left with 3 - we're in trouble
Get left with 6 - let's look at closing down
I know that's only the one example but take that across I think we have 1400 products on the site now. If we were not very careful about what we took in / carried we'd be gone by now. We've not got huge cash reserves behind us so there's only a certain amount of titles we will overstock on
We make that decision on every title that is being released. How many are we likely to sell, how many do we have to buy to cover that sale and what does it leave us with after......
( that might sound a bit strange but to clarify when I say how many do we have to buy again its about case quantities, we say we will sell 100 Halo Wars but they come in cases of 15 - do we buy 6 and leave 10 potential lost sales - do we buy 7 and possibly get stuck with 5 units etc )
Swizz earlier in the thread was comparing alone in the dark which play are now retailing at €12.99 - in their case they might be down to the last 50 but sold 10,000 before hand at full price so in the greater scheme of things they are making profit on the title as a whole.
Have to say I'd love to be that big and in that position but until then we have to show a bit of restraint - Of course the busier we are getting the easier it is to carry more stock etc so all I can say is availabillity is literally improving as fast as our customer base is growing. 0 -
I get you. Totally understandable. Profit margins and all that.
You've got a new customer here anyway. To be honest I had never heard of you guys before, probably coz your advertising budget is relatively small. But I'll keep an eye on your site from now on for new releases. Fed up with waiting weeks for Play.com and the idea of release day deliveries appeals to me. 0 -
I get you. Totally understandable. Profit margins and all that.
You've got a new customer here anyway. To be honest I had never heard of you guys before, probably coz your advertising budget is relatively small. But I'll keep an eye on your site from now on for new releases. Fed up with waiting weeks for Play.com and the idea of release day deliveries appeals to me.
Yep - one of their tv adverts would pay for our years advertising lol. Word of mouth is our biggest advertising force at the moment - no budget needed for that other than making sure the service is delivered right
Delighted to hear you'll give us a try.0 -
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Street Fighter IV, posted yesterday, received today. Excellent service guys, I'll be using you again and you have my Resi 5 preorder.
Now if only you could do something about my family who took the time I was away in college all day yesterday to move all my videogame stuff out of the room and knock the walls down
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Retr0gamer wrote: »Now if only you could do something about my family who took the time I was away in college all day yesterday to move all my videogame stuff out of the room and knock the walls down
I can only assume through reviews here, that Gamesnash's customer service is second-to-none, but that kind of customer service requires kills4cash.com0 -
Retr0gamer wrote: »Street Fighter IV, posted yesterday, received today. Excellent service guys, I'll be using you again and you have my Resi 5 preorder.
Now if only you could do something about my family who took the time I was away in college all day yesterday to move all my videogame stuff out of the room and knock the walls down
Taking the video game stuff out - ok
Knocking your walls down ?? that's just uncalled for.0 -
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Gamesnash.ie wrote: »Word of mouth is our biggest advertising force at the moment - no budget needed for that other than making sure the service is delivered right
Delighted to hear you'll give us a try.
You're right there with 'word of mouth'
Due to reading all the lads responses I've just gone ahead and ordered Resi5 from yous
Not because its cheaper, but because I trust the opinions here and there has been nothing but good word
Also, it helps if we support an Irish company as opposed to a larger one like PLAY or CDWOW so that they may grow even bigger, and then be able to grow and provide an even better service at a cheaper price
Good luck with the business lads, I'll make it a point to buy all my games off you, assuming yous have them in Stock :cool:
I would've also bought Empire: Total War and HAWX for PC , but only the PS3 and 360 versions were on the site.
** Also, can I make a slight suggestion, to put your Upcoming preorder releases further up the page, or make a link on the left hand side. I didn't realise it was all the way at the bottom of the main page unitl after i trawled through most of the site :P **0 -
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SeantheMan wrote: »You're right there with 'word of mouth'
Due to reading all the lads responses I've just gone ahead and ordered Resi5 from yous
Not because its cheaper, but because I trust the opinions here and there has been nothing but good word
Also, it helps if we support an Irish company as opposed to a larger one like PLAY or CDWOW so that they may grow even bigger, and then be able to grow and provide an even better service at a cheaper price
Good luck with the business lads, I'll make it a point to buy all my games off you, assuming yous have them in Stock :cool:
I would've also bought Empire: Total War and HAWX for PC , but only the PS3 and 360 versions were on the site.
** Also, can I make a slight suggestion, to put your Upcoming preorder releases further up the page, or make a link on the left hand side. I didn't realise it was all the way at the bottom of the main page unitl after i trawled through most of the site :P **
Thanks for the feedback - It's been 99% good word or this thread probably would not have been here
That's a very fair point about the positioning of the upcoming releases. We'll certainly look into it. Thanks
BTW Your Resi 5 is on the way 0 -
SeantheMan wrote: »Also, it helps if we support an Irish company as opposed to a larger one like PLAY or CDWOW so that they may grow even bigger, and then be able to grow and provide an even better service at a cheaper price
Nail on proverbial head.0 -
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Gamesnash.ie wrote: »And pretty much a word for word extract from our business plan too
It's working too - I've just placed my first order with you (for RE5) 0 -
It's working too - I've just placed my first order with you (for RE5)
Me too, i've been hearing a lot of good things about the site recently. i work 9-5, couldnt be arsed going out and getting resi 5 in the shops, so i ordered it from gamesnash, and should have it by friday, the latest 0 -
It's working too - I've just placed my first order with you (for RE5)Me too, i've been hearing a lot of good things about the site recently. i work 9-5, couldnt be arsed going out and getting resi 5 in the shops, so i ordered it from gamesnash, and should have it by friday, the latest
Thanks for giving us a try and thanks again to all those who have given us positive feedback here leading to both of your orders. Appreciate it.0 -
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AnCapaillMor wrote: »I'll give my opinion in 2 weeks on whether i got my RESi5 on friday or not.AnCapaillMor wrote: »Alright just got it today in the post, so gamesnash rules.
Ha Ha - I was going to quote you tomorrow to see how it went. 0 -
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